Top Ten Metal Albums Of Each Year - 2000‑2009
Criteria: These Top Ten Metal albums of each year from 2000 through 2009 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on metal music in general.
Metal Albums 2000-2009
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2000
1. Dopethrone - Electric Wizard
2. Close to a World Below - Immolation
3. Clayman - In Flames
4. Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom
5. White Pony - Deftones
6. Dead Heart in a Dead World - Nevermore
7. Black Seeds of Vengeance - Nile
8. Wishmaster - Nightwish
9. Brave New World - Iron Maiden
10. Litany - Vader
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2001
1. Blackwater Park - Opeth
2. Lateralus - Tool
3. Toxicity - System of a Down
4. Jane Doe - Converge
5. A Sun that Never Sets - Neurosis
6. Prowler in the Yard - Pig Destroyer
7. The Dreadful Hours - My Dying Bride
8. Mutter - Rammstein
9. 1184 - Windir
10. Ensiferum - Enisferum
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2002
1. The Mantle - Agalloch
2. Remission - Mastodon
3. Oceanic - Isis
4. Deliverance - Opeth
5. Unholy Cult - Immolation
6. Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation
7. The Sham Mirrors - Arcturus
8. Alive or Just Breathing - Killswitch Engange
9. In Their Darkened Shrines - Nile
10. Sons of Northern Darkness - Immortal
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2003
1. Dopesmoker - Sleep
2. Below the Lights - Enslaved
3. Epica - Kamelot
4. Forgotten Legends - Drudkh
5. Hate Crew Deathroll - Children of Bodom
6. A Flame to the Ground Beneath - Lost Horizon
7. Death Cult Armageddon - Dimmu Borgir
8. As the Palaces Burn - Lamb of God
9. Nordland II - Bathory
10. Choirs of the Eye - Kayo Dot
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2004
1. Leviathan - Mastodon
2. Panopticon - Isis
3. The Eye of Every Storm - Neurosis
4. Ashes of The Wake - Lamb of God
5. Isa - Enslaved
6. Epitaph - Necrophagist
7. Wintersun - Wintersun
8. Autumn Aurora - Drudkh
9. Miss Machine - Dillinger Escape Plan
10. Terrifyer - Pig Destroyer
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2005
1. Ghost Reveries - Opeth
2. The Black Halo - Kamelot
3. Those Once Loyal - Bolt Thrower
4. From Mars to Sirius - Gojira
5. This Godless Endeavor - Nevermore
6. Blessed Black Wings - High on Fire
7. Verisakeet - Moonsorrow
8. Shovel Headed Kill Machine - Exodus
9. Alien - Strapping Young Lad
10. Mesmerize - System of a Down
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2006
1. Blood Mountain - Mastodon
2. Monotheist - Celtic Frost
3. With Oden On Our Side - Amon Amarth
4. Ashes Against The Grain - Agalloch
5. Sacrament - Lamb of God
6. Ruun - Enslaved
7. Kill - Cannibal Corpse
8. OM - Negura Bunget
9. Between Two Worlds - I
10. 10,000 Days - Tool
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2007
1. Colors - Between the Buried and Me
2. The Blackening - Machine Head
3. Phantom Limb - Pig Destroyer
4. Death Is This Communion - High on Fire
5. To the Nameless Dead - Primordial
6. Two Hunters - Wolves in the Throne Room
7. Given to the Rising - Neurosis
8. Ire Works - Dillinger Escape Plan
9. Red Album - Baroness
10. Ziltoid - Devin Townsend
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008
1. Watershed - Opeth
2. Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth
3. ObZen - Meshuggah
4. Communion - Septicflesh
5. Formation of Damnation - Testament
6. Death Magnetic - Metallica
7. The Way of All Flesh - Gojira
8. Vertebrae - Enslaved
9. Fortress - Protest the Hero
10. Dark Space III - Darkspace
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2009
1. Crack the Skye - Mastodon
2. Voice of Steel - Nokturnal Mortum
3. Black Future - Vektor
4. Blue Record - Baroness
5. Axe to Fall - Converge
6. Static Tensions - Kylesa
7. Those Whom the Gods Detest - Nile
8. Addicted - Devin Townsend Project
9. Skyforger - Amorphis
10. All Shall Fall - Immortal
Edited By: JRA, DDD Forum