Metal Hammer's 50 albums of the decade

Nephilim Wolf

I thought this was quite a dissapointing list of albums from the 00s. I'll explain why I thought it was dissapointing in a while. Anyway here is what Metal Hammer thinks are the top albums of the 00s:

50. Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
49. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
48. Anthrax - We've Come for You All
47. Converge - Jane Doe
46. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
45. Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
44. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
43. Devil Driver - The Last Kind Words
42. Megadeath - United Abominations
41. Gojira - From Mars to Sirus
40. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
39. Down - II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
38. Dream Theatre - Systematic Chaos
37. Disturbed - The Sickness
36. Children of Bodem - Are You Dead Yet? (Follow the Reaper is much better)
35. In Flames - Come Clarity (Clayman is way better)
34. Slayer - Christ Illusion
33. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
32. Opeth - Watershed
31. Mastadon - Leviathan
30. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
29. Velvet Revolver - Contaband
28. Deftones - White Pony
27. AC/DC - Black Ice
26 Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution (I would've picked 'Nostradamus' over this)
25. Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
24. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao ('Grand Declaration of War' is much better)
23. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
22. Lacuna Coil - Comalies (This album is quite good but I thought that 'Unleashed Memories' was better)
21. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
20. Marilyn Manson - Hollywood (in the shadow of The Vally of Death)
19. Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison
18. Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
17. Mastadon - Crack The Skye
16. Korn - Untouchables
15. Opeth - Blackwater Park
14. Nightwish - Once ('Wishmaster' is way better)
13. Trivium - Ascendancy
12. Motorhead - Motorizer
11. Iron Maiden - AMOLAD (I still think that 'Brave New World' is their best album of the 00s)
10. Tool - Lateralus
9. HIM - Dark Light
8. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
7. Rammstein - Mutter
6. Metallica - Death Magnetic
5. Megadeth - Endgame (I thought this was quite dissapointing)
4. Lamb of God - New American Idol
3. Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
2. System of a Down - Toxicity
1. Machine Head - The Blackening

Well there you go, thats what Metal Hammer chose as their best albums of the decade. The reason I'm very dissapointed with this list of albums is because they left out these amazing albums also from the 00s:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Amorphis - Eclipse
Sentenced - The Funeral Album
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
To/Die/For - Epilogue
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Day light Dies - No Reply
Rotting Christ - Khronos
Agalloch - The Mantle
Dispatched - Motherwar
Enslaved - Monumension/Vertebrae
I - Between Two Worlds
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Borknager - Quintessence
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Green Carnation - A Blessing In Disguise
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

I'm really shocked these outstanding albums were left out.:eek: It was typical of Metal Hammer to chose those albums, and I only really liked Dimmu Borgir, A Perfect Circle, Lacuna Coil and 'Blackwater Park' by Opeth from that list. So what are your opinions on this list?

Karl Hungus

Ridiculous to take Metal Hammer's opinion on anything. It's a safe list, with enough popular mentions, and a few token extreme metal albums to keep some fans happy. Terrible boring selection, and it shows.

Nephilim Wolf

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Ridiculous to take Metal Hammer's opinion on anything. It's a safe list, with enough popular mentions, and a few token extreme metal albums to keep some fans happy. Terrible boring selection, and it shows.

I agree with you there Karl.:D

GLaDOS

Toxicity at number 2? I lol'd

tommy666

i like some albums in the list but seriously there is some crappy albums and bands in the list

PeterIanStaker

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Ridiculous to take Metal Hammer's opinion on anything. It's a safe list, with enough popular mentions, and a few token extreme metal albums to keep some fans happy. Terrible boring selection, and it shows.

Agree also Karl. MH has turned into Kerrapp!:mad:

Karl Hungus

Terrorizer is still the only decent Rock/Metal related publication you'll get in shops. Fact.

PeterIanStaker

f*ckin A dude!

Malice

What is Cavalera Conspiracy doing on that list? I've made better quality music sitting on the john after a feed of beer and a large garlic and cheese chips.

I'd also have White Pony a lot higher than 28.

Kess73

Typical Metal Hammer list. It really is no more than the Smash Hits of Rock/Metal mags, with Kerrang being a rock/metal version of something like Heat magazine.


Classic Rock or Terrorizer would be the only mags that I would regard as having any relevance, with the Classic Rock Prog spin off being pretty good and worth a punt when it is featuring bands I want to read about.

oldscoil

I don't read the mag myself, and maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but.....

Songs for the Deaf!!!!!

Patricide

Why is lamb of gods album misnamed at number 4. It says new american idol....surely it should be new american gospel??

Terrible list, some decent mentions but the second i seen cavelera conspiracy ahead of anthems of rebellion i knew it wasn't going to be up to much!

Patricide

Why is lamb of gods album misnamed at number 4. It says new american idol....surely it should be new american gospel??

