Had to butcher the Lacuna Coil segment for copyright reasons, but the rest is intact! I also know it is a sin that I left out Eluveitie, but I will make up for that in the 2010s list. Ugh, it's even St Paddys Day. I feel the wrath of my ancestors for leaving out the band with bagpipes. Enjoy the video regardless!
I already did a 2020s one. Though it was before I even did the 70s one, so its sort of not part of this series. But I do have a Top 20 pf the 2020s video. :)
Nice list, although I think you seem to be sleeping on Japanese Metal for sure. Which again, like their European scenes, has quite a refined catalogue of genres, and dense (well-produced!) material to work through.
Phenomenal list and decade for metal! This felt really complete despite the fact that there are STILL so many incredible albums that didn’t make it! I’ve seen some people mentioning Symphony X and Necrophagist in the comments, which I totally agree with. Also Fortress by Protest the Hero is an absolute monster of an album! This was such a good decade and this was probably a tough list to narrow down! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I think the real theme of this decade was Gateway Bands for Millennials. There were so many in here that got me started on my metal journey: Arch Enemy, Slipknot, Lamb of God (mentioned briefly), Nightwish, System of a Down, Korn, Children of Bodom, Avenged Sevenfold, All that Remains... and the list goes on. I gotta say: I love Manowar. I remember stumbling on Warriors of the World in middle school and finding the song strangely, darkly enthralling. Now, they are one of my most consistently listened to bands. I unironically love Manowar. And I think that should be the take away of this video: don't be too quick to dismiss the good parts of your past as cringe. There was a good reason these songs and bands were ever meaningful to you.
Opeth's Ghost Reveries is my favorite Opeth album, which I feel like is an uncommon opinion. Tone-wise, it always reminded me of Hound of the Baskervilles (themes of ghosts, misty moors, and hounds braying on a haunted night), which I happened to be reading for school around the same time I started listening to Opeth. I am so happy to see Dimmu Borgir got at least an honorable mention. They are genuinely the band that warmed me up to even darker forms of metal (i.e. genuine Black Metal). They really are a Gateway. Ironic that one of their most popular songs is called Gateways... This might be unpopular as well, but I seriously think Dimmu Borgir holds up in their own style. It's a cool combination of orchestra and black metal, lots of very musical riffage in there.
I really like your reviews and analysis on metal, you go so in depth into them. My personal favorites from that list has to be Jobforacowboy-genesis, The black dahila murder-nocturnal, and Children of bodom- Hate crew deathroll, just to name a few.
Idk what my top 40 would be but black dahlia murder is definitely in there somewhere. Brilliant band with almost 2 decades of every album (and damn near every song honestly) being an absolute banger. They just don’t miss.
absolutely agree that all the albums are 10/10 self-titled is more angry and toxicity is more varied so I would say toxicity is my favorite though it depends on the mood I am in
How can people be embarrassed by children of Bodem, they are metal as hell with their guitars and vocals. Plus they have the best synth, not just in metal, but of every genre. Hot take, but blood drunk is my favorite album from them.
My favorites Tool - Lateralus (the best post-prog metal album) Chevelle - Sci-fi Crimes (the best post-alternative metal album) Brujería - Brujerizmo (trash-death-grindcore) Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard (the best Grindcore album)
I can't think of 40 albums while restricting myself to just one album per artist without adding albums I don't feel deserve to be here, so I just have 20: 1 - Stabbing the Drama - Soilwork 2 - Train of Thought - Dream Theater 3 - A Matter of Life and Death - Iron Maiden 4 - Soundtrack to Your Escape - In Flames 5 - Fiction - Dark Tranquility 6 - All Hope is Gone - Slipknot 7 - United Abominations - Megadeth 8 - God Hates us All - Slayer 9 - As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage 10 - Ember to Inferno - Trivium 11 - Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed 12 - Architect of Lies - Mercenary 13 - Through the Ashes of Empires - Machine Head 14 - Enemy of God - Kreator 15 - The Atrocity Exhibition - Exhibit A - Exodus 16 - Ghost Reveries - Opeth 17 - An Ocean Between Us - As I Lay Dying 18 - The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains 19 - Scream Aim Fire - Bullet For My Valentine 20 - This is Exile - Whitechapel
While Toxicity is an absolute masterpiece, I always found myself more drawn to the Mesmerize and Hypnotize double album. Though to be honest barely any songs in their catalogue are skips for me.
my favorites are: Mechanical Spin Phenomena by Mnemic (they basically did the modern djenty progressive metalcore in 2003 and they have influences from Fear Factory and Meshuggah), Toxicity by SOAD, Boris - Flood (drone, drone metal, sludge, it's barely metal), Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (heavy metal), Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings (melodeath + deathcore), Down II/Down III (sludge/southern/stoner/groove metal, basically the ultimate Lousiana band, and all of the members are from iconic bands from that scene), Reinventing the Steel by Pantera, Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot (I think the s/t is my favorite but it came out in 1999), L.D. 50 by Mudvayne (nu metal/groove metal/funk metal, quite an experimental album for the nu-metal genre), either Каждую секунду пространства or Дневники одиночки by Психея (Russian band blending nu metal, alternative metal, industrial metal and digital hardcore), Train of Thought by Dream Theater (Octavarium is a close second), The Fury of Our Maker's Hand by Devildriver (groove metal + melodeath), As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage, The Blackening by Machine Head, Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God, Lateralus/10,000 days by Tool and Bu-ikikaesu by Maximum The Hormone (groove metal/nu metal with straight up hardcore punk moments and mocking pop choruses at times, very fun and weird)
I wanna give a shoutout to an album that isn't even metal but is by a band often labeled as metal (they have like one fully metal album) and that is Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails. Now in terms of 2000s metal I think that Count Your Blessings by Bring Me Yhe Horizon is underrated.
