Top 5 metal albums from each year of the 00's (2012 edition)?

Question

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The question is pretty self explanatory. What are you're top 5 albums for each year from 2000-2010. I like this question since it allows to answerer and myself to
put years in music in perspective, which I like to doing for some reason. It doesn't have to be 5 if you have less than 5, or if you have more that you feel you have to include.



Here's my picks!

2000 (Year in metal rank: 5/10)

1. Brave New World- Iron Maiden
2. The Dream Sequencer- Ayreon
3. Dead Heart In a Dead World- Nevermore
4. The Dark Ride- Helloween
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2001 (4/10)

1. Follow the Reaper- Children of Bodom
2. Imaginary Sonicscape- Sigh
3. Horror Show- Iced Earth
4. Karma- Kamelot
5. Terria- Devin Townsend
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2002 (8/10)

1. Century Child- Nightwish- 5/5
2. The Mantle- Agalloch- 4.5/5
3. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence- Dream Theater- 4/5
4. Remission- Mastodon- 4/5
5. Nothing- Meshuggah
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2003 (6/10)

1. Dance of Death- Iron Maiden
2. Eric the Red- Týr
3. Train of Thought- Dream Theater
4. Death Cult Armageddon- Dimmu Borgir
5. SYL- Strapping Young Lad
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2004 (9/10)

1. Isa- Enslaved
2. Lemuria/ Sirius B- Therion
3. Mabool- Orphaned Land
4. Leviathan- Mastodon
5. Once- Nightwish
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2005 (8/10)

1. Alaska- Between the Buried and Me
2. The Black Halo- Kamelot
3. Keeper of the Sven Keys: The Legacy- Helloween
4. From Mars to Sirius- Gojira
5. This Godless Endeavor- Nevermore
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2006 (7/10)

1. Ashes Against the Grain- Agalloch
2. Blood Mountain- Mastodon
3. Pitch Black Progress- Scar Symmetry
4. A Matter of Life and Death- Iron Maiden
5. With Oden on Our Side- Amon Amarth
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2007 (5/10)

1. Colors- Between the Buried and Me
2. Hangman's Hymn- Sigh
3. Enter The Grave- Evile
4. Dark Passion Play- Nightwish
5. Paradise Lost- Symphony X
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2008 (2/10)

1. Traced In Air- Cynic
2. Vertebra- Enslaved
3. Fortress (Instrumental)- Protest the Hero
4. Twilight of the Thunder God- Amon Amarth
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2009 (6/10)

Crack the Skye- Mastodon
Blue Album- Baroness
Cosmogenesis- Obscura
Animals as Leaders- Animals as Leaders
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2010 (1/10)

The Final Frontier- Iron Maiden
Spiral Shadow- Kylesa

BQ- Best year in Metal in 00's?
BQ2- How long did you spend doing this?
BQ3- Best Metal album of the 00's?
BQ4- Got any recommendations for 2008, 2010?
BQ5- Happy New years!

Answer 1

2000:

1. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

2. Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance

3. Napalm Death - Enemy Of The Music Business

4. The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It

5. Eyehategod - Confederacy Of Ruined Lives



2001:

1. Converge - Jane Doe

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

4. Fantômas- The Director's Cut

5. Clutch - Pure Rock Fury



2002:

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

3. Opeth - Deliverance

4. Botch - An Anthology Of Dead Ends

5. Knut - Challenger



2003:

1. Enslaved - Below The Lights

2. Opeth - Damnation

3. Funeral Mist - Salvation

4. Killing Joke - Killing Joke

5. Pelican - Australasia



2004:

1. Mastodon - Leviathan

2. Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm

3. Enslaved - Isa

4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

5. Behemoth - Demigod



2005:

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2. Between the Buried and Me - Alaska

3. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked

4. System of a Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize

5. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings



2006:

1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain

2. Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3. Converge - No Heroes

4. Enslaved - Ruun

5. Deicide - The Stench of Redemption



2007:

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works

2. Baroness – The Red Album

3. Jesu – Conqueror

4. Watain - Sworn To The Dark

5. Rotting Christ - Theogonia



2008:

1. Harvey Milk - Life…The Best Game in Town

2. Enslaved - Vertebrae

3. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I

4. Made Out of Babies – The Ruiner

5. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh



2009:

1. Cobalt – Gin

2. Converge - Axe To Fall

3. Kylesa – Static Tensions

4. Funeral Mist - Marantha

5. Baroness – The Blue Record



2010:

1. Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini

2. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit

3. Yakuza – Of Seismic Consequence

4. Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part II

5. Black Breath – Heavy Breathing



2011:

1. 40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room

2. Liturgy – Aesthethica

3. Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage

4. The Atlas Moth – An Ache for the Distance

5. SubRosa – No Help for the Mighty One



BQ: 2009 was really good.

