What are the best Rock albums of this decade (2000 - 2009)?

Question

What are the best Rock albums of this decade (2000 - 2009)?

Answer 1

I realize not everyone is going to love my list, but 'tis my opinion ^_^



Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights

The Black Keys- Attack & Release

Botch- We Are the Romans

Converge- Jane Doe

Queens of the Stone Age- Songs For the Deaf

Modest Mouse- Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Silversun Pickups- Carnavas

Fear Before the March of Flames- The Always Open Mouth

From First to Last- Heroine

Mastodon- Blood Mountain

Emanuel- Black Earth Tiger

The Devil Wears Prada- Plagues

Whitechapel- This is Exile

The Chariot- The Fiancee

The Acacia Strain- Continent

For the Fallen Dreams- Changes

A Skylit Drive- Wires...and the Concept of Breathing

Architects- Hollow Crown

The Smashing Pumpkins- Machina/The Machines of God

Answer 2

Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

Kamelot - Epica

Kamelot - The Black Halo

Kamelot - Ghost Opera

Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

Nevermore - Enemies Of Reality

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

Sinergy - To Hell And Back

Therion - Deggial

Therion - Secret Of The Runes

Therion - Lemuria

Therion - Sirius B

Tristania - World Of Glass

Avantasia - The Metal Opera Parts 1&2

Iced Earth - Horror Show

Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Opeth - Deliverance

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Opeth - Watershed

Opeth - Damnation

Orange Goblin - Coup De Grace

Ordo Funebris - A Cantar La Morte

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay - X&Y

Estampie - Ondas

Estampie - Crusaders

Icarus Witch - Capture The Magic

Leaves Eyes - Vinland Saga

Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

The Company Of Snakes - Burst The Bubble

Lacuna Coil - Comalies

Lacuna Coil - Karmacode

Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day

Epica - The Phantom Agony

Epica - Cosign To Oblivion

Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

Falconer - The Scepter Of Deception

Firewind - Burning Earth

Firewind - Forged By Fire

Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy

Helloween - The Dark Ride

Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys: The Legacy

Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn

Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake

Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance

Stratovarius - Elements Parts 1&2

Sonata Artica - Unia

Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol VI

Edenbridge - Shine

Edenbridge - Arcana

Mastodon - Levithan

Wintersun - Wintersun

The Birthday Massacre - Violet

Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards

Demons & Wizards - Touched By The Crimson King

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard

Deathstars - Termination Bliss

Deathstars - Night Electric Night

Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

Krypetria - In Medias Res

Krypetria - Bloodangel's Cry

The Sword - Age Of Winters

The Sword - Gods Of The Earth

Wolf - The Black Flame

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Deep Purple - Rapture Of The Deep

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

Motorhead - We Are Motorhead

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Echo Of Dalriada - Kikelet

Ensiferum - Victory Songs

Nightwish - Wishmaster

Nightwish - Century Child

Nightwish - Once

Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

Ruoska - Radium

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Turisas - The Varangian Way

Van Canto - A Storm To Come

Northern Kings - Rethroned

Sabaton - Primo Vittorio

Sabaton - The Art Of War



There You go Law Man. The best albums I've heard this decade, unless I forgot any.

Answer 3

Isis- Oceanic

Between The Buried and Me- Colors

The Sword- Gods of The Earth

Audioslave- Out of Exile

A Perfect Circle- Mer De Noms

Tool- Lateralus

Gojira- The Way of All Flesh

Sevendust- Animosity

Answer 4

Mer de Noms - APC

Thirteenth Step - APC

The Quicksilver Meat Dream - I Mother Earth

Help Wanted - Eric Avery

In the Future - Black Mountain

Gods of the Earth - The Sword

The White Stripes - Elephant

Lateralus - Tool

Answer 5

Hi Law Man,

Well, I'd really recommend these few if I was going to be really brief.



Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (2008)

Dr. Dog - Fate (my favorite record at this moment) (2008)

the Shins - Oh Inverted World (2001)

the Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)

Apollo Sunshine - self Titled (2005)

Fugazi - the Argument (2001)

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)



but there's plenty more where that came from. I can provide links to info if you are interested in any of them.

