Best Year For Metal This Decade

[divine_torture]

Metal Appreciation class?

By getting into metal.

EDIT: And honestly, I don't know most of the older shit's release years either. I can't tell you what year any album by Slayer, Destruction, Venom, Bathory, etc. came out. I care little what year they did.

 

[IntoPhagist]

2002

Agalloch - The Mantle
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Avantasia - Metal Opera II
Blind Guardian - A Night At the Opera
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dream Theater - SDOIT
ETOS - A Virgin and a Whore
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
In Flames - Reroute to Remain(Last great In Flames album)
Into Eternity - Dead or Dreaming
Kalmah - They Will Return
Nightwish - Century Child
Nile - In there Darkened Shrines
Rotting Christ - Genesis
Sentenced - Cold White Light
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

I love every single one of these albums. 202 was awesome

 

[Krow]

Shame on you for not listing the best doom metal album of the 2000s.

 

[Bitencourt29]

2009 is pretty hot, but 2005 doesn't look bad at all:

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Darkspace - Darkspace II
Taake - Hordaland Doedskvad
Kreator - Enemy of God
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Manegarm - Vredens Tid
Candlemass - S/T
Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Slough Feg - Atavism
Averse Sefira - Tetragrammatical Astygmata
Hypocrisy - Virus
Craft - Fuck the Universe

 

[rms]

what are the essentials from ~2007? looking at my albums and not seeing any awesome year cept last 2 previous, which is mainly when i got into this kinda junk...thinking I missed a lot or something

 

[supseudonymous]

what are the essentials from ~2007?

Chaos Moon - Langour Into Echoes, Beyond
Church Bizarre - Sinister Glorification
Countess - Blazing Flames Of War
Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages
Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
Holy Martyr - Still At War
Hour Of 13 - S/T
Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
Minotauri - II
Necros Christos - Trivne Impvrity Rites
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
Tortured Spirit - The Mentally Ill

There were some excellent reissues and compilations that year as well.

 

[Srontgorrth]

Also in 07:


Akercocke - Antichrist
Alcest - Souvenirs d'Autre Monde
Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
Baroness - Red Album
Benighted - Icon
Blood of Kingu - De Occulta Philosophia
Caina - Mourner
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
Cobalt - Eater of Birds
Darkthrone - FOAD
DsO - Fas
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Forgotten Tomb - Negative Megalomania
Gallhammer - Ill Innocence
Glorior Belli - Manifesting the Raging Beast
Insect Warfare - World Extermination
Lifelover - Erotik
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Portal - Outre
Ramesses - Misanthropic Alchemy
Shining - Halmstad
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Spearhead - Decrowning the Irenarch
Turisas - The Varangian way
WITTR - Two Hunters


etc

 

[rms]

Chaos Moon - Langour Into Echoes, Beyond

Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages
Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death

Hour Of 13 - S/T

Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

how essential are those other ones?

 

[supseudonymous]

how essential are those other ones?

I didn't put just "good" '07 albums on that list.