I agree with you, Count Your Blessings is amazing, and it seems to be looked at just as a typical myspace deathcore album, but it is actually a perfectly balanced blend of melodeath and deathcore one of my favorite albums of all time and I don't like deathcore
Interesting stuff. What a diverse list. Here are some of my favorite metal albums of the 2000s (no order). 1. Slipknot - Iowa (nu metal) 2. Linkin Park - Meteora (nu metal) 3. Evanescence - Fallen (nu metal/gothic metal/symphonic metal) 4. Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies (post-hardcore/trance/metalcore) 5. Parkway Drive - Horizons (metalcore) 6. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde (post-metal/shoegaze/black metal) 7. Deftones - White Pony (alternative metal/post-hardcore/shoegaze) 8. Suicide Silence - The Cleansing (deathcore) 9. Sum 41 - Chuck (alternative metal/melodic hardcore/thrash metal) 10. Windir - 1184 (melodic black metal/folk metal) 11. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (death metal) 12. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (alternative metal/nu metal/hard rock) 13. Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes (alternative metal/hard rock) 14. Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (alternative metal/post-grunge/hard rock) 15. Three Days Grace - One-X (alternative metal/alternative rock/post-grunge) 16. Gallhammer - Ill Innocence (black metal/doom metal/crust punk)
I really hoped you'd include one of mastodon's 2000's albums (they're all masterpieces imo) and gojira's from mars to sirius or the way of all flesh :( ecpecially since i saw the list was 40 albums long
I thought about putting Mastodon. I actually haven't really listened to pre-2010s Gojira, but consider Leviathan and Remission honourable mentions. Even if I did 100 albums, I'd still miss some bangers.
@@whatsinameme5258 I'm actually not that big of a fan of gojira's other works, but from mars to sirius and the way of all flesh are perfect albums, you gotta check them out
For me my personally my favourite albums are “fall of ideals” , “undoing ruin” and “the price of existence”. Especially fall of ideals I have probably spent 1000 hours in total only listening that album at this point or maybe even more
Take a Look in the Mirror was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I loved it when I bought it in 2003. I listened to it again a couple years ago after not hearing it for awhile. My god it's awful
United Abominations is a great album imo. Maybe not as good as Peace Sells or Rust in Peace, but I would say that it's atleast as good as Countdown to Extinction.
54:04 damn didn't expect you to put stone sour on this list. But even as someone who loves this band and the album I'll have to admit that its pretty much a post grunge album
Ok finally just finished the video after having it paused for the most part of the day and i'm so glad you included Holographic Universe! It's my favorite album ever, by my favorite band. I could talk about how good Scar Symmetry is, how incredible not only the songwriting but the musicianship are and how it all comes together in such a perfect package... and I'm already getting carried away. Surprised you got Alaska in as well. I'm more of a Colors guy but I love BTBAM getting some love. Anyway here's some of my picks: - Mind Tricks by Disarmonia Mundi: Melodeath at its finest. Incredibly catchy without sounding juvenile, while also being quite intense at times. Actually one of my gateway albums. - Storm the Gates of Hell by Demon Hunter: Super good alternative metal / metalcore. One of the few cases where a Christian band actually has great lyrics (and i say this being a christian myself) and makes justice to its content with music that is legit. - Face the Colossus by Dagoba: Groove metal which sounds IMMENSE. The World In Between has got to be the hugest sounding ballad I've heard. - Vulcanus by Fear My Thoughts: Deserves more recognition. Great melodeath/metalcore, very melodic stuff but not afraid to get violent at times. - Beauty and the Breakdown by Bury Your Dead: Same deal as Hatebreed, more or less, but sounds even angrier. Such a blast to headbang to. - Death Pop Romance by Raunchy: Alternative metal with shades of metalcore and melodic death metal...-ish. I don't know anymore. It's just good. More to the catchy side of things, and they do that so well here. - The Hours That Remain by Mercenary: Melodeath (you can tell which is my favorite genre at this point) meets power metal. It's hard to pick an album by them, but Lost Reality easily breaks the tie. - Payable on Death by P.O.D.: The other Christian band with good lyrics. Superb nu metal. Album is kind of overlooked by fans I think, but heck this video i'm commenting on is full of them. I'm not strict about genres so apologies if I make the wrong expectations, yet I think all these albums are defo worth checking out.
great list! I think, the most accurate description for 2000's metalcore like All That Remains would be " Killswitchcore" as all those bands copied them imho
10:22 i mean, when The Fall of Ideals was released that harsh/clean duality was already sort of kind of commonplace. It had been five years since Hybrid Theory released, after all.
My mistake if I implied FoI invented it. Thats not really what I was getting at. I meant more that it was becoming commonplace with Melodic Metalcore enterig the picture. Remember, Waking the Fallen was prior back in 2003. But before 2003, the only bands really doing the vocal contrast were Nu-Metal bands like Korn and Slipknot. But even they usually didn't go full clean and full harsh. It was usually somewhere in between.
@@whatsinameme5258 Nah you didn't imply that at all, you even said "before the 2000s" which i'm not correcting at all! I wanted to emphasize that by the time The Fall of Ideals the dynamic already wasn't as fresh (although it wasn't yet something modern metal took for granted)
Hell yeah brother, djent is absolutely a genre (and has indeed been watered down with a lot of Metalcore like everything else, though I don't mind it) Good deathcore picks, and that All that remains pick absolutely deserves to be on this list Also Bad Omens and BMTH are not Metalcore, bye
there might be a few you missed. decade was dense with good music. ill toss a few I think you overlooked/omitted darkest hour - undoing ruin or hidden hands of the sadist nation the bled- pass the flask as I lay dying - frail worlds collapse the crown - crowned unholy/crowned in terror Woods of Ypres - woods 4 alcest - Écailles De Lune Shai Hulhd - that within blood ill-tempered light this city - remains of the gods im sure theres more even im missing. but this was a good one that hit right in my age bracket.
