My favourite albums from 2001

1. 50

   The Devil's Hall of Fame

   Beyond Twilight

   

   

   Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Hellfire
   2. Godless and Wicked
   3. Shadowland ●
   4. The Devils Waltz
   5. Crying
   6. The Devil's Hall of Fame
   7. Closing the Circle
   8. Perfect Dark

2. 49

   No World Order

   Gamma Ray

   

   

   Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Induction
   2. Dethrone Tyranny ●
   3. The Heart of the Unicorn
   4. Heaven or Hell
   5. New World Order
   6. Damn the Machine
   7. Solid
   8. Fire Below
   9. Follow Me
   10. Eagle
   11. Lake of Tears

3. 48

   Origin of Symmetry

   Muse

   

   

   Progressive rock | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. New Born ●
   2. Bliss
   3. Space Dementia
   4. Hyper Music
   5. Plug in Baby
   6. Citizen Erased
   7. Micro Cuts
   8. Screenager
   9. Darkshines
   10. Feeling Good
   11. Megalomania

4. 47

   Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form

   Crowbar

   

   

   Sludge metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Lasting Dose
   2. To Build a Mountain
   3. Thru the Ashes (I've Watched You Burn)
   4. Awakening
   5. Repulsive in Its Splendid Beauty
   6. Counting Daze
   7. In Times of Sorrow ●
   8. It Pours from Me
   9. Suffering Brings Wisdom
   10. Failure to Delay Gratification
   11. Empty Room

5. 46

   Tenacious D

   Tenacious D

   

   

   Comedy rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Kielbasa
   2. One Note Song
   3. Tribute ●
   4. Wonderboy
   5. Hard Fucking
   6. Fuck Her Gently
   7. Explosivo
   8. Dio
   9. Inward Singing
   10. Kyle Quit the Band
   11. The Road
   12. Cock Pushups
   13. Lee
   14. Friendship Test
   15. Karate Schnitzel
   16. Karate
   17. Rock Your Socks
   18. Drive-Thru
   19. Double Team
   20. City Hall

6. 45

   Unspoken

   The Pentagram

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. We Come from Nowhere
   2. In Esir Like an Eagle
   3. Unspoken
   4. Lions in a Cage
   5. For the One Unchanging
   6. Mezarkabul
   7. Take My Time
   8. Pain
   9. Puratu
   10. This Too Will Pass
   11. For Those Who Died Alone ●

7. 44

   Burn the Sun

   Ark

   

   

   Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Heal the Waters
   2. Torn
   3. Burn the Sun ●
   4. Resurrection
   5. Absolute Zero
   6. Just a Little
   7. Waking Hour
   8. Noose
   9. Feed the Fire
   10. I Bleed
   11. Missing You
   12. Silent Is the Rain

8. 43

   Tomahawk

   Tomahawk

   

   

   Alternative rock | Avant-garde rock | Post-hardcore

   Tracks:

   1. Flashback
   2. 101 North
   3. Point and Click
   4. God Hates a Coward
   5. Pop 1
   6. Sweet Smell of Success
   7. Sir, Yes Sir
   8. Jockstrap
   9. Cul de Sac
   10. Malocchio
   11. Honeymoon ●
   12. Laredo
   13. Narcosis

9. 42

   Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

   Dimmu Borgir

   

   

   Symphonic black metal

   Tracks:

   1. Fear and Wonder
   2. Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny
   3. Kings of the Carnival Creation ●
   4. Hybrid Stigmata — The Apostasy
   5. Architecture of a Genocidal Nature
   6. Puritania
   7. IndoctriNation
   8. The Maelstrom Mephisto
   9. Absolute Sole Right
   10. Sympozium
   11. Perfection or Vanity

10. 41

    Field Songs

    Mark Lanegan

    

    

    Folk rock | Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. One Way Street ●
    2. No Easy Action
    3. Miracle
    4. Pill Hill Serenade
    5. Don't Forget Me
    6. Kimiko's Dream House
    7. Resurrection Song
    8. Field Song
    9. Low
    10. Blues for D
    11. She Done Too Much
    12. Fix

11. 40

    M-16

    Sodom

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Among the Weirdcong
    2. I Am the War ●
    3. Napalm in the Morning
    4. Minejumper
    5. Genocide
    6. Little Boy
    7. M-16
    8. Lead Injection
    9. Cannon Fodder
    10. Marines
    11. Surfin' Bird

12. 39

    Des Visages des Figures

    Noir Désir

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. L'enfant roi
    2. Le grand incendie
    3. Le vent nous portera ●
    4. Des armes
    5. L'appartement
    6. Des visages des figures
    7. Son style 1
    8. Son style 2
    9. À l'envers à l'endroit
    10. Lost
    11. Bouquet de nerfs
    12. L'Europe

