Top 10 2000-2009

[Rumpole]

We're getting pretty close to the end of the decade, so I thought now might be a good time for people to look back over the past ten years and pick their favourite albums. The 2000s actually turned out to be a pretty amazing period for Heavy Metal, the last two of three years especially.

I whittled my list down from about 40 and they're in no particular order.

The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among The Deadmen
Hour Of 13 - Hour Of 13
Brocas Helm - Defender Of The Crown
Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel... For An Iron Age
Pagan Altar - Mythical And Magical
Fall Of The Idols - The Seance
Pentagram - Sub-Basement
Ogre - Plague Of The Planet
Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions
Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

 

[Eligos]

Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignum Aeturnum
Negura Bunget - Om
Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus
Klabautamann - Der Ort
Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil
Agalloch - The Mantle
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion

 

[SwarmOvRats]

Wow TS, your taste contains a large degree of win.

I would add:

The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom, Incorrigible Bigotry
Doomsword - My Name Will Live On, Resound the Horn
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Battleroar - To Death & Beyond
Mastodon - Leviathan
Altar of Oblivion - Sinews of Anguish
Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy
Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
Agalloch - Pale Folklore

..and a few others that I hate myself for forgetting

 

[Return to Serenity]

Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Mastodon - Leviathan
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Baroness - The Red Album
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Down III - Over the Under
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Tool - Lateralus

 

[challenge_everything]

Strangely enough, I was just about to make the same thread.

Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
Ne Obliviscaris: The Aurora Veil
Orphaned Land: Mabool
Disillusion: Back to Times of Splendor
Negura Bunget: 'n crugu bradului
Apotheosis: Farthest from the Sun
Windir: 1184
Lykathea Aflame: Elvenefris
Blut Aus Nord: The Work Which Transforms God
Opeth: Blackwater Park

 

[unknown]

Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
Agalloch - The Mantle
Negura Bunget - OM
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
Deathspell Omega - SMRC
Farsot - IIII

 

[The Ozzman]

Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing (2003)
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper (2000)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2000)
Raunchy - Death Pop Romance (2006)
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (2003)
In Flames - Reroute to Remain (2002)
Beyond the Embrace - Insect Song (2004)
Dream Theater - Train of Thought (2003)
Corrosion of Conformity - In The Arms Of God (2005)
Kalmah - The Black Waltz (2006)

That was actually quite difficult as I could have put others on the list, but these are the ones that made an impact on me

 

[Eligos]

Strangely enough, I was just about to make the same thread.

Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
Ne Obliviscaris: The Aurora Veil
Negura Bunget: 'n crugu bradului
Blut Aus Nord: The Work Which Transforms God

Agalloch - The Mantle
Negura Bunget - OM
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus

Looks like we've fairly agreed on some highlights. Apparently I need to check out Disillusion.

Yours made me lol, Ozzman.

 

[The Ozzman]

Yours made me lol, Ozzman.

Your face makes me lol

EDIT: I will sell you my copy of that Disillusion album.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

This is going to be a rather hasty list since I'm not at home with my music right now, but these albums come to mind based on vague memory and glances at other people's lists:

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper (2000)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2000)
Orange Goblin - The Big Black (2000)
Therion - Deggial (2000)
Down - Down II (2002)
Opeth - Deliverance (2002)
Therion - Sirius B (2004)
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)
Celtic Frost - Monotheist (2006)
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah (2007)

I'm sure there are other more worthy albums I haven't heard. I'm still a relatively casual metal listener.

 

[Eligos]

EDIT: I will sell you my copy of that Disillusion album.

How much? Actually, PM me with your paypal and shit.

 

[Xorv]

Pale folklore came out in 98' you fucking idiot.


Agalloch - ashes against the grain, the mantle
blut aus nord - TWWTG
Disillusion - back to times of splendor
durdkh - autumn aurora
Isis - Panopticon
The Morningside - the wind, the trees, and the shadows of the past
mourning beloveth - dust
weakling - dead as dreams
warning - watching from a distance
shape of despair - angles of distress
alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde
On Thorns I lay - crystal tears, future narcotic
Bolt Thrower - Those once loyal
catamenia - eskhata
kamelot - epica
Pain of salvation - 12:05, the perfect element, remedy lane
Evergrey - in search of truth, recreation day, the inner circle
my dying bride - the dreadful hours
Pelican - the fire in our breath will beckon the thaw.
Dawn of solace - the darkness

 

[The Ozzman]

How much? Actually, PM me with your paypal and shit.

I will hold it for you. I need to get another pile of stuff together to sell/trade.

 

[challenge_everything]

Looks like we've fairly agreed on some highlights. Apparently I need to check out Disillusion.

Yours made me lol, Ozzman.

Apparently I need to check out Frantic Bleep.

 

[Eligos]

weakling - dead as dreams
shape of despair - angles of distress
alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde

I probably would've mentioned these 3 as well if I had chosen to list more than ten bands. "This Entire Fucking Battlefield" is so much better than any other song on Dead as Dreams though, imo.

Edit: @ Challenge - Do it. It's music so good you can taste it.

2nd Edit: Three releases are missing from this thead that need mentioning.

Cynic - Traced in Air (yeah I said it, fuck you)
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
Ulcerate - Everything is Fire

 

[challenge_everything]

I would have had Alcest in my list too but I don't regard it as metal.

And yeah Angels of Distress is an awesome album.

 

[Eligos]

I don't regard it as metal.

Uh... dude? This surprises me, coming from you. Totally Shoegaze/BM. Like Saol. Are you not a fan of the genre?

 

[Personified Hatred]

No order.

Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvum Reqvires, Circvmspice
Hypocrisy - Virus
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
Kreator - Enemy Of God
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Aborym - Fire Walk With Us
Opera IX - Maleventum
Spite Extreme Wing - Non Dvcor, Dvco
Impaled Nazarene - Nihil

This is a totally SUBJECTIVE list, based on my favorites and not on albums which ARE CONSIDERED the best ones from 2000 to 2009.

 

[Eligos]

I thought you'd died.

 

[challenge_everything]

Uh... dude? This surprises me, coming from you. Totally Shoegaze/BM. Like Saol. Are you not a fan of the genre?

Of course I'm a fan, like I said, it would have made my list had I regarded it as metal. I just think the metal influence is too slight for it to be considered as such. Aside from a few light, airy examples of tremolo riffing there isn't much of the album which bears any real likeness to metal.