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

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

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 :)

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.

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.

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