My favourite albums from 2003

1. 50

   The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

   Explosions in the Sky

   

   

   Post-rock

   Tracks:

   1. First Breath After Coma
   2. The Only Moment We Were Alone ●
   3. Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
   4. Memorial
   5. Your Hand in Mine

2. 49

   It Still Moves

   My Morning Jacket

   

   

   Indie rock | Neo-psychedelia

   Tracks:

   1. Mahgeetah
   2. Dancefloors
   3. Golden
   4. Master Plan
   5. One Big Holiday ●
   6. I Will Sing You Songs
   7. Easy Morning Rebel
   8. Run Thru
   9. Rollin' Back
   10. Just One Thing
   11. Steam Engine
   12. One in the Same

3. 48

   The Morning Never Came

   Swallow the Sun

   

   

   Death-doom | Melodic death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Through Her Silvery Body
   2. Deadly Inside
   3. Out of This Gloomy Light ●
   4. Swallow (Horror Pt. I)
   5. Silence of the Womb
   6. Hold This Woe
   7. Under the Waves
   8. The Morning Never Came

4. 47

   Crimson II

   Edge of Sanity

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Progressive death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Crimson II, Pt. 1 — The Forbidden Words
   2. Crimson II, Pt. 2 — Incantation
   3. Crimson II, Pt. 3 — Passage of Time
   4. Crimson II, Pt. 4 — The Silent Threat
   5. Crimson II, Pt. 5 — Achilles Heel ●
   6. Crimson II, Pt. 6 — Covenant of Souls
   7. Crimson II, Pt. 7 — Face to Face
   8. Crimson II, Pt. 8 — Disintegration
   9. Crimson II, Pt. 9 — Aftermath

5. 46

   No Cities Left

   The Dears

   

   

   Indie rock | Chamber pop

   Tracks:

   1. We Can Have It
   2. Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe?
   3. Lost in the Plot
   4. The Second Part
   5. Don't Lose the Faith
   6. Expect the Worst / 'Cos She's a Tourist
   7. Pinned Together, Falling Apart
   8. Never Destroy Us
   9. Warm and Sunny Days
   10. 22: The Death of All Romance ●
   11. Postcard from Purgatory
   12. No Cities Left

6. 45

   Elephant

   The White Stripes

   

   

   Garage rock revival | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Seven Nation Army ●
   2. Black Math
   3. There's No Home for You Here
   4. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
   5. In the Cold, Cold Night
   6. I Want to Be the Biy to Warm Your Mother's Heart
   7. You've Got Her in Your Pocket
   8. Ball and Biscuit
   9. The Hardesy Button to Button
   10. Little Acorns
   11. Hypnotize
   12. The Air Near My Fingers
   13. Girl, you Have No Faith in Medicine
   14. Well It's True That We Love One Another

7. 44

   Ok nefna tysvar Ty

   Falkenbach

   

   

   Viking metal | Folk metal

   Tracks:

   1. Vanadis ●
   2. ... As Long as Winds Will Blow
   3. Aduatuza
   4. Donar's Oak
   5. ... the Ardent Awaited Land
   6. Homeward Shore
   7. Farewell

8. 43

   Dopesmoker

   Sleep

   

   

   Stoner metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. Dopesmoker ●
   2. Hot Lava Man

9. 42

   Where Lovers Mourn

   Draconian

   

   

   Gothic metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Cry of Silence
   2. Silent Winter
   3. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
   4. The Solitude
   5. Reversio ad Secessum
   6. The Amaranth ●
   7. Akherousia
   8. It Grieves My Heart

10. 41

    Elements Pt. 2

    Stratovarius

    

    

    Power metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Alpha & Omega
    2. I Walk to My Own Song
    3. I'm Still Alive ●
    4. Season of Faith's Perfection
    5. Awaken the Giant
    6. Know the Difference
    7. Luminous
    8. Dreamweaver
    9. Liberty

11. 40

    Elements Pt. 1

    Stratovarius

    

    

    Power metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Eagleheart
    2. Soul of a Vagabond
    3. Find Your Own Voice
    4. Fantasia
    5. Learning to Fly
    6. Papillon
    7. Stratofortress ●
    8. Elements
    9. A Drop in the Ocean

12. 39

    Her Majesty the Decemberists

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Indie folk | Chamber pop

    Tracks:

    1. Shanty for the Arethusa
    2. Billy Liar
    3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours ●
    4. The Gymnast, High Above the Ground
    5. The Bachelor and the Bride
    6. Song for Myla Goldberg
    7. The Soldiering Life
    8. Red Right Ankle
    9. The Chimbley Sweep
    10. I Was Meant for the Stage
    11. As I Rise

13. 38

    The Wolf

    Andrew W.K.

