THE 522 ALBUMS THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 9:00am by MetalSucks
The list was never meant to be definitive – there would be no way to compile a so-called “definitive” list of the “best” metal albums anyways. We were just hoping to have some fun, and we’ve certainly had fun. And hopefully at least some of you have had fun, too.
But no matter which 21 albums our panel ended up selecting, there were always going to be hundreds – literally hundreds – of worthy records that just weren’t going to get the love they deserve.
To that end, throughout the remainder of the week, each MetalSucks staffer will be writing about one album that he wishes had made the list.
In the meantime, after the jump, you can check out all the albums our panelists voted for that didn’t make the list; in other words, these albums would be on a list of the 543 Best Metal Albums of the 21st Century… So Far.
We hope that it continues to provide fodder for your arguments.
Metallica, Death Magnetic – 102 POINTS
Iron Maiden, Brave New World – 99 POINTS
Isis, Oceanic – 98 POINTS
Torche, Meanderthal – 97 POINTS
Meshuggah, obZen – 91 POINTS
Dimmu Borgir, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia – 90 POINTS
Cynic, Traced In Air – 89 POINTS
Opeth, Deliverance – 86 POINTS
Baroness, Red Album – 80 POINTS
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Miss Machine – 79 POINTS
Mastodon, Crack the Skye – 79 POINTS
Shadows Fall, Of One Blood – 79 POINTS
Gojira, The Way of All Flesh – 77 POINTS
Shadows Fall, The Art of Balance – 75 POINTS
Pig Destroyer, Phantom Limb - 74 POINTS
Celtic Frost, Monotheist – 72 POINTS
High on Fire, Blessed Black Wings – 72 POINTS
Chimaira, The Impossibility of Reason – 67 POINTS
Nevermore, Dead Heart in a Dead World – 66 POINTS
Opeth, Watershed – 66 POINTS
In Flames, Come Clarity – 65 POINTS
Trivium, Ascendancy – 64 POINTS
Clutch, Blast Tyrant – 63 POINTS
Meshuggah, Nothing – 63 POINTS
Glassjaw, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence – 60 POINTS
Lamb of God, Sacrament – 60 POINTS
Cave In, Jupiter – 57 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Colors – 56 POINTS
Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works – 56 POINTS
Soilwork, Natural Born Chaos – 55 POINTS
Cannibal Corpse, Kill – 54 POINTS
The Red Chord, Fused Together in Revolving Doors – 54 POINTS
Neurosis, A Sun that Never Sets – 51 POINTS
Slipknot, Iowa – 51 POINTS
Soilwork, Stabbing the Drama – 51 POINTS
Arch Enemy, The Wages of Sin – 50 POINTS
Lamb of God, Wrath – 49 POINTS
Jesu, Conqueror – 48 POINTS
Testament, Formation of Damnation – 48 POINTS
Electric Wizard, Dopethrone – 47 POINTS
Isis, Panopticon – 47 POINTS
Down, Down III – 46 POINTS
Arsis, A Celebration of Guilt – 44 POINTS
Down, Down II – 44 POINTS
Nevermore, The Godless Endeavor – 44 POINTS
Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf – 44 POINTS
Candiria, 300% Density – 43 POINTS
Every Time I Die, Hot Damn! – 43 POINTS
Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death – 43 POINTS
Killswitch Engage, Killswitch Engage (2000) – 43 POINTS
Martyr AD, The Human Condition… – 42 POINTS
Nile, Annihilation of the Wicked – 42 POINTS
As I Lay Dying, An Ocean Between Us – 41 POINTS
Agalloch, The Mantle – 40 POINTS
Converge, No Heroes – 40 POINTS
Tool, 10,000 Days – 40 POINTS
Decapitated, Organic Hallucinosis – 39 POINTS
Indorphine, Glowsticks for Clubbing Baby Seals – 39 POINTS
Kylesa, Time Will Fuse its Worth – 39 POINTS
Shadows Fall, Threads of Life – 39 POINTS
Anthrax, We’ve Come for You All – 38 POINTS
Emperor, Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise – 38 POINTS
Made Out of Babies, The Ruiner – 38 POINTS
Pantera, Reinventing the Steel – 38 POINTS
Thrice, Artist in the Ambulance – 38 POINTS
Unearth, The Stings of Conscience – 38 POINTS
Machine Head, Through the Ashes… – 37 POINTS
The Mars Volta, Deloused in the Comatorium – 37 POINTS
Nothingface, Violence – 36 POINTS
Sevendust, Animosity – 36 POINTS
Kylesa, Static Tenstions – 35 POINTS
Norma Jean, O God The Aftermath – 35 POINTS
Pig Destroyer, Prowler in the Yard – 35 POINTS
Enslaved, Below the Lights – 34 POINTS
High on Fire, The Art of Self Defense – 34 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Silent Circus – 33 POINTS
A Life Once Lost, A Great Artist – 32 POINTS
As I Lay Dying, Frail Words Collapse – 32 POINTS
Converge, You Fail Me – 32 POINTS
Sikth, Death of a Dead Day – 32 POINTS
Buried Inside, Chronoclast – 31 POINTS
The Crown, Crowned In Terror/Crowned Unholy - 31 POINTS
Decapitated, Nihility – 31 POINTS
Napalm Death, The Code is Red… Long Live the Code – 31 POINTS
The Melvins, A Senile Animal – 30 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seven Trumpets – 29 POINTS
Five Pointe 0, Untitled – 29 POINTS
Opeth, Damnation – 29 POINTS
Wolves in the Throne Room, Two Hunters – 29 POINTS
As I Lay Dying, Shadows Are Security – 28 POINTS
Big Business, Here Come the Water Works – 28 POINTS
Eyehategod, Confederacy of Ruined Lives – 28 POINTS
Glassjaw, Worship & Tribute – 28 POINTS
The Haunted, The Dead Eye – 28 POINTS
The Haunted, rEvolver – 28 POINTS
Himsa, Hail Horror – 28 POINTS
Symphony X, The Odyssey – 28 POINTS
System of a Down, Mezmerize/Hypnotize – 28 POINTS
Unearth, The Oncoming Storm – 28 POINTS
Immortal, Sons of Northern Darkness – 27 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, Alien – 27 POINTS
Enslaved, Isa – 26 POINTS
Unsane, Blood Run – 26 POINTS
16, Bridges to Burn – 25 POINTS
Deftones, Deftones – 25 POINTS
Dir En Grey, Withering to Death – 24 POINTS
High on Fire, Death is this Communion – 24 POINTS
High on Fire, Surrounded by Thieves – 24 POINTS
Poison the Well, You Come Before You – 24 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Follow the Reaper– 23 POINTS
Darkane, Insanity – 23 POINTS
God Forbid, Determination – 23 POINTS
Municipal Waste, Hazardous Mutation – 23 POINTS
Nile, Black Seeds of Vengeance – 23 POINTS
Pig Destroyer, Terrifyer – 23 POINTS
Protest the Hero, Fortress – 23 POINTS
Russian Circles, Enter – 23 POINTS
Soilwork, Chain Heart Machine – 23 POINTS
Unsane, Visqueen – 23 POINTS
At the Drive-In, Relationship of Command – 22 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, City of Evil – 22 POINTS
God Forbid, IV: Constitution of Treason – 22 POINTS
Green Carnation, Light Of Day… Day Of Darkness – 22 POINTS
Russian Circles, Station – 22 POINTS
7 Angels 7 Plagues, Jhazymne’s Lullaby – 21 POINTS
Andrew W.K., I Get Wet - 21 POINTS
Behemoth, The Apostasy – 21 POINTS
Behemoth, Demigod – 21 POINTS
Behemoth, Zos Kia Cultus – 21 POINTS
Crotchduster, Big Fat Box of Shit – 21 POINTS
The Crown, Possessed 13 – 21 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum – 21 POINTS
Drudkh, Autumn Aurora – 21 POINTS
The Hope Conspiracy, Endnote – 21 POINTS
Intronaut, Void – 21 POINTS
Katatonia, Last Fair Deal Gone Down – 21 POINTS
Krallice, Krallice – 21 POINTS
Meshuggah, Catch 33 – 21 POINTS
Muse, Absolution – 21 POINTS
Nasum, Helvete – 21 POINTS
Pain of Salvation, Remedy Lane – 21 POINTS
Scar Symmetry, Holographic Universe – 21 POINTS
Sunn O))), Flight of the Behemoth – 21 POINTS
The Sword, The Sword – 21 POINTS
Thrice, The Alchemy Index Vol 1 – 21 POINTS
The Austerity Program, Black Madonna – 20 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Kenose – 20 POINTS
Every Time I Die, Gutter Phenomenon – 20 POINTS
Jesu, Jesu – 20 POINTS
Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution – 20 POINTS
King Diamond, The Puppet Master – 20 POINTS
Municipal Waste, The Art of Partying – 20 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, Lightbulb Sun – 20 POINTS
Satanic Warmaster – Carelian Satanist Madness – 20 POINTS
Satyricon, Volcano – 20 POINTS
Becoming the Archetype, Terminate Damnation – 19 POINTS
Necrophagist, Epitaph – 19 POINTS
Bloodbath, Nightmares Made Flesh – 19 POINTS
Dark New Day, Twelve Year Silence – 19 POINTS
Extol, Undeceived – 19 POINTS
Eyehategod, Preaching the End Time Message – 19 POINTS
