You can now download or listen to the top 30 most voted metal / hard rock / hardcore / punk albums of the year. These albums were voted on by you the listeners.

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A continuation of yesterday’s list.

31 The Sword – Warp Riders
32 Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
33 Cloudkicker – Beacons
34 The Ocean – Anthropocentric
35 Black Breath – Heavy Breathing
36 Daughters – Daughters
37 As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise
38 Daath – Daarth
39 Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy
40 Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra
41 Exodus – Exhibit B – The Human Condition
42 Slash – Slash
43 Melvins – Bride Screamed Murder
44 The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Danza 3: The Series Of Unfortunate Events
45 Norma Jean – Meridional
46 Salome – Terminal
47 Black Label Society – Order Of The Black
48 Fleshwrought – Dementia / Dyslexia
49 Ghost – Opus Eponymous
50 Veil Of Maya – ID
51 Nails – Unsilent Death
52 Ludicra – The Tenant
53 Sons Of Aurelius – Sons Of Aurelius
54 Kingdom Of Sorrow – Behind The Blackest Tears
55 Parkway Drive – Deep Blue
56 Burzum – Belus
57 Melechesh – The Epigenesis
58 Sevendust – Cold Day Memory
59 Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones
60 Death Angel – Relentless Revolution
61 Shining – Blackjazz
62 Sick Of It All – Based On A True Story
63 Dark Tranquility – We Are The Void
64 TesseracT – Concealing Fate
65 Wichery – Witch Krieg
66 Orphaned Land – Never Ending Way Of Orwarrior
67 Ion Dissonance – Cursed
68 Holy Grail – Crisi In Utopia
69 Bison B.C. – Dark Ages
70 Black Anvil – Triumverate
71 Rotting Christ – Aealo
72 Allegaeon – Fragments Of Form and Function
73 Atheist – Jupiter
74 Pain Of Salvation – Road Salt One
75 Hail Of Bullets – On Divine Winds
76 Keep Of Kalessin – Reptilian
77 Rob Zombie – Hell Billy Deluxe 2
78 Solution .45 – For Aeons Past
79 Coliseum – House With A Curse
80 Heathen – The Evolution Of Chaos
81 The Acacia Strain – Wormwood
82 Autopsy – The Tomb Within
83 Cough – Ritual Abuse
84 Murderdolls – Women & Children Last
85 Levi / Werstler – Avalanche Of Worms
86 Ratt – Infestation
87 The Crown – Doomsday King
88 Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here
89 Forbidden – Omega Wave
90 Kalmah – 12 Gauge
91 Kataklysm – Heavens Venom
92 Zoroaster – Matador
93 Alterbridge – AB III
94 Arsis – Strarve For The Devil
95 Bring Me The Horizon – There Is A Hell Believe Me I-ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let-s Keep It A Secret
96 Comeback Kid – Symptoms + Cures
97 Cynic – Re-Traced
98 White Chapel – A New Era Of Corruption
99 Underoath – (Disambiguation)

Tonight you’ll hear 30 through 1 on MarkStriglRadio.com on Stream A at 8PM EST / 5PM PST / 2AM CET

There where 200 metal, hard rock, punk or hardcore albums where voted on, there were well over 300 voted on, but that’s where we cut the list off. We’ll wrap things up this Thursday on Mars Attacks Radio with a countdown of the top 30 albums selected by you the listeners. A podcast version of the show will follow on Friday.

