I'm gonna need until Dec. 31st 11:59 PM before you post this
What a decade. Just looking through the albums I own from the first five years and there's gems everywhere - and from a wide variety of subgenres. My list is probably going to surprise even me.
I got into Metal as a teenager in the early part of this decade so there's gonna be some nostalgia picks.
1. Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane
2. Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
3. Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
4. Ulver - Bergtatt
5. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
6. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
7. Dawn - Slaughtersun
8. Theatre of Tragedy - Aegis
9. Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
10. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I