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Kerrang! End Of Year Lists


Kerrang! End Of year Lists 1982


1.Scorpions - Blackout
2.Van Halen - Diver Down
3.Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven
4.Rush - Signals
5.Kiss - Creatures Of The Night
6.Tom Petty - Long After Dark
7.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
8.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
9.Rainbow - Straight Between The Eyes
10.Rose Tattoo - Scarred For Life
10.Gillan - Magic

Kerrang! Singles of the year

1. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
2. Rainbow - Stone Cold
3. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
4. Marillion - Market Square Heroes
5. Diamond Head - Call Me

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Kerrang! End Of year Lists 1983

1. Def Leppard - Pyromania
2. ZZ Top - Eliminator
3. Kiss - Lick It Up
4. Molly Hatchet - No Guts ... No Glory
5. Dio - Holy Diver
6. Aldo Nova - Subject
6. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
8. Eric Martin Band - Sucker For A Pretty Face
9. Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
10. Ratt - Ratt
11. Journey - Frontiers
11. Yes - 90125
13. Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments
14. .38 Special - Tour De Force
15. Blue Öyster Cult - The Revolution By Night
16. Judie Tzuke - Ritmo
16. Accept - Balls To The Wall
18. Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol
18. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
18. Jonah Koslen & The Heroes - Aces

Singles

1. Queensrÿche - Queen Of The Reich
2. Genesis - Mama
3. Kiss - Lick It Up
3. Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
3. Hellion - Hellion
3. Police - Every Breath You Take
3. Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
3. Riot - Live (EP)

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Kerrang! End Of year Lists 1984

1. Van Halen - 1984
2. Prince - Purple Rain
3. Chequered Past - Chequered Past
4. Legs Diamond - Out On Bail
5. Wendy O. Williams - W.OW.
6. John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh-huh
7. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
8. The Rejects - Quiet Storm
9. Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move
10. The Cars - Heartbeat City
11. Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
12. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
12. Q5 - Steel The Light
14. White Sister - White Sister
15. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
15. John Waite - No Brakes
17. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
17. Lords Of The New Church - The Method To Our Madness
19. Molly Hatchet - The Deed Is Done
19. Jim Dandy - Ready As Hell

Singles

1. Van Halen - Jump
2. Prince - When Doves Cry
3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
4. John Waite - Missing You
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
6. Motörhead - Killed By Death
7. Robin George - Heartline
8. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
9. Van Halen - I'll Wait
10. W.A.S.P. - Animal (**** Like A Beast)

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1985

1. Bryan Adams - Reckless
2. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
2. Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors
4. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
5. ZZ Top - Afterburner
6. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
7. The Power Station - The Power Station
8. Molly Hatchet - Double Trouble Live
8. John Fogerty - Centerfield
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Soul To Soul
11. The Cult - Love
11. Sabu - Heartbreak
13. Accept - Metal Heart
14. Magnum - On A Storyteller's Night
15. Jeff Beck - Flash
16. Jason And The Scorchers - Lost And Found
16. Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy
18. AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
18. The Godz - I'll Get You Rockin'
20. The Firm - The Firm

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1986

1. David Lee Roth - Eat'em And Smile
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
5. Peter Gabriel - So
6. Megadeth - Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?
7. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
8. Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion
9. Magnum - Vigilante
10. Queensrÿche - Rage For Order
11. Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
12. Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
13. Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites
13. Aerosmith - Classics Live
13. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
16. AC/DC - Who Made Who
17. Van Halen - 5150
18. Run DMC - Raising Hell
19. Judas Priest - Turbo
19. GTR - GTR

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1987

1. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
2. Whitesnake - 1987
3. Anthrax - Among The Living
4. Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
5. Metallica - The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-revisited
6. Marillion - Clutching At Straws
7. Def Leppard - Hysteria
8. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium
9. U2 - The Joshua Tree
10. Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
11. Intrinsic - Intrinsic
12. Testament - The Legacy
13. John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
14. Helloween - The Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
15. Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
16. Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S
17. Rush - Hold Your Fire
18. Tigertailz - Young And Crazy
19. Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
19. Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1988

1. King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
2. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
3. Metallica - ... And Justice For All
4. David Lee Roth - Skyscraper
5. Slayer - South Of Heaven
6. John Kilzer - Memory In The Making
7. Motörhead - No Sleep At All
8. Van Halen - OU812
9. Jimmy Barnes - Freigh Train Heart
10. Robert Plant - Now And Zen
11. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
12. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
13. Michael Katon - Proud To Be Loud
14. Bon Jovi - New Jersey
15. Living Colour - Vivid
16. Jimmy Page - Outrider
17. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
18. Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come
19. Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park
20. Only Child - Only Child

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1989

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing
2. Aerosmith - Pump
3. Dan Reed Network - Slam
4. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
5. Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
6. Skid Row - Skid Row
7. Michael Monroe - Not Fakin' It
8. The Cult - Sonic Temple
9. Vain - No Respect
10. Wolfsbane - Live Fast, Die Fast
11. Cats In Boots - Kicked & Klawed
12. Bad English - Bad English
13. Pandora's Box - Original Sin
14. Sea Hags - Sea Hags
15. Mötley Crüe - Dr Feelgood
16. Babylon AD - Babylon AD
17. FM - Tough It Out
18. Diving For Pearls - Diving For Pearls
19. Badlands - Badlands
20. Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When It's Over

