1. Opeth – Blackwater Park



2. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor



3. Iron Maiden – Brave New World



4. Nevermore - Dead Heart, in a Dead World



5. Nile – Black Seeds of Vengeance

6. Enslaved – Below the Lights
7. Agalloch - The Mantle
8. Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
9. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

10. Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
11. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
12. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
13. Emperor - Prometheus - The Discipline of Fire & Demise
14. Mastodon – Leviathan
15. Spiral Architect – A Sceptic's Universe
16. Nile - Those whom the gods detest
17. Symphony X - The Odyssey
18. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
19. The Crown - Deathrace King

20. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
21. Ayreon – The Human Equation
22. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
23. Borknagar - Quintessence
24. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
25. Opeth - Watershed
26. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
27. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
28. Opeth - Deliverance
29. Absu - Tara

30. Cynic - Traced In Air
31. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
32. Motorhead - Inferno
33. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, part I
34. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
35. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
36. Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
37. Strapping Young Lad - SYL
38. Meshuggah - obZen
39. Behemoth - Demigod

40. Devin Townsend – Terria
41. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
42. Ark – Burn The Sun
43. Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
44. Isis - Oceanic
45. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
46. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
47. Woods Of Ypres – Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth
48. Windir - 1184
49. Therion - Gothic Kabballah

50. Iced Earth - Horror Show
51. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
52. Meshuggah – Nothing
53. Candlemass - Candlemass
54. Megadeth - Endgame
55. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
56. Pain Of Salvation – Remedy Lane
57. Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
58. In Flames – Clayman
59. Origin – Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas

60. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
61. Symphony X – V
62. Anathema – A Fine Day to Exit
63. Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
64. Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God
65. Hypocrisy - Virus
66. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
67. Mastodon – Remission
68. Immolation – Close to a World Below
69. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution

70. Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
71. Enslaved - RUUN
72. Cobalt - Eater of Birds
73. Enslaved – Vertebrae
74. Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
75. Opeth - Damnation
76. Tool – Lateralus
77. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
78. Enslaved - Isa
79. Melechesh - Emissaries

80. Judas Priest-Angel Of Retribution
81. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
82. Borknagar - Empiricism
83. Angra – Temple Of Shadows
84. Adagio – Underworld
85. Sodom - M-16
86. Orphaned Land - Mabool
87. Machine Head - The Blackening
88. Arcturus - Sham Mirrors
89. Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel... For an Iron Age

90. Amon Amarth - Versus the World
91. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
92. Hammers of Misfortune – The August Engine
93. Dark Tranquility – Character
94. Into Eternity – Buried In Oblivion
95. Wintersun - Wintersun
96. Emperor - Live Inferno
97. Symbyosis - Crisis
98. Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
99. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

100. Arkona - Vo Slavu Velikim

I cant say I'm surprised by the list, it does kind a follow how the top albums of the year lists were early on in the decade.

Good job !

Cheers

Good stuff! Thanks for your work on this.

I wonder how long it will be until the whining starts?

"Anaael Pooptruth is my favorite Brazilian white power blackthrash band and released the best album of the decade in 2004, arguably the best album since Sarcofago's INRI. They made 5 copies of it! Why wasn't it on this list? This list sucks!!"

I'm surprised Spiral Architect was listed that high

Awesome work, dude.

Cool list! Good to see The Chasm making the list twice.

you just pre-empted any posts Svarog,Vittra or Malefic could've made.nice going!

thanks LOAF,great job.

Nothing as dreadfully kvlt as Anaael Pooptruth would have made a list which has Opeth as #1, and Nevermore as #2 and #4. Wouldn't happen.

Thanks for all your hard work LoaF. I actually tried to find a program online that I could use to make a top 100 list and never found anything which could accomodate my small brain.

Guess I can't complain too much, as I never posted a list, but...

eugh.

...the elites are gathering and discussing grim strategems...

I'm also surprised to see Black Seeds so high!

Thanks LOAF, very cool to see.

The braveboard has good taste.

Lots of progressive stuff.

I can't speak for the other two, but the chance of me having posted in this thread prior to your comment was abysmally low. I suppose you aren't really around much these days to know what the fuck you are talking about though, so no worries. I'd hate to the think alternative - you as a completely ignorant and possibly borderline-retarded human being? Perish the thought!



The list is fine by the way. It's exactly what I expected. My only disappointment is Isa coming behind Vertebrae and Ruun.

