My favourite albums from 1998

1. 30

   Symphony of Enchanted Lands

   Rhapsody

   

   

   Neoclassical metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Epicus Furor
   2. Emerald Sword ●
   3. Wisdom of the Kings
   4. Heroes of the Lost Valley
   5. Eternal Glory
   6. Beyond the Gates of Infinity
   7. Wings of Destiny
   8. The Dark Towers of Abyss
   9. Riding the Winds of Eternity
   10. Symphony of Enchanted Lands

2. 29

   Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

   Alanis Morissette

   

   

   Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Front Row
   2. Baba ●
   3. Thank U
   4. Are You Still Mad
   5. Sympathetic Character
   6. That I Would Be Good
   7. The Couch
   8. Can't Not
   9. UR
   10. I Was Hoping
   11. One
   12. Would Not Come
   13. Unsent
   14. So Pure
   15. Joining You
   16. Heart of the House
   17. Your Congratulations

3. 28

   Obsolete

   Fear Factory

   

   

   Industrial metal | Groove metal

   Tracks:

   1. Shock
   2. Edgecrusher ●
   3. Smasher/Devourer
   4. Securiton (Police State 2000)
   5. Descent
   6. Hi-Tech Hate
   7. Freedom or Fire
   8. Obsolete
   9. Resurrection
   10. Timelessness

4. 27

   Mercenary

   Bolt Thrower

   

   

   Death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Zeroed
   2. Laid to Waste
   3. Return from Chaos
   4. Mercenary
   5. To the Last ...
   6. Powder Burns ●
   7. Behind Enemy Lines
   8. No Guts, No Glory
   9. Sixth Chapter
   10. Infiltrator

5. 26

   Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

   Morbid Angel

   

   

   Brutal death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Heaving Earth
   2. Prayer of Hatred
   3. Bil Ur-Sag
   4. Nothing Is Not
   5. Chambers of Dis
   6. Disturbance in the Great Slumber
   7. Umulamahri ●
   8. Hellspawn: The Rebirth
   9. Covenant of Death
   10. Hymn to a Gas Giant
   11. Invocation of the Continual One
   12. Ascent Through the Spheres
   13. Hymnos rituales de guerra
   14. Trooper

6. 25

   Abandon

   Deep Purple

   

   

   Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Any Fule Kno That
   2. Almost Human
   3. Don't Make Me Happy
   4. Seventh Heaven
   5. Watching the Sky
   6. Fingers to the Bone ●
   7. Jack Ruby
   8. She Was
   9. Whatsername
   10. '69
   11. Evil Louie
   12. Bludsucker

7. 24

   Aégis

   Theatre of Tragedy

   

   

   Gothic metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. Cassandra ●
   2. Lorelei
   3. Angélique
   4. Aœde
   5. Siren
   6. Venus
   7. Poppæa
   8. Bacchante

8. 23

   Chaosphere

   Meshuggah

   

   

   Progressive metal | Groove metal

   Tracks:

   1. Concatenation
   2. New Millenium Cyanide Christ ●
   3. Corridor of Chameleons
   4. Neurotica
   5. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled
   6. Sane
   7. The Exquisite Machinery of Torture
   8. Elastic

9. 22

   Frozen

   Sentenced

   

   

   Gothic metal | Gothic rock

   Tracks:

   1. Kaamos
   2. Farewell
   3. Dead Leaves
   4. For the Love I Bear
   5. One with Misery
   6. The Suicider
   7. The Rain Comes Falling Down
   8. Grave Sweet Grave
   9. Burn
   10. Drown Together ●
   11. Let Go (The Last Chapter)
   12. Mourn

10. 21

    Odd Fellows Rest

    Crowbar

    

    

    Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Planets Collide ●
    3. ... and Suffer as One
    4. 1000 Year Internal War
    5. To Carry the Load
    6. December's Spawn
    7. It's All in the Gravity
    8. Behind the Black Horizon
    9. New Man Born
    10. Scattered Pieces Lay
    11. Odd Fellows Rest
    12. On Frozen Ground

