What is everyone's "Top 10 albums of 2002 so far"?

[The Absorbant]

Good ones this year (no internal order):

Tenacious D - S/T
(What's not to like about two short, overweight guys with steel string acoustic singing perfect harmonies?)
Freak Kitchen - Move
(No one can make a 5/4 groove like Mattias "IA" Eklundh)
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
(The 42 min title track actually kicks ass)
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business (Deluxe 2002 Version)
(Why the HELL aren't all remasters/remixes like this??)
Opeth - Deliverance
(Great follow-up for 'Blackwater Park')
Meshuggah - Nothing
(Great to hear them slow (and tune) down again)

I've bought more albums than that, but they either weren't good enough or just re-releases... Or they just weren't released this year.

Anticipated upcoming albums:

Office of Strategic Influence - S/T
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Metallica - TBA
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge! DVD version
Aghora - TBA
Opeth - Damnation
Annihilator - Double Live Annihilation

That's all, y'all...

 

[Draconian Demon]

Luca Turilli - Prophet Of The Last Eclipse

!

 

[Asmodeus]

SYMPHONY X - The odyssey
SHAMAN - The ritual
THRESHOLD - Critical mass
DREAM THEATER - Six degrees of inner turbulence
NILE - In their darkened shrines
SOILWORK - Natural born chaos
MEZARKABUL - Unspoken
AVANTASIA - The metal opera part II
KALMAH - They will return
RAGE - Unity

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Top 10 (so far, and in order):

10. Kalmah - They Will Return
9. Opeth - Deliverance
8. Beyond The Embrace - Against the Elements
7. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
6. Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
5. Thyrfing - Vansinnesvisor
4. Symphony X - The Odyssey
3. Vader - Revelations
2. Satyricon - Volcano
1. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

EDIT: Updated as 01/02/03.

 

[ProgMetalFan]

I have updated my Top 10 at the top of this thread.

 

[Kalmakoff]

So have I.

 

[blackstaRR]

Originally posted by ares
PAIN OF SALVATION - Remedy Lane
THRESHOLD - Critical Mass
STAR ONE - Space Metal
AVANTASIA - The Metal Opera pt.II
DREAM EVIL - Dragonslayer
FREEDOM CALL - Eternity
DREAM TEATHER - Six Degrees Of Inner Tourbulence
BLIND GUARDIAN - A Night At The Opera
ARK - Burn The Sun
WAKEMAN/NOLAN - Hounds Of The Baskervilles
+...

Burn the Sun is awesome, but it was released 2001.

 

[Gaunerin]

Originally posted by Kalmakoff
So have I.

Me too

 

[Cornholio]

I didn't ... but I will .... maybe

 

[Cornholio]

I did

 

[Marlies]

Eidolon - Coma Nation
Heaven's Cry - Primal Power Addiction
Within Another - promo 2002
In Flames - Reroute To Remain
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
Theory In Practice - Colonizing The Sun
Symphorce - phorcefulAhead
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Annihilator - The Waking Fury
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

 

[Immortal]

Uf? So far? You mean albums released in 2002? Ten of them?
'kay!


Eidolon - Coma Nation
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Callenish Cricle - Flesh, Power, Dominion
Hin Onde - Songs of Battle
Catamenia - Eskhata
Kalmah - They Will Return
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
King Diamond - Abigail 2
Rotting Christ - Genesis
Susperia - Vindication

and a lot more...

P.S.: they aren't in any kind of order. I wrote them as they came into my mind.

 

[Aeuphorias]

My Top 10 in no particular order.

1. Daylight Dies - No Reply
2. Opeth - Deliverance
3. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
4. Agalloch - The Mantle
5. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
6. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
7. Dredg - El Cielo
8. Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity
9. Lacuna Coil - Comalies
10. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

As you can see I'm quite diverse

 

[Demonspell]

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67517

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Great lists, Demonspell!

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Mine's now updated as well, though there was only a change of 2 albums.

 

[Gaunerin]

@ Demonspell: I think the Into Eternity disc was released in 2001.
Hm.......Marlies will know

 

[Marlies]

Originally here in Europe yes.... so I'm not allowed to put it in my list
In the States it has just now been released on Century Media, so I guess the guys over there can put it in theirs?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intoeternity

 

[Gaunerin]

ah ok......I didn't say a thing then. Ignore my post

 

[Silent Spirit]

Greetings fellow Metalheads!! Here some of my personal favorites of 2002, in no particular order.

-Symphony X "The Odessey" (of course!)
-Blind Guardian "A Night at the Opera" (again, of course!)
-Dream Evil "Dragonslayer" (wonderfully addicting songs, the lyrics aren't the most original tho)
-Nightwish "Century Child" (I love male vox they added in this disc)
-Lacuna Coil "Comalies" (oh yeah, it's another hit!!)

Thats about all i can think of for 2002. Im sure most, if not all of you, have heard most of these cds. It doesnt seem to me that Dream Evil is very popular tho, so if you haven't heard them yet, check em out! Really cool catchy songs, and they are coming out with a new cd this year (I think). Anyway, rock on!!