What are your Top 10 albums of 2002?

[ProgMetalFan]

No live, no compilations, no reissues, no tributes, etc etc. Only studio albums of new material released in 2002.

I know there's still plenty of stuff I haven't gotten around to checking out... but here's my Top 10.

1. Symphony X - "The Odyssey" (USA, Inside Out Music America)
2. Pain Of Salvation - "Remedy Lane" (Sweden, Inside Out Music America)
3. Enchant - "Blink Of An Eye" (USA, Inside Out Music America)
4. Porcupine Tree - "In Absentia" (UK, Lava)
5. Amaran - "A World Depraved" (Sweden, Listenable)
6. Tad Morose - "Matters Of The Dark" (Sweden, Century Media)
7. Threshold - "Critical Mass" (UK, Inside Out Music America)
8. Into Eternity - "Dead or Dreaming" (Canada, Century Media)
9. Opeth - "Deliverance" (Sweden, Koch)
10. Arabesque - "The Union" (Netherlands, Lion Records)

 

[sweepking]

Symphony X: The Odyssey #1 without a doubt. I haven't really bought anything else that really moved me this year.

The Alchemists was good, Rhapsody's new one was good, DT's new one was ok...disappointing in areas though.

 

[The Yngster]

So far my favorites of 2002 are:

Symphony X- The Oddysey (of course)
Sinergy- Suicide By My Side
Pain Of Salvation- Remedy Lane
Soilwork- Natural Born Chaos
Blind Gaurdian- Night At The Opera
Planet X- Moon Babies

How could I forget Planet X?

 

[Hawk]

Still too early. Yea I know I am an optimist

 

[azal]

Evergrey was 2001

 

[azal]

mine's subject to change...but off the top of my head.....

1. Symphony X - The Odyssey
2. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
3. Shaman - Ritual
4. Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
5. Meshuggah - Nothing
6. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
7. Ring of Fire - Dreamtower
8. Dead Soul Tribe - s/t
9. Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
10. Karmakanic - Entering the Spectra

 

[†Russel Allen†®]

1) Symphony X - The Odyssey
2) Shaman - Ritual
3) Angra - Hunters and Prey
4) Rhapsody - Power of the Dragonflame
5) Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
6) Manowar - Warriors of the World United
7) Masterplan - Enlighten Me
8) Arjen Lucassen's Star One - Space Metal
9) Vhäldemar - (can't recall the album's name...)
10) Various Artists - The Keepers of Jericho, pt. II

Reformulating my list....... :-D

 

[theodyssey]

man... this will be tough... ok, in no particular order...
1)Symphony X - The Odyssey (Duh!!)
2)Vintersorg - Visions from the Spiral Generator
3)Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
4)Sinergy - Suicide By My Side
5)Opeth - Deliverance
6)Avantasia - Metal Opera pt. 2
7)Star One - Space Metal
8)Sentenced - The Cold White Light
9)Halford - Crucible (i liked this album... sue me)
10)Nightwish - Century Child (i like this one too... so shut up)

i don't think i could pick a favorite. Man, there were so many i would have liked to add, but they were all '01 or '00.... Bands like evergrey, after forever, CoB, the other symphony x lol! I love that band. ok, that's it.

 

[Lady Of The Snow]

Hmmm... My favorite 5 of 2002 must definitely be:
Symphony X
Pagan's Mind
Planet X
Dead Soul Tribe
Manowar ----> and the concert two days ago was simply awesome!! Even better was the acoustic set! I love that band since 1984, when I have seen them for the very first time!

 

[SiRo]

ill make a top 5:


PoS - Remedy Lane
SX - The Odyssey
Star One - Space Metal
Planet X - Moonbabies
Enchant - Blink Of An Eye


OK albums:

Shaman - Ritual
TFK - Unfold The Future

HUGE dissapointments:

DT - Six Degress of Crappy Shit
Vanden PLas - Beyond Daylight - the most annoying album ever.
SB - Snow ==> CD 1 is killer but CD2 is shit IMO.

Albums i need to check:

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (never heard them)
Threshold stuff.....

 

[Liquid Tension]

Symphony X - The Odyssey
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Winds - Reflections of the I
Dead Soul Tribe - s/t
Karmakanic - Entering the Spectra
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Cosmosquad - Squadrophenia
California Guitar Trio + 2
Arabesque - The Union
Prototype- Trinity
Brave - Searching for the Sun

I didn't find anything that was much better then the rest so I didn't number them or put them in any kind of order and I'm sorry for not stopping at ten.

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[Soul of Ice]

1) Hourglass - The Journey Into (check this band out. Great singer, great playing, and some of the best lyrics I have heard in a long while)
2) Freak Kitchen - Move
3) Symphony X - The Odyssey
4) Dead Soul Tribe - S/T
5) Engine - Superholic
6) Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
7) Falconer - Chapters from a Vale Forlorn
8) Winds - Reflections of the I
9) Superior - Ultima Ratio
10) Archetype - Dawning (would have been higher once the singer learns to sing better)

 

[Yngvai X]

Mine is a top 5 too:

1) Symphony X - The Odyssey
2) Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
3) Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
4) Angra - Hunters and Prey
5) Kotipelto - Waiting for the Dawn

Still waiting to hear:

new Pagans Mind
new Reign of Terror

Dissapointed by:

new Dream Theater blech
new Yngwie (same old shit)

 

[stringskipping]

Dream Theater - 6doit
SymX - The Odyssey
Chris Brooks - The Master Plan
Planet X - Moon Babies
Planet X - Live from Oz (was that also 2002?)
POS - Remedy Lane
Star One - Space Metal
Allan Holdsworth - Road Games (reissue, but still!)
Shaman - Ritual
Soilwork- Natural Born Chaos

 

[Grom Hellscream]

1. The Odyssey.
2. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
3. Dream Theatre - 6 degrees
4. Spock's Beard - Snow
5. ARK - Burn the Sun (or it was 2001? don't remember)
6. Threshold - Criticall Mass
7. Arjen Lucassen's Star One
8. Camel
9. Vanden Plas - Beyond Daylight
10. Therion - Secret of The Runes.


Besides, what is Shaman, Planet X and Soilwork?? Tell me smth.

 

[Kalmakoff]

1. Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance
2. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Sentenced - The Cold White Light
4. Lake of Tears - The Neonai
5. Star One - Space Metal
6. Threshold - Critical Mass
7. Divercia - Modus Operandi
8. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
9. Symphony X - The Odyssey
10. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Originally posted by SiRo
HUGE dissapointments:

DT - Six Degress of Crappy Shit
Vanden PLas - Beyond Daylight - the most annoying album ever.

I agree with these... also
Angel Dust - "Of Human Bondage" So bad the band broke up. And a shame, cuz "Enlighten The Darkness" was amazing.

 

[jester00]

i see pain of salvation are really popular...



they deserve to be

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Originally posted by jester00
i see pain of salvation are really popular...



they deserve to be

Indeed. The day they finally release "The Perfect Element Part 2" will be the greatest day of my life.

 

[Demonspell]

Originally posted by Grom Hellscream
Besides, what is Shaman, Planet X and Soilwork?? Tell me smth.

Shaman is the band formed by Andre Matos and several other defectors from Angra. Planet X is an awesome instrumental trio featuring Tony Macalpine, Derek Sherinian and the absurdly great Virgil Donati on drums. Soilwork's latest album finds them shedding the Gotheburg clone stigma, with help from Devin Townsend and former Evergrey keyboardist Sven Karlsson.