    

    

    Hard rock | Power pop

    Tracks:

    1. Victory Strikes Again
    2. Long Live the Party
    3. Tear It up
    4. Free Jump
    5. Never Let Down ●
    6. Your Rules
    7. The Song
    8. Make Sex
    9. Totally stupid
    10. Really in Love
    11. The End of Our Lives
    12. I Love Music

14. 37

    The Puppet Master

    King Diamond

    

    

    Heavy metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Midnight
    2. The Puppet Master ●
    3. Magic
    4. Emerencia
    5. Blue Eyes
    6. The Ritual
    7. No More Me
    8. Blood to Walk
    9. Darkness
    10. So Sad
    11. Christmas
    12. Living Dead

15. 36

    Get Born

    Jet

    

    

    Garage rock revival | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Last Chance
    2. Are You Gonna Be My Girl
    3. Rollover D.J.
    4. Look What You've Done
    5. Get What You Need
    6. Move on
    7. Radio Song
    8. Get Me Outta Here
    9. Cold Hard Bitch
    10. Come Around Again
    11. Take It or Leave It ●
    12. Lazy Gun
    13. Timothy

16. 35

    Fallen

    Evanescence

    

    

    Gothic rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Going Under
    2. Bring Me to Life
    3. Everybody's Fool
    4. My Immortal ●
    5. Haunted
    6. Tourniquet
    7. Imaginary
    8. Taking Over Me
    9. Hello
    10. My Last Breath
    11. Whisper

17. 34

    Mit Gas

    Tomahawk

    

    

    Alternative rock | Avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. Birdsong
    2. Rape This Day
    3. You Can't Win ●
    4. Mayday
    5. Rotgut
    6. Capt. Midnight
    7. Desastre natural
    8. When the Stars Begin to Fall
    9. Harelip
    10. Harlem Clowns
    11. Aktion 13F14

18. 33

    A Flame to the Ground Beneath

    Lost Horizon

    

    

    Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Transdimensional Revelation
    2. Pure
    3. Lost in the Depths of Me ●
    4. Again Will the Fire Burn
    5. The Song of Earth
    6. Cry of a Restless Soul
    7. Think Not Foreber
    8. Highlander (The One)
    9. Deliverance

19. 32

    Kivenkantaja

    Moonsorrow

    

    

    Folk metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Raunioilla ●
    2. Unohduksen lapsi
    3. Jumalten kaupunki / Tuhatvuotinen perintö
    4. Kivenkantaja
    5. Tuulen tytär/Soturin tie
    6. Matkan lopussa

20. 31

    Nocturama

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Alternative rock | Post-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Wonderful Life
    2. He Wants You
    3. Right out of Your Hand
    4. Bring It on
    5. Dead Man in My Bed
    6. Still in Love
    7. There Is a Town
    8. Rock of Gibraltar
    9. She Passed by My Window
    10. Babe, I'm on Fire ●

21. 30

    Swampsong

    Kalmah

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Heroes to Us ●
    2. Burbot's Revenge
    3. Cloned Insanity
    4. The Third, the Magical
    5. Bird of Ill Omen
    6. Doubtful About It All
    7. Tordah
    8. Man with Mystery
    9. Moon of My Nights

22. 29

    Death Cult Armageddon

    Dimmu Borgir

    

    

    Symphonic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Allegiance
    2. Progenies of the Great Apocalypse ●
    3. Lepers Among Us
    4. Vredesbyrd
    5. For the World to Dictate Our Death
    6. Blood Hunger Doctrine
    7. Allehelgens død i helveds rike
    8. Cataclysm Children
    9. Eradication Instinct Defined
    10. Unorthodox Manifesto

23. 28

    The Beyond

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Atmospheric sludge metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Inside Fort Meade
    2. Receiver
    3. Genesis ●
    4. The Watchtower
    5. Circle
    6. Arrivaal
    7. Leash
    8. Clones
    9. Deliverance
    10. Further

24. 27

    Choirs of the Eye

    Kayo Dot

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Marathon
    2. A Pitcher of Summer
    3. The Manifold Curiosity ●
    4. Wayfarer
    5. The Antique

25. 26

    The Eyes of Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper

    

    

    Garage rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. What Do You Want from Me?
    2. Between High School & Old School
    3. Man of the Year ●
    4. Novocaine
    5. Bye Bye, Baby
    6. Be With You Awhile
    7. Detroit City
    8. Spirits Rebellious
    9. This House Is Haunted
    10. Love Should Never Feel Like This
    11. The Song That Didn't Rhyme
    12. I'm So Angry
    13. Backyard Brawl