Torche, Torche – 19 POINTS
Tragedy, Tragedy – 19 POINTS
Forever is Forgotten, The Architecture is Still Burning – 19 POINTS
Helmet, Size Matters – 19 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum – 19 POINTS
Dying Fetus, Destroy the Opposition – 19 POINTS
Shining, IV: The Eerie Cold – 19 POINTS
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Of Natural History – 19 POINTS
Weakling, Dead as Dreams – 19 POINTS
Amesoeurs, Ruines Humaines – 18 POINTS
Chimaira, Pass Out of Existence – 18 POINTS
Corrosion of Conformity, America’s Volume Dealer – 18 POINTS
Darkest Hour, Deliver Us – 18 POINTS
Deadwater Drowning, Deadwater Drowning – 18 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice – 18 POINTS
From Autumn to Ashesh, Holding a Wolf by the Ears – 18 POINTS
Genghis Tron, Board Up the House – 18 POINTS
Soilent Green, Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down – 18 POINTS
Swallow the Sun, The Morning Never Came – 18 POINTS
This is Hell, Sundowning – 18 POINTS
Three, The End Is Begun – 18 POINTS
Type O Negative, Life is Killing Me – 18 POINTS
Orthrelm, Ov – 18 POINTS
Rotting Christ, Theogonia – 18 POINTS
Heaven and Hell, The Devil You Know – 18 POINTS
Isis, Celestial – 18 POINTS
Marduk, World Funeral – 18 POINTS
Kingdom of Sorrow, Kingdom of Sorrow – 18 POINTS
Into Eternity, Buried in Oblivion – 18 POINTS
Dimmu Borgir, Deathcult Armageddon – 18 POINTS
Benea Reach, Alleviat – 17 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Alaska – 17 POINTS
Blind Guardian, A Night at the Opera – 17 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, The Work Which Transforms God – 17 POINTS
Witchcraft, The Alchemist – 17 POINTS
Cradle of Filth, Midian – 17 POINTS
Crowbar, Sonic Excess in its Purest Form – 17 POINTS
The Darkness, Permission to Land – 17 POINTS
Coffins, Buried Death – 17 POINTS
The Crown, Deathrace King – 17 POINTS
Insomnium, Above the Weeping World – 17 POINTS
Shadows Fall, Fallout from the War – 17 POINTS
Superjoint Ritual, A Lethal Dose of American Hatred – 17 POINTS
Testament, First Strike Deadly Strike – 17 POINTS
Overcast, Reborn to Kill Again – 17 POINTS
Darkthrone, The Cult is Alive – 17 POINTS
Fistula, For a Better Tomorrow – 17 POINTS
Grand Magus, Iron Will – 17 POINTS
Devin Townsend, Terria – 17 POINTS
Wolves in the Throne Room, Diadem of 12 Stars – 17 POINTS
Amon Amarth, With Oden on Our Side – 16 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars – 16 POINTS
Norma Jean, The Anti Mother – 16 POINTS
Oxbox, The Narcotic Story – 16 POINTS
Norma Jean, Redeemer – 16 POINTS
The Sword, Age of Winters – 16 POINTS
Vital Remains, Dechristianize – 16 POINTS
The Red Chord, Clients – 16 POINTS
Obscura, Cosmogenesis – 16 POINTS
Bolt Thrower, Those Once Loyal – 16 POINTS
Cavalera Conspiracy, Inflikted – 16 POINTS
Death, Live in LA – 16 POINTS
Exodus, The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A – 16 POINTS
Cult of Luna, Somewhere Along the Highway – 16 POINTS
Disfear, Live the Storm – 16 POINTS
Watain, Casus Luciferi – 16 POINTS
Archgoat, Whore of Bethlehem – 15 POINTS
The Agony Scene, The Darkest Red – 15 POINTS
Battle of Mice, A Day of Nights – 15 POINTS
Blotted Science, The Machinations of Dementia – 15 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, Mort – 15 POINTS
Darkest Hour, Undoing Ruin – 15 POINTS
Decapitated, The Negation – 15 POINTS
Despised Icon, Ills of Modern Man – 15 POINTS
Nachtmystium, Instinct: Decay – 15 POINTS
Old Man Gloom, Christmas – 15 POINTS
Nadja, Radiance of Shadows – 15 POINTS
Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze – 15 POINTS
Doomriders, Black Thunder – 15 POINTS
Draconian, Where Lovers Mourn – 15 POINTS
Disfear, Misanthropic Generation – 15 POINTS
Thrice, Vheissu – 15 POINTS
Taint, The Ruin of Nova Roma – 15 POINTS
Dark Fortress, Eidolon - 15 POINTS
A Life Once Lost, Hunter – 14 POINTS
Agalloch, Ashes Against the Grain – 14 POINTS
Clutch, Pure Rock Fury – 14 POINTS
Coliseum, No Salvation – 14 POINTS
Misery Signals, Of Malice and Magnum Heart – 14 POINTS
Snapcase, Designs for Automotion – 14 POINTS
Necrophagist, Onset of Putrefaction – 14 POINTS
Samothrace, Life’s Trade – 14 POINTS
Poison the Well, Tear from the Red – 14 POINTS
Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R – 14 POINTS
Seemless, Seemless – 14 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, Fear of a Blank Planet - 14 POINTS
Nile, In Their Darkened Shrines – 14 POINTS
Pelican, Australasia – 14 POINTS
Dark Tranquility, Character – 14 POINTS
Kayo Dot, Choirs of the Eye – 14 POINTS
Enslaved, Ruun – 14 POINTS
Floor, Floor – 14 POINTS
Spiral Architect, A Sceptic’s Universe – 14 POINTS
Devin Townsend, Ziltoid – 14 POINTS
Today is the Day, Sadness Will Prevail – 14 POINTS
Starkweather, Croatoan – 14 POINTS
He is Legend, Suck Out the Poison – 14 POINTS
Dark Tranquility, Fiction – 14 POINTS
Zozobra, Harmonic Tremors – 14 POINTS
Aborted, Goremageddon – 13 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, Waking the Fallen – 13 POINTS
Boris, Flood – 13 POINTS
Breather Resist, Charmer – 13 POINTS
Dillinger Escape Plan, Irony is a Dead Scene – 13 POINTS
Fall of Troy, Doppelganger – 13 POINTS
Melechesh, Emissaries – 13 POINTS
Nasum, Human 2.0 – 13 POINTS
Nasum, Shift – 13 POINTS
Neurorsis, Given to the Rising – 13 POINTS
Salome, Salome – 13 POINTS
Satyricon, Now Diabolical – 13 POINTS
Septic Flesh, Communion – 13 POINTS
Slayer, God Hates Us All – 13 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, In Absentia - 13 POINTS
Spineshank, The Height of Callousness – 13 POINTS
Underoath, Lost in the Sound of Separation – 13 POINTS
Underoath, The Changing of Times – 13 POINTS
*shells, Sea of the Dying Dhow – 13 POINTS
Tombs, Winter Hours – 13 POINTS
Gorguts, From Wisdom to Hate – 13 POINTS
Cannibal Corpse, Evisceration Plague – 13 POINTS
Chimaira, Chimaira – 13 POINTS
Darkane, Layers of Lies – 13 POINTS
Dream Theater, Train of Thought – 13 POINTS
The End, Elementary – 13 POINTS
Young Widows, Old Wounds – 13 POINTS
Arsis, We Are the Nightmare – 12 POINTS
The Banner, Each Breath Haunted – 12 POINTS
Bloodbath, The Fathomless Mastery – 12 POINTS
Cathedral, Endtyme – 12 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Blooddrunk – 12 POINTS
Spylacopa, Spylacopa – 12 POINTS
Swallow the Sun, Hope – 12 POINTS
Goatwhore, The Eclipse of Ages into Black – 12 POINTS
Hate Eternal, I, Monarch – 12 POINTS
Job For A Cowboy, Doom - 12 POINTS
Dead to Fall, Villainy and Virtue – 12 POINTS
Dragonforce, Inhuman Rampage – 12 POINTS
Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Seperation – 12 POINTS
Earthless, Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky – 12 POINTS
The Melvins, Nude with Boots – 12 POINTS
Slayer, Christ Illusion – 12 POINTS
Warbringer, War Without End – 12 POINTS
Woe, A Spell for the Death of Man – 12 POINTS
Amon Amartha, Twilight of the Thunder God – 11 POINTS
Byzantine, The Fundamental Component – 11 POINTS
Boris, Smile – 11 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Hate Crew Deathroll – 11 POINTS
Daath, The Concealers – 11 POINTS
Dagon, Paranormal Ichthyology - 11 POINTS
Diabolical Masquerade, Death’s Design - 11 POINTS
Down to Nothing, Splitting Headache – 11 POINTS
Evergreen Terrace, Wolfbiker – 11 POINTS
God Forbid, Gone Forever – 11 POINTS
Immolation, Close to a World Below – 11 POINTS
Leviathan, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life – 11 POINTS
Mudvayne, LD 50 – 11 POINTS
Naglfar, Pariah – 11 POINTS
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Grand Opening and Closing – 11 POINTS
Soilwork, Figure #5 – 11 POINTS
Suffocation, Suffocation – 11 POINTS
Terror, Lowest of the Low – 11 POINTS
Testament, The Gathering – 11 POINTS
Thursday, Full Coverage – 11 POINTS
Watch Them Die, Watch Them Die – 11 POINTS
Yakuza, Way of the Dead – 11 POINTS
Akercocke, Words That Go Unspoken… – 10 POINTS
The Black Dahlia Murder, Unhallowed – 10 POINTS
The Bronx, The Bronx – 10 POINTS
Cold, 13 Ways to Bleed Onstage – 10 POINTS
Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist – 10 POINTS
Demon Hunter, Demon Hunter – 10 POINTS
Evile, Enter the Grave – 10 POINTS
Fear Before the March of Flames, The Always Open Mouth – 10 POINTS
Job for a Cowboy, Genesis – 10 POINTS
Medeia, Cult – 10 POINTS
Motorhead, We Are Motorhead – 10 POINTS
Pelican, City of Echoes – 10 POINTS
Phobia, Cruel – 10 POINTS
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, In Glorious Times – 10 POINTS
The Sword, Gods of the Earth – 10 POINTS
Sunn O))), Black One – 10 POINTS
Soilent Green, Inevitable Collapse… – 10 POINTS
The Faceless, Planetary Duality – 9 POINTS
Abigail Williams, Legends – 9 POINTS
Big Business, Head for the Shallow – 9 POINTS
Blacklisted, Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier than God – 9 POINTS
Discordance Axis, The Inalieable Dreamless – 9 POINTS
Genghis Tron, Dead Mountain Mouth – 9 POINTS
Goatwhore, Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun – 9 POINTS
God Forbid, Earthsblood – 9 POINTS
The Haunted, Made Me Do It – 9 POINTS
Lostprophets, Start Something – 9 POINTS
Mercenary, Eleven Dreams – 9 POINTS
Motorhead, Inferno – 9 POINTS
Regurgitate, Deviant – 9 POINTS
Devin Townsend, Physicist – 9 POINTS
Weedeater, God Luck and Good Speed – 9 POINTS
Yob, Elaborations of Carbon – 9 POINTS
ASG, Win Us Over – 8 POINTS
Amorphis, Am Universum – 8 POINTS
Anaal Nathrakh, The Codex Necro – 8 POINTS
At All Cost, Circle of Demons – 8 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta I: Dialogue with the Stars – 8 POINTS
Boris, Pink – 8 POINTS
Dalek, Absence – 8 POINTS
Dead Man, Euphoria – 8 POINTS
Hella, There is No 666 in Outer Space – 8 POINTS
Horrorpops, Bring it On – 8 POINTS
Jesu, Silver – 8 POINTS
Keep of Kalessin, Armada – 8 POINTS
Living Sacrifice, The Hammering Process – 8 POINTS
Marduk, Warschau – 8 POINTS
Motorhead, Motorizer – 8 POINTS
Trap Them, Seizures in Barren Praise – 8 POINTS
Amon Amarth, Versus the World – 7 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Between the Buried and Me – 7 POINTS
Black Cobra, Bestial – 7 POINTS
Bloodsimple, A Cruel World – 7 POINTS
Byzantine, …And they Shall Take Up Serpents - 7 POINTS
Dissection, Reinkaus – 7 POINTS
Eighteen Visions, Vanity – 7 POINTS
Eluveitie, Slania – 7 POINTS
Graveyard, Graveyard – 7 POINTS
Impiety, Paramount Evil – 7 POINTS
Lacuna Coil, Karmacode – 7 POINTS
Megadeth, The System Has Failed – 7 POINTS
Mesuggah, I – 7 POINTS
Mnemic, The Audio Injected Soul – 7 POINTS
Monster Magnet, God Says No – 7 POINTS
Norma Jean, Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child – 7 POINTS
Odious Mortem, Devouring the Prophecy – 7 POINTS
Pelican, The Fire in Our Throats… – 7 POINTS
Remembering Never, God Save Us – 7 POINTS
The Acacia Strain, Continent – 6 POINTS
Bestial Holocaust, Final Extermination – 6 POINTS
Chevelle, Wonder What’s Next – 6 POINTS
Dark Tranquility, Damage Done – 6 POINTS
Death Breath, Stinking Up the Night – 6 POINTS
Decrepit Birth, …And Time Begins – 6 POINTS
Horrorpops, Hell Yeah – 6 POINTS
Isis, Mosquito Control – 6 POINTS
Scarve, Irradiant – 6 POINTS
The Showdown, Temptation Come My Way – 6 POINTS
Slipknot, All Hope is Gone – 6 POINTS
Spawn of Possession, Cabinet – 6 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, SYL – 6 POINTS
Stuck Mojo, Declaration of a Headhunter – 6 POINTS
3 Inches of Blood, Fire Up the Blades – 5 POINTS
Boy Sets Fire, After the Eulogy – 5 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Hatebreder– 5 POINTS
Cormorant, Metazoa – 5 POINTS
Darkest Hour, So Sedated, So Secure – 5 POINTS
Demiricous, Two (Poverty) – 5 POINTS
Dream Theater, Live Scenes from a Memory – 5 POINTS
Every Time I Die, Last Night in Town – 5 POINTS
Exit Strategy, United States of Amnesia – 5 POINTS
Exodus, Shovel Headed Kill Machine – 5 POINTS
Ihsahn, The Adversary – 5 POINTS
Keelhaul, Subject to Change Without Notice – 5 POINTS
Mustach, Lowlife Highlights – 5 POINTS
Neurosis, The Eye of Every Storm – 5 POINTS
Old Man’s Child, Revelation 666 – 5 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, In Absentia – 5 POINTS
Psyopus, Ideas of Reference – 5 POINTS
Rammstein, Reise, Reise – 5 POINTS
Sigh, Imaginary Sonicscape – 5 POINTS
WASP, Unholy Terror – 5 POINTS
Acid Bath, Demos: 1993 – 1996 – 4 POINTS
Austrian Death Machine, Total Brutal – 4 POINTS
Bleeding Through, This is Love, This is Murderous – 4 POINTS
Cobalt, Eater of Birds – 4 POINTS
Dark Funeral, Attera Totus Sanctus – 4 POINTS
Fuck the Facts, Disgorge Mexico – 4 POINTS
Hate Eternal, King of Kings – 4 POINTS
iwrestledabearonce, It’s All Happening – 4 POINTS
Judas Priest, Nostradamus – 4 POINTS
Killswitch Engage, As Daylight Dies – 4 POINTS
Nightwish, Once – 4 POINTS
The Ocean, Precambrian – 4 POINTS
Old Man’s Child, Vermin – 4 POINTS
Origin, Antithesis – 4 POINTS
Torche, In Return – 4 POINTS
Tomahawk, Tomahawk – 4 POINTS
Velvet Revolver, Contraband – 4 POINTS
Insect Warfare, World Extermination – 4 POINTS
VOD, From Bliss to Devastation – 3 POINTS
Watain, Sworn to the Dark – 3 POINTS
Beatallica, Beatallica – 3 POINTS
Extol, Synergy – 3 POINTS
Gojira, The Link – 3 POINTS
Hammerfall, Renegade – 3 POINTS
Hate Eternal, Fury & Flames – 3 POINTS
The Holy Mountain, Enemies – 3 POINTS
Ihsahn, angL – 3 POINTS
Killing Joke, Killing Joke – 3 POINTS
Living Sacrifice, Conceived in Fire – 3 POINTS
Megadeth, United Abominations – 3 POINTS
Metallica, St. Anger – 3 POINTS
Morbid Angel, Gateways to Annihilation – 3 POINTS
My Dying Bride, Songs of Darkness… – 3 POINTS
Opeth, Still Life – 3 POINTS
Sevendust, Next – 3 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, The New Black – 3 POINTS
Soilwork, Predator’s Portrait – 3 POINTS
Soulfly, Soulfly – 3 POINTS
Sunn O))), Whitel – 3 POINTS
Sybreed, Slave Design – 3 POINTS
Today is the Day, Kiss the Pig – 3 POINTS
Velnias, Sovereign Nocturnal – 3 POINTS
Weedeater, And Justice for Y’all – 3 POINTS
Wetnurse, Invisible City – 3 POINTS
36 Crazyfists, A Snow Capped Romance – 2 POINTS
Absu, Tara – 2 POINTS
Architects, Hollow Crown – 2 POINTS
Bantam, Suicide Tourist – 2 POINTS
Burst, Origio – 2 POINTS
Dark Castle, Flight of the Pegasus – 2 POINTS
Everygrey, The Inner Circle – 2 POINTS
Horna, Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne – 2 POINTS
Icepick, Distress Signal – 2 POINTS
Ministry, Animositisomina - 2 POINTS
Misery Index, Dissent – 2 POINTS
Order of the Ennead, Order of the Ennead – 2 POINTS
Ritual Day, Sky Lake – 2 POINTS
Virus, The Black Flux – 2 POINTS
War of Ages, Pride of the Wicked – 2 POINTS
Arch Enemy, Doomsday Machine – 1 POINT
Bad Brains, Build a Nation – 1 POINT
Birushanah, Akai Yami – 1 POINT
The Black Dahlia Murder, Miasma – 1 POINT
Chimaira, Resurrection – 1 POINT
Chthonic, Seediq Bale – 1 POINT
Embodyment, The Narrow Scope of Things – 1 POINT
Facedowninshit, NPON – 1 POINT
Fantomas, The Director’s Cut – 1 POINT
Godflesh, Hymns – 1 POINT
Gorefest, La Muerte – 1 POINT
H.I.M., Love Metal – 1 POINT
Iced Earth, Horror Show – 1 POINT
In Flames, Soundtrack to Your Escape – 1 POINT
Isis, In The Absence of Truth – 1 POINT
Kreator, Enemy of God – 1 POINT
Meatjack, Days of Fire – 1 POINT
Madball, The Best of Madball – 1 POINT
Nattefrost, Blood & Vomit – 1 POINT
Negativa, Negativa – 1 POINT
Nora, Dreamers and Deadmen – 1 POINT
Psychostick, Sandwich – 1 POINT
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Buried in the Front Yard – 1 POINT
Textures, Polars - 1 POINT
Voodoo Kungfu, Ci An – 1 POINT
THE PANEL OF VOTERS
Chris Adler, Lamb of God
Dan And, Bison B.C.
Ben Apatoff, Apatoff for Destruction/Metal Injection
Jason Bittner, Shadows Fall
Tim Brennan, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
Freddy Cai, Painkiller Magazine
Ian Christe, Bazillion Points
Reverend David J. Ciancio, Yeah! Management
Betsey Cichoracki, Relapse Records
Paul Conroy, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
J. Costa, Thy Will Be Done
Dallas Coyle, ex-God Forbid/Coyle Media
Doc Coyle, God Forbid
CT, Rwake
Anso DF, MetalSucks/Hipsters Out of Metal!
