Decibel also does itself a disservice by taking up a shit-ton of spots by using nearly every release this decade by Converge, Mastodon, Opeth, ISIS, Jesu, Neurosis and The Dillinger Escape Plan, but to be fair, those releases individually did pretty much account for 90% of listenable music in the 2000’s. My only complaints are the exclusion of Tool’s two releases and Glassjaw’s Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence (yes, one could argue they aren’t metal, but the list does feature At The Drive-In and The Paper Chase). The write-ups for each album are fantastic and the list is generally well thought-out. They’re always just a little off and stir up tons of controversy.ĭecibel‘s stab at it, however, is just about the best possible outcome I could expect. I won’t get too into the list itself, because frankly, these types of things are usually an exercise in futility. It’s a terrific read, cover-to-cover, and the sort of thing you’ll dust off in 5 or 10 years and re-read with joy. In all seriousness, though, this is the best $6 a metalhead could spend – especially a young one who started high school after 2005. Our bros at MetalSucks covered it too, with entirely too much text for me to process, but I probably agree with whatever they say. The folks at Decibel were nice enough to send over a copy of their special edition 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of The Decade magazine in hopes of a plug, and well, I’m just enough of a whore to do it.
And here’s #1 on our Year-End List Of Metal Lists.