The Community's top 20 albums of the 2000's so far voted by members!

[Zzzptm]

Starting this thread because FINLAND HAS LOST ITS MIND. 

Let's look at albums released from 1 Jan 2000 to 31 Dec 2019.

For our consideration, at least for starters:

Deep Purple: Rapture of the Deep, Now What?!, and Infinite
Black Sabbath: 13
Ozzy: Down to Earth, Under Cover, Black Rain, Scream
Metallica: St. Anger, Death Magnetic, Hardwired
Iron Maiden: Brave New World, Dance of Death, A Matter of Life and Death, The Final Frontier, The Book of Souls
Megadeth: The World Needs a Hero, The System Has Failed, United Abominations, Endgame, Thirteen, Super Collider, Dystopia
Judas Priest: Demolition, Angel of Retribution, Nostradamus, Redeemer of Souls, Firepower
Motorhead: We Are Motorhead, Hammered, Inferno, Kiss of Death, Motorizer, The World Is Yours, Aftershock, Bad Magic
Dio: Magica, Killing the Dragon, Master of the Moon
Heaven and Hell: The Devil You Know, Live from Radio City Music Hall
Glenn Hughes: Return of Crystal Karma, Building the Machine, Songs in the Key of Rock, Soul Mover, Music for the Divine, First Underground Nuclear Kitchen, Resonate
BCC: Black Country, 2, Afterglow, BCCIV

^ Bands we've collectively mentioned as ones we favour, all their releases in the last 20 years. Not all of them are winners, but should get us thinking. Feel free to add more and to explore ones you haven't heard that others put forward as greats.

I'd add in there stuff by... (my nominations for "top albums" in bold)
Mos Generator: Songs for Future Gods, The Late Great Planet Earth, Nomads, Electric Mountain Majesty, Abyssinia, The Firmament, Shadowlands
Wo Fat: The Gathering Dark, Psychedelonaut, Noche del Chupacabra, The Conjuring, The Black Code, Midnight Cometh
Honeymoon Disease: The Transcendence, Part Human Mostly Beast
1000mods: Super Van Vacation, Vultures, Repeated Exposure To...
Vuelveteloca: Jinete Galactico, Dias de Calor, Vuelveteloca, Pantera, Sonora
Drive By Wire: Drive by Wire, Between Oceans, The Whole Shebang, Spellbound
Fu Manchu: King of the Road, California Crossing, Start the Machine, We Must Obey, Gigantoid, Signs of Infinite Power, Clone of the Universe
Ozone Mama: Cosmos Caling, Freedom, Sonic Glory, The Starship Has Landed
Sasquatch: Sasquatch, II, III, IV, Maneuvers
Spacegoat: Superstition
Truckfighters: Gravity X, Mania, Phi, Universe, V

Of the list of the more mainstream metal albums, I would tout Now What?!, Dystopia, Live at Radio City Music Hall, and BCCIV. But if I'm missing on something else, I'll be happy to try a first (or second) listen to anything suggested by other members.

Except black/death metal. I'm gonna have to have a hard pass on that stuff.

So what do you put forward as suggestions for the best of 2000-2019?

[Jack the Stripper]

This is no easy task. I reckon my top 20 would be made up of only 6-8 bands. Not even sure what my #1 would be. Will have to give this some thought.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I'm upto 19 at the moment but I have no idea what the final order will be, as JtS says it will take some thought!

[Charger]

I was dreading about this!

I put the best albums of 2010-2019 down earlier but didn't want to publish it knowing how people here feel about my lists...

I am going to think about this for a good long while now.

[Zzzptm]

We just pour them all in a big list and start rummaging through them all. No idea on what the order would be, since I'm not in any of your heads. I count my picks and I'm at 18, in no order at all.

[Tyr66]

Huge memory work here.

