My favourite albums from 2000

1. 50

   Haven

   Dark Tranquility

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Gothic metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Wonders at Your Feet
   2. Not Built to Last ●
   3. Indifferent Suns
   4. Feast of Burden
   5. Haven
   6. The Same
   7. Fabric
   8. Ego Drama
   9. Rundown
   10. Emptier Still
   11. At Loss for Words

2. 49

   V: The New Mythology Suite

   Symphony X

   

   

   Progressive metal | Symphonic metal

   Tracks:

   1. Prelude
   2. Evolution (The Grand Design)
   3. Fallen
   4. Transcendence (Segue)
   5. Communion and the Oracle
   6. The Bird-Serpent Wat / Cataclysm
   7. On the Breadth of Poseidon (Segue)
   8. Egypt ●
   9. The Death of Balance / Lacrymosa
   10. Absence of Light
   11. A Fool's Paradise
   12. Rediscover (Segue)
   13. Rediscovery (Part II) — The New Mythology

3. 48

   Deggial

   Therion

   

   

   Symphonic metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Seven Secrets of the Sphinx
   2. Eternal Return
   3. Enter Vril-Ya
   4. Ship of Luna
   5. The Invincible ●
   6. Deggial
   7. Emerald Crown
   8. The Fight of the Lord of Flies
   9. Flesh of the Gods
   10. Via Nocturna (Part 1 and 2)
   11. O Fortuna

4. 47

   Resurrection

   Halford

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Resurrection
   2. Made in Hell ●
   3. Locked and Loaded
   4. Night Fall
   5. Silent Screams
   6. The One You Love to Hate
   7. Cyber World
   8. Slow Down
   9. Twist
   10. Temptation
   11. Drive
   12. Saviour

5. 46

   Follow the Reaper

   Children of Bodom

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Symphonic metal

   Tracks:

   1. Follow the Reaper
   2. Bodom After Midnight ●
   3. Children of Decadence
   4. Everytime I Die
   5. Mask of Sanity
   6. Taste of My Scythe
   7. Hate Me!
   8. Northern Comfort
   9. Kissing the Shadows

6. 45

   Perdition City

   Ulver

   

   

   Electronica | Ambient | Jazz

   Tracks:

   1. Lost on Moments
   2. Porn Piece or The Scars of Cold Kisses ●
   3. Hallways of Always
   4. Tomorrow Never Knows
   5. The Future Sound of Music
   6. We Are the Dead
   7. Dead City Centres
   8. Catalept
   9. Nowhere/Catastrophe

7. 44

   Relationship of Command

   At the Drvie-in

   

   

   Post-hardcore

   Tracks:

   1. Arcarsenal
   2. Pattern Against User
   3. One Armed Scissor ●
   4. Sleepwalk Capsules
   5. Invalid Litter Dept.
   6. Mannequin Republic
   7. Enfilade
   8. Rolodex Propaganda
   9. Quarantined
   10. Cosmonaut
   11. Non-Zero Possibility

8. 43

   Quintessence

   Borknagar

   

   

   Progressive metal | Progressive black metal

   Tracks:

   1. Rivalry of Phantoms
   2. The Presence is Ominous
   3. Ruins of the Future
   4. Colossus ●
   5. Inner Landscape
   6. Invincible
   7. Icon Dreams
   8. Genesis Tom
   9. Embers
   10. Revolt

9. 42

   Organasm

   Alchemist

   

   

   Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

   Tracks:

   1. Austral Spectrum ●
   2. Evolution Trilogy
   3. Single Sided
   4. Surreality
   5. New Beginning
   6. Tide in, Mind out
   7. Eclectic
   8. Escape from the Black Hole

10. 41

    The Sickness

    Disturbed

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Voices
    2. The Game
    3. Stupify
    4. Down with the Sickness ●
    5. Violence Fetish
    6. Fear
    7. Numb
    8. Want
    9. Conflict
    10. Shout 2000
    11. Droppin' Plates
    12. Meaning of Life

11. 40

    Magica

    Dio

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Discovery
    2. Magica Theme
    3. Lord of the Last Day
    4. Fever Dreams ●
    5. Turn to Stone
    6. Feed My Head
    7. Eriel
    8. Challis
    9. As Long as It's Not About Love
    10. Losing My Insanity
    11. Otherworld
    12. Magica (Reprise)
    13. Lord of the Last Day (Reprise)
    14. Magica Story

12. 39

    Damned in Black

    Immortal

    

    

    Black metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Triumph
    2. Wrath from Above
    3. Against the Tide (In the Arctic World)
    4. My Dimension
    5. The Darkness That Embrace Me
    6. In Our Mystic Visions Blest
    7. Damned in Black ●

13. 38

    Close to a World Below

    Immolation

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Higher Coward
    2. Father, You're Not a Father
    3. Furthest From the Truth
    4. Fall from a High Place
    5. Unpardonable Sin
    6. Lost Passion
    7. Put My Hand in the Fire
    8. Close to a World Below ●

14. 37

    Every Nerve Alive

    Ritual Carnage

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Awaiting the Kill ●
    2. Dai Hachi Jikogu (8th Great Hell)
    3. Death, Judgement, Fate
    4. Burning Red, Burning 'Til Death
    5. End of an Ace
    6. World Wide War
    7. Scars of Battle
    8. Every Nerve Alive
    9. The Wrath
    10. Escape from the Light
    11. Far East Aggressors

15. 36

    Ad Astra

    Spiritual Beggars

    

    

    Stoner metal | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Left Brain Ambassadors
    2. Wondderful World
    3. Sedated
    4. Angel of Betrayal ●
    5. Blessed
    6. Per Aspera Ad Astra
    7. Save Your Soul
    8. Until the Morning
    9. Escaping the Floods
    10. On Dark Rivers
    11. The Goddess
    12. Mantra

16. 35

    Dopethrone

    Electric Wizard

    

    

    Doom metal | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Vinum Sabbathi
    2. Funeralopolis ●
    3. Weird Tales
    4. Barbarian
    5. I, the Witchfinder
    6. The Hills Have Eyes
    7. We Hate You
    8. Dopehtrone

17. 34

    Pyramid

    Rovo

    

    

    Neo-psychedelia | Space rock

    Tracks:

    1. Pyramid ●

18. 33

    Satanasword

    Sabbat

    

    

    Thrash metal | Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Charisma
    2. Angel of Destruction ●
    3. Kill of Lilleth
    4. Death Zone
    5. The Gates- Dracula
    6. Nekromantik
    7. Jealousy Carnage

19. 32

    Procession to the Infraworld

    The Chasm

    

    

    Death metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Spectral Sons of the Mictlan
    2. The Scars of My Journey
    3. At the Edge of the Nebula Mortis
    4. Fading ...
    5. Return of the Banished ●
    6. Cosmic Landscapes of Sorrow
    7. Architects of Melancholic Apocalypse
    8. Storm of Revelations

20. 31

    Kings of the Road

    Fu Manchu

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Hell on Wheels
    2. Over the Edge
    3. Boogie Van
    4. Kings of the Road ●
    5. No Dice
    6. Blue Tile Fever
    7. Grasschopper
    8. Weird Bears
    9. Breathing Fire
    10. Hotdoggin
    11. Freedom of Choice

21. 30

    The Big Black

    Orange Goblin

    

    

    Stoner metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scorpionica
    2. Quincy the Pigboy
    3. Hot Magic, Red Planet
    4. Cozmo Bozo
    5. 298 kg
    6. Turbo Effalunt (Elephant)
    7. King of the Hornets
    8. You'll Never Get to the Moon in That
    9. Alcofuel
    10. The Big Black ●

22. 29

    Veni Vidi Vicious

    The Hives

    

    

    Garage rock revival | Garage punk

    Tracks:

    1. The Hives — Declare Guerre Nucleaire
    2. Die, All Right ●
    3. A Get Together to Tear It Apart
    4. Mein Offender
    5. Outsmarted
    6. Hate to Say I Told You So
    7. The Hives — Introduce the Metric System in Time
    8. Find Another Girl
    9. Statecontrol
    10. Inspection Wise 1999
    11. Knock Knock
    12. Supply and Demand

23. 28

    New American Gospel

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal | Grindcore

    Tracks:

    1. Black Label
    2. A Warning
    3. In the Absence of the Sacred ●
    4. Letter to the Unborn
    5. The Black Dahlia
    6. Terror and Hubris in the House of Frank Bollard
    7. The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion
    8. Pariah
    9. Confessional
    10. O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E.

24. 27

    We Are Motörhead

    Motörhead

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. See Me Burning
    2. Slow Dance
    3. Stay out of Jail
    4. God Save the Queen
    5. Out to Lunch
    6. Wake the Dead
    7. One More Fucking Time ●
    8. Stagefright / Crash & Burn
    9. (Wearing Your) Heart on Your Sleeve
    10. We Are Motörhead

25. 26

    Stronger Than Death

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Groove metal | Southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. All for You
    2. Phoney Smiles & Fake Hellos
    3. 13 Years of Grief
    4. Rust
    5. Superterrorizer
    6. Counterfeit Giod
    7. Ain't Life Grand
    8. Just Killing Time
    9. Stronger Than Death ●
    10. Love Reign Down

26. 25

    The Better Life

    3 Doors Down

    

    

    Alternative rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kryptonite ●
    2. Loser
    3. Duck and Run
    4. Not Enough
    5. Be Like That
    6. Better Life
    7. Down Poison
    8. By My Side
    9. Smack
    10. So I Need You

27. 24

    Celestial

    Isis

    

    

    Atmospheric sludge metal | SLudge metal

    Tracks:

    1. SGNL>01
    2. Celestial (The Tower)
    3. Glisten ●
    4. Swarm Reigns (Down)
    5. SGNL>02
    6. Deconstructing Towers
    7. SGNK>03
    8. Collapse and Crush
    9. C.F.T. (New Circuitry and Continued Evolution)
    10. Gentle Time
    11. SGNL>04 (End Transmission)

28. 23

    Oracle Moon

    Garden of Shadows

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Oracle Moon ●
    2. Citadel of Dreams
    3. Into Infinity
    4. Dissolution of the Forms
    5. Continuum
    6. Desert Shadows
    7. Twilight Odyssey

29. 22

    Infinite

    Stratovarius

    

    

    Power metal | Neoclassical metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hunting High and Low
    2. Millenium ●
    3. Mother Gaia
    4. Phoenix
    5. Glory of the World
    6. A Million Light Years Away
    7. Freedom
    8. Infinity
    9. Celestial Dream

30. 21

    Gateways to Annihilation

    Morbid Angel

    

    

    Death metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kawazu
    2. Summoning Redemption ●
    3. Ageless, Still I Am
    4. He Who Sleeps
    5. To the Victor the Spoils
    6. At One with Nothing
    7. Opening of the Gates
    8. Secured Limitations
    9. Awakening
    10. I
    11. God of the Forsaken

31. 20

    Mardraum — Beyond the Within

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Større enn tid — tyngre enn natt ●
    2. Daudningekvida
    3. Entrance-Escape
    4. Ormgard
    5. Æges draum
    6. Mardraum
    7. Det endelege riket
    8. Ormgard II: Kvalt i kysk høgsong
    9. Krigaren eg ikkje kjende
    10. Stjerneheimen
    11. Frøyas smykke

32. 19

    White Pepper

    Ween

    

    

    Alternative rock | Neo-psychedelia

    Tracks:

    1. Exactly Where I'm at
    2. Flutes of Chi
    3. Even If You Don't
    4. Bananas and Blow
    5. Stroker Ace
    6. Ice Castles
    7. Back to Basom ●
    8. The Grobe
    9. Pandy Fackler
    10. Stay Forever
    11. Falling out
    12. She's Your Baby

33. 18

    Disconnected

    Fates Warning

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Disconnected — Part I
    2. One
    3. So ●
    4. Pieces of Me
    5. Something from Nothing
    6. Still Remains
    7. Disconnected Part II

34. 17

    Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

    PJ Harvey

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Big Exit
    2. Good Fortune
    3. A Place Called Home
    4. One Line
    5. Beautiful Feeling
    6. The Shores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
    7. This Mess We're in ●
    8. You Said Something
    9. Kamikaze
    10. This Is Love
    11. Horses in My Dreams
    12. We Float

35. 16

    Clayman

    In Flames

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bullet Ride
    2. Pinball Map
    3. Only for the Weak
    4. ... As the Future Repeats Today
    5. Square Nothing
    6. Clayman ●
    7. Satellites and Astronauts
    8. Brush the Dust Away
    9. Swim
    10. Suburban Me
    11. Another Day in Quicksand
    12. Strong and Smart
    13. World of Promises

36. 15

    Dead Heart in a Dead World

    Nevermore

    

    

    Progressive metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Narcosynthesis
    2. We Disintegrate
    3. Inside Four Walls
    4. Evolution 169
    5. The River Dragon Has Come ●
    6. The Heart Collector
    7. Engines of Hate
    8. The Sound of Silence
    9. Insignificant
    10. Believe in Nothing
    11. Dead Heart in a Dead World

37. 14

    Wishmaster

    Nightwish

    

    

    Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. She Is My Sin
    2. The Kinslayer
    3. Come Cover Me
    4. Wanderlust
    5. Two for Tragedy
    6. Wishmaster ●
    7. Bare Grace Misery
    8. Crownless
    9. Deep Silent Complete
    10. Dead Boy's Poem
    11. FantasMic
    12. Sleepwalker

38. 13

    Rated R

    Queens of the Stone Age

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Feel Good Hit of the Summer ●
    2. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
    3. Leg of Lamb
    4. Auto Pilot
    5. Better Living Through Chemistry
    6. Monsters in the Parasol
    7. Quick and the Pointless
    8. In the Fade
    9. Tension Head
    10. Lightning Song
    11. I Think I Lost My Headache

39. 12

    Lightbulb Sun

    Porcupine Tree

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lightbulb Sun
    2. How Is Your Life Today?
    3. Four Clouds That Made a Million
    4. Shesmovedon ●
    5. Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
    6. The Rest Will Flow
    7. Hatesong
    8. Where We Would Be
    9. Russia on Ice
    10. Feel So Low

40. 11

    If_Then_Else

    The Gathering

    

    

    Art rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rollercoaster
    2. Shot to Pieces
    3. Amity
    4. Bad Movie Scene
    5. Colorado Incident
    6. Beautiful War
    7. Analog Park
    8. Herbal Movement
    9. Saturnine ●
    10. Morphia's Waltz
    11. Pathfinder

41. 10

    Sailing to Philadelphia

    Mark Knopfler

    

    

    Folk rock | Americana

    Tracks:

    1. What It Is ●
    2. Sailing to Philadelphia
    3. Who's Your Baby Now
    4. Baloney Again
    5. The Last Laugh
    6. Silvertown Blues
    7. El Macho
    8. Prairie Wedding
    9. Wanderlust
    10. Speedway to Nazareth
    11. Junkie Doll
    12. Sands of Nevada
    13. One More Matinee

42. 9

    Mer de Noms

    A Perfect Circle

    

    

    Alternative metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Hollow
    2. Magdalena
    3. Rose
    4. Judith
    5. Orestes
    6. 3 Libras ●
    7. Sleeping Beauty
    8. Thomas
    9. Renholdër
    10. Thinking of You
    11. Breña
    12. Over

43. 8

    Silicon Messiah

    Blaze

    

    

    Heavy metal | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ghost in the Machine
    2. Evolution
    3. Silicon Messiah
    4. Born as a Stranger ●
    5. The Hunger
    6. The Brave
    7. Identity
    8. Reach for the Horizon
    9. The Launch
    10. Stare at the Sun

44. 7

    Folkémon

    Skyclad

    

    

    Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Great Brain Robbery
    2. Think Back and Lie of England
    3. Polkageist! ●
    4. Crux of the Message
    5. The Disenchanted Forest
    6. The Antibody Politic
    7. When God Logs off
    8. You Lost My Memory
    9. Déjà-vu Ain't What It Used to Be
    10. Any Old Irony?

45. 6

    Selmasongs

    Björk

    

    

    Electronica | Industrial rock

    Tracks:

    1. Overture
    2. Cvalda
    3. I've Seen It All ●
    4. Scatterheart
    5. In the Musicals
    6. 107 Steps
    7. New World

46. 5

    Machina / The Machines of God

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    

    

    Alternative rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Everlasting Gaze ●
    2. Raindrops + Sunshowers
    3. Stand Inside Your Love
    4. I of the Morning
    5. The Sacred and Profane
    6. Try, Try, Try
    7. Heavy Metal Machine
    8. This Time
    9. The Imploding Voice
    10. Glass and the Ghost Children
    11. Wound
    12. The Crying Tree of Mercury
    13. With Every Light
    14. Blue Skies Bring Tears
    15. Age of Innocence

47. 4

    Crimson

    Sentenced

    

    

    Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bleed in My Arms
    2. Home in Despair
    3. Fragile
    4. No More Beating as One
    5. Broken
    6. Killing Me Killing You
    7. Dead Moon Rising
    8. The River ●
    9. One More Day
    10. With Bitterness and Joy
    11. My Slowing Heart

48. 3

    Hybrid Theory

    Linkin Park

    

    

    Alternative metal | Rap metal

    Tracks:

    1. Papercut
    2. One Step Closer
    3. With You
    4. Points of Authority
    5. Crawling
    6. Runaway
    7. By Myself
    8. In the End ●
    9. A Place for My Head
    10. Forgotten
    11. Cure for the Itch
    12. Pushing Me Away

49. 2

    Binaural

    Pearl Jam

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Breakerfall
    2. Gods' Dice
    3. Evacuation
    4. Light Years
    5. Nothing As It Seems
    6. Thin Air
    7. Insignificance ●
    8. Of the Girl
    9. Grievance
    10. Rival
    11. Sleight of Hand
    12. Soon Forget
    13. Parting Ways

50. 1

    Brave New World

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Heavy metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Wicker Man
    2. Ghost of the Navigator
    3. Brave New World
    4. Blood Brothers ●
    5. The Mercenary
    6. Dream of Mirrors
    7. The Fallen Angel
    8. The Nomad
    9. Out of the Silent Planet
    10. The Thin Line Between Love and Hate