Heaviest Hundred - a metal playlist for your Australia Day

[adamkungl]

While your friends listen to the all day shit-fest that is the JJJ Hottest 100, who hasn't wished for a better way?

How about a fan-voted playlist for the best metal of the year? Sure, no one will let you listen to it at their BBQ, but it will be a fun exercise anyway.

So (late notice, i know) PM me your top 20 (or as many up to 20 as you can be bothered) metal songs of 2015 and I'll tally the votes and cook up a ripping playlist to offend your friends and family.

Allowed
* Any metal song released in 2015
* Where "metal" includes: 'True' metal genres, 'Fusion' metal genres, hard rock, hardcore, and prog rock. A fairly loose definition - basically anything that might be included at a big Euro metal festival or reviewed on a good metal website. My discretion, sooking will be ignored.
* Any number of songs from one band if you so wish.

Not Allowed
* Taylor Swift :sarcasm:

Next year I'll do a much better, thorough, more prepared effort, coz I quite like the idea.

Due to late notice I may pad out voting with top 2015 lists from a couple of my favourite websites.

Post if you're interested, PM your lists.

 

[perverse]

Do live albums count? :3

 

[adamkungl]

Do live albums count? :3

Hmm probably not. Looking for new songs.

Obviously I'm making this up as I go along :lol:

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Exclusive to LU, I bring you my list

1. Dying to believe - Parkway Drive
2. Skydancer - In Hearts Wake
3. Crushed - Parkway Drive
4. Leech - Northlane
5. Holy War - Thy Art is Murder
6. Badlands - In hearts Wake
7. Happy Song - Bring me the horizon
8. No Way Out - Bullet for my Valentine
9. Shine on - The amity affliction
10. Fractures - Parkway Drive
11. Same Graves - Storm the Sky
12. 512 - Lamb of God
13. Coffin Dragger - Thy art is murder
14. Regenerate - We came as Romans
15. My Generation - Memphis May Fire
16. Breakaway - In hearts Wake
17. That's the spirit - Bring me the Horizon
18. Light bearer - Thy Art is Murder
19. Souls on fire - dream on dreamer
20. A deathless song - Parkway drive

 

[adamkungl]

A list of (some) bands that have released albums this year.. check some of them out and take your picks


Lamb of God
Slayer
Trivium
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Ghost
Disturbed
Motorhead
The Darkness
Parkway Drive
In Hearts Wake
Northlane
Thy Art is Murder
Bring me the Horizon
Bullet for my Valentine
The amity affliction
Storm the Sky
We came as Romans
Memphis May Fire
dream on dreamer
Trials
Angra
Steven Wilson
Caligula's Horse
Beaten to Death
Shining
Battle Beast
Riverside
De Profundis
Vhol
Wilderun
Barren Earth
Crimson Swan
Gloryhammer
The Gentle Storm
Nechochwen
Ereb Altor
Khemmis
Goatsnake
Amorphis
Crypt Sermon
Avatarium
Pyramaze
A Swarm of the Sun
Enshine
Pentagram
Jess and the Ancient Ones
Ironsword
WASP
Sabbath Assembly
Queensryche
Tau Cross
Jonne
Failure
Myrkyr
Royal Thunder
Wailin Storms
Acrania
Killing Joke
Finsterforst
Reign of Fury
Gorgoroth
Sulphur Aeon
Visigoth
Mgla
Macabre Omen
Liturgy
Faith No More
Ares Kingdom
Horrendous
Night Flight Orchestra
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blind Guardian
Cattle Decapitation
Enforcer
The Crown
Cradle of Filth
Enslaved
Fear Factory
High on Fire
Kamelot
Nightwish
Periphery
Psycroptic
Satan
Serious Black
Soilwork
Soulfly
Sylosis
Symphony X

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Wasn't a huge year for bands I'm into but will give it a crack.

 

[Perth Tiger]

It was hard enough trying to remember which albums came out in 2015 let alone the songs. Here is my random list I can remember

1.On these Deserted Plains – Amiensus
2.What words Create - Amiensus
3.Under the Red Cloud – Amorphis
4.The Ectopic Stroll – Between the Buried and Me
5.Badlands – In Hearts Wake
6.Embers – Lamb of God
7.Karma Favours the Weak – Orpheus Omega
8.Breath’s Burden - Orpheus Omega
9.Beacons - Orpheus Omega
10.Victims and Pawns – Sylosis
11.Fire-Bellied – Dissona
12.Lysis - Dissona

I am cheating a bit with Dissona as it came out this month but I am loving it at the moment

 

[gUt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_heavy_metal_music

 

[adamkungl]

A lot of songs nominated so far but not enough votes, I know there are a heap more metal fans on here than have replied!

