Best Metal Albums of the Last Ten Years?

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OK, I'm bored and I know I've posted threads and posed questions like this in the past, but fuck it. I've been surfing through miscellaneous music videos and audio clips tonight, and it's got me thinking about what the best metal albums are from the last ten years. I'm curious to know what you guys think and what your personal choices are. So for fun and friendly debate, post your picks.

Here's mine....

Amorphis- Am Universum

Nevermore- Dead Heart In A Dead World

Celtic Frost- Monotheist

Death- The Sound Of Perserverance

Edge Of Sanity- Crimson II

Katatonia- Viva Emptiness

Lamb Of God- Ashes Of The Wake

Moonspell- The Antidote

This is a start, I'm certain there are more but I'll add more later as I think of them.

*already thought of a couple more, thanks to your lists! A couple I forgot....

Candlemass- S/T

Opeth- My Arms Your Hearse & Blackwater Park (those are kinda tied for me)

Arch Enemy- Stigmata
 
ok the ten years thing got me in trouble a few times, but here's mine...

Dan Swanö - Moontower

Opeth - Still Life

Orphaned Land - Mabool

Agalloch - Pale Folklore

Novembre - Novembrine Waltz

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal

Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium

Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure

Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II (I still like Crimson I better though)
 
The last 10 years? Wow, there's a lot, but off the top of my head...

Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Enslaved - Ruun
Enslaved - Below The Light
Mercenary - Everblack
Disillusion - Back To Times of Splendor
Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanial Euphoric Misanthropia
Forest Stream - Tears of Mortal Solitude
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Hypocrisy - Virus
Insomnium - In The Halls of Awaiting
Kalmah - Swampsong
Lyzanxia - Mindcrimes
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Yyrkoon - Unhealthy Opera
 
I could list a lot, but these are among my favorites of the past 10 years.

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Halford - Resurrection
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Poisonblack - Lust Stained Despair
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
 
Some of my favortes from the last ten years...

Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Strapping Young Lad - City
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Anathema - Judgement
Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Kreator - Violent Revolution
Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came
DevilDriver - The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Armaggedon March Eternal
Sonata Arctica - Silence
 
These threads are so difficult, because no matter how I answer, I will think of a zillion more after hitting "Post".

Anyhow, here are those albums which come to mind, in no order:

Candlemass - S/T
HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
King Diamond - The Puppet Master
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Enslaved - Below The Lights
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
 
No particular order:

Communic - Conspiracy In Mind

Dan Swanö - Moontower

Isis - Panopticon

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Katatonia - Tonight's Decision

Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

Slumber - Fallout

:)
 
My Fav's in recent yrs. :
Anathema - Judgement
Katatonia - TGCD
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Rapture - The Silent Stage
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (favorite at the moment)
Dimmu Borgir - Purintanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Agalloch - The Mantle
Amorphis - Eclipse
Metallica - St.Anger...buwahahahahahahaha
 
Opeth- Blackwater Park, Still Life
Agalloch- Pale Folklore, The Mantle
Woods of Ypres- Against the Seasons, Pursuit of the Sun + Allure of the Earth
Nevermore- This Godless Endeavor
My Dying Bride- The Dreadful Hours
Kataklysm- In The Arms of Devastation
Cannibal Corpse- The Wretched Spawn
Death- The Sound of Perseverance
Behemoth- Demigod, The Apostasy
Necrophagist- Epitaph
Black Label Society- The Blessed Hellride
 
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Saturnus - Martyre
The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease
Anathema - Judgement
Dark Tranquillity - Projector
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Swallow The Sun - Ghosts Of Loss
My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
 
I'll try and not make this list to big :p

Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin At Dusk
Mirrothrone - Carriers of Dust
Emperor - Prometheus-The Discipline of Fire and Demise
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
Macabre - Dahmer
Hate Forest - Battlefields
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth - Still Life
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Mayhem - The Grand Declaration of War
Limbonic Art - The Ultimate Death Worship
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
The Ruins of Beverast - Unlock The Shrine

And theres alot more I can't think of right now
 
My list is:

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
All Opeth albums
October Tide - Raid Without End
Bloodbath - NMF
Dark Tranqillity - Fiction
In Flames - Whoracle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
 
I find it interesting that in one of the other threads about Opeth, many people talk about which albums they like least from them, and many people have said that album "X" is better than album "Y", yet not one time did anyone seem to mention "Blackwater Park" (my personal favorite from them), yet that album seems to show up quite a bit here....just saying *shrugs*

10 years? Wow, 10 years ago I was listening to mostly thrash metal (Cannibal Corpse, Kataklysm, etc..), now, I am listening mostly goth and avant-garde metal (as far as metal music, but opera is something that has gained much attention from me lately, am I getting old? or just wiser..haha)

So I look back at albums that 10 years ago I thought were great, now not so much...but I will agree with just about everything that Larry listed, except Lamb of God, as for I just never really liked anything from them, and everthing from Death was just great...anyways :headbang:
 
Yeah I know the feeling. But honestly I think it's almost too easy (for me at least) to list my favorite albums that came between 1986 and 1996, there we so many classics and that was sort of "my era" of metal. I am finding it alot harder to come up with favorites from the past ten years. I mean I've heard plenty of good metal during that time, but absolute "Best" cds is tougher, as I'm much more picky these days about what really appeals to me.
 
It is easier for me.
I was very close minded when I was younger.
In the mid to late 80's, if it wasn't thrash or crossover, I wasn't interested.

As I have gotten older, I have immensely expanded my horizons, and can appreciate many different genres of metal.

I mean how many of you last year purchased BOTH the new HammerFall and Katatonia CDs? :lol:
 
Anathema - Alt 4
Anathema - Judgement
AntiMatter - Saviour
Confessor - Unraveled
Iron Maiden - Brave New world
Morgion - Cloaked by ages, Crowned in Earth
Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen sulcus
My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
King Diamond - ALL!!!!
Keen Of The Crow - Hyboria
Loss - Life Without Hope, Death without Reason
Mar De Gresis - The Tatterdamalion Express
Virgin Black - Mezzo
Shape Of despair - Angels In Distress
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Opeth - Damnation
reclusiam
Theatre Of tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear
Tiamat - A deeper Kind Of Slumber
Suffocation - Despise the Sun
Mayhem - Grand Decloration Of War
Nevermore - Dead Heart
Malamor - Dead to The world
Emperor - Anthems To the Welkin At Dusk
 
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