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Favorite Metal albums of the 2000’s questionnaire?

What are your favorite albums from each year in the 00’s decade? You can list some from other music genres too, or even no Metal at all, just your favorite albums. Not every album you have for each year, just your favorites, for each year in the 00’s decade.

Here’s mine:

2000

Dead Heart In a Dead World- Nevermore
Brave New World- Iron Maiden
Clayman- In Flames
Universal Migrator Pt. 1- Ayreon
Renegade- Hammerfall

2001

Blackwater Park- Opeth
Horror Show- Iced Earth
Wages of Sin- Arch Enemy
Follow the Reaper- Children of Bodom
Toxicity- System of a Down

2002

Century Child- Nightwish
6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence- Dream Theater
Remission- Mastodon
Reroute to Remain- In Flames

2003

Dance of Death- Iron Maiden
Enemies of Reality- Nevermore
Life is Killing Me- Type O’ Negative
We’ve Come For You All- Anthrax
Strapping Young Lad- Strapping Young Lad
Collideøscope- Living Colour

2004

Leviathan- Mastodon
Once- Nightwish
Reckoning Night- Sonata Arctica

2005

The Black Halo- Kamelot
This Godless Endeavor- Nevermore
From Mars to Sirius- Gojira
Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy- Helloween
Alaska- Between the Buried and Me
Mezmerize/Hypnotize- System of a Down

2006

A Matter of Life and Death- Iron Maiden
Blood Mountain- Mastodon
The Scattering of Ashes- Into Eternity
Karmacode- Lucuna Coil
Operation Mindcrime II- Queensryche

2007

Enter the Grave- Evile
Colors- Between the Buried and Me
Paradise Lost- Symphony X
Rise of the Tyrant- Arch Enemy
Elect the Dead- Serj Tankian

2008

Death Magnetic- Metallica
Traced in Air- Cynic
The Way of All Flesh- Gojira
Twilight of the Thunder Gods- Amon Amarth
Scars on Broadway- Scars on Broadway
Scream Aim Fire- Bullet For My Valentine

2009

Endgame- Megadeth
Crack the Skye- Mastodon
Cosmogenesis- Obscura
Black Gives Way to Blue- Alice In Chains
Infected Nations- Evile
Blue Record- Baroness
The Death Album II- Dethklok

Pretty sure I forgot some.
*Scream Aim Fire may seem like a weird choice, but, I actually like the album, maybe not every single song, but I do consider it a good album by a band I’m not the biggest fan of.
Idk, but I get the feeling there is a ton missing from my list

OK dude…..

this is gonna be WAY harder than your last one.

And I am stepping out for a bit BUT….. will answer in about 3 hours. Close this question… I KEEL YEW!

**And Endgame? Really? Wow… I musta got a defective copy or something, cause that was some pretty generic by the numbers Tech thrash to my ears. I t wasn’t BAD, but IDK..well, when I get to 2009 I’ll list about 25 albums I thought was better, lol.

*2000
-Iron Maiden – Brave New World (the Return.. OH YEAH!)
-Primordial – Spirit the Earth Aflame
-Negura Bunget – M?iastru Sfetnic
-Nightwish – Wishmaster
-Nevermore – Dead Heart In a Dead World

*2001
-Iced Earth – Horrorshow
-Lacuna Coil – Unleashed Memories
-Moonsorrow – Suden Uni
-Moonsorrow – Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
-Sigh – Imaginary Sonicscape

**HM’s
-Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
-Gojira – Terra Incognita
-Opeth – Blackwater Park

*2002
-Agalloch – The Mantle
-Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
-Lacuna Coil – Comalies
-Nightwish – Century Child
-Vintersorg – Visions From The Spiral Generator

*HM’s
-Týr – How Far To Asgaard
-Primordial – Storm Before Calm
-Negura Bunget – ‘N Crugu Bradului
-Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness
-Winds – Reflections of the I
-Sirenia – At Sixes And Sevens (their only good album!!!)

