The Metalreviews "Best Of Decade" Awards

traptunderice · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:33 pm

I'd say Monotheist is doom, right?

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Living for Death
2. Best Death Metal Album - Cryptopsy - And then You’ll Beg
3. Best Power Metal Album - Symphony X - Paradise Lost
4. Best Heavy Metal Album - Slough Feg - Traveler
5. Best Black Metal Album - DsO - SMRC
6. Best Metalcore Album - Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
7. Best Metal Album Overall - Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
8. Best Non-Metal Album - Jane Doe - Converge
9. Best Doom Metal Album - Celtic Frost - Monotheist
10. Best Prog Metal Album - Devin Townsend - Addicted
11. Best Grindcore Album - Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer

Ness · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:11 pm

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Overkill - Ironbound
2. Best Death Metal Album - Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3. Best Power Metal Album - Angra - Temple of Shadows or Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
4. Best Heavy Metal Album - Iron Maiden - Brave New World
5. Best Black Metal Album - Windir - 1184
6. Best Metalcore Album - Between The Buried and Me - Colors (not sure where else to stick this one), otherwise Killswitch - As Daylight Dies
7. Best Metal Album Overall - Devin Townsend - Terria
8. Best Non-Metal Album - Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
9. Best Doom Metal Album - Agalloch - The Mantle
10. Best Prog Metal Album - Devin Townsend - Terria
11. Best Grindcore Album - n/a

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:36 pm

1.Best Thrash Metal Album Hypnosia-Extreme Hatred
2. Best Death Metal Album Behemoth-Demigod
3. Best Power Metal Album - none
4. Best Heavy Metal Album - none
5. Best Black Metal Album Deathspell Omega-SMRC
6. Best Metalcore Album Converge-Jane Doe
7. Best Metal Album Overall - none
8. Best Non metal Album overall-Deftones-Deftones
9. Best Doom Metal Album – Celtic Frost-Monotheist
10. Best Prog Metal Album - Akercocke-Words that go unspoken, deeds that go undone
11. Best Grindcore Album –Insect Warfare-World extermination

I would list Cult of Luna-Somewhere along the highway, though I'm not sure where it would go under certainly not prog

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:57 pm

Goat wrote:

Adveser wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

Adveser wrote:

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Slipknot - Iowa

...

...wait, what?

Give me a compelling difference between Testament's The Gathering and Slipknot's Iowa.

One's thrash, one isn't?

That, basically. I have no idea how it got in your head that Iowa is Thrash Metal, but wow, that's a stretch the size of the Grand Canyon.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:02 pm

stevelovesmoonspell wrote:

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I'd like to know what this said.

Afro_D-Shak · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:22 pm

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine (and I just realized how poor of a decade this has been for thrash, in terms of quality.)
2. Best Death Metal Album - Gorod - Process of a New Decline
3. Best Power Metal Album - Edguy - Hellfire Club OR Sonata Arctica - Silence OR Heavenly - Dust to Dust
4. Best Heavy Metal Album - Dream Evil - United
5. Best Black Metal Album - Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness OR The Stone - Umro
6. Best Metalcore Album - Between the Buried and Me - Colors
7. Best Metal Album Overall - Wintersun - S/t
8. Best Non-Metal Album - Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Vol. I: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
9. Best Doom Metal Album - Umm. That's a tough one. I'll have to think about it.
10. Best Prog Metal Album - Between the Buried and Me - Colors
11. Best Grindcore Album - Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:25 pm

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Best Thrash Metal Album - Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine (and I just realized how poor of a decade this has been for thrash, in terms of quality.)

well, I may not know a lot about other genres from this decade. But I can assure that thrash was not poor for this decade. Again, look at my first post for a few albums that are way better than Shovel Headed Kill Machine.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:31 pm

DevotedWalnut wrote:

stevelovesmoonspell wrote:

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I'd like to know what this said.

it was my previous post, i deleted it when they added more genres.

Afro_D-Shak · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:33 pm

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Quote:

Best Thrash Metal Album - Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine (and I just realized how poor of a decade this has been for thrash, in terms of quality.)

well, I may not know a lot about other genres from this decade. But I can assure that thrash was not poor for this decade. Again, look at my first post for a few albums that are way better than Shovel Headed Kill Machine.

I know I've said this before, but I think I'm one of the only people ever that legitimately loves SHKM.

And Ironbound is acceptable here? I thought it was an '00 thru '09 list.

What I meant by the '00's being a poor decade for thrash albums was that not many (if any) thrash albums came out that really turned the genre on its head. Thrash is a genre that's all about being the fastest and most aggressive, not the most innovative. I guess that's what its appeal has really always been, but still, I think the genre has progressed as far as it ever will. So I made my decision in terms of which album was most aggressive, and SHKM won out.

P.S. I need to give that Sacrifice album another try. It really did nothing for me on first listen.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:39 pm

Afro_D-Shak wrote:

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Quote:

Best Thrash Metal Album - Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine (and I just realized how poor of a decade this has been for thrash, in terms of quality.)

well, I may not know a lot about other genres from this decade. But I can assure that thrash was not poor for this decade. Again, look at my first post for a few albums that are way better than Shovel Headed Kill Machine.

I know I've said this before, but I think I'm one of the only people ever that legitimately loves SHKM.