Terrible list, some decent mentions but the second i seen cavelera conspiracy ahead of anthems of rebellion i knew it wasn't going to be up to much!

bazmaiden

Malice_ wrote: »

I'd also have White Pony a lot higher than 28.

Have to agree it is a fantastic album from start to finish.

Typical from metal hammer I think they must be getting handjobs from slipknot the amount of times they have been on the cover!!!

Classic Rock all the way

rgt320q

Utterly abysmal list, but then, it's only to be expected from the likes of Metal Hammer.

rainbow kirby

Systematic Chaos? 6DOIT owned the pants off that.

Nephilim Wolf

tommy666 wrote: »

i like some albums in the list but seriously there is some crappy albums and bands in the list

Very true. One of the reasons I don't like/hate this list in first place is because of bands like Cavalera Conspiracy, Converge, Nine Inch Nails, Airbourne, Gojira, Devil Driver, Down, Dream Theatre, Disturbed, Slipknot, Mastadon etc etc. I don't have any interest in any of those bands, and they are not my idea of what metal is to me.:mad:

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Terrorizer is still the only decent Rock/Metal related publication you'll get in shops. Fact.

Terrorizer is a fantastic mag. Unfortunately I think I missed the issue with the albums of the decade, or maybe it didn't come out over here Either way I'm sure it was/is way better than Metal Hammer's any day.:D

Kess73 wrote: »

Classic Rock or Terrorizer would be the only mags that I would regard as having any relevance, with the Classic Rock Prog spin off being pretty good and worth a punt when it is featuring bands I want to read about.

The only thing I don't like about Classic rock is the fact that Dom Lawson writes for that mag, and I can't stand him.:mad::mad: Otherwise apart from him contaminating the pages, it's a really great mag.:D

bazmaiden wrote: »

Typical from metal hammer I think they must be getting handjobs from slipknot the amount of times they have been on the cover!!!

Classic Rock all the way

I can't stand Slipknot, they are a horrible band.

waltersobchak

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Systematic Chaos? 6DOIT owned the pants off that.

Big Time love how they picked the worst Dream Theater album of the decade, 6DOIT, Octavarium, BC&SL, even Train of Thought would have been a way better choice

GrizzlyMan

hahaha what a load of sh1t, looks like the editer of Kerrang is working for Hammer, whats with the lack of Scandinavian Bands!!!

Its Seems Metal Hammer just puts the Bands in that sell well or that are popular to sell more crappy mags, as said earlier the only Mag worth getting is Terrorizor!

Otis Driftwood

I dont know what the fuss is about.Metal Hammer has been on the slide for years so this type of list comes as no real surprise does it?

Anyway,there are quite a few cracking albums on there too.Its hardly the Jonas Brothers.

Angron

"Are You Dead Yet?"? Really?

I'd listen to some of the stuff on that, but on the whole, meh.

metalmessiah88

New found power by damageplan?

i also though blood mountain by mastodon was better than crack the skye ..

Also wrath by lamb of god?

Max Power1

terrible list tbf. Would you expect anything else from metal hammer?

buck65

Bullet for my valentine?!
Come on this list is pants.

Nephilim Wolf

GrizzlyMan wrote: »

hahaha what a load of sh1t, looks like the editer of Kerrang is working for Hammer, whats with the lack of Scandinavian Bands!!!

Its Seems Metal Hammer just puts the Bands in that sell well or that are popular to sell more crappy mags, as said earlier the only Mag worth getting is Terrorizor!

I agree also. I was shocked they didn't have any Immortal, Hypocrisy, I, Amorphis, To/Die/For, Katatonia or Arcturus. They also didn't have Primordal's 'The Gathering Wilderness or Within Temptation's 'Mother Earth' from 2000. It's just a shocking list, and it really makes me wonder does Metal Hammer have something against these bands.:eek::mad:

All they cover nowadays are awful bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Slipknot, Airbourne, Avenged Sevenfold, HIM, Rammstien and other very trendy bands that have a more popular sound.:mad:

Malice

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

All they cover nowadays are awful bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Slipknot, Airbourne, Avenged Sevenfold, HIM, Rammstien and other very trendy bands that have a more popular sound.:mad:

Rammstein are not awful, I hope you don't mean that. Of those bands you just named, four of them have been around since the mid to late nineties. That's a long time to be trendy!

FearComplex

Metal Hammer has always been a joke, I could have sworn they were one of the few to rate St. Anger highly

rgt320q

FearComplex wrote: »

Metal Hammer has always been a joke, I could have sworn they were one of the few to rate St. Anger highly

Yeah, if memory serves, they gave it an 8 or 9 out of 10 'round the time it came out. Think they retracted it a few years later; methinks a few euros may have exchanged hands at the time :rolleyes:

Ostrom

AMOLAD over brave new world? No powertrip? Jaysus... Shameful

Nephilim Wolf

Malice_ wrote: »

Rammstein are not awful, I hope you don't mean that. Of those bands you just named, four of them have been around since the mid to late nineties. That's a long time to be trendy!