1 NEVERMORE - This Godless Endeavor (this band was too good for the 2000s, my 2nd fave of all time - glad to see it featured!! 45:44) 2 EPICA - Design Your Universe (actual symphonic METAL with riffs, unlike Nightwish/Lacuna Coil/Within Temptation etc.) 3 AYREON - The Human Equation (what a journey of a concept album!) 4 SYMPHONY X - The Odyssey (also has my favourite track of all time, amazing blend of prog & power metal) 5 DREAM THEATER - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (3 all-time masterpiece songs, 2 decent songs, 1 meh ballad) 6 NECROPHAGIST - Epitaph (hello, tech death! Those solos are still out of this world today!) 7 DYING FETUS - Destroy The Opposition (grooves for daaaays while still kicking ass) 8 OPETH - Ghost Reveries ("the better album") or Blackwater Park ("the most iconic album"), and I'm not even an Opeth fan..(!!) 9 NILE - Annihilation of the Wicked or Those Whom The Gods Detest 10 BLOODBATH - Nightmares Made Flesh or The Fathomless Mastery 11: THE FACELESS - Planetary Duality (tech death got a blueprint) Imo.. as evident from this list, I'm not much of a fan of the way most metal went this decade, but the underground still held its own, while tech death and symphonic metal started really taking off by the end of the decade!
I'm surprised I forgot to include Necrophagist. Oops. Granted Tech Death was more a 2010s thing, but Necro started it back in the aughts, technically the 90s even. Epica is actually SUPER Prog Metal too. It think that is what you mean. I think people overlook that they are proggy, because of the Symphonic stuff.
@@whatsinameme5258 Kingdom of Heaven I, II, III, Holographic Principle, Design Your Universe etc. are all phenomenal epic prog songs! But I also stand by my point that they stay symphonic METAL unlike so many of their peers who are all about the vocals, and maybe even use long power chords during verses instead of actual riffs. On one hand, I want to say symphonic metal might just be my favourite genre of them all. On the other, I only have Epica and (to some degree) modern Blind Guardian, Symphony X and the latest Xandria album to base that statement on. It's all about Epica imo - others bore me to death, and SX + BG are power/prog and power metal above all else, hehe :D
I am a bit of a contrarian I suppose. I dunno, I think Right Now and Ya'll Want a Single are classics. KoRns albums are always hit and miss. I don't think any of them are consistently good. But I think the only reason that record gets so much hate is just because the Nu-Metal trend was on it's way out at the time. But I think it's still a better record overall than Untouchables or Follow the Leader, or even Life is Peachy. if you just think KoRn sucks in general tho, I guess that's fair.
Dope list My top 3 2000s albums would easily be Hate Crew Death Roll (Cobo) The Mantle (Agalloch) Leviathan (Mastodon) Edit: The comment you made about COBO and Dissection is funny to me because I got into metal through Dissection and only discovered COBO wayyyy later. You're right about them being stupid fun.
They're not bad. I funny enough just referenced them in my recent video, but I prefer Avenged Sevenfold, All That Remains, and The Agonist as far as Melodic Metalcore goes. If I did a top songs list of the 2000s, Waking the Demon would likely make it in.
@@whatsinameme5258 Your brief reference to them as an example of Melodic Metalcore in your NWOBHM is indeed what got me to come back to this video where my comment would be relevant :) And yeah I get that, that’s fair. 16 years later, their scene kid aesthetic makes me cringe a bit, but some of the riffs are still badass, imo
So how controversial of a take is it to say that Hammerfall is much cheesier sounding than Manowar? Before angry fans come to murder me: I like both bands. Some power metal cheese is just what you need sometimes. Plus as a huge gloryhammer fan I have no room to talk really
I never understand how more melody make something less heavy. To me it can accentuate it and make it more memorable. Like how Deaths prog albums are way more memorable
thanks for psychostick, this is particularly awesome and stuff wonderfull presentation ! and again, just a few songs in, it is magnificent ( first i wanted to write beautiful, it is, anway ) beautiful channel, great insights, much music, and many love to you brother. ps: thats beer , actually it is cider that talks, or helps talking, writing. Tüdeldü as the trees say and thanks for nevermore
Glad to see inhuman rampage on the list, I was worried it wasn’t going to make it after there was no blind guardian in the 90’s. I think they used a vocoder not auto tune though.
Wish there was a list of all these albums posted. And for all the other decades as well. I’m a playlist junkie and would definitely make a playlist for work.
I love you Occulturation, but I really wish you put Lamb of God's "As the Palaces Burn" or "Ashes of the Wake" on this list purely for selfish reasons. Love that you picked Systematic Chaos, one of my favorite DT albums.
Check out Within The Ruins for your 2010s video. I personally didn't have time to properly listen to them but they're like prog tdm and the songs which i heard from their 2014 album freaking slap or rather put nails in your eardrums, technically and progressively.
Idk if it's in here, but Miss Machine has to be super high up on my list. TDEP has held a place in my heart since 2005 when they were on the SVR soundtrack.
the black dahlia murder as "Proto deathcore" but I swear much like at the gates to the early 00s metalcore scene every deathcore band from like 2015 on needs to send the black dahlia murder a check or a thank you card at least.
