The MHF Top Releases 2015
For our first issue, I thought it would be fun to ask our Metal On Loud administrators and writers for a list of their top 15 releases for this year. Easy article, right? Right. Not if you work with such a diverse international team as MOL. The submitted personal lists resulted in an index of 128 different releases. Wow. I have some catching up to do, how about you?
If your favorite album scored low (or is not in the list, Exodus *cough*), that does not mean we think it’s a poor album. This has just been an amazing year for metal, and everyone only got to name 15. It’s why we decided to publish the whole list. Still, there’s been so much more great music in 2015.
Presenting: the Metal On Loud’s staff Top Releases of 2015!
| Rank | Artist | Album | |
| 1 | Iron Maiden | The Book of Souls |  |
| 2 | Slayer | Repentless |  |
| 3 | Motorhead | Bad Magic |  |
| 4 | Lamb Of God | VII: Sturm Und Drang |  |
| 5 | Cattle Decapitation | The Anthropocene Extinction |  |
| 6 | Children of Bodom | I Worship Chaos |  |
| 7 | Trivium | Silence in the Snow |  |
| 8 | Helloween | My God Given Right |  |
| 9 | Five Finger Death Punch | Got Your Six |  |
| 10 | Distubed | Immortalized |  |
| 11 | Ghost | Meliora |  |
| 12 | Amorphis | Under the Red Cloud |  |
| 13 | Fear Factory | Genexus |  |
| 14 | Paradise Lost | The Plague Within |  |
| 15 | Cradle of Filth | Hammer of the Witches |  |
| 16 | Parkway Drive | IRE |  |
| 17 | Gorgoroth | Instinctus Bestialis |  |
| 18 | Pentagram | Curious Volume |  |
| 19 | Lindemann | Skills In Pills |  |
| 20 | Nightwish | Endless Forms Most Beautiful |  |
| 21 | Lost Soul | Atlantis: The New Beginning |  |
| 22 | Faith No More | Sol Invictus |  |
| 23 | My Dying Bride | Feel the Misery |  |
| 24 | Annihilator | Suicide Society |  |
| 25 | Nile | What Should Not Be Unearthed |  |
| 26 | Venom | From The Very Depths |  |
| 27 | Gorod | A Maze of Recycled Creeds |  |
| 28 | Soulfly | Archangel |  |
| 29 | Soilwork | The Ride Majestic |  |
| 30 | Symphony X | Underworld |  |
| 31 | Irreversable Mechanism | Infinite Fields |  |
| 32 | Draconian | Sorvan |  |
| 33 | Marduk | Frontschwein |  |
| 34 | Stratovarius | Eternal |  |
| 35 | Alkaloid | The Malkuth Grimoire |  |
| 36 | Disarmonia Mundi | Cold Inferno |  |
| 37 | Swallow the Sun | Songs From The North |  |
| 38 | Arcturus | The Arcturian |  |
| 39 | Leaves’ Eyes | King of Kings |  |
| 40 | Ouroboros | Emanations |  |
| 41 | Queensryche | Condition Human |  |
| 42 | Solution .45 | Nightmares In The Waking State Part 1 |  |
| 43 | Red | Of Rage and Beauty |  |
| 44 | Metal Allegiance | Metal Allegiance |  |
| 45 | Enslaved | In Times |  |
| 46 | Saxon | Battering Ram |  |
| 47 | Tank | Valley Of Tears |  |
| 48 | Abhorrent | Intransigence |  |
| 49 | Amberian Dawn | Innuendo |  |
| 50 | Killing Joke | Pylon |  |
| 51 | Powerwolf | Blessed And Possessed |  |
| 52 | Angelmaker | Dissentients |  |
| 53 | Girlschool | Guilty As Sin |  |
| 54 | Psycroptic | Psycroptic |  |
| 55 | Moonspell | Extinct |  |
| 56 | Slaughter to Prevail | Chapters Of Misery EP |  |