+1

Needs moar thrash.

I can't believe Below the Lights came in 6th!

Really? 'cause that album gets a lot of praise here (rightfully so, it's phenomenal), and I would have imagined it to be somewhere on the top ten.

I barely glanced at the list, Isa behind those two is criminal.

I'm noticing this just now. I concur. And Vertebrae is just terrible.

glad to see the all Opeth's in there, being such a fanboy that I am. Surprised to see how many picks I actually have and again the ones I need to get.

BtL is actually my least favorite Enslaved album. Go figure.

Thanks for doing all this LoaF.

Didn't expect to see Katatonia with 2 entries in the top 10.

Really good list

looks like i'll be first to do TLP's gimmick on the list :

1-Katatonia-Last fair deal gone down(2001)(8)
2-Mastodon-Leviathan(2004)(14)
3-Candlemass-Candlemass(2005)(53)
4-Wolf-Black wings(2002)(dnr)
5-Gwar-Beyond hell(2006)(dnr)
6-Iron Maiden-Brave new world(2000)(3)
7-Deceased-As the weird travel on(2005)(dnr)
8-Ghoul-Maniaxe(2003)(dnr)
9-Nevermore-Dead heart...(2000)(4)
10-Immortal-Sons of northern darkness(2002)(10)
11-Opeth-Blackwater park(2001)(1)
12-Mastodon-Blood mountain(2006)(60)
13-Voivod-Voivod(2003)(dnr)
14-Crotchduster-Big fat box of shit(2004)(dnr)
15-Nevermore-This godless endeavor(2005)(2)
16-The Haunted-Made me do it(2000)(dnr)
17-Porcupine Tree-In absentia(2002)(99)
18-Evergrey-Recreation day(2003)(dnr)
19-Into Eternity-Dead or dreaming(2001)(dnr)
20-Enslaved-Mardraum(2000)(dnr)
21-The Crown-Deathrace King(2000)(19)
22-Sacrifice-The ones i condemn(2009)(dnr)
23-Nocturnal Rites-Afterlife(2000)(dnr)
24-Sentenced-The cold white light(2002)(dnr)
25-CoC-In the arms of god(2005)(64)
26-Cannibal Corpse-the wretched spawn(2004)(dnr)
27-Nile-Black seeds of vengeance(2000)(5)
28-Spiral Architect-A sceptic's universe(2000)(15)
29-Katatonia-The great cold distance(2006)(dnr)
30-Mastodon-Crack the skye(2009)(55)

wow! that's a whole lot of Did Not Rank,i'm cult!

This thread needs to be stick-i-fied.

So I take it that the amount of did-not-place's on one's list is directly proportional to one's kvlt/tr00/grimness?

1. Symbyosis - Crisis (2000) (98)
2. Isis - Oceanic (2001) (44)
3. Hate - Morphosis (2008) (did not place)
4. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II (2009) (did not place)
5. Luciferion - The Apostate (2003) (did not place)
6. Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis (2000) (did not place)
7. Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine (2000) (57)
8. Origin - Informis, Infinitas, Inhumanitas (2002) (59)
9. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe (2000) (15)
10. Mithras - Behind the Shadows Lie Madness (2007) (did not place)
11. Borknagar - Empiricism (2001) (82)
12. Ulcerate - Everything is Fire (2009) (did not place)
13. Cynic - Traced in Air (2008)(30)
14. Negura Bunget - Om (2007) (did not place)
15. Vital Remains - Dechristianize (2003) (did not place)
16. Isis - Panopticon (2004) (did not place)
17. Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance (2000) (5)
18. Hate - Anaclasis (2006) (did not place)
19. Deathspell Omega - SMRC (2004) (did not place)
20. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets (2001) (did not place)
21. Theory in Practice - Colonizing the Sun (2001) (did not place)
22. Altar of Plagues - White Tomb (2009) (did not place)
23. Behemoth - Thelema.6 (2001) (did not place)
24. Neurosis & Jarboe - S/T (2003) (did not place)
25. Enslaved - Isa (2004) (78)
26. Edge of Sanity - Crimson II (2003) (70)
27. Nocturnal Graves - Satan's Cross (2007) (did not place)
28. Altered Aeon - Dispiritism (2004) (did not place)
29. Portal - Swarth (2009) (did not place)
30. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm (2004) (did not place)