13. 38

    Time Bomb

    Buckcherry

    

    

    Hard rock | Glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Frontside
    2. Ridin'
    3. Time Bomb
    4. Porno Star ●
    5. Place in the Sun
    6. (Segue) Helpess
    7. Underneath
    8. Slit My Wrists
    9. Whiskey in the Morning
    10. You
    11. Slamin'
    12. Fall

14. 37

    Ensiferum

    Ensiferum

    

    

    Folk metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Hero in a Dream
    3. Token of Time ●
    4. Guardians of Fate
    5. Old Man
    6. Little Dreamer
    7. Abandoned
    8. Windrider
    9. Treacherous Gods
    10. Eternal Wait
    11. Battle Song
    12. Goblins' Dance

15. 36

    The Antichrist

    Destruction

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Days of Confusion
    2. Thrash till Death
    3. Nailed to the Cross
    4. Dictators of Cruelty ●
    5. Bullets from Hell
    6. Strangulated Pride
    7. Meet Your Destiny
    8. Creations of the Underworld
    9. Godfather of Slander
    10. Let Your Mind Rot
    11. The Heretic

16. 35

    Suden Uni

    Moonsorrow

    

    

    Folk metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ukkosenjumatan polka ●
    2. Köyliönjärven jäällä (Pakanavedet II)
    3. Kuin ikuinen
    4. Tuulen koti, aaltojen koti
    5. Pekanajuhla
    6. 1065: Aika
    7. Suden uni

17. 34

    Believe in Nothing

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. I Am Nothing
    2. Mouth
    3. Fader ●
    4. Look at Me Now
    5. Illumination
    6. Something Real
    7. Divided
    8. Sell It to the World
    9. Never Again
    10. Control
    11. No Reason
    12. World Pretending

18. 33

    Nation

    Sepultura

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sepulnation
    2. Revolt
    3. Border Wars
    4. One Man Army
    5. Vox Populi
    6. The Ways of Faith
    7. Uma Cura
    8. Who Must Die?
    9. Saga ●
    10. Tribe to a Nation
    11. Politricks
    12. Human Cause
    13. Reject
    14. Water
    15. Valtio

19. 32

    1184

    Windir

    

    

    Melodic black metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Todeswalzer
    2. 1184
    3. Dance of Mortal Lust
    4. The Spiritlord
    5. Heidra
    6. Destroy
    7. Black New Age
    8. Journey to the End ●

20. 31

    Iowa

    Slipknot

    

    

    Groove metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. (515)
    2. People = Shit ●
    3. Disasterpiece
    4. My Plague
    5. Everything Ends
    6. The Heretic Anthem
    7. Gently
    8. Left Behind
    9. The Shape
    10. I Am Hated
    11. Skin Ticket
    12. New Abortion
    13. Metabolic
    14. Iowa

21. 30

    Deep in the Hole

    Masters of Reality

    

    

    Stoner rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Third Man on the Moon ●
    2. A Wish for a Fish
    3. Counting Horses
    4. Major Lance
    5. Scatagoria
    6. High Noon Amsterdam
    7. Corpus Scorpios Electrified
    8. Deep in the Hole
    9. Roof of the Shed
    10. Shotgun Son

22. 29

    From Wisdom to Hate

    Gorguts

    

    

    Technical death metal | Dissonant death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Inverted
    2. Behave Through Mythos
    3. From Wisdom to Hate ●
    4. The Quest for Equilibrium
    5. Unearthing the Past
    6. Elusive Treasures
    7. Das Martyrium des ...
    8. Testimonial Ruins

23. 28

    Fires at Midnight

    Blackmore's Night

    

    

    Folk | Neo-medieval

    Tracks:

    1. Written in the Stars
    2. The Times They Are a-Changin'
    3. I Still Remember ●
    4. Home Again
    5. Crowning of the King
    6. Fayre Thee Well
    7. Fires at Midnight
    8. Hanging Tree
    9. The Storm
    10. Mid Winter's Night
    11. All Because of You
    12. Waiting Just for You
    13. Praetorius (Courante)
    14. Benzai-Ten
    15. Village on the Sand
    16. Again Someday

24. 27

    I Get Wet

    Andrew W.K.

    

    

    Pop metal | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. It's Time to Party
    2. Party Hard ●
    3. Girls Own Love
    4. Ready to Die
    5. Yake It off
    6. I Love NYC
    7. She Is Beautiful
    8. Party til You Puke
    9. Fun Night
    10. Got to Do It
    11. I Get Wet
    12. Don't Stop Living in the Red

25. 26

    Morning Star

    Entombed

    

    

    Death 'n' roll | Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Chief Rebel Angel
    2. I for an Eye ●
    3. Bringer of Light
    4. Ensemble of the Restless
    5. Out of Heaven
    6. Young Man Nihilist
    7. Year One Now
    8. Fractures
    9. When It Hits Home
    10. City of Ghosts
    11. About to Die
    12. Mental Twin

26. 25

    Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise

    Emperor

    

    

    Symphonic black metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Eruption
    2. Depraved
    3. Empty
    4. The Prophet ●
    5. The Tongue of Fire
    6. In the Wordless Chamber
    7. Grey
    8. He Who South the Fire
    9. Thorns on My Grave

27. 24

    Violent Revolution

    Kreator

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Reconquering the Throne
    2. The Patriarch
    3. Violent Revolution ●
    4. All of the Same Blood (Unity)
    5. Servant in Heaven — King in Hell
    6. Second Awakening
    7. Ghetto War
    8. Replicas of Life
    9. Slave Machinery
    10. Bitter Sweet Revenge
    11. Mind on Fire
    12. System Decay

28. 23

    Satellite

    P.O.D.

    

    

    Rap metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Set It off
    2. Alive
    3. Boom
    4. Youth of a Nation ●
    5. Celestial
    6. Satellite
    7. Ridiculous
    8. The Messenjah
    9. Guitarras de amor
    10. Anything Right
    11. Ghetto
    12. Masterpiece Conspiracy
    13. Without Jah, Nothin'
    14. Thinking About Forever
    15. Portrait

29. 22

    V

    Live

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Simple Creed
    3. Deep Enough ●
    4. Like a Soldier
    5. People Like You
    6. Transmit Your Love
    7. Forever May Not Be Long Enough
    8. Call Me a Fool
    9. Flow
    10. The Ride
    11. Nobody Knows
    12. Overcome
    13. Hero of Love

30. 21

    Vespertine

    Björk

    

    

    Art pop | Electronic

    Tracks:

    1. Hidden Place
    2. Cocoon ●
    3. It's Not up to You
    4. Undo
    5. Pagan Poetry
    6. Frosti
    7. Aurora
    8. An Acho, a Stain
    9. Sun in My Mouth
    10. Heirloom
    11. Harm of Will
    12. Unison

31. 20

    The Nightly Disease

    Madrugada

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Black Mambo
    2. Step into This Room and Dance for Me
    3. Nightly Disease Part II
    4. Lucky One
    5. Hands up — I Love You ●
    6. A Deadened Mind
    7. The Frontman
    8. We Are Go
    9. Into Heartbeats
    10. Sister
    11. Two Black Bones
    12. Only When You're Gone

32. 19

    Jane Doe

    Converge

    

    

    Post-hardcore | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Concubine
    2. Fault and Fracture
    3. Distance and Meaning
    4. Hell to Pay
    5. Homewrecker
    6. The Broken Vow
    7. Bitter and Then Some
    8. Heaven in Her Arms
    9. Phoenix in Flight
    10. Phoenix in Flames
    11. Thaw
    12. Jane Doe ●

33. 18

    In Search of Truth

    Evergrey

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Masterplan
    2. Rulers of the Mind ●
    3. Watching the Skies
    4. State of Paralysis
    5. The Encounter
    6. Mark of the Triangle
    7. Dark Waters
    8. Different Worlds
    9. Misled

34. 17

    Imaginary Sonicscape

    Sigh

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Corpsecry — Angelfall
    2. Scarlet Dream
    3. Neitzchean Conspiracy
    4. A Sunset Song
    5. Impromptu (Allegro Maestroso)
    6. Dreamsphere (Return to Chaos)
    7. Ecstatic Transformation
    8. Slaughtergarden Suite ●
    9. Bring Back the Dead
    10. Requiem — Nostalgiaa

35. 16

    Poets and Madmen

    Savatage

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stay with Me Awhile
    2. There in the Silence
    3. Commissar
    4. I Seek Power
    5. Drive
    6. Morphine Child ●
    7. The Rumor
    8. Man in the Mirror
    9. Surrender
    10. Awaken
    11. Back to a Reason

36. 15

    Time (The Revelator)

    Gillian Welch

    

    

    Alternative country | Bluegrass

    Tracks:

    1. Revelator ●
    2. My First Lover
    3. Dear Someone
    4. Red Clay Halo
    5. April the 14th Part 1
    6. I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll
    7. Elvis Presley Blues
    8. Ruination Day Part 2
    9. Everything Is Free
    10. I Dream a Highway

37. 14

    Secret of the Runes

    Therion

    

    

    Symphonic metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ginnungagap
    2. Midgård
    3. Asgård
    4. Jotunheim
    5. Schwarzalbenheim
    6. Ljusalfheim
    7. Muspelheim
    8. Miefelheim
    9. Vanaheim ●
    10. Helheim
    11. Secret of the Runes

38. 13

    Shameless

    Therapy?

