We are getting close to the end of year, and like last year, we are asking you to send in your list for the best albums of the year. We are going it to do by categories this year, you can vote for one are all of the categories, which ever you prefer.

Here are the categories:

Album of the year (hard rock or metal or hardcore or punk) – Vote for ten
Reissue of the year – Vote for 1
Live or Greatest Hits of the year – Vote for 1
Best song of the year – Vote for 1
Best non-hard rock/metal/hardcore/punk – Vote for 5

Whichever album appears as first on your list will receive 10 points, second 9, etc. regardless of list being numbered, or your classic in no specific order!

I have an ample list in case you do not remember the albums that where released. I will be more than happen to send you the list if necessary.

Send me a private message, or e-mail your list directly to me at marsariesattacks@live.com

We needed to receive your lists no later than the 17 of December.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Here are some of the albums that were released this years:

Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
Overkill – Iron Bound
Monster Magnet – Mastermind
Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
Filter – The Trouble With Angels
Accept – Blood Of Nations
Bruce Kulick – BK3
Alter Bridge – ABIII
Armored Saint – La Raza
Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth
David Rock Feinstein – Bitten By The Beast
Death Angel -Relentless Revolution
Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra
Distrubed – Asylum
Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy
Godsmack – Oracle
Volbeat – Beyond Hell Above Heaven
Black Country Communion – Black Country Communion
Angelus Apatrida – Clockwork
Deftones – Diamond Eyes
Bad Religion – The Dissent of Man
Bonded By Blood – Exiled To Earth
Ratt – Infestation
Bullet For My Valentine – Fever
Mose Gianticus – Gift Horse
SpiralArms – Highest Society
Black Label Society – Order Of The Black
Halford – Made Of Metal
Combichrist – Making Monsters
Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy
Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast
Dagoba – Poseidon
Helmet – Seeing Eye Dog
High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine
Stone Temple Pilots
Witchery – Witch Krieg
Murderdolls – Women And Children Last
Spiritual Beggars – Return To Zero
Avenged Sevenfold – Avenged Sevenfold
In This Moment – Star-Crossed Wasteland
Iron Maiden – Final Frontier
Fear Factory – Mechanize
Slash – Slash
Soulfly – Omen
Ihsahn – After
Hellyeah – Stampede
Abigail Williams – In The Absence Of Light
The Acacia Strain – Wormwood
Airbourne – No Guts, No Glory
All The Remains – For We Are Many
Allen Lande – The Showdown
Anew Revolution – iMerica
As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise
Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony
Avantasia – Angel Of Babylon
Bison B.C. – Dark Ages
Brian Posehn – Fart And Weiner Jokes
BXI – Boris & Ian Astbury
Candlemass – Ashes To Ashes
Charred Walls Of The Damned – Charred Walls Of The Damned
Demon Hunter – The World Is A Thorn
Demonica – Demonstrous
Dew-Scented – Invocation
Eluveitie – Everything Remains (As Never Was)
Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition
God Dethroned – Under the Sign Of The Iron Cross
Grand Magus – Hammer Of The North
Holy Grail – Crisis In Utopia
Gwar – Bloody Pit Of Horror
Hail Of Bullets – On Divine Winds
H.I.M. – Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice
Ill Nino – Dead New World
Immortal – All Shall Fall
Jon Oliva’s Pain – Festival
Jorn – Dio
Karma To Burn – Appalachian Incantation
Korn – Korn III: Remember Who You Are
Krokus – Hoodoo
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow
Landmine Marathon – Sovereign Descent
Madball – Empire
Malevolent Creation – Invidious Dominion
Manowar – Magic A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio
Mnemic – Sons Of The System
Mushroomhead – Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children
Nonpoint – Miracle
The Ocean – Anthropocentric
The Ocean – Heliocentric
Ozzy Osbourne – Scream
Pain – Cynic Paradise
Pro-Pain Absolute Power
The Prophecy – …To The Pit
Rage – Strings To A Web
Raunchy – A Discord Electric
Raven – Walk Through Fire
Return To Earth – Automata
Revolution Renaissance – Trinity
Sabaton – Coat Of Arms
Scorpions – Sting In The Tail
Sevendust – Cold Day Memory
Sick Of It All – Based On A True Story
Silent Civilian – Ghost Stories
Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini
Skyforger – Kurbads
The Sword – Warp Raiders
Suicidal Tendencies – No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
The Tony Danze Tap Dance Extravaganza Danza III: The Series Of Unfortunate Events
Tony Harnell & The Mercury Train
Torche – Songs For Singles
Vince Neil – Tattoos & Tequila
White Wizzard – Over The Top
Y & T – Facemelter
Yngwie Malmsteen – Relentless
Zoroaster – Matador
1349 – Demonoir

