2015 was an incredible year for music.  Of course coming from the point of view of this author, it has been an incredible year of metal releases.  This is the Audible Extacy blog so it’s not just metal that may show up on our year end best of lists so don’t be alarmed.  So here’s to one great year of music and hopes to another before us, as of this writing there are so many great albums already out there (Exmortus, Megadeth, Gojira, just to name a few).  As you are reading this you may be wondering why is this list coming out almost 7 months into 2016? Because there are so many albums that I have been discovering during later part of 2015and into early 2016, I felt obliged to give more and more releases a chance for metal greatness.  Seriously, I’m still listening to albums that were released last year and finding more and more good stuff.  I have to find that stopping point and here it is.  So here we go!

Blind Guardian – Beyond the Red Mirror

Amorphis – Under the Red Cloud

Vhol – Deeper Than Sky

Elder – Lore

Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls

Sarpanitum – Blessed Be My Brothers

Deafheaven – New Bermuda

Baroness – Purple

Cage – Ancient Evil

Symphony X – Underground

Angelus Apatrida – Hidden Evolution

Dragonforce – In the Line of Fire (Live)

Enslaved – In Times

Stryper – Fallen

Rivers of Nihil – Monarchy

Stratovarius – Eternal

Annihilator – Suicide Society

If you have any other ideas for the best of 2015 in metal, just drop a comment.