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1990

1. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
2. Wolfsbane - All Hell's Breaking Loose Down At Little Kathy Wilson's Place
3. Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room
4. Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
5. Warrior Soul - Last Decade, Dead Century
6. Queensrÿche - Empire
7. Thunder - Back Street Symphony
8. King's X - Faith, Hope, Love
9. Electric Boys - Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride
10. Nelson - After The Rain
11. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
12. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
13. Robert Plant - Manic Nirvana
14. Judas Priest - Painkiller
15. Led Zeppelin - Remasters Boxed
16. ZZ Top - Recycler
17. Dread Zeppelin - Un-led-ed
18. Living Colour - Time's Up
19. Loud - D Generation
20. Atom Seed - Get In Line
21. The Almighty - Blood, Fire And Live
22. Quireboys - A Bit Of What You Fancy
23. Mother Love Bone - Apple
24. Burning Tree - Burning Tree
25. Prong - Beg To Differ

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1991

1. Metallica - Metallica
2. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
3. Mind Funk - Mind Funk
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. Guns n'Roses - Use Your Illusion II
6. Slayer - Decade Of Aggression
7. Sepultura - Arise
8. Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
9. Wolfsbane - Down Fall The Good Guys
10. The Four Horsemen - Nobody Said It Was Easy
11. Alice In Chains - Facelift
12. Jellyfish - Bellybutton
13. Guns n'Roses - Use Your Illusion I
14. Entombed - Clandestine
15. Mötley Crüe - Decade Of Decadence
16. New England - You Can't Keep Living This Way
17. Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Weld
18. Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind
19. Tesla - Psychotic Supper
20. Enuff Z'Nuff - Strength
21. Redd Kross - Third Eye
22. Kingofthehill - Kingofthehill
23. Leatherface - Mush
24. Dan Reed Network - Heat
25. Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs In E-Minor

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1992

1. Alice In Chains - Dirt
2. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
3. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs
6. Helmet - Meantime
7. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
8. Mother Love Bone - Mother Love Bone
9. Trouble - Manic Frustration
10. Warrior Soul - Salutations From The Ghetto Nation
11. Faith No More - Angel Dust
12. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
13. Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
14. Marillion - A Singles Collection
15. Love/Hate - Wasted In America
16. Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds - Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds
17. Drivin' N' Cryin' - Fly Me Corageous
18. Gruntruck - Push
19. Baby Animals - Baby Animals
20. Monster Magnet - Spine Of God
21. Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
22. Various - Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
23. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
24. Body Count - Body Count
25. Tool - Opiate

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1993

1. Pearl Jam - Vs
2. Entombed - Wolverine Blues
3. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
4. The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
5. Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
6. Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
9. Melvins - Houdini
10. Monster Magnet - Superjudge
11. Kiss - Alive III
12. Cry Of Love - Brother
13. Poison Idea - We Must Burn
14. Grotus - Slow Motion Apocalypse
15. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
16. The Dwarves - Sugarfix
17. Brad - Shame
18. Warrior Soul - Chill Pill
19. Paw - Dragline
20. Carcass - Heartwork
21. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
22. Pitch Shifter - Desensitized
23. Senseless Things - Empire Of The Senseless
24. Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
25. Clutch - Transnational Speedway League

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1994

1. Therapy? - Troublegum
2. Soundgarden - Superunknown
3. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
4. The Black Crowes - Amorica
5. Killing Joke - Pandemonium
6. Live - Throwing Copper
7. Kyuss - Sky Valley
8. Warrior Soul - Space Age Playboys
9. Prong - Cleansing
10. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
11. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
12. Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
13. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
14. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
15. Green Day - Dokie
16. Demolition 23 - Demolition 23
17. Slayer - Divine Intervention
18. Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
19. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
20. Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations And Things Left Unsaid
21. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
22. Stabbing Westward - Ungod
23. Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda
24. Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance
25. Boston - Walk On

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1995

Foo Fighters

1. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
2. White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
3. Fear Factory - Demanufacture
4. Rancid - ... And Out Come The Wolves
5. Therapy? - Infernal Love
6. Garbage - Garbage
7. The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
9. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - One Hot Minute
10. Reef - Replenish
11. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
12. Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
13. Blind Melon - Soup
14. Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
15. Faith No More - King For A Day ... Fool For A Lifetime
16. Green Day - Insomniac
17. Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
19. Silverchair - Frogstomp
20. AC/DC - Ballbreaker
21. Bush - Sixteen Stone
22. Weezer - Weezer
23. Def Leppard - Vault - Def Leppard's Greatest Hits
24. Apes, Pigs & Spacemen - Transfusion
25. Bon Jovi - These Days

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1996

Screaming Trees


1. Screaming Trees - Dust
2. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
3. Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
4. Sepultura - Roots
5. Ash - 1977
6. Metallica - Load
7. Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
8. Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
9. Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
10. The Black Crowes - Three Snakes And One Charm
11. Korn - Life Is Peachy
12. Joyrider - Be Special
13. Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream
14. Pearl Jam - No Code
15. Terrorvision - Regular Urban Survivors
16. Tool - Aenima
17. NY Loose - Year Of The Rat
18. Imperial Drag - Imperial Drag
19. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
20. Girls Against Boys - House Of GVSB