| 57 | Mike Lepond’s Silent Assassins | Mike Lepond’s Silent Assassins |  |
| 58 | Lorna Shore | Psalms |  |
| 59 | Bullet For My Valentine | Venom |  |
| 60 | Sadist | Hyaena |  |
| 61 | SpitAnger | SpitAnger |  |
| 62 | Sirenia | The Seventh Life Plan |  |
| 63 | A Sound of Thunder | Tales From The Dark Side |  |
| 64 | Napalm Death | Apex Predator |  |
| 65 | Thunder | Wonder Days |  |
| 66 | Thy Art Is Murder | Holy War |  |
| 67 | Sevendust | Kill The Flaw |  |
| 68 | Carach Angren | This Is No Fairytale |  |
| 69 | Kataklysm | Of Ghosts and Gods |  |
| 70 | Katatonia | Sanctitude |  |
| 71 | Melechesh | Enki |  |
| 72 | Tremonti | Cauterize |  |
| 73 | A Night In Texas | The God Delusion |  |
| 74 | Skinless | Only The Ruthless Remain |  |
| 75 | Maladie | …Still… |  |
| 76 | AbouT:BlanK | AbouT:BlanK |  |
| 77 | Miss May I | Deathless |  |
| 78 | Svartsot | Vaeldet |  |
| 79 | Native Construct | Quiet World |  |
| 80 | Tsjuder | Antiliv |  |
| 81 | Erimha | Thesis of Warfare |  |
| 82 | Blind Guardian | Beyond The Mirror |  |
| 83 | Black Star Riders | Killer Instinct |  |
| 84 | Xandria | Fire And Ashes (EP) |  |
| 85 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Abysmal |  |
| 86 | Six Feet Under | Crypt Of The Devil |  |
| 87 | Heidevolk | Velua |  |
| 88 | Kossuth | Mictlan |  |
| 89 | Drudkh | A Furrow Cut Short |  |
| 90 | Hatesphere | New Hell |  |
| 91 | Kataphero | From Dust |  |
| 92 | Bless The Fall | To Those Left Behind |  |
| 93 | Angra | Secret Garden |  |
| 94 | Hellyeah | Sangre Por Sangre |  |
| 95 | Dantesco | Venacio |  |
| 96 | Ghost Bath | Moonlover |  |
| 97 | Nathyr | As The Legacy Unveils |  |
| 98 | Gruesome | Savage Land |  |
| 99 | Manegarm | Manegarm |  |
| 100 | Circle II Circle | Reign Of Darkness |  |
| 101 | Blizzard Hunter | Heavy Metal to the Vein |  |
| 102 | Exodus | Exo album | |
| 103 | Dealey Plaza | Deliver Us |  |
| 104 | Undead | False Prophecies |  |
| 105 | Kamelot | Haven |  |
| 106 | Scorpions | Return To Forever |  |
| 107 | Tarja Turunen | Ave Maria (classic) |  |
| 108 | Dissector | Grey Anguish |  |
| 109 | Fit For An Autopsy | Absolute Hope Absolute Hell |  |
| 110 | Ancient Rites | Laguz |  |
| 111 | Eater Of Man | The Void |  |
| 112 | Shining | IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere ends |  |
| 113 | Between the Planets | Energy of Wishes (Single) |  |
| 114 | Pyramaze | Disciples Of The Sun |  |
| 115 | Church | Unanswered Prayers |  : |
| 116 | Northlane | Node |  |
| 117 | Weeping Birth | The Crushed Harmony |  |
| 118 | Chastain | We Bleed Metal |  |
| 119 | In Flames | Reroute To Remain |  |
| 120 | Nuclear Assault | Pounder |  |
| 121 | While She Sleeps | Brainwashed |  |
| 122 | Ahab | The Boats Of The Glen Carrig |  |
| 123 | Neoplasmah | Auguring The Dusk Of A New Era |  |
| 124 | Goodbye to Gravity | Mantras of War |  |
| 125 | The Bunny The Bear | A Liar Wrote This |  |
| 126 | Antlion | The Prescient |  |
| 127 | Iwrestledabearonce | Hail Mary |  |
| 128 | Pitbulls In The Nursery | Equanimity |  |
