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The Year In Review – Top 10 Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Albums of 2015

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“Good day
My name is Necropolis
I am formed of the dead
I am the harvester of the soul meat
And I suck the lives from around my bed
My own two sons I gave them breath
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
What humanity I knew I have long forgotten
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while…” 

– If Eternity Should Fail, by Iron Maiden

Eternity might be nothing but a short while for the harvester of the soul meat, but for us mere mortals it looked like 2015 was never going to reach its end. Well, the year is finally phasing out and 2016 is already knocking on our doors, promising to be a much better (and less tragic) time for mankind. With that said, once again as a tribute to all bands and musicians who kept our hearts warm in the throes of a world crisis, here is The Headbanging Moose’s Top 10 Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Albums of 2015, excluding of course all EP’s, best of’s and live albums. Profitez-en bien!

Iron Maiden_The Book of Souls1. Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls (REVIEW)
As you read through the pages of The Book Of Souls you’ll inevitably realize that Iron Maiden’s gonna get us all, no matter how far.
Best song of the album: The Red and the Black

moonspell_extinct2. Moonspell – Extinct (REVIEW)
While this distinguished Portuguese Dark Metal band is among us, we can rest assured good and meaningful music is far from being extinct.
Best song of the album: Extinct

Stratovarius_Eternal3. Stratovarius – Eternal (REVIEW)
The Finnish masters of Power Metal are back with a beautiful album made to be eternal.
Best song of the album: My Eternal Dream

battle beast_unholy savior4. Battle Beast – Unholy Savior (REVIEW)
Battle Beast want the world and everything in it, and they’re definitely on their way to conquer it all with their brilliant brand new album.
Best song of the album: I Want The World… And Everything In It

My God-Given Right5. Helloween – My God-Given Right (REVIEW)
It’s our God-given right to keep banging our heads to the music by the happiest and most awesome Power Metal band in the world.
Best song of the album: Creatures in Heaven

scorpions_return to forever6. Scorpions – Return to Forever (REVIEW)
This rock may be rolling home after so many years of good service, but it still has A LOT to teach the world on how to make true Hard Rock.
Best song of the album: Rock ‘N’ Roll Band

cover7. Marduk – Frontschwein (REVIEW)
The Babylonian gods of Black Metal return with more of their blasphemous and apocalyptic war-themed music.
Best song of the album: Thousand-Fold Death

CoF_Hammer of the Witches8. Cradle of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches (REVIEW)
The metallic coven instituted by one of the most important Extreme Metal bands of all time keeps haunting our world with their music.
Best song of the album: Onward Christian Soldiers

Survivalist Album Cover9. 4ARM – Survivalist (REVIEW)
A phenomenal heavy music album full of groove, fury and energy by an extremely talented Thrash Metal band from Down Under.
Best song of the album: Poisoned Mind

Slayer_Repentless10. Slayer – Repentless (REVIEW)
Live fast, on high, repentless, and keep listening to Slayer until the day you die.
Best song of the album: Repentless

And here we have the runner-ups, completing the top 20 for the year:

11. Vanden Plas – Chronicles of the Immortals – Netherworld II (REVIEW)
12. Monolith – Against The Wall Of Forever (REVIEW)
13. The Agonist – Eye of Providence (REVIEW)
14. Acrassicauda – Gilgamesh (REVIEW)
15. Vingulmork – Chiaroscuro (REVIEW)
16. Vorna – Ei Valo Minua Seuraa (REVIEW)
17. Dys Inbunden – One With Morbidity, The Opus Misanthropy (REVIEW)
18. Deadly Circus Fire – The Hydra’s Tailor (REVIEW)
19. Tsar Bomb – Exterminans IX:XI (REVIEW)
20. Profane And The Sacred – Chapter 1 : A Long Time Coming (REVIEW)

As this year we had tons of amazing EP’s being released by extremely talented bands from all over the world, why not providing you our Top 10 EP’s of 2015, right? (To be fair, although shorter in duration, some of them are significantly better and more complex than several full-length albums that became available throughout the year.)

1. Goatchrist – The Epic Tragedy Of The Cult Of Enlil (REVIEW)
2. Dö – Den (REVIEW)
3. Chip DiMonick – Uncaged (REVIEW)
4. Omega Diatribe – Abstract Ritual (REVIEW)
5. The Passion Of Our Souls – Soulmates (REVIEW)
6. Velaverante – My Dark Images (REVIEW)
7. Novallo – Novallo II (REVIEW)
8. Meridius – Meridius (REVIEW)
9. Judas Avenger – Judas Avenger (REVIEW)
10. Pergana – The Visit (REVIEW)