Happy Monday.

Answer 6

These popped into my head first:



Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Babyshambles - Down in Albion

Blur - Think Tank

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong & Tony Allen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen

Glasvegas - Glasvegas

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines

Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV

Ian Brown - Solarized

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

Keane - Under the Iron Sea

The Libertines - The Libertines

The Libertines - Up the Bracket

Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth

Oasis - Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - In Rainbows

The Verve - Forth

White Lies - To Lose My Life...

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan



There are more, but this should do (for now).

Answer 7

Some of my favorites-



Arcade Fire - Funeral

Islands - Return to the Sea

The National - Boxer/Alligator

TV On the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes/Return to Cookie Mountain

Devotchka - How It Ends

Animal Collective - Feels/Strawberry Jam

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

The Strokes - Is This It?

NIN - With Teeth/Year Zero

The Kills - Midnight Boom

Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends

The Veils - The Runaway Found

Deerhoof - Apple O'/Friend Opportunity

Dr. Dog - Fate

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In Between

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

Spoon - Girls Can Tell/Kill the Moonlight

Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

At The Drive In - Relationship of Command

and all The White Stripes albums

Answer 8

My favorites...



Tool - Lateralus

Tool - 10,000 Days

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park - Meteroa

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

Korn - Take a Look in the Mirror

Deftones - White Pony

Mudvayne - L.D. 50

Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come

Godsmack - Awake

Godsmack - Faceless

Audioslave - Audioslave

Velvet Revolver - Contraband

Alter Bridge - Blackbird

Flyleaf - Flyleaf

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Muse - Absolution

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

AC/DC - Black Ice

Sevendust - Animosity

Incubus - Morning View

Answer 9

Mastodon "Leviathan"

High On Fire "Blessed Black Wings"

Jay Reatard "Blood Visions"

Black Lips "Let It Bloom"

Spiritualized "Songs In A&E"

Answer 10

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Because Of The Times - Kings Of Leon

Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth

Beyond - Dinosaur Jr

White Blood Cells - White Stripes

Is This It? - The Strokes

Absolution - Muse

Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

Answer 11

Blackwater Park- Opeth

Ghost Reveries - Opeth

Lataralus-Tool

10,000 Days- Tool

Blood Mountian-Mastadon

Crack The Skye- Mastadon

Mars Volta- Frances the Mute

In Sorte Diaboli -Dimmu Borgir

Toxicity- System of a Down

All Porcupine Tree albums that came out this decade.

Answer 12

Chronological order (alphabetical order within each year):

2000

Don Caballero - American Don

Faraquet - The View from this Tower

OXES - OXES

Ruins - Pallaschtom

Rumah Sakit - Rumah Sakit

2001

Attention Deficit - The Idiot King

Dysrhythmia - No Interference

Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies

Orthrelm - Iorxhscimtor

RX Bandits - Progress

Volta Do Mar - At the Speed of Light

2002

Hella - Hold Your Horse Is

Orthrelm - Asristir Vieldriox

Orthrelm - Norildivoth Crallos Lomrixth Urthilnv

Orthrelm - Touchdown/Orthrelm

Rumah Sakit - Obscured by Clowns

Touchdown - Touchdown/Orthrelm

2003

Dysrhythmia - Pretest

Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow

Nuclear Rabbit - Mutopia

RX Bandits - The Resignation

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

2004

By the End of Tonight - ...in a Letter to the Sandbox

Cheval De Frise - Sans Titre

Hella - The Devil isn't Red

Medications - Medications (ep)

Upsilon Acrux - Volucris Avis Dirae-Arum

Yowie - Cryptooology

2005

Giraffes? Giraffes! - Superbass!!! (Black Death Greatest Hit vol. 1)

Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain

Medications - Your Favorite People All in One Place

Orthrelm - OV

OXES - OXES

Piglet - Lava Land

PsyOpus - Ideas of Reference

Sleeping People - Sleeping People

Tera Melos - Melodies

2006

Ahleuchatistas - What you Will

Behold... the Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning

Behold... the Arctopus - Split (Behold... the Arctopus/Orthrelm)