Without further ado here are the 100 to 200 most voted metal albums:

100 Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
101 East Of The Wall – Ressentiment
102 Howl – Full Of Hell
103 Negura Bunget – Virstele Pamintului
104 Scorpions – Sting In The Tail
105 Animal As Leaders – Wave Of Babies
106 Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth
107 Disturbed – Asylum
108 Ozzy Osbourne – Scream
109 Darkthrone – The Guessing Game
110 Mantric – The Descent
111 Sabbath Assembly – Restored To One
112 Spiritual Beggars – Return To Zero
113 Ufomammut – Eve
114 1349 – Demonoir
115 Firewind – Days Of Defiance
116 Star One – Victims Of The Modern Age
117 Envy – Recitation
118 Baptized In Blood – Baptized In Blood
119 Coffinworm – When All Became None
120 Defeated Sanity – Chapters Of Repugnance
121 Harvey Milk A Small – Turn Of Human Kindness
122 Kill The Client – Set For Extinction
123 Soulfly – Omen
124 Coheed And Cambria – Year Of The Black Rainbow
125 Hail The Villain – Population Declining
126 Immortal – All Shall Fall
127 Terror – Keepers Of The Faith
128 Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles
129 Danko Jones – Below The Bealt
130 Helmet – Seeing Eye Dog
131 Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits
132 Boris & Ian Astbury – BXI
133 Halford – Made Of Metal
134 Korn – III
135 Thou – Summit
136 Unearthly Trance – V
137 Knut – Wonder
138 Airbourne – No Guts, No Glory
139 Aeon – Path Of Frie
140 All That Remains – For We Are Many
141 Fintroll – Nifelvind
142 Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus
143 Karnivool – Sound Awake
144 Woe – Quietly Undramatically
145 Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony
146 Dommin – Love Is Gone
147 Sister Sin – Ture Sound Of The Underground
148 Charred Walls Of The Damned – Charred Walls Of The Damned
149 Joe Satriani – Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards
150 The Birthday Massacre – Pins And Needles
151 Bad Religion – The Dissent Of Men
152 Barren Earth – Curse Of The Red River
153 Dawnbringer – Nucleus
154 Magrudergrind – Crusher
155 Pendulum – Immersion
156 Salem – King Night
157 Celeste – Morte(s) Nee(s)
158 Gamma Ray – To The Metal
159 Priestess – Prior To The Fire
160 Protest The Hero – Fortress
161 Stargazer – A Great Workd Of Ages
162 Withered – Dualitas
163 Disprirt – Rehearsal At Oboroten
164 Satanic Warmaster – Nachzehrer
165 Castevet – Mounds Of Ash
166 Drudkh – Handful Of Stars
167 God Dethroned – Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross
168 Apocalyptica – 7th Symphony
169 Constants – If Tomorrow The War
170 Demiurg – Signed By Evil
171 Karma To Burn – Appalachian Incantation
172 Monster Magnet – Mastermind
173 Power Glove – Saturday Morning Apocalypse
174 Rock Bottom – Born To Hate
175 Suicidal Tendencies – No Mercey Fool! The Suicidal Family
176 Cradle Of Filth – Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa
177 Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within
178 Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe
179 Spock’s Beard – SBX
180 Trash Talk – Eyes & Nines
181 Weapon – From The Devil’s Tomb
182 36 Crazy Fists – Collisions And Castaways
183 A Day To Remember – What Separates Me From You
184 Circa Survive – Blue Sky Noise
185 Enforcer – Diamonds
186 Far – At Night We Live
187 Kamelot – Poetry For The Poisoned
188 The Vision Bleak – Set Sail To Mystery
189 Volbeat – Beyond Hell Above Heaven
190 Bloody Sign – Chaos Echoes
191 Gypsyhawk – Patience And Perseverance
192 Hardcore Superstar – Split Your Lip
193 Jorn – Dio
194 More Than A Thousand – Volume IV: Make Friends And Enemies
195 Philm – Amoniac
196 Seventh Wonder – The Great Escape
197 The Creepshow – They All Fall Down
198 The Grotesquery – Tales Of The Coffin Born
199 The Left Rights – Bad Choices Made Easy
200 The Red Shore – The Avarice Of Man

Here is the list of reissues that were most voted on, the voting was close, especially between the top two which where only separated by four points. The way the voting was calculated any album that was listed as number 1 on someone’s list received 10 points, second received 9, and so on until number ten received 1 point.

Here is the list:

1 Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
2 Wormrot – Abuse
3 Judas Priest – British Steel
4 Black Sabbath – The Eternal Idol
5 Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
6 Godflesh – Streetcleaner
7 Fates Warning – Parallels
8 King Crimson – Islands (40th Anniversary)
9 Refused – The Shape Of Punk To Come
10 Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence
11 Eskorbuto – Anti Todo
12 Amorphis – Magic & Mahem
13 Michael Buble – Crazy Love
14 Goatsnake – Flower Of Disease
15 City Of Fire – City Of Fire
16 Napalm Death – Torn Apart / Words From The Exit Wound
17 Brutal Truth – Need To Control
18 Black Sabbath - Seventh Star

To check out Spanish artists numbers 27 through 16 go here

To check out numbers 68 through 16 of the indie/pop/hip hop, etc. albums go here

This week on Fusion Sonica, Mars Attacks and The Incoherent Ramblings of Victor M. Ruiz we will count down what you the listeners have voted as the top albums of the year. Fusion Sonica will focus on Spanish language artists, Mars Attacks on hard rock and metal (and anything else that closely resembles it, eg. punk, hardcore, etc.) and The Incoherent Ramblings of Victor M. Ruiz will focus on everything else (indie, pop, hip-hop, etc.).

Keeping that in mind, here are the albums that were most voted in the live albums/greatest hits category:

1 Opeth – En El Royal Albert Hall
2 Varoius – Big 4
3 Dio – Live At Donnington 83 & 87
4 Megadeth – Rust In Peace…Live!
5 Lamb Of God – Hourglass
6 Down – Diary Of A Mad Band
7 Amorphis – Forging The Land Of The Thousand Lakes
8 Neurosis – Live At Roadburn 2007
09 Triumph – Greatest Hits Remixed
10 Heaven & Hell – Neon Knights
11 Bon Jovi – Greatest Hits
12 Shinedown – iTunes Sessions
13 Immortal – The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh
14 Various – Whome The Moon A Nightsong Sings
15 Shadows Fall – Madness In Manila
16 Anneke Van Giersberger & Agua De Annique – Live In Europe
17 Papa Roach – Time For Annihilation
18 Faith No More – Midlife Crisis: The Very Best Of Faith No More
19 AC/DC – Iron Man 2
20 King’s X – Live In London

To check out Spanish artists numbers 39 through 28 go here

To check out numbers 120 through 69 of the indie/pop/hip hop, etc. albums go here

Rush – Armor And Sword
Dream Theater – Panic Attack
Symphony X – Domination
Queensryche – Suite Sister Mary
Kamelot – Rule The World
Zebra – Who’s Behind The Door
Opeth – Lotus Eaters
OSI – Horseshoes And B-52’s
Meshuggah – Bleed

This episode contains the first part of an interview I conducted with former Helloween lead singer Michael Kiske. He just recently put out an album with Amanda Somerville called Kiske Somerville, and I was lucky enough to interview him regarding the album, his past with Helloween, and his current band Unisonic. This is a must listen to interview if you are a fan of Helloween as he discusses how and why he was fired from the band, why he thinks the band was never able to recapture what they did on the original two Keeper of the Seven Keys albums, and why Ingo

We also touch on a plethora of other topics, just take a look at the tags to get a rough idea of what we discussed. Part 2 should be up next week.

During the episode you’ll hear tracks off of the album with Amanda Somerville, some of his solo work (including a track that features Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and ex Helloween guitarist Kai Hansen), a Helloween track that was retooled for a solo acoustic album, and of course some classic Helloween that features Michael on lead vocals.

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Here are the songs that where played during this episode:

Killing Joke – The Great Cull
Dio – Heaven & Hell
David Rock Feinstein (Featuring Ronnie James Dio) – Metal Will Never Die
The Cult – White
My Chemical Romance – Party Poison
Death Angel – Relentless Revolution
Enter Shikari – Destabilise
Haste The Day – The Closest Thing To Closure
Norma Jean – Vultures In Vivid
Yngwie Malmsteen – Critical Mass
Mr. Big – Undertow