One thing that 2015 taught us all is that Heavy Fuckin’ Metal is still alive and on fire, and based on the music by countless independent bands reviewed here (that for different reasons did not make it to our top 10/20), it will keep shining brighter than ever for many years to come. Take a listen at the music by Rifftera and Amanita Virosa (Finland); Reanimator and Fractal Generator (Canada); Sarpentra and The Prophet (Russia); Dzhatinga and Irreversible Mechanism (Belarus); Helligators and Lykaion (Italy); Warmask and Hateful Warfare (Brazil); Morkesagn and Gasoline Guns (Ukraine); Void Creation (Austria); Nachtlieder (Sweden); Fjorsvartnir (Denmark); Broken Rain (Slovakia); Lanthanein (Argentina), among many others, and there you have the future of heavy music. And, obviously, don’t forget to listen to the METAL MOOSE RADIO SHOW every week, and to always HAIL SANTA!

Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year! See you in 2016!

And now, last but not least, a Christmas message from Eddie and the boys…

The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-12-18

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Black Tora – Wild Child
2. Kill For Mother – Unrekked
3. Twelve Years Driven – If You Seek Hate
4. From Ashes To New – Downfall
5. Poynte – Erase Me
6. Artifas – Blame
7. Donella Drive – Alone With The Devil
8. Downfall 2012 – Face To Face
9. Romantic Rebel – Believe
10. Wilt – The Elder
11. Apothica – Lucy Will Like This Better
12. The Grindmother – Any Cost
13. Doll Skin – Lets Be Honest
14. Killing Ghandi – The Cannibal Course
15. Church – The Lack Of God
16. Whorion – When The Moon Bled
17. Bigfoot – Tie Me Down
18. Silent Line – Black And White
19. Hellebrous – Coils
20. Van Halst – Save Me
21. Olathia – Hellhound

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-12-01

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Born N Raised – King Hate
2. Crows Cage – American Monster
3. Darkest Era – Elohim
4. Empire Falling – Guilty
5. Gravel Hitch – Transformed
6. Memory Of A Melody – Phantoms And Shadows
7. Steel Gypsy – Direction
8. The Crimson Veil – Embers Before Ashes
9. The Muted Pitch – Plummet
10. Vehement Animosity – Entropy
11. Wilt – The Elder
12. Chugger – Human Plague
13. Deathtronic – Anno 1423
14. Electric Revolution – Here We Go
15. VHS – Hairspray And Bloodspray
16. Barren Earth – Frozen Processions
17. Horrific Disease – Newborn Reapers
18. Threatpoint – Careful What You Wish For
19. Lynchpin – God Complex
20. Kerosene – Lie
21. XUL – Battle Storm

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-11-24

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Blackheart Gospel – Wasteland America
2. Ainrail – Rural Sludge
3. Arreat – Frostburn
4. Autumn Stay – Ghost
5. Era – To The Grave
6. False Hope Fades – Break
7. Gathering After Ashes – Angels Take Flight
8. Mandatory – For The World To See
9. Motherfaster – The Nymph And The God
10. Octave Jaw – Never Free
11. Never Mind The Riot – Sacrifice
12. Pergana – Return To Innocence
13. Raftree – The Eyes You Hide
14. Sin Of Apathy – Never Forgive
15. Stahl Gorthol – Infernal Wrath
16. The Desolate – The Great Departure
17. Standing Ovation – Gravity Beats Nuclear Permafrost
18. The Crawling – The Right To Crawl
19. Dead City Crown – Seed Of Rain
20. Doll Skin – Lets Be Honest
21. Triumph Under Fire – No More
22. Viggenblot – From Flames Anew

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-11-17

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Black Mamba – Tooth Ache
2. Mindflair – Theater Of The Absurd
3. Darkest Era – An Dagda
4. Silent Line – Embrace The End
5. Psycoprism – Defiance
6. Them – Forever Burns
7. Trigger – Destroy Your Minds
8. Unchained Horizon – Lose Control
9. Horsebastard – If Something Am, Then Have Happen
10. From Ashes To New – Downfall
11. Mobday – Jester
12. Phaneron – Tasteless
13. Return To Zero – Venom
14. Stabbing Back – New Disease
15. Sylvattica – Reanimated
16. Trigant – Wolves
17. Accursed – Oaken Wave
18. Munkie Gun – Hollow
19. Helleborus – Colored Spores Of Yuggoth
20. Circleswith – Wings
21. Heart Avail – Broken Fairytale