Vince Edwards, Metal Blade Records
Charles Elliott, Abysmal Dawn/Nuclear Blast Records
Brian Fair, Shadows Fall
Leo Ferrante, Warner Music Group
D.X. Ferris, author 33 1/3: Reign in Blood/Freelance Journalist
Mike Gitter, Roadrunner Records
Nick Green, Decibel
Matt Grenier, August Burns Red
Anthony Guzzardo, Earache Records
Kevin Hufnagel, Dysrhythmia
Mark Hunter, Chimaira
Steve Joh, Century Media
EJ Johantgen, Prosthetic Records
Kim Kelly, Metal Injection/Hails & Horns/Freelance Journalist
Josh “The J” Key, Psychostick
Jason Lekberg, Epic Records
Eyal Levi, Daath
Bob Lugowe, Relapse Records
Matt McChesney, The Autumn Offering
Jake McReynolds, Psychostick
Marc Meltzer, The Syndicate
Josh Middleton, Sylosis
Matt Moore, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Vince Neilstein, MetalSucks
Sammy O’Hagar, MetalSucks
Anton OyVey, MetalSucks/Bacon Jew
Rob Pasbani, Metal Injection
Alex Preiss, Psychostick
Carlos Ramirez, NoiseCreep/Universal Music Group
Brian Rocha, Fresno Media USA
Jeremy Rosen, Roadrunner Records
Axl Rosenberg, MetalSucks
Satan Rosenbloom, MetalSucks/Cerebral Metalhead
David Bee Roth, MetalSucks
Jason Rudolph, Heavy Hitter, Inc.
Amy Sciarretto, Roadrunner Records/NoiseCreep
Carl Severson, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
Gary Suarez, MetalSucks/No Yoko No/Brainwashed
Geoff Summers, The End Records/Crustcake
Bram Teitelman, The Syndicate/Metal Insider
Alisha Turull, Heavy Hitter, Inc.
Christopher R. Weingarten, 1000TimesYes/Freelance Journalist
So, Vince asked me to participate in this poll as well, but I was too swamped writing my next book and could not come up with a list in time. Here’s what I had written down before the deadline
1. Bergraven – Dodsvisioner
2. Jucifer – L’Autchrienne
3. System of a Down – Steal This Album!
4. Machinehead – Through the Ashes of Empires
5. Poison the Well – You Come Before You
6. Testament – The Formation of Damnation
7. Cobalt – Eater of Birds
Doubt it would have changed anything, but food for thought.
Mad props for the Jucifer and Cobalt love, dude! If I’d had a few more spaces to spare, they’d have ended up on my list as well.
Cobalt is great, especially ‘GIN’
Gin will definitely be on my Top 10 list at the end of this year.
Fuck yeah that’s a gnarly album
I also would have included The Agony Scene, Agalloch, Exodus, Grails, Pelican, BTB&M (The Silent Circus), Nachtmystium (Instinct: Decay), Mantic Ritual, Violator, and Trinacria.
Oh, and Death Magnetic. I kid.
Death Magnetic suicks monkeyballs! Why is that so hard to see?? Cocksucker…
Hey anal prolapse dingleberry — I slammed Death Magnetic on this here blog way back in 2008. http://www.metalsucks.net/2008/09/11/an-old-fart-takes-on-metallica%e2%80%99s-death-magnetic/
Learn how to read, ‘tard for brains.
BTW, looking back at my Death Magnetic review from last year, I find hee-fuckin’-larious how many of you were quick to suck this album’s cock and bash The Old Fart. Now, nearly a year later, not a whole lot of DM love. I guess you guys finally woke up. Congrats!
Good thing I’ve hated it from the start. I wish you went into detail in your review about how horrible the production is. Otherwise, I agree with everything you wrote about it.
Grails! Doomsdayer holliday is awesome.
Jucifer! HELL YEAH!!!
It surprises me that Death Magnetic almost made the list (2 points less than Slipknot)
It’s nice to see that Cynic and Arsis were voted by some of these voters. Although I am a little surprised that Opeth’s “Damnation” was voted (at 29 points) considering that wasn’t meant to be a metal album
Could’nt agree more. DM was a terrible album! It kind of sounded like shit with a hint of diarrhea. You know when it explodes out your ass and you still get a backsplash…
I’d rather Damnation than any of the non-metal albums that got on the list.
Damnation was an okay album for me. I still haven’t been able to really get into it. It just seems there are better bands playing that kind of music. I felt Opeth should stick with that they know and are good at. I do agree that Damnation was more metal than 98% of that list.
I know I’m going to get bashed for saying this, but I actually enjoy Death Magnetic. However, I wouldn’t have put it on a ‘best of’ list for the 21 century.
For me, Damnation is one of those albums where I have to be in the right mood to listen to it. I give Opeth props for making such an album, but I do agree with you Canvas that they should stick with what they do best.
Soulfly’s self-titled came out in 1997…I wonder if people are going to complain about this list? lol
you’re right, it did…. what the hell?
glad to see maiden and meshuggah high up nonetheless…
Mosquito control by Isis came out in ‘98 as well and it’s on there
That s/t Soulfly is a killer album nonetheless; but sadly, everything after it has been yaaawn.
I haven’t had time to read the complete list, but something that caught my eye was a few albums that came out in the 90s (Still Life). Also, what fuckin’ douche voted for HIM?!
Yo momma!
Clever.
lol Now that’s one helluva list.
well, thats, uh – that’s a list of metal albums all right.
But who the fuck voted for H.I.M?!
AHHHH… COC, America’s Volume Dealer. Exxxcccellent album. One of the greatest classic rock albums from the modern era. Total classic. If that kind of thing is your bag, check it out.
Nora, one of the great underrated metalcore bands.
And they clearly miscalculated when they were tallying the votes for High on the Fire’s Blessed Barbeque Wings. I think they meant 772 points, not 72.
Agreed on America’s Volume Dealer….. GREAT ALBUM!
“St. Anger – 3 points” OKAY, WHO VOTED FOR THIS CRAP? Own up.
i did. Wanna fight about it?
Ok, the list is about 3/4 shit. But the 1/4 of good stuff is really good.
just like metal in general. and everything.
Agreed, there is some really good stuff on here, but it’s surrounded by lots of crap.
im so suprised how alot of the albums i thought people regarded as the pinnacle of bands work ( i.e. We are the Nightmare) renked so low
I don’t really like tech. death metal, but no Arsis fan realistically thinks that WatN is anywhere near their other albums. It’s **weedly weedly** garbage.
WatN is good but A Celebration of Guilt is awesome!
Municipal Waste, The Art of Partying – 20 POINTS. Should have been in the top 21.
Nah, Hazardous Mutation.
should have had 0 points.
#489 Metallica – St. Anger with an epic 3 points.
Haha i’d have loved to have seen Death Magnetic make the list after all the shit talking about Metallica on this site.
They talk shit about a lot of the albums here.
I’d take White Pony and any of the other “non-metal” albums making that list over Death Magnetic any day. Death Magnetic sucks.
I rather listen to good music than any of the non-metal albums mentioned, or Metallica. Clip Magnetic was awful.
The only thing I can agree with Zitload on; Death Magnetic is/was the worst fucken crap I’ve ever heard. They should either retire, or better-yet: die in a plane-crash. That way America can mourn them for 6mos on every goddamned channel on their TVs.
I have to admit that I’ve ALWAYS hated Metallica…
Maiden’s Brave New World should have entered the list, it’s a masterpiece. Can’t believe Deftones did and Maiden didn’t.
Guarantee many of the better albums up there (Imaginary Sonicscape, Those Once Loyal, In Glorious Times, The Code Is Red…, Phantom Limb, just to name a few) would’ve made the list if they were on roadrunner and had a music video in heavy rotation on headbanger’s ball.
Also should point out that given the way this list was created, with its points system and all that, a more proper title would’ve been 21 most popular metal albums of the 21st century.
As expected, there were some excellent albums in there, but a majority of that list was crappy as well, but…
Cormorant, Metazoa – 5 POINTS
WHO VOTED FOR THIS?!?!?!?!?!?
#1 This hasn’t even been released yet (they’re probably going to self-release it)
#2 That band is REALLY FUCKING GOOD
#3 Their bassist/vocalist, Arthur von Nagel is a really cool guy.
#4 MS, just tell me who voted for this? I’d have lots of respect for them.
I can’t wait for this album, but it hasn’t even been released.
http://www.myspace.com/cormorantmusic
here is their myspace. check out two of the tracks from their Metazoa. think of Opeth + Enslaved and you sort of have Cormorant. They’re basically death/folk/black metal with influences from many other genres. Of the obscure bands I like, this is definitely one of my favorites.
That band sucked! I just checked them out and it sounded like some 14 year olds that are pissed off because they have no rehearsal space so they have to practice in the garage…
Can’t say I care for the songs myself, but really… ” it sounded like some 14 year olds that are pissed off because they have no rehearsal space so they have to practice in the garage…”?
Come the fuck on now, of all the things to attack a band for, production?
14 year olds? They had SUPERSTAR PRODUCER BILLY ANDERSON, who worked with Neurosis, Giant Squid, and many others.
Their producer has nothing to do with if they sound like 14 year olds, so your counter point is moot…anyways that band is really good
I know, but a few people showed me that typing out “SUPERSTAR PRODUCER BILLY ANDERSON” is sort of a meme that a few of Cormorant’s fans started. I felt like continuing it. But they are really really good.
They definitely don’t suck and don’t sound like “pissed off 14 year olds,” they just sound like a band that really wants to be Opeth, but it’s not quite working.
I’ll have to check it out when I get home tonight. Myspace is blocked here where I work. From your description it sounds like something I’d like since Enslaved it one of my favorite bands.
They’re pretty good… and I live right by them, so I’ll be going to all their shows this summer.
They’re quite good live. They opened up a Paganfest show (I think it was the San Fransisco one), and the venue (DNA lounge) video-streamed the whole performance online. Very good performance. Definitely go to their shows, and buy Metazoa when It’s released. I know I’ll be buying it. Also, I have no clue how many shirts they have left, but they did have a very pimpadelic blue shirt with their new logo on it.