    

    

    Alternative rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Gimme Gimme Gimme
    2. Dance
    3. This One's for You
    4. I Am the Money
    5. Wicked Man ●
    6. Theme from Delorean
    7. Joey
    8. Endless Psychology
    9. Bonkfield
    10. Body Bag Girl
    11. Tango Romeo
    12. Stalk & Slash

39. 12

    A Sun That Never Sets

    Neurosis

    

    

    Atmospheric sludge metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Erode
    2. The Tide
    3. From the Hill
    4. A Sun That Never Sets
    5. Faalling Unknown
    6. From Where Its Roots Run
    7. Crawl Back in
    8. Watchfire
    9. Resound
    10. Stones from the Sky ●

40. 11

    Last Fair Deal Gone Down

    Katatonia

    

    

    Alternative rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dispossession
    2. Chrome
    3. We Must Bury You
    4. Teargas ●
    5. I Transpire
    6. Tonight's Music
    7. Clean Tooday
    8. The Future of Speech
    9. Passing Bird
    10. Sweet Nurse
    11. Don't Tell a Soul

41. 10

    The World Needs a Hero

    Megadeth

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Disconnect
    2. The World Needs a Hero
    3. Moto Psycho
    4. 1000 Times Goodbye
    5. Burning Bridges
    6. Promises
    7. Recipe for Hate ... Warhorse
    8. Losing My Senses
    9. Dread and the Fugitive Mind ●
    10. Silent Scorn
    11. Return to Hangar
    12. When

42. 9

    Terria

    Devin Townsend

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Olives
    2. Mountain
    3. Earth Day
    4. Deep Peace ●
    5. Canada
    6. Down and Under
    7. The Fluke
    8. Nobody's Here
    9. Tiny Tears
    10. Stagnant

43. 8

    Green Album

    Weezer

    

    

    Alternative rock | Power pop

    Tracks:

    1. Don't Let Go
    2. Photograph
    3. Hash Pipe
    4. Island in the Sun ●
    5. Crab
    6. Knockdown Dragout
    7. Smile
    8. Simple Pages
    9. Glorious Days
    10. O Girlfriend
    11. I Do

44. 7

    Am Universum

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Alone
    2. Goddess ●
    3. The Night Is Over
    4. Shatters Within
    5. Crimson Wave
    6. Drifting Memories
    7. Forever More
    8. Veil of Sin
    9. Captured State
    10. Grieve Stricken Heart

45. 6

    Mutter

    Rammstein

    

    

    Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Mein Herz brennt ●
    2. Links 2 3 4
    3. Sonne
    4. Ich will
    5. Feuer frei
    6. Mutter
    7. Spieluhr
    8. Zwitter
    9. Rein aus
    10. Adiós
    11. Nebel

46. 5

    No More Shall We Part

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Chamber pop | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. As I Sat Sadly by Her Side ●
    2. And No More Shall We Part
    3. Hallelujah
    4. Love Letter
    5. Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
    6. God Is in the House
    7. Oh My Lord
    8. Sweetheart Come
    9. The Sorrowful Wife
    10. We Came Along This Road
    11. Gates to the Garden
    12. Darker with the Day

47. 4

    Love Is Here

    Starsailor

    

    

    Alternative pop | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Tie up My Hands ●
    2. Poor Misguided Fool
    3. Alcoholic
    4. Lullaby
    5. Way to Fall
    6. Fever
    7. She Just Wept
    8. Talk Her Down
    9. Love Is Here
    10. Good Souls
    11. Coming Down

48. 3

    Toxicity

    System of a Down

    

    

    Alternative metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Prison Song
    2. Needles
    3. Deer Dance
    4. Jet Pilot
    5. X
    6. Chop Suey!
    7. Bounce
    8. Forest
    9. ATWA ●
    10. Science
    11. Shimmy
    12. Toxicity
    13. Psycho
    14. Aerials

49. 2

    Lateralus

    Tool

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Grudge
    2. Eon Blue Apocalypse
    3. The Patient
    4. Mantra
    5. Schism
    6. Parabol
    7. Parabola
    8. Ticks & Leeches ●
    9. Lateralus
    10. Disposition
    11. Reflection
    12. Triad
    13. Faaip De Oiad

50. 1

    Blackwater Park

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Leper Affinity
    2. Bleak
    3. Harvest
    4. The Drapery Falls ●
    5. Dirge for November
    6. The Funeral Portrait
    7. Patterns in the Ivy
    8. Blackwater Park