The Best Metal Album of Each Year of the 2000s

This is one of the best steel album of every yr of the 2000s.

After a tough ’90s interval the place an awesome quantity of massive ’80s names both broke up or caught collectively lengthy sufficient to make the worst information. Apart from Pantera’s dominant streak, even burning up the Billboard 200 chart all the way in which to No. 1 with Far Past Pushed, steel larely returned to being an underground commodity with the rise of maximum steel. Metallica deviated from their metallic roots and nu-metal adopted in hair steel’s footsteps of being the outcast within the eyes and ears of “true” headbangers.

However issues rebounded fairly properly within the first decade of the brand new millennium. A number of these ’80s bands shook off the dangerous years and returned to type or discovered a brand new sticking level that restored the worth of their band’s identify. Bruce Dickinson returned to Iron Maiden, Rob Halford rejoined Judas Priest, thrash bands received good once more and black and demise steel saved the momentum rolling.

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As for the brand new breed, the 2000s witnessed the rise of metalcore, deathcore and no matter label you wish to slap on Mastodon. Ozzfest was nonetheless huge, serving to to launch the careers of lots of at this time’s largest bands from the 2000s. And, whereas CDs gross sales would completely collapse by the top of the last decade, it is nonetheless checked out as a golden period for steel — the final one earlier than streaming turned the business utterly the wrong way up.

So, let’s check out steel’s greatest album of every yr, from 2000 by way of 2009, under!

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