Top 10 albums since the beginning of the new millennium

If we're going one per artist then it looks a little something like this:
  • Maiden - Brave New World
  • Priest - FIREPOWER
  • Arctic Monkeys - AM
  • Reigning Days - Eclipse
  • Green Day - American Idiot (Hey, Collin, screw you)
  • PVRIS - White Noise
  • Nickelback - Silver Side Up
  • AC/DC - Black Ice
  • Blossoms - Blossoms
  • Rise Against - Sufferer and the Witness
Honourable mentions: Tool - Lateralus, Zico Chain - Food and The Devil in Your Heart, Royal Thunder - CVI, Mastodon - Emperor of Sand, Nickelback - Feed the Machine.
 
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According to my list of every album I've ever listened to ranked...

1. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
2. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
3. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6. Agalloch - The Mantle
7. Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
8. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
9. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
10. Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Exactly what I thought it would look like.
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1. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
2. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
3. Tool - Lateralus
4. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
5. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
6. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
7. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
8. Judas Priest - Firepower
9. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
10. Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Honorable mentions...
Tool - 10,000 Days
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Iron Maiden - AMOLAD
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Megadeth - Dystopia
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
 
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Gonna add Nevermore's Dead Heart in a Dead World as another honourable mention. I thought it was released in the nineties, but it wasn't.

And AMOLAD, how could I forget that? :facepalm:
 
Edington said:
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
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What the heck, I'll give it a whirl. I'll focus on proper studio albums only, one per artist:

1. The White Stripes - Elephant
2. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
3. Ghost - Meliora
4. Baroness - Blue Record
5. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
6. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
7. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
8. The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You
9. The Strokes - Is This It
10. The Gathering - if_then_else


Though I limited my list to studio albums, there have been two live albums that were released since 2000 that remain in my regular rotation, and I would rate them VERY highly (possibly even 1-2):
The Replacements - For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986 (first released in 2017)
Blind Guardian - Live (2003)
 
AMOLAD
TBOS
TFF
DOD
BNW
Opus Eponymous
The Tenth Dimension
Human Remains
The Time of No Time Evermore
The System has Failed

There's probably a few I've overlooked, but those are definitely my most listened to of this millennium
 
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Opeth - Damnation
3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
6. Opeth - Deliverance
7. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
8. Opeth - Watershed
9. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
10. Opeth - Heritage

No change from my post from three years ago except for Heritage replacing The Final Frontier. Though admittedly pre-2000 albums do make up the vast majority of my album discovery sessions so there aren't a lot of new candidates coming in for a post-2000 Top 10.
 
Blaze Bayley - Silicon Messiah
Ghost - Meliora
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Judas Priest - Firepower
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Unleash the Archers - Apex

I think this is about right for me. No particular order.
 
One album per artist, this is what I’ve got currently:

Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
Poe - Haunted
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Buckethead - Bermuda Triangle
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Amputated - Wading Through Rancid Offal
Ghost - Prequelle
Blaze - Silicon Messiah
Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

No particularly order, apart from TCOTWS being the best of the bunch.
 
Can neither pick just ten nor arrange them in a particular order, but here's some nominations:

Tenhi - Väre; Negură Bunget - Om; Thorns - Thorns; Old Wainds - Религия Духовного Насилия; Primordial - Storm Before Calm (and several afterwards, latest included), My Dying Bride - quite a few, incl. A Line Of Deathless Kings; Enslaved - Monumension and practically everything since; Celtic Frost - Monotheist; Dark Millennium - Midnight In The Void.
Honourable mention: V1 - Armageddon: End of the Beginning, even though it's mostly 70s material.

Hell's and Ahab's albums mentioned above (by srfc and Diesel) are great as well.
 
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  1. Rosetta - Wake/ Lift
  2. Tool - Lateralus
  3. Cult Of Luna - Vertikal/ Mariner
  4. Peter Murphy - Lion
  5. Cynic: Traced In Air
  6. Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs For The Deaf
  7. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
  8. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
  9. SYL - Alien
  10. Ulver - War Of The Roses
 
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Some people are listing acts like Nickelback and Kendrick Lamar.

Do you really think something from Nickelback or Kendick Lamar or Blossoms or whatever else pop shit you listen to, tops Bruce's Tyranny of Souls?
 
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