BQ2: About 2 hours. Tough choices to make in keeping the list to only five albums. For some years, I wanted to add more.

BQ3: Converge - Jane Doe



BQ4: Yes. Absolutely.

2008...

Harvey Milk - Life…The Best Game in Town

Enslaved - Vertebrae

Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I

Made Out of Babies – The Ruiner

Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

Torche - Meanderthal

Opeth - Watershed

Disfear - Live The Storm

Krallice - Krallice

Wetnurse - Invisible City

Genghis Tron - Board Up The House

Caïna - Temporary Antennae

Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Satyricon - The Age Of Nero

Intronaut - Prehistoricisms



2010...

Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini

Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit

Yakuza – Of Seismic Consequence

Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing

Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones / Shatter EP

Dawnbringer - Nucleus

Kvelertak - Kvelertak

Ludicra - The Tenant

Shining - Blackjazz

Ghost - Opus Eponymous

High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine

Nails - Unsilent Death

The Secret - Solve et Coagula

Castevet - Mounds of Ash

Ihsahn - After

Gnaw Their Tongues - L’Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante

Watain – Lawless Darkness

Electric Wizard – Black Masses

Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent



2011...

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

The Atlas Moth - An Ache For the Distance

Today is the Day - Pain is a Warning

Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore

Obscura - Omnivium

Opeth - Heritage

Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand

Russian Circles - Empros

Indian - Guiltless

Deafheaven - Roads to Judah

Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

Krallice - Diotima

Liturgy - Aesthethica

Graf Orlock - Doombox

Peste Noire - L'Ordure à l'état Pur

Altar of Plagues - Mammal

YOB - Atma

Blut Aus Nord - 777:The Desanctification

Mastodon - The Hunter

SubRosa - No Help For the Mighty Ones

Tombs - Path of Totality

Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

Red Fang - Murder the Mountains

Witch Mountain - South Of Salem

Shooting Guns - Born to Deal in Magic 1952-1976

The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre

Ancient VVisdom - A Godlike Inferno

Decapitated – Carnival Is Forever

Absu - Abzu

Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

Amebix - Sonic Mass

Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

Unearth - Darkness in the Light

Year of the Goat - Lucem

Locrian - The Clearing

Origin - Entity

Craft - Void

Answer 2

2000: (6/10)

Isis - Celestial

Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance

Old Man Gloom - Meditations In B



2001: (10/10)

Converge - Jane Doe

Gojira - Terra Incognita

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

Old Man Gloom - Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism

Opeth - Blackwater Park



2002: (8/10)

Isis - Oceanic

Mastodon - Remission

Meshuggah - Nothing

Opeth - Deliverance



2003: (7/10)

Akercocke - Choronzon

Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus

Gojira - The Link

Nevermore - Enemies of Reality

Pelican - Australasia



2004: (8/10)

Converge - You Fail Me

Cult of Luna - Salvation

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

Isis - Panopticon

Mastodon - Leviathan

Necrophagist - Epitaph

Old Man Gloom - Christmas



2005: (7/10)

Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

Between The Buried And Me - Alaska

Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

Nile - Annihilation of The Wicked

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites



2006: (6/10)

Converge - No Heroes

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

The Faceless - Akeldama

Intronaut - Void

Isis - In The Absence of Truth

The Ocean Collective - Aeolian



2007: (7/10)

Akercocke - Antichrist

Baroness - Red Album

Between The Buried And Me - Colors

Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works

Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment

Neurosis - Given To The Rising

The Ocean Collective - Precambrian



2008: (9/10)

Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom

Cynic - Traced In Air

The Faceless - Planetary Duality

Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

Intronaut - Prehistoricisms

Meshuggah - obZen

Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I

Opeth - Watershed

Origin - Antithesis



2009: (8/10)

