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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Year End Awards’ Category
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
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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 [...]
The 5 Worst Albums of 2009
Posted: December 28, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, As Cities Burn, Classic Rock, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Lacuna Coil, Lita Ford, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Sepultura, Speed Metal, The Gathering, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Worst of 2009
2009 was another banner 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 acquired more new releases in 2009 than I have any other year [...]
The Top 5 Music DVDs of 2009
Posted: December 27, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: Anvil, AOR, Best of 2009, Classic Rock, Cruefest, DVD, Flight 666, Glam, Global Metal, Global Metal DVD, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Jeff Scott Soto, Melodic Rock, Metal, Motley Crue, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Speed Metal, The Story Of Anvil, Thrash, Thrash Metal
2009 wasn’t the greatest year for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal DVDs. Maybe there weren’t that many released this year? Maybe I just flat out missed them? One factor could be that a lot of bands are packaging bonus DVDs into their proper album releases as bonuses for fans. Slayer, Alestorm, Saxon and KISS were just [...]
Albums I Missed in 2008
Posted: December 26, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: 1977, AOR, Black Metal, Brother Firetribe, Buckcherry, Classic Rock, Extreme, Glam, Grand Magus, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Rose Tattoo, Speed Metal, Talon, Tesla, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Venom, Yngwie Malmsteen
There are so many 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 before all the new releases start to flood the market. 2008 was no exception as I missed more than a [...]
Heavy Metal Addiction 2009 Awards Week
Posted: December 25, 2009 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Best of 2009, Classic Rock, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Melodic Rock, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Rock, Speed Metal, Thrash, Thrash Metal, Worst of 2009
Christmas is finally here and we are entering into the last few days of December 2009, that means it’s time for my year end awards! It’s been another great year for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and I have listened to more new releases by many different bands in many different genres than any other year. I have a [...]
The Top 30 Albums of 2008 (#1-#15)
Posted: December 27, 2008 in Year End AwardsTags: Alice Cooper, AOR, Avantasia, Ayreon, Benedictum, Best of 2008, Classic Rock, Cloudscape, Def Leppard, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Journey, Judas Priest, Melodic Rock, Metal, Michael Schenker Group, Moonspell, MSG, Music, NWOBHM, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Rock, Royal Hunt, Shannon, Testament, Uriah Heep, Whitesnake
2008 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 30 Albums of 2008 (#16-#30)
Posted: December 26, 2008 in Year End AwardsTags: AC/DC, AOR, Best of 2008, Black Tide, Brainstorm, Classic Rock, Dokken, Glam, Griffen, Gypsy Pistoleros, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Jorn Lande, Melodic Rock, Metal, Metallica, Motorhead, Music, Night Ranger, NWOBHM, Pharaoh, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Rock, Temujin, The Sword, Tyr, Uli Jon Roth
2008 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 5 Worst Albums of 2008
Posted: December 24, 2008 in Year End AwardsTags: AOR, Asia, Bret Michaels, Classic Rock, Dokken, Don Dokken, Engel, Glam, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Poison, Queen, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Rock
2008 was another banner 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 came out. There were definitely some bad ones too and I picked up a few of them over the course [...]