I would first quote what I think I can add to the first list of essentials these gems :
- Halford - Resurrection - Live Insurrection - Crucible
- Bruce Dickinson : Tyranny of Souls

Followed by my  favourites of this last two decades . By checking the lists year by year on wikipedia, I sadly understand that the closer you get to today, the less I can find to fill the list. Advancing in age no doubt.Sometimes even often, I was shaken and touched by a single album from a little-known band. By seeking to discover it further upstream, the spark is no longer there. Despite this , I want to list them as well.
No particular order :

Evergrey : In Search of Truth - Hymns for the Broken .
Katatonia : The Great Cold Distance - Night is the New Day - The Fall of Hearts
Anathema : Weather Sytems - Distant Satellites
Alcest : Les Voyages de l' âme - Kodama
Warrel Dane : Praises to the War Machine
Type O Negative : Life is Killing Me - Dead Again
Ghost : Opus Eponymous - Meliora
Kamelot : The 4th Legacy - Karma - Epica - The Black Halo
Avatarium  : Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos - The Fire I Long For
Black Book Lodge : Tundra
Nevermore : Dead Heart in a Dead World - The Godless Endeavor - The Obsidian Conspiracy.
Scorpions : Moment of Glory - Unbreakable - Humanity : Hour 1
Gojira : L' Enfant Sauvage - Magma
Joe Satriani : Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards - Unstoppable Momentum - Unstoppable Momentum - What Happens Next
King Diamond : The Puppet Master - Give Me Your Soul ... Please
Venom : Resurrection
Venom Inc. : Avé
Nightwish : Century Child - Dark Passion Play
Charon : The Dying Daylights
Poinsonblack : Escapextasy
Cradle of Filth : Midian - Hammer of The Witches - Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
Dimmu Borgir : Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Darkthrone : Old Star
Tool : 10000 days - Fear Inoculum
Rotting Christ : Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού - The Heretics
UFO : You are Here - The Monkey Puzzle
Rammstein : Mutter - Liebe ist für alle da
Triptykon : Eparistera Daimones - Melana Chasmata
Celtic Frost : Monotheist

There are surely others ...

[Thelemech]

Huge memory work here.

I would first quote what I think I can add to the first list of essentials these gems :
- Halford - Resurrection - Live Insurrection - Crucible
- Bruce Dickinson : Tyranny of Souls

Followed by my  favourites of this last two decades . By checking the lists year by year on wikipedia, I sadly understand that the closer you get to today, the less I can find to fill the list. Advancing in age no doubt.Sometimes even often, I was shaken and touched by a single album from a little-known band. By seeking to discover it further upstream, the spark is no longer there. Despite this , I want to list them as well.
No particular order :

Evergrey : In Search of Truth - Hymns for the Broken .
Katatonia : The Great Cold Distance - Night is the New Day - The Fall of Hearts
Anathema : Weather Sytems - Distant Satellites
Alcest : Les Voyages de l' âme - Kodama
Warrel Dane : Praises to the War Machine
Type O Negative : Life is Killing Me - Dead Again
Ghost : Opus Eponymous - Meliora
Kamelot : The 4th Legacy - Karma - Epica - The Black Halo
Avatarium  : Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos - The Fire I Long For
Black Book Lodge : Tundra
Nevermore : Dead Heart in a Dead World - The Godless Endeavor - The Obsidian Conspiracy.
Scorpions : Moment of Glory - Unbreakable - Humanity : Hour 1
Gojira : L' Enfant Sauvage - Magma
Joe Satriani : Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards - Unstoppable Momentum - Unstoppable Momentum - What Happens Next
King Diamond : The Puppet Master - Give Me Your Soul ... Please
Venom : Resurrection
Venom Inc. : Avé
Nightwish : Century Child - Dark Passion Play
Charon : The Dying Daylights
Poinsonblack : Escapextasy
Cradle of Filth : Midian - Hammer of The Witches - Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
Dimmu Borgir : Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Darkthrone : Old Star
Tool : 10000 days - Fear Inoculum
Rotting Christ : Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού - The Heretics
UFO : You are Here - The Monkey Puzzle
Rammstein : Mutter - Liebe ist für alle da
Triptykon : Eparistera Daimones - Melana Chasmata
Celtic Frost : Monotheist

There are surely others ...

Damn that is one epic list Tyr66!! I have bought hundreds of great album over the last twenty years. This will take me forever to get a list going.

[Charger]

Love your list TYR!!! Lots of great albums there!!!!


