50 albums for each of these years of course.
https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-50 ... s-of-1989/
https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-50 ... from-1999/
https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-50 ... s-of-2009/
1989
1 | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine
2 | Faith No More | The Real Thing
3 | The Cure | Disintegration
4 | Morbid Angel | Altars of Madness
5 | Pixies | Doolittle
6 | Sepultura | Beneath the Remains
7 | Bad Religion | No Control
8 | Obituary | Slowly We Rot
9 | Godflesh | Streetcleaner
10 | Nirvana | Bleach
11 | King Diamond | Conspiracy
12 | Operation Ivy | Energy
13 | Sodom | Agent Orange
14 | Ministry | The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
15 | Gorilla Biscuits | Start Today
16 | Carcass | Symphonies of Sickness
17 | Repulsion | Horrified
18 | Sabbat | Dreamweaver
19 | Overkill | The Years of Decay
20 | Testament | Practice What You Preach
21 | Mötley Crüe | Dr. Feelgood
22 | TAD | God's Balls
23 | Melvins | Ozma
24 | Terrorizer | World Downfall
25 | Pestilence | Consuming Impulse
26 | Coroner | No More Color
27 | Kreator | Extreme Aggression
28 | Sick of It All | Blood, Sweat and No Tears
29 | Autopsy | Severed Survival
30 | Skid Row | Skid Row
31 | Voivod | Nothingface
32 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Mother's Milk
33 | The Cult | Sonic Temple
34 | Nuclear Assault | Handle with Care
35 | Soundgarden | Louder Than Love
36 | Cro-Mags | Best Wishes
37 | Annihilator | Alice in Hell
38 | Bolt Thrower | Realm of Chaos - Slaves to Darkness
39 | Aerosmith | Pump
40 | Judge | Bringin' It Down
41 | W.A.S.P. | The Headless Children
42 | Cows | Daddy Has a Tail
43 | Candlemass | Tales of Creation
44 | Nomeansno | Wrong
45 | DVC | Descendant Upheaval
46 | Bob Mould | Workbook
47 | Slint | Tweez
48 | Black Sabbath | Headless Cross
49 | Alice Cooper | Trash
50 | Mudhoney | Mudhoney
1999
1 | Slipknot | Slipknot
2 | Jimmy Eat World | Clarity
3 | Blink-182 | Enema of the State
4 | The Dillinger Escape Plan | Calculating Infinity
5 | Foo Fighters | There Is Nothing Left to Lose
6 | Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles
7 | Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile
8 | Metallica | S&M
9 | Limp Bizkit | Significant Other
10 | Mogwai | Come On, Die Young
11 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication
12 | Chris Cornell | Euphoria Morning
13 | Static-X | Wisconsin Death Trip
14 | Sevendust | Home
15 | Muse | Showbiz
16 | Feeder | Yesterday Went Too Soon
17 | Opeth | Still Life
18 | American Football | American Football (I)
19 | Therapy? | Suicide Pact - You First
20 | Neurosis | Times of Grace
21 | Incubus | Make Yourself
22 | Amen | Amen
23 | AFI | Black Sails in the Sunset
24 | Will Haven | WHVN
25 | Type O Negative | World Coming Down
26 | Machine Head | The Burning Red
27 | The Bouncing Souls | Hopeless Romantic
28 | Korn | Issues
29 | Saves the Day | Through Being Cool
30 | Agalloch | Pale Folklore
31 | The Get Up Kids | Something to Write Home About
32 | Silverchair | Neon Ballroom
33 | Dream Theater | Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory
34 | Lit | A Place in the Sun
35 | Unida | Coping with the Urban Coyote
36 | Stereophonics | Performance & Cocktails
37 | Testament | The Gathering
38 | P.O.D. | The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
39 | New Found Glory | Nothing Gold Can Stay
40 | Staind | Dysfunction
41 | In Flames | Colony
42 | Stone Temple Pilots | No. 4
43 | A | A vs Monkey Kong
44 | ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | Madonna
45 | Immortal | At the Heart of Winter
46 | Live | The Distance to Here
47 | Lamb of God [as Burn the Priest] | Burn the Priest
48 | The Donnas | Get Skintight
49 | Clutch | Jam Room
50 | Children of Bodom | Hatebreeder
2009
1 | Gallows | Grey Britain
2 | Biffy Clyro | Only Revolutions
3 | Baroness | The Blue Album
4 | Enter Shikari | Common Dreads
5 | Converge | Axe to Fall
6 | Mastodon | Crack the Skye
7 | Alice in Chains | Black Gives Way to Blue
8 | Frank Turner | Poetry of the Deed
9 | Thrice | Beggars
10 | Cobalt | Gin
11 | Paramore | Brand New Eyes
12 | Rammstein | Liebe ist für alle da
13 | The Prodigy | Invaders Must Die
14 | Pearl Jam | Backspacer
15 | And So I Watch You from Afar | And So I Watch You from Afar
16 | Every Time I Die | New Junk Aesthetic
17 | Mariachi El Bronx | El Bronx
18 | Kylesa | Static Tensions
19 | My Dying Bride | For Lies I Sire
20 | Architects | Hollow Crown
21 | Anaal Nathrakh | In the Constellation of the Black Widow
22 | Napalm Death | Time Waits for No Slave
23 | Twin Atlantic | Vivarium
24 | Leathermouth | Xø
25 | Megadeth | Endgame
26 | Placebo | Battle for the Sun
27 | Lamb of God | Wrath
28 | Steel Panther | Feel the Steel
29 | Alexisonfire | Old Crowns/Young Cardinals
30 | Behemoth | Evangelion
31 | Heaven & Hell | The Devil You Know
32 | The Ghost of a Thousand | New Hopes, New Demonstrations
33 | Future of the Left | Travels with Myself and Another
34 | The Wildhearts | ¡Chutzpah!
35 | Yob | The Great Cessation
36 | Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown
37 | Sunn O))) | Monoliths and Dimensions
38 | Evile | Infected Nations
39 | Muse | The Resistance
40 | Slayer | World Painted Blood
41 | Propagandhi | Supporting Caste
42 | The Mars Volta | Octahedron
43 | Billy Talent | Billy Talent III
44 | All Time Low | Nothing Personal
45 | Paradise Lost | Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
46 | Fightstar | Be Human
47 | Killswitch Engage | Killswitch Engage
48 | Madina Lake | Attics to Eden
49 | Kreator | Hordes of Chaos
50 | Them Crooked Vultures | Them Crooked Vultures
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