The Release crew wrote down the best albums (max 10), songs (max 5), live artists (max 3), newcomers (max 3) and artists (max 3) of 2001. The Release crew also, more or less, agreed on a top 15 album total list. There is no special order in any of the lists.
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"Best of 98" also contains the Swedish Electronic Music Awards and the readers' foreign poll.

No order.

Ohgr: "Welt"
Briskeby: "Jeans for Onassis"
Front Line Assembly: "Epitaph"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "No More Shall We Part"
New Order: "Get Ready"
Rammstein: "Mutter"
The Human League: "Secrets"
Depeche Mode: "Exciter"
Tricky: "Blowback"
De/Vision: "Two"
Foetus: "Flow"
Kramm: "Coeur"
Stina Nordenstam: "This Is Stina Nordenstam"
Röyksopp: "Melody AM"
Schwein: "Schweinstein"


Mikael Kahrle

Albums
Briskeby: "Jeans for Onassis"
Ohgr: "Welt"
The Human League: "Secrets"
Kramm: "Coeur"
Rammstein: "Mutter"
Depeche Mode: "Exciter"
New Order: "Get Ready"
Stina Nordenstam: "This Is Stina Nordenstam"
Dubstar: "Make It Better"
Front Line Assembly: "Epitaph"

Songs
The April Tears: "Hardcoming"
New Order: "Crystal"
Rammstein: "Spieluhr"
Briskeby: "Berlin"
Melotron: "Wohin (willst du gehen)?"

Live artists
Depeche Mode
Fad Gadget
The Strokes

Newcomers
Briskeby
Röyksopp
Technoir

Artists
Rammstein
Depeche Mode
Ohgr


Kristoffer Noheden

Albums
Foetus: "Flow"
David Thomas and Two Pale Boys: "Surf's Up!"
The Angels of Light: "How I Loved You"
Mercury Rev: "All Is Dream"
Lift to Experience: "The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads"
Nic Endo: "Cold Metal Perfection"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "No More Shall We Part"
Silverbullit: "Citizen Bird"
H3llb3nt: "Hardcore Vanilla"
Ping Pong Bitches: "Ping Pong Bitches"

Songs
Missy Elliot: "Get Ur Freak on"
Ministry: "What About Us?"
Einstürzende Neubauten: "Architektur ist Geiselnahme"
Squarepusher: "My Red Hot Car"
Spiritualized: "The Twelve Steps"

Live artists
Pig
Foetus
Silverbullit

Newcomers
ARE Weapons
Ping Pong Bitches
Lift to Experience

Artists
Jim G Thirlwell
Timbaland
Michael Gira


Mattias Huss

Albums
Schwein: "Schweinstein"
Stina Nordenstam: "This Is Stina Nordenstam"
Cornelius: "Point"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "No More Shall We Part"
The Avalanches: "Since I Left You"
Plaid: "Double Figure"
Kahimi Karie: "My Suitor"
Tricky: "Blowback"
Pan Sonic: Aaltopiiri
Denki Groove: "The Last Supper"

Songs
Lolita Storm: "Candy"
Depeche Mode: "Goodnight Lovers"
Cymbals: "Swing, Swing, Swing!"
The Moldy Peaches: ”Nyc's Like a Graveyard”
Eels: "Friendly Ghost"

Live artists
Peaches
The Moldy Peaches

Newcomers
Spank Happy
Röyksopp
Freeheat

Artists
Hope Sandoval
Peaches


Niklas Forsberg

Albums
Seabound: "No Sleep Demon"
Sista mannen på jorden: "OK, OK, OK"
Dark Distant Spaces: "Then, Now, Forever"
Depeche Mode: "Exciter"
De/Vision: "Two"
Technoir: "Groundlevel"
Echo Image: "Compuphonic"
Backlash: "Impetus"
Merge: "Lost Heroes"
The Human League: "Secrets"

Songs
Welle:Erdball: "VW Käfer"
Neuroticfish: "Wake Me Up!"
Melotron: "Wohin (willst du gehen?)"
VNV Nation: "Genesis" (Icon of Coil Mix)
Assemblage 23: "Let Me Be Your Armor"

Live artist
Second Decay

Newcomers
Backlash
Seabound
Technoir

Artists
Depeche Mode
Assemblage 23

Johan Astemark

Albums
Ohgr: "Welt"
Passion Play: "Dreaming Spikes"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "No More Shall We Part"
Ice Ages: "This Killing Emptiness"
Pigface: "Best of Pigface"
New Order: "Get Ready"
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: "Make Love, and War - The Wedlock of Equilibrium"
Anita Lane: "Sex O'Clock"
Monolith: "Labyrinth"
The Mission: "Aura"

Songs
Cevin Key: "Frozen Sky"
Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet (Requiem for A Dream Soundtrack): "Lux Aeterna"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "Oh My Lord"
Anita Lane: "The Petrol Wife"

Live artists
Depeche Mode
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Sisters of Mercy

Newcomers
Cybernetic Fuckheadz
Cinema Strange
 Mlada Fronta

Artists
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Passion Play


Johan Carlsson

Albums
Front Line Assembly: "Epitaph"
Echo Image: "Compuphonic"
Assemblage 23: "Failure"
Haujobb: "Polarity"
Röyksopp: "Melody AM"
Briskeby: "Jeans for Onassis"
Delerium: "Poem"
S.P.O.C.K: "2001: A S.P.O.C.K Odyssey"
Rammstein: "Mutter"
Devin Townsend: "Terria"

Songs
Front Line Assembly: "Conscience"
Echo Image: "Standing Alone"
Depeche Mode: "Freelove"
Röyksopp: "Eple"
Assemblage 23: "Longevity"

Live artists
Radiohead
VNV Nation
Rammstein

Newcomers
Echo Image
Röyksopp
Briskeby

Artists
Front Line Assembly
VNV Nation
Assemblage 23


Kalle Malmstedt

Albums
Tricky: "Blowback"
Freeheat: "Retox EP"
M Hederos/M Hellberg: "Together in the Darkness"
My Dying Bride: "The Dreadful Hours"
Run Level Zero: "Symbol of Submission"
Front Line Assembly: "Epitaph"
Silverbullit: "Citizen Bird"
Bob hund: "Stenåldern kan börja"
Mortiis: "The Smell of Rain"
The Strokes: "Is This It"

Songs
Front Line Assembly: "Everything Must Perish"
Freeheat: "The Two of Us"
The Strokes: "Last Nite"
Rob Zombie: "Never Gonna Stop (the Red Red Kroovy)"
Yvonne: "Burning Cars"

Live artists
Dark Tranquillity
Bob hund
Lydia Lunch

Newcomers
Run Level Zero
Freeheat

Artists
Silverbullit
Front Line Assembly
Yvonne


Jens Krause

Albums
Depeche Mode: "Exciter"
Dance or Die: "Schlafende Energie"
Fad Gadget: "Best of..."
Blind Passengers: "Neosapiens"
Front Line Assembly: "Epitaph"
Aiboforcen: "Sons palliatifs"
TOY: "Space Radio"
De/Vision: "Two"
Vorsprung durch Technik: "Britpop"

Songs
Vorsprung durch Technik: "Vicious Games"
Project Pitchfork: "Timekiller" (And One-Remix)
Nik Page: "The Devil Inside"
Daf.dos: "Hier spricht Berlin" (Greif-Remix)
KMDFM "Boots"

Live artists
Depeche Mode
Project Pitchfork
Blind Passengers

Newcomers
Care Company
Icon of Coil
Sub/Zero

Artists
Front 242
Depeche Mode
Gabi Delgado