Pick One Album From Each Year (Impossible Challenge) 

No City of Evil for 2005 is criminal.

You guys should for sure do this again with 4 different picks for each year. Could probably do it several times

As a huge System fan, I love that Jared and Austin picked Hypnotize and Mezmerize respectively

That PTV record genuinely changed music for me forever

2006... The fact that the soccer world cup in Germany, the release of Cars, release of the Nintendo Wii, Michael Schumacher last F1 season with Ferrari (and originally said to be last at all), Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) dying and the release of those albums was nearly 20 years ago is really feeling weird.

Not mentioning Homesick by ADTR for 2009 is wild Edit: Not mentioning The Death of Peace of Mind by Bad Omens for 2022 is also criminal.

Alive or Just Breathing would be my pick for 2002. That record is supreme and it still holds to this day. I remember listening to Just Barely Breathing the first time I spinned the whole thing and just getting the chills as the song picked up. The same thing goes for The Element of One. To me this record is peak metalcore

18:53 has to be both system records. Can't separate them. And probably my favorite records of any genre thematically, I can't express enough how nostalgic these two specific albums are.

I think 2006-2009 are possibly the hardest 00s years for me. Those years just have so many multi genre hitter albums. Off the top of my head, at least 6 of my all time favorite albums are from 2006. 2007 is a heavy ass year too. One-X came out in 06, and I love that album so deeply in my heart.

Im with Austin on 2004. That green day album was on repeat. Also prob the last green day album i ever listened to before i moved onto heavier music. I know everything upto and including American idiot but i know exactly nothing after. My chem is also a classic and a solid 2nd. Also iconic. But hard to pick it over that green day album.

I CANNOT get over "It's like after the punk kid throws a brick through a window and then he goes to have a cigarette and is like "Why did I f*cking do that?"" lololol

I was 100% expecting Fall of Ideals for 2006, but i didn't even realize that Lamb, Killswitch, and Tool all also had major releases that year. Damn

Now we need this from like 1970 to 1999, it'll be fun and totally not painful or controversial in any way I promise :)

AA RnR is still so great. their song Closure is so good. Never talk about the broken up band 'For Today' they were sick

For 2003 mine was definitely waking the fallen. That album changed everything for me. I didn’t like metal until I heard that album.

Playing along: 2000 - Hybrid Theory 2001 - Lateralus 2002 - Wonder What's Next 2003 - Meteora 2004 - Ashes of the Wake 2005 - Mesmerize 2006 - 10,000 Days 2007 - An Ocean Between Us 2008 - All Hope Is Gone 2009 - Ruination 2010 - Diamond Eyes 2011 - In Waves 2012 - Koi no Yokan 2013 - Sempiternal 2014 - Disgusting 2015 - Holy War 2016 - Mark of the Blade 2017 - Misery 2018 - Holy Hell 2019 - Periphery IV: Hail Stan 2020 - The Death of Me 2021 - Eternal Blue 2022 - Pain Remains 2023 - Terrasite If I can vote "none of the above" and submit new answers, then: 2009 - Crack the Skye (Mastodon) 2011 - The Hunter (Mastodon) 2015 - Juggernaut:Alpha/Omega (Periphery) 2016 - Low Teens (Every Time I Die) 2020 - A Quiet Place to Die (Alpha Wolf) 2021 - Kostolom (Slaughter to Prevail)

For the amount of great albums that never even made the list, I feel like this should be done as a series, maybe one or two years per video where they just go through all the metal albums of that year, make an S tier ranking and then choose their pick from those that made it to S tier. Narrowing the year down to four albums just isn't fair, and since it was all Jared's picks we didn't get a sense for what Austin may have brought to the table No Invent Animate - Heavener in 2023 hurt me badly.

This was so much fun to play along with please do this again bois

Putting 30 seconds of mars over AILD in 2005 is crazy

Fall of ideals by all the remains for 2006. That album shreds

For 2019, I’m agreeing with Jared and saying Empath. That album is just perfection front to back. I’ve listened to it countless times now. Devin is criminally underrated because most people know him for only a few songs or his SYL days. Edit: For 2023, it’s either Tesseract War of Being or Hanabie Reborn Superstar. Those two albums were on repeat for so long.