Oohh yeah , this video was amazing on explaining why the albums give people goosebumps. Would like to see a playlist for this video (too lazy to do myself)
glad to see Chimaira here...LOVE this album so much! I would add: Decapitated: Organic Hallucionations Machine Head- The Blackening ( THE metal album of my generation imho. Pure perfection) Gojira-The Way Of All Flesh Lamb Of God-Sacrament Oceano-Depths Metallica-Death Magnetic ( such an underrated record) Suicide Silence-The Cleansing Killswitch Engage- Alive Or Just Breathing Tool-Lateralus Testament-Formation Of Damnation Exodus-Atrocity Exhibition Defeated Sanity-Psalms Of The Moribound Divine Heresy- Bleed The Fifth Whitechapel-This is Exile Beneath The Massacre-Mechanics Of Dysfunction I'd take those out of the list for this: Agonist, A7x,Megadeth, Motorhead, all Power Metal ( sorry), all melodeath besides Arch Enemy and Black Dahlia Murder( sorry),Opeth, Evile
I gave serious thought to putting The Blackening on here. Unpopular Opinion though, I prefer Unto the Locust. While the Blackening is great, (I love Beautiful Mourning for example. One of the top songs of the decade) I decided to cut it because I find some of the tracks drag on unnecessarily, ESPECIALLY the first and last track. And personally I find some of the lyrics a tad cringey. Don't get me wrong, I love the record still, and it was a hard decision to cut it, but I did mention Burn My Eyes in the 90s list, and may mention Locust in the next. Good other picks too. Those are mostly down to personal taste. :)
@@whatsinameme5258 interesting...Locust was when they almost lost me as a fan. Way too metalcore for my taste. Still a cool album, but not really machine head to me
@@terriblecertainity Also interesting. I don't think they sound that different honestly. Just that Locust is shorter and has a tiny bit of symphonic influence. Could just be personal preference. They lost me with Catharsis.
@@whatsinameme5258 Catharsis was beyond terrible. Glad, the new album is good again. I think, Locust has far more of the " verse screaming, chorus whining, breakdown" stereotypes of Metalcore. The structures on Blackening seem to be far more inspired by bands like Rush. regarding your love for both Power Metal and melodic Metalcore? Do you know the band Mendeed? Their album " the dead live by love" is the perfect balance of both, you might want to check it :)
2:54 Oh boy this song... If it was made a bit more direct and was more for a certain political side, I can guarantee you that this song would get a bunch of hate thrown at it.
That's one thing I have always found interesting about SOAD. Their politics are all over the map. I think that's why they've avoided cancellation. No one knows what they stand for, you know besides being pro-Armenian obviously. But besides that topic, left, right, libertarian, or what have you, could all find confirmation bias in SOADs lyrics. But if you are talking Science; yeah, I wonder how that song would be received it was released 20 years later.
A7X NERD HERE TO INTERVENE m shadows chose to stop screaming for city of evil. he did have to get vocal surgery in 2004 but he could still scream nonetheless. he can still and will still scream even now with songs like god hates us and we love you. the direction the band went was entirely their decision and wasn't "forced" (although i can kinda agree that s/t feels like a sell out album even with cool ideas and that monsterof a track a little piece of heaven)
Had to butcher the Lacuna Coil segment for copyright reasons, but the rest is intact! I also know it is a sin that I left out Eluveitie, but I will make up for that in the 2010s list. Ugh, it's even St Paddys Day. I feel the wrath of my ancestors for leaving out the band with bagpipes. Enjoy the video regardless!
i’m super curious about what you have to say for the 2010s also, will you be doing a video for the 2020s?
I already did a 2020s one. Though it was before I even did the 70s one, so its sort of not part of this series. But I do have a Top 20 pf the 2020s video. :)
You said you do vocals on the side, anything produced yet? Anything that we can take a listen to?
Bro where was lateralus???????????
Nice list, although I think you seem to be sleeping on Japanese Metal for sure. Which again, like their European scenes, has quite a refined catalogue of genres, and dense (well-produced!) material to work through.
Wake up babe Occulturation posted. Time to get faded and watch this vid what a good way to start the day
These replies always mess me up because I actually wait for my gf to watch any of these lol.
I love your metal vids cause they show how extremely different metal can sound I mean 2 people could be metalheads and have no bands in common
I was awaiting Gojira's "From Mars to Sirius", but the other albums are as good.
Phenomenal list and decade for metal! This felt really complete despite the fact that there are STILL so many incredible albums that didn’t make it!
I’ve seen some people mentioning Symphony X and Necrophagist in the comments, which I totally agree with. Also Fortress by Protest the Hero is an absolute monster of an album!
This was such a good decade and this was probably a tough list to narrow down! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I think the real theme of this decade was Gateway Bands for Millennials. There were so many in here that got me started on my metal journey: Arch Enemy, Slipknot, Lamb of God (mentioned briefly), Nightwish, System of a Down, Korn, Children of Bodom, Avenged Sevenfold, All that Remains... and the list goes on.
I gotta say: I love Manowar. I remember stumbling on Warriors of the World in middle school and finding the song strangely, darkly enthralling. Now, they are one of my most consistently listened to bands. I unironically love Manowar.
And I think that should be the take away of this video: don't be too quick to dismiss the good parts of your past as cringe. There was a good reason these songs and bands were ever meaningful to you.
Opeth's Ghost Reveries is my favorite Opeth album, which I feel like is an uncommon opinion. Tone-wise, it always reminded me of Hound of the Baskervilles (themes of ghosts, misty moors, and hounds braying on a haunted night), which I happened to be reading for school around the same time I started listening to Opeth.