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1997

The Colour & The Shape


1. Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
2. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
3. Reef - Glow
4. 3 Colours Red - Pure
5. Deftones - Around The Fur
6. Feeder - Polythene
7. Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth
8. Brad - Interiors
9. Karma To Burn - Karma To Burn
10. Faith No More - Album Of The Year
11. Live - Secret Samadhi
12. Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
13. The Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Good Looking
14. Handsome - Handsome
15. Silver Sun - Silver Sun
16. Fear Factory - Remanufacture (Cloning Technology)
17. Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom
18. ManBREAK - Come And See
19. Aerosmith - Nine Lives
20. Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1998

1. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
2. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
3. System Of A Down - System Of A Down
4. Soulfly - Soulfly
5. Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
6. Mark Lanegan - Scraps At Midnight
7. Garbage - Version 2.0
8. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
9. Cold - Cold
10. Idlewild - Hope Is Important
11. Ash - Nu-Clear Sounds
12. Backyard Babies - Total 13
13. Nashville Pussy - Let Them Eat Pussy
14. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
15. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
16. Therapy? - Semi-Detached
17. Clutch - The Elephant Riders
18. Sepultura - Against
19. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
20. Pearl Jam - Yield

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1999

Foo Fighters

1. Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
2. Slipknot - Slipknot
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
4. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
5. Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
6. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
7. Lit - A Place In The Sun
8. Metallica - S&M
9. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
10. Will Haven - WHVN
11. Black Crowes - By Your Side
12. Live - The Distance To Here
13. Therapy? - Suicide Pact - You First
14. Machine Head - The Burning Red
15. Amen - Amen
16. Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
17. 3 Colours Red - Revolt
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
19. A - A Vs Monkey Kong
20. Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2000

Rated R

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
2. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
3. Deftones - White Pony
4. Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents
5. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
6. Monster Magnet - God Says No
7. Snake River Conspiracy - Sonic Jihad
8. Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
9. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
10. Supersuckers - The Evil Powers Of Rock'n'Roll
11. Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
12. The Crocketts - The Great Brain Robbery
13. Groop Dogdrill - Every Six Seconds
14. Rancid - Rancid
15. Rage Against The Machine - Renegades
16. Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
17. Silver Ginger 5 - Black Leather Mojo
18. The Workhorse Movement - Sons Of The Pioneers
19. The Delta 72 - 000
20. AFI - The Art Of Drowning

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2001

1. Tool - Lateralus
2. System Of A Down - Toxicity
3. Weezer - The Green Album
4. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
5. Rival Schools - United By Fate
6. Fugazi - The Argument
7. Masters Of Reality - Deep In The Hole
8. Rammstein - Mutter
9. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
10. Slipknot - Iowa
11. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
12. The Icarus Line - Mono
13. Incubus - Morning View
14. Tomahawk - Tomahawk
15. Slayer - God Hates Us All
16. Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
17. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise
18. Will Haven - Carpe Diem
19. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
20. Converge - Jane Doe

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2002

Queens Of The Stoneage

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2. Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
3. Audioslave - Audioslave
4. Foo Fighters - One By One
5. The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
6. The Datsuns - The Datsuns
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
8. Finch - What It Is To Burn
9. Idlewild - The Remote Part
10. A - Hi-Fi Serious
11. Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute
12. The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster - Horse Of The Dog
13. Weezer - Maladroit
14. Down - II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow
15. Satyricon - Volcano
16. The Used - The Used
17. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
18. Opeth - Deliverance
19. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
20. Bad Religion - The Process Of Belief

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2003

The Darkness

1. The Darkness - Permission To Land
2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
3. Cave In - Antenna
4. Muse - Absolution
5. Rancid - Indestructible
6. The White Stripes - Elephant
7. The Distillers - Coral Fang
8. Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
9. Akercocke - Choronzon
10. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
11. Anthrax - We've Come For You All
12. Hell Is For Heroes - The Neon Handshake
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
14. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
15. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
16. Poison The Well - You Come Before You
17. Deftones - Deftones
18. Desert Sessions - 9 & 10
19. AFI - Sing The Sorrow
20. The Mark Lanegan Band - Here Comes That Weird Chill

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2004

1. Mastodon - Leviathan
2. Green Day - American Idiot
3. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
4. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
6. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
7. Lostprophets - Start Something
8. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
9. Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
10. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
11. Isis - Panopticon
12. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
13. The Bronx - The Bronx
14. The Bled - Pass The Flask
15. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
16. Rammstein - Reise, Reise
17. Atreyu - The Curse
18. Head Automatica - Decadence
19. Ash - Meltdown
20. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2005

1. Trivium - Ascendancy
2. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
3. System Of A Down - Mezmerize
4. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
5. High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
6. Alkaline Trio - Crimson
7. Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
8. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
9. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
10. Thrice - Vheissu
11. The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell … And Back
12. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
13. Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
14. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken Deeds That Go Undone
15. System Of A Down - Hypnotize
16. … And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
17. Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
18. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
19. Corrosion Of Conformity - In The Arms Of God
20. Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2006


1. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
2. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
3. The Bronx - The Bronx
4. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
5. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
6. Tool - 10,000 Days
7. In Flames - Come Clarity
8. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves
9. Lamb Of God - Sacrament
10. Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
11. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
12. Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission
13. Alexisonfire - Crisis
14. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
15. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
16. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
17. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
18. Slayer - Christ Illusion
19. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
20. From First To Last - Heroine


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2007

Biffy Clyro


1. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
3. Machine Head - The Blackening
4. Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
5. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
6. The Ghost Of A Thousand - This Is Where The Fight Begins
7. Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead
8. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
9. Down - Down III: Over The Under
10. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
11. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
12. Coheed And Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
13. Reuben - In Nothing We Trust
14. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols I And II: Fire And Water
15. Baroness - Red Album
16. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
17. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
18. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
19. Against Me! - New Wave
20. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2008


1. Metallica - Death Magnetic
2. Gaslight Anthem - ‘59 Sound
3. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
4. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder god
5. Bronx - Bronx [III]
6. Slaves To Gravity - Scatter the Crow
7. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
8. The Scars On Broadway - The Stars On Broadway
9. Gojira - Way of All Flesh
10. Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
11. Weezer - Weezer [Red Album]
12. Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
13. Mogwai - Hawk Is Howling
14. Night Marchers - See You In Magic
15. Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath
16. Meshuggah - obZen
17. AC/DC - Black Ice
18. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
19. Enslaved - Vertebrae
20. Johnny Truant - No Tears for the Creatures

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2009

1. Gallows – Grey Britain
2. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue
3. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
4. Mastodon – Crack The Sky
5. Mariachi El Bronx – El Bronx
6. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
7. Converge – Axe To Fall
8. Paramour – Brand New Eyes
9. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
10. Rammstein – Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
11. Brand New – Daisy
12. Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
13. Alexonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
14. The Wildhearts – Chutzpah!
15. Steel Panther – Feel The Steel
16. The Ghost Of A Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations
17. Lamb Of God – Wrath
18. Lethermouth – Xo
19. Placebo – Battle For The Sun
20. Kylesa – Static Tention

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2010


1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
3. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
4. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell - Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven - Let's Keep It A Secret.
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
6. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
7. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys
8. Melissa auf Der Maur - Out Of Our Minds
9. Against Me! - White Crosses
10. Far - At Night We Live
11. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
12. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
13. Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines
14. Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North
15. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
16. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
17. Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
18. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
19. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
20. Electric Wizard - Black Masses


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2011

1. Mastodon – The Hunter
2. letlive. - Fake History
3. Machine Head – Unto The Locust
4. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
5. Rise Against – Endgame
6. You Me At Six – Sinners Never Sleep
7. The Wonders Years – Suburbia: I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing
8. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
9. The James Cleaver Quintet – That Was Then, This Is Now
10. Will Haven – Voir Dire
11. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
12. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
13. Korn – The Path Of Totality
14. Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx II
15. The King Blues – Punk & Poetry
16. Thrice – Major/Minor
17. Cage The Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday
18. Defeater – Empty Days And Sleepless Nights
19. New Found Glory – Radiosurgery
20. Twin Atlantic – Free
21. Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday
22. Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
23. La Dispute – Wildlife
24. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows – D.R.U.G.S.
25. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
26. Jane's Addiction – The Great Escape Artist
27. Arcane Roots – Left Fire
28. Wolves In The Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
29. City And Colour – Little Hell
30. Puscifer – Conditions Of My Parole
31. Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between The Brightness And Me
32. Evanescence – Evanescence
33. J Mascis – Several Shades Of Why
34. Evile – Five Serpent's Teeth
35. Exit Ten – Give Me Infinity
36. Cerebral Ballzy – Cerebral Ballzy
37. Hyro Da Hero – Birth, School, Work, Death
38. Tellison – The Wages Of Fear
39. Blink-182 – Neighborhoods
40. Rival Schools – Pedals
41. The Answer – Revival
42. Japanese Voyeurs – Yolk
43. Hell – Human Remains
44. The Computers – This Is The Computers
45. Social Distortion – Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
46. The Swellers – Good For Me
47. Blood Ceremony – Living With The Ancients
48. Deaf Havana – Fools And Worthless Liars
49. Bury Your Dead – Mosh N' Roll
50. Heights – Dead Ends
51. Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
52. Funeral For A Friend – Welcome Home Armageddon
53. Primordial – Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
54. Slaves To Gravity – Underwater-Outerspace
55. We Are The Ocean – Go Now And Live
56. The Black Keys – El Camino
57. *Shels – Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
58. Thursday – No Devolución
59. Black Spiders – Sons Of The North
60. Times Of Grace – The Hymn Of A Broken Man
61. Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
62. Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination
63. In Solitude – The World, The Flesh, The Devil
64. Sucioperry – The Heart String & How To Pull It
65. Unearth – Darkness In The Light
66. The Blackout – Hope
67. Altar Of Plagues – Mammal
68. Animals As Leaders – Weightless
69. Fen – Epoch
70. My Ruin – A Southern Revelation
71. Procession – Destroyers Of The Faith
72. Retox – Ugly Animals
73. Rival Sons – Pressure And Time
74. The Icarus Line – Wild Life
75. Off! - First Four Eps
76. Goes Cube – In Tides And Drifts
77. I Am The Avalance – Avalanche United
78. Kids In Glass Houses – In Gold Blood
79. Mike Patton – The Solitude Of Prime Numbers
80. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
81. Red Hot Chili Peppers – I'm With You
82. This Is Hell – Black Mass
83. Yellowcard – When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
84. Arboretum – The Gathering
85. Asking Alexandra – Reckless & Relentless
86. Opeth – Heritage
87. Iceage – New Brigade
88. Trivium – In Waves
89. Scale The Summit – The Collective
90. The Subways – Money And Celebrity
91. Death Cab For Cutie – Codes And Keys
92. All Time Low – Dirty Work
93. Bastions – Hospital Corners
94. Cave In – White Silence
95. Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
96. Ramesses – Possessed By The Rise Of Magik
97. Young Legionnaire – Crisis Works
98. Dropkick Murphys – Going Out In Style
99. The Treatment – This Might Hurt
100. Rise To Remain – City Of Vultures
101. Black Veil Brides – Set The World On Fire