Blueprints by Wage War is the greatest album of 2015, my mind CANNOT be changed on that. Masterpiece

You need to do 90s as well

This is really fun! do more of these.

City of evil is basically what put A7X on the map

“I’ve only heard like one song by tool” me: *sharp pain in chest & arm*

2007 -> Messengers or An Ocean Between Us… the 2 greatest metalcore albums of all time. A choice I could not make.

42:32 I have never related more to anything

Austin's Hail to the King line is the funniest thing I've heard all year

Just because...why not. 00: Hybrid Theory (altho I listened more to Disturbed at the time) 01: Iowa (My inner bassist screams Tool tho) 02: Believe 03: Faceless (can't live without Straight out of line, I effing hate you and Serenity but A7X D;) 04: American Idiot (easy pick) 05: Mezmerize (RiP Lonely Day) 06: 10,000 Days (I need at least one Tool album) 07: A7X (Almost Easy, Critical Acclaim, Scream, Afterlife...hell yes) 08: All hope is gone (Like in 00, not the one I listened to most tho. That would be BfmV) 09: Stand up and Scream 10: There is a Hell... 11: In Waves 12: Baptized in Filth 13: Sempiternal (Shadow Moses alone makes it worth to pick to me) 14: Disgusting 15: IRE 16: All our gods have abandoned us 17: The Sin and The Sentence 18: Holy Hell 19: Trauma 20: The death of me 21: KIN 22: Pain Remains (just because I need one Lorna album) 23: Terrasite

Dedication To Flesh by Spite was my #1 deathcore AOTY tied with Fear & Dagger by Paleface. Also for the 2023 category everyone is going to say TMBTE by Sleep Token if I had to choose between the other 3 albums though it would be Dance Devil Dance by Avatar. The song The Dirt Im Buried In I heard on RU-vid Music when I was at work and loved it. The whole album is great lots of variety throughout I enjoyed it alot

2000: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 2001: Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler 2002: KoRn - Untouchables 2003: Evanescence - Fallen 2004: Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache 2005: Disturbed - 10,000 Fists 2006: Breaking Benjamin - Phobia 2007: FFDP - The Way Of The Fist 2008: Meshuggah - ObZen 2009: A Day To Remember - Homesick 2010: Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare 2011: Falling In Reverse - The Drug In Me Is You 2012: Pierce The Veil - Collide With The Sky 2013: Attila - About That Life 2014: Beartooth - Disgusting 2015: Ice Nine Kills - Every Trick In The Book 2016: Issues - Headspace 2017: Wage War - Deadweight 2018: Architects - Holy Hell 2019: KoRn - The Nothing 2020: Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place To Die 2021: Ice Nine Kills - Silver Scream 2 2022: Tallah - The Generation Of Danger 2023: Unity TX - Ferality

This video basically tells me i got in and out of metalcore before it peaked. Most of the 2010s "core" albums I either didn't care for or have never heard before. They did not mention any of the early metalcore: Atreyu, All That Remains, Shadows Fall, Bleeding Through, Haste the Day, Unearth or Poison The Well. And they didn't mention the best albums from As I Lay Dying or Killswitch Engage.

Code Orange Forever is so underrated. Easily my favorite 2017 record of the ones given here.

How was common courtesy ADTRs first album mentioned in this list homesick was sooo gooooood

Little bit upset that After The Burial wasn't mentioned for 2015 with Dig Deep 😂 that album has quite a few bangers!

-The Sickness -Toxicity -Believe -Fallen -Ashes of the Wake -Mezmerize -Sacrament -Avenged Sevenfold -All Hope is Gone -Ruination -Deep Blue -In Waves -Hate -About That Life -The Gray Chapter -IRE -The Mark of the Blade -Misery -Prequelle -The Great War -The Death of Me -Eternal Blue -Tallah -Take me Back to Eden

Hybrid Theory go BrRRRrRrRr

Not including The Poison by BFMV broke my heart. Easy pick. IDGAF what you put it up against, I'm choosing it.