I am so happy to see Dimmu Borgir got at least an honorable mention. They are genuinely the band that warmed me up to even darker forms of metal (i.e. genuine Black Metal). They really are a Gateway. Ironic that one of their most popular songs is called Gateways... This might be unpopular as well, but I seriously think Dimmu Borgir holds up in their own style. It's a cool combination of orchestra and black metal, lots of very musical riffage in there.
System of a Down and lamb of god are my biggest gateway bands into more extreme forms
Of metal
I really like your reviews and analysis on metal, you go so in depth into them. My personal favorites from that list has to be Jobforacowboy-genesis, The black dahila murder-nocturnal, and Children of bodom- Hate crew deathroll, just to name a few.
The 2000s is my favorite decade for metal personally, I was super excited for this one
Idk what my top 40 would be but black dahlia murder is definitely in there somewhere. Brilliant band with almost 2 decades of every album (and damn near every song honestly) being an absolute banger. They just don’t miss.
Self titled is the best SOAD album I will die on this hill. Shit I might even like Steal This Album! better den Toxicity, all 3 albums are 10/10s tho
absolutely agree that all the albums are 10/10
self-titled is more angry and toxicity is more varied so I would say toxicity is my favorite though it depends on the mood I am in
How can people be embarrassed by children of Bodem, they are metal as hell with their guitars and vocals. Plus they have the best synth, not just in metal, but of every genre. Hot take, but blood drunk is my favorite album from them.
My favorites
Tool - Lateralus (the best post-prog metal album)
Chevelle - Sci-fi Crimes (the best post-alternative metal album)
Brujería - Brujerizmo (trash-death-grindcore)
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard (the best Grindcore album)
Dude why have I only now discovered your channel. Your content is so good
2000s Opeth albums are wonderful, my personal favourites. Great video as always!
I can't think of 40 albums while restricting myself to just one album per artist without adding albums I don't feel deserve to be here, so I just have 20:
1 - Stabbing the Drama - Soilwork
2 - Train of Thought - Dream Theater
3 - A Matter of Life and Death - Iron Maiden
4 - Soundtrack to Your Escape - In Flames
5 - Fiction - Dark Tranquility
6 - All Hope is Gone - Slipknot
7 - United Abominations - Megadeth
8 - God Hates us All - Slayer
9 - As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage
10 - Ember to Inferno - Trivium
11 - Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed
12 - Architect of Lies - Mercenary
13 - Through the Ashes of Empires - Machine Head
14 - Enemy of God - Kreator
15 - The Atrocity Exhibition - Exhibit A - Exodus
16 - Ghost Reveries - Opeth
17 - An Ocean Between Us - As I Lay Dying
18 - The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains
19 - Scream Aim Fire - Bullet For My Valentine
20 - This is Exile - Whitechapel
Nice to see Through the Ashes of Empires get a mention . Everyone else only mentions The Blackening.
Right now has always been my favorite korn song
While Toxicity is an absolute masterpiece, I always found myself more drawn to the Mesmerize and Hypnotize double album. Though to be honest barely any songs in their catalogue are skips for me.
There’s like 3 skips in thier entire discog lol
Funerallopolis is the best metal song of the 21st century also where’s white pony by Deftones
1:44 Comedy and Tragedy are 2 sides of the same coin.
my favorites are: Mechanical Spin Phenomena by Mnemic (they basically did the modern djenty progressive metalcore in 2003 and they have influences from Fear Factory and Meshuggah), Toxicity by SOAD, Boris - Flood (drone, drone metal, sludge, it's barely metal), Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (heavy metal), Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings (melodeath + deathcore), Down II/Down III (sludge/southern/stoner/groove metal, basically the ultimate Lousiana band, and all of the members are from iconic bands from that scene), Reinventing the Steel by Pantera, Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot (I think the s/t is my favorite but it came out in 1999), L.D. 50 by Mudvayne (nu metal/groove metal/funk metal, quite an experimental album for the nu-metal genre), either Каждую секунду пространства or Дневники одиночки by Психея (Russian band blending nu metal, alternative metal, industrial metal and digital hardcore), Train of Thought by Dream Theater (Octavarium is a close second), The Fury of Our Maker's Hand by Devildriver (groove metal + melodeath), As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage, The Blackening by Machine Head, Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God, Lateralus/10,000 days by Tool and Bu-ikikaesu by Maximum The Hormone (groove metal/nu metal with straight up hardcore punk moments and mocking pop choruses at times, very fun and weird)
Down and Pantera were serious contenders. I probably only excluded them because they "feel" like 90s albums.
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing is the single best metalcore album. That album is what "defines" metalcore. No ATR without KSE 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
I wanna give a shoutout to an album that isn't even metal but is by a band often labeled as metal (they have like one fully metal album) and that is Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails. Now in terms of 2000s metal I think that Count Your Blessings by Bring Me Yhe Horizon is underrated.
I agree with you, Count Your Blessings is amazing, and it seems to be looked at just as a typical myspace deathcore album, but it is actually a perfectly balanced blend of melodeath and deathcore
one of my favorite albums of all time and I don't like deathcore
@@arbuznazarov9326 same, not a hige deathcore guy but Count Your Blessings and Suicide Season are awesome
Interesting stuff. What a diverse list. Here are some of my favorite metal albums of the 2000s (no order).
