Decibel – The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of The Decade

I was a bit late off the mark on this one, but my Special Collectors Edition of Decibel: The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of The Decade only arrived yesterday. So here is their Top 100:

1. Converge – Jane Doe (Equal Vision 2001)
   
2. Cave In – Jupiter (Hydra Head 2000)
3. Opeth – Blackwater Park (Koch 2001)
4. Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac 2002)
5. Mastodon – Remission (Relapse 2002)
6. Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville 2001)
7. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Interscope 2002)
8. Iron Maiden – Brave New World (Columbia 2000)
9. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb (Relapse 2007)
10. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (Rise Above 2000)
11. Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head 2008)
12. Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head 2000)
13. Baroness – Blue Record (Relapse 2009)
14. Napalm Death – Enemy Of The Music Business (Dream Catcher 2000)
15. Pelican – The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head 2005)
16. The Red Chord – Clients (Metal Blade 2005)
17. Converge – Axe To Fall (Epitaph 2009)
18. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse 2001)
19. Melt-Banana – Cell Scape (A-Zap 2003)
20. Agalloch – Ashes Against The Grain (The End 2006)
21. Enslaved – Isa (Candlelight 2004)
22. Tragedy – Tragedy (Tragedy 2000)
23. Fugazi – The Argument (Dischord 2001)
24. Mare – Mare EP (Hydra Head 2004)
25. Celtic Frost – Monotheist (Century Media 2006)
26. Jesu – Silver EP (Hydra Head 2006)
27. High On Fire – Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse 2002)
28. Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon (Nuclear Blast 2003)
29. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine (Relapse 2004)
30. Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (Island 2001)
31. Mastodon – Leviathan (Relapse 2004)
32. Craft – Fuck The Universe (Carnal 2005)
33. Isis – Panopticon (Ipecac 2004)
34. Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm 2001)
35. Shellac – 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go 2000)
36. Witchcraft – Witchcraft (Rise Above / Music Cartel 2004)
37. Killswitch Engage – Alive Or Just Breathing (Roadrunner 2001)
38. Pig Destroyer – Prowler In The Yard (Relapse 2001)
39. Converge – You Fail Me (Epitaph 2004)
40. Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum (Ajna 2007)
41. Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade 2005)
42. Opeth – Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner 2005)
43. Nile – Annihilation Of The Wicked (Relapse 2005)
44. Watain – Sworn To The Dark (Ajna 2007)
45. Between The Buried And Me – Alaska (Victory 2005)
46. Evoken – Quietus (Avantgarde 2001)
47. Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today (Rise Above 2007)
48. Mastodon – Blood Mountain (Reprise 2006)
49. Arsis – A Celebration Of Guilt (Willowtip 2004)
50. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works (Relapse 2007)
51. Ludicra – Fex Urbis, Lex Orbis (Alternative Tentacles 2006)
52. At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal / Virgin 2000)
53. Isis – Celestial (Escape Artist 2000)
54. Jesu – Jesu (Hydra Head 2004)
55. Enslaved – Below The Lights (The End 2003)
56. Cult Of Luna – Somewhere Along The Highway (Earache 2006)
57. High On Fire – Death Is This Communion (Relapse 2007)
58. Disfear – Live The Storm (Relapse 2008)
59. Dying Fetus – Destroy The Opposition (Relapse 2000)
60. Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media 2009)
61. Deftones – White Pony (Maverick 2000)
62. Botch – An Anthology Of Dead Ends EP (Hydra Head 2002)
63. Converge – No Heroes (Epitaph 2006)
64. Hatebreed – Perseverance (Universal 2002)
65. Withered – Memento Mori (Lifeforce 2005)
66. Leviathan – Tentacles Of Whorror (Moribund 2004)
67. Meshuggah – Catch 33 (Nuclear Blast 2005)
68. Thorns – Thorns (Moonfog 2001)
69. Rotten Sound – Murderworks (Death Vomit 2002)
70. Trap Them – Seizures In Barren Praise (Deathwish 2008)
71. Deathevokation – The Chalice Of Ages (Xtreem Music 2007)
72. Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I (Century Media 2008)
73. Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness (Nuclear Blast 2002)
74. Nasum – Human 2.0 (Relapse 2000)
75. Fucked Up – Hidden World (Jade Tree 2006)
76. Neurosis – Given To The Rising (Neurot 2007)
77. Taint – The Ruin Of Nova Roma (Rise Above 2005)
78. System Of A Down – Toxicity (American 2001)
79. Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (Earache 2005)
80. Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash (Southern Lord 2001)
81. Mayhem – Chimera (Season Of Mist 2004)
82. Gojira – From Mars To Sirius (Listenable 2005)
83. Drowningman – How They Light Cigarettes In Prison EP (Revelation 2000)
84. Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer (Relapse 2004)
85. Watain – Casus Luciferi (Drakkar 2003)
86. Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache (Roadrunner 2004)
87. Psyopus – Ideas Of Reference (Black Market Activities 2004)
88. The Haunted – The Haunted Made Me Do It (Earache 2000)
89. Cryptopsy – …And Then You’ll Beg (Century Media 2000)
90. Asunder – Works Will Come Undone (Profound Lore 2006)
91. Godflesh – Hymns (Koch 2001)
92. Cathedral – Endtyme (Earache 2001)
93. The Paper Chase – Now You Are One Of Us (Kill Rock Stars 2006)
94. Decapitated – Nihility (Earache 2002)
95. Coalesce – Ox (Relapse 2009)
96. In Flames – Clayman (Nuclear Blast 2000)
97. Battle Of Mice – A Day Of Nights (Neurot 2006)
98. Cobalt – Gin (Profound Lore 2009)
99. My Dying Bride – The Dreadful Hours (Peaceville 2001)
100. Slayer – World Painted Blood (American 2009)

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Note: Cross posted from New Music Excess.

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