And Ironbound is acceptable here? I thought it was an '00 thru '09 list.

What I meant by the '00's being a poor decade for thrash albums was that not many (if any) thrash albums came out that really turned the genre on its head. Thrash is a genre that's all about being the fastest and most aggressive, not the most innovative. I guess that's what its appeal has really always been, but still, I think the genre has progressed as far as it ever will. So I made my decision in terms of which album was most aggressive, and SHKM won out.

P.S. I need to give that Sacrifice album another try. It really did nothing for me on first listen.

The Antichrist and M-16.

as for Ironbound, I forgot. Yes it came out in 2010, but it did leak in 09. Does that count?

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:40 pm

stevelovesmoonspell wrote:

DevotedWalnut wrote:

stevelovesmoonspell wrote:

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I'd like to know what this said.

it was my previous post, i deleted it when they added more genres.

you have a knack for posting right after me, so I thought it was some sort of insult.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:42 pm

Afro_D-Shak wrote:

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Quote:

Best Thrash Metal Album - Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine (and I just realized how poor of a decade this has been for thrash, in terms of quality.)

well, I may not know a lot about other genres from this decade. But I can assure that thrash was not poor for this decade. Again, look at my first post for a few albums that are way better than Shovel Headed Kill Machine.

I know I've said this before, but I think I'm one of the only people ever that legitimately loves SHKM.

And Ironbound is acceptable here? I thought it was an '00 thru '09 list.

What I meant by the '00's being a poor decade for thrash albums was that not many (if any) thrash albums came out that really turned the genre on its head. Thrash is a genre that's all about being the fastest and most aggressive, not the most innovative. I guess that's what its appeal has really always been, but still, I think the genre has progressed as far as it ever will. So I made my decision in terms of which album was most aggressive, and SHKM won out.

P.S. I need to give that Sacrifice album another try. It really did nothing for me on first listen.

Unless you dig really into the underground which is ill-advised, you probably won't find anything all that interesting. Other then Hypnosia and Magnetron, you wont find any true thrash worthwhile.

cry of the banshee · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:30 pm

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

Goat wrote:

Adveser wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

Adveser wrote:

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Slipknot - Iowa

...

...wait, what?

Give me a compelling difference between Testament's The Gathering and Slipknot's Iowa.

One's thrash, one isn't?

That, basically. I have no idea how it got in your head that Iowa is Thrash Metal, but wow, that's a stretch the size of the Grand Canyon.

Thomas · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:49 pm

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Overkill - Ironbound if it doesn't count Sacrifice - The Ones I condemn
2. Best Death Metal Album - Decapitated - Nihility
3. Best Power Metal Album - Kamelot - Epica
4. Best Heavy Metal Album - Iron Maiden - Brave New World
5. Best Black Metal Album - Enslaved - Vertebrae
6. Best Metalcore Album - Converge - Axe to Fall
7. Best Metal Album Overall - Dark Quarterer - Symbols
8. Best Non-Metal Album - Converge - Jane Doe
9. Best Doom Metal Album - Pagan Altar - Mythical and Magical
10. Best Prog Metal Album - Dark Quarterer - Symbols

Kathaarian · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:04 pm

1. Best Thrash Metal Album - Destroyer 666 - Defiance
2. Best Death Metal Album - Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
3. Best Power Metal Album - Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
4. Best Heavy Metal Album - Slough Feg - Ape Uprising!
5. Best Black Metal Album - Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice
6. Best Metalcore Album - Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
7. Best Metal Album Overall - Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice
8. Best Non-Metal Album The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
9. Best Doom Metal Album - Candlemass - Candlemass

Karmakosmonaut · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:38 pm

1.Best Thrash Metal Album: Overkill, can't decide which
2. Best Death Metal Album: Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
3. Best Power Metal Album: wrong decade
4. Best Heavy Metal Album: wrong decade
5. Best Black Metal Album: Aborym - Generator
6. Best Metalcore Album: n/a
7. Best Metal Album Overall: Aborym - Generator
8. Best Non metal Album overall: Opeth - Damnation
9. Best Doom Metal Album: Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemallion Express
10. Best Prog Metal Album: n/a
11. Best Grindcore Album: n/a

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

It's closer to thrash than any other category, and it it still about 90% the same as The Gathering or Enemy of God. I'll grant you there is not really any shredding, but when has that been the definition of thrash?

I don't think any of you have heard this album. It certainly has almost nothing in common with Staind, Korn, Creed, Godsmack or Disturbed.

If Kreator had put out that album you'd all be falling over it.

khelek@metalreviews.com · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:02 pm **Posts:** 214

Adveser wrote:

It's closer to thrash than any other category, and it it still about 90% the same as The Gathering or Enemy of God. I'll grant you there is not really any shredding, but when has that been the definition of thrash?

I don't think any of you have heard this album. It certainly has almost nothing in common with Staind, Korn, Creed, Godsmack or Disturbed.

If Kreator had put out that album you'd all be falling over it.

You don't listen to or enjoy much thrash do you?

I've heard Iowa plenty and I can say definitively that it is not thrash. The only thing you have right is that it doesn't sound like the farthest thing away from thrash.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:03 am

If Iowa = thrash then Adveser = serious lack of metal knowledge.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:04 am

Also, steves last post = fail.

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