Top 10 albums for each year of my life: Part 2

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Part 2 of the yearly countdowns. Now it's the 90's, black metal is present in 94 and it was harder choosing another top 10 for each year!

1990:

1) Deicide - Self titled
2) Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
3) Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
4) Entombed - Left Hand Path
5) Judas Priest - Painkiller
6) Death - Spiritual Healing
7) Megadeth - Rust in Piece
8. Obituary - Cause of Death
9) Death Angel - Act III
10) Anthrax - Persistence of Time

1991:

1) Death - Human
2) Sepultura - Arise
3) Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
4) Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
5) Monster Magnet - Spine of God
6) Paradise Lost - Gothic
7) Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
8. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
9) Entombed - Clandestine
10) Overkill - Horrorscope

1992:

1) Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
2) Faith No More - Angel Dust
3) Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
4) Alice in Chains - Dirt
5) Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine
6) Paradise Lost - Shades of God
7) Biohazard - Urban Discipline
8. Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
9) Rage Against the Machine - Self titled
10) L7 - Bricks Are Heavy

1993:

1) Paradise Lost - Icon
2) Sepultura - Chaos AD
3) Carcass - Heartwork
4) Death - Individual Thought Patterns
5) My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
6) Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
7) Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
8. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
9) Crowbar - Self titled
10) Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain

1994:

1) Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
2) Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
3) Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
4) Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
5) Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
6) Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
7) Rotting Christ - Non Serviam
8. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
9) Nailbomb - Point Blank
10) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

1995:

1) Fear Factory - Demanufacture
2) Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
3) Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
4) Death - Symbolic
5) My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
6) Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
7) Down - NOLA
8. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
9) Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
10) Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

1996:

1) Type O Negative - October Rust
2) Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
3) Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
4) Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
5) In Flames - The Jester Race
6) Opeth - Morningrise
7) Cradle of Filth - Vempire EP
8. Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
9) Arch Enemy - Black Earth
10) Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace

1997:

1) Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
2) Strapping Young Lad - City
3) Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
4) Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
5) Rotting Christ - A Dead Poem
6) Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics.....
7) Children of Bodom - Something Wild
8. In Flames - Whoracle
9) Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave
10) Stratovarius - Visions

1998:

1) Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
2) Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
3) Fear Factory - Obsolete
4) The Haunted - Self titled
5) Death - The Sound of Perseverance
6) Meshuggah - Chaosphere
7) Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
8. Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
9) Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
10) Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast

1999:

1) Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
2) Opeth - Still Life
3) Katatonia - Tonights Decision
4) Testament - The Gathering
5) Emperor - IX Equilibrium
6) My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World
7) Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
8. Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
9) Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
10) Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie

Nice to see Monster Magnet’s debut full length get a mention, great album, it just barely misses my list. I reckon "Superjudge" is pretty awesome too.
Just a couple more years for me for now…


1990:
1. NOCTURNUS – The Key
2. DEATH – Spiritual Healing
3. DEICIDE – self-titled
4. BLASPHEMY – Fallen Angel of Doom
5. MERCILESS – The Awakening
6. COCTEAU TWINS – Heaven or Las Vegas
7. DANZIG – II: Lucifuge
8. SLAYER – Seasons In the Abyss
9. DEPECHE MODE – Violator
10. ENTOMBED – Left Hand Path


1991:
1. MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Loveless
2. ATHEIST – Unquestionable Presence
3. SADISTIK EXEKUTION – The Magus
4. MORBID ANGEL – Blessed Are the Sick
5. DEATH – Human
6. ASPHYX – The Rack
7. MASTER’S HAMMER – Ritual
8. SEPULTURA – Arise
9. GOATLORD – Reflections of the Solstice
10. SUFFOCATION – Effigy of the Forgotten

1992:
1. BURZUM – self titled
2. AUTOPSY – Mental Funeral
3. NOCTURNUS – Thresholds
4. CURRENT 93 – Thunder Perfect Mind
5. DEATH IN JUNE – But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?
6. SAMAEL – Blood Ritual
7. BOLT THROWER – The IVth Crusade
8. DARKTHRONE – A Blaze In the Northern Sky
9. ALICE IN CHAINS – Dirt
10. CEMETARY – An Evil Shade of Grey