11. 20

    Follow the Leader

    Korn

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. It's on
    2. Freak on a Leash
    3. Got the Life ●
    4. Dead Bodies Everywhere
    5. Children of the Korn
    6. B.B.K.
    7. Pretty
    8. All in the Family
    9. Reclaim My Place
    10. Justin
    11. Seed
    12. Cameltosis
    13. My Gift to You

12. 19

    Soulfly

    Soulfly

    

    

    Alternative metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Eye for an Eye
    2. No Hope = No Fear
    3. Bleed
    4. Tribe
    5. Bumba
    6. First Commandment
    7. Bumbklaatt
    8. Soulfly
    9. Umbabarauma ●
    10. Quilombo
    11. Fire
    12. The Song Remains Insane
    13. No
    14. Prejudice
    15. Karmageddon

13. 18

    Hellbilly Deluxe

    Rob Zombie

    

    

    Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Call of the Zombie
    2. Superbeast
    3. Dragula ●
    4. Living Dead Girl
    5. Perversion 99
    6. Demonoid Phenomenon
    7. Spookshow Baby
    8. How to Make a Monster
    9. Meet the Creeper
    10. The Ballad of Resurrection Joe and Rosa Whore
    11. What Lurks on Channel X?
    12. Return of the Phantom Stranger
    13. The Beginning of the End

14. 17

    Without You I'm Nothing

    Placebo

    

    

    Gothic rock | Glam rock

    Tracks:

    1. Pure Morning
    2. Brick Shithouse
    3. You Don't Care About Us
    4. Ask for Answers
    5. Without You I'm Nothing
    6. Allergic (to Thoughts of Mother Earth)
    7. The Crawl
    8. Every You Every Me ●
    9. My Sweet Prince
    10. Summer's Gone
    11. Scared of Girls
    12. Burger Queen

15. 17

    Obscura

    Gorguts

    

    

    Technical death metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Obscura
    2. Earthly Love
    3. The Carnal State
    4. Nostalgia
    5. The Art of Sombre Ecstasy
    6. Clouded
    7. Subtle Body
    8. Rapturous Grief
    9. La vie est prélude ... (La Mort Orgasme)
    10. Illuminatus ●
    11. Faceless Ones
    12. Sweet Silence

16. 15

    Adore

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    

    

    Art rock | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. To Sheila
    2. Ava Adore ●
    3. Perfect
    4. Daphne Descends
    5. Once upon a Time
    6. Tear
    7. Crestfallen
    8. Appels + Oranjes
    9. Pug
    10. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
    11. Annie-Dog
    12. Shame
    13. Behold! The Night Mare
    14. For Martha
    15. Blank Page
    16. 17

17. 14

    Queens of the Stone Age

    Queens of the Stone Age

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Regular John ●
    2. Avon
    3. If Only
    4. Walkin' on the Widewalks
    5. You Would Know
    6. How to Handle a Rope
    7. Mexicola
    8. Hispanic Impressions
    9. You Can't Quit Me Baby
    10. Give the Mule What He Wants
    11. I Was a Teenage Hand Model

18. 13

    Hello Nasty

    Beastie Boys

    

    

    Hip hop | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Super Disco Breakin'
    2. The Move
    3. Remote Control
    4. Song for the Man
    5. Just a Test
    6. Body Movin'
    7. Intergalactic ●
    8. Sneakin' out the Hospital
    9. Putting Shame in Your Game
    10. Flowin' Prose
    11. And Me
    12. Three MC's and One DJ
    13. The Grasshopper Unit
    14. Song for Junior
    15. I Don't Know
    16. The Negotiation Limerick File
    17. Electrify
    18. Picture This
    19. Unite
    20. Dedication
    21. Dr. Lee, PhD
    22. Instant Death

19. 12

    System of a Down

    System of a Down

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Suite-Pee
    2. Know
    3. Sugar
    4. Suggestions
    5. Spiders ●
    6. DDevil
    7. Soil
    8. War?
    9. Mind
    10. Peephole
    11. CUBErt
    12. Darts
    13. P.L.U.C.K.

