thanks for the list guys, sure took you a lot of time and work. it was fun. somehow. lml

Ok, I’ll be that guy. Crack the Skye is far superior.

WEAK!!!! Should have waited untill tomorrow to reveal this. If the website is looking for hits, they should have.

meh

It was just always gonna be this. And deservedly so.

I honestly think Crack The Skye and Remission are better than Leviathan, but still a great album.

I would like to take this opportunity to say that this whole list is a total farce. Most people involved in this list are involved in the mainstream metal industry in some way: bands, labels, etc. All albums mentioned in this list are all pretty much commercialised pieces of crap created to appease the trends currently running at their time of release. There are so many better albums in the underground scene. Why aren’t they being mentioned in this list? Because the list contributors just want to plug their old albums in the same way they did back when the albums first came out. The sole reason mainstream magazines give major label releases such high recognition is because the labels give them shedloads of money to advertise their bands; the magazines and other media depend on this money to stay afloat, they don’t wanna lose it, so they give favourable objective reviews to whatever is being advertised on their pages. The major label money also get these bands onto popular tours and festivals, giving them more exposure in the public light.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the bands themselves, I’m voicing my total disapproval of the industry that supports these bands, and the applicable trends that record companies constantly try to keep in line with. I would much prefer it if the list was filled with albums that deserve their popularity on the band’s musical merit, and not purely because of commercial influence. I have very little reason to believe that the albums listed are here purely on their own qualities – there’s an intent to sell more units.

I don’t hate all records that are plugged by major labels: Amon Amarth are (or were) a solid band that wrote very good material up until their newest album, which was created solely for selling records. I also quite like Goatwhore at the moment. I like both these bands for their musical and songwriting ability alone. My advice is to listen to the music for what it is, and pay no attention to the hype. I can also tolerate people listening to commercial bands, just as long as they don’t start echoing any praise that the magazines have given under the influence of their lifeblood of advertising revenue.

I’m gonna leave it at that, I’ve said all I want to say.

For the record, I’ll admit the ICP album at #1 was slightly amusing – for a few seconds. And I don’t like Mastodon one bit. A clear example of hype gone hyper. Leviathan, and all their other works, aren’t that good, and were never going to live up to the hype that the advertisers told the magazines to host. Give me a fucking break.

I agree with most of the picks, but there are some artists missing here: Nevermore, Baroness, Pantera or the projects of mighty Devin Townsend. Still, it was almost always at least a decent read. Nice work guys!

There were tons of bands I wish made the list, but, yeah, this is the album of the decade, easily.

ha…the beardos win, sweatpant dudes are crying!

Love this album. Predictable, yes, but I’m not complaining. Some random bands I thought were left out:
Protest the Hero
Cynic
BTBAM
Nevermore
Strapping Young Lad
Anubis Gate
Dream Theater
Akercocke
Also, I’m not going to Rage Against the List, but I thought Hatebreed, Converge, and Deftones were poor choices. I also liked SOAD, I loved them as a kid and I guess I never really turned my back on them.

Not a shocker at all, considering the predictability of the crap on this list.

I couldn’t care less anymore about arguing. What I would say here, I’ve already said in the other two Mastodon topics. That should be proof on it’s own that this list is obviously very flawed. This list was nothing but a bunch of crap from the start, and it ends on such a lame and predictable note.

Then again, by this list’s logic, Hatebreed released a better album than Cynic did this century. Great job, voters!

of the 21 albums
17 of them I haven’t heard. I heard a song or two and dismissed it.
1 of them I heard and ultimately didn’t think it was worth owning – Clayman
3 of them I love – both Opeths and Tool

One last observation: there are no Trivium albums on this list. After all the hype and hoo-hah over them. Weird.

Every critics favorite band, and the most overrated metal album of the last ten years.

Not bad by any means, but would have had a more appropriate spot around #15.

This album is a real ass kicker. It took me awhile to get into it, but now it’s one of my favorites.

Vince, you should have mentioned Iron Tusk! The main riff in that song is sick!

I just posted to say that I was going to post my top 21 list, but then I got tired and said fuck it.

Amazing album, amazing band, but not better then As The Palaces Burn

This is indeed the best metal album of this century. I agree fully.

