Top Ten Metal Albums Of Each Year
2000-2009

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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