2011 is almost over so that means it’s time for my year end awards! It’s been another awesome year for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal with so many releases on CD, DVD, Vinyl and Digital formats, not just new studio albums but also live records, reissues and special edition releases. I have had more albums submitted for [...]
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Heavy Metal Addiction 2011 Awards Week
Posted: December 24, 2011 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Best of 2011, Black Metal, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Worst of 2011
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The Top 30 Albums of 2010 (#1-#10)
Posted: December 31, 2010 in Video, Videos, Year End AwardsTags: Accept, AOR, Best of 2010, Black Country Communion, Black Metal, Classic Rock, Crazy Lixx, Death Metal, Glam, Glenn Hughes, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Keel, Krokus, Mass, Masterplan, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Ratt, Rock, Scorpions, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Youtube
I think I say the same things every year when I write the introduction to my Best of the Year list…..this year was one of the greatest years for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal! Every year it seems like more and more new albums come out from a wide variety of bands and 2010 was [...]
The Top 30 Albums of 2010 (#11-#20)
Posted: December 30, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: Amanda Somerville, AOR, Best of 2010, Black Label Society, Black Metal, Brainstorm, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Glam, Griffen, Halford, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Kamelot, Kiske/Somerville, Melodic Rock, Metal, Michael Kiske, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rob Halford, Rock, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Treat, Triptykon, White Wizzard, Wig Wam, Zakk Wylde
I think I say the same things every year when I write the introduction to my Best of the Year list…..this year was one of the greatest years for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal! Every year it seems like more and more new albums come out from a wide variety of bands and 2010 was [...]
The Top 30 Albums of 2010 (#21-#30)
Posted: December 29, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Best of 2010, Black Metal, Bruce Kulick, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Dimmu Borgir, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavenly, Heavy Metal, Human Cometh, Melodic Rock, Metal, Mob Rules, Music, NWOBHM, Overkill, Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Raven, Rock, Sister Sin, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Van Canto
I think I say the same things every year when I write the introduction to my Best of the Year list…..this year was one of the greatest years for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal! Every year it seems like more and more new albums come out from a wide variety of bands and 2010 was [...]
The 5 Worst Albums of 2010
Posted: December 28, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: Alternative, Alternative Metal, AOR, Black Metal, Bret Michaels, Classic Rock, Dark Age, Death Metal, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Rock, Metal, Methods Of Mayhem, Music, Nu-Metal, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Slash, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Worst of 2010
2010 was another great year for new albums. Bands from all different genres of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal released good albums this year and I was on the frontlines buying them up as they were released. Of course there were some bad albums too. I bought more new releases, and had more new albums submitted for review, in 2010 [...]
The Top 5 DVDs of 2010
Posted: December 27, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Music, Metallica, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Heaven & Hell, Black Sabbath, Dio, Thrash, Power Metal, Death Metal, DVD, Rock, Jeff Scott Soto, AOR, Melodic Rock, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Glam, NWOBHM, Michael Schenker, MSG, Megadeth, Black Metal, Classic Rock, Rob Halford, Tony Iommi, Michael Schenker Group, Halford, Ronnie James Dio, Slayer, Anthrax, The Big 4, Best of 2010
2010 wasn’t a bad year for music DVDs but I think it was very similar to 2009. In 2009, there weren’t that many notable DVDs released from the big name bands and a lot of bands used DVDs as special bonuses in first pressing of new releases. I also missed a few DVD releases in 2009 [...]
The Best Miscellaneous Releases of 2010
Posted: December 26, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Best of 2010, Black Metal, Black Sabbath, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Dio, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Jorn, Jorn Lande, Judas Priest, Keel, MainEEaxe, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Ronnie James Dio, Savage Grace, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Triumph
Not every album released is a new studio album…..but it sure seems like they are! Every year there are a ton of live albums, greatest hits packages, reissues, remasters, box sets, special edition and limited edition releases that flood the marketplace. Sometimes there are multiple versions of these releases depending on which part of the [...]
Albums I Missed In 2009
Posted: December 25, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: 3 Inches Of Blood, AOR, Black Metal, Cage, Charm City Devils, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Epica, Glam, GWAR, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, House Of Lords, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, W.A.S.P., W.E.T., White Wizzard, Winger
It never fails…..every year goes by and there are always a ton of albums I end up missing. There are so many new albums released every year that it’s almost impossible to keep up. Usually I spend the first two months of the new year acquiring all the albums I didn’t buy the previous year [...]
Heavy Metal Addiction 2010 Awards Week
Posted: December 20, 2010 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Best of 2010, Black Metal, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Worst of 2010
2010 is almost over so that means it’s time for my year end awards! It’s been another awesome year for Hard Rock and Heavy metal and I have listened to more new albums, discovered more new bands and watched more new DVDs than any other year in Heavy Metal Addiction’s almost five year history! I [...]
The Top 40 Albums of 2009 (#1-#10)
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: Ace Frehley, AOR, Best of 2009, Black Metal, Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Gene Simmons, Glam, Hard Rock, Heaven & Hell, Heavy Metal, Joe Lynn Turner, Johnny Lima, KISS, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Paul Stanley, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Sacred Oath, Saxon, Speed Metal, Sunstorm, Thrash, Thrash Metal, UFO, Wolf
We finally made it to the Top 10! Something you may have noticed by now is that some of my favorite bands are missing from the countdown so far…..guess where they are? 2009 was another great year for new Hard Rock and Heavy Metal albums and I was lucky to have heard a great many [...]
The Top 40 Albums of 2009 (#11-#25)
Posted: December 30, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Artillery, Best of 2009, Black Metal, Bloodbound, Candlemass, Classic Rock, Death Metal, FarCry, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Helix, Jorn, Jorn Lande, Kreator, Mastodon, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Outloud, Power Metal, Praying Mantis, Primal Fear, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Ravage, Rock, Slayer, Speed Metal, Stryper, Thrash, Thrash Metal, U.D.O.
2009 was another great year for new Hard Rock and Heavy Metal albums and I was lucky to have heard a great many of them. There were hundreds of new albums released by hundreds of bands over a wide range of Metal genres, it was very hard to keep up especially when I’m spending my [...]
The Top 40 Albums of 2009 (#26-#40)
Posted: December 29, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: Alestorm, AOR, Behemoth, Best of 2009, Black Metal, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Dream Theater, Edguy, Glam, Grave Digger, Great White, Hammerfall, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Immortal, Megadeth, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, Nashville Pussy, NWOBHM, Pirate Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Queensryche, Rock, Saga, Speed Metal, Stratovarius, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Tragik, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, TSO
2009 was another great year for new Hard Rock and Heavy Metal albums and I was lucky to have heard a great many of them. There were hundreds of new albums released by hundreds of bands over a wide range of Metal genres, it was very hard to keep up especially when I’m spending my [...]