1. Slipknot - Iowa (nu metal)
2. Linkin Park - Meteora (nu metal)
3. Evanescence - Fallen (nu metal/gothic metal/symphonic metal)
4. Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies (post-hardcore/trance/metalcore)
5. Parkway Drive - Horizons (metalcore)
6. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde (post-metal/shoegaze/black metal)
7. Deftones - White Pony (alternative metal/post-hardcore/shoegaze)
8. Suicide Silence - The Cleansing (deathcore)
9. Sum 41 - Chuck (alternative metal/melodic hardcore/thrash metal)
10. Windir - 1184 (melodic black metal/folk metal)
11. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (death metal)
12. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (alternative metal/nu metal/hard rock)
13. Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes (alternative metal/hard rock)
14. Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (alternative metal/post-grunge/hard rock)
15. Three Days Grace - One-X (alternative metal/alternative rock/post-grunge)
16. Gallhammer - Ill Innocence (black metal/doom metal/crust punk)
finally parkway drive fan
I really hoped you'd include one of mastodon's 2000's albums (they're all masterpieces imo) and gojira's from mars to sirius or the way of all flesh :( ecpecially since i saw the list was 40 albums long
I thought about putting Mastodon. I actually haven't really listened to pre-2010s Gojira, but consider Leviathan and Remission honourable mentions. Even if I did 100 albums, I'd still miss some bangers.
@@whatsinameme5258 I'm actually not that big of a fan of gojira's other works, but from mars to sirius and the way of all flesh are perfect albums, you gotta check them out
For me my personally my favourite albums are “fall of ideals” , “undoing ruin” and “the price of existence”. Especially fall of ideals I have probably spent 1000 hours in total only listening that album at this point or maybe even more
undoing ruin is one of those perfect early 00s metal albums.
Take a Look in the Mirror was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I loved it when I bought it in 2003. I listened to it again a couple years ago after not hearing it for awhile. My god it's awful
United Abominations is a great album imo. Maybe not as good as Peace Sells or Rust in Peace, but I would say that it's atleast as good as Countdown to Extinction.
Limp Bizkit in the list - now I'm waiting for American Capitalist of FFDP in the 2010s video =))))))
54:04 damn didn't expect you to put stone sour on this list. But even as someone who loves this band and the album I'll have to admit that its pretty much a post grunge album
Fair. I've heard them called that before. Maybe I just deny it, because I don't care for Post-Grunge, but DO like Stone Sour. Haha.
An hour long? We've been spoiled
Surprised not to see From Mars to Sirius by Gojira here.
Man, y'all can tear me apart if you want, but death magnetic is a great album with some of M's best guitarwork. My opinion only
9:00 I have seen people calling melodic death metal also GAAAAAY, so... 🤣
Ok finally just finished the video after having it paused for the most part of the day and i'm so glad you included Holographic Universe! It's my favorite album ever, by my favorite band. I could talk about how good Scar Symmetry is, how incredible not only the songwriting but the musicianship are and how it all comes together in such a perfect package... and I'm already getting carried away.
Surprised you got Alaska in as well. I'm more of a Colors guy but I love BTBAM getting some love.
Anyway here's some of my picks:
- Mind Tricks by Disarmonia Mundi: Melodeath at its finest. Incredibly catchy without sounding juvenile, while also being quite intense at times. Actually one of my gateway albums.
- Storm the Gates of Hell by Demon Hunter: Super good alternative metal / metalcore. One of the few cases where a Christian band actually has great lyrics (and i say this being a christian myself) and makes justice to its content with music that is legit.
- Face the Colossus by Dagoba: Groove metal which sounds IMMENSE. The World In Between has got to be the hugest sounding ballad I've heard.
- Vulcanus by Fear My Thoughts: Deserves more recognition. Great melodeath/metalcore, very melodic stuff but not afraid to get violent at times.
- Beauty and the Breakdown by Bury Your Dead: Same deal as Hatebreed, more or less, but sounds even angrier. Such a blast to headbang to.
- Death Pop Romance by Raunchy: Alternative metal with shades of metalcore and melodic death metal...-ish. I don't know anymore. It's just good. More to the catchy side of things, and they do that so well here.
- The Hours That Remain by Mercenary: Melodeath (you can tell which is my favorite genre at this point) meets power metal. It's hard to pick an album by them, but Lost Reality easily breaks the tie.
- Payable on Death by P.O.D.: The other Christian band with good lyrics. Superb nu metal. Album is kind of overlooked by fans I think, but heck this video i'm commenting on is full of them.
I'm not strict about genres so apologies if I make the wrong expectations, yet I think all these albums are defo worth checking out.
Thanks for the recommendations! Always down to check out new stuff. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Cradle of Filth is like Metallica - its THE band
great list!
I think, the most accurate description for 2000's metalcore like All That Remains would be " Killswitchcore" as all those bands copied them imho
Fair point. They are a worthy honourable mention. Funny enough The End of Heartache was ALSO produced by Andy Sneap too.
@@whatsinameme5258 end of heartache such a good song
10:22 i mean, when The Fall of Ideals was released that harsh/clean duality was already sort of kind of commonplace. It had been five years since Hybrid Theory released, after all.
My mistake if I implied FoI invented it. Thats not really what I was getting at. I meant more that it was becoming commonplace with Melodic Metalcore enterig the picture. Remember, Waking the Fallen was prior back in 2003. But before 2003, the only bands really doing the vocal contrast were Nu-Metal bands like Korn and Slipknot. But even they usually didn't go full clean and full harsh. It was usually somewhere in between.
@@whatsinameme5258 Nah you didn't imply that at all, you even said "before the 2000s" which i'm not correcting at all! I wanted to emphasize that by the time The Fall of Ideals the dynamic already wasn't as fresh (although it wasn't yet something modern metal took for granted)
59:11 One of my favourite metal albums of all time, by the way don't burn yourself down by making these videos, or at least try not to. Great video.
I appreciate your concern. Though it's winter and live rural so its not like I have a lot else to do at the moment. Haha.
@@whatsinameme5258 Just saying man, take care of yourself.
@@liquidmoleman7676 Thank you. Honestly making videos is part of my self care. But I do need a break every now and then. :)
9:58 that's Theatre of Tragedy not Type O Negative. Arguably the original "Beauty and the Beast" Gothic Metal band.
