My favourite albums from 1999

1. 30

   Wild Wonderful Purgatory

   Karma to Burn

   

   

   Stoner rock | Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. Twenty
   2. Twenty Eight
   3. Thirty
   4. Thirty One
   5. Thirty Two ●
   6. Twenty Five
   7. Twenty Six
   8. One
   9. Three
   10. Seven
   11. Eight

2. 29

   Dreaming Neon Black

   Nevermore

   

   

   Progressive metal | Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Ophidian
   2. Beyond Within
   3. The Death of Passion
   4. I Am the Dog
   5. Dreaming Neon Black ●
   6. Deconstruction
   7. The Fault of the Flesh
   8. The Lotus Eaters
   9. Poison Godmachine
   10. All Play Dead
   11. Cenotaph
   12. No More Will
   13. Forever

3. 28

   Power Plant

   Gamma Ray

   

   

   Power metal | Speed metal

   Tracks:

   1. Anywhere in the Galaxy
   2. Razorblade Sigh
   3. Send Me a Sign
   4. Strangers in the Night ●
   5. Gardens of the Sinner
   6. Short as Hell
   7. It's a Sin
   8. Heavy Metal Universe
   9. Wings of Destiny
   10. Hands of Fate
   11. Armageddon

4. 27

   At the Heart of Winter

   Immortal

   

   

   Black metal | Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Withstand the Fall of Time ●
   2. Solarfall
   3. Tragedies Blows at Horizon
   4. Where Dark and Light Don't Differ
   5. At the Heart of Winter
   6. Years of Silent Sorrow

5. 26

   Under a Violet Moon

   Blackmore's Night

   

   

   Folk | Neo-medieval

   Tracks:

   1. Under a Violet Moon ●
   2. Castles and Dreams
   3. Past Time with Good Company
   4. Morning Star
   5. Avalon
   6. Possum Goes to Prague
   7. Wind in the Willows
   8. Gone with the Wind
   9. Beyond the Sunset
   10. March the Heroes Home
   11. Spanish Night (I Remember It Well)
   12. Catherine Howard's Fate
   13. Fool's Gold
   14. Durch den Wald zum Bach Haus
   15. Now and Then
   16. Self Portrait

6. 25

   Code Red

   Sodom

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Intro
   2. Code Red ●
   3. What Hell Can Create
   4. Tombstone
   5. Liquidation
   6. Spiritual Demise
   7. Warlike Conspiracy
   8. Cowardice
   9. The Vice of Killing
   10. Visual Buggery
   11. Book Burning
   12. The Wolf & the Lamb
   13. Addicted to Abstinence

7. 24

   Times of Grace

   Neurosis

   

   

   Post-metal | Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. Suspended in Light
   2. The Doorway
   3. Under the Surface
   4. The Last You'll Know
   5. Belief
   6. Exist
   7. End of the Harvest
   8. Descent
   9. Away
   10. Times of Grace ●
   11. The Road to Sovereignty

8. 23

   Host

   Paradise Lost

   

   

   Dark wave | Gothic rock

   Tracks:

   1. So Much Is Lost
   2. Nothing Sacred
   3. In All Honesty
   4. Harbour
   5. Ordinary Days
   6. It's Too Late
   7. Permanent Solution
   8. Behind the Grey
   9. Wreck
   10. Made the Same
   11. Deep
   12. Year of the Summer
   13. Host ●

9. 22

   By Your Side

   The Black Crowes

   

   

   Southern rock | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Go Faster
   2. Kickin' My Heart Around ●
   3. By Your Side
   4. HorseHead
   5. Only a Fool
   6. Heavy
   7. Welcome to the Goodtimes
   8. Go Tell the Congregation
   9. Diamond Ring
   10. Then She Said My Name
   11. Virtue and Vice

10. 21

    Q2K

    Queensrÿche

    

    