I don't hate them, but lets just say I don't like them at all and I have no interest in that stlye of metal.

FearComplex wrote: »

Metal Hammer has always been a joke, I could have sworn they were one of the few to rate St. Anger highly

You are right, they did actually rate St. Anger very highly.:rolleyes: The only reason I bought the latest Metal Hammer is becuse of the Eddie sticker book, but it turned out to be a bit of a dissapointment.

efla wrote: »

AMOLAD over brave new world? No powertrip? Jaysus... Shameful

'Brave New World' is a way way better album than AMOLAD. I also agree that 'Powertrip' is another great album that should've been included.

GLaDOS

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I don't hate them, but lets just say I don't like them at all and I have no interest in that stlye of metal.

Well I no interest in Death Metal but I wouldn't dismiss any bands on that premise, that's the wonderful thing about metal, it's so diverse

Motley Crue

This list is a joke, no disrespect to Machine Head - hell, I'm seeing them this week so I must like them - but the Blackening is (in my opinion) not the greatest record of the last 10 years. I'd be hard pressed to say what is because it's been a great decade for good metal in the right places.

And Pantera at 18 - come on, may Dime RIP, but this album was far from anything great and Pantera themselves would have been the first to tell you that

garvielloken

I can't believe they didn't include Immortal Sons of northern darkness or Dopethrone by Electric Wizard. No wonder I stopped reading that piece of **** years ago.

villains77

must agree sme crap bands there allright. brave new world should be way ahead of amolad, cant stand slipknot.

Useful.Idiot

while there are some phenomenal album's in this list (Mastodon, Gojira, Opeth, Tool) it seems that the **** mainstream acceptable ones have been filtered to the top.

It's a casual metal listeners top 50 list i.e the emo kids loitering around shopping centres top 50 list.

Nephilim Wolf

garvielloken wrote: »

I can't believe they didn't include Immortal Sons of northern darkness or Dopethrone by Electric Wizard. No wonder I stopped reading that piece of **** years ago.

Sons of Northern Darkness is indeed a class album. They new album 'All Shall Fall' is pretty damned good, but obviously not quite as great as 'SOND'.

villains77 wrote: »

must agree sme crap bands there allright. brave new world should be way ahead of amolad, cant stand slipknot.

I also agree that 'Brave New World' is much better than amolad. I also really really hate Slipknot.

PeterIanStaker

cant f**kin abide slipknot either, had to sit thru em in '04, what a load of w@nk.

oweno

No mention of any clutch albums. there has not been 50 better albums than blast tyrant in the last 10 years. FACT.

stateofflux

a lot of list is cheesy nonsense that is'nt even metal....its like the list is for teenage emo girls to buy the magazine.....well 'ard:pac::pac::pac:

i have to disagree with the slipknot haters.... subliminal verses album is a classic...i was'nt mad into what they did before that.....

Max Power1

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

while there are some phenomenal album's in this list (Mastodon, Gojira, Opeth, Tool) it seems that the **** mainstream acceptable ones have been filtered to the top.

It's a casual metal listeners top 50 list i.e the emo kids loitering around shopping centres top 50 list.

yeah, ill add a plus 1 to that

metzengerstein

youd wonder are metal hammer and kerrang even run by people who like metal anymore .there just full of crap most times more so kerrang ,the hammer has the odd good interviews now and then

maybe theyve sold there magazine to tesco or something and get people to just come in and say ahh yea that must be good throw that in the top 50 oh and this too, supprised not too see anyone like brian adams or something like that in there ha ha ha ha ha how long till they start reviewing michael p*xy buble albums

gungun

micheal buble can sing:)
but anyway, that list is a bit crap alright,
imo they should have picked pray for villains by devildriver, as much as i love the last kind words, pray for villains was just incredible
but leaving that aside, HIM at 9? bit much tbh

metzengerstein

gungun wrote: »

micheal buble can sing:)
but anyway, that list is a bit crap alright,
imo they should have picked pray for villains by devildriver, as much as i love the last kind words, pray for villains was just incredible
but leaving that aside, HIM at 9? bit much tbh

so can jedward muah ha ha ha couldnt keep a straight face saying that.(they got dropped by their record label)that made my day

agreed with the devil driver ,awesome

ThrowinShapes

No Between the Buried and Me?

Oh dear...

Definitely agree on Clayman being better than Come Clarity as well.

ride-the-spiral

ThrowinShapes wrote: »

No Between the Buried and Me?

Oh dear...

Definitely agree on Clayman being better than Come Clarity as well.

I think they should've just listed Colors 100 times.

I actually prefer Come Clarity for some reason, although Clayman is great it's my least favourite of the first 5 albums.

Anyway here's Decibel's list. http://www.terrorizer.com/main-forum/music/decibel-mags-greatest-100-albums-decade

'Tis much better.