Baxter’s Picks:
Top 10 Albums 2023:
1. 3TEETH – EndEx
2. Veil Of Maya – [m]other
3. Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
4. Entheos – Time Will Take Us All
5. GLU – My Demons
6. Metallica – 72 Seasons
7. Prong – State Of Emergency
8. Mugshot – Cold Will
9. Blood Incantation – Luminescent Bridge
10. Harms Way – Common Suffering
Honorable Mention:
– Chelsea Grin – Suffer In Heaven
– Judiciary – Flesh + Blood
– Better Lovers – God Made Me An Animal
– Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions
– D Bloc – D Bloc
– Creeping Death – Boundless Domain
– Drain – Living Proof
– xWeaponx – Weapon Of Pleasure
Top 10 Albums 2022:
1. Wings Of Steel – Wings Of Steel
2. Meshuggah – Immutable
3. Arch Enemy – Deceivers
4. Author & Punisher – Krüller
5. Lamb Of God – Omens
6. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
7. Terror – Pain Into Power
8. Rhythm Of Fear – Fatal Horizons
9. Gutrectomy – Manifestation Of Human Suffering
10. Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain
Honorable Mention:
– Rammstein – Zeit
– Soreption – Jord
– Riot City – Electric Elite
– Hypermass – Empyrean
– Acranius – Mercy Denied
– I AM – Eternal Steel
– Morbikon – Ov Mournful Twilight
– Corpsegrinder – Corpsegrinder
Top 10 Albums 2021:
1. Limp Bizkit – Still Sucks
2. Czarface & MF Doom – Super What?
3. Gojira – Fortitude
4. Ministry – Moral Hygiene
5. Enforced – Kill Grid
6. Khemmis – Deceiver
7. Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World
8. Eighteen Visions – 1996
9. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
10. Vulture – Dealin’ Death
Honorable Mention:
– Failure – Wild Type Droid
– Alien Weaponry – Tangaroa
– Alluvial – Sarcoma
– Mastodon – Hushed & Grim
– Carcass – Torn Arteries
– Abiotic – A Universal Plague: Mutation
– Exodus – Persona Non Grata
– Slaughter To Prevail – Kostolom
Top 10 Albums 2020:
1. Body Count – Carnivore
2. Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God
3. Drain – California Cursed
4. Eighteen Visions – Inferno
5. The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous
6. Hatebreed – Weight Of The False Self
7. AC/DC – POWER UP
8. Testament – Titans of Creation
9. Static-X – Project Regeneration, Vol. 1
10. Carcass – Despicable
Honorable Mention:
– Greg Puciato – Child Soldier
– Skeleton Pit – Lust to Lynch
– Acid Mammoth – Under Acid Hoof
– Warbringer – Weapons Of Tomorrow
– Stälker – Black Majik Terror
– Stallion – Slaves of Time
– Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero
– Brant Bjork – Brant Bjork
Top 10 Albums 2019:
1. Rammstein – Rammstein
2. Blood Incantation – Hidden History Of The Human Race
3. Tool – Fear Inoculum
4. 3TEETH – Metawar
5. Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
6. After The Burial – Evergreen
7. Brand Of Sacrifice – God Hand
8. Thom Yorke – ANIMA
9. A Pale Horse Named Death – When The World Becomes
10. Guilt Trip – River Of Lies
Honorable Mention:
– Desolated – A New Realm Of Misery
– Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
– Cattle Decapitation – Death Atlas
– Babymetal – Metal Galaxy
– John 5 – Invasion
– Judiciary – Surface Noise
– Knocked Loose – A Different Shade Of Blue
– Overkill – The Wings Of War
Top 10 Albums 2018:
1. Judas Priest – Firepower
2. Ghost – Prequelle
3. Penitentiary – Recidivist
4. The Prodigy – No Tourists
5. Twitching Tongues – Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred
6. Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
7. Jungle Rot – Jungle Rot
8. Greta Van Fleet – Anthem Of The Peaceful Army
9. Too Pure To Die – Only the True Remain
10. The Black Queen – Infinite Games
Honorable Mention:
– A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
– Harms Way – Posthuman
– Take Offense – Tensions On High
– Nothing – Dance On The Blacktop
– The Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1
– King Nine – Death Rattle
– Terror – Total Retaliation
– Chelsea Grin – Eternal Nightmare
Top 10 Albums 2017:
1. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
2. Mastodon – Emperor Of Sand
3. Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains
4. Time Walk – Beyond Eternity’s Grasp
5. Nine Inch Nails – Add Violence
6. Arch Enemy – Will To Power
7. Body Count – Bloodlust
8. The Faceless – In Becoming A Ghost
9. DragonForce – Reaching Into Infinity
10. Enemy Mind – No Safe Place
Honorable Mention:
– Stallion – From The Dead
– Terrifier – Weapons Of Thrash Destruction
– Stälker – Shadow Of The Sword
– Trapped Under Ice – Heatwave
– Savage Messiah – Hands Of Fate
– Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry
– Terror – The Walls Will Fall
– Malevolence – Self Supremacy
Top 10 Albums 2016:
1. Gojira – Magma
2. The Black Queen – Fever Daydream
3. Hatebreed – The Concrete Confessional
4. Knocked Loose – Laugh Tracks
5. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
6. Harm/Shelter – Paycheck
7. Those Who Fear – State Of Mind
8. Megadeth – Dystopia
9. Opeth – Sorceress
10. Korn – The Serenity Of Suffering
Honorable Mention:
– Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
– Gatecreeper – Sonoran Depravation
– Xile – Grafton
– Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason
– World Of Pain – End Game
– Ringworm – Snake Church
– Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us
– The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Top 10 Albums 2015:
1. The Prodigy – The Day Is My Enemy
2. Tame Impala – Currents
3. Jack Ü – Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack Ü
4. Failure – The Heart Is A Monster
5. Gruesome – Savage Land
6. Kill The Noise – Occult Classic
7. Mini Mansions – The Great Pretenders
8. Nasty – Shokka
9. Ghost – Meliora
10. Hardside – The Madness
Honorable Mention:
– Faith No More – Sol Invictus
– Oceano – Ascendants
– Napalm Death – Apex Predator
– Lamb Of God – VII: Sturm und Drang
– High On Fire – Luminiferous
– Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down
– Coldburn – Down In The Dumps
– Lifeless – Dream
Top 10 Albums 2014:
1. Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed
2. Arch Enemy – War Eternal
3. Skrillex – Recess
4. Dillon Francis – Money Sucks, Friends Rule
5. Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out
6. Mojave Lords – Unfuckwithable
7. Body Count – Manslaughter
8. ShayGray – Hipster Hype
9. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
10. The Haunted – Exit Wounds
Honorable Mention:
– Cavalera Conspiracy – Pandemonium
– Borgore – #NEWGOREORDER
– Within The Ruins – Phenomena
– At The Gates – At War With Reality
– World Of Pain – End Game
– Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me
– Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory with The Fungi Ensemble
– Harm/Shelter – The Evil Within
Top 10 Albums 2013:
1. Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer
3. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
4. Power Trip – Manifest Decimation
5. Iron Reagan – Worse Than Dead
6. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
7. Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail
8. Lifeless – If I Could Be Anyone But Me
9. Dream Theater – Dream Theater
10. Warhound – Colder Than Ever
Honorable Mention:
– A Pale Horse Named Death – Lay My Soul To Waste
– World Of Pain – Improvise & Survive
– Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
– Disclosure – Settle
– Black Sabbath – 13
– Puscifer – What Is…
– Twitching Tongues – In Love There Is No Law
– Carcass – Surgical Steel