    Alternative metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Falling Down
    2. Sacred Ground
    3. One Life
    4. When the Rain Comes ...
    5. How Could I?
    6. Beside You
    7. Liquid Sky
    8. Breakdown
    9. Burning Man
    10. Wot Kinda Man
    11. The Right Side of My Mind ●

11. 20

    The Gathering

    Testament

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. D.N.R. ●
    2. Down for Life
    3. Eyes of Wrath
    4. True Believer
    5. 3 Days in Darkness
    6. Legions of the Dead
    7. Careful What You Wish for
    8. Riding the Snake
    9. Allegiance
    10. Sewn Shut Eyes
    11. Fall of Sipledome

12. 19

    The Light at the End of the World

    My Dying Bride

    

    

    Death-doom | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. She Is the Dark ●
    2. Edenbeast
    3. The Night He Died
    4. The Light at the End of the World
    5. The Fever Sea
    6. Into the Lake of Ghosts
    7. The Isis Script
    8. Christliar
    9. Sear Me III

13. 18

    Euphoria Morning

    Chris Cornell

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Can't Change Me ●
    2. Flutter Girl
    3. Preaching the End of the World
    4. Follow My Way
    5. When I'm Down
    6. Mission
    7. Wave Goodbye
    8. Moonchild
    9. Sweet Euphoria
    10. Disappearing One
    11. Pillow of Your Bones
    12. Steel Rain

14. 17

    Fundamental

    Puya

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Oasis ●
    2. Fake
    3. Fundemantal
    4. Montate
    5. Whatever
    6. Retro
    7. Keep It Simple
    8. Sal Pa' Fuera
    9. Remora
    10. Trinidad
    11. Solo
    12. No Inventes

15. 16

    Ratt

    Ratt

    

    

    Blues rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Over the Edge
    2. Live for Today ●
    3. Gave up Givin' up
    4. We Don't Belong
    5. Breakout
    6. Tug of War
    7. Dead Reckoning
    8. Luv Sick
    9. It Ain't Easy
    10. All the Way
    11. So Good, So Fine

16. 15

    Moontower

    Dan Swanö

    

    

    Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sun of the Night
    2. Patchworks
    3. Uncreation ●
    4. Add Reality
    5. Creating Illusions
    6. The Big Sleep
    7. Encounterparts
    8. In Empty Phrases

17. 14

    Jam Room

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Who Wants to Rock?
    2. Big Fat Pig
    3. Going to Market
    4. One Eye Dollar
    5. Raised by Horses
    6. Bertha's Big Back Yard
    7. Gnome Enthusiast
    8. Swamp Boot Upside Down
    9. Basket of Eggs ●
    10. Release the Kraken

18. 13

    Pale Folklore

    Agalloch

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline I
    2. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline II ●
    3. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline III
    4. The Misshapen Steed
    5. Hallways of Enchanted Ebony
    6. Dead Winter Days
    7. As Embers Dress the Sky
    8. The Melancholy Spirit

19. 12

    Amen

    Amen

    

    

    Alternative metal | Hardcore punk

    Tracks:

    1. Coma America
    2. Down Human ●
    3. Drive
    4. No Cure for the Pure
    5. When a Man Dies a Woman
    6. Unclean
    7. I Don't Sleep
    8. TV Womb
    9. Private
    10. Everything Is Untrue
    11. The Last Time
    12. Fevered
    13. Broken Design
    14. Resignation / Naked & Violent

20. 11

    Summerteeth

    Wilco

    

    

    Psychedelic pop | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Can't Stand It
    2. She's a Jar
    3. A Shot in the Arm
    4. We're Just Friends
    5. I'm Always in Love
    6. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(Again)
    7. Pieholden Suite
    8. How to Fight Loneliness
    9. Via Chicago ●
    10. ELT
    11. My Darling
    12. When You Wake up Feeling Old
    13. Summer Teeth
    14. In a Future Age

