This looks pretty good, I would consider Ensiferum, Karma, From Wisdom to Hate or Terria could replace Horror Show and Thorns.

Eh Horror Show should stay

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Tool - Lateralus
3. System of a Down - Toxicity
4. Converge - Jane Doe
5. Neurosis - A Sun that Never Sets
6. Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
7. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
8. Iced Earth - The Horror Show
9. Windir - 1184
10. Ensiferum - Enisferum

Looks good to me. I'll give up on Mutter since it sucks anyway.

I would argue that Horror Show doesn't need to be there. For one, as great as Iced Earth is, they don't really have a defining album or set of albums where most of their greatness lies. But, for the sake of argument, albums like Burnt Offerings and Something Wicked This Way Comes would garner that credit. I'd say Horror Show has popularity to a degree, but definitely not exceeding that of Mutter. I'd also give Mutter the benefit in impact; an album that helped make non Anglophone metal more accessible and popular. So even giving Horror Show influence would be a moot point.

Habla what?

I still would like an explanation for this.

For what? Rammstein being a key artist in helping foreign language bands break a barrier. Name a metal band that doesn't sing in English that is more popular than Rammstein.

OK, I thought you meant something else by non-Anglophone.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Tool - Lateralus
3. System of a Down - Toxicity
4. Converge - Jane Doe
5. Neurosis - A Sun that Never Sets
6. Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
7. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
8. Rammstein - Mutter
9. Windir - 1184
10. Ensiferum - Enisferum

Looks pretty good to me.

right, 2002.

1. Mastodon- Remission


I know fuck all that came out this year other than that. Get to work.

2002:

1. Isis - Oceanic
2. Agalloch - The Mantle
3. Mastodon - Remission
4. Opeth - Deliverance
5. Immolation - Unholy Cult
6. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
7. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
8. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
9. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
10. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

No idea about the order.

Didn't know In Their Darkened Shrines was that acclaimed.

The Mantle should probably be #1 in retrospect. That album has pretty much (unfortunately) defined the last 10 years of metal.

I would consider it in their big three

I'd drop Nile down to 9 and replace Damage Done with Versus the World.