EDIT PROGRAMMING NOTE: I have adjusted this thread to serve as an archive and general hub for the 25 for '25 album rankings game/tournament. I deleted all discussion posts from this thread in order to clean it up and make it easier to read.
Happy new year Maidenfans! I was surprised to look at my calendar and see that we are a quarter of the way through the 21st century! So it seems like now would be an opportune time to reflect on the last 25 years and see if we can put together a Maidenfans best album for the last 25 years (2000 to 2024). This will be an experimental game, I will start by curating lists and see what kind of participation we get, and then move on to the next phase accordingly. Right now I am in the 'see how it goes' phase. With that in mind, here are the rules:
1: PM me with a list of your favorite metal album from each year (2000 to 2024) using the following format:
Year: Artist Name - Album Title
There should be 25 albums total.
2: It has to be a metal album! I will not be as rigid as Metal Archives about what is and isn't Metal, but a blatant disregard of this parameter will be discarded.
3: The album has to have been released in that calendar year and recorded within the 21st century (basically archival releases do not count).
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
Amorphis - Eclipse
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Ahab - Call of the Wretched Seas
Edguy - Rocket Ride
uneXpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
Tool - 10,000 Days
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free II
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Powerwolf - Lupus Dei
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell is Empty & All the Devils Are Here
Dethklok - Dethklok
Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Moonsorrow - Vildes Luku
Crystal Viper - The Curse of the Crystal Viper
UDO - Mastercutor
Megadeth - United Abominations
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon: Something Wicket Part One
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Sabaton - The Art of War
Opeth - Watershed
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Trivium - Shogun
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Kings X - XV
Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Megadeth - Endgame
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
Nile - Those Whom God Detests
Sonata Arctica - Days of the Gray
Cains Offering - Gather the Faithful
Rishloo - Feathergun
Samael - Above
Amputated - Wading Through the Rancid Offal
Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
Alter Bridge - III
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Overkill - Ironbound
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Fozzy - Chasing the Grail
Wuthering Heights - Salt
Rhapsody of Fire - Frozen Tears of Angels
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
Mekong Delta - Wanderer on the Edge of Time
Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
Crystal Viper - Legends
Blaze Bayley - Promise & Terror
Sabaton - Coat of Arms
Halford - Halford IV Made of Metal
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Battle Beast - Steel
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
Opeth - Heritage
Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints
Stratovarious - Elysium
Theocracy - As the World Bleeds
Myrath - Tales of Sand
Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Samael - Lux Mundi
Mastodon - The Hunter
Anthrax - Worship Music
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Sabaton - Carolous Rex
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Primal Fear - Unbreakable
Primal Rock Rebellion - Awoken Broken
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
Borknager - Urd
Wilderun - Olden Tails and Deadly Trails
Ihsahn - Eremita
The Sword - Apocryphon
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Steve Harris - British Lion
The Ocean - Pelagial
Ghost - Infestissuman
Ayreon - Theory of Everything
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Alter Bridge - Fortress
Battle Beast - Battle Beast
Saxon - Sacrifice
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Haken - The Mountain
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Buckethead - The Pit (Pike 36)
Avatarium - Avatarium
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Powerwolf - Preachers of the Night
Black Sabbath - 13
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Sabaton - Heroes
Opeth - Pale Communion
At the Gates - At War With Reality
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Gamma Ray - Empire of the Undead
Accept - Blind Rage
Arch Enemy - War Eternal
Edguy - Space Police
Sanctuary - The Year the Sun Died
Grand Magus - Triumph and Steel
Inhumano - Torturas de Almas Oscuras
Inter Arma - The Cavern
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Leah - Kings & Queens
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Leprous - The Congregration
Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
Swallow the Sun - Songs from the North
Lamb of God - Sturm Und Drang
Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Visigoth - The Revenant King
Sweet & Lynch - Only To Rise
Elder - Lore
Cain's Offering - Stormcrow
Ghost - Meliora
Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Symphony X - Underworld
Queensyrche - Condition Human
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