Some of the reissues:

Black Sabbath – The Eternal Idol
Black Sabbath – Seventh Star
Fates Warning – Parallels
Queensryche – Empire
High Spirits – Hight Spirits
Seventh Void – Seventh Void
City Of Fire – City Of Fire
Judas Priest – British Steel
Norma Jean – Birds And Microscopes And Bottles….
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
Rob Zombie – Hell Billy Deluxe 2
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
OSI – Office Of Strategic Influence
Haste The Day – Concerning The Way It Was
Warrior Soul – Tear Down the War Machine
Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence

Some of the Live Albums / Greatest Hits That where released:

Heaven & Hell – Neon Knights
Dio – Live At Donington 83 & 87
Extreme – Take Us Alive
Meshuggah – Alive
Primal Fear – Live In The USA
Life Of Agony – 20 Years Strong
The Big Four
Down – Diary Of A Mad Band
Soundgarden – Telephantasm
Triumph – Greatest Hits Remixed

Some of the non-hard rock/metal/etc. category:

The Dead Weather – Sea Of Cowards
Sully Erna – Avalon
Foghat – The Last Train Home
Lance Lopez – Salvation From Sundown
Ray Davies – See My Friends
Weezer – Hurley
Interpol – Interpol

Monster Magnet – Bored With Sorcery
Holy Grail – Fight To Kill
White Wizzard – Shooting Star
Return To Earth – You Will Be Replaced
Black Sabbath – Lost Forever
Black Country Communion – Black Country
The Cult – Embers
The Damned Things – We’ve Got A Situation
High Spirits – Running Home
Dust N Bones – 7 D-Days
Municipal Waste – Wolves Of Chernobyl
Madball – R.A.H.C.
Enslaved – Lightening

This episode will feature new tracks from Monster Magnet, Return To Earth, The Cult, The Damned Things, and Municipal Waste among others.

The show debuts at 8PM EST / 5PM PST

Check back tomorrow for the full playlist and if you missed out you still have two other chances to listen to the episode, check the top right hand corner of this page for additional details.

During this episode of Mars Attacks we speak to Dave Wyndorf lead singer of Monster Magnet. We discuss a whole array of things, from their new album Master Mind, to politics, comic books, Dave’s health, the record label he’s started up with guitarist Phil Caivano called Studio 13, and all of the various labels placed on the band over the years.

During the episode you’ll hear the following Monster Magnet tracks:

The Titan Who Cried Like A Baby
Bored With Sorcery
Gods And Punks
All Out Of Nothin
King Of Mars

We touch upon the following items throughout the course of the interview:

Studio 13, Monster Magnet, Phil Cavano, Kiss, Alice Cooper, MC5, Ramones, The Stooges, Hansome Dick Manitoba, The Dictators, David Bowie, Jack Kirby, Kevin Smith, The Smithereens, Misfits, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie, Matt Hardy, Spinal Tap, WWF, WWE

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Misfits – Dust To Dust
Bad Religion – Incomplete
Social Distortion – Don’t Drag Me Down
Rancid – Maxwell Murder
Stabbing Westward – Falls Apart
Prong – Whose Fist Is This Anyway
Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs
Marilyn Manson – The Death Song
Life Of Agony – Fears
Anthrax – Catharsis
Black Sabbath – Kiss Of Death
The Cult – The Saint
Sacred Reich – Free
Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow
Neurotic Outsiders – Always Wrong
Masters Of Reality – Domino