They also have an EP, “The Last Tree,” which is also pretty good, especially the track “Ballad of the Beast.” Yeah, I really like this band.
Hey – I voted for this record. I’m the band’s publicist (with Catharsis PR), which is how I got my hands on their incredible new album. It hasn’t been officially released yet, but I’ve been listening to it constantly for the past few months and truly felt that it deserved inclusion in my list. Once it does come out (some interesting announcements regarding the release will be made soon) you guy are going to shit yourself. Thanks for the support, Ziltoid!
Checked them out! Pretty interesting band…definitely will check them out more
Haha, I showed Arthur and Matt the voters and asked who had a copy, and they both mentioned that you were their publicist. Arthur said that the album art should be ready soon, and I can’t wait to hear the other announcements. I am quite prepared to shit myself many times over once I get my copy of Metazoa.
you need to chill out some time dude
I’m perfectly chill. I just happen to like giving a bit of publicity to an obscure band that I like.
WTFZOMG!!??? NO KORN??!!!!
/sarcasm
I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!
I admittedly (and proudly) don’t have the widest range of taste in metal, but I’m glad that there were a few on there that I really dig (Pelican, Down, Crowbar, The Sword, Baroness). I’m kinda miffed that Iced Earth’s “The Glorious Burden” wasn’t there (at least I didn’t see it) and neither was Type O Negative’s “Dead Again” (which kicks Sevendust and Velvet Revolver’s asses to sleep). I also would have swapped out C.O.C.’s “America’s Volume Dealer” for “In the Arms of God”, although I do like “AVD”.
Lostprophets?? Evergreen Terrace?? Really?? I wonder who in the hell voted for them.. that’s.. laughable I think…
I’m glad to see Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Scar Symmetry and Insomnium at least join this list. Anyway, to me, the absence, not only on the first 21 albums, but in this list too, of Ensiferum, Wintersun and Kalmah remains a mystery.
Oh, and Protest The Hero deserves a word too… Fortress was an hell of an album.
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share each persons list
Nothingface’s Skeletons should’ve taken Shitsnot’s place. And it’s nice to see obZen up high..
Spitfire I can understand. Buit no Cephalic Carnage or Cursed? Pff, pretty crappy list.
Well there’s alot more worthy albums that belong in the top 21 list but 1/2 of it is still isn’t that great. Though I think some of these picks were chosen purely as a joke. I mean some ass actually voted for HIM and St. Anger??
^Haha. I noticed that too. Fire Up The Blades deserves more than 5 points. 3IOB are fuckin’ phenomenal.
Advance And Vanquish was way better though.
ok so i like queens of the stone age and all, but how in the world could anyone vote for them to be on this list?
i wish the opinions had all just come from the bands, minus the industry execs and what not.
Hahaha, Death Magnetic almost made it!
It did my heart good to see Every Time I Die’s Hot Damn on the list. It’s probably one of my favorites albums of all time. Also, kudos who ever voted for Glassjaw though they aren’t really all that metal.
Highly agreed. Glassjaw is dangerously underrated and both of those albums mentioned are amazing, even though I wouldn’t consider it metal. Same with Muse.
I’m surprised Colors was as low as it was I would of expected it to be right outside the top 21 given it wasnt in there for some reason. And not a single vote for Circle Takes the Square…..
Arch Enemy’s Doomsday Machine only got 1 point. WTF!!!
To be fair it was a pretty weak album and didn’t really deserve any more than that.
but does it have to be lower than St. Anger!?!
What the fuck no Taproot!
I really though a DEP album would make the cut.
MASTODON FTW
The Human Abstract isn’t even on this list. Sad. Yet some asshole voted for HIM. And why are Type O, Chimaira, Iced Earth and Fantomas so low?
Some of these bands aren’t even metal. Boys set fire, and horrorpops…I mean, really? Did you guys look at one of theirs albums and think. “eh, it sorta looks metal, thus…it IS metal!” I understand these are albums that DIDN’T make it. But why are some of these even on the list that could have made it?
Warms the heart to see Cynic high up on this list, as it does with Jesu and Isis. Thanks for posting this. Now, when will you do a Metalsucks readers list?
What the hell Velvet Revolver?
Yes. Velvet Revolver.
What the fuck indeed, Chris.
Hell Destroyer by Cage should have gotten some love. Not the most complex music but it’s so epic.
Arch Enemy does not have an album called “Wages Of Sin”. Ziltoid is an elitist douche, but seems very knowledgeable.
http://metal-archives.com/release.php?id=29
Yes they do.
Um, yes they do. It was released in 2001. Not sure who told you otherwise…
My friend has that album.
Probably the best thing they’ve done with Angel Gossow, not that that’s saying much.
fuck yeah arch enemy has an album named wages of sin, that´s the album the track ravenous is on!!! stupid dumbass
can´t fuckin believe that bloodbaths fathomless mastery only got 12 points !!!
The last decent Arch Enemy album was Stigmata.
what’s wrong with you?
Yeah they do, and it’s one of their best albums (maybe the best, overall).
Death magnetic… with More votes than Neurosis, Gojira, Drudkh, Wolves in the throne romm, high on fire, or electric wizard. I have no words for my disappointment
Death Magnetic? F/ck that. An Isis and Meshuggah album should have definitely made the list.
Once again…CORMORANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>Muse, Absolution – 21 POINTS
they’re ok but what’s this doing on a metal poll?
Muse will metal your face off
I like Muse but they aren’t metal
I fully expect all of these albums to be 522% off.
Given that PTH’s Fortress was the first album MS gave five horns to, it seems odd that it garnered so few votes. Can one conclude that whoever reviewed it had a much higher opinion of the album than the rest of the MS crew?
What we can take away from this list is the sheer breadth of the metal genre. It appears to be true that, by and large, the more mainstreamish and popularesque records came out on top, but it’s obvious that there’s a lot of love for more underground, extreme and/or genre-bending acts out there too.
I’m also amused and heartened to see that nearly every High On Fire album is in here somewhere.
FUCK YEAH MUSE
THEY ARE METAL AFTER ALL, I KNEW YOU LOVED US MS, I NEVER LOST FAITH ONCE. HOLD ME.
what fucking moron put Opeth’s “Still LIfe” on there? that came out in 99′.
Glad to see a good variety of metal on there, and some appreciation for all of Deathspell Omega’s 2004-2009 releases. Great band, worth every word of praise they get. Also pleased to see Enslaved as well as Katatonia’s “Last fair deal gone down”, my favorite album of theirs. Cobalt’s “Eater of Birds” is deserving as well, too bad their newest “Gin” wasn’t released in time for the poll, as I think it is the stronger record. I wasn’t expecting to see Horna, Watain, Archgoat or Satanic Warmaster on here, but it looks like at least a couple of these judges know their black metal.
The “List” has been some what redeemed by the inclusion of the dark horse picks.
Jesus Christ people (see I can use Jesus’ name because he is one of our people, and we also supposedly killed him). Anyway, I’ve kept quiet on these boards since I am a contributor here on Metalsucks, but after reading your rants, I had to give a sermon.
OPEN UP YOUR EARS! I’m lucky enough to own over 8000 albums (between CDs, MP3s and even those 12″ round vinyl things). I own every Ulver record, every Opeth record, every Bergraven record. But I also own every Tori Amos record, everything Phil Collins has ever sung on, and even every Korn record.
It’s called being well-rounded.
Sorry that the new Malignancy record didn’t make the Top 21 list, but that record didn’t make the impact that these others did. Fine, you don’t like Deftones or Slipknot, but I’m guessing you all own those records and were fans when they first came out, before they got “popular”. If Dark Funeral was on Headbangers Ball, sold some records, and made it on this list, I’m sure you’d be saying “Dark Funeral, oh, they are so MTV TRL”
Just be happy that people appreciate all that is metal, whether it is Killswitch Engage or Krallice. If it wasn’t for “mainstream” metal bands, then there would be no industry for these underground bands to exist. And be happy that websites like Metalsucks are bringing the metal to new fans and helping bands get some recognition in a time where 90% of you are probably not even paying for the music that you are ranting about.
Any album I have recommended, I have bought. Owning Tori Amon and Korn and whatnot doesn’t make you well rounded if you listen to metal as well. Hell, mainstream anything and metal doesn’t really equate to well-roundedness. But if you listen to metal and lots of other types of music, like jazz, or maybe some good electronic music, such as Aphex Twin (IDM, I highly rec “Richard D. James Album”) and Biosphere (ambient, and I highly rec “Substrata”), then you’re well rounded. You sound like that one person who says “Oh, I listen to everything of music” and then lists Linkin Park and Frank Sinatra. Are they different? Yes. Does that mean you have a broad music taste? No.
I’m glad to see you are buying music – and actually have good taste. I love Aphex Twin (AFX, Polygon Window, etc). Richard D. James is one of my favorites of all time. Biosphere is great as well – which means I am sure you listen to things like Vidna Obmana, etc.
Ironically enough, I’ve been getting into Vidna Obmana as of late. For the most part, electronic music is relatively new to me (I’ve been into it on-and-off for about a year, and binging on a select few artists), but Legacy is a pretty good album. Any more recs like Vidna or Biosphere?
Ziltoid – here are some good “atmospheric” stuff like Biosphere, Vidna and even Aphex Twin. These range from very minimal soundscapes to the more “shoegazer” like Earth, etc. Check out these artists, should be up your alley
Robert Rich
Steve Roach and Robert King’s “Dust To Dust” album
Trial Of The Bow
Klaus Schulze
Unit
Lustmord
Brian Eno
Ulrich Schnauss
Are you that dude that programs video games from Grandma’s Boy?
Who are you, and what have you done with Zitload?
