No particular order.

1.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

2.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

3.Summoning - Dol Guldur

4.Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

5.Skyclad - Irrational Anthems

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Albums I think are highly overrated. Most of these were probably highly innovative for the time, but I think have been surpassed by albums with better songwriting. No particular order.

1.Rainbow - Rising

2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

3.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Yet another one of my lists for no reason other than I feel like it…

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Amorphis - Am Universum

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1.Rammstein - Rosenrot

2.Rammstein - Reise, Reise

3.Rammstein - Mutter

4.Rammstein - Sehnsucht

5.Rammstein - Rammstein

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Windir - 1184

4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

5.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

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This is the year I basically started listening to music so I was torn between stuff I am somewhat loyal to because it was my gateway and the kind of stuff I listen to now from that year. I genuinely think…

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.System Of A Down - Toxicity

3.Sodom - M-16

4.Destruction - The Antichrist

5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

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Must Listen: The First 9…

1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Ark - Burn The Sun

4.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth

5.Angra - Rebirth

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Constantly evolving list of my favorite metal albums from the 2000s…

1.Trivium - Shogun

2.Opeth - Watershed

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Deftones - White Pony

5.Trivium - Ascendancy

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1.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

2.Rammstein - Mutter

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.The Gathering - Mandylion

5.Alice In Chains - Dirt

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1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.Evoken - Quietus

4.Finntroll - Jaktens Tid

5.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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Just a quick list for 2001, no order…

1.Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

2.Radiohead - Amnesiac

3.Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away [EP]

4.The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

5.Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass

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1.Sybreed - Antares

2.Atoma - Skylight

3.Thrice - Vheissu

4.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

5.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

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