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2012


1. Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood Of Colour
2. Deftones – Koi No Yokan
3. Anathema – Weather Systems
4. While She Sleeps – This Is The Six
5. Pierce The Veil – Collide With The Sky
6. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Green Day – ¡Uno!
8. Blood Command – Funeral Beach
9. Motion City Soundtrack – Go
10. Lamb Of God – Resolution
11. Hawk Eyes – Ideas
12. Winterfylleth – The Threnody Of Triumph
13. The Menzingers – On The Impossible Past
14. Papa Roach – The Connection
15. Lower Than Atlantis – Changing Tune
16. Gojira – L'Enfant Sauvage
17. Cancer Bats – Dead Set On Living
18. Soundgarden – King Animal
19. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
20. Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
21. Baroness – Yellow & Green
22. Billy Talent – Dead Silence
23. Young Guns – Bones
24. Parkway Drive – Atlas
25. Stone Sour – House Of Gold & Bones Part 1
26. Devil Sold His Soul – Empire Of Light
27. Rival Sons – Head Down
28. Axewound – Vultures
29. Lostalone – I'm A UFO In This City
30. Rush – Clockwork Angels
31. Vision Of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed
32. Killing Joke – MMXII
33. The Chariot – One Wing
34. Mixtapes – Even On The Worst Nights
35. Rolo Tomassi – Astraea
36. Architects – Daybreaker
37. Black Breath – Sentenced To Life
38. Steve Harris – British Lion
39. Orange Goblin – A Eulogy For The Damned
40. Woods Of Ypres – Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
41. The Darkness – Hot Cakes
42. Motionless In Whites - Infamous
43. Pilgrim – Misery Wizard
44. Alcest – Les Voyages De L'Âme
45. Neurosis – Honor Found In Light
46. Title Fight – Floral Green
47. Turbonegro – Sexual Harassment
48. All Time Low – Don't Panic
49. Halestorm – The Strange Case Of ...
50. Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2013


1. Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
2. Biffy Clyro - Opposites
3. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
4. Asking Alexandra - From Death To Destiny
5. Avenged Sevenfold - Hail To The King
6. Paramore - Paramore
7. Letlive - The Blackest Beautiful
8. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
9. The Bronx - The Bronx IV
10. Queens Of The Stoneage - ....Like Clockwork
11. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
12. Watain - The Wild Hunt
13. Black Sabbath - 13
14. Deaf Havana - Old Souls
15. Alter Bridge - Fortress
16. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
17. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
18. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock And Roll
19. Deafheaven - Sunbather
20. State Champs - The Finer Things
21. Nails - Abandon All Life
22. The Defiled - Daggers
23. Panic! At The Disco - Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!
24. Jamie Lenman - Muscle Memory
25. A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2014

1. Architects - Lost Forever//Lost Together
2. Marmozets - The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets
3. Against Me - Transgender Dysphasia Blues
4. Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
5. Beartooth - Disgusting
6. Rise Against - The Black Market
7. Slipknot - .5: The Grey Chapter
8. Behemoth - The Satanist
9. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
10. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
11. AC/DC - Rock Or Bust
12. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
13. Machine Head - Bloodstone And Diamonds
14. Code Orange - I Am King
15. You Me At Six - Cavalier Youth
16. Mallory Knox - Asymmetry
17. Body Count - Manslaughter
18. Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity
19. Lonely Of The Brave - The Day's War
20. Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
21. Frnkiero And The Celebration - .Stomachaches.
22. We Are The In Crowd - Weird Kids
23. Twin Atlantic - Great Divide
24. Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls
25. The Menzingers - Rented World
26. Lost Alone - Shapes Of Screams
27. Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
28. Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
29. Bury Tomorrow - Runes
30. Neck Deep - Wishful Thinking
31. King 180 - Memoirs Of A Murderer
32. Of Ice And Men - Restoring Force
33. Pvris - White Noise
34. The Xcerts - There Is Only You
35. Black Veil Brides - Black Veil Brides
36. Linkin Park - The Hunting Party
37. Brody Dalle - Diploid Love
38. Alcest - Shelter
39. Crosses +++ - Crosses +++
40. Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me
41. Electric Wizard - Time To Die
42. The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
43. Issues - Issues
44. New Found Glory - Resurrection
45. Slash - World On Fire
46. Bayside - Cult
47. Motionless In White - Reincarnate
48. Purple - (409)
49. The Pretty Reckless - Going To Hell
50. Steel Panther - All You Can Eat