Baroness - Blue Record

Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

Celeste - Misanthropes

Cobalt - Gin

Converge - Axe To Fall

Isis - Wavering Radiant

Kylesa - Static Tensions

Obscura - Cosmogenesis

Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder



2010: (5/10)

Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis

Ihsahn - After

Kylesa - Spiral Shadow



BA: 2001

BA2: About 20 minutes

BA3: Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

BA4: Those above

BA5: Happy New Years :)

Answer 3

2000

- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

- Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

- Symphony X - V-The New Mythology Suite

- Monster Magnet - God Says No

- Iron Maiden - Brave New World



2001

- Iced Earth - Horror Show

- Decapitated - Winds of Creation

- Gojira - Terra Incognita

- Opeth - Blackwater Park

- Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape



2002

- Agalloch - The Mantle

- Týr - How Far To Asgard

- Meshuggah - Nothing

- Mastodon - Remission

- Mercenary - Everblack



2003

- Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad

- Enslaved - Below the Lights

- Nevermore - Enemies of Reality

- Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

- Opeth - Damnation (Not a metal album but still)



2004

- Mastodon - Leviathan

- Enslaved - Isa

- Orphaned Land - Mabool

- Wintersun - Wintersun

- Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion



2005 (Great year!)

- Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

- BTBAM - Alaska

- Kamelot - The Black Halo

- Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

- Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet



2006

- Eluveitie - Spirit

- Enslaved - Ruun

- Mastodon - Blood Mountain

- Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side

- Isis - In the Absence of Truth



2007

- Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

- Sigh - Hangman's Hymn

- BTBAM - Colors

- Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

- Pain of Salvation - Scarsick



2008

- Dark Fortress - Eidolon

- Agalloch - The White

- The Sword - Gods of the Earth

- Arsis - We Are the Nightmare

- Ihsahn - angL



2009

- Baroness - Blue Album

- Obscura - Cosmogenesis

- Absu - Absu

- Mastodon - Crack the Skye

- Kylesa - Static Tensions



2010

- Ihsahn - After

- Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR

- Charred Walls of the Damned - Charred Walls of the Damned

- Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy

- High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine



2011

- Obscura - Omnivium

- Mastodon - The Hunter

- Evergrey - Glorious Collision

- Origin - Entity

- Moonsorrow - Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa



BQ 2005

BQ2 like 20 minutes

BQ3 Nevermore - This Godless ENdeavor

BQ4 The one i,listed under those years.

BQ5 Thank you, Happy new year to you as well.

Answer 4

2000:

Cradle of Filth - Midian

King Diamond - House of God

Sunn O))) - ØØ Void

Enslaved - Mardraum – Beyond the Within

Melvins - The Crybaby

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone



2001:

Bathory - Destroyer of Worlds

Darkthrone - Plaguewielder

Melvins - Electroretard

Slayer - God Hates Us All

Enslaved - Monumension



2002:

Sunn O))) - Flight of the Behemoth

Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover

King Diamond - Abigail II: The Revenge

Bathory - Nordland I

Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines



2003:

Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day

Sunn O))) - White1

King Diamond - The Puppet Master

Darkthrone - Hate Them

Enslaved - Below the Lights



2004:

Cradle of Filth - Nympetamine

Sunn O))) - White2

Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath

Enslaved - Isa

Electric Wizard - We Live



2005:

Sunn O))) - Black One

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked



2006:

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

Cradle of Filth - Thornography

Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive

Dissection - Reinkaos

Enslaved - Ruun



2007:

Darkthrone - F.O.A.D

King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please

Nile - Ithyphallic



2008:

Cradle of Filth - Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder

Melvins - Nude with Boots

Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags

Enslaved - Vertebrae



2009:

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Immortal - All Shall Fall

Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest



2010:

Burzum - Belus

Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons

Cradle of Filth - Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini



BA: 2006. Because of Celtic Frost's comeback album Monotheist and Cradle of Filth's Thornography.

BA2: You have no idea.

BA3: Celtic Frost - Monotheist. Best album ever.

BA4: 2008: Cradle of Filth - Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder and 2010: Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones.

BA5: It's not New Years Eve here... yet.

Answer 5

were the hell is MegadetH?