I'd put up something like this in no order really

DIO - Magica, Killing The Dragon
BLAZE BAYLEY- Silicon Messiah, Tenth Dimension, Promise And Terror, Infinite Entanglement Trilogy (I know I know that's 3 albums but one story)
CANDLEMASS - Death Magic Doom
CATHEDRAL - VIIth Coming
SOLITUDE AETURNUS - Alone
SLAYER - God Hates Us All, Repentless
ICED EARTH - The Glorious Burden (A strong canditate for #1 over all!!!)
ALICE COOPER - Brutal Planet, Dirty Diamonds, Along Came A Spider, Welcome II My Nightmare and Paranormal (Alice has had a great 2000s!!!)
MEGADETH - The World Needs A Hero, The System Has Failed, Thirteen, Dystopia
JON OLIVA's PAIN - 'Tage Mahal, Maniacal Renderings, Global Warning, Festival
CIRCLE II CIRCLE - Watching In Silence, Burden Of Truth, Seasons Will Fall, Reign Of Darkness
METAL CHRUCH - XI, Damned If You Do
NIGHTWISH - Dark Passion Play, Imaginaerum
MOTÖRHEAD - Inferno, Motörizer, Aftershock
BENEDICTUM - Uncreation, Dominion, Obey
AVATARIUM - S/T
DELAIN - Moonbathers
THE DARK ELEMENT - S/T
DEATH PENALTY - S/T
HUNTRESS - Spell Eater
MOUNT SALEM - Endless
BEYOND FEAR - S/T
HAMMERFALL - Infected
DEEP PURPLE - Bananas, Now What!?, Infinite
IAN GILLAN - Gillan's Inn
IOMMI - S/T
OZZY - Down To Earth
ROB ZOMBIE - Hellbilly Deluxe II
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - 1919 Eternal, Mafia, Order Of The Black
WITCHBURN - This Is How We Slay Our Demons
TONY MARTIN - Scream
TONY MARTIN / ALDO GIUNTINI - Giuntini Project IV
TONY MARTIN / DARIO MOLLO - The Cage II, The Third Cage
BLACK SABBATH - The Devil You Know
CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED - Creatures Watching Over The Dead
SPIRITS OF FIRE - S/T
ANTHRAX - Worship Music, For All Kings
KORN - Take A Look In The Mirror
DOWN - Down II
BURNING WITCHES - Hexenhammer
TYPE O NEGATIVE - Dead Again


That's a few contenders that I can think of so far...

[Zzzptm]

Looks like if something makes all of our lists, or at least most of them, it's probably something we all agree belongs in the top 20. There will be many, many more albums that only one of us is familiar with. If we made it a top 200 list or something insane like that, we'd have a consensus on the top 20 and then everyone takes a turn adding an album up to 200. Like, I'd have 26, 32, 38, and every sixth album after that until I ran out. Charger would be 25, 31, 37, and so on, and each of us getting a slot. We'd have a damn comprehensive list, I tell you what!

[Charger]

^^^
Not a bad idea...

But I think indeed we could start the list off with albums we all have in common in our list...make it a joint top 20.

That shouldn't be too hard to accomplish I think.

[Tyr66]

My God ! Unforgivable. I forgot Iommi (2000) and Fused (2005). How is it possible ?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

My God ! Unforgivable. I forgot Iommi (2000) and Fused (2005). How is it possible ?

I prefere the DEP Sessions which, although recorded in 1996, didn't come out until 2004.

I was hoping Black Science by Geezer had been early 2000s but sadly it's 97!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

At the moment this is just as I thought of them and no ranking has been applied:

New Model Army - Eight
The Damned - Grave Disorder
The Damned - So Who's Paranoid?
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Iced Earth - Glorious Burden
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
Black Country Communion - Black Country
Black Country Communion - BCCIV
Hawkwind - Onward
Hawkwind - Into The Woods
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Tony Martin - Scream
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Rush - Vapors Trails
Foetus - Flow
Black Sabbath - 13
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

[Zzzptm]

All right, The Damned! I'd vote for both of those. Don't think I've heard the NMA disc, but I bet I'll like it.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

All right, The Damned! I'd vote for both of those. Don't think I've heard the NMA disc, but I bet I'll like it.

Eight is the last really good NMA album, they went a bit folk/acoustic after that