NOBODY WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS A FUCKING THING ABOUT ELECTRONIC MUSIC WOULD EVER USE THE TERM ‘IDM’.
ONLY WANKERS CALL IT THAT.
You are wrong.
I am right. See, I can play this game as well.
and here is my Top 21 list in case you all are wondering where I am coming from on my tastes:
Opeth – Blackwater Park
In Flames – Clayman
Torche – Meanderthal
Three – The End Is Begun
Devin Townsend – Terria
Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Green Carnation – Light Of Day…Day Of Darkness
Opeth – Deliverance
Septic Flesh – Communion
System Of A Down – Toxicity
Diabolical Masquerade – Death’s Design
Demon Hunter – Demon Hunter
Enslaved – Ruun
Mastodon – Leviathan
Eluveitie – Slania
Metallica – Death Magnetic
Ihsahn – The Adversary
Tomahawk – Tomahawk
Russian Circles – Enter
Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache
H.I.M. – Love Metal
Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
I am happy to see Ihsahn getting some love.
Apart from a few (HIM? KSE? Dimmu Burger? N*FLAMES? Demon Hunter? Clip Magnetic?), that was actually a half-decent list. The good half is quite good, though.
I didn’t expect anyone to mention 3
Loving the russian circles… playing enter right now actually
Great call with Green Carnation. That’s an incredible album.
I don’t mind the music I listen to being popular. My two favorite bands are Iron Maiden and Queen. I wouldn’t mind seeing Dark Funeral on MTV, although I don’t have cable or satellite. Being well-rounded is one thing, liking shitty music simply because it’s popular is another.
Obviously when someone listens to obscure bands and also popular stuff they’re not listening to it just becuase it’s popular. They’re listening to it because they like it and don’t really give a damn about anyone elses opinion.
8000 albums? Metal sucks must pay well
I listen to a lot more outside of metal, its important to be well rounded with music. Hell even though most of my music is metal the next two genres are jazz and rock in that order. I started out as a jazz musician and frankly still am. Just because an album gets popular that doesn’t take away any of its credibility. It may in your own mind but there is a lot more that goes into an album than music itself, that’s by number of items not % people. Probably the next largest one is the impact of the album. If you have two albums, one is vastly “superior” to the other one musically but doesn’t have anywhere near the impact that the other one has, which one do you think people are going to remember? You can see that play out in this list over and over again. Mastodon, LoG, and KSE all had a large impact whereas some other more obscure ones didn’t and didn’t make the cut. I’m not surprised Death Magnetic nearly made the list, hell it wouldn’t have surprised me if it had actually made the list because lets face it, in recent memory what “metal” album has caused such a stir? What about before death magnetic? While I believe that other albums should have made the list, but that’s the issue when leaving things up to a democracy, a lot of that is going to factor in. As Axl mentioned in the #2 review, he mentioned what it brought about and the impact the album had at the time(sorry if I botched that). These albums are judged on much more than their musical credibility but on the overall package that the album represents
so thats where all the GOOD albums went!
Wait, wait, wait.Hold the phone. Come Clarity beat ALL of those albums below it? Are you kidding me? Over SACRAMENT??? Okay, okay. It was nice knowing you all. I just…I just need a break right now. Death Magnetic…over everything else…I just…I need to take a nap.
HA! Three members of Psychostick on the voting panel and only ONE point towards one of their albums. Amazing.
And how the hell does Death Magnetic almost make the 21 with obZen behind it? obZen is a thousand times more worthy an album. C’mon people.
Clip magnetic doesn’t deserve any mentioning whatsoever.
Well at least some folks picked Neurosis.
No mention of Pulse Ultra?
haha pulse ultra! I totally forgot about them, actually a pretty sweet band. I lost that CD, I need to grab it again.
Ziltoid, I have well rounded music tastes. wanna fight about it
while reading it there was about 50 times when i was like WTFFF. some of the voters dont know what metal is (thrice and muse) so theyre hardly going to be albe to pick 21 good metal albums
insomnium at 17 points :( damn
i honestly can’t see how death magnetic could have 102 points and Colors only has 56
Btbam > Metallica….and pretty much every band on that list
almost forgot…Twighlight of the Thunder God with 11 points?!?!!?
iwrestleabearonce 4 points
Gojira 3 points
umm… what?
Why is Porcupine Tree, In Absentia on there twice (13 and 5 points)?
‘Cause I fucked up. In any case, 18 points still wouldn’t have made the list.
Also, Blut aus Nord’s Dialogue with the Stars is listed twice: once as Memoria Vetusta II (correct) and once as Memoria Vetusta I (1996, oops).
That one was my bad – I had a typo in my list when I sent it in. I’m quite pleased to see that some other people were as blown away by Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars as I was.
Am I the only one who prefers Septic Flesh’s album Sumerian Daemons over their newer album Communion??
No. I agree.
Surprised to see no Suicide Silence. I’m not fond of that band, but the impact they made on metal is undeniable, I think, with starting this whole Deathcore scene.
That was Job for a cowboy with their Doom EP, not Suicide Silence. Damn JFAC for starting this mess…
I’ve read in interviews were Suicide Silence seems like they take the credit for it; and JFAC seem like they hate everything that has to do with deathcore, what with their sudden endorsement of older death metal band t-shirts, baggy cargo camo shorts, long hair, and scraggly beards. Laying it on a little to thick?
Actually, it was Animosity with Shut it Down. Came out before any of those, go listen.
I’d rather not. I’ll just take your word for it, it’s not like I care about deathcore anyway.
You could attribute deathcore’s creation to countless bands. The fusion of hardcore and deathmetal isn’t exactly a completely original idea. Suicide Silence, in my opinion, spread the term and attitude around. The easiest way to tell is to go to any .rar blog and download 10 deathcore demos. See who influences them more.
Don’t forget All Shall Perish’s Hate.Malice.Revenge released in 2003 on a small Japanese label because it wasn’t part of any trend back then.
Wow, Death Magnetic almost made the list, with Brave New World 3 points behind it?! Brave New World should’ve been in the top ten. I almost had faith in the list until I saw that.
I’m saddened to see 0 votes for Toxic Holocaust’s An Overdose of Death. It may not be genre defining, change your life music, but it’s perfect and fun slightly blackened thrash metal from beginning to end.
This would of been my list had I had the privilege to participate, not that anyone cares, but yeah I like music too…
1. Tool – Lateralus
2. Meshuggah – Obzen
3. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
4. Strapping Young Lad – The New Black
5. Protest the Hero – Fortress
6. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
7. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
8. Deftones – White Pony
9. Isis – Panopticon
10. Between the Buried and Me – Colors
11. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
12. Devin Townsend Band – Synchestra
13. Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
14. Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
15. Cynic – Traced in Air
16. Misery Signals – Controller
17. Sikth – Death of a Dead Day
18. Machinehead – The Blackening
19. The Haunted – the Dead Eye
20. Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle Part I
21. Ninjaspy – Pi Nature(CHECK THEM OUT!)
way to completely suck up to Axl and Vince.
As much as I wanted to see Sikth on the list, I can’t believe that only ‘Death of a Dead Day’ made it on the complete list. ‘The Trees are Dead…’ is an infinitely better album.
No love for Chimaira…64 points? What the fuck is wrong with people. Their self-titled is an amazing technically sound(which everyone cares about) album. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
thanks for the lists. it’s always amazing to see what everyone digs on and find new stuff. i’m not i agreement with a lot of the list personally, but love seeing the people go nuts over the choices. even if none of the high on fire catalog made the top, it’ll never detract from my love of that band.
Sacrament over Colors? GTFO
Where’s Dethklok?????????
Ok, so I am surprised as all hell to see Becoming the Archetype, Living Sacrifice and of all bands Extol on this list. That these were the bands really good albums is even better. So… I prefer this list way more than the actual list.
Love BTA’s first album
Axl, Vince, Gary, Anton, et al… I don’t know how you guys kept sane/prevented yourselves from going on a multi-state killing spree through all of this The List bidness.
By not reading the comments after about the third day, I suppose…
Still though… ugh.
I was more outraged by the picks than anyone else.
Well, you guys didn’t pick it all…. Psychostick did >.<
i just breezed through but was there no ‘Skeletonwitch’? i hope i just missed it.
I feel the same way, I hope they’re on there somewhere
Agreed about Extol, glad they got some recognition by someone. In a way I’m sort of proud that bands like Nasum, Leviathan (no mention of Lurker of Chalice!!!), and Discordance Axis scored so low because it sort of makes me feel like the great fucking fantastic music is still underground in regards to the metal mainstream. Props to the guy that voted for Opeth’s Still Life even though it was released in 1999. haha.
3 points to United Abominations and 102 to Death Magnetic?
C’-Fucking-mon…
Metallica, Death Magnetic – 102 POINTS (WTF? This album sucked)
Isis, Oceanic – 98 POINTS (Great album, surprised it was not top 21)
Meshuggah, obZen – 91 POINTS (Should have gotten top 21 as well)
Cynic, Traced In Air – 89 POINTS (Should have been top 10)
Baroness, Red Album – 80 POINTS (Again, no top 10?)
Mastodon, Crack the Skye – 79 POINTS (GOOD. I think CtS is overrated anyway)
High on Fire, Blessed Black Wings – 72 POINTS (Should have made it)
In Flames, Come Clarity – 65 POINTS (Really? Decent album, but not even close to the top 21 of t he last 9 years)
Between the Buried and Me, Colors – 56 POINTS (Should have been top 5)
As a Dream Theater fan, I find the results of this list both disturbing and interesting. While I’m upset that DT isn’t rated higher by people I clearly don’t know and don’t care to know, I wish they would get more respect than they do. With that being said, the interesting part is that their last 2 albums (prior to their current release) didn’t make the list. Only Train of thought and “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” did (not counting the live cd on the list). The editor may want to make that change to the album name. I guess that means DT in some circles is on the downslide…if I’m to project the trend. I tend to agree…but still FAR BETTER THAN any metallica this decade!
