ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DECADE-END LIST TO ARGUE ABOUT
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:00pm by Vince Neilstein
This is kind of how I imagine things going down in the Noisecreep Compound as of late:
Seth W. (Editor in Chief): Hmmm… traffic’s a little slow this week. What can we do to bring in some more visitors?
Amy Sciarretto: The Grammy nominations were just announced… I could do a piece about that.
Chris Harris: We could make fun of Marilyn Manson. That’s always funny!
Justina Villanueva: I could write up a couple pieces about awesome local bands like Gwynbleidd and The Binary Code.
Allyson B. Crawford: Rocklahoma!
Seth W.: Hmmm… I don’t know guys… those are all great ideas but I think we need something with a little more DRAW, especially since Nickelback and Creed aren’t doing anything at the moment.*
Carlos Ramirez: Oooo ooo oo, ME ME ME!! Pick me!! I’ll do another list!! That’ll really get ‘em!!
Seth W. <in Captain Jean-Luc Picard voice>: Make it so.
And thus another list was born. Today’s list du jour collects the Top 10 Metal Albums of the 2000s… and before you guys get all up in a tizzy, the results are based on an industry poll, not Carlos’ opinions. It’s actually a pretty solid list with some quality albums, and though it’s nearly impossible to compile any sort of list like this that actually means anything, it should serve as a good discussion piece.** So check it out and let us know what you think.
-VN
*I kid, I kid. I love you, Seth!
**Having said that,*** I will never really agree with the inclusion of Converge on any “metal” list… I still do not really get this band, although I did enjoy Axe to Fall. And they’re a hardcore band at heart.
***Do you respect wood?
53 COMMENTS on “ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DECADE-END LIST TO ARGUE ABOUT”
just wanna say fuck deftones
Deftones are sweet, man.
Sweet. Colors.
Motherfucking jumping comment box. >_O
Deftones are awesome and so are BTBAM.
Converge? Really? Blackwater Park shoulda been first. Deftones shouldn’t even be on the list. The rest are at least decent choices.
Disagree, Converge has had a much more profound impact on heavy music than Opeth has. This IS NOT to say opeth are bad, I do enjoy them very much. But if you want to really get technical, they are difficult to compare as they play different kinds of music.
Disagree. I’d say Opeth has had more of an impact than Converge. I oughta kick you through a barber shop window!
Based off what?
absolutely disagree. Opeth has done nothing worth noting this decade.
My statement was influenced by the fact that I don’t like Converge, and I love Opeth… I don’t really see Converge as a metal band so much as a hardcore band anyway. But I could never get into them.
Fair enough, I wasn’t bashing Opeth either because like I said they are a solid band.
Blackwater Park shoulda been first.
Major points for listing Sleep’s Dopesmoker!
this. and for putting “oceanic” on the list too.
It makes me want to listen to music a little bit
Completely agree with you Vince, I really don’t understand the appeal of Converge.
http://picard.ytmnd.com/
Converge *is* a hardcore band, and a pretty unremarkable one at that
Are you being facetious? Personally, I’ve never seen what was the big deal about them. That being said, I never could see what the big deal was with Opeth, either, but after seeing both bands live a number of times, these opinions still evade me.
Wow, I thought all those OTHER leaked emails from Aol. were bad, but how did you tune into our daily Noisecreep strategy meetings? Who’s the mole?? hahah
White Pony WAS pony.
Just saw Converge w/ Mastadon and Dethklok and was completely underwhelmed. Bad songwriting and a mediocre sound.
To dislike them is alright, but to say they are bad songwriters? That’s ridiculous.
Touché, boys.
You know us well.
Props to the Curb reference!
fuck yeah!
Justina is soooo cute
without the -e
That’s an awfully terrible list.
It’s spelled MASTODON. There is no E in there people!
JANE DOE FTW =p
The list could definitely be better but like you said it’s impossible to make a really good list of less than a thousand or so albums and…fuck yeah, Dopesmoker.
A lot better than the Metalsucks list.
A) It’s an arbitrary list. Taste is subjective.
B) Converge is blend of metal and hardcore, so any argument about ‘where they belong’ is taxonomical masturbation.
C) Fuck all you crybaby fruits. I love Converge.
This list blows. I usually dismiss a list without SYL, but this is just a ridiclious list. How is Isis on there? Borecore! Plus, where is In Flames? Dimmu? Nevermore? Shadows Fall? There are so many more influental, important, better and better rated albums that have come out in the last 10 years, how the fuck did Converge top the list?
better rated and more influential than Jane Doe? keep on truckin kid.
hate on converge all you want but in my opinion their the first (and probably should have been the last) metalcore band. im down with most of the cds on that list, dunno if theyd be my top 10 list of 2000′s.
kudos on the curb references “well there’s this 8 year old girl i’ve been seeing, and she has a rash on her pussy. im sure thats were its from”
MMM I dunno about that Integrity, In Cold Blood, Ringworm, Pulling Teeth, and Rise and Fall all rule.
But to each his own i guess.
dont get me wrong theres just a lot of awful metalcore bands
Couldn’t agree more.
Nachtmystium, go saxaphone! Glad to see Isis and Sleep, but White pony?
White Pony belongs on the list. Yes it is metal. Nu-metal anyways.
Converge kicks ass.
Why do they (THE ONION) like these bands? Well, first and foremost — you, dear reader, are not naieve enough to think that there’s not a financial connection here. These are bands distributed by or signed to the labels that help support The Onion and may at this point be personal friends or just “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” type buddies.
And at the end of the day, that’s what this Onion LIST is about: the fear of masses of hipsters that they missed something within the music (e.g. not adding a flute) and therefore, that they are just cogs after all. Which as they go back to their hipster “it pays nothing but I feel educated or socially important” jobs, is a bitter consolation indeed.
Wrong thread dude.
The Onion, Noisecreep, and MetalSucks put white pony on their lists…why? I’ve listened to and it’s barely heavy. “Elite” is a good song, and it is quite heavy, but in a nu-metal way. And if you only have two “heavy nu-metal” songs on a record, I fail to see how this record can be called metal. Just my thoughts.
damn, thats actually one of the best “decade” lists i’ve seen, Inbetween the Buried & Me’s new one wasnt as mind blowing as i expected. I love metal but White Pony was better than Colors in my book
sweet curb reference.
“MOCHA JOE!!!!’”
You kill swan?
Damnit MetalSucks staff you fuckers made every other website make a List because yours was good and understandable. Now all these other fuckers think they can do the same.
Yeah they invented top ten lists just like Al Gore invented the internet…