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The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade Top 100 Honorable Mentions
(in no particular order)
Album of the Year, DONE!
Christopher Lee (via PhotoBucket)
It’s January 1st, New Years Day 2010 – and I already know my pick for album of the year. How? Because Christopher Fucking Lee (that is his real middle name) will be releasing a metal album in March. But it’s not just any album; it’s a concept album about one of Lee’s distant ancestors. Whom, you might ask? Does the name Charlemagne mean anything to you? Right, so as if I needed further reassurance that Christopher Lee is in fact the Alpha and Omega of badassery (which I did not), I barely get a chance to make it out of the 2010 gate before more proof is shoved in my face.
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #1
1. Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000)
I want a red Yankees cap too
The Most Metal Album Cover of All Time
Year 2000, Fred Durst defined cool. He did cool things like sell twelve million copies of this album and sleep with pop stars. His band made #1 on TRL even though everything else was teen pop and he was all metal and shit. And he could say that word fuck. That sealed the deal. The fact that Fred Durst could say “fuck” even though he had nothing else that was worthwhile to say. It was everything that my mom was afraid of and it ruled. This album sparked my interest in the metal genre since it was the heaviest stuff that I ever heard in my life. It was hard, it was aggressive, and it was a break form the N*Sync stuff that all of my classmates listened to. It proved to me that not all music was for wimps, some if it had attitude. Read more »
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #2
2. Primordial – To the Nameless Dead (2007)
They Made Every Monument Crumble
Where is the fighting man?
The success of Primordial is a testament to their character. Never compromising, always respectful to fans, always passionate about their art, and never ones to back down from any challenges. Constantly evolving and improving, Primordial show a dedication to their craft unmatched by any other band. Rising from a black metal base into an operatic form of metal that is uniquely their own. Read more »
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #3
3. Orphaned Land – Mabool (2004)
Fuck Axl Rose. This was the album with the ridiculous production time that was worth waiting for.
Surf's up, man
Eight years. Eight years of hell during the second intifada that completely grounded Orphaned Land. But during those eight years the members of the band worked together to create an album so grandiose in ambition that it could only have been created from the harsh circumstances that it was forged in. By the time that the band was able to record Mabool, they had a full sixty-eight minutes of music with the need for additional instruments not typical of the metal genre, a session female vocalist and an entire vocal choir. No matter how many shekels that may have cost the band members, the result was worth it. Read more »
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #4
4. Anaal Nathrakh – Hell is Empty… And All the Devils are Here (2007)
BLAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have arrived
Anaal Nathrakh proved that they were unrelenting heavy on The Codex Necro, that they could be experimental on Domine non es Dignus, and they proved that they could be melodic on Eschaton. What followed was the natural evolution of all of those styles combined into one without compromising their edge in any respect. Hell is Empty is a journey into an abyss of violence filled with references to everything from Mozart to Warhammer 40K. Read more »
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #5
5. Mastodon – Leviathan (2004)
Ensuring That This Album Makes Every Decade List
FUCK YEAH!!!! SEAKING!!!!
Oftentimes, when a band changes their sound, it’s a change for the worse. But there are those rare occasions where a group can truly change their sound into something new and exiting that pushes the boundaries of everything that came before. I’m not sure if Mastodon have evolved sludge metal or simply moved out of it, but Leviathan was a transition that established them as one of the most original and inventive bands to have emerged within this decade. Read more »
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #6
6. The Nemesis Theory – Hypnopaedia (2006)
This kvlt enough for you?
Queen Slug for a Butt Just Found Her Husband
I discovered The Nemesis Theory entirely by accident back in early 2006, about half a year before this album was released. At the time, I was feeling horribly let down by the collapse of nu metal, I hated emo and wasn’t willing to catch onto that trend at all and I had just been let down by the new KoRn album, leaving me with Tool as my only musical outlet. If any band was going to renew my interest in the metal genre at all, it was going to have to be one hell of a unique-sounding prog metal band that didn’t totally remind me of Tool. This was the band that held my faith in late high school and my first year of college before my full-blown descent into the underground in early 2007. That’s right, without The Nemesis Theory, I wouldn’t be blogging here. Read more »
The 100 Best Metal Albums of the Decade: #7
7. Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War (2000)
Luke 12:49
PETA is going to have a field day with this
Mayhem is a band who takes their time in between releases. Whether it’s only releasing a live album back during the days of The Black Circle or following up their second studio release four years later with an EP, Hellhammer and Necrobutcher take their time and only enter into the studio when they absolutely have to. Having been seven years since their first full length, Mayhem made the wait well worth it when Grand Declaration of War finally saw the light of day. Read more »
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