Best Winner of Kerrang Album of the Year 1982-2016

worst would be a better poll

Wow, there's some utterly horrible shit in there.

pro tip: there is nothing worthwhile after 1990

Pro tip ignored. This is either Songs for the Deaf or Lateralus.

bryan adams!!

Therapy? - Troublegum

this gave me the hardiest lol

i voted for the eponymous foo fighters album, the only foo fighters album i like

yikes i don't know what to vote for. Foo Fighters won three times? i can't believe they're going to get into the Rock and Roll hall of fame in a few years. i mean you know it's gonna happen.

i might vote for Vs. tbh

I can't believe all of the first three Foo Fighters albums got AOTY... I mean, I like the first two but I wouldn't call either of 'em "best of year" material.

Tool or Van Halen.

diamond eyes!

oh wait actually this is louder now, my favorite taking back sunday record, great job kerrang

i admire the purity of this magazine's dedication to covering the whatever the shittiest bands on that year's warped tour are

also it's incredibly difficult for me to choose between pyromania, 1984, and eat em and smile

You should see the full lists

Kerrang! End Of year Lists 1982

1.Scorpions - Blackout
2.Van Halen - Diver Down
3.Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven
4.Rush - Signals
5.Kiss - Creatures Of The Night
6.Tom Petty - Long After Dark
7.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
8.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
9.Rainbow - Straight Between The Eyes
10.Rose Tattoo - Scarred For Life
10.Gillan - Magic

Kerrang! Singles of the year

1. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
2. Rainbow - Stone Cold
3. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
4. Marillion - Market Square Heroes
5. Diamond Head - Call Me

Kerrang! End Of year Lists 1983

1. Def Leppard - Pyromania
2. ZZ Top - Eliminator
3. Kiss - Lick It Up
4. Molly Hatchet - No Guts ... No Glory
5. Dio - Holy Diver
6. Aldo Nova - Subject
6. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
8. Eric Martin Band - Sucker For A Pretty Face
9. Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
10. Ratt - Ratt
11. Journey - Frontiers
11. Yes - 90125
13. Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments
14. .38 Special - Tour De Force
15. Blue Öyster Cult - The Revolution By Night
16. Judie Tzuke - Ritmo
16. Accept - Balls To The Wall
18. Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol
18. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
18. Jonah Koslen & The Heroes - Aces

Singles

1. Queensrÿche - Queen Of The Reich
2. Genesis - Mama
3. Kiss - Lick It Up
3. Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
3. Hellion - Hellion
3. Police - Every Breath You Take
3. Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
3. Riot - Live (EP)

Kerrang! End Of year Lists 1984

1. Van Halen - 1984
2. Prince - Purple Rain
3. Chequered Past - Chequered Past
4. Legs Diamond - Out On Bail
5. Wendy O. Williams - W.OW.
6. John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh-huh
7. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
8. The Rejects - Quiet Storm
9. Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move
10. The Cars - Heartbeat City
11. Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
12. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
12. Q5 - Steel The Light
14. White Sister - White Sister
15. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
15. John Waite - No Brakes
17. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
17. Lords Of The New Church - The Method To Our Madness
19. Molly Hatchet - The Deed Is Done
19. Jim Dandy - Ready As Hell

Singles

1. Van Halen - Jump
2. Prince - When Doves Cry
3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
4. John Waite - Missing You
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
6. Motörhead - Killed By Death
7. Robin George - Heartline
8. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
9. Van Halen - I'll Wait
10. W.A.S.P. - Animal (**** Like A Beast)

Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1985

1. Bryan Adams - Reckless
2. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
2. Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors
4. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
5. ZZ Top - Afterburner
6. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
7. The Power Station - The Power Station
8. Molly Hatchet - Double Trouble Live
8. John Fogerty - Centerfield
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Soul To Soul
11. The Cult - Love
11. Sabu - Heartbreak
13. Accept - Metal Heart
14. Magnum - On A Storyteller's Night
15. Jeff Beck - Flash
16. Jason And The Scorchers - Lost And Found
16. Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy
18. AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
18. The Godz - I'll Get You Rockin'
20. The Firm - The Firm

Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1986

1. David Lee Roth - Eat'em And Smile
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
5. Peter Gabriel - So
6. Megadeth - Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?
7. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
8. Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion
9. Magnum - Vigilante
10. Queensrÿche - Rage For Order
11. Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
12. Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
13. Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites
13. Aerosmith - Classics Live
13. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
16. AC/DC - Who Made Who
17. Van Halen - 5150
18. Run DMC - Raising Hell
19. Judas Priest - Turbo
19. GTR - GTR

wow these '80s lists are all super interesting and cool

Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1987

1. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
2. Whitesnake - 1987
3. Anthrax - Among The Living
4. Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
5. Metallica - The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-revisited
6. Marillion - Clutching At Straws
7. Def Leppard - Hysteria
8. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium
9. U2 - The Joshua Tree
10. Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
11. Intrinsic - Intrinsic
12. Testament - The Legacy
13. John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
14. Helloween - The Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
15. Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
16. Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S
17. Rush - Hold Your Fire
18. Tigertailz - Young And Crazy
19. Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
19. Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave

Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1988

1. King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
2. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
3. Metallica - ... And Justice For All
4. David Lee Roth - Skyscraper
5. Slayer - South Of Heaven
6. John Kilzer - Memory In The Making
7. Motörhead - No Sleep At All
8. Van Halen - OU812
9. Jimmy Barnes - Freigh Train Heart
10. Robert Plant - Now And Zen
11. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
12. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
13. Michael Katon - Proud To Be Loud
14. Bon Jovi - New Jersey
15. Living Colour - Vivid
16. Jimmy Page - Outrider
17. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
18. Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come
19. Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park
20. Only Child - Only Child

and the year noodle vague stopped buying
Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 1989

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing
2. Aerosmith - Pump
3. Dan Reed Network - Slam
4. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
5. Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
6. Skid Row - Skid Row
7. Michael Monroe - Not Fakin' It
8. The Cult - Sonic Temple
9. Vain - No Respect
10. Wolfsbane - Live Fast, Die Fast
11. Cats In Boots - Kicked & Klawed
12. Bad English - Bad English
13. Pandora's Box - Original Sin
14. Sea Hags - Sea Hags
15. Mötley Crüe - Dr Feelgood
16. Babylon AD - Babylon AD
17. FM - Tough It Out
18. Diving For Pearls - Diving For Pearls
19. Badlands - Badlands
20. Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When It's Over

They didn't predict the future classics very well did they?

who cares

i don't think "worst album" would be a more interesting poll bc without peer the worst album on this list is enter shikari

Death Magnetic was really bad but st anger makes it look better than it was.

death magnetic is perfectly fine. feast ur ears on this horseshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GgTgQM5D0M

that's the only post 1990 one i thought about repping for tbh

Nobody is worse than Biffy Clyro

The 1982 list is pretty good! And this is Pyromania vs 1984. I might vote for 1984.

that's how i break it down basically

How would you have chosen between Prince and Kate Bush?

Purple Rain, if only because I'm much more familiar with it. If The Dreaming were on here, that would be a lot harder.

2008 Metallica - Death Magnetic

What.

I think I like Dirt or Leviathan the best of these.

sund4r I was meaning NV I knew you would pick Prince

Considered Lateralus, went for Leviathan.

I remember hearing a rumour that Enter Shikari used to be an Oasis tribute band until they decided to switch styles.

Voted for Pyromania in the end, although I should have probably spun Leviathan again before doing so.

Love all of these...

1982 Scorpions - Blackout
1983 Def Leppard - Pyromania
1984 Van Halen - 1984
1988 King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
1989 Faith No More - The Real Thing
1992 Alice In Chains - Dirt
1994 Therapy? - Troublegum
1998 Monster Magnet - Powertrip
2000 Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
2001 Tool - Lateralus
2002 Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2003 The Darkness - Permission To Land
2004 Mastodon - Leviathan

Blackout and Troublegum are literally two of my favorite albums ever though.

Voting Therapy? because someone should.

voted Blackout

not so much as glanced at K! for years but always been intrigued by how they've repeatedly tried to gerrymander metal's genre boundaries in what I assume are attempts to pick a new/larger reader base

Three Foo Fighters albums and zero Nirvana ones is hilarious.

the black album above nevermind is worse than bandwagonesque over nevermind

I'm amazed that it was the first Metallica album Kerrang! ever gave AOTY to.

compounding the wrongness

like yeah I'm sure that king's x album is better than and justice for all

Kerrang's readership has plunged to 18,000.
It's been bought over by Mixmag's owners and going monthly.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mixmag-buys-kerrang-plans-revive-face-double-acquisition/1431481

Mixmag buys Kerrang! and plans to revive The Face in double acquisition

Mixmag Media, which made its name in the 80s and 90s during the dance music boom, has reinvented Mixmag in recent years by expanding online and in digital video and hopes to do the same with the Kerrang! and The Face.