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2015


1. Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Sprit
2. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
3. Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
4. Motorhead - Bad Magic
5. Parkway Drive - Ire
6. Faith No More - Sol Invictus
7. All Time Low - Future Hearts
8. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossom
9. No Devotion - Permanence
10. Young Guns - Ones And Zeros
11. The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven
12. Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang
13. Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
14. Enter Shikari - The Mindsweep
15. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
16. Baroness - Purple
17. 36 Crazyfists - Time And Trauma
18. Slayer - Repentless
19. Myrkur - M
20. Ghost - Meliora
21. Fightstar - Behind The Devils Back
22. Four Year Strong - Four Year Strong
23. Raketkanon - Rktkn #2
24. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
25. Biters - Electric Blood
26. Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho
27. Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find…
28. Cancer Bats - Searching For Zero
29. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
30. While She Sleeps - Brainwashed
31. We Are Harlot - We Are Harlot
32. Chris Cornell - Higher Truth
33. Rolo Tomassi - Grievances
34. Queen Kwong - Get A Witness
35. Crossfaith - Xeno
36. Sleeping With Sirens - Madness
37. New Years Day - Malevolence
38. Puscifer - Money Shot
39. Hawk Eyes - Everything Is Fine
40. Refused - Freedom
41. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
42. Don Broco - Automatic
43. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
44. Hellions - Indian Summer
45. Five Finger Death Punch - Got Your Six
46. Acheronts - Ma-Ion (Formulas Of Reptilian Unification)
47. Halestorm - Into The Wild Life
48. Clutch - Psychic Warfare
49. 5 Seconds Of Summer - Sounds Good Feels Good
50. Bullet For My Valentine - Venom


Kerrang! Songs Of The Year 2015

1. Against The Current - Talk
2. Bring Me The Horizon - Happy Song
3. Iron Maiden - Empire Of The Clouds
4. Linderman - Praise Abort
5. Enter Shikari - Anaesthetist
6. Pvris - White Noise
7. Motorhead - Till The End
8. Scorpions - Rock My Car
9. Creeper - The Honeymoon Suite
10. Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes - Juggernaut
11. Faith No More - Superhero
12. Biters - Dreams Don't Die
13. Young Gund - I Want Out
14. Asking Alexandria - I Won't Give In
15. 5 Seconds Of Summer - She's Kinda Hot
16. The Prodigy - Nasty
17. Defeater - Spared In Hell
18. Crossfaith - Wildfire
19. Skindread - Under Attack
20. Fall Out Boy - Irresistible
21. As It Is - Dial Tones
22. Muncie Girls - Gone With The Wind
23. Failure - A.M. Amnesia
24. Slaves - Cheer Up London
25. Muse - Mercy


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2016




1. Green Day – Revolution Radio
2. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
3. Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
4. Frank Iero And The Patience – Parachutes
5. Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage
6. Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me
7. Deftones – Gore
8. Panic! At The Disco – Death Of A Bachelor
9. Babymetal – Metal Resistance
10. Twin Atlantic – GLA
11. Every Time I Die – Low Teens
12. Pierce The Veil - Misadventures
13. Blink-182 – California
14. Moose Blood – Blush
15. Gojira – Magma
16. Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis
17. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
18. Muncie Girls – From Caplan To Belsize
19. Milk Teeth – Vile Child
20. Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us
21. The Black Queen – Fever Daydream
22. Hellions – Opera Oblivia
23. Jimmy Eat World – Integrity Blues
24. A Day To Remember – Bad Vibrations
25. Beartooth – Aggressive
26. Lonely The Brave – Things Will Matter
27. Asking Alexandria – The Black
28. Alter Bridge – The Last Hero
29. Waterparks – Double Dare
30. Weezer – Weezer (White Album)
31. Letlive. – If I’m The Devil…
32. Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
33. Beach Slang – A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings
34. The Amity Affliction – This Could Be Heartbreak
35. Russian Circles – Guidance
36. Sum 41 – 13 Voices
37. Bury Tomorrow – Earthbound
38. Cane Hill – Smile
39. Brian Fallon – Painkillers
40. With Confidence – Better Weather
41. Swmrs – Drive North
42. The Pretty Reckless – Who You Selling For
43. Against The Current – In Our Bones
44. Black Peaks – Statues
45. Billy Talent – Afraid Of Heights
46. Descendants – Hypercaffium Spazzinate
47. Pup – The Dream Is Over
48. Vodun – Possession
49. Alcest – Kodama
50. Electric Century – For The Night To Control