Hell yeah brother, djent is absolutely a genre (and has indeed been watered down with a lot of Metalcore like everything else, though I don't mind it)
Good deathcore picks, and that All that remains pick absolutely deserves to be on this list
Also Bad Omens and BMTH are not Metalcore, bye
there might be a few you missed. decade was dense with good music.
ill toss a few I think you overlooked/omitted
darkest hour - undoing ruin or hidden hands of the sadist nation
the bled- pass the flask
as I lay dying - frail worlds collapse
the crown - crowned unholy/crowned in terror
Woods of Ypres - woods 4
alcest - Écailles De Lune
Shai Hulhd - that within blood ill-tempered
light this city - remains of the gods
im sure theres more even im missing. but this was a good one that hit right in my age bracket.
Oh fuuuuu... I love Light This City. I completely forgot about them for some reason. Though I would've picked Facing the Thousand personally.
1 NEVERMORE - This Godless Endeavor (this band was too good for the 2000s, my 2nd fave of all time - glad to see it featured!! 45:44)
2 EPICA - Design Your Universe (actual symphonic METAL with riffs, unlike Nightwish/Lacuna Coil/Within Temptation etc.)
3 AYREON - The Human Equation (what a journey of a concept album!)
4 SYMPHONY X - The Odyssey (also has my favourite track of all time, amazing blend of prog & power metal)
5 DREAM THEATER - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (3 all-time masterpiece songs, 2 decent songs, 1 meh ballad)
6 NECROPHAGIST - Epitaph (hello, tech death! Those solos are still out of this world today!)
7 DYING FETUS - Destroy The Opposition (grooves for daaaays while still kicking ass)
8 OPETH - Ghost Reveries ("the better album") or Blackwater Park ("the most iconic album"), and I'm not even an Opeth fan..(!!)
9 NILE - Annihilation of the Wicked or Those Whom The Gods Detest
10 BLOODBATH - Nightmares Made Flesh or The Fathomless Mastery
11: THE FACELESS - Planetary Duality (tech death got a blueprint)
Imo.. as evident from this list, I'm not much of a fan of the way most metal went this decade, but the underground still held its own, while tech death and symphonic metal started really taking off by the end of the decade!
I'm surprised I forgot to include Necrophagist. Oops. Granted Tech Death was more a 2010s thing, but Necro started it back in the aughts, technically the 90s even. Epica is actually SUPER Prog Metal too. It think that is what you mean. I think people overlook that they are proggy, because of the Symphonic stuff.
@@whatsinameme5258 Kingdom of Heaven I, II, III, Holographic Principle, Design Your Universe etc. are all phenomenal epic prog songs!
But I also stand by my point that they stay symphonic METAL unlike so many of their peers who are all about the vocals, and maybe even use long power chords during verses instead of actual riffs.
On one hand, I want to say symphonic metal might just be my favourite genre of them all. On the other, I only have Epica and (to some degree) modern Blind Guardian, Symphony X and the latest Xandria album to base that statement on. It's all about Epica imo - others bore me to death, and SX + BG are power/prog and power metal above all else, hehe :D
Fall of ideals one of the best albums!!
I generally agree with you but your Korn take is crazy 🤣 that album SUCKS dude! lmao but great video I love your stuff
I am a bit of a contrarian I suppose. I dunno, I think Right Now and Ya'll Want a Single are classics. KoRns albums are always hit and miss. I don't think any of them are consistently good. But I think the only reason that record gets so much hate is just because the Nu-Metal trend was on it's way out at the time. But I think it's still a better record overall than Untouchables or Follow the Leader, or even Life is Peachy. if you just think KoRn sucks in general tho, I guess that's fair.
X IS NOT SKIPPABLE 😭😭😭😭
Dope list
My top 3 2000s albums would easily be
Hate Crew Death Roll (Cobo)
The Mantle (Agalloch)
Leviathan (Mastodon)
Edit: The comment you made about COBO and Dissection is funny to me because I got into metal through Dissection and only discovered COBO wayyyy later. You're right about them being stupid fun.
Great picks. I gave serious thought to putting Leviathan or Remission on this list.
Six by All That Remains has some of the best metalcore riffs ever
How about a review of songs to leave
The Black Dahlia Murder's Nocturnal, at least to me, is blackened melodic death metal
For some reason I took you for a BFMV fan, surprised The Poison didn’t make it as an honorable mention
They're not bad. I funny enough just referenced them in my recent video, but I prefer Avenged Sevenfold, All That Remains, and The Agonist as far as Melodic Metalcore goes. If I did a top songs list of the 2000s, Waking the Demon would likely make it in.
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Your brief reference to them as an example of Melodic Metalcore in your NWOBHM is indeed what got me to come back to this video where my comment would be relevant :)
And yeah I get that, that’s fair. 16 years later, their scene kid aesthetic makes me cringe a bit, but some of the riffs are still badass, imo
can you do a list of these albums in the description box/pinned comment?
too much interesting stuff to rewatch this video every time
So how controversial of a take is it to say that Hammerfall is much cheesier sounding than Manowar? Before angry fans come to murder me: I like both bands. Some power metal cheese is just what you need sometimes. Plus as a huge gloryhammer fan I have no room to talk really
Iowa is a masterpiece, I do also really like all hope, gray chapter and the self tilted. If you haven’t done a breakdown of Iowa you should
I never understand how more melody make something less heavy. To me it can accentuate it and make it more memorable. Like how Deaths prog albums are way more memorable
Man, great video! I think you might like a band called The Somali Yacht Club.
thanks for psychostick, this is particularly awesome and stuff
wonderfull presentation !
and again, just a few songs in, it is magnificent ( first i wanted to write beautiful, it is, anway )
beautiful channel, great insights, much music, and many love to you brother.
ps: thats beer , actually it is cider that talks, or helps talking, writing. Tüdeldü as the trees say
and thanks for nevermore
Oi, oi, oi, wdym no more Megadeth I was hoping to see Super Collider
jk jk but srsly tho Dystopia is good
Glad to see inhuman rampage on the list, I was worried it wasn’t going to make it after there was no blind guardian in the 90’s. I think they used a vocoder not auto tune though.