*2003
-Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
-Moonsorrow – Kivenkantaja
-Kamelot – Epica
-Apocalyptica – Reflections
-Finntroll – Visor om Slutet’

**HM’s
-Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion
-Hortus Animae – Waltzing Mephisto
-Theocracy – Theocracy
-Ogre – Dawn of the Proto-man
-Epica – The Phantom Agony
-Melechesh – Sphynx

*2004
-Mastodon – Leviathan
-Nightwish – Once
-Sybreed – Slave Design
-Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur
-Death Angel – The Art of Dying

**HM’s
-Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time
-Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns
-Arkona – Vozrozhdeniye
-3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish
-Angra – Temple of Shadows
-Finntroll – Nattfödd
-Arkona – Lepta

*2005
-Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
-Gojira – From Mars To Sirius
-Moonsorrow – Verisäkeet
-Solefald – Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey: Part I
-Circus Maximus – The 1rst Chapter

**HM’s
-Slechtvalk – At the Dawn of War
-Kamelot – The Black Halo
-Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
-Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness
-Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine
-Sabaton – Primo Victoria
-Arkona – Vo Slavu Velikim!
-Epica – Consign to Oblivion
-Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine
-Bruce Dickinson – Tyranny of Souls
-Leaves Eyes – Vinland Saga

*2006
-Negura Bunget – OM
-Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain
-Solefald – Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey, Pt. 2
-Melechesh – Emissaries
-Eluveitie – Spirit

*HM’s
-Psycroptic – Symbols of Failure
-The Sword – Age of Winters
-myGRAIN – Orbit Dance
-Enslaved – Ruun
-Celtic Frost – Monotheist
-Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
-Mastodon – Blood Mountain
-Amon Amarth – With Oden on our Side
-Tyr – Ragnarok
-Borknagar – Origin
-Ogre – Seven Hells
-Ihsahn – the Adversary
-Lacuna Coil – Karmacode

*2007
-Primordial – To the Nameless Dead
-Arkona – Ot Serdtsa K Nebu
-Moonsorrow – V: Hävitetty
-Epica – The Divine Conspiracy
-Evile – Enter the Grave

*HM’s
-Rebellion – Miklagard – The History of the Vikings – Volume II
-Ensiferum – Victory Songs
-Vintersorg – Sollens Rotter
-Reverend Bizarre – III So Long Suckers!
-Alcest – Souvenirs d’un autre monde
-Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant
-Nightwish – Dark Passion Play

*2008
-Stormlord – Mare Nostrum
-Eluveitie – Slania
-Enslaved – Vertebrae
-Draconian – Turning Seasons Within
-Dark Fortress – Eidolon

**HM’s
-Death Angel – Killing Season
-Metallica – Death Magnetic
-Ihsahn – angL
-Agalloch – the White
-Meshuggah – obZen
-The Sword – Gods of the Earth
-Moonsorrow – Tulimyrsky
-Sabaton – the Art of War
-Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God
-Ogre – Plague of the Planet

*2009
-Epica – Design Your Universe
-Vreid – Milorg
-Eluveitie – Evocation I – The Arcane Dominion
-Evile – Infected Nations
-Arkona – Goi Rode Goi!

**HM’s
-Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman
-Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
-Obscura – Cosmogenesis
-Wolf – Ravenous
-Isole -Silent Ruins
-Mastodon – Crack the Skye
-Animals as Leaders – Animals as Leaders
-3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
-Immortal – All Shall Fall
-The No-Mads – The Age of Demise

etc, etc, etc

The sad part is the number of albums I left off, or didn’t bother to edit in, because the list would just get out of hand. The 2000s have been the most diverse decade ever in Metal, and the quantity of bands is only matched by the overall quality. People who complain about the state of Metal today, quite simply have not bothered to look past the local Hot Topic.

  1. Never the Machine Forever
    April 5th, 2011 at 09:07 | #1

    wow.
    References :

  2. killer peaches
    April 5th, 2011 at 09:30 | #2

    OK dude…..

    this is gonna be WAY harder than your last one.

    And I am stepping out for a bit BUT….. will answer in about 3 hours. Close this question… I KEEL YEW!

    **And Endgame? Really? Wow… I musta got a defective copy or something, cause that was some pretty generic by the numbers Tech thrash to my ears. I t wasn’t BAD, but IDK..well, when I get to 2009 I’ll list about 25 albums I thought was better, lol.

    *2000
    -Iron Maiden – Brave New World (the Return.. OH YEAH!)
    -Primordial – Spirit the Earth Aflame
    -Negura Bunget – M?iastru Sfetnic
    -Nightwish – Wishmaster
    -Nevermore – Dead Heart In a Dead World

    *2001
    -Iced Earth – Horrorshow
    -Lacuna Coil – Unleashed Memories
    -Moonsorrow – Suden Uni
    -Moonsorrow – Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
    -Sigh – Imaginary Sonicscape

    **HM’s
    -Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
    -Gojira – Terra Incognita
    -Opeth – Blackwater Park

    *2002
    -Agalloch – The Mantle
    -Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
    -Lacuna Coil – Comalies
    -Nightwish – Century Child
    -Vintersorg – Visions From The Spiral Generator

    *HM’s
    -Týr – How Far To Asgaard
    -Primordial – Storm Before Calm
    -Negura Bunget – ‘N Crugu Bradului
    -Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness
    -Winds – Reflections of the I
    -Sirenia – At Sixes And Sevens (their only good album!!!)