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2017


1. Employed To Serve - The Warmth Of A Dying Sun
2. Enter Shikari - The Spark
3. Code Orange - Forever
4. Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
5. Converge - The Dusk In Us
6. Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold
7. Neck Deep - The Peace And The Panic
8. Rise Against - Wolves
9. The Menzingers - After The Party
10. PVRIS - All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell
11. Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
12. Can’t Swim - Fail You Again
13. AFI - The Blood Album
14. Pallbearer - Heartless
15. Higher Power - Soul Structure
16. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Modern Ruin
17. Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down
18. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
19. The Bronx - The Bronx
20. Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
21. Queens Of The Stone Age - Villians
22. Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine
23. The Darkness - Pinewood Smile
24. Prophets Of Rage - Prophets Of Rage
25. Deaf Havana - All These Countless Nights
26. The Used - The Canyon
27. Glassjaw - Material Control
28. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
29. Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
30. Lower Than Atlantis - Safe In Sound
31. Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
32. Asking Alexandria - Asking Alexandria
33. While She Sleeps - You Are We
34. Knuckle Puck - Shapeshifter
35. Myrkur - Mareridt
36. Ohhms - The Fool
37. Papa Roach - Crooked Teeth
38. Stone Sour - Hydrograd
39. At The Drive In - In.ter A.li.a
40. Ho99o9 - United States Of Horror
41. Linkin Park - One More Light
42. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
43. Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation
44. Paramore - After Laughter
45. One Ok Rock - Ambitions
46. You Me At Six - Night People
47. Grave Pleasures - Motherblood
48. All Time Low - Last Young Renegade
49. Stray From The Path - Only Death Is Real
50. Royal Thunder - Wick


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2018


1. Turnstile - Time & Space
2. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
3. Architects - Holy Hell
4. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
5. Ghost - Prequelle
6. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop
7. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
8. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
9. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
10. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
11. Judas Priest - Firepower
12. The Xcerts - Hold on to Your Heart
13. Marmozets - Knowing What You Know Now
14. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
15. Svalbard - It's Hard To Have Hope
16. Drug Church - Cheer
17. Møl - JORD
18. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
19. Conjurer - Mire
20. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
21. Twenty One Pilots - Trench
22. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
23. The Interrupters - Fight the Good Fight
24. Single Mothers - Through a Wall
25. Carpenter Brut - Leather Teeth
26. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
27. Parkway Drive - Reverence
28. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
29. Panic! at the Disco - Pray For The Wicked
30. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
31. Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army
32. Pagan - Black Wash
33. Don Broco - Technology
34. The Struts - YOUNG & DANGEROUS
35. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
36. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
37. Thrice - Palms
38. High on Fire - Electric Messiah
39. Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic
40. You Me At Six - VI
41. The Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
42. Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood
43. Muse - Simulation Theory
44. Vein - Errorzone
45. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
46. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
47. Slash - Living the Dream
48. The Black Queen - Infinite Games
49. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
50. Can't Swim - This Too Won't Pass

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2019



1. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
2. Tool - Fear Inoculum
3. Bring Me The Horizon - amo
4. Baroness - Gold & Grey
5. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue
6. FEVER 333 - STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS
7. Venom Prison - Samsara
8. Rammstein - Rammstein
9. FIDLAR - Almost Free
10. Employed to Serve - Eternal Forward Motion
11. The Menzingers - Hello Exile
12. SWMRS - Berkeley's On Fire
13. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
14. Korn - The Nothing
15. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - End of Suffering
16. Amyl & The Sniffers - Amyl and The Sniffers
17. Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
18. Frank Iero and The Future Violents - Barriers
19. Waterparks - Fandom
20. Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk
21. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
22. PUP - Morbid Stuff
23. While She Sleeps - SO WHAT?
24. The Regrettes - How Do You Love?
25. Refused - War Music
26. Dream State - Primrose Path
27. Petrol Girls - Cut & Stitch
28. BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY
29. Lingua Ignota - Caligula
30. Dinosaur Pile-Up - Celebrity Mansions
31. Sum 41 - Order In Decline
32. Blink-182 - Nine
33. The Damned Things - High Crimes
34. Spielbergs - This Is Not the End
35. Lindemann - F & M
36. Ceremony - In The Spirit World Now
37. American Football - American Football
38. Stray from the Path - Internal Atomics
39. Sunn O))) - Life Metal
40. Yonaka - Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow
41. Killswitch Engage - Atonement
42. GosT - Valediction
43. Cult of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
44. I Prevail - Trauma
45. Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong
46. Gatecreeper - Deserted
47. Perry Farrell - Kind Heaven
48. Press Club - Wasted Energy
49. Ithaca - The Language of Injury
50. Torche - Admission

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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2020