Train of Thought is the album i would most expect to be on this list. i mean, it is far and away the heaviest album they’ve made. i’m really not surprised that it’s not up that high though, it wasn’t a super influential album on the metal world, and plus, everyone loves to hate dream theater.
i’ve got to disagree with you in regards to dream theater being on the downslide. although i don’t love systematic chaos, i still think it was pretty good, and black clouds & silver linings is a hell of an album imo. but hey man, whatever, we’re still pretty much on the same team here haha
DT is probably at it’s peak in popularity right now with Black Clouds and Silver Linings breaching Billboard top ten, but i’m not sure it was released before this list was compiled.
I am kind of dismayed that Systematic Chaos isn’t in there somewhere (unless I missed it) because I thought it was a great album.
Being a long term DT fan I would have thought that AWAKE would have at least made this list, since it is a brilliant album and ranks up there as one of my personal top ten album of all time.
Yeah man i doubt dream theater will get any more popular than they are now, but who cares? they got really popular for awhile when they had Pull Me Under as their big single in the 90’s. Maybe in another 20 years or so they’ll get big again haha. i also love Awake, but it was released in ‘94 man. not 21st century. personally, i think i would’ve loved to see 6 Degrees or Octavarium in the top 21, but i totally understand why they aren’t. really i would’ve loved to see ANY DT album on there, but the fact that they aren’t on there isn’t going to deter me from loving them haha
aaaah come on Traced in Air should really have made the top 10.
Let’s get serious
And does anyone realise that new american gospel is just a discord-fest?
Any chance of posting the points that the top 21 reveived?
Each post in the top 21 has the points they received.
I’m pretty sure they posted that in the articles themselves.
lots of crap. but y’know what. ilike alot of crap too.
hahaha Iwrestledabearonce is on here xD
And so is lostprophets what the heck? I totally agree that its a fantastic album, but it isnt very metal xD
Who wants to see some truly disgusting crap?
Shadows Fall, Of One Blood – 79 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Colors – 56 POINTS
Cannibal Corpse, Kill – 54 POINTS
Nile, Annihilation of the Wicked – 42 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seven Trumpets – 29 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, Alien – 27 POINTS
Enslaved, Isa – 26 POINTS
Behemoth, The Apostasy – 21 POINTS
Behemoth, Demigod – 21 POINTS
Behemoth, Zos Kia Cultus – 21 POINTS
Sigh, Imaginary Sonicscape – 5 POINTS
The Ocean, Precambrian – 4 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, The New Black – 3 POINTS
And this, possibly my biggest complaint:
Dark Tranquility, Fiction – 14 POINTS
So if I’m reading this correctly, Shadows Fall is better than BTBAM, Cannibal Corpse, AND Nile, not to mention the rest. Oh, and Avenged Sevenfold is better than Behemoth. Never mind IWRESTLEDABEARONCE being higher than SYL’s the New Black.
Yes, this whole list was disgusting. But I’m quite happy someone mentioned Cormorant. Great band, even though the album hasn’t even been released yet.
Still. The New Black at 3 points really kills me.
The ocean at 4 points kills me more
I know. That album is a fucking masterpiece, I listen to it all the time.
I just checked out Cormorant and i’ll be picking that one up when it comes out for sure.
If you want, pick up their debut EP “The Last Tree” now. There are some songs on their myspace, and it’s also streaming on last.fm.
Beatallica with 3 points!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!
what the fuck? a covers album with the same as “The New Black”?
you….you are a sad, sad panel. i actually feel sorry for you.
Only one Rotting Christ album? Damn.
Neurosis got three albums on there, at least some people remembered them in between writing down KsE and LoG.
Isis almost made it, although I much prefer Panopticon to any of their other albums.
Behemoth got almost zero love, Nile got barely any more.
I do love that Clutch got a higher score with Blast Tyrant than a lot of other metal albums. Clutch are a fantastic rock band, but I haven’t heard them do anything “metal” for over a decade.
I would have liked Testament FoD to make it, because it’s a fantastic CD, far better than Meth Dagnabbit.
Meshuggah did good, but Chaosphere will always be my favorite CD by them.
I’m glad Katatonia got some nods here and there.
And the brain dead knuckle biter that put iwrestledabearonce (I hate typing that) on their list needs to be euthanized, and not in a humane fashion.
Woops, forgot Enslaved and High on Fire. Glad to see that most of their 2000’s output made it as well.
IWABO is gunna be remembered well for being one of the most amazing “break-through” artist of 2009 coming from the guy who just got back from hanging out with them and OUTKAST @ the masquerade
“If my favorite color is black, and yours is white, will we even agree on gray?”
Your list was a big Lamb of God + Mastodon + Nu Metal LETDOWN.
AHAHAHA DEATH MAGNETIC IS THE TOP ALBUM ON HERE. SOLIDIFIES THE FACT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THIS ARE FUCKING RETARDS
Holy shit I’m surprised of some names…
Drudkh, horna, deathspell omega, satanic warmaster and EVEN fucking coffins?!?!
BUT that Horna album sucks, satanic warmaster is shit and Deathspell Omega is highly overrated. And some Sigh love FTW.
How does that Horna album suck? It may not be as raw as Haudankylmyyden Maillat, but I’ll stand by Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne – I believe it to be one of their strongest albums to date, and definitely my favorite.
Satanic Warmaster rules – you’re just wrong there. Carelian Satanist Madness is one of the best black metal albums ever – just listen to that filthy Finnish groove, man!
Coffins is one of my favorite bands, so you’re welcome for that one.
Deathspell Omega are revolutionizing black metal in their own twisted way, and bless their black hearts for doing so. Look at the progression from Infernal Battles up to their last mindfuck of a record, Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeturnum, and tell me they don’t deserve some praise for the incredible musical evolution they’ve undertaken. It takes a lot to break out of the standard raw/primitive black metal mold and change things up a bit; I can say the same for Blut aus Nord, who I actually prefer to DsO myself.
Also, Drudkh is MY FAVORITE BAND IN THE WORLD! Autumn Aurora is straight-up one of the best metal albums ever to exist. Their new jam, Microcosmos, is solid, but nothing can touch the beauty and catharsis of their second record.
I guess that covers it all.
The fact that Unearth got next to NO Love was a bit surprising already, but The Stings of Conscience was their most voted album, while In The Eyes of Fire got nothing?
Yeah, that pissed me off as well. They’re one of the few -core bands that I actually like. The others being The Red Chord, Winds of Plague, Converge, Between the Buried and me, Protest the Hero and The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Oncoming Storm FTW.
A little late, but here’s mine
1. Meshuggah – nothing
2. Decapitated – organic hallucinosis
3. Isis – panopticon
4. Cult of Luna – somewhere along the highway
5. Into the moat – the design
6. Btbam – the silent circus
7. Arsis – a celebration of guilt
8. Darkest hour – undoing ruin
9. Ion dissonance – solace
10. The red chord – clients
11. Cephalic carnage – lucid interval
12. Beloved – failure on
13. Cannibal corpse – kill
14. Dillinger escape plan – miss machine
15. Blood has been shed – spirals
16. Killswitch engage – alive or just breathing
17. Hopesfall – satellite years
18. Animosity – animal
19. Mare – mare
20. Misery signals – of malice and the magnum heart
21. Converge – jane doe
They aren’t really meant to be in any order
btw I’m utterly convinced that someone in psychostick voted for his own band because there is no way that anyone could possibly think they deserve even 1 point.
Definitely. I like a lot of your stuff, though I haven’t heard it all. Props for Animosity and cephalic Carnage.
I think this is the first person to mention cult of luna as a top 21 candidate…I agree highway was a killer album.
Shouldn’t have published this, shitstorm is coming.
Whoever voted for Cormorant is awesome. That album isn’t even out yet!
Agreed! I can’t wait to hear Metazoa!
So, who voted for Norma Joan, lostprophets, and Thrice?
You guys should do a reader list!!!!
How did Codex Necro only get 8 points? Anaal Nathrakh is the BAND of the decade. They took the most extreme tendencies of black metal, death metal and grindcore and somehow made them heavier. If they were just pure extremity like Intestinal Disgorge then I wouldn’t have been making such a fit but they actually have some quality songs behind the noise. Not only that, but AN have yet to release a bad album.
And Death Magnetic doesn’t deserve the hate. Yes, the guy who did the mixing job needs to be killed with a rusty machete but it was by no means worse than St. Anger.
And Wages of Sin only getting 50 points? I thought that AE would be higher.
And I only went over the list once but I don’t recall seeing Dissimulate or Altered States of America on there. Correct me if I’m wrong.
wow. who the hell voted for nattefrost? i can understand carpathian forest… but NATTEFROST??? he’s not even trying to be serious on his albums. all he does is record himself taking a piss and vomiting and then goes on to scream about raping whores and little 10-year-old girls… which he apparently finds comical.
Which is of course metal as fuck and hsyterical. Nattefrost Takes a Piss FTW!
i must admit though that i do actually listen to whore filthy whore and sluts of hell. me and my non-metal friends(which is all of my friends) laugh at it all the time.
I voted for Nattefrost. Of course Nattefrost isn’t trying to be serious (save for the occasional Beherit cover); that’s kind of the point. Read his lyric’s for fuck’s sake. Blood & Vomit has been one of my favorite albums since I was a grim-ass little high school kid, purely because of how raw, filthy, fucked-up and ridiculous it is. Extreme metal isn’t meant to be serious 100% of the time. Where’s the fun in that?
Be happy it wasn’t yet another vote for whatever mallcore success story was topping the charts last week. I voted for Horna, Drudkh, Archgoat, Darkthrone, Satanic Warmaster, and Anaal Beehemoth too; you wanna fight about those?