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-11-10

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Black Cross Brotherhood – Mediggo
2. Anschlos Amore – Christ Crucified
3. August Redmoon – Bring Down The House
4. Crows Cage – American Monster
5. Decivilize – Top Of The World
6. Nception – Bury Me
7. Nothing Sacred – The Dark
8. Prezzance – Shooting Star
9. Scorned Disciple – Irrational Loyalty
10. Trepidation – Take A Chance
11. Anchors Affliction – Prevail
12. Slice Of Sorrow – Brutal
13. Sleep Signals – Still Sleeping
14. 3 Weeks Later – We Are Revolution
15. Toxsyn – Crumble To Clay
16. Raygun Girls – Nothing Breaks
17. Proscenium – The Hangman
18. Saint Diablo – Adios En Amigos
19. System Slave – Lights Of Seattle
20. Sylvattica – Evil Seeds
21. Pool Of Thorns – Damaged
22. Apothica – Lucy Will Like This Better

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-11-03

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Bloodwraith – The Return Of Winter Darkness
2. Between The Fallen – LCDLL
3. Aeon’S Fall – The Ideals Of Modernity
4. Demons Within – God Of Man
5. Fires Of Vermilion – One Call
6. Hatecrowned – Newborn Serpent
7. Khors – Flame Of Eternity
8. Knights Of The Remnant – Mind Of The Devil
9. Last Day Dying – Happily Never After
10. Numbers Game – Ikillovich
11. Scanner – Living To The Emptiest
12. Skin Drone – Death Sentance
13. Festering – Infected
14. Dictatoreyes – Zerstorer
15. Hornwood Fell – Walking In The Woods
16. Krysthla – Praise The In Flesh
17. Warcurse – Severed Crosses
18. Veldes – Woe Eater
19. Aeliana – Deviate
20. Gravewitch – Hunted By The Dead

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-10-27

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1.Beauty In The Suffering – The Crazies
2.4 Skulls – 1000 Souls
3.Hell Came Home – Dead To Me
4.My Funeral – Manhunting Season
5.Massacre Machine – Blood Of Souls
6.Into The Coven – The Witching Hour
7.Hybrid Nightmares – Only The Dead Know
8.Skeletal Horsemen – Night Of Sins
9.Vengeful Ghoul – Fire And Spell
10.Wolf Blood – Dancing On Your Grave
11.The Room Colored Charlatan – Diamond Eyes
12.Second To Sun – Red Snow
13.Atlantis – Summoning The Witch
14.Battalion – Battalion Of Metal
15.Worm – More Like You
16.The Violet Hour – Moonshine Stomp
17.Disappearance – Marionette
18.Nightmare After Dawn – Walk The Plank
19.Watch Them Burn – Dark Side
20.Rite Of Passage – Breaking Through The Walls
21.Through The Stones – Blood For Crowns
22.Roses Undead – Never Enough

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-10-13

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On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Black Absinthe – Tyranized
2. Cyranoi – Challenger Deed
3. Dawn Valley – That Sloppy Girl You Once Knew
4. Archaeologist – Lucid Dreams
5. White Knuckle Blackout – Boneyard
6. Nyn – Spirit Of The Forrest
7. Dark Moor – Imperial Earth
8. A Damn Shame – Shark Week
9. Bigfoot – Tie Me Down
10. Veilside – Along The Way
11. Urn – Casting Amber
12. Smackhand – Controversy
13. Poynte – Erase Me
14. Dying In Degrees – Suffocate
15. Motorize – Revolations
16. Artifas – Blame
17. Mentally Blind – Decadence
18. My Last Solace – New Dawn
19. Black 13 – Limbo
20. Fragile Existence – Upon Serpents They Prey
21. A Feeding Beast – Discorruption
22. Decieverion – In The Name Of Everything That Is Heathen
23. Mine Enemies Fall – Smashing Demons
24. Trigant – Reflection

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The Metal Moose Show – Episode 2015-10-06

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If you want to get more information about any of the bands featured at The Metal Moose Show, simply Google the band and/or the song name to find their official website and Facebook page and, more important than that, attend their live concerts and buy their music. Here at The Headbanging Moose you can find a detailed review of Hungarian Extreme Groove Metal band Omega Diatribe (just click on the link below to read the review). Support your local bands… AND FOLLOW THE MOOSE!

On The Metal Moose Show this week:

1. Black Swamp Water – Drink Em Way Down
2. Bury The Memory – Viewpoint
3. Carnivorous Voracity – Epiphanies Of Perverse Egotism
4. Crisaldia – Kaweqar
5. Odium – The Cell
6. Ruin – The Final Bloodbath
7. Onelegman – Obey
8. Specules – Smudge
9. Romantic Rebel – Believe
10. Mindwork – Traum
11. Edge Of Paradise – Break Away
12. Omega Diatribe – Abstract Ritual
13. Concrete Age – Dumb Show
14. Convictors – Epitome Of Decay
15. New Day Dawn – Life Impossible
16. Twelve Years Driven – Fed Up
17. A Night In The Abyss – Deicide
18. Fisthammer – Automation Of Flesh
19. Olathia – Feel The Earth
20. Raftree – Over And Over
21. Church – Lack Of God
22. Whorion – When The Moon Bled

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