I had the same exact experience of the Green Day album lol. I'm not even a green day fan, but I had the cd and would play it on my little cd player on the bus to middle school. That album and Senses Fails cd, who's name I cant remember. But it had Lady In a Blue Dress. It has a song with the name of the album but its blanking on me. That album was like my entire 7th grade. I was so depressed, suicidal, alone, but that Senses Fail album quite literally saved my life. I know people say that too much. But this is truly a life saver for me.

Not having Frail Words Collapse or Shadows are Security by AILD is cRRRRRAZY Happy Austin mentioned This is Exile, I feel like that album and the previous one from Whitechapel really helped shape what Deathcore is today, IMO. May be sort of biased on them in general bc we’re from the same area though 😅 Glad to see ABR and Parkway Drive in there though 🥲

Vol. 3 by Slipknot not being in the 2004 list is diabolical

The self titled a7x record is a NON-SKIP record. Every song is a banger!

An interesting idea for a video here. My choices are: Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, None for 2002, Evanescence, Green Day, System of a Down, None for 2006, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, None for 2009-2010, Falling In Reverse, Pierce the Veil, Avenged Sevenfold, None for 2014-2018, I Prevail, In This Moment, None for 2021-2022, Metallica.

Disturbed is such an amazing band. They have so many good stuff... I really think that every song from them have this catchy brainwashing melodies... Love them... xD

Having to choose between Iowa and Lateralus is painful, have to choose Iowa because every song is so memorable

I looked up Evanescence on Spotify when you were at 2003, and immediately noticed that still, to this day, 21 years later, 7 out of 10 of their top songs on Spotify are from that record, it holds # 1,2,3,5,7 and 9 on the list, so yeah, that was a freaking AWESOME record! I have SO many memories to that record I can't even count em all! Also, #8 on the list is a remix of Bring me to life from a recently released deluxe edition of that same record, so technically you could say 8 out of 10 songs are from that record..... 😅 Also 🖕for making me realize it's been nearly 21 years since that record was released.... I better start making arrangements for my retirement.... 👴

now imagine, if you will, that every album influenced by the albums you didn't pick were gone or changed forever as well. Scary!

I agree with Austin on the Holy Wars song. It's one reason I didn't really enjoy the new Amity affliction album.

Austin over here nearing the completion of his transformation into that one friend's lesbian mom.

At some point there is a time when a person just stops caring and is like - "You know what? I don't care for any of these... All four of them can perish and I wouldn't be any wiser."

10:00 it's actually from the album Indestructible, the one after Ten Thousand Fists so Austin was right.

A couple of albums I’ll fall on my sword for are Trivium - Ascendancy 2005, and The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal 2007.

Fit for a kind dark skies album is one of the first that comes to mind along with Hollywood undead one album lol five finger death punch American capitalist too .. Chelsea grins recreat album too lol

42:36 for me what made me turn on my radio and then immediately turn it off was hearing This Is War by 30 STM Probably the worst album I’ve ever heard

The comment about being 16 in 2009 of what stand up and scream did was so true - I was obsessed with that record lol

Really fun challenge hope you guys make some more videos like this!

So many takes on this, I am sure to rewatch this one. What stuck was Austin mentioning shows at Studio 7 like, damn that takes me back!!

I'm a fan of the classics it's hard for me to pick a top album from a year in the 70's but I can easily pick Rumours by Fleetwood Mac for '77

Dude there's still times I'll put the creature album in that f****** album still slaps

"I Stand Alone" was in The Scorpion King. Not The Mummy.

Good to see 30STM here, their prog stuff from first album (so underrated) and alt-metal/rock from ABL and This Is War was sick. For me A Beautiful Lie has no even mid song, all of them are great. R-Evolve is so underrated masterpiece. All Hope Is Gone is my favourite metal album, always good to see it. For me there is only one band missing here - Gojira. Love all their stuff since The Link.

That debut the Used record from 2002 is chefs kiss. Although it is hard because I loved that Chevelle album too.

Man this was fun to listen to. I'm gonna have to go back and check some of these out!