    *2003
    -Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
    -Moonsorrow – Kivenkantaja
    -Kamelot – Epica
    -Apocalyptica – Reflections
    -Finntroll – Visor om Slutet’

    **HM’s
    -Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion
    -Hortus Animae – Waltzing Mephisto
    -Theocracy – Theocracy
    -Ogre – Dawn of the Proto-man
    -Epica – The Phantom Agony
    -Melechesh – Sphynx

    *2004
    -Mastodon – Leviathan
    -Nightwish – Once
    -Sybreed – Slave Design
    -Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur
    -Death Angel – The Art of Dying

    **HM’s
    -Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time
    -Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns
    -Arkona – Vozrozhdeniye
    -3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish
    -Angra – Temple of Shadows
    -Finntroll – Nattfödd
    -Arkona – Lepta

    *2005
    -Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
    -Gojira – From Mars To Sirius
    -Moonsorrow – Verisäkeet
    -Solefald – Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey: Part I
    -Circus Maximus – The 1rst Chapter

    **HM’s
    -Slechtvalk – At the Dawn of War
    -Kamelot – The Black Halo
    -Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
    -Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness
    -Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine
    -Sabaton – Primo Victoria
    -Arkona – Vo Slavu Velikim!
    -Epica – Consign to Oblivion
    -Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine
    -Bruce Dickinson – Tyranny of Souls
    -Leaves Eyes – Vinland Saga

    *2006
    -Negura Bunget – OM
    -Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain
    -Solefald – Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey, Pt. 2
    -Melechesh – Emissaries
    -Eluveitie – Spirit

    *HM’s
    -Psycroptic – Symbols of Failure
    -The Sword – Age of Winters
    -myGRAIN – Orbit Dance
    -Enslaved – Ruun
    -Celtic Frost – Monotheist
    -Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
    -Mastodon – Blood Mountain
    -Amon Amarth – With Oden on our Side
    -Tyr – Ragnarok
    -Borknagar – Origin
    -Ogre – Seven Hells
    -Ihsahn – the Adversary
    -Lacuna Coil – Karmacode

    *2007
    -Primordial – To the Nameless Dead
    -Arkona – Ot Serdtsa K Nebu
    -Moonsorrow – V: Hävitetty
    -Epica – The Divine Conspiracy
    -Evile – Enter the Grave

    *HM’s
    -Rebellion – Miklagard – The History of the Vikings – Volume II
    -Ensiferum – Victory Songs
    -Vintersorg – Sollens Rotter
    -Reverend Bizarre – III So Long Suckers!
    -Alcest – Souvenirs d’un autre monde
    -Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant
    -Nightwish – Dark Passion Play

    *2008
    -Stormlord – Mare Nostrum
    -Eluveitie – Slania
    -Enslaved – Vertebrae
    -Draconian – Turning Seasons Within
    -Dark Fortress – Eidolon

    **HM’s
    -Death Angel – Killing Season
    -Metallica – Death Magnetic
    -Ihsahn – angL
    -Agalloch – the White
    -Meshuggah – obZen
    -The Sword – Gods of the Earth
    -Moonsorrow – Tulimyrsky
    -Sabaton – the Art of War
    -Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God
    -Ogre – Plague of the Planet

    *2009
    -Epica – Design Your Universe
    -Vreid – Milorg
    -Eluveitie – Evocation I – The Arcane Dominion
    -Evile – Infected Nations
    -Arkona – Goi Rode Goi!

