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1994 was one hell of a year for rock and metal. So now, a full 30 years later, we've got one question – what was the best release of the year? We'll run this poll until Friday, April 12 and publish the results on Monday, April 15!

1994(Required)

Accept – Death Row

Acid Bath – When the Kite String Pops

Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation

Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies

Aggressor – Of Long Duration Anguish

Amorphis – Tales from the Thousand Lakes

Ancient – Svartalvheim

Annihilator – King of the Kill

Arcturus – Constellation

Asphyx – Asphyx

At the Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease

Bathory – Requiem

Behemoth – And the Forests Dream Eternally

Benediction – The Grotesque / Ashen Epitaph

Bestial Warlust – Vengeance War Till Death

Bethlehem – Dark Metal

Biohazard – State of the World Address

Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes

Body Count – Born Dead

Bolt Thrower – …For Victory

Bruce Dickinson – Balls to Picasso

Brutality – When the Sky Turns Black

Brutal Truth – Need to Control

Cannibal Corpse – The Bleeding

Cathedral – Cosmic Requiem / In Memorium / Statik Majik

Cemetary – Black Vanity

Cinderella – Still Climbing

Converge – Halo in a Haystack

Corrosion of Conformity – Deliverance

Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh

Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh

The Cult – The Cult

Dangerous Toys – Pissed

Danzig – Danzig 4

Dark Funeral – Dark Funeral

Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger

Dawn – Nær sólen gar niþer for evogher

Deliverance – River Disturbance

Destruction – Destruction

Desultory – Bitterness

Dio – Strange Highways

Downset. – downset.

Dream Theater – Awake

Edge of Sanity – Purgatory Afterglow

Electric Wizard – Electric Wizard

Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse

Enslaved – Frost

Enslaved – Vikingligr Veldi

Failure – Magnified

Fates Warning – Inside Out

Freak Kitchen – Appetizer

Forbidden – Distortion

Fu Manchu – No One Rides for Free

Gehenna – First Spell

Godflesh – Selfless

Gorefest – Erase

Gorement – The Ending Quest

Gorgoroth – Pentagram

Gotthard – Dial Hard

Grave – Soulless

Grief – Come to Grief

Gwar – This Toilet Earth

Harvey Milk – My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be

Helloween – Master of the Rings

Helmet – Betty

Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension

Impaled Nazarene – Suomi Finland Perkele

In Flames – Lunar Strain

Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene

Infectious Grooves – Groove Family Cyco

Infester – To the Depths, in Degradation

Killing Joke – Pandemonium

King's X – Dogman

Korn – Korn

Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley

L7 – Hungry for Stink

L.A. Guns – Vicious Circle

Lake of Tears – Greater Art

Tony MacAlpine – Premonition

Machine Head – Burn My Eyes

Madball – Set It Off

Magnum – Rock Art

Yngwie Malmsteen – The Seventh Sign

Manic Eden – Manic Eden

Marduk – Opus Nocturne

Marilyn Manson – Portrait of an American Family

Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Megadeth – Youthanasia

Melvins – Stoner Witch

Memento Mori – Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales

Mercyful Fate – Time

Meshuggah – None

Moonspell – Under the Moonspell

Mortification – Blood World

Mötley Crüe – Mötley Crüe

Mortuary Drape – All the Witches Dance

My Dying Bride – I Am the Bloody Earth

Nailbomb – Point Blank

Napalm Death – Fear, Emptiness, Despair

Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral

Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York

Obituary – World Demise

The Obsessed – The Church Within

Overkill – W.F.O.

Pantera – Far Beyond Driven

PeachGB – Giving Birth to a Stone

Pearl Jam – Vitalogy

Pentagram – Be Forewarned

Phlebotomized – Immense Intense Suspense

Pride & Glory – Pride & Glory

Pro-Pain – The Truth Hurts

Prong – Cleansing

Pungent Stench – Club Mondo Bizarre – For Members Only

P.O.D. – Snuff the Punk

Queensrÿche – Promised Land

Refused – This Just Might Be… the Truth

Rollins Band – Weight

Rotting Christ – Non Serviam

Running Wild – Black Hand Inn

Sacramentum – Finis Malorum

Samael – Ceremony of Opposites

Sarcófago – Hate

Satyricon – The Shadowthrone

Savatage – Handful of Rain

Sentenced – The Trooper

Septicflesh – Mystic Places of Dawn

Skyclad – Prince of the Poverty Line

Slayer – Divine Intervention

Sodom – Get What You Deserve

Solitude Aeturnus – Through the Darkest Hour

Solstice – Lamentations

Soundgarden – Superunknown

Stabbing Westward – Ungod

Stone Temple Pilots – Purple

Stratovarius – Dreamspace

Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal for Life

Symphony X – Symphony X

Tankard – Two-Faced

Testament – Low

Therapy? – Troublegum

Threshold – Psychedelicatessen

Tiamat – Wildhoney

Unholy – The Second Ring of Power

Vader – Sothis

Vanden Plas – Colour Temple

Various Artists – Nativity in Black (Black Sabbath tribute album)

Vicious Rumors – Word of Mouth

Widowmaker – Stand By for Pain

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