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Enslaved - Eld (1997)
I find the album's intro as sublime as ever. It plunges us into the calm before the coming storm. It's magical!
 
 

Entombed - Left Hand Path (1990)
 

Megadeth - CtE

I was reading loudwires best metal album of each year since 1970 list and decided to come up with my own list just for fun. here is the link for the original if anyone is interested: The Best Metal Album of Each Year Since 1970 (loudwire.com)
1970: Paranoid - black sabbath
Predictable choice I know but there was so little competition at this point in metal's history.  the only thing ive heard that comes close is the self-titled but even then paranoid blows that album out of the water
1971: Master of reality - black sabbath
Copy and paste what I said about paranoid here except this album is probably even better. This is easily one of their darkest and heaviest records with classics like into the void, sweet leaf, and children of the grave all helping set the stage for doom and stoner metal.
1972: Vol 4 - black sabbath
There was a lot more competition this year most notably deep purples machine head but even still vol 4 beats all of them. this record was the start of a more experimental era in black sabbaths history and this would continue on the next two records.
1973: Volcanic rock - buffalo
Finally, an album not by black sabbath. Now this isn't saying that sabbath bloody sabbath isn't a great record it absolutely is but I think this album beats it out by just a hair. the riffs are heavier, and the album is a lot more chaotic. The closing track alone makes this album worth listening to.
 

Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (1994)
 

saw goatmaster post about abominant a few days ago, figured i'd check them out. i like it. some good ol' fashioned '90s melodeath

saw goatmaster post about abominant a few days ago, figured i'd check them out. i like it. some good ol' fashioned '90s melodeath

Marduk - Viktoria

Desaster - Hellfire's Dominion, Germany 1998
 
Desaster - Divine Blasphemies, 2002
 

Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence (1992)
 

Deicide - Serpents of the Light (1997)
 

Bolt Thrower - War Master (1991)
The intro to What Dwells Within gives me chills every time! It's magical!
 

Metallica - The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited

Illdisposed - Submit (1995)
 

I love my death metal groovy and my thrash metal too. Problems I may have with bands like Pantera or Log or Machine Head have nothing to do with groove. I like groove, think it's a good thing. I like that Nailbomb too.
Of course you'd want an album to be good and worth repeat listens or else what would even be the point in buying something if you weren't planning on any repeat listens? I'm just saying I don't expect every single album to be the best and most original god damned thing I've ever heard. Naturally I do hope to find some albums with staying power each year that will be with me and stay in the rotation for the next decade or two at least. But I don't expect that of every album because I have an insatiable appetite for variety too. I don't just want to listen to the same 20 or 30 of the very best of the best new albums over and over each year. So I also buy stuff that fits into the "pretty good" and "not bad for what it is" categories.
I really don't feel this strips away the value or meaning from my life, it's just some digital music. Everybody blows a few bucks on something disposable, why not music? You'd happily pay two or three or four times as much for a live show that you could only see once than the cost of a digital album. And also sometimes even those "pretty good" albums can leave an impression on you after repeated listens and be nice litle surprises when you're scrolling around and run across one of the ones you haven't listened to in a few years and forgot you even bought so you click and rediscover it all over again.
I'm all digital because the considerably cheaper digital prices allow me to afford more variety, and I don't care about the experience. And I don't need any more boxes full of CD's that I take out once, rip to the computer, and never look at ever again. I did the "vinyl experience" for almost 30 years, I'm over it, I don't care about the experience anymore. I couldn't possibly be bothered to find and then flip and then organize and alphabetize vinyl albums when I can just scroll and double click.
 
NP: Nothingness - Supraliminal, dm  Minneapois MN
 

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989)
 

Nailbomb - Point Blank
An awesome if forgotten mix of pissed off thrash metal, groove, 1980s hardcore and industrial. 

Definitely their peak!