My favourite albums from 1998

1. 30

   Symphony of Enchanted Lands

   Rhapsody

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Neoclassical metal
   • Power metal

2. 29

   Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

   Alanis Morissette

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative rock

3. 28

   Obsolete

   Fear Factory

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Industrial metal
   • Groove metal

4. 27

   Mercenary

   Bolt Thrower

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Death metal

5. 26

   Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

   Morbid Angel

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Brutal death metal

6. 25

   Abandon

   Deep Purple

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Hard rock

7. 24

   Aégis

   Theatre of Tragedy

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Gothic metal
   • Doom metal

8. 23

   Chaosphere

   Meshuggah

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Groove metal

9. 22

   Frozen

   Sentenced

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Gothic metal
   • Gothic rock

10. 21

    Odd Fellows Rest

    Crowbar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Sludge metal

11. 20

    Follow the Leader

    Korn

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative metal

12. 19

    Soulfly

    Soulfly

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Groove metal

13. 18

    Hellbilly Deluxe

    Rob Zombie

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Industrial metal

14. 17

    Without You I'm Nothing

    Placebo

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic rock
    • Glam rock

15. 17

    Obscura

    Gorguts

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Avant-garde metal

16. 15

    Adore

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Gothic rock

17. 14

    Queens of the Stone Age

    Queens of the Stone Age

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock

18. 13

    Hello Nasty

    Beastie Boys

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hip hop
    • Alternative rock

19. 12

    System of a Down

    System of a Down

    
    

    Tracklist

    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.

    Genres

    • Alternative metal

20. 11

    Yield

    Pearl Jam

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Garage rock

21. 10

    The Sound of Perseverance

    Death

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive death metal
    • Melodic death metal

22. 9

    My Arms, Your Hearse

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive death metal
    • Progressive metal

23. 8

    The Elephant Riders

    Clutch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • blues rock

24. 7

    Oceanborn

    Nightwish

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Symphonic metal

25. 6

    Americana

    The Offspring

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Punk rock

26. 5

    Powertrip

    Monster Magnet

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock

27. 4

    Vovin

    Therion

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Symphonic metal

28. 3

    Destiny

    Stratovarius

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Power metal

29. 2

    Nightfall in Middle-Earth

    Blind Guardian

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ...)

    Genres

    • Power metal

30. 1

    The Chemical Wedding

    Bruce Dickinson

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal