My favourite albums from 2002

1. 50

   Source Tags & Codes

   ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

   

   

   Noise rock | Post-hardcore

   Tracks:

   1. It Was There That I Saw You
   2. Another Morning Stoner ●
   3. Baudelaire
   4. Homage
   5. How Near How Far
   6. Heart in the Hand of the Matter
   7. Monsoon
   8. Days of Being Wild
   9. Relative Ways
   10. After the Laughter
   11. Source Tags & Codes

2. 49

   Critical Mass

   Threshold

   

   

   Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Phenomenon
   2. Choices
   3. Falling Away ●
   4. Fragmentation
   5. Echoes of Life
   6. Round and Round
   7. Avalon
   8. Critical Mass (Part 1-3)

3. 48

   On Fire

   Spiritual Beggars

   

   

   Stoner metal | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Street Fighting Saviours
   2. Young Man, Old Soul
   3. Killing Time
   4. Fools Gold
   5. Black Feathers
   6. Beneath the Skin ●
   7. Fejee Mermaid
   8. Dance of the Dragon King
   9. Tell Tales
   10. The Lunatic Fringe
   11. Look Back

4. 47

   Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest

   Autumn's Grey Solace

   

   

   Ethereal wave

   Tracks:

   1. Resonant Dusk
   2. Forgotten, Fossilised, Archaic ●
   3. Shadows of Moonlit Nights
   4. Cast to the Seas in Storms
   5. Eve
   6. Reflections of Falling Leaves
   7. Lost
   8. Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest

5. 46

   The Creek Drank the Cradle

   Iron & Wine

   

   

   Folk

   Tracks:

   1. Lion's Mane
   2. Bird Stealing Bread
   3. Faded from the Winter ●
   4. Promising Light
   5. The Rooster Moans
   6. Upward Over the Mountain
   7. Southern Anthem
   8. An Angry Blade
   9. Weary Memory
   10. Promise What You Will
   11. Myddu Hymnal

6. 45

   Resound the Horn

   Doomsword

   

   

   Epic doom metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Shores of Vinland ●
   2. Onward into Battle
   3. The DoomSword
   4. MCXIX
   5. For Those Who Died with Sword in Hand
   6. The Youth of Fin MacCool
   7. Resound the Horn: Odin's Hail

7. 44

   In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

   Bizarre Reverend

   

   

   Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. Burn in Hell!
   2. In the Rectory
   3. The Hour of Death
   4. Sodoma Sunrise
   5. Doomsower ●
   6. Cirith Ungol

8. 43

   Surrounded by Thieves

   High on Fire

   

   

   Stoner metal | Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. Eyes & Teeth
   2. Hung, Drawn and Quartered
   3. Speedwolf
   4. The Yeti ●
   5. Nemesis
   6. Thraft of Canaan
   7. Surrounded by Thieves
   8. Razor Hoof

9. 42

   Let Go

   Nada Surf

   

   

   Power pop | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Blizzard of '77
   2. Happy Kid
   3. Inside of Love
   4. Fruit Fly
   5. Blonde on Blonde
   6. Hi-Speed Soul ●
   7. Killian's Red
   8. The Way You Wear Your Head
   9. Neither Heaven nor Space
   10. Là pour ça
   11. Treading Water
   12. Paper Boats

10. 41

    The Cold White Light

    Sentenced

    

    

    Gothic metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Konevitsan kirkonkellot
    2. Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
    3. Brief Is the Light
    4. Neverlasting ●
    5. Aika multaa muistot
    6. Excuse Me While I Kill Myself
    7. Blood & Tears
    8. You Are the One
    9. Guilt and Regret
    10. The Luxury of a Grave
    11. No One There

11. 40

    Symbol of Life

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Isolate
    2. Erased ●
    3. Two Worlds
    4. Pray Nightfall
    5. Primal
    6. Mystify
    7. Perfect Mask
    8. No Celebration
    9. Self Obsessed
    10. Symbol of Life
    11. Channel for the Pain

12. 39

    Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

    CKY

    

    

    Alternative rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Escape from Hellview
    2. Flesh into Gear ●
    3. Sink into the Underground
    4. Attached at the Hip
    5. The Frenetic Amnesic
    6. Shock & Terror
    7. Plastic Plan
    8. Inhuman Creation Station
    9. Sporadic Movement
    10. Close Yet Far

13. 38

    Woven Hand

    Wovenhand

    

    

    Gothic Americana | Bluegrass

    Tracks:

    1. The Good Hand
    2. My Russia ●
    3. Blue Pail Fever
    4. Glass Eye
    5. Wooden Brother
    6. Ain't No Sunshine
    7. Story and Pictures
    8. Arrowhead
    9. Your Russia
    10. Last Fist