Jerry Perkins, who runs Mixmag Media, plans to turn Kerrang! from a print weekly to a monthly in the UK and focus on building its global, digital audience.

"Mixmag and Kerrang! are quite similar – they’re ‘f*** it’ audiences," Perkins said. "They like what they like and don’t care about what anyone else thinks."

Perkins will also revive The Face, which closed in 2004, as a digital brand.

He described it as "the original style magazine" that "has never been bettered".

He is "possibly" looking at bringing back The Face in print but won’t discuss his "really exciting" plans for the brand "in London and New York" until later in the year.

The Face was founded in 1980 and Kerrang! in 1981 and Perkins said historic titles had appeal with readers.

"It’s difficult to establish new media brands in today’s digital marketplace," he said.

His initial focus is on Kerrang! after acquiring the global rights to the print magazine, its website and its awards.

"Kerrang! is a trusted brand because of the years of passion, knowledge and profound enthusiasm that have gone into producing it, week in, week out.

"Under our ownership Kerrang! will take its rightful place at the heart of a global digital community of like-minded spirits. The platforms are there and, thanks to our recent experience with Mixmag, we know how to use them.'

Bauer Media will retain the rights in the UK and Europe "to continue broadcasting Kerrang! Radio and Kerrang! TV".

Perkins said that it was important to keep Kerrang! in print "as the soul of the brand", as Mixmag has done, but "we’ll move to a digital video-first strategy with Facebook and Google to build an international audience".

Mixmag claims a global reach of over 20 million fans a month. Its YouTube channel has eight million video views every month and it has five million on Facebook a month.

He added that moving Kerrang! from a weekly to a monthly made sense as it was a better use of editorial resources.

"The monthly frequency suits these ‘passion’ magazines," he said. "It doesn’t need to be a weekly because news in this area has gone digital. If you’re in LA, Kerrang! is a really well-loved [digital] brand."

But he suggested Kerrang! "has been suffering" by putting a lot of its resources in "a relatively low-production, weekly print magazine in the UK".

Print circulation is 18,000 compared to 85,000 in 2006.

Perkins will review staffing levels once Kerrang! goes monthly and "may have to lose some posts".

He dismissed the suggestion that Mixmag or Kerrang! might appeal chiefly to ageing audiences who were interested in nostalgia.

"They are both most definitely a youth audience," he said. "They’re opposite sides of the same coin which is interesting to us.

"They’re both a bit outside the mainstream. Both are a bit counter-cultural, if anything can be counter-cultural in music these days."

Mixmag Media has funded the acquisition out of its own funds and from existing shareholders. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The company is to rename itself Wasted Talent, the name of a former talent agency run by Ian Flooks, the chairman of Mixmag Media and a leading shareholder.

Perkins said the acquisitions would make the group an attractive audience for advertisers.

"‘In a post-Vice world, we believe there are exciting opportunities for these iconic and market-defining media brands to offer commercial partners specialist advice, inside knowledge, access to talent and the story-telling skills to help them create influential content," he said.

"We’re really excited by the potential to create a media powerhouse based on passionate tribes leading counter culture."

A Bauer Media spokesman said it "continues to be hugely invested in music media – be it radio, print, live events or our music TV joint venture with Channel 4" despite the sale of Kerrang!.

"We will continue to invest in our successful magazine brands Q and MOJO, and are excited to extend the Planet Rock radio brand into print."
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like yeah I'm sure that king's x album is better than and justice for all

― -_- (jim in vancouver),

I know a few people who think it is. But that is mainly down to moans about the production and lack of bass on ...and justice

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i forgot about this

I "really had a blackout" about this

More Molly Hatchet than necessary in those full lists, iirc it was Xavier Russell (Ken's son!) who was the writer pushing the southern rock stuff (before southern rock came to mean Pantera).

really that's his father?

Yep

Just out of interest which album would you all say is the worst?

Slayer the best but the worst is really difficult. It's probably obe of the two (!) Bring Me The Horizon records.

2003 The Darkness - Permission To Land

I'd imagine time hasn't been kind to this one.

Lateralus

i know it's going to shock literally no one that i'm saying this but bring me the horizon are good

I bet you even like the Enter Shikari

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

DJP's post evidently helped

is bring me the horizon crabcore

they're metalcore and the two albums on this list are well-made representations of the more emo side of that genre

I MADE A DIFFERENCE

I read that in a donald trump voice

well now my feelings are hurt

:(

2003 The Darkness - Permission To Land 4

monsters