Cinemechanica - The Martial Arts

Dysrhythmia - Barriers and Passages

LITE - LITE

Orthrelm - Split (Behold... the Arctopus/Orthrelm)

RX Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun

Technology - The Desert Sessions

2007

Behold... the Arctopus - Skullgrid

By the End of Tonight - A Complex Full of Phantoms (By the End of Tonight/Tera Melos)

Dysrhythmia - Fractures (Dysrhythmia/Rothko)

Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin with Milk-mouth

Kevin goes 2 College - All or None

Other Men - Wake Up Swimming

Rashomon - Rashomon

Rothko - Fractures (Dysrhythmia/Rothko)

Sleeping People - Growing

Technology - Ep

Tera Melos - A Complex full of Phantoms (By The End of Tonight/Tera Melos)

Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth

Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum

2008

Faraquet - Anthology 1997-1998

Japandi - The Great Dinosaur Mystery

Technology - Technology

Them, Roaring Twenties - Future Sandwich

Truckers of Husk - Physical Education (ep)

Zevious - Zevious

2009

Tera Melos - Idioms vol. 1

...to be continued...



That about covers it

Answer 13

Not repeating bands, I'm sure you'd dig some of these, Law Man:



SMPT:e - Transatlantic

V - Spock's Beard

Unfold the Future - The Flower Kings

Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

Sola Scriptura - Neal Morse

Milliontown - Frost*

Revolution Road - Rocket Scientists

The Power to Believe - King Crimson

Train of Thought - Dream Theater

Lateralus - Tool

Blackwater Park - Opeth

Death Magnetic - Metallica

Audioslave - Audioslave

Angular Perceptions - Thought Chamber

Shadowlands - Glass Hammer

Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle

Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails

Oceanic - Isis

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor



Triumph of Steel - Epic win on mentioning Spock's Beard.

Answer 14

Hybrid Theory-Linkin Park Bleed American-Jimmy Eat World Underclass Hero-Sum 41 American Idiot-Green Day 30 Seconds To Mars-30 Seconds To Mars No Line On The Horizon-U2 SciFi Crimes-Chevelle We Are Not Alone-Breaking Benjamin Out Of Ashes-Dead By Sunrise

Answer 15

My picks:

Conspiracy Of One-The Offspring

10,000 days & Lateralus-Tool

Out Of The Vein-3rd Eye Blind

Light Grenades-Incubus

Contraband-Velvet Revolver

Frances The Mule-The Mars Volta

Out Of Exile-Audioslave

Elephant-The White Stripes

Red Hot Chili Peppers-Californication

Strays-Janes Addiction

No Deliverance-The Toadies

Toxicity-System Of A Down

Black Stone Cherry

Nine Inch Nails-Year Zero

Answer 16

In my opinion (of course):



White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

Elephant - The White Stripes

Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Icky Thump - The White Stripes



Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand



I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love - My Chemical Romance

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance



Fallen - Evanescence

The Open Door - Evanescence



Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs

Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs



Violet - The Birthday Massacre

Walking with Strangers - The Birthday Massacre



Strangefolk - Kula Shaker



Say No To The World - LostAlone

Answer 17

Oh blimey...



Mike Oldfield ~ "Music of the Spheres" (2008)

Blackmore's Night ~ "The Village Lanterne" (2006)

Blackmore's Night ~ "Ghost of a Rose" (2004)

Stevie Nicks ~ "Trouble in Shangri-La" (2001)

Ian Anderson ~ "Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull" (2005)

Goldfrapp ~ "Supernature" (2005)

Robert Palmer ~ "Drive" (2003)

Sandy Denny ~ "No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology" (2000)





Re-issues :~

Vinegar Joe ~ "Vinegar Joe" (2008 / 1972)

Mellow Candle ~ "Swaddling Songs" (2008 / 1972)

Trees ~ "On the Shore" (2007 / 1970)

Answer 18

Dream Theater-Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (one of the best of all time)