1993:
1. BEHERIT – Drawing Down the Moon
2. KATATONIA – Dance of December Souls
3. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – Siamese Dream
4. BURZUM – Det Som Engang Var
5. TYPE O NEGATIVE – Bloody Kisses
6. EMPEROR – self titled EP
7. IMMORTAL – Pure Holocaust
8. EUCHARIST – A Velvet Creation
9. NECROPHOBIC – The Nocturnal Silence
10. TOOL - Undertow

1994:
1. EMPEROR - In the Nightside Eclipse
2. BURZUM - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
3. MAYHEM - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
4. ENSLAVED - Frost
5. GRAVELAND - The Celtic Winter
6. BESTIAL WARLUST - Vengeance War Til Death
7. INFESTER - To the Depths.. In Degradation
8. IMPALED NAZARENE - Suomi Finland Perkele
9. NATURE AND ORGANISATION - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
10. DARKTHRONE - Transilvanian Hunger

1995:
1. GRAVELAND - Thousand Swords
2. FULLMOON - United Aryan Evil demo
3. DEATH - Symbolic
4. DEATH IN JUNE - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
5. MORTUARY DRAPE - All the Witches Dance
6. VELES - Night On the Bare Mountain
7. ABSURD - Thuringian Pagan Madness demo
8. ILDJARN - self titled
9. DISSECTION - Storm of the Light's Bane
10.CARPATHIAN FOREST - Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods EP

1996:
1. TYPE O NEGATIVE - October Rust
2. ILDJARN - Forest Poetry
3. NOKTURNAL MORTUM - Lunar Poetry demo
4. BURZUM - Filosofem
5. ABSURD - Facta Loquuntur
6. IMMOLATION - Here In After
7. TOOL - Aenima
8. ULVER - Kveldssanger
9. DIMMU BORGIR - Stormblast
10. GATES OF ISHTAR - A Bloodred Path

Very black metal orientated so far (Nothing wrong with that!)

These lists seem a bit metal orientated. For example, neither of you listed Nevermind, OK Computer, either Oasis album, Urban Hymns, anything by Blur, Innuendo, Achtung Baby, Dookie, 10, anything by REM, Reasonable Doubt, Ready To Die, Illmatic, Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, Grace...

I don't know enough music to make top 10s of my own, but those seem some pretty large oversights.

Not oversights at all, the year by year lists I have been making are my ten personal favourites and the albums I find myself coming back to the most. I'm not going to add a bunch of non-metal albums just because they're highly acclaimed and extremely popular with tons of people. Though Pearl Jam's "Ten" would have come very close to making it on my list as well.

1997:
1. GRAVELAND – Following the Voice of Blood
2. ARCTURUS – La Masquerade Infernale
3. GRAND BELIAL’S KEY – Mocking the Philanthropist
4. NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Goat Horns
5. DESTROYER 666 – Unchain the Wolves
6. DEFTONES – Around the Fur
7. VELES – Black Hateful Metal
8. DIMMU BORGIR – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
9. SOLEFALD – The Linear Scaffold
10. GONTYNA KRY – Welowie demo

1998:
1. GRAVELAND – Immortal Pride
2. NINE INCH NAILS – The Fragile
3. FROZEN SHADOWS – Dans Les Bras Des Immortales
4. GORGUTS - Obscura
5. JUDAS ISCARIOT – Distant In Solitary Night
6. I SHALT BECOME – Wanderings
7. DEATH – The Sound of Perseverance
8. REFUSED – The Shape of Punk to Come
9. NILE – Amongst the Catacombs of Nephran-Ka
10. ORGY - Candyass

1999:
1. MORTIIS – The Stargate
2. MUTIILATION – Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul
3. NOKTURNAL MORTUM – NeChrist
4. TYPE O NEGATIVE – World Coming Down
5. AGALLOCH – Pale Folklore
6. BURZUM – Hlidskjalf
7. ABSURD – Asgardsrei EP
8. NEVERMORE – Dreaming Neon Black
9. DOLORIAN – When All the Laughter Has Gone
10. FILTER – Title of Record

Part 3 incoming later