    **HM’s
    -Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman
    -Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
    -Obscura – Cosmogenesis
    -Wolf – Ravenous
    -Isole -Silent Ruins
    -Mastodon – Crack the Skye
    -Animals as Leaders – Animals as Leaders
    -3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
    -Immortal – All Shall Fall
    -The No-Mads – The Age of Demise

    etc, etc, etc

    The sad part is the number of albums I left off, or didn’t bother to edit in, because the list would just get out of hand. The 2000s have been the most diverse decade ever in Metal, and the quantity of bands is only matched by the overall quality. People who complain about the state of Metal today, quite simply have not bothered to look past the local Hot Topic.
    References :

  3. Speak English Or Die!
    April 5th, 2011 at 09:54 | #3

    2000-Brave New World- Iron Maiden
    2001- The World Needs A Hero-Megadeth
    2002- ?
    2003- Weve Come For You All- Anthrax
    2004- The System Has Failed- Megadeth
    2005-Angel Of Retribution-Judas Priest
    2006- Christ Illusion- Slayer
    2007- United Abominations- Megadeth
    2008- Nostradamus- Judas Priest
    2009- Babylon- WASP
    2010- Ironbound- Overkill
    References :

  4. mike h
    April 5th, 2011 at 10:20 | #4

    Seriously everything you got on there lol
    References :

  5. King Diamond ?’s Bøñd. Jåmê§ Bøñd.
    April 5th, 2011 at 11:05 | #5

    I might have to skip some years..

    2001

    ‘Toxicity’ by System of a Down

    2003

    ‘St. Anger’ by Metallica
    ‘The Puppet Master’ by King Diamond

    2004

    ‘Tempo of the Damned’ by Exodus
    ‘Deadly Lullabyes Live’ by King Diamond (If Live Albums can count)

    2007

    ‘Give Me Your Soul…Please’ by King Diamond

    2008

    ‘Death Magnetic’ by Metallica

    2010

    ‘In War and Pieces’ by Sodom

    I’m still gonna look up newer Metal albums..I need to know more than this
    References :

  6. Legion
    April 5th, 2011 at 11:10 | #6

    2008 was the best year…scream aim fire-bfmv
    indestructible-disturbed
    shogun-trivium
    References :

  7. Darth
    April 5th, 2011 at 11:50 | #7

    I am not numbering them this time. They are in order

    2000

    Brave New World – Iron Maiden
    V-The New Mythology Suit – Symphony X
    Dead Heart In A Dead World Nevermore
    Wishmaster – Nightwish
    The Dark Ride – Helloween

    2001

    Horror Show – Iced Earth
    Blackwater Park – Opeth
    Secret Of The Runes – Therion
    Violent Revolution – Kreator
    Unleashed Memories – lacuna Coil

    2002

    Century Child – Nightwish
    Comalies – Lacuna Coil
    Deliverance – Opeth
    Get Heavy – Lordi
    The Mantle – Agalloch

    2003

    Dance Of Death – Iron Maiden
    Elements Parts I & II – Stratovarius
    Fallen – Evanescence
    Burning Earth – Firewind
    Damnation – Opeth

    2004

    Once – Nightwish
    Sirius B & Lemuria – Therion
    The Glorious Burden – Iced Earth
    Leviathan – Mastodon
    Monolithic Baby! – Monster Magnet

    2005

    Keeper Of The 7 Keys: The Legacy – Helloween
    From Mars To Sirius – Gojira
    Ghost Reveries – Opeth
    The Fire In Our Throats Will Bekon The Thaw – Pelican
    The Black Halo – Kamelot

    2006

    A Matter Of Life And Death – Iron Maiden
    Age Of Winters – The Sword
    Blood Mountain – Mastodon
    Ashes Against The Grain – Agalloch
    Monotheist – Celtic Frost

    2007

    Dark Passion Play – Nightwish
    Enter The Grave – Evile
    The Varangian Way -Turisas
    Gothic Kabbalah – Therion
    The Divine Conspiracy – Epica

    2008

    Watershed – Opeth
    The Art Of War – Sabaton
    Gods Of The Earth – The Sword
    Immortal – Pyramaze
    Twilight Of The Thunder God – Amon Amarth

    2009

    The 13th Floor – Sirenia (PFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
    The Miskolc Experience – Therion
    The Devil You Know – Heaven And Hell
    Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion – Eluveitie
    Design Your Universe – Epica
    References :

  8. King Crimson
    April 5th, 2011 at 12:22 | #8

    2000:
    Brutal Planet – Alice Cooper
    Dopethrone – Electric Wizard
    V: The New Mythology Suite – Symphony X
    Universe – Planet X

    2001:
    Lateralus – Tool
    Dragontown – Alice Cooper
    Blackwater Park – Opeth
    Bath – Maudlin of the Well
    Digimortal – Fear Factory

    2002:
    Oceanic – Isis
    Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence – Dream Theater
    The Mantle – Agalloch
    MoonBabies – Planet X
    Remedy Lane – Pain of Salvation

