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Metal Hammer “polled a huge panel of writers, bands, industry experts, and readers” to compile the definite lists of the greatest albums of the 21st century.
The criteria for the albums were based on the merit of lasting impact, influence, and generally “kicking ass”.
The album needed to have time...
Slipknot - Iowa (2001)
Machine Head - The Blackening (2007)
Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal (2015)
System Of A Down - Toxicity (2001)
Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake (2004)
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen (2003)
Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache (2004)
Mastodon - Crack The Skye (2009)
Behemoth - The Satanist (2014)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000)
Trivium - Ascendancy (2005)
Deftones - White Pony (2000)
Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) (2000)
Meshuggah - Obzen (2008)
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius (2005)
At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command (2000)
Tool - Lateralus (2001)
Letlive - The Blackest Beautiful (2013)
Megadeth - Endgame (2009)
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls(2015)
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon (2003)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001)
Architects - Lost Forever//Lost Together (2014)
Celtic Frost - Monotheist (2006)
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison (2005)
Ghost - Meliora (2015)
Poison The Well - You Come Before You (2003)
Clutch - Blast Tyrant (2004)
Satyricon - Volcano (2002)
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored Water (2000)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
Gallows - Grey Britain (2009)
Within Temptation - The Silent Force (2004)
Baroness - Red Album (2007)
Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
Rammstein - Mutter (2001)
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft (2011)
Glassjaw - Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence (2000)
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation (2