Your Top 10 Hard Rock/Metal Released In 1998

Turn It Up by Moon Dog Mane
Dose by Gov't Mule
Words of The Exit Wound by Napalm Death
Caravan Beyond redemption by Cathedral
Torso by Grief
The Archaic Course by Borknagar
Formulas Fatal To Flesh by Morbid Angel
Triumph Of Mercy by Mortification
Puppet of Destruction by Ultimatum
Gallery Of Suicide by Cannibal Corpse

Death - The Sound Of Perserverance
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
Stuck Mojo - Rising
Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren Ka
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy

King Diamond - Voodoo
Helloween - Better Than Raw
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Grave Digger - Knights of the Cross
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Vicious Rumors - Cyberchrist
KISS - Psycho Circus
Metallica - Garage Inc.
Warrior - Ancient Future
U.D.O. - No Limits

1. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
2. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
3. Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
4. Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
5. Nightwish - Oceanborn
6. Helloween - Better than Raw
7. Hollow - Modern Cathedral
8. Sentenced - Frozen
9. Rage - XIII
10. Pink Cream 69 - Electrified

Savatage would have topped the list, but Wake of Magellan was released in Europe in 1997.

A great year for European power metal. Stigmata IV, Tarot, Angel Dust, Axel Rudi Pell also released awesome albums that fit the bill somewhat. And Stratovarius. The sort of depressing offerings of the mid-90's is over. The last two years were a bit of a renaissance.

This was a bit hard. 1998 was a real crap year for metal! But these were standout releases that year for me.

Black Sabbath – Reunion (live)
KISS – Psycho Circus
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
Exhumed - Gore Metal
Tankard – Disco Destroyer
Gorgoroth - Destroyer – or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
Dan Swanö - Moontower
Soulburn - Feeding on Angels
Sentenced – Frozen
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
Bolt Thrower – Mercenary
Angelcorpse - Exterminate
Altar - Provoke

Lurideath wrote:

1998 was a real crap year for metal!

Totally disagree. At least when it comes to the 90's - 1998 was when heavy metal started becoming relevant again. It was probably the best year in about a decade.

Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Iced Earth - Something Wicked
Echo Hollow - Diet of Worms
The Haunted - s/t

I’m surprised no one chose the Haunted’s first album. It was a kickass thrasher during a shitty anti-metal timeline. Lots of riffs!

Primal Fear - s/t
Hammerfall - Legacy of Kings

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
Helloween - Better Than Raw
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Motorhead - Snake Bite Love
Radakka - Requiem For The Innocent
W.A.S.P. - Double Live Assassins
Rage - XIII
David Lee Roth - DLR Band

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Queens Of The Stone Age -Queens Of The Stone Age
Monster Magnet-Powertrip
Bal-Sagoth- Battle Magic
Orange Goblin-Time Travelling Blues
System Of A Down

Edited my original post. Switched out Savatage for Ultimatum

1. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
2. Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
3. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
4. The Haunted - The Haunted
5. Motorhead - Snake Bite Love
6. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
7. Benediction - Grind Bastard
8. Exhumed - Gore Metal
9. Ultimatum - Puppet of Destruction
10. Whiplash - Thrashback

1. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. Mercyful Fate - Dead Again
3. Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
4. Motörhead - Snake Bite Love
5. Orange Goblin - Time Traveling Blues
6. King Diamond - Voodoo
7. Metallica - Garage Inc.
8. Vicious Rumors - Cyberchrist
9. Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
10. Loudness - Dragon