Thumbs up: +2
Howzat, two of my all-time fav releases recently turned 10 and 5 years old. They should get anniversary reissues. Make those great bands some more dough, among other things...

Numbers 9 and 23 on this list are so good, I can't really pick favourite songs. Could say that Sons' opening number is a bit forgettable, and The Difference Engine's fourth track is just a bit too weird for me. Still, they get 98.2/100 scores from me. Best possible result, eh?

Bah, changed my mind again: Sons of Northern Darkness, tracks 2 & 6-8; TDE, tracks 1 & 6. And 2... and 5... and 7 & 8... 9 too--just buy it already!

runners-up: Immol EP? Mastodon's others? I still have yet to hear those in their entirety... and maybe some more Amer/FR stuff

Created by: Syk | 07.04.2012



1. Fatboy Slim - Halfway between the Gutter and the Stars
2000 - Ya Mama, Retox, Weapon of Choice, Song for Shelter... whole damn album? Macy Gray's tracks own too, check 'em out! this disc flows so perfectly... YOUTUBE may give you a decent taste. look for Christopher Walken, and separately, a boombox
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
2000 - Summer, Secret, Chemistry, Lightning Song seem to be the favourites. LOVE the outro
3. Offspring - Conspiracy of One
2000 - rather ironically (or not) I super-dig all but tracks 1, 3, 4, 9
4. Eidolon - Nightmare World
2000 - Nightmare World, Repulsion, Fortress of Red, Majestic Interlude, Dreamscape
5. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2001 - New Born... well really, everything but the Screenager. Especially 2, 3, 5, 9. 6! 6! 6!
6. Bush - Golden State
2001 - all damn good but esp. 3 6 8 10 and the bonus track, all great rockers while 7, 11 + 12 are very nice + personal (chillingly awesome (for halfpop-rock songs, anyway))
7. Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
2001 - Courage, Smooth Criminal, Universe... everything not Movies
8. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
2001 - it's all rather cool minus tracks 11, 12 & possibly Left-Hand (haven't tried that one)
9. Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
2002 - title track, In My Kingdom Cold, Antarctica, Beyond the North Waves [AotD runner-up!]
10. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2002 - Dead, Fallin', Tree, Radio, Deaf, the ones that got videos, and the only Mosquito I'll ever love (essentially 9, 12 & maybe 6 are the only potential candidates for skippage. The Kinks cover is GREAT company when just walkin' around - say, on the sidewalks?)
11. System of a Down - Steal This Album!
2002 - Boom!, Nüguns, A.D.D, Mr. Jack, I-E-A-I-A-I-O, Highway Song, Thetawaves, Streamline
12. Kataklysm - Shadows & Dust
2002 - pretty much everything but Illuminati and the bonus track
13. Cathedral - The VIIth Coming
2002 - Resisting the Ghost, The Empty Mirror, Nocturnal Fist, Halo of Fire
14. Greg Howe, Victor Wooten & Dennis Chambers - Extraction
2003 - Extraction, Crack It, Contigo, Cosmos, Bird's Eye View. maybe add A Delicacy?
15. Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
2004 - Scar Spangled Banner, War Is My Shepherd, Forward March, Impaler
16. Deadfall - Ordeal by Fire demo
2005 - State of the Art, Second to None, Nine Lies
17. Mastery - Lethal Legacy
2005 - Power Race, Numeration, Lethal Legacy
18. Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
2005 - were tracks 7 & 8 a little shorter, I just may have given this a 10
19. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2006 - The Wolf Is Loose, Sleeping Giant, Capillarian Crest, Bladecatcher, Colony of Birchmen, Siberian Divide, Pendulous Skin... so many (quite possibly the best album of the decade in the mainstream, considering they were, at the time on the same label as Neil Young. I'd name QotSA, 2001 entries and perhaps F-Slim as the major competition for the title)
20. Joe Satriani - Super Colossal
2006 - Redshift Riders, A Cool New Way, One Robot's Dream, Theme for a Strange World
21. Gorod - Leading Vision
2006 - Here Die Your Gods, Thirst for Power, Chronicle from the Stone Age
22. The Disciples of Zoldon - Unto Thine Darkness, Death Doth Deliver
2006 - The Epoch in which His Evil Reigns, Emblazoned with a Z, Upon the Astral Plane, Worship and Exaltation Is Due Only to the Dark Lord and Master of All Things Metal
23. Dãm - The Difference Engine
2007 [Candlelight Recs released what is my Album of the Decade or at least very, very near to it]
24. Warbringer - Waking into Nightmares
2009 - Severed Reality, Abandoned by Time, Prey for Death - ignore some average lyrics/themes here & there (or spin out the metaphor just a little more) and this emerges as a classic of modern thrash metal. VERY well done, I say to the band and production team
25. Vektor - Black Future
2009 - Destroying the Cosmos, Hunger for Violence, Dark Nebula - THE thrash band of the decade



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