14. 37

    Ritual

    Shaman

    

    

    Power metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ancient Winds
    2. Here I Am
    3. Distant Thunder ●
    4. For Tomorrow
    5. Time Will Come
    6. Over Your Head
    7. Fairy Tale
    8. Blind Spell
    9. Ritual
    10. Pride

15. 36

    In Their Darkened Shrines

    Nile

    

    

    Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Blessed Dead
    2. Execration Text ●
    3. Sarcophagus
    4. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu
    5. Unas Slayer of the Gods
    6. Churning the Maelstrom
    7. I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead
    8. Wind of Horus
    9. In Their Darkened Shrines

16. 35

    Heavy Rocks (2002)

    Boris

    

    

    Stoner metal | Doom metal | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Heavy Friends
    2. Korosu
    3. Dyna-Soar
    4. Wareruraido
    5. Soft Edge
    6. Death Valley
    7. Koei
    8. Kane - The Bell Tower of a Sign-
    9. 1970 ●
    10. Rattlesnake

17. 34

    Caution

    Hot Water Music

    

    

    Punk rock | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. Remedy
    2. Trusty Chords
    3. I Was on a Mountain ●
    4. One Step to Slip
    5. It's All Related
    6. The Sense
    7. Not for Anyone
    8. Sweet Disasters
    9. Alright for Now
    10. We'll Say Anything We Want
    11. Wayfarer
    12. The End

18. 33

    Remedy Lane

    Pain of Salvation

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Of Two Beginnings
    2. Ending Theme
    3. Fandango
    4. A Trace of Blood
    5. This Heart of Mine (I Pledge)
    6. Undertow
    7. Rope Ends
    8. Chain Sling ●
    9. Dryad of the Woods
    10. Remedy Lane
    11. Waking Every God
    12. Second Love
    13. Beyond the Pale

19. 32

    Nordland I

    Bathory

    

    

    Folk metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Prelude
    2. Nordland ●
    3. Winterblot
    4. Dragons Breath
    5. Ring of Gold
    6. Foreverdark Woods
    7. Broken Sword
    8. Great Hall Awaits a Fallen Brother
    9. Mother Earth Father Thunder
    10. Heimfard

20. 31

    Nothing

    Meshuggah

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stengah
    2. Rational Gaze ●
    3. Perpetual Black Second
    4. Closed Eye Visuals
    5. Glints Collide
    6. Organic Shadows
    7. Straws Pulled at Random
    8. Spasm
    9. Nebulous
    10. Obsidian

21. 30

    Resurrection Through Carnage

    Bloodbath

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ways to the Grave
    2. So You Die
    3. Mass Strangulation
    4. Death Delirium ●
    5. Buried by the Dead
    6. The Soulcollector
    7. Bathe in Blood
    8. Trail of Insects
    9. Like Fire
    10. Cry My Name

22. 29

    The Process of Belief

    Bad Religion

    

    

    Melodic hardcore | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Supersonic
    2. Prove It
    3. Can't Stop It
    4. Broken
    5. Destined for Nothing
    6. Materialist
    7. Kyoto Now!
    8. Sorrow ●
    9. Epiphany
    10. Evangeline
    11. The Defense
    12. The Lie
    13. You Don't Belong
    14. Bored and Extremely Dangerous

23. 28

    Sons of Northern Darkness

    Immortal

    

    

    Blackened thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. One by One
    2. Sons of Northern Darkness ●
    3. Tyrants
    4. Demonium
    5. Within the Dark Mind
    6. In My Kingdom Cold
    7. Antarctica
    8. Beyond the North Waves

24. 27

    Warriors of the World

    Manowar

    

    

    Heavy metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Call to Arms
    2. The Fight for Freedom
    3. Nessun Dorma
    4. Valhalla
    5. Swords in the Wind
    6. An American Trilogy
    7. The March
    8. Warriors of the World United ●
    9. Hand of Doom
    10. House of Death
    11. Fight Until We Die

25. 26

    Unholy Cult

    Immolation

    

    

    Death metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Of Martyrs and Men
    2. Sinful Nature
    3. Unholy Cult ●
    4. Wolf Among the Flock
    5. Reluctant Messiah
    6. A Kingdom Divided
    7. Rival the Eminent
    8. Bring Them Down

26. 25

    Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow

    Down

    

    

    Sludge metal | Stoner metal | Southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. Lysergik Funeral Procession ●
    2. There's Something on My Side
    3. The Man That Follows Hell
    4. Stained Glass Cross
    5. Ghosts Along the Mississippi
    6. Learn From This Mistake
    7. Beautifully Depressed
    8. Where I'm Going
    9. Doobinterlude
    10. New Orleans Is a Dying Whore
    11. The Seed
    12. Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But ...
    13. Flambeaux's Jamming with St. Aug
    14. Dog Tired
    15. Landing on the Mountains of Meggido

27. 24

    3

    Soulfly

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Downstroy
    2. Seek 'n' Strike
    3. Enterfaith
    4. One
    5. L.O.T.M.
    6. Brasil
    7. Tree of Pain ●
    8. One Nation
    9. 9-11-01
    10. Call to Arms
    11. Four Elements
    12. Soulfly III
    13. Sangue de bairro
    14. Zumbi

28. 23

    Blacklisted

    Neko Case

    

    

    Alt-country | Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. Things That Scare Me ●
    2. Deep Red Bells
    3. Outro with Bees
    4. Lady Pilot
    5. Tightly
    6. Look for Me (I'll Be Around)
    7. Stinging Velvet
    8. Pretty Girls
    9. I Missed the Point
    10. Blacklisted
    11. I Wish I Was the Moon
    12. Runnin' out of Fools
    13. Ghost Writing

29. 22

    One by One

    Foo Fighters

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. All My Life ●
    2. Low
    3. Have It All
    4. Times Like These
    5. Disenchanted Lullaby
    6. Tired of You
    7. Halo
    8. Lonely as You
    9. Overdrive
    10. Burn Away
    11. Come Back

30. 21

    Castaways & Cutouts

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Folk rock | Chamber folk

    Tracks:

    1. Leslie Anne Levine
    2. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
    3. July, July!
    4. A Cautionary Song
    5. Odalisque ●
    6. Cocoon
    7. Grace Cathedral Hill
    8. The Legionnaire's Lament
    9. Clementine
    10. California One / Youth and Beeauty Brigade

31. 20

    Scarlet's Walk

    Tori Amos

    

    

    Art pop

    Tracks:

    1. Amber Waves
    2. A Sorta Fairytale ●
    3. Wednesday
    4. Strange
    5. Carbon
    6. Crazy
    7. Wampum Prayer
    8. Don't Make Me Come to Vegas
    9. Sweet Sangria
    10. Your Cloud
    11. Pancake
    12. I Can't See New York
    13. Mrs. Jesus
    14. Taxi Ride
    15. Another Girl's Paradise
    16. Scarlet's Walk
    17. Virginia
    18. Gold Dust

32. 19

    Degradation Trip

    Jerry Cantrell

    

    

    Alternative metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Psychotic Break
    2. Bargain Basement Howard Hughes
    3. Anger Rising ●
    4. Angel Eyes
    5. Solitude
    6. Mother's Spinning in Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones)
    7. Hellbound
    8. Give It a Name
    9. Castaway
    10. She Was My Girl
    11. Chemical Tribe
    12. Spiderbite
    13. Locked on
    14. Gone

33. 18

    1919 Eternal

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Heavy metal | Southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bleed for Me ●
    2. Lords of Destruction
    3. Demise of Sanity
    4. Life, Birth, Blood, Doom
    5. Bridge to Cross
    6. Battering Ram
    7. Speedball
    8. Graveyard Disciples
    9. Genocide Junkies
    10. Lost Heaven
    11. Refuse to Bow Down
    12. Mass Murder Machine
    13. Berserkers
    14. America the Beautiful

34. 17

    Murray Street

    Sonic Youth

    

    

    Noise rock | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Empty Page
    2. Disconnection Notice
    3. Rain on Tin ●
    4. Karen Revisited
    5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
    6. Plastic Sun
    7. Sympathy for the Strawberry

35. 16

    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    Wilco

    

    

    Art rock | Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    2. Kamera
    3. Radio Cure
    4. War on War
    5. Jesus, Etc.
    6. Ashes of American Flags
    7. Heavy Metal Drummer ●
    8. I'm the Man Who Loves You
    9. Pot Kettle Luck
    10. Poor Places
    11. Reservations

36. 15

    Oceanic

    ISIS

    

    

    Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Beginning and the End ●
    2. The Other
    3. False Light
    4. Carry
    5. -
    6. Maritime
    7. Weight
    8. From Sinking
    9. Hym

37. 14

    A Night at the Opera

    Blind Guardian

    

    

    Power metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Precious Jerusalem
    2. Battlefield
    3. Under the Ice
    4. Sadly Sings Destiny
    5. The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight
    6. Wait for an Answer
    7. The Soulforged
    8. Age of False Innocence
    9. Punishment Divine
    10. And Then There Was Silence ●

38. 13

    Spend the Night

    The Donnas

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. It's on the Rocks
    2. Take It off ●
    3. Who invited You
    4. All Messed up
    5. Dirty Denim
    6. You Wanna Get High
    7. I Don't Care (So There)
    8. Pass It Around
    9. Too Bad About Your Girl
    10. Not the One
    11. Please Don't Tease
    12. Take Me to the Backseat
    13. 5 o'clock in the Morning

39. 12

    Reroute to Remain

    In Flames

    

    

    Malodic death metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Reroute to Remain
    2. System
    3. Drifter
    4. Trigger ●
    5. Cloud Connected
    6. Transparent
    7. Dawn on a New Day
    8. Egonomic
    9. Minus
    10. Dismiss the Cynics
    11. Free Fall
    12. Dark Signs
    13. Metaphor
    14. Black & White

40. 11

    Remission

    Mastodon

    

    

    Sludge metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Crusher Destroyer
    2. March of the Fire Ants ●
    3. Where Strides the Behemoth
    4. Workhorse
    5. Ol'e Nessie
    6. Burning Man
    7. Trainwreck
    8. Trampled Under Hoof
    9. Trilobite
    10. Mother Puncher
    11. Elephant Man

41. 10

    In Absentia

    Porcupine Tree

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Blackest Eyes ●
    2. Trains
    3. Lips of Ashes
    4. The Sound of Muzak
    5. Gravity Eyelids
    6. Wedding Nails
    7. Prodigal
    8. .3
    9. The Creator Has a Masterpiece
    10. Heartattack in a Layby
    11. Strip the Soul
    12. Collapse the Light into Earth

42. 9

    Damage Done

    Dark Tranquility

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Final Resistance
    2. Hours Passed in Exile
    3. Monochromatic Stains ●
    4. Single Part of Two
    5. The Treason Wall
    6. Format C: For Cortex
    7. Damage Done
    8. Cathode Ray Sunshine
    9. The Enemy
    10. I, Deception
    11. White Noise / Black Silence
    12. Ex Nihilo

43. 8

    Audioslave

    Audioslave

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Cochise ●
    2. Show Me How to Live
    3. Gasoline
    4. What You Are
    5. Like a Stone
    6. Set It off
    7. Shadow on the Sun
    8. I Am the Highway
    9. Exploder
    10. Hypnotize
    11. Bring 'em Back Alive
    12. Light My Way
    13. Getaway Car
    14. The Last Remaining Light

44. 7

    Songs for the Deaf

    Queens of the Stone Age

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
    2. No One Knows ●
    3. First It Giveth
    4. Song for the Dead
    5. The Sky Is Fallin'
    6. Six Shooter
    7. Hangin' Tree
    8. Go with the Flow
    9. Gonna Leave You
    10. Do It Again
    11. God Is in the Radio
    12. Another Love Song
    13. Song for the Deaf
    14. Mosquito Song

45. 6

    The Mantle

    Agalloch

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. A Celebration for the Death of Man
    2. In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion ●
    3. Odal
    4. I Am the Wooden Doors
    5. The Lodge
    6. You Were But a Ghost in My Arms
    7. The Hawthorn Passage
    8. ... And the Great Cold Death of the Earth
    9. A Desolation Song

46. 5

    By the Way

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    

    

    Funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. By the Way
    2. Universally Speaking
    3. This Is the Place
    4. Dosed
    5. Don't Forget Me
    6. The Zephyr Song
    7. Can't Stop
    8. I Could Die for you
    9. Midnight
    10. Throw Away Your Television
    11. Cabron ●
    12. Tear
    13. On Mercury
    14. Minor Thing
    15. Warm Tape
    16. Venice Queen

47. 4

    Deliverance

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wreath
    2. Deliverance ●
    3. A Fair Judgement
    4. For Absent Friends
    5. Master's Apprentices
    6. By the Pain I See in Others

48. 3

    Riot Act

    Pearl Jam

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Can't Keep
    2. Save You
    3. Love Boat Captain
    4. Cropduster
    5. Ghost
    6. I Am Mine ●
    7. Thumbing My Way
    8. You Are
    9. Ger Right
    10. Green Disease
    11. Help Help
    12. Bu$Hleaguer
    13. 1/2 Full
    14. Arc
    15. All or None

49. 2

    Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

    Dream Theater

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Glass Prison ●
    2. Blind Faith
    3. Misunderstood
    4. The Great Debate
    5. Disappear
    6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

50. 1

    Century Child

    Nightwish

    

    

    Symphonic metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bless the Child
    2. End of All Hope
    3. Dead to the World
    4. Ever Dream
    5. Slaying the Dreamer
    6. Forever Yours
    7. Ocean Soul
    8. Feel for You
    9. The Phantom of the Opera
    10. Beauty of the Beast ●
    11. Lagoon
    12. The Wayfarer