Wish there was a list of all these albums posted. And for all the other decades as well. I’m a playlist junkie and would definitely make a playlist for work.
A really underrated metal album from the 2000s is Themata by Karnivool
I love you Occulturation, but I really wish you put Lamb of God's "As the Palaces Burn" or "Ashes of the Wake" on this list purely for selfish reasons. Love that you picked Systematic Chaos, one of my favorite DT albums.
OMG so much melody so much clean singing... plus damn yngwie
Check out Within The Ruins for your 2010s video. I personally didn't have time to properly listen to them but they're like prog tdm and the songs which i heard from their 2014 album freaking slap or rather put nails in your eardrums, technically and progressively.
Angels Don't Kill is a banger 🤍
Witchcult today, Endgame, Christ Illusion, the Devil you know, and Sodom self titled album are some beast records too.
no in flames? love the video though. looking forward to the top 50 albums of the 2010's ;)
Love this channel so much, you just made the best grocery trip I've had in a while
Idk if it's in here, but Miss Machine has to be super high up on my list. TDEP has held a place in my heart since 2005 when they were on the SVR soundtrack.
thoughts on black magick ss?
53:40😂
I can already tell Sunbather will be in the 2010s list
the black dahlia murder as "Proto deathcore" but I swear much like at the gates to the early 00s metalcore scene every deathcore band from like 2015 on needs to send the black dahlia murder a check or a thank you card at least.
True. Unhallowed predates pretty much everything else.
Amazing bro! Can't wait to watch after school!
I’m only slightly hurt as a Breaking Benjamin fan.
Parody is the sincerest form of flattery.
Oohh yeah , this video was amazing on explaining why the albums give people goosebumps.
Would like to see a playlist for this video (too lazy to do myself)
Done! Its called 2000s Metal Soundtrack.
thank you! your videos are great!
20:49
Tell me, just why out of all Christina Scabbia's picture's have you choosed this one?
I dunno. There something wrong with it?
@@whatsinameme5258 No, not at all. In the contrary actually
No tool
Nice.
Yes! Doom
glad to see Chimaira here...LOVE this album so much!
I would add:
Decapitated: Organic Hallucionations
Machine Head- The Blackening ( THE metal album of my generation imho. Pure perfection)
Gojira-The Way Of All Flesh
Lamb Of God-Sacrament
Oceano-Depths
Metallica-Death Magnetic ( such an underrated record)
Suicide Silence-The Cleansing
Killswitch Engage- Alive Or Just Breathing
Tool-Lateralus
Testament-Formation Of Damnation
Exodus-Atrocity Exhibition
Defeated Sanity-Psalms Of The Moribound
Divine Heresy- Bleed The Fifth
Whitechapel-This is Exile
Beneath The Massacre-Mechanics Of Dysfunction
I'd take those out of the list for this: Agonist, A7x,Megadeth, Motorhead, all Power Metal ( sorry), all melodeath besides Arch Enemy and Black Dahlia Murder( sorry),Opeth, Evile
I gave serious thought to putting The Blackening on here. Unpopular Opinion though, I prefer Unto the Locust. While the Blackening is great, (I love Beautiful Mourning for example. One of the top songs of the decade) I decided to cut it because I find some of the tracks drag on unnecessarily, ESPECIALLY the first and last track. And personally I find some of the lyrics a tad cringey. Don't get me wrong, I love the record still, and it was a hard decision to cut it, but I did mention Burn My Eyes in the 90s list, and may mention Locust in the next. Good other picks too. Those are mostly down to personal taste. :)
@@whatsinameme5258 interesting...Locust was when they almost lost me as a fan. Way too metalcore for my taste. Still a cool album, but not really machine head to me
@@terriblecertainity Also interesting. I don't think they sound that different honestly. Just that Locust is shorter and has a tiny bit of symphonic influence. Could just be personal preference. They lost me with Catharsis.
@@whatsinameme5258 Catharsis was beyond terrible. Glad, the new album is good again.
I think, Locust has far more of the " verse screaming, chorus whining, breakdown" stereotypes of Metalcore. The structures on Blackening seem to be far more inspired by bands like Rush.
regarding your love for both Power Metal and melodic Metalcore? Do you know the band Mendeed? Their album " the dead live by love" is the perfect balance of both, you might want to check it :)
Where the fuck was lateralus
2:54 Oh boy this song...
If it was made a bit more direct and was more for a certain political side, I can guarantee you that this song would get a bunch of hate thrown at it.
That's one thing I have always found interesting about SOAD. Their politics are all over the map. I think that's why they've avoided cancellation. No one knows what they stand for, you know besides being pro-Armenian obviously. But besides that topic, left, right, libertarian, or what have you, could all find confirmation bias in SOADs lyrics. But if you are talking Science; yeah, I wonder how that song would be received it was released 20 years later.
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m shadows chose to stop screaming for city of evil. he did have to get vocal surgery in 2004 but he could still scream nonetheless. he can still and will still scream even now with songs like god hates us and we love you. the direction the band went was entirely their decision and wasn't "forced" (although i can kinda agree that s/t feels like a sell out album even with cool ideas and that monsterof a track a little piece of heaven)