2000-hybrid theory,2001-toxicity,2002-alive or just breathing,2003-waking the fallen,2004-end of heartache,2005-city of evil,2006-as daylight dies that was tough because define the great line is so good. 2007-horizons, 2008-shogun,2009-stand up and scream,2010-the powerless rise, 2011-reckless and relentless,2012-awakened,2013-sempiternal,2014-darkest hour self titled,2015-ire, 2016-all our gods have abandoned us,2017-the sin and the sentence,2018-holy hell,2019-shaped by fire,2020-Polaris,2021-whitechapel kin,2022-bleed from within shrine,2023-Polaris or RED,2024- a lot of good ones coming out. I think darkest hour and all that remains could release amazing albums this year. Guess we will see.

If I had to pick one album from 2018 it'd have to be Helix by Crystal Lake, that album is so sick

But also, American Idiot (the entire album) was the first thing I ever learned on guitar and was also the reason I started playing guitar. Define the great line is the best underoath album though.

16:45 I'm going to steal this Green Day description.

I keep missing the lives! 😭 are they on patreon? I’m already a patron, I imagine my phone notifs just suck lol. Good stuff boys! Edit: thank you for the 2003 Evanescence love, Austin!! 🙏🏻

Good choice for 2002 keeping the used, I have that vinyl still wrapped haha

The fact that no ADTR albums got mentioned until 2013 is shocking… all those albums are incredible, but I’d struggle picking between Homesick and Stand Up and Scream…

42:30 to 42:55 is probably the most hilarious bit from Austin in this entire video. I am fucking dying rn. I fuck with the Nightmare album so hard, but I can see where Austin is coming from

ETID not being on this list is beyond me. Missing Poison the Well, The Chariot, Norma Jean, The Blood Brothers, From First to Last. The list provided is just wild. Should do a part 2 & 3 honestly

No Trivium for 2005. Ascendancy was one of my favorites ever

no eclipse from veil of maya, the discovery from born of osiris, or disclosure from haarp machine??

Waking the Fallen claps all of those.

No L.D. 50 for 2000 is criminal, same thing to not putting The End of Heartache for 2004.

Really enjoyed this video and would love to see Austins take on it too

You guys should do this again! Theres definitely atleast 4 more albums from each year for a second round of this

Waking the fallen. Not even close. Shaped my life.

Creatures, There is a Hell, and Diamond Eyes all up against each other. All 3 of those records are great, and have gotten me through some pretty rough times. Hard choice, I definitely listen to There is a Hell more NOW, but Creatures has some heaters on it. Diamond Eyes *might* be my personal favorite Deftones record. All 3 are great, but in terms of one I cannot live without, There is a Hell will always have at least 4 songs that I can listen to at any time, and as a whole it is one of the best Metalcore releases.

Y’all remind me of Chris griffin and the gas station dude

“Edgy Christian kids making Thousand Foot Krutch edits” hit me hard 😂😂

Here are my picks: 2000: Down With The Sickness 2001: Lateralus 2002: Believe 2003: Fallen 2004: American Idiot (an all time favorite) 2005: N/A 2006: 10,000 Days 2007: Avenged Sevenfold Everything after I pretty much haven't listened to, i got way more into classic rock in middle school and high school (born in 1993)

2000: Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish 2001: Slipknot - Iowa 2002: The Used - Self titled 2003: Linkin Park - Meteora 2004: My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers 2005: P!ATD - A Fever 2006: Lamb of God - Sacrament 2007: A7X - Self-titled 2008: BFMV - Scream Aim Fire 2009: Asking Alexandria - Stand Up and Scream 2010: Deftones - Diamond Eyes 2011: Trivium - In Waves 2012: Pierce The Veil - Collide with the sky 2013: ADTR - Common Courtesy 2014: Slipknot - The Gray Chapter 2015: Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War 2016: Beartooth - Aggressive 2017: Code Orange - Forever 2018: Ghost - Prequelle 2019: Periphery- Hail Stan 2020: Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man 2021: Lorna Shore - And I Return to Nothingness 2022: Lorna Shore - Pain Remains 2023: Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

I vote Alive or Just Breathing best metal album of 2002. Just my opinion.

I know they are mainly focusing metalcore / deathcore stuff but here and there we got some deftones, soad etc. So I'll ask the question on everyones mind. Why no Korn ?

Man, three cheers for sweet revenge was the first album i bought with my own money, I can't not go with that!

Define the great line is absolutely Goated.

Not having Option Paralysis for 2010 is criminal. One of my top 10 albums of all time for sure.

The disrespect on Nightmare from Austin wont be forgotten. 😐

2000: I didn't listen to ANYTHING that year to save my ears because i had a feeling i was gonna hear the greatest band ever the year after. 2001: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. 2002: I was still listening to STST from the year before. And that one Bleeding Through song Savoir, Saint, Salvation that Shadows sung on. 2003: Waking the Fallen. 2004: I was still listening to WTF from the year before. 2005: City of Evil. 2006: I was still listening to COE from the year before. 2007: Avenged Sevenfold (Self Titled). And that one Good Charlotte song "The River" because it had Shadows and Gates on it. And also that one Cowboy Troy song Buffalo Stampede cause it had Shadows on it. 2008: Live in the LBC/Diamonds in the Rough. 2009: I listened to DITR and LITLBC from the year before. And that one Steel Panther song Turn out the Lights because it had Shadows on it. 2010: Nightmare. And that one Slash song Nothing to Say but only because GNR was my favourite band when i was like 5 and also because Shadows sang on it. And that one Dirty Heads song Check the Level because Shadows sang on it and Slash played guitar. 2011: I was still listening to Nightmare from the year before. And that one Hell or Highwater song Go Alone because Shadows sang on it. 2012: I was still listening to nightmare from 2 years prior. And that one Fozzy song Sandpaper because Shadows sang on it. And also that one Pitch Black Forecast song Landmine because Shadows sang on it. 2013: Hail to the King. And that one Device song Haze because Shadows sang on it. Shadows and David Draiman sound BADASS together on it. Look it up if you haven't heard it. Seriously, do it now. 2014: Waking the Falllen Ressurected. 2015: I was still listening to WTFR from the year before. 2016: The Stage 2017: The Stage (Deluxe edition). Also, Avengeds Live at the Grammy Museum album. 2018: Black Reign (The collection of songs Avenged did for Call of Duty. I had heard them the year they were individually released but it was the first time there was a complition of them all on a physical disc and it was exciting). And also that one Atreyu song Superhero because Shadows sang on it. 2019: I was still listening to Black Reign from the year before because i was still pretty excited about it. 2020: Diamonds in the Rough (Re release featuring more b sides). And that one These Grey Men song Street Spirit (Radiohead cover) because, yep, you guess it, Shadows. 2021: I was still listening to the DITR re release from the year before. 2022: I listened to that one Smash Mouth song from the hit movie Shrek because Shadows... didn't sing on it. I was getting serious Shadows fatigue by this point. Jokes. I was still listening to the DITR re release from 2 years prior. M. Shadows is KING. 👑 2023: Life Is But A Dream 2024: So far I've only listen to Life Is But A Dream for last year. I had to do this list. The severe lack of A7X was puzzling. Fight me. 😅 Also, Triviums Shogun had better be an option for 2008 . 😁

How dare you! I live by the line of “Guns and ammo, children dead, this is bad!” R.I.P. Eddie Hermida of Lorna Shore

Yall should do this but EPs that sounds pretty dope

No the poison from bullet is wild

Zombie EP is best TDWP hands down. Agree big time.

Sully Erna picked the band name Godsmack in tribute to the late (GOAT) lead singer of AIC (Mad Season)-Layne Staley. 🤘🏻❤️♾️ AIC released the song Godsmack in 1992. The song references addiction-specifically, injecting herøin. "What in God's name have you done? Stick your arm for some real fun. So your sickness weighs a ton. And God's name is smack for some." RIP 🕊️💔 Layne Thomas Staley 08/22/67-04/05/02

Here are some of my picks because why not, also I was born in early 1999 so these all came out when I was growing up but I do still love a lot of these so it was hard as fuck to pick between them so enjoy my list and I also gave some reasoning for some of them 2000: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 2001: System of a Down - Toxicity (I literally yelled "SON OF A BITCH" as soon as I saw this one because I fucking loved Toxicity, Iowa and Lateralus and plus I live an hour away from Sum 41 so they're a pretty local band as well (plus Canadian bois), but I'm sticking with Toxicity because it was the album that got me into them because of Chop Suey and Aerials is my favourite System album) 2002: Disturbed - Believe 2003: Linkin Park - Meteora 2004: Green Day - American Idiot (MCR was a close second because that was a great album as well but this was the album that got me into Green Day) 2005: SOAD - Mesmerize/Hypnotize (B.Y.O.B. was the first song I ever heard from them because of Guitar Hero: World Tour and is one of my absolute favourites, but at the same time you can't separate those two records) 2006: Tool - 10,000 Days (I love Lateralus but it was up against so many other great one but 10k Days is one of my favourite Tool albums, I also got to see them back in November with my friends in our band and they were fucking great. Also because I know Jared mentioned the song before but Jambi is on 10,000 Days and is a killer song, and Tool actually brought Alex Lifeson from Rush out to play with them when I saw them which I did not fucking expect and it was awesome. I'm honestly surprised that The Black Parade wasn't included for '06, that one is fucking killer) 2007: Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (First album I heard from them because of Almost Easy being in Rock Band 2 and is one of their best material, plus it was the last they had with The Rev and Jimmy was just on fucking fire the whole record. Plus A Little Piece of Heaven is such a clusterfuck it's amazing) 2008: Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (Like I said before, would've picked Iowa but it was up against Tool and System but AHIG was what first introduced me to the band via Psychosocial and that, Sulfer and Snuff are my favourites from the album (plus the Psychosocial Baby meme is just a classic as well) 2009: Thirty Seconds to Mars - This Is War (I don't really know the other bands and I don't listen to that kind of metal, I'm not really that big on them but they're the only album I recognized tbh and it wasn't that bad either) 2010: Deftones - Diamond Eyes 2011: Trivium - In Waves (Like with the '09 picks I don't know recognize either of those albums but that Trivium album was awesome) 2012: Deftones - Koi No Yokan 2013: Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King 2014: Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter (Devil In I, The Negative One and Sarcastrophe are fucking killer tracks, also RIP Paul Gray. Super underrated bassist but a great player as well) 2015: BMTH - That's the Spirit (Don't listen to them but Spirit was a solid album) 2016: Asking Alexandria - The Black (Like with Bring Me I don't listen to them but some songs I heard were pretty cool) 2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence 2018: Ghost - Prequelle (I got into more Ghost from a friend of mine from college who's a huge Ghost fan and they're one of my favourite modern bands, that record was awesome and I'm surprised that Meliora wasn't included for 2016) 2019: Periphery IV - Hail Stan (First Periphery album I got into and it's really good, but at the same time I don't listen to much Sabaton but those guys are a WW1 history lesson and it's awesome. Also fun fact about Empath for those who might not know, but 66Samus of RU-vid fame played drums for a few songs on that album and killed it) 2020: Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man (You can't go wrong with the Prince of Darkness himself, that album was so fucking good but Dead Men was awesome as well) 2021: Spiritbox - Eternal Blue (Awesome album and Courtney's voice is just awesome) 2022: Tallah - The Generation of Danger (Great album and Mike Portnoy's son Max was awesome on it) 2023: Metallica - 72 Seasons (This was one of my favourite albums of 2023, it was definitely a great follow-up to Hardwired imo (even if there were some songs that weren't as good as others) and I saw their Texas shows when they were being shown to movie theatres back over the summer and it was awesome, also I played Lux Æterna for my guitar class in college after that song had only been out for like two weeks and had a hell of a lot of fun playing it as well)

"Gremlin mode with your boys"

I think putting both SOAD albums in 2005 kinda ruined the chance to put like BFMV the Poison or AILD Shadows are security. Those albums are classic