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Album Of The Year 2021 – Number 11

Welcome to Day 20 of my Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown series. That means that this annual labour of love is now two-thirds complete already. I can’t quite believe it, but that’s the situation. I’m still really enjoying putting this together and I hope so of you are enjoying the daily updates  Continue Reading »

Album Of The Year 2020 – Number 17

Welcome to instalment number fourteen of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. I really hope you are enjoying my series – I’m blown away by the interest, the comments, and the likes that I have received so far, with very few people telling me that I’m an idiot and that I have  Continue Reading »

Album of the Year 2017 – Number 26

Welcome to day 5 of my ‘Album of the Year 2017 top 30 countdown’. The response I am getting so far to this year’s countdown is insane, eclipsing previous years by far – thanks to everyone once again for getting involved and supporting this foolish endeavour of mine. As with all of the posts so  Continue Reading »

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 15

I can’t quite believe that I am already half-way through my ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. It doesn’t seem like five minutes ago that I was contemplating starting out of this annual journey and yet, here we are. 15 albums down, 15 to go. I hope you have enjoyed the posts in  Continue Reading »

Album of the Year 2016 – number 20

It’s getting a little more serious now as I enter the Top 20 of my ‘Albums of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. Can you feel the tension start to increase? Your nerves jangling? Biting your nails?… What do you mean ‘no’? You heathens! Anyway, here we are over a third of the way through  Continue Reading »

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 25

Welcome to day six in my ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. Thanks for staying with me. It already feels like I’ve been doing this for weeks, but at the same time, it is flying by. One of the best things about doing this series is that I get a real and genuine  Continue Reading »

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 27

It’s officially December, the day when I lose my annual battle about putting up the Christmas decorations in my house. I always want to wait longer but when I’m outnumbered 3 to 1 by excited girls, I know when to fight and when to accede for a quiet life. And if I give in, I  Continue Reading »

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 28

Here we are already at day three of my annual countdown of the best albums released during 2016 as far as I am personally concerned. And, because the Blog Of Much Metal is a one-man blog, there is no voting system or complicated formula – the 30 albums that will feature in this list are  Continue Reading »

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 6

Welcome to Day 25 of my ‘Album Of The Year 2015’ Top 30 countdown. No long intro today, just a thanks for sticking with me through this mammoth undertaking and for any new readers, a reminder to check out my picks from 30 down to 7 via the links at the bottom of this post.  Continue Reading »

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 9

Welcome to day 22 of my ‘Album of the Year 2015’ Top 30 countdown. No great long intro today, just a reminder to check out my picks from 30 down to 10, all of which are linked at the bottom of this post. Number 9 Amorphis ‘Under The Red Cloud’ Nuclear Blast I mean, who  Continue Reading »


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