Dream Theater-Systematic Chaos

Dream Theater-When Day and Dream Reunite

Dream Theater-Octavarium

Dream Theater-Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Dream Theater-Train of Thought

(Dream Theater is one of my favorite bands EVER)



The Fall of Troy-Manipulator

The Fall of Troy-The Fall of Troy

The Fall of Troy-Doppelganger

The Fall of Troy-Phantom on the Horizon

(Fall of Troy is pretty good)



HORSE the Band-A Natural Death

HORSE the Band-The Mechanical Hand

HORSE the Band-R. Borlax

HORSE the Band-Pizza

(Despite HORSE the Band's singer being pretty horrible, the music turns out to be some of the best I have ever heard!)



AC/DC-Black Ice

(need I explain more?)



Metallica-Death Magnetic

(a decent album)



Silent Hill 2-Homecoming Soundtracks (my favorite series and music in the entire world)



DragonForce-Inhuman Rampage

(Through the Fire and Flames is the only song that made Dragonforce what it is today.)



Coheed and Cambria-The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Coheed and Cambria-In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Coheed and Cambria-Good Apollo I'm Burning Star 4, Volume One: From Fear through the Eyes of Madness

Coheed and Cambria-Good Apollo I'm Burning Star 4, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

(Coheed and Cambria is just simply amazing. They are my primary influence for ever picking up a guitar.)



Journey-Revelation

(Journey is probably the best band of the old days.)



Well I would put more but i'm running a little low on time.

Answer 19

in no order...



Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Rocco DelUca - I Trust You To Kill Me

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Band Of Horse - Everything All The Time

The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart

U2 - All That You Can Leave Behind

Zero 7 - Home

Answer 20

Deadwing- Porcupine Tree

Fear of a Blank Planet- Porcupine Tree

In Absentia- Porcupine Tree

Brave New World- Iron Maiden

A Matter of Life and Death- Iron Maiden

Dance of Death- Iron Maiden

Answer 21

'Driving Rain' - Paul McCartney

'Love And Theft' - Bob Dylan

'Living With War' - Neil Young

'In Rainbows' - Radiohead

'Smile' - Brian Wilson

'Heathen' - David Bowie

'Dark Chords On A Big Guitar' - Joan Baez

Answer 22

All of Maiden's albums



Heaven and Hell's first album and I'm sure the album coming out tomorrow (last I heard) will kickass no doubts



Velvet Revolver-Contraband



and that's all I got for ya now I gotta get back to work NO FAIR!!!! lol

Answer 23

worlds apart/so divided/the century of self by ...and you will know us by the trail of dead

god bless your black heart by the paper chase

shashbo by run chico run

the moon and antarctica by modest mouse

relationship of command by at the drive-in

frances the mute by the mars volta

the ugly organ/happy hallow/domestica all by cursive

kid a/amnesiac/in rainbows all by radiohead

future songs by cranes

apologies to the queen mary by wolf parade

sharpen your teeth by ugly casanova

vasaraasia/käärmelautakunta by alamaailman vaserat

smile by brian wilson

we are the romans by botch

figure 8 by elliott smith

how strange, innocence by explosions in the sky

the view from this tower by faraquet

lift your fists like skinny antennas to heaven/f# a# (infinity) by godspeed you! black emperor

my solo project by mates of state

rated r by queens of the stone age

1000 hurts by shellac

know by heart by the american analog set

and we washed our weapons in the sea by frodus

coquelicot asleep in the poppies: a variety of whimsical verse/the sunlandic twins/sattanic panic in the attic by of montreal

its hard to find a friend by pedro the lion



theres just too many great albums in the double o's to type up, 'i was born but...' listed most of the albums i would say so i didnt bother typing those up

Answer 24

Koffin Kats



"Drunk in the Daylight"



but their not really rock, their psychobilly

Answer 25

Audioslave - Audioslave



Motorhead - Motorizer



Anti flag - the bright lights of America



Guns 'n' roses - Chinese democracy?maybe

Answer 26

American Idiot Green Day



Other than that it was a pretty dead Genre of Music this decade. I also like Chinese Democracy because it was awsome to hear Axl Rose's voice after all these years on new music