 

[TheVelourFog]

1.Faith No More - Cone Of Shame
2. High On Fire - Sunless Years
3. Baroness - Kerosene
4. Faith No More - Separation Anxiety
5.Iron Maiden - Speed of Light
6. Windhand - Forest Clouds
7. High On Fire - The Falconist
8. Windhand - Tanngrisnir
9. Iron Maiden - Death or Glory
10. VOLA - Your Mind Is A Helpless Dreamer
11. Killing Joke - New Cold War
12. Uncle Acid - Waiting For Blood

edit: put them in some kind of order

wouldn't consider Killing Joke as metal but they were on your list....feel free to remove

 

[adamkungl]

Here's what i've come up with:

https://open.spotify.com/user/1248573495/playlist/77rZu3l07D4joLkbIZ8nBK

Ranked 100 to 1 top to bottom.

Votes were taken from here, twitter and facebook friends - not enough to make a really great list but it turned out ok.

Bigger better plans for next year. Enjoy!

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Here's what i've come up with:

https://open.spotify.com/user/1248573495/playlist/77rZu3l07D4joLkbIZ8nBK

Ranked 100 to 1 top to bottom.

Votes were taken from here, twitter and facebook friends - not enough to make a really great list but it turned out ok.

Bigger better plans for next year. Enjoy!

I assume all my songs only got my vote so how is dying to believe below other songs I voted for? I am assuming it's alphabetical, so therefore you gave no weighting to my highest voted to lowest voted. If we combined your enthusiasm with CWBs thoroughness we would have an awesome list maker.

 

[adamkungl]

I assume all my songs only got my vote so how is dying to believe below other songs I voted for? I am assuming it's alphabetical, so therefore you gave no weighting to my highest voted to lowest voted. If we combined your enthusiasm with CWBs thoroughness we would have an awesome list maker.

1 or 2 of the songs you voted for are higher due to actually receiving more votes.

Ranked votes were ignored, that's not the system I went with.

But a lot of songs received equal amount of votes. In the case where they are by the same band, I dropped them down the list a bit to space them out so we don't have 4 iron maiden songs in a row or 4 In Hearts Wake songs in a row or whatever. In most cases they shouldn't have dropped below anything else that received the same amount of votes but there were maybe 2 cases were a song was dropped a rank. This is balanced by me giving bonus points where multiple songs by the same band were nominated.

It's obviously not a perfect system, I kinda made it up as I went along, but the aim was to make a more interesting list where there weren't really enough votes for the variety needed. So don't stress too much about the ordering around the middle

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Ok thanks for clearing that up adem. I respect the list more now.

 

[LESStar58]

Don't listen to a lot of metal but will contribute Tales From The Hard Side by Biohazard and Battery by Metallica.

 

[Caped Crusader]

A list of (some) bands that have released albums this year.. check some of them out and take your picks


Lamb of God
Slayer
Trivium
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Ghost
Disturbed
Motorhead
The Darkness
Parkway Drive
In Hearts Wake
Northlane
Thy Art is Murder
Bring me the Horizon
Bullet for my Valentine
The amity affliction
Storm the Sky
We came as Romans
Memphis May Fire
dream on dreamer
Trials
Angra
Steven Wilson
Caligula's Horse
Beaten to Death
Shining
Battle Beast
Riverside
De Profundis
Vhol
Wilderun
Barren Earth
Crimson Swan
Gloryhammer
The Gentle Storm
Nechochwen
Ereb Altor
Khemmis
Goatsnake
Amorphis
Crypt Sermon
Avatarium
Pyramaze
A Swarm of the Sun
Enshine
Pentagram
Jess and the Ancient Ones
Ironsword
WASP
Sabbath Assembly
Queensryche
Tau Cross
Jonne
Failure
Myrkyr
Royal Thunder
Wailin Storms
Acrania
Killing Joke
Finsterforst
Reign of Fury
Gorgoroth
Sulphur Aeon
Visigoth
Mgla
Macabre Omen
Liturgy
Faith No More
Ares Kingdom
Horrendous
Night Flight Orchestra
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blind Guardian
Cattle Decapitation
Enforcer
The Crown
Cradle of Filth
Enslaved
Fear Factory
High on Fire
Kamelot
Nightwish
Periphery
Psycroptic
Satan
Serious Black
Soilwork
Soulfly
Sylosis
Symphony X

Five Finger Death Punch released Got Your Six in 2015 too

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Five Finger Death Punch released Got Your Six in 2015 too

And it's their worst ever album IMHO. Not as wild as their previous ones.

 

[adamkungl]

No ones including 5FDP on a best of list m9s

 

[Caped Crusader]

Wow

I thought u guyz were metal fans. Seems i was wrong.

Go back to your screamy boy bands for 14yo girls then

 

[TheVelourFog]

Don't listen to a lot of metal but will contribute Tales From The Hard Side by Biohazard and Battery by Metallica.

don't look at a lot of calendars either