Best Rock/Metal album from 2001/2002...

cournioni

What do you think is the best rock metal album from 2001/02?

I'd go with God Hates Us All by Slayer, although I'm growing to love the new Down album...

lordsippa

Much more ol' style Rock N' Roll (in the Guns N' Roses, AC/DC vein) but....

Beautiful Creatures "Beautiful Creatures"
or...
nih... can't think... will edit when i remember later....

Karl Hungus

Naw... The new Slayer is terrible.

My Dying Bride - The Dreadfull Hours.
Now there's a fantastic album.

Shinji

System of a Down's "Toxicity", for my money. First metal album in a long time that I've listened to and gone "bloody hell, this is new, cool and interesting" as opposed to "oh, it's the same as everything else only noisier and with more bleating".

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Blind Guardian - a night at the opera .

tis great

Ruaidhri

Lateralus by TOOL...godamn are you all stupid!
that and Martyr's Warp Zone

Mr .Bungle

Down 2 without a doubt, best album for a good while now.
Lateralus a close second tho.

Shinj, System of a Down! Ye little teenyboppin bitch

Shorty

Tool - Lateralus and Opeth - Blackwater Park

Tazz T

...but the new Manowar album isn't out yet.

immort4l

Hehe manowar rule.
Id go with either...

1. Impaled Nazarene -'absence of peace does not mean war'
2. Impaled-'The dead shall dead remain' (if that was 2001....)
3. A tribute to Mayhem - 'originators of the northern darkness'
4. Marduk - 'infernal Eternal'(if that was 2001 )

Shiminay

Either Toxicity or Down 2 - maybe the new Korn album *s*******

Ph3n0m

Have to agree with Pornapster, it has to be Slayer by far.

(i dare anyone to defy me, because if you do, I am sure I will have some woefully pathetic comeback ready for you....hehehehehehe)

OLDYELLAR

definetely without a doubt system of a down - toxicity !

four_star

toxicity definately

Acidflash

Originally posted by OLDYELLAR
definetely without a doubt system of a down - toxicity !

I couldn't agree more

Mr .Bungle

Ok,
1. Toxicity doesn't deserved to be mentioned in the same sentence as Down2

2. Toxicity/Linkin Park/Nickelback etc. is exactly whats wrong with modern rock/metal. In fact these bands would probably fall into the pop catogary.

Littletinyman

Has to be 'Borschen Finken COCO POP MANIA Funshnake - Special Edition' from little-known Swedish outfit Wheelbarrow Exhiliration Binoculars. Post-modernistic scandanavian kitchen utensil metal at it's very best.

Karl Hungus

I should REALLY clamp down on LTM most horrifically.
But... He's just too funny.

Oeneus

Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio 3

Winning Hand

Obviously I have to say lateralus (note to self, discover new bands)

Other good albums include Toxicity, NIN live (forget the name, think its the fragile) & Mutter, wasnt that impressed with God Hates Us All I must say

Karl Hungus

The new NiN was called All That Could Have Been.
Good album too, currently trying to get it on DVD aswell.

Cheez

Lateralus yes as i hav no opinion on the new slayer or
opeth which i trust are v.good also.Toxicity isnt as consistant
as the first album but that song is class as are a few more(namely chop suey) but the rest get boring quite quickly (unless ur drunk)

Shinji

Toxicity/Linkin Park/Nickelback etc. is exactly whats wrong with modern rock/metal.

Opinions like those without anything to back them up, and the grouping of entirely different bands together by people just in order to prove an ultimately invalid point... That's exactly what's wrong with arrogant metal "fans" with their heads stuck up their own arses. If you were intelligent enough to stand back a bit from what you're saying and look, you'd see that you're no better than the modern arty types faffing away self-importantly in the Tate and passing judgement on the tastes of others without anything to base it on. The only difference is that you probably wear a hoodie more often, and don't wash as frequently.

b4k4^2

Ah gotta be Tool anyday. Lateralus is just classic, brilliant lyrics and Maynards haunting voice.

cournioni

Originally posted by Shinji
Opinions like those without anything to back them up, and the grouping of entirely different bands together by people just in order to prove an ultimately invalid point... That's exactly what's wrong with arrogant metal "fans" with their heads stuck up their own arses. If you were intelligent enough to stand back a bit from what you're saying and look, you'd see that you're no better than the modern arty types faffing away self-importantly in the Tate and passing judgement on the tastes of others without anything to base it on. The only difference is that you probably wear a hoodie more often, and don't wash as frequently.

You are contradicting yourself, judging by what you said in the "What type of Rock/Metal music do you like?" thread. You aren't backing your points up.

In my opinion the bands that Mr. Bungle mentioned there are missing too many aspects of metal music to actually be labelled metal (eg. good drumming, loud agressive vocals and most importantly guitar solos).

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Shinji
Opinions like those without anything to back them up, and the grouping of entirely different bands together by people just in order to prove an ultimately invalid point...

Opinions like those are perfectly valid.

Bands like Linkin Park, who ARE actualy manufactured in the exact same way as popstars are worth slating. Fred Durst backed bands like Puddle Of Mudd are just the other end of the "Manufactured" spectrum. It's the same a Louis Walsh. And in the same way that your average pop group would rehash and old cover, the fred durst type bands would rehash the sound of an older band.
Nickleback, and Creed are simply watering down Pearl Jam for a commercial audiance.
Can you honestly say that these bands are doing anything new?

System of a Down are along the same lines of RATM.
But they'd be more of an exception, as they do have somewhat a sound of their own.
They're an alright band, but hardly breaking such boundaries as people are making them out as doing.

Tazz T

now dustaz is starting. Fight of the mods... go get 'im Angelwhore.

FIRE

But now I am here I think that "Beyond Good & Evil" The Cult.

If anyone's heard it.

If not go & buy it it's a great heavy album, another gem from The Cult.

SYL

Hmmmmm, good albums......?
Slipknots Iowa album was well worth waiting for, I think.
Devin Townsends 'Terria' and 'Physicist' albums were fantastic too, that guy has just got a style all of his own.
Anathema's 'A fine day to exit' is great too - like a metallers Radiohead, without all of their shyte.
Best album of this year so far is Mushroomheads 'XX' album, I'm really liking that at the mo.

Apart from that, I don't think that there are too many more standout albums. Just for the record, I am a big Slayer fan (as are most in here), but I thought that 'God hates us all' was their worst album to date, not nearly as good as 'Diabolus in Musica' even.

As far as the mainstream stuff goes, I get a kick out of that X-ecutioners song 'Its goin' down' - there is something cool about it, can't quite put my finger on it though. Happy that Nickelback are getting into the Top 20, as are Creed (I think).

I am more happy that, at last, Metal and Rock is finally sticking its head out of the morass of Pop crap that is ALL you hear on the radio at the moment. We need to destroy those boybands as soon as poss. (we can leave the girl one's though, because although they can't sing for skins, they are nice eye-candy all the same).

Make Much Metal

Ruaidhri

Slipknots Iowa album was well worth waiting for, I think

*shudder* sorry but i think(you know my opinion) that slipknot are more of the produced crap..their stuff is WAY to slick and it's overproduced..the likes of Cryptopsy or Nile would blow them out of the water any day.

Karl Hungus

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