The fact that Agalloch is on here makes me like this list about 343264575685078560749803240972130413274 times more
No Communic? boooooooooo
Did anyone find it ridiculous that Crotchduster’s Big Fat Box of Shit got 21 points? I think someone put it at #1 just to be a dick.
Also, i’m glad Pain of Salvation’s Remedy Lane got some love, that’s my favorite album of all time…even though it certainly is not metal and got 21 points as well.
Too bad Pain of Salvation’s label filed for bankruptcy and lost funding for Progressive Nation.
That could have been a huge shot in the arm for them stateside.
Wow there’s some really, really horrible shit on here.
Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seven Trumpets – 29 POINTS
Glassjaw, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence – 60 POINTS
Glassjaw, Worship & Tribute – 28 POINTS
System of a Down, Mezmerize/Hypnotize – 28 POINTS
Underoath, The Changing of Times – 13 POINTS
Whoever had those on their list should be seriously ashamed.
I’m glad some people voted for Crotchduster though.
A couple of the ones I definitely would’ve added:
Misery Signals – Controller
Dream Theater – Train of Thought
7 Angels 7 Plagues – Jhazmyne’s Lullaby
Glassjaw – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
BTBAM – Colors
I can’t believe not one single person out of the entire voting panel didn’t mention…
WINTERSUN – Self-titled (2004, Nuclear Blast)
A masterpiece that would appear on top of any list I did.
Glad to see Sybreed on the list (wrong album though), Arsis’ A Celebration of Guilt, a few Decapitated albums, Dark Tranquillity, Darkane and Spawn of Possession.
Yes, the absence of Wintersun is horrible. And I agree about Sybreed. Antares was a surprisingly good album, and quite a step up from their debut.
wintersun reminds me of dragonforce when i first heard them but then i can pick apart everything and its sooooooooooooo much better this is gotta be the best melo/folk/prog/death metal ever + their guitarist is just phenominal
prog/melo/wtf? They’re just power metal. Harsh vocals don’t automatically make you death or black metal, it’s the composition of the music, and Wintersun is obviously power metal.
shit it looks like some of my favorites got ass votes: Deathcult Armageddon and The Fathomless Mastery were low and I didn’t even see Nocturnal.
Yeah, I agree with you on Bloodbath. The Fathomless Mastery was a phenomenal album, and it only got 12 points? That’s total bull.
I should stop being lazy and actually put albums I would of liked to see sooo
here it is in no specific order
Archons – The Consequences of Silence
Agalloch – The Mantle
Behemoth – DemiGod
Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
Septic Flesh – Sumerian Daemons
Wintersun – Wintersun
Dark Tranquility – Fiction
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Dying Fetus – Destroy the Opposition
Bloodbath – Nightmares Made Flesh
Hypocrisy – Virus
Children of Bodom – HateBreeder
Daylight Dies – Dismantling Devotion
Insomnium – Above The Weeping World
Enslaved – Ruun
Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
SYL – Alien
Meshuggah – Nothing
FalkenBach – Heralding: The Fireblade
Kalmah – They Will Return
The Project Hate MCMXCIX – Armageddon March Eternal
There are pleantly of other albums I would put on there also but those are the first 21 albums to come to mind.
Falkenbach are phenomenal; that album was on my list, as well.
Surprised that an All Shall Perish album didn’t gather a few points. Certainly the premier deathcore band, and probably the band that started playing deathcore before the trend followers.
Would have been nice to see one of the premier melodeath bands on the planet Skyfire earn a few points too.
wait… crack the skye was there… why wasnt that in the top 21?
Whilst I’m not going to knock the list that was decided (too much), I’d reeeeeeeeeeeally love to know what the voting criteria was? I mean, what were people looking at here??
Time for personal opinion and spleen venting now…
Neither “Ire Works” nor “Miss Machine” made the 21? WTF?
“Iowa” rates that high? Are you fucking with me????
A Cold album getting the same amount of points as a Deftones album?????????
That said, when do we get to do a “reader-voted” list? Now THAT would be interesting.
great to see so much love for the crown. deathrace king for the win. check it out if u never heard it!!!
3 votes for ST ANGER LOL
Know what a good band is? A band called Hel Toro. They are completely unknown.
http://www.myspace.com/heltoro
Testament should be higher than that turd death magnetic
A Life Once Lost, A Great Artist – 32 POINTS
Win – Fucking win!
See, I wondered why the list was filled with shit-metal, I was hoping you guys would post the panel so I could grasp that, and it’s a bunch of hardcore hipsters and those actually on the list.
The world makes sense again.
This is what happens when the people you poll are members of bands in the running for the list (i.e. Chris Adler of Lamb of God), or total retards, like half of Psychostick. As much as I like the Deftones and SoaD, this list is not someplace that they belong, and as much as I like Lamb of God and Mastodon, thier albums should not take up a quarter of the list. I would have loved to see a limit of only one album per band on this list, and seen how that shook up the way people voted. Giving points to 4 separate albums by a great band is easy, choosing only one to honor with a spot on the list is hard, and by doing so, the list would have recognized lesser-known bands like Cynic and Baroness for their awesomeness..
…and some other rants and raves about the list and reactions to it while I’m here.
Lay off the haterade. Death Magnetic doesn’t suck. Its no …And Justice for All, but its still a damn solid record.
A Matter of Life and Death doesn’t suck either.
Crack the Skye is Mastodon’s best album to date, and it didn’t make the list.
Fortress, by Protest the Hero is the best metal album I’ve heard in a VERY long time. What the fuck voters!?!
No BtBaM – Colours? Really?
I’m pleasantly surprised that The Red Album, by Baroness scored so high. I didn’t think that many other people were aware of how awesome it was.
Miss Machine is a good album, but not Crack the Skye good (they both scored 79 points)
Hatebreed doesn’t do it for me. They just spew undirected rage. I need my angry music directed at a specific subject.
The End of Heartache isn’t anywhere near as good as what its score suggests. Alive or Just Breathing however, is.
The Art of Balance > The War Within
No God Forbid… thats a joke too
Not a single vote for a single All That Remains record. WTF?
Did I miss anything?
Between the Buried and Me, Colors – 56 POINTS
Just thought I would point that out!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I agree about All That Remains…and has anyone heard “Awaken The Dreamers” by All Shall Perish…I’m ashamed of you guys…Chris Story is flat out amazing on the guitar!!!!!!!!
and what about The Faceless “Akeldama”
and whats up with Reinventing the Steel only getting 38 points…WTF peeps…Its god damn Pantera!!!!!!
i fail to see in the hype about PTH fortress i found it to be rather shity as previously stated ina differnt post i chucked it from my car on the way home after just purchursaing it >.> i want my 19$ back
Chimaira, Resurrection – 1 POINT – ok.. 5 stars from metal sucks yet no more than 1 point surely the metal sucks team would vote it for more?
Agreed!!!!!!!! What about “The Infection” or “Chimaira”…WTF?
I know I will get bashed for this but………where is some Early Bleeding Through “Dust To Ashes” “Portrait of a Goddess”, maybe even some early 18visions…”The best of…” “Until the Ink Runs out”….great albums!!!!
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. =)
Since when are HIM and Queens of the Stone Age metal?
No Finntroll, no Powerglove, no Turisas… boooooo.
No All that remains albums? Seriously The Fall of Ideals was a great album.
wow i was disappointed with the list. im glad Mastodon, Deftones and Tool were one there, but there so many good records that should been on there. Meshuggah, Godflesh, Napalm Death, I mean, it seems like a joke. I was also suprised there was no fucking Faith No More! You got Patton’s other projects on there but no fucking Faith No More! No Angel Dust. No Real Thing. No King for A Day. No Album of the Year. None of them. Instead you got Aveneged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage and all these other shitty bands. What the hell man. I was highly disappointed
thats cause they were after the year 2000!!!
i meant faith no more albums were released before 2000…
Unearth “The Oncoming Storm” blows “The Stings Of Conscience” out of the water.
I was so surprised to see War Of Ages on there. I like their new album alot.
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Glad to see Chimaira, Behemoth, Pantera, Necrophagist, Nile, Decapitated, Mudvayne, The Haunted, Cannibal Corpse, Blood Bath & SYL…
…but where the fuck was Devil Driver? Not one mention? Not one point for The Last Kind Words? Nothing for The Fury of Our Makers Hand?
Massive oversight?
Devildriver is only good in that one Scrubs episode. Otherwise, it’s awful, generic crap.
Stop being such a cocksucker Ziltoid. No one gives a fuck about your retarded opinion.
Crotchduster, Big Fat Box of Shit – 21 POINTS
I approve!!
Protest the Hero BEHIND Dir En Grey?
Really?
I mean… I know people really don’t like these guys… But less than Dir En Grey.
And is the “Thursday- Full Coverage” supposed to be a joke?
Whoever voted for DM has shit for brains
That was Metallica’s best album in awhile, but they’ve had shitty albums since the black album. DM was crap, it was a disgrace to thrash, and those fucking sellouts aren’t thrash anymore.
This is a little late (I was away on vacation)
Can’t everyone here see see that this is a list of the MOST IMPORTANT metal albums of this century? Not necessarily the best?
For example, Death Magnetic isn’t all that good, but the reason it almost made the list was because it’s fucking Metallica and it’s their first “return-to-form.”
Lamb of God got three spots on the list because almost every metalhead knows who they are. For someone getting into metal they are the “quintessential” band.
Slipknot: See above.
Mastodon: Name another band that sounds quite like them. And they haven’t yet put out a bad album. Mega impact on the scene as well.
Etc….
Mastodon and LoG get three spots each, but you can’t even spare ONE spot for COLORS?!?!?!?!?!
This list is bullshit.
Cormorant is in this list. \m/
Fuck yeah Indorphine \m/
Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Seperation – 12 POINTS
wat
Children of Bodom… they didn’t put out any of THE GREATEST metal releases this century, but Hatebreeder should have made the top 10 that didn’t make it… except it is ineligible as it came out in 1999.