Your Top Ten Post-2000 Metal Albums

Anesthetize

Exactly what it says on the tin. Feel free to include some honourable mentions if you wish.

01. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
02. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand (2007)
03. Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)
04. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005)
05. Enslaved - Below the Lights (2003)
06. Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)
07. Drudkh - Forgotten Legends (2003)
08. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)
09. Isis - Panopticon (2004)
10. Kylesa - Static Tensions (2009)

Honourable mentions:
Altar of Plagues - Mammal, Gojira - From Mars to Sirius, Baroness - Red Album, Ufomammut - Idolum

GLaDOS

Surprised there's been no replies to this. Think it's an interesting topic considering the somewhat popularly held opinion that there's no good modern metal

In no particular order:

Ahab - The Giant (2012)
Amon Amarth - With Oden by our Side (2006)
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera (2002)
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted (2009)
Dream Theater - Train of Thought (2003)
Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001)
Rammstein - Mutter (2001)
Tool - Lateralus (2001)
Truckfighters - Gravity X (2005)

Honourable Mentions to:
Baroness - Red Album (2007)
Grand Magus - Hammer of the North (2010)
Katatonia - Dead End Kings (2012)
Pelican - Australasia (2003)
Russian Circles - Memorial (2013)
Windhand - Soma (2013)

I didn't include the likes of Porcupine Tree or Pain of Salvation cause I'm not sure you can completely categorise them as metal.

Wrongway1985

Lots!! no particular order missing a few but basically put together albums from this era which hold great strength throughout :cool:.

Mastodon - Crack The Skye (2009)
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)
System Of A Down - Toxicity (2001)
Deftones - White Pony (2000)
Kreator - Violent Revolution (2001)
Trivium - Shogun (2008)
Megadeth - Endgame (2009)
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2008)
Nightwish - Once (2004)
Motorhead - Inferno (2004)

Mentions; Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution (2005),Steel Panther - Feel The Steel (2009)

DragonKhan

Trivium - Shogun
Megadeth - The System has failed
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Machine Head - The Blackening
Iron Maiden - Brave New World

cro mags

in no particular order ..

Airbourne - Running Wild (2007)
Forbidden - Omega Wave (2010)
Steel Panther - Feel the Steel (2009)
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs (2009)
Moonspell - Memorial (2006)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001)
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead (2007)
Rotting Christ - Kata ton Daimona Eaftou (2013)
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (2001)
A Pale Horse named Death - And hell will follow me (2011)

Useful.Idiot

mix of over and underground

Tool - Lateralus (2001)
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb (2009)
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora (2004)
Deftones - White Pony (2000)
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead (2007)
Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels (2008)
Mastodon - Crack The Skye (or Remission or Leviathan aggggh) (2008, 2002, 2004)
Aosoth - IV: Arrow in Heart (2013)
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars (2009)
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (2005)

Way too many honourables!

Nea

Opeth - Deliverance (2002)
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (2012)
Rammstein- Mutter (2001)
The Ocean - Pelagial (2013)
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame (2000)
Sigh - In Somniphobia (2012)
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (2003)
Hail Spirit Noir -Oi Magoi (2014)
Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death (2013)

Motley Crue

Union Underground - An Education In Rebellion (2000)
Drowning Pool - Sinner (2001)
Shadow's Fall - The Art Of Balance (2002)
Ghost - Opus Eponymous (2010)
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading (2011)
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2009)
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing (2002)
Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)
Metallica - Death Magnetic (2009)
Machine Head - The Blackening (2007)

Angron

In no particular order:

Ahab - Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation of the Black Widow (2009)
Decapitated - Nihility (2002)
Misery Index - Traitors (2008)
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity (2013)
Carcass - Surgical Steel (2013)
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper (2000)
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (2009)
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao (2007)
Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me (2003)

Loads of bands I can think of that could easily make this list on another day, like Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, and Sylosis. Also, ScienceNerd, it always gives me a warm feeling when I see more people like Ahab

wp_rathead

Mendeed - This War Will Last Forever (2005)
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen (2003)
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (2005)
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road (2006)
Versailles - Noble (2007)
Trivium - Shogun (2008)
Machine Head - The Blackening (2007)
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll (2003)
Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica (2005)

Nephilim Wolf

Amorphis - Circle
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Fields of The Nephilim - Mourning Sun
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Amon Amarth - Deciever of The Gods
Hypocrisy - Extreme Taste od Divinity
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

Putt it there

Suprised nobody picked Slayers "god hates us all" or "world painted blood" - 2 excellent albums from the kings of thrash

StaticAge11

Not quite 10 and not in a particular order

Machine Head - The Blackening
Machine Head - Bloodstone and Diamonds
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison (I really preferred Fever but felt this is overall a better album)
Trivium - Ascendency
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Slipknot - Vol 3: Subliminal verses

Numina

The only rule I have here is that a band can only be in the list once.

Deftones - Self Titled
Virus - The Black Flux
Akercocke - Choronzon
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
The Ocean - Pelagial
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Opeth - Blackwater Park

Honourables: Gojira - From Mars to Sirius, Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World, Darkspace - III I, Behemoth - The Satanist

cro mags

Down - Over the under.

shouldn't have forgotten that one.
class.