20. 11

    Yield

    Pearl Jam

    

    

    Alternative rock | Garage rock

    Tracks:

    1. Brain of J.
    2. Faithfull
    3. No Way
    4. Given to Fly
    5. Wishlist
    6. Pilate
    7. Do the Evolution ●
    8. Red Bar
    9. MFC
    10. Low Light
    11. In Hiding
    12. Push Me, Pull Me
    13. All Those Yesterdays

21. 10

    The Sound of Perseverance

    Death

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scavenger of Human Sorrow
    2. Bite the Pain
    3. Spirit Crusher ●
    4. Story to Tell
    5. Flesh and the Power It Holds
    6. Voice of the Soul
    7. To Forgive Is to Suffer
    8. A Moment of Clarity
    9. Painkiller

22. 9

    My Arms, Your Hearse

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Prologue
    2. April Ethereal
    3. When
    4. Madrigal
    5. The Amen Corner
    6. Demon of the Fall ●
    7. Credence
    8. Karma
    9. Epilogue

23. 8

    The Elephant Riders

    Clutch

    

    

    Stoner rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Elephant Riders
    2. Ship of Gold
    3. Eight Times Over Miss October
    4. The Soapmakers ●
    5. The Yeti
    6. Muchas Veces
    7. Green Buckets
    8. Wishbone
    9. Crackerjack
    10. The Dragonfly

24. 7

    Oceanborn

    Nightwish

    

    

    Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stargazers
    2. Gethsemane
    3. Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean
    4. Sacrament of Wilderness
    5. Passion and the Opera
    6. Swanheart
    7. Moondance ●
    8. The Riddler
    9. The Pharaoh Sails to Orion
    10. Walking in the Air

25. 6

    Americana

    The Offspring

    

    

    Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Welcome
    2. Have You Ever
    3. Staring at the Sun
    4. Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
    5. The Kids Aren't Alright
    6. Feelings
    7. She's Got Issues
    8. Walla Walla
    9. The End of the Line
    10. No Brakes
    11. Why Don't You Get a Job ●
    12. Americana
    13. Pay the Man

26. 5

    Powertrip

    Monster Magnet

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Crop Circle
    2. Powertrip ●
    3. Space Lord
    4. Temple of Your Dreams
    5. Bummer
    6. Baby Götterdämerung
    7. 19 Witches
    8. 3rd Eye Landslide
    9. See You in Hell
    10. Tractor
    11. Atomic Clock
    12. Goliath and the Vampires
    13. Your Lies Become You

27. 4

    Vovin

    Therion

    

    

    Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Rise of Sodom and Gomorrah
    2. Birth of Venus Illegitima
    3. Wine of Aluqah
    4. Clavicula Nox ●
    5. The Wild Hunt
    6. Eye of Shiva
    7. Black Sun
    8. Draconian Trilogy: The Opening
    9. Draconian Trilogy: Morning Star
    10. Draconian Trilogy: Black Diamonds
    11. Raven of Dispersion

28. 3

    Destiny

    Stratovarius

    

    

    Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Destiny ●
    2. S.O.S.
    3. No Turning Back
    4. 4000 Rainy Nights
    5. Rebel
    6. Years Go by
    7. Playing with Fire
    8. Venus in the Morning
    9. Anthem of the World

29. 2

    Nightfall in Middle-Earth

    Blind Guardian

    

    

    Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. War of Wrath
    2. Into the Storm
    3. Lammoth
    4. Nightfall ●
    5. The Minstrel
    6. The Curse of Fëanor
    7. Captured
    8. Blood Tears
    9. Mirror Mirror
    10. Face the Truth
    11. Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)
    12. Battle of Sudden Flame
    13. Time Stands Still (at the Iron Hill)
    14. The Dark Elf
    15. Thorn
    16. The Eldar
    17. Nom the Wise
    18. When Sorrow Sang
    19. Out on the Water
    20. The Steadfast
    21. A Dark Passage
    22. Final Chapter (Thus Ends ...)

30. 1

    The Chemical Wedding

    Bruce Dickinson

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. King in Crimson
    2. Chemical Wedding
    3. The Tower ●
    4. Killing Floor
    5. Book of Thel
    6. Gates of Urizen
    7. Jerusalem
    8. Trumpets of Jericho
    9. Machine Men
    10. The Alchemist