With less than four weeks of the year left I usually start thinking about a top 10 / 20 albums of the year. I have been replaying all my vinyl purchases plus downloads that are still on the to-buy list but I am finding it difficult to keep it at 10 as it's been such a good year for metal. I will finish my list over the weekend and will post soon.

Please list your fave albums from 2015.

No doubt I have forgortten something but here is my list.

01. Iron Maiden - Book of Souls
02. Enforcer - From Beyond
03. Satan - Atom by Atom
04. Mendes Prey - The Never Ending Road
05. Enforcer - Live by Fire
06. Sorcerer - In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross
07. Saxon - Battering Ram
08. Black Trip - Shadowline
09. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper
10. Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden
11. WASP - Golgotha
12. With the Dead - With the Dead
13. Venom - From the Depths
14. Tysondog - Cry Havoc
15. Pentagram - Curious Volume
16. Motorhead - Bad Magic
17. Slayer - Repentless
18. Symphony X - Underworld
19. Queensryche - Condition Human
20. Armored Saint - Win Hands Down

To name a few would be:

1. Apocalyptica - ‘Shadowmaker’
2. Atreyu - ‘Long Live’
3. Cattle Decapitation - 'The Anthropocene Extinction'
4. Coal Chamber - ‘Rivals’
5. Coheed and Cambria - ‘The Color Before The Sun’
6. Disturbed - ‘Immortalized’
7. Iron Maiden - "Book Of Souls"
8. Motorhead - 'Bad Magic'
9. Nightwish - 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful’
10. Saxon - 'Battering Ram'
11. Slayer - ‘Repentless’
12. Symphony X - 'Underworld'
13. W.A.S.P. - 'Golgotha'

Gaelbah - Häxan
Satan - Atom by Átomo
Enforcer - Live by Fire
Saxon - Battering Ram
WASP - Golgotha
Venom - From the Depths
Motorhead - Bad Magic
Slayer - Repentless
Symphony X - Underworld
Armored Saint - Win Hands Down

This is the Top 20 for the year 2015 (by the amount of downloads) from metal-tracker.

01. Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
02. Ghost - Meliora
03. Lamb of God - VII: Strum und Drang
04. Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
05. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
06. Shinedown - Threat to Survival
07. Ensiferum - One Man Army
08. Fear Factory - Genexus
09. Soulfly - Archangel
10. Helloween - My God Given Right
11. Stratovarius - Eternal
12. Lindemann - Skills in Pills
13. Gorgoroth - Instinctus
14. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus
15. W.A.S.P. - Goltgotha
16. Marduk - Frontschwein
17. The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal
18. Powerwolf - Blessed and Possessed
19. Trivium - Silence in the Snow
20. Korpiklaani - Noita

I'll try not to forget anything but here is my list:

Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase
Riverside - Love Fear and the Time Machine
Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
David Gilmour - Rattle that Lock
Gary Clark Jr. - The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
Children of Bodom - I Worship Chaos
Killing Joke - Pylon
Lindemann - Skills in Pills
Symphony X - Underworld
Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Therapy? - Disquiet

1. Midnight Odyssey - Shards Of Silver Fade
2. Ghost Bath - Moonlover
3. Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
4. Psychonaut 4 - Dipsomania
5. Forgotten Tomb - Hurt Yourself And The Ones You Love
6. Tome Of The Unreplenished - Innerstanding
7. Moon - Render Of The Veils
8. Lustre - Bloosom
9. Kalmankantaja - Muinainen
10 . An Autumn for Crippled Children - The Long Goodbye

In no particular order, some albums I enjoyed this year:

Cosmic Church - Vigilia
Enshine - Singularity
Humm - Sanctuary
Wolfheart - Shadow World
Djinn Of Thujone - The Suffering Realm
Forefather - Curse Of The Cwelled
Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short
Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
No Return - Fearless Walk to Rise
Sorcerer - In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross
Moonspell - Extinct
Enslaved - In Times
Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death
High On Fire - Luminiferous

My Favorites of 2015

Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
Cruciamentum - "Charnel Passages"
A Loathing Requiem - "Acolytes Eternal"
Taken By the Sun - "Taken By the Sun"
Lychgate - "An Antidote For The Glass Pill"
Dødheimsgard - "A Umbra Omega"
Killing Joke - "Pylon"
Vhol - "Deeper Than Sky"
Leviathan - "Scar Sighted"
Sweet Cobra - "Earth"
High on Fire - "Luminiferous"
Dead In The Manger - "Cessation"
Kendrick Lamar - "To Pimp A Butterfly"
Dr. Dre - "Compton"
Clutch - "Psychic Warfare"
Coliseum - "Anxiety's Kiss"
Hate Eternal - "Infernus"
Slayer - "Repentless"
Horrendous - "Anareta"
Kylesa - "Exhausting Fire"
Chelsea Wolfe - "Abyss"
King Woman - "Doubt"
Black Breath - "Slaves Beyond Death"
Desolate Shrine - "The Heart of the Netherworld"
Kowloon Walled City - "Grievances"
Bosse-de-Nage - "All Fours"

This Is My Top 25 from 2015:
1. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
2. Angra - Secret Garden
3. Stratovarius - Eternal
4. Chon - Grow
5. Koke Benavides - Overload
6. Hidalgo - Lancuyen
7. Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth
8. Symphony X - Underworld
9. Plini - The End Of Everything
10. Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment
11. Native Construct - Quiet World
12. Scale The Summit - V
13. Dragony - Shadowplay
14. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
15. Cain's Offering - Stormcrow
16. Act Of Defiance - Birth And The Burial
17. Toto - XIV
18. Next To None - A Light In The Dark
19. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
20. Telos - Telos
21. Vitalism - Causa
22. Children Of Bodoom - I Workship Chaos
23. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
24. Slayer - Repentless
25. Muse - Drones