26. 25

    Nordland II

    Bathory

    

    

    Folk metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fanfare
    2. Blooded Shore
    3. Sea Wolf
    4. Vinland
    5. The Land
    6. Death and Resurrection of a Northern Son
    7. The Messenger
    8. Flash of the Silverhammer
    9. The Wheel of Sun ●
    10. Outro

27. 24

    Déjà Entendu

    Brand New

    

    

    Alternative rock | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. Tatou
    2. Sic Transit Gloria ... Gloria Fades ●
    3. I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
    4. Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't
    5. The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
    6. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
    7. Jaws Theme Swimming
    8. Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis
    9. Guernica
    10. Good to know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die
    11. Play Crack the Sky

28. 23

    As the Palaces Burn

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ruin ●
    2. As the Palaces Burn
    3. Purified
    4. 11th Hour
    5. For Your Malice
    6. Boot Scraper
    7. A Devil in God's Country
    8. In Defense of Our Good Name
    9. Blood Junkie
    10. Vigil

29. 22

    Killing Joke

    Killing Joke

    

    

    Industrial metal | Industrial rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Death & Resurrection Show ●
    2. Total Invasion
    3. Asteroid
    4. Implant
    5. Blood on Your Hands
    6. Loose Cannon
    7. You'll Never Get to Me
    8. Seeing Red
    9. Dark Forces
    10. The House That Pain Built

30. 21

    Office of Strategic Influence

    OSI

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The New Math (What He Said)
    2. OSI
    3. When You're Ready
    4. Horseshoes and B-52's
    5. Head
    6. Hello, Helicopter
    7. ShutDOWN ●
    8. Dirt from a Holy Place
    9. Memory Daydreams Lapses
    10. Standby (Looks Like Rain)

31. 20

    Valley of the Damned

    DragonForce

    

    

    Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Invocation of the Apocalyptic Evil
    2. Valley of the Damned ●
    3. Black Fire
    4. Black Winter Night
    5. Starfire
    6. Disciples of Babylon
    7. Revelation
    8. Evening Star
    9. Heart of a Dragon

32. 19

    Below the Lights

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. As Fire Swept Clean the Earth
    2. The Dead Stare
    3. The Crossing
    4. Queen of Night
    5. Havenless ●
    6. Ridicule Swarm
    7. A Darker Place

33. 18

    Decoration Day

    Drive-By Truckers

    

    

    Southern rock | Country rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Deeper in
    2. Sink Hole
    3. Hell No, I Ain't Happy
    4. Marry Me
    5. My Sweet Annette ●
    6. Outfit
    7. Heathens
    8. Sounds Better in the Song
    9. (Something's GOt to) Give Pretty Soon
    10. Your Daddy Hates Me
    11. Careless
    12. When the Pin Hits the Shell
    13. Do It Yourself
    14. Decoration Day
    15. Loaded Gun in the Closet

34. 17

    Absolution

    Muse

    

    

    Progressive rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Apocalypse Please
    3. Time Is Running out
    4. Sing for Absolution
    5. Stockholm Syndrome
    6. Falling Away From You
    7. Interlude
    8. Hysteria ●
    9. Blackout
    10. Butterflies and Hurricanes
    11. The Small Print
    12. Endlessly
    13. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
    14. Ruled by Secrecy

35. 16

    Transatlanticism

    Death Cab for Cutie

    

    

    Art rock | Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. The New Year ●
    2. Lightness
    3. Title and Registration
    4. Expo 86
    5. The Sound of Settling
    6. Tiny Vessels
    7. Transatlanticism
    8. Passenger Seat
    9. Death of an Interior Decorator
    10. We Looked Like Giants
    11. A Lack of Color

36. 15

    In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

    Coheed and Cambria

    

    

    Post-hardcore | Progressive rock | Emo

    Tracks:

    1. The Ring in Return
    2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 ●
    3. Cuts Maked in the March of Men
    4. Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)
    5. The Crowing
    6. Blood Red Summer
    7. The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts
    8. The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever
    9. The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer
    10. A Favor House Atlantic
    11. The Light & the Glass
    12. 21:13

37. 14

    Souvenirs

    The Gathering

    

    

    Art rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. These Good People
    2. Even the Spirits Are Afraid
    3. Broken Glass
    4. You Learn About It
    5. Souvenirs ●
    6. We Just Stopped Breathing
    7. Monsters
    8. Golden Grounds
    9. Jelena
    10. A Life All Mine

38. 13

    The Blessed Hellride

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Heavy metal | Southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stoned and Drunk
    2. Doomsday Jesus
    3. Stillborn
    4. Suffering Overdue
    5. The Blessed Hellride
    6. Funeral Bell
    7. Final Solution
    8. Destruction Overdrive ●
    9. Blackened Waters
    10. We Live No More
    11. Dead Meadow

