Apple Music‘s recent regionalized ‘best of 2015’ lists didn’t even give metal its own category when it came to the U.S. and Canadian territories. Though that still remains the case on their base ‘best of 2015’ lists, perhaps the company have now set out to rectify that oversight. The streaming service have put together a number of best of metal & hard rock lists present on each genre’s own individual pages, each with their own playlist.
The lists are reprinted below in the order they appeared, as no direct numbering system was provided. They did however specify that the choices were that of their editors and not sales-oriented:
Best Metal Tracks Of The 2015:
Tribulation – “Holy Libations”
Horrendous – “Ozymandis”
Paradise Lost – “Terminal”
Enslaved – “Thurisaz Dreaming”
Lamb Of God – “512”
Deafheaven – “Comeback”
Ghost – “Cirice”
Myrkur – “Onde Born”
Panopticon – “Sleep To The Sound of The Waves Crashing”
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – “Melody Lane”
Satan – “The Devil’s Infantry”
High On Fire – “The Black Plot”
Khemmis – “Burden Of Sin”
Swallow The Sun – “Lost & Catatonic”
Leviathan – “All Tongues Toward”
Napalm Death – “How The Years Condemn”
Cult Leader – “Suffer Louder”
Iron Maiden – “When The River Runs Deep”
Baroness – “Shock Me”
Lucifer – “Purple Pyramid”
Intronaut – “The Pleasant Surprise”
Rivers Of Nihil – “Monarchy”
Cattle Decapitation – “Manufactured Extinct”
Skepticism – “The Departure”
Bosse-de-Nage – “Washerwoman”
Tribulation – “The Children Of The Night”
Anareta – “Horrendous”
Deafheaven – “New Bermuda”
Paradise Lost – “The Plague Within”
High On Fire – “Luminiferous”
Ghost – “Meliora”
Panopticon – “Autumn Eternal”
Iron Maiden – “The Book Of Souls”
Baroness – “Purple”
Enslaved – “In Times”
Bosse-de-Nage – “All Fours”
Khemmis – “Absolution”
Myrkur – “Rivers Of Nihil”
Leviathan – “Scar Sighted”
Napalm Death – “Apex Predator – Easy Meat”
Cattle Decapitation – “The Anthropocene Extinction”
Skepticism – “Ordeal”
Satan – “Atom By Atom”
Cult Leader – “Lightless Walk”
False – “Untitled”
VHOL – “Deeper Than Sky”
Motörhead – “Bad Magic”
Noisem – “Blossoming Decay”
Slayer – “Repentless”
Shape Of Despair – “Monotony Fields”
Ufomammut – “Ecate”
Hope Drone – “Cloak Of Ash”
Tempel – “The Moon Lit Our Path”
Hooded Menace – “Darkness Drips Forth”
Hate Eternal – “Infernus”
Driftoff – “Modern Fear”
Chrome Over Brass – “Chrome Over Brass”
Soulfly – “Arcangel”
Krallice – “Ygg Huur”
Black Fast – “Terms Of Surrender”
Enforcer – “From Beyond”
Goatsnake – “Black Age Blues”
So Hideous – “Laurestine”
August Burns Red – “Found In Far Away Places” (deluxe edition)
Sannhet – “Revisionist”
Amorphis – “Under The Red Cloud”
My Dying Bride – “Feel The Misery”
Shining – “IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends”
Fórn – “The Departure Of Consciousness”
Best Hard Rock Tracks Of The Year:
Failure – “Counterfeit Sky”
Marilyn Manson – “Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge”
Eagles Of Death Metal – “Complexity”
Refused – “Elektra”
Fidlar – “40oz. On Repeat”
Black Trip – “Shadowline”
Killing Joke – “I Am The Virus”
Faith No More – “Motherfucker”
God Damn – “Vultures”
Wilson – “Right To Rise”
Wakrat – “Knucklehead”
Meatwound – “Funeral State”
Sun And Sail Club – “Level Up, Shut It Down”
The Sword – “High Country”
Graveyard – “Too Music Is Not Enough”
Gold – “Shapeless”
Highly Suspect – “Lydia”
Royal Thunder – “Time Machine”
Puscifer – “The Remedy”
Bring Me The Horizon – “Happy Song”
Superheaven – “I’ve Been Bored”
Local H – “Mansplainer”
Danko Jones – “Do You Wanna Rock”
Biters – “Heart Full Of Rock ‘N’ Roll”
The Struts – “Could Have Been Me”
Best Hard Rock Albums Of The Year:
Failure – “The Heart Is A Monster”
Refused – “Freedom”
Faith No More – “Sol Invictus”
Eagles Of Death Metal – “Zipper Down”
Bring Me The Horizon – “That’s The Spirit”
Killing Joke – “Pylon” (deluxe)
The Sword – “High Country”
Marilyn Manson – “The Pale Emperor” (deluxe)
Black Trip – “Shadowline”
Fidlar – “Too”
Highly Suspect – “Mister Asylum”
Wilson – “Right To Rise”
Graveyard – “Innocence & Decadence”
Biters – “Electric Blood”
Gold – “No Image”
God Damn – “Vultures”
The Struts – “Have You Heard”
Superheaven – “Ours Is Chrome”
Wakrat – “Knucklehead” (single)
Local H – “Hey, Killer”
Royal Thunder – “Crooked Doors”
Meatwound – “Addio”
Sun And Sail Club – “The Great White Dope”
Puscifer – “Money Shot”
Danko Jones – “Fire Music”
Halestorm – “Into The Wild Life” (deluxe)
Turbowolf – “Two Hands”
Wolf Alice – “My Love Is Cool”
Ten Commandos – “Ten Commandos”
Breaking Benjamin – “Dark Before Dawn“