21. 10

    Colony

    In Flames

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Embody the Invisible
    2. Ordinary Story
    3. Scorn
    4. Colony ●
    5. Zombie Inc.
    6. Pallar Anders Visa
    7. Coerced Coexistence
    8. Resin
    9. Behind Space '99
    10. Insipid 2000
    11. The New Word

22. 9

    Tuonela

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Way
    2. Morning Star
    3. Nightfall
    4. Tuonela
    5. Greed
    6. Divinity ●
    7. Shining
    8. Withered
    9. Rusty Moon
    10. Summer's End

23. 8

    Sonic Brew

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bored to Tears ●
    2. The Rose Petalled Garden
    3. Hey you (Batch of Lies)
    4. Born to Lose
    5. Peddlers of Death
    6. Mother Mary
    7. Beneath the Tree
    8. Low Down
    9. T.A.Z.
    10. Lost My Better Half
    11. Black Pearl
    12. World of Trouble
    13. Spoke in the Wheel
    14. The Beginning ... at Last

24. 7

    Bury the Hatchet

    The Cranberries

    

    

    Alternative rock | Jangle pop

    Tracks:

    1. Animal Instinct ●
    2. Loud and Clear
    3. Promises
    4. You and Me
    5. Just My Imagination
    6. Shattered
    7. Desperate Andy
    8. Saving Grace
    9. Copycat
    10. What's on My Mind
    11. Delilah
    12. Fee Fi Fo
    13. Dying in the Sun
    14. Sorry Son

25. 6

    Tonight's Decision

    Katatonia

    

    

    Progressive metal | alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. For My Demons
    2. I Am Nothing
    3. In Death, a Song
    4. Had to (Leave)
    5. This Punishment ●
    6. Right into the Bliss
    7. No Good Can Come of This
    8. Strained
    9. A Darkness Coming
    10. Nightmares by the Sea
    11. Black Session

26. 5

    Californication

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    

    

    Funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Around the World
    2. Parallel Universe
    3. Scar Tissue
    4. Otherside
    5. Get on Top
    6. Californication ●
    7. Easily
    8. Porcelain
    9. Emit Remmus
    10. I Like Dirt
    11. This Velvet Glove
    12. Savior
    13. Purple Stain
    14. Right on Time
    15. Road Trippin'

27. 4

    The Distance to Here

    Live

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Dolphin's Cry ●
    2. The Distance
    3. Sparkle
    4. Run to the Water
    5. Sun
    6. Voodoo Lady
    7. Where Fishes Go
    8. Face and Ghost (The Children's Song)
    9. Feel the Quiet River Rage
    10. Meltdown
    11. They Stood up for Love
    12. We Walk in the Dream
    13. Dance with You

28. 3

    The Battle of Los Angeles

    Rage Against the Machine

    

    

    Rap metal | funk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Testify
    2. Guerrilla Radio
    3. Calm Like a Bomb
    4. Mic Check
    5. Sleep Now in the Fire ●
    6. Born of a Broken Man
    7. Born as Ghosts
    8. Maria
    9. Voice of the Voiceless
    10. New Millenium Homes
    11. Ashes in the Fall
    12. War within a Breath

29. 2

    Still Life

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive death metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Moor
    2. Godhead's Lament
    3. Benighted
    4. Moonlapse Vertigo
    5. Face of Melinda ●
    6. Serenity Painted Death
    7. White Cluster

30. 1

    Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory

    Dream Theater

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scene One: Regression
    2. Scene Two I: Overture 1928
    3. Scene Two II: Strange Deja Vu
    4. Scene Three I: Through My Words
    5. Scene Three II: Fatal Tragedy ●
    6. Scene Four: Beyond This Life
    7. Scene Five: Through Here Eyes
    8. Scene Six: Home
    9. Scene Seven I: The Dance of Eternity
    10. Scene Seven II: One Last Time
    11. Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries on
    12. Scene Nine: Finally Free