1. Code Orange – Underneath (Roadrunner)
2. Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings (14th Floor)
3. Deftones – Ohms (Warner)
4. Ghostemane – Anti-Icon (Blackmage)
5. Enter Shikari – Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible (SO Recordings)
6. Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Monkeywrench / Republic)
7. Loathe – I Let It In And It Took Everything (Sharptone)
8. Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better? (Church Road)
9. Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall (Bad Boy / Interscope)
10. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones)
11. Touché Amoré – Lament (Epitaph)
12. Run The Jewels – RTJ4 (Jewel Runners)
13. Trivium – What The Dead Men Say (Roadrunner)
14. Higher Power – 27 Miles Underwater (Roadrunner)
15. Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (Epic)
16. Creeper – Sex, Death And The Infinite Void (Roadrunner)
17. All Time Low – Wake Up, Sunshine (Fueled By Ramen)
18. AC/DC – POWER UP (Columbia)
19. IDLES – Ultra Mono (Partisan)
20. Neck Deep – All Distortions Are Intentional (Hopeless)
21. A.A. Williams – Forever Blue (Bella Union)
22. Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero (Nuclear Blast)
23. Poppy – I Disagree (Sumerian)
24. END – Splinters From An Ever Changing Face (Closed Casket Activities)
25. Boston Manor – GLUE (Pure Noise)
26. Puscifer – Existential Reckoning (Alchemy/BMG)
27. Napalm Death – Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism (Century Media)
28. Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God (Nuclear Blast)
29. Brian Fallon – Local Honey (Lesser Known)
30. Envy – The Fallen Crimson (Pelagic)
31. Palm Reader – Sleepless (Church Road)
32. NOTHING – The Great Dismal (Relapse)
33. Sharptooth – Transitional Forms (Pure Noise)
34. Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac)
35. Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Everyone (Pure Noise)
36. Grey Daze – Amends (Loma Vista)
37. Green Day – Father Of All… (Reprise)
38. The Chats – High Risk Behaviour (Bargain Bin)
39. Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor (Atlantic)
40. Pallbearer – Forgotten Days (Nuclear Blast)
41. Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (Music For Nations)
42. Cold Years – Paradise (eOne)
43. Nova Twins – Who Are The Girls? (333 Wreckords Crew)
44. The Smashing Pumpkins – Cyr (Sumerian)
45. Midnight – Rebirth By Blasphemy (Metal Blade)
46. PVRIS – Use Me (Warner)
47. Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? (Def Jam)
48. Kvelertak – Splid (Rise)
49. Corey Taylor – CMFT (Roadrunner)
50. grandson – Death Of An Optimist (Fueled By Ramen)


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2021


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2022



1. Nova Twins - Supernova
2. Ithaca - They Fear Us
3. Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
4. The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
5. Ghost - IMPERA
6. Slipknot - The End, So Far
7. Rammstein - Zeit
8. A.A.Williams - As The Moon Rests
9. Malevolence - Malicious Intent
10. Zeal and Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
11. Architects - the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
12. The Interrupters - In The Wild
13. Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
14. Witch Fever - Congregation
15. Boston Manor - Datura
16. Static Dress - Rouge Carpet Disaster
17. Alexisonfire - Otherness
18. Parkway Drive - Darker Still
19. Pinkshift - Love Me Forever
20. Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
21. Halestorm - Back From The Dead
22. Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
23. Petrol Girls - Baby
24. Stray from the Path - Euthanasia
25. Carpenter Brut - LEATHER TERROR
26. Magnolia Park - Baku's Revenge
27. L.S. Dunes - Past Lives
28. Willow -
29. The Chats - Get Fucked
30. Conjurer - Páthos
31. Backxwash - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN .......
32. CANDY - Heaven Is Here
33. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
34. Venom Prison - Erebos
35. Machine Head - ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN
36. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
37. Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
38. HEALTH - DISCO4 :: PART II
39. The Regrettes - Further Joy
40. Lamb of God - Omens
41. Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
42. Ho99o9 - SKIN
43. Stand Atlantic - f.e.a.r.
44. Palaye Royale - Fever Dream
45. Korn - Requiem
46. Brutus - Unison Life
47. Drug Church - Hygiene
48. The Linda Lindas - Growing Up
49. The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever
50. Pale Waves - Unwanted


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Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2023


1. Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
2. Creeper – Sanguivore
3. Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
4. Holding Absence – The Noble Art Of Self Destruction
5. Pupil Slicer – Blossom
6. Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But A Dream…
7. Metallica – 72 Seasons
8. Jesus Piece – …So Unknown
9. Hot Milk – A Call To The Void
10. Green Lung – This Heathen Land
11. Enter Shikari – A Kiss For The Whole World
12. Svalbard – The Weight Of The Mask
13. Baroness – Stone
14. Skindred – Smile
15. Militarie Gun – Life Under The Gun
16. Blink-182 – One More Time…
17. Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust
18. Paramore – This Is Why
19. Drain – Living Proof
20. Code Orange – The Above
21. Dying Wish – Symptoms Of Survival
22. Empire State Bastard – Rivers Of Heresy
23. Vv – Neon Noir
24. Zulu – A New Tomorrow
25. Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Son
26. 100 Gecs – 10,000 Gecs
27. Voice Of Baceprot – Retas
28. The Gaslight Anthem – History Books
29. Gel – Only Constant
30. Beartooth – The Surface
31. Wargasm – Venom
32. Taking Back Sunday – 152
33. Graphic Nature – A Mind Waiting To Die
34. The Armed – Perfect Saviors
35. You Me At Six – Truth Decay
36. Fucked Up – One Day
37. Dream Nails – Doom Loop
38. Urne – A Feast On Sorrow
39. Poppy – Zig
40. Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
41. Health – Rat Wars
42. Within Temptation – Bleed Out
43. Meet Me @ The Altar – Past // Present // Future
44. Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – Saved!
45. Corey Taylor – Cmf2
46. Babymetal – The Other One
47. Waterparks – Intellectual Property
48. Pvris – Evergreen
49. Pierce The Veil – The Jaws Of Life
50. Grove Street – The Path To Righteousness