    2003:
    Train of Thought – Dream Theater
    Bananas – Deep Purple
    Choirs of the Eye – Kayo Dot
    Viva Emptiness – Katatonia
    Accelerated Evolution – Devin Townsend

    2004:
    Panopticon – Isis
    Lemuria – Therion
    Leviathan – Mastodon
    Jesu – Jesu

    2005:
    The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw – Pelican
    Ghost Reveries – Opeth
    The Black Halo – Kamelot
    Fused – Tony Iommi
    From Mars to Sirius – Gojira

    2006:
    Octavarium – Dream Theater
    10,000 Days – Tool
    In the Absence of Truth – Isis
    A Matter of Life and Death – Iron Maiden
    Christ Illusion – Slayer

    2007:
    Quantum – Planet X
    Angular Perceptions – Thought Chamber
    Colors – Between the Buried and Me
    Absence of I – Meniscus
    Artemisia – Sun Caged

    2008:
    Ameliorate – An Endless Sporadic
    Traced in Air – Cynic
    Death Magnetic – Metallica
    Wake the Sleeper – Uriah Heep
    Building An Empire – Demians

    2009:
    Wavering Radiant – Isis
    Exivious – Exivious
    Geneva – Russian Circles
    Anno Domini High Definition – Riverside
    What We All Come to Need – Pelican
    References :

  9. Ana
    April 5th, 2011 at 12:41 | #9

    2000

    1. Midian – Cradle of Filth
    2. Clayman – In Flames
    3. Dead Heart In a Dead World – Nevermore
    4. Wishmaster – Nightwish
    5. In The Flowers Shade – Artrosis

    2001

    1. Follow the Reaper – Children of Bodom
    2. Blackwater Park – Opeth
    3. World of Glass – Tristania
    4. Unleashed Memories – Lacuna Coil
    5. A Predator’s Portrait – Soilwork

    2002

    1. Comalies – Lacuna Coil
    2. Reroute to Remain – In Flames
    3. Century Child – Nightwish
    4. Deliverance – Opeth
    5. Natural Born Chaos – Soilwork

    2003

    1. Damnation – Opeth
    2. Hate Crew Deathroll – Children of Bodom
    3. Death Cult Armageddon – Dimmu Borgir
    4. In Harmonia Universali – Solefald
    5. The Antidote – Moonspell

    2004

    1. Once – Nightwish
    2. Soundtrack to your Escape – In Flames
    3. Epic – Borknagar
    4. Lemuria/Sirius B – Therion
    5. Dark Clouds In A Perfect Sky – Elis

    2005

    1. Ghost Reveries – Opeth
    2. Character – Dark Tranquility
    3. This Godless Endeavor – Nevermore
    4. Arcane Rain Fell – Draconian
    5. Stabbing the Drama – Soilwork

    2006

    1. Pitch Black Progress – Scar Symmetry
    2. Spirit – Eluveitie
    3. Ashes Against the Grain – Agalloch
    4. Transcendental – To-Mera
    5. Come Clarity – In Flames

    2007

    1. Fiction – Dark Tranquility
    2. Rapid Eye Movement – Riverside
    3. The Divine Conspiracy – Epica
    4. Emissaries – Melechesh
    5. Illumination – Tristania

    2008

    1. Watershed – Opeth
    2. Night Eternal – Moonspell
    3. Angl – Ihsahn
    4. Delusions – To-Mera
    5. Holographic Universe – Scar Symmetry

    2009

    1. Animals as Leaders – Animals as Leaders
    2. Forever Is the World – Theatre of Tragedy
    3. Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us – Paradise Lost
    4. Design Your Universe – Epica
    5. Anno Domini High Definition – Riverside
    References :

  10. Mütiilation
    April 5th, 2011 at 13:05 | #10

    2000
    Anorexia Nervosa – Drudenhaus

    2001
    Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper

    2003
    Kalmah – Swampsong

    2004
    Therion – Sirius B/Lemuria
    Wintersun – Wintersun

    2005
    Kamelot – Black Halo
    Arsis – A Diamond for Disease
    Mors Principium Est – The Unborn

    2006
    Amon Amarth – With Oden on Our Side
    Kalmah – The Black Waltz

    2007
    The Absence – Riders of the Plague
    Between the Buried and Me – Colors

    2008
    Arghoslent – Hornets of the Pogrom
    Eluveitie – Slania

    2009
    not sure
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