39. 12

    Viva Emptiness

    Katatonia

    

    

    Alternative metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ghost of the Sun ●
    2. Sleeper
    3. Criminals
    4. A Premonition
    5. Will I Arrive
    6. Burn the Remembrance
    7. Wealth
    8. One Year from Now
    9. Walking by a Wire
    10. Complicity
    11. Evidence
    12. Omerta
    13. Inside the City of Glass

40. 11

    The Impossibility of Reason

    Chimaira

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Cleansation
    2. The Impossibility of Reason
    3. Pictures in the Gold Room
    4. Power Trip ●
    5. Down Again
    6. Pure Hatred
    7. The Dehumanizing Process
    8. Crawl
    9. Stigmurder
    10. Eyes of a Criminal
    11. Overlooked
    12. Implements of Destruction

41. 10

    Meteora

    Linkin Park

    

    

    Alternative metal | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Foreword
    2. Don't Stay
    3. Somewhere I Belong
    4. Lying from You
    5. Hit the Floor
    6. Easier to Run
    7. Faint
    8. Figure.09
    9. Breaking the Habit
    10. From the Inside
    11. Nobody's Listening
    12. Session
    13. Numb ●

42. 9

    Dance of Death

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Progressive metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wildest Dreams
    2. Rainmaker
    3. No More Lies
    4. Montsegur
    5. Dance of Death ●
    6. Gates of Tomorrow
    7. New Frontier
    8. Paschendale
    9. Face in the Sand
    10. Age of Innocence
    11. Journeyman

43. 8

    Silence Is Easy

    Starsailor

    

    

    Baroque pop

    Tracks:

    1. Music Was Saved
    2. Fidelity
    3. Some of Us
    4. Silence Is Easy
    5. Telling Them
    6. Shark Food ●
    7. Bring My Love
    8. White Dove
    9. Four to the Floor
    10. Born Again
    11. Restless Heart
    12. Could You Be Mine?
    13. At the End of a Show

44. 7

    Thirteenth Step

    A Perfect Circle

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Package
    2. Weak and Powerless ●
    3. The Noose
    4. Blue
    5. Vanishing
    6. A Stranger
    7. The Outsider
    8. Crimes
    9. The Nurse Who Loved Me
    10. Pet
    11. Lullaby
    12. Gravity

45. 6

    Birds of Pray

    Live

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Heaven
    2. She
    3. The Sanctity of Dreams
    4. Run Away
    5. Life Marches on
    6. Like I Do
    7. Sweet Release
    8. Everytime I See Your Face
    9. Lighthouse
    10. River Town
    11. Out to Dry
    12. Bring the People Together
    13. What Are We Fighting for? ●

46. 5

    Rainy Day Music

    The Jayhawks

    

    

    Country rock | Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. Stumbling Through the Dark
    2. Tailspin
    3. All the Right Reasons
    4. Save It for a Rainy Day
    5. Eyes of Sarah Jane
    6. One Man's Problem
    7. Don't Let the World Get in Your Way ●
    8. Come to the River
    9. Angelyne
    10. Madman
    11. You Look So Young
    12. Tampa to Tulsa
    13. Will I See You in Heaven
    14. Stumbling Through the Dark (Reprise)

47. 4

    De-loused in the Comatorium

    The Mars Volta

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Son et Lumiere
    2. Inertiatic Esp
    3. Roulette Dates (The Haunt of)
    4. Tira me a las arañas
    5. Drunkship of Lanterns
    6. Eriatarka
    7. Cicatriz Esp ●
    8. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
    9. Televators
    10. Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt
    11. Ambuletz

48. 3

    High Anxiety

    Therapy?

    

    

    Alternative metal | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Hey Satan You Rock ●
    2. Who Knows
    3. Stand in Line
    4. Nobody Here But Us
    5. Watch You Go
    6. If It Kills Me
    7. My Voodoo Doll
    8. Limbo
    9. Last Blast
    10. Rust

49. 2

    Train of Thought

    Dream Theater

    

    

    Pogressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. As I Am
    2. This Dying Soul
    3. Endless Sacrifice ●
    4. Honor Thy Father
    5. Vacant
    6. Stream of Consciousness
    7. In the Name of God

50. 1

    Damnation

    Opeth

    

    

    Pogressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Windowpane ●
    2. In My Time of Need
    3. Death Whispered a Lullaby
    4. Closure
    5. Hope Leaves
    6. To Rid the Disease
    7. Ending Credits
    8. Weakness