First off, I’d say that although I think this list was pretty bad I’d chalk that up more to sampling error and statistical methods than any malfeasance or ignorance on the part of the editorial board. All that sad, the list was pretty bad, but I think a lot of other people put some great albums on their lists in the comments section. The problem is that if we were to poll everyone else, the consensus picks would be few and far between. E.g. I love Akercocke and Converge, but I just didn’t listen to them enough for them to make my favorites for the past decade. Also, tons of us are diehard fans of certain bands that have released up to 4 albums in the past decade, and that splits up votes. Still, it put me in list making mood myself and here’s my own list of my 21 PERSONAL FAVORITE metal albums of the 21st century thus far. (In no particular order after the first 10 to spare me the anguish).

1. Mastodon – Leviathan (it is that good)
2. Byzantine – …And They Shall Take Up Serpents
3. Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness (I will say that it was a goddamn crime this album didn’t make the list)
4. Strapping Young Lad – Alien
5. Nasum – Human 2.0
6. Amon Amarth – With Oden On Our Side
7. Lamb of God – As The Palaces Burn
8. God Forbid – Gone Forever
9. Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
10. High On Fire – Surrounded By Thieves
Pig Destroyer – Prowler In The Yard (love this album, but it creeps me out. Just creeps the hell out of me)
Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (that’s right, fuck you)
The Haunted – … Made Me Do It
Meshuggah – Nothing
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (they’re kind of a joke now, but Dimmu was the band that introduced and helped me acquire my taste for extreme metal. And this album does slay)
Slough Feg – Atavism
Killing Joke – Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
Machine Head – The Blackening
Misery Index – Traitors
The Black Dahlia Murder – Miasma
Tool – Lateralus

So yeah. There’s my unsolicited opinion. Let the accusations of sodomy begin!

I honestly don’t get this album or Mastodon. I am trying to listen to it and understand why everyone loves it, but have the urge to hit next after a couple seconds and move onto the next song when I get so easily bored with this music. I guess you can’t be sober and enjoy Mastodon?

Dear Metalsucks….

I hate Ziltoid!

Thank you.

Clayman is the only album that should be on this list.
You could count Hatebreed for only the fact that they spawned a zillion other metalcore bands.
Without counting my definitive personal top shit, bands you can’t argue the relevance of:
Nevermore, Vintersorg, Hypocrisy, Enslaved, Amorphis, Soilwork, Amon Amarth, Arsis, Iced Earth, Agalloch, Children of Bodom and Finntroll/Ensiferum [if for only the fact that they spawned a zillion folk metal bands]

#1 should have been Cher.
That way Ziltoid would have writhed in agony as if he were dipped in acid.

Good record, but this list is so awful. OMgosh. Popmetal haven.

is suicide silence 1a,this is sad

Come On!!

Where is Traced On Air of Cynic, The Formation Of Damnation of Testament, Enslaved’s Isa, Crack The Skye of Mastodon, Between The Buried And Me’s Colors, High On Fire’s Death Is This Communion, Exodus’s The Atrocity Exhibition Exhibit A, Baroness’s Red Album, Torche’s Meanderthal, and what about The Sword!!

I know that this list was a democracy, but come on!! Lamb Of God three times??? You’re Editors!! Put there your last word!!!

So what was the point of all of this? Obviously this list has no real impact on any of our lives because most of realize that 90% of it was complete bullshit. Was this basically a way for the site to make money by offering a laughable discount on the included albums?

goddamn it. 3 mastodon, 3 log, and 2 killswitch.

Whatever you think of the rest of the albums – Leviathan is genuinely and objectively fucking awesome. But I too fail to see why LOG deserve 3 and KSE 2 entries. Or even this many Mastodon albums. Or half of the other crap come to think of it. But then, it’s been quite a fun thing to follow, this list. and I dont have as big a problem with it as other commentators.

Awesome. I’m a big Mastodon fan.. though, from everything I’ve seen, they’re not really a good live band… I’d take Lamb of God or Opeth over Mastodon live… but they’re all great bands! Can’t say I agree completely with the list but it’s pretty good overall.. except the KSE albums.. but that’s just me… haha..

Keep the lists coming, i intend to fold them into the MetalSucks results and see what changes and then post back here! =)

Ideally, i’d get 57 user lists to go with 57 original panelists…..i have over 30 lists just by scrollign thru previous comment threads, so if you put one up earlier that you’d like to edit, please re-post. =)

That riff is off a different Mastodon song you bastards. It’s not even the same album; you’re thinking of “March Of The Fire Ants” on Remission.

Well deserved number 1. While Crack the Skye is a good album, Leviathan is just pure musical genius.

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUCK…really? i dont see how this can be number 1…or even on the list honestly..personally i cant think of a number 1 but im sure its not this..i mean i like Mastodon, but Number 1 Metal Album of 21st Century? i dont see it.

No MESHUGGAH – OBZEN on the list. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA! That was enough!