Metal Reviews

No. 50: Behemoth, ‘At the Left Hand ov God’
No. 49: Napalm Death, ‘The Wolf I Feed’
No. 48: GWAR, ‘Bring Back the Bomb’
No. 47: Trivium, ‘Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr’
No. 46: Goatwhore, ‘Apocalyptic Havoc’
No. 45: Revocation, ‘Dismantle the Dictator’
No. 44: SepticFlesh, ‘The Vampire From Nazareth’
No. 43: Gorgoroth, ‘Incipit Satan’
No. 42: Daughters, ‘The Theatre Goer’
No. 41: Immortal, ‘One By One’
No. 40: Anthrax, ‘Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t’
No. 39: Testament, ‘More Than Meets the Eye’
No. 38: Shining, ‘Manniska O’Avskyvarda Manniska’
No. 37: Fleshgod Apocalypse, ‘Embodied Deception’
No. 36: Amon Amarth, ‘Twilight of the Thunder God’
No. 35: Baroness, ‘A Horse Called Golgotha’
No. 34: Bloodbath, ‘Eaten’
No. 33: Municipal Waste, ‘Born to Party’
No. 32: Obscura, ‘Anticosmic Overload’
No. 31: Sigh, ‘Inked in Blood’
No. 30: As I Lay Dying, ‘Forever’
No. 29: Shadows Fall, ‘Thoughts Without Words’
No. 28: Rammstein, ‘Feuer Frei!’
No. 27: Meshuggah, ‘Bleed’
No. 26: Necrophagist, ‘Stabwound’
No. 25: Machine Head, ‘Aesthetics of Hate’
No. 24: High on Fire, ‘Hung, Drawn, and Quartered’
No. 23: Suffocation, ‘Bind Torture Kill’
No. 22: Gojira, ‘The Art of Dying’
No. 21: Nachtmystium, ‘Ghosts of Grace’
No. 20: Lamb of God, ‘Redneck’
No. 19: The Dillinger Escape Plan, ‘When Good Dogs Do Bad Things’
No. 18: Poison the Well, ‘Apathy is a Cold Body’
No. 17: Isis, ‘The Beginning and the End’
No. 16: Dimmu Borgir, ‘Progenies of the Great Apocalypse’
No. 15: Heaven & Hell, ‘Bible Black’
No. 14: Pig Destroyer, ‘Piss Angel’
No. 13: Pantera, ‘Revolution Is My Name’
No. 12: Mastodon, ‘Blood and Thunder’
No. 11: Children of Bodom, ‘Everytime I Die’
No. 10: Slayer, ‘Disciple’
No. 9: Slipknot, ‘The Heretic Anthem’
No. 8: Killswitch Engage, ‘The End of Heartache’
No. 7: Converge, ‘Fault and Fracture’
No. 6: Cannibal Corpse, ‘Make Them Suffer’
No. 5: System of a Down, ‘Toxicity’
No. 4: Iron Maiden, ‘The Talisman’
No. 3: Between the Buried and Me, ‘Colors’
No. 2: Opeth, ‘Blackwater Park’
No. 1: Tool, ‘Lateralus’

My initial thoughts are right bands, but wrong songs. And the order of tracks is rather worthless. Some way of collectively rewriting and debating tracks would be super cool. Massive quoting and editing thread! There are some solid picks though.

No Wintersun, no Equilibrium, No Overkill.

'nuff said.

edit #1: and no Absu, no Vintersorg, no Tyr.
edit #2: no Nevermore, no Ayreon, no Devin Townsend

Where the hell is Slough Feg?

WHERE THE HELL IS SLOUGH FEG.

edit #3: and Candlemass, and Ensiferum.

MOONSORROW!

Edit #4: and Nile, and Kamelot.

Devin Townsend was going to be on there, but it got beat out by Toxicity. Make perfect sense!

And Slipknot, and Trivium...

I bet we can come up with 50 bands that are missing on that shitty list.

Cakewalk. And with the right songs, too.

Eastern European Black Metal doesn't exist (or DsO or WIITR), as it should be in these shitty lists. But Eastern Black Metal does exist!!! Look at Sigh! Hipster status confirmed for Sigh worshippers.

I appreciate Trapt's praise of the list, but #1 isn't a metal band, and #5 is just embarrassing.

This list is pure shite. Slipknot, System of a Down, Between the Buried and Me in top ten is ridiculous!

And Lateralus #1?????!! I like Tool, but

Honestly, not a bad list (with a few selections).

Where's Solstafir?

Phenemonal band.

Here are 50 bands (the order isn't relevant, twas for counting purposes only) not in the OP list, and which all have at least ONE phenomenal song starting January 1st, 2001:

1. Virgin Steele
2. Tyr
3. Devin Townsend
4. Enslaved
5. Moonsorrow
6. Slough Feg
7. Kamelot
8. Nile
9. Absu
10. Nevermore
11. Therion
12. Ayreon
13. Vintersorg
14. Benighted
15. Overkill
16. Equilibrium
17. Wintersun
18. Ensiferum
19. Candlemass
20. Deathspell Omega
21. Wuthering Heights
22. Vicious Rumors
23. Razorwyre
24. Savage Circus
25. Pharaoh
26. Metal Inquisitor
27. Masterplan
28. Lost Horizon
29. Kreator
30. Hibria
31. Grave Digger
32. The Crown
33. Blind Guardian
34. Accept
35. Taake
36. Drudkh
37. Kataklysm
38. Skyfire
39. Norther
40. Bolt Thrower
41. Dream Theater
42. Communic
43. Jesu
44. Sunn O)))
45. Pagan Altar
46. Pagan’s Mind
47. Anubis Gate
48. Negura Bunget
49. Amorphis
50. Rage

I rest my case.

edit: and there are many more, you can replace most Power Metal ones with what you like. Natural inclination here.

Pathetic. Lots of borderline stuff. Not yours Bruce.

These lists are always sort of fascinating at meshing/clashing our expectations with the reality of a more generalized publication.

Some more off the top of my head, not on the original list or bruce's.

Sodom
Immolation
Vektor
Mekong Delta
Destruction
Origin
RAM
Deicide
Grand Magus
Enforcer