Inspired by an article in NME (blurgh) the staff at my work are compiling our top 10 albums of the decade, and i thought it'd be fun to do here.
We're doing it one for each year, with no particular winner overall, but feel free to do just a straight top 10 or whatever.

anyhoo here's my list

2000 - Slipknot - Slipknot
2001 - Devin Townsend - Terria
2002 - Peter Gabriel - UP
2003 - The Mars Volta - Deloused in the comatorium
2004 - Clutch - Blast Tyrant
2005 - SYL - Alien
2006 - Red Sparowes - Every red heart shines towards a red sun
2007 - Tony Levin - Stick Man
2008 - Beehoover - Heavy Zoooo
2009 - Mastodon - Crack the skye

have fun

Inspired by an article in NME (blurgh) the staff at my work are compiling our top 10 albums of the decade, and i thought it'd be fun to do here.
We're doing it one for each year, with no particular winner overall, but feel free to do just a straight top 10 or whatever.

anyhoo here's my list

2000 - Slipknot - Slipknot
2001 - Devin Townsend - Terria
2002 - Peter Gabriel - UP
2003 - The Mars Volta - Deloused in the comatorium
2004 - Clutch - Blast Tyrant
2005 - SYL - Alien
2006 - Red Sparowes - Every red heart shines towards a red sun
2007 - Tony Levin - Stick Man
2008 - Beehoover - Heavy Zoooo
2009 - Mastodon - Crack the skye

have fun

Sorry to be picky dude, but pretty important to this discussion: Slipknot - Slipknot was '99.

Hmm, I'll try it...

2000- Physicist
2001- Terria
2002- Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane
2003- Accelerated Evolution
2004- Killswitch Engage- The End of Heartache
2005- Alien
2006- Synchestra
2007- Ziltoid
2008- Tie: Textures-Silhouettes, and Protest the Hero- Fortress
2009- Tie: Ki/Addicted....so far

Such a fanboy I am...

My Overall Top 10 Of The 00's

10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Life Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)
9. Between the Buried And Me- Colors (2007)
8. Long Distance Calling- Avoid The Light (2009)
7. Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane (2002)
6. Devin Townsend- Accelerated Evolution (2003)
5. Torche- Menanderthal (2008)
4. Opeth- Blackwater Park (2001)
3. Dream Theater- Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (2001)
2. Dredg- El Cielo (2002)
1. Devin Townsend- Terria (2001)

My Favorites Of Each Year Of The 00's:

2000- Godspeed You Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antenna To Heaven
2001- Devin Townsend- Terria
2002- Dredg- El Cielo
2003- Devin Townsend- Accelerated Evolution
2004- Muse- Absolution
2005- King's X Ogre Tones
2006- Devin Townsend- Synchestra
2007- Between the Buried And Me- Colors
2008- Torche- Meanderthal
2009- Can't decide yet so I'll list my top 11 Of 2009 (not yet in final order):
1.) Dredg- The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
2.) Mastodon- Crack The Skye
3.) Long Distance Calling- Avoid The Light
4.) Devin Townsend- Addicted
5.) Between The Buried And Me- The Great Misdirect
6.) Devin Townsend- Ki
7.) Redemption- Snowfall on Judgment Day
8.) The Kris Norris Projekt- Icons Of The Illogical
9.) Dream Theater- Black Clouds And Silver Linings
10.) Porcupine Tree- The Incident
11.) Mono- Hymn To The Immortal Wind

@roddy huh... itunes said 2000, i thought it was earlier than that.

I'll have a shot at best for each year...

2000: Ulver - Perdition City
2001: Dev- Terria
2002: Symphony X - The Odyssey
2003: Dev- Accelerated Evolution or Mostly Autumn - Passengers
2004: Wintersun - Wintersun
2005: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006: Dev - Synchestra
2007: Oceansize - Frames
2008: The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
2009: Dev- Ki

It's easy to put Dev albums wherever you can't immediately think of anything else...

2000: Lightbulb Sun
2001: Bath/Leaving Your Body Map
2002: N/A
2003: Out of Myself
2004: N/A
2005: Second Life Syndrome
2006: N/A
2007: Fear of a Blank Planet
2008: Traced in Air (You saved the year)
2009: Anno Domini High Definition





Yes, three Riverside albums are there.

@roddy huh... itunes said 2000, i thought it was earlier than that.

Itunes is wrong then.

Slipknot (Self-Titled)
Release Date: June 29 1999

(http://www.slipknot-metal.com/main.php?sk=discography)

This year was the 10 year anniversary of it's release.

Hold on now, we encouraged you to come back and post, we said nothing about making threads! You give an inch and they take a mile...



2000 - Ulver - Perdition City
2001 - Ulver - Silence Teaches You How To Sing
2002 - Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
2003 - The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
2004 - Jesu - Heartache
2005 - Strapping Young Lad - Alien
2006 - Head Control System - Murder Nature
2007 - Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
2008 - Final - Dead Air
2009 - Jesu - Opiate Sun

That was actually pretty hard to pick. One or two years had a few that could've been top and some had sweet fuck all that I cared about.