Best Metal album of the past ten years?

[The Journeyman]

Best Metal album since 2001

[Alvarado]

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[Pallantides]

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/covers/evergrey-recreation-day.jpg

[Johnston]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Forevermore.jpg

[Laudanum]

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[_______]

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i thought u were gonna say one of yrs! :p

[Talvi]

I cant choose just one!

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[Black Turlogh]

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[Rosenrot]

http://www.freecodesource.com/album-cover/619VGtLZxRL/Metallica-Death-Magnetic.jpg

hell yeaaah

[Vril Ya]

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5320/cover_1033132010.jpg

the third eye is the S.U.N.

[Laudanum]

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This album is a masterpiece. I love it.:) Probably some of the best black metal albums ever made!

[The Journeyman]

One of the best black metal albums of the past 10 years for sure.

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[morski]

Tough one :)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Iron_Maiden_-_Brave_New_World.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Machine_Head_-_The_Blackening.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Tool-lateralus-album.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Down-Down_II_A_Bustle_in_Your_Hedgerow.jpg

One of those maybe, but I can't really pick just one.

[Siginulfo]

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http://fabriziomagno.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tyr-2011-thelayofthrym.jpg

[Eldritch]

Very difficult question -- even narrowing it down to any particular metal subgenre probably would help.

But I nominate this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Eparistera_Daimones_gatefold_LP_cover.jpg

[Magister Eckhart]

@OP: do you mean aesthetically (i.e. "I like this one the best") or artistically (i.e. "this is objectively the best"?

[Chip Farley]

Celtic Frost - Monotheist


http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m511/chipfarley/Miscellaneous%20Four/Monotheist.jpg


Just kicks all possible ass!

[Magister Eckhart]

Receiving no answer to my question, I suppose I'll propose an album for each category, since really when one talks about "the best" one has to talk about both what is aesthetically most pleasing and what is artistically most successful. The problem with the former category, of course, is that it's completely subjective.

My favourite album of the last ten years is without a doubt:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Paradise_Lost_by_Symphony_X_album_cover_art.jpg
Symphony X: Paradise Lost, 2007

However, the most artistically appealing and, in my opinion, successful album produced in the last ten years is:

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Gorgoroth: Twilight of the Idols, 2003
The pinnacle of all ideological Black Metal, this album is certainly the most artistically complete and successful albums produced since the 1990s in Black Metal. It deploys Black Metal's natural qualities to their fullest avant-garde splendour, and is able to unite an ideological message making the music much deeper than the beer-and-headbanging that infects the genre.

Runners-up for "Best Album" include, however,

http://covers.a-go.in/max/summoning_-_2001_let_mortal_heroes_sing_your_fame.jpg
Summoning: Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame, 2002
Really, if I could, I would put this one in the "Most Artistically Successful Album" of the decade, because despite Gorgoroth's success at achieving the best ideological Black Metal album produced probably since the early days of the genre, Summoning has created something fundamentally new with their music, and this album being its best expression, it is hard not to consider this the best metal album produced probably in the last twenty years, let alone since 2001.

http://www.miomusik.com/satyricon/now_diabolical_CD_large.jpg
Satyricon: Now, Diabolical, 2006
A fun, fast-paced, and easily enjoyed album that unfortunately ultimately lacks the substance that makes Black Metal so attractive as a mode.

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The Sword: Age of Winters, 2006
This heavy-hearted, deeply resounding return to the early roots of Heavy Metal was extremely well received, but seemed to lack a certain timelessness of its forebears.

[The Journeyman]

Celtic Frost - Monotheist


http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m511/chipfarley/Miscellaneous%20Four/Monotheist.jpg


Just kicks all possible ass!


Very difficult question -- even narrowing it down to any particular metal subgenre probably would help.

But I nominate this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Eparistera_Daimones_gatefold_LP_cover.jpg

I admire Warrior as a true innovator in metal and Celtic Frost was one of my favorite European bands of the 80's. But some of their newer stuff is hard for me to get into.

[Laudanum]

Some other great albums made in the past 10 years:

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/5/7/3/157375.jpg
Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum by Deathspell Omega (2007)

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Ordo Ad Chao by Mayhem (2007) Not many people liked this album but personally I think it's amazing.

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Panopticon by Isis (2004) - A great album. I love it.

[The Journeyman]

Isis is the shit.

[Tabiti]

Personal favourites from my CD/tape collection in no particular order:

Graveland - Memory and Destiny;
Graveland/Honor - Riders of Revenge;
Honor - W Płomieniach Wschodzącej Siły / In Flames of the Rising Power;
Kawir - Ophiolatreia;
Bilskirnir -In Flames of Purification;
Nitberg/Volkoten - Hammerkrieg;
Wyrd - Huldrafolk;
Volkolak - Hail to The God of The Sun;
Nordreich - Auf heimischen Pfaden;
M8l8th - Unbreakable Faith;
Walknut - Graveforests and Their Shadows;
Darkstrah - The Great Silk Road;
Nordisches Blut - Our Banners Will Rise;
Ulfsdalir - Grimnir;
Falkenbach - Tuirida;
Nachtfalke - Doomed to Die;
Jar - Flame of Kupala;
Absurd - Totenlieder;
....

and of course (it's time to be gay):
Ramstein - Mutter;)

[Chip Farley]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2LF8RjWFxSA/Tfzi6stQNbI/AAAAAAAAATo/wZBFaBElBEE/s1600/Ordo+Ad+Chao.jpg
Ordo Ad Chao by Mayhem (2007) Not many people liked this album but personally I think it's amazing.


Right on!

Hellhammer is one of my favorite drummers (Dale Crover of the Melvins is probably #2)

[Laudanum]

Hellhammer is one of my favorite drummers (Dale Crover of the Melvins is probably #2)

It's funny because I'm not a big fan of Hellhammer. His style is usually a little too tight for me, but on Ordo Ad Chao he sounded so damn raw. His drums really made the album what it is; a great chaotic and atmospheric black metal reocrd.:)

[Sylvanus]

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[Laudanum]

This is probably my favourite one:

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/2/5/7/52574.jpg

Shining - The Eerie Cold

[European Heartlander]

Summoning - Oath Bound

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[Laudanum]

Summoning - Oath Bound

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Good one. I like Summoning quite a lot.:)

[Pohjatuuli]

Can't believe this one wasn't mentioned already:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dlDodAqSwYA/TeilLKqLRdI/AAAAAAAABZ0/wHO6HRsu9jo/s1600/Sigrblot.jpg

An audial and lyrical manifestation of the Faustian/European spirit, absolutely crushing in both the musical and the ideological perspectives. A masterpiece recommendable for every European.


Today we have no great warlords as we are not yet ourselves. The dawning Great War has not yet brought them forth because no one has yet attained the inner realization that he fought and died for a new myth. Today millions ponder before the grave of the unknown soldier. The eyes of all nations gaze upon grim tombs of war.

Soon we will realize that these countless men of the white race are martyrs. All of them being both sacrificial victims of a collapsed age and heralds of a new one. The dead of today are the living links between millions of individuals, for they are the founders of the folkish myth. They are the most sublime witnesses to the eternity of race and folk. Once this is realized the warriors of the Great War will be born. Also, a new culture and a new art will one day be able to develop from this myth.

Today this inner voice demands fulfillment of the myth of ancestry and soul. Conquest of mind – race and ego. Triumph of will – blood and honour! These virtues must reign alone and uncompromisingly – They must carry and determine the whole of life. The myth of Europa demands that these dead heroes have not fallen in vain. It is no longer detracted by peripheral values alongside it. The personalities must close around the centre of the folk and race soul. It demands a worldwide revolution.


The body of Europe. The Blood of Europe. The body of Europe keeps you in eternal pain. The blood of Europe keeps you in eternal shame. The bread of Europe, broken by you. The blood of Europe, shed by you. The bread of heaven ground to dust. The cup of life, barren as its host. Salvation lies in the flaming chalice.

Cast aside the shackles of dogma and humility, thus adopting the doctrines of the end of all time. The stone tablet of Moses reduced to rubble as his tribe wanders scattered in the spiritual desert. Their covenant broken with the fall of Sinai; the altar of perversion cracked from its core. From the burning abyss, purgatory's prophets chant revelations not scribed on parchment nor carved in wood - but falling upon the earth as they are uttered. Surfacing from the sea, out of mountains, in the wind and raining from the raging heavens themselves. We have found our messiah, received his blessing and witnessed his ascension.

Sigrblot - Folkstorm
Sigrblot - Endtime Communion

[Magister Eckhart]

Summoning - Oath Bound

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I still prefer Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame.

[Laudanum]

I still prefer Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame.

....And I prefer Stronghold.:P

[Laudanum]

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[Fra Baldracco]

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[Sagitta Hungarica]

It's hard for me to name one album, because there were so many awesome albums released in the past 10 years, but I will name only those that are the most consistently amazing from start to finish. I also highly recommend these albums :thumb001:

Opeth - Blackwater Park (Sweden-Progressive Death Metal)
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Symphony X - The Odyssey (America-Progressive Metal)
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/325/cover_2481130112008.jpg

Sear Bliss - Forsaken Symphony (Hungary-Melodic Black Metal)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZKdIMvQNpj4/SdE8L9YAdvI/AAAAAAAABbI/Fc-QZDWMLdA/s400/front.jpg

Vektor - Black Future (America-Technical Thrash Metal)
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Morbid Carnage - Night Assasins (Hungary-Thrash Metal)
http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MorbidCarnagecover1.jpg

[European Heartlander]

....And I prefer Stronghold.:P
Please, re-read my post. I said "/thread".

[Laudanum]

Please, re-read my post. I said "/thread".

This thread has not reached it's end until I have mentioned all of my favourite albums.:D

[Fra Baldracco]

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http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/cover/d67/8679_3_antichristian_kaos.jpg

[truepenny]

Not because I think the album is highly original but because symphonic black metal is my favorite style of metal and no one has done it better than this so far. This style of black metal has been done over and over again but never this well :

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Yeah, I know some black metal fans won't consider it trv or kvlt but I don't care it is still underground and not lame like Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir (sellouts) IMO.

Although, Therion's Secret of The Runes was damned good too as well as some other death metal albums etc.. etc.. but they aren't my favorite genres of metal.

[Pohjatuuli]

I still prefer Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame.
They are pretty even in my opinion, although I might slightly prefer Oath Bound since it's more reminiscent of the old Summoning albums (Minas Morgul and Dol Guldur FTW!).

By the way, does anyone know anything about the next Summoning album? The last update on their website is from October 2008, it says that they will concentrate on Summoning after Silenius has finished his work with the new Kreuzweg Ost album. Well, it's October 2011 and we don't even have the new Kreuzweg Ost yet... although judging from Kreuzweg Ost's Facebook profile, the album has been finished quite a long time ago and should be released by Cold Spring Records any time now. Their last album "Edelrost" was a really good piece of martial industrial by the way, I would recommend it to every Summoning fan.

Kreuzweg Ost - Die Legion

Anyway, the blokes at Summoning should probably concentrate on making more music instead of writing crap like this (http://www.summoning.info/Stuff/PoliticalStatements.html)...