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The only album I've really dug in that top 10 is The Streets, which is great.

Haven't heard most of the others tbh... who even reads the NME anymore...

What's Streets like? Is it worth checking out?

Anyone else here but you, I'd say no. I think you'd dig it.

Checking it out now... Not usually a big rap fan (in fact I don't have any rap) but this isn't bad. I'll give it deeper attention.

PJ Harvey's one is really good. Not as good as Is This Desire?, my fav PJ one, but really good (but not in my 100 best record of the decade list).
Radiohead In rainbows is a minor Radiohead, one of their lest interesting records. Arcade Fire Funeral is ok, but nothing really soooo good. Rest of the first 10 positions are crap or something I really haven't listened to, and I'm not really very interested in (as The Streets, I'm not really interested in rap).

imo In Rainbows is one of Radiohead's best albums (tied with OK Computer and Hail to the Thief), although it wasn't until I saw them live that a lot of the songs started making sense. Agree with Is This Desire being PJ Harvey's best album although there's still a couple I haven't heard

This thread is about metal albums though, yo.

True dat. Thus, I open a new thread.

Well, perhaps I have to give In Rainbows another try.

Pentagram - First Daze Here

hell yeah.

I really like that PJ Harvey, my favorite of hers. The Interpol album isn't bad but nothing near top 100 of the decade.

Looking back on this decade i reallize that there were three major metal events for me:

1.- Dickinson and Smith back into Maiden; this was huge surprise for me, Brave New World was one of my most litened albums from 2000 to 2002, that and the excellent live album (and my first DVD) that was Rock In Rio put the best band in the world back in full force.

2.- Rob Halford back in Judas Priest; a new Judas Priest album with Halford? what more can metalhead ask?, for 2005 it would have seem that the metal gods had answered our prayers and sent us Angel Of Retribution, this superb album was the best Priest had put out in years, the fact that it didnt tried to be Painkiller 2 but more like a new take of the bands different eras was gift for the longtime fans of the band, not to mention Halford excellent vocals were in top form for the album.

3.- Pagan Altar releases a new album (Lords Of Hypocrisy); now this is a more personal choice for me and i dont expect many people to agree with it, i didnt even knew the band before so i cant say that this album was a huge expectation for me, no in fact i first heard it in 2006 but i had to include it here for two reasons: first is that it is very very rare for an 80s band reunion album to be as good as their golden days, Lord of Hypocrisy did not only that but in some ways managed to be better and second is that this has become one of my favorurite bands of not only the doom/nwobhm genre but of metal and music in general.

The sad notes of the decade for me would be the split-ups of Running Wild and Metal Church, Running wild had a very week decade but i was hoping for them to redeem with a kick ass album, Metal Church on the other hand delivered us three excellent albums with Ronny Munroe, so i was very sad to hear that the band is no more.

Other highlights were Grand Magus, Slough Feg and Cage, all three bands delivered excellent albums through the decade and im really looking forward of what they would bring on next one, Dark Quarterer deserves a mention too for their latest effort "Symbols", an album i cant seem to get tired of.

The Thrash scene was somewhat stale even with (and because of) the thrash revival, nothing new worth mentioning, some bands got excellent comebacks: Mekong Delta, Sacrifice, Exodus got me going with Tempo of The Damned but failed to deliver with their subsequent albums, Sodom and Tankard remained consistent as ever even though i would like for Sodom to release more albums, Kreator was a mixed bag but theyre slowly getting there, Overkill got two good albums, one excllent album and a mediocre one, Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer did nothing to impress, overall the best thrash album of the decade would be Sodom - M16.

I've never been able to come across any of their material, at the local store here they have Acoustic verses; but I always buy albums from bands I know so I haven't checked it out. Is it any good?

First of all...to all posters who ridicule or question other's picks...it is music and everyone has different opinions, and your opinion is no more valid than anyone elses...if you think your opinion matters more than anyone else's, you are a fucking retard...just accept the fact that not everyone shares your opinion and that you are not special....rant/off.

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Belenos - Errances Oniriques
Year of No Light - Nord
The Chasm - Spell of Retribution
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Withered - Folie Circulaire
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Novembre - The Blue
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Opeth - Watershed
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Testament - the Gathering
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Alcest - Souvenirs d'Un Autre Monde

Aesop from Ludicra did a list like this. Numbers didn't copy but oh well.

1.Weakling-Dead As Dreams (2000)
Paysage d’ Hiver- Paysage d’ Hiver (2000)
Einsturzende Neubauten-Silence Is Sexy (2000)
Nunslaughter-Hell’s Unholy Fire (2000)
Slough Feg-Down Among The Dead Men (2000)
Neurosis- A Sun That Never Sets (2001)
Angels of Light-How I loved You (2001)
Thorns-Thorns (2001)
Dornenreich-Her Von Welken Nachten (2001)
Absu-Tara (2001)
Hammers of Misfortune-The Bastard (2001)
Nargaroth-Black Metal Ist Krieg (2001)
The Langley Schools Music Project-Innocence & Despair (2001)
Agalloch-The Mantle (2002)
Xasthur-Nocturnal Poisoning (2002)
Wolf-Black Wings (2002)
Arcturus- The Sham Mirrors (2002)
Woven Hand-Woven Hand (2002)
Leviathan-Verrater (2002)
Kylesa-Kylesa (2002)
Infest-No Man’s Slave (2002)
Inquisition-Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan (2002)
Oxbow-An Evil Heat (2002)
Agatus-The Weaving Fates (2002)
The Vanishing-In The Bathaus (2002)
Nigel Pepper Cock-The New Way (2002)
Canaan-A Calling To Weakness (2002)
Celestia-Apparitia Sumptuous Spectre (2002)
Wigrid-Hoffnungstod (2002)
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (2003)
Funeral Mist-Salvation (2003)
Ghoul-Maniaxe (2003)
Hammers of Misfortune-The August Engine (2003)
Killing Joke-Killing Joke (2003)
Burmese-A Mere Shadow and Reminiscence of Humanity (2003)
Destroyer 666-Terror Abraxas (2003)
Hala Strana-Hala Strana (2003)
Dimlaia-Dimlaia (2003)
Virus-Carheart (2003)
Sargeist-Satanic Black Devotion (2003)
Deathspell Omega-Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice (2004)
The Muons-The Well At Land’s End (2004)
Witchcraft-Witchcraft (2004)
Enslaved-Isa (2004)
Pagan Altar-Lords of Hypocrisy (2004)
Dark Tribe-In Jeraspunta (2004)
Cauldron Black Ram-Skulduggery (2004)
Asunder-A Clarion Call (2004)
Yrkoon-Occult Medicine (2004)
Morgion-Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth (2004)
God Is An Astronaut-All Is Violent All Is Bright (2005)
AN-World Minus Population (2005)
Various Artists-Run The Road (2005)
Corrupted-El Mundo Frio (2005)
Urfaust-Verratertischer, Nichtswurdiger Geist (2005)
The Gault-Even As All Before Us (2005)
Vpaahsalbrox-14 Sovereign (2005)
Drudkh-The Swan Road (2005)
Kiss The Anus of a Black Cat-If The Sky Falls, We Shall Catch Larks (2005)
Primordial-The Gathering Wilderness (2005)
Drudkh-Blood In Our Wells (2006)
Desolation Triumphalis-Forever Bound To Nothingness (2006)
Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes-The Witches Dagger (2006)
Michael Cashmore-Sleep England (2006)
Hammers of Misfortune-The Locust Years (2006)
Asunder-Works Will Come Undone (2006)
Impurity-Necroinfamists of Tumulus Return (2006)
Evil Army-Evil Army (2006)
Marblebog-Csendhajnal (2006)
Ahab-Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
Warning-Watching From a Distance (2006)
Crippled Black Phoenix-A Love of Shared Disasters (2007)
It’s Casual-The New Los Angeles (2007)
Grayceon-Grayceon (2007)
Hanatarash/Evil Moisture-Fatanarchy On Airtube (2007)
Bone Awl-Meaningless Leaning Mess (2007)
Raate-Sielu, Linna (2007)
Oxbow-The Narcotic Story (2007)
Akitsa-Goetie (2007)
Bee & Flower-Last Sight Of Land (2007)
Dax Riggs- We Sing of Only Blood Or Love (2007)
Alcest-Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde (2007)
Impaled-The Last Gasp (2007)
Primordial-To The Nameless Dead (2007)
Deathevokation-Chalice of the Ages (2007)
Dead Congregation-Graves of the Archangels (2008)
Samothrace-Life’s Trade (2008)
Jex Thoth-Jex Thoth (2008)
Harvey Milk-Life… The Best Game In Town (2008)
Ulaan Khol-I (2008)
Decrepit Birth-Diminishing Between Worlds (2008)
Yob-The Great Cessation (2009)
Master’s Hammer-Mantras (2009)
Various Artists-The Sound of Wonder: The First Wave of Plugged In Pop at The Pakistani Picture House (2009)
Amesouers-Amesouers (2009)
Cross Stitched Eyes-Coronach (2009)
Circle of Ouroborus-Tree of Knowledge (2009)
Giant Squid-The Ichthyologist (2009)
Sixx-Sister Devil (2009)
100. Peste Noire-Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor

That's a pretty great list. Especial for these:

I like his list, but the addition of Black Metal Ist Krieg is a bit... questionable.

Anywho, here's my own list of delicious, decadal albums -- in alphabetical order, mind.

Agalloch - The Mantle
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Andromeda - Extension Of The Wish
Beyond Twilight - For The Love of Art And The Making
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
Boris - Pink
Caïna - Mourner
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV. Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
ColdWorld - Melancholie²
Corrupted - Llenandose De Gusanos
Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
Earth - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis
Evoken - Quietus
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Flaming Lips, The - At War With The Mystics
Flaming Lips, The - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Funeral - In Fields Of Pestilent Grief
God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Gorod - Leading Vision
Gregor Samsa - 55:12
Gris - Il Était Une Forêt...
Hate Forest - Battlefields
Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Howard, James Newton - King Kong (OST)
Iron And Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Isis - Oceanic
Isis - Panopticon
Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
Kamelot - Epica
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Khanate - Khanate
Klimt 1918 - Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again
Krohm - A World Through Dead Eyes
Lacrimosa - Lichtgestalt
Leviathan - Tentacles Of Whorror
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
Marillion - Marbles
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Monolith Deathcult, The - Trivmvirate
Mournful Congregation - The Monad Of Creation
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Watershed
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects
Ruins Of Beverast, The - Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite
Ruins Of Beverast, The - Rain Upon The Impure
Ruins Of Beverast, The - Unlock The Shrine
Secret Sphere - Heart & Anger
Shore, Howard - The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (OST)
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Silver Mt. Zion, Thee - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Summoning - Oath Bound
Sunn O))) - Black1
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
Ulver - Blood Inside
Urfaust - Geist Ist Teuful
uneXpect - In The Flesh Aquarium
Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Wigrid - Die Asche Eines Levens
Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
Wormed - Planisphaerium
YOB - The Illusion Of Motion

I'm liking that list quite a bit.

Waaahh. These lists make me realize how much music I need to listen to. As for me, I'll be short and sweet.

1. Everything Converge put out

then...

Everything Mastodon put out
Everything Protest the Hero put out
BTBAM--Colors

I'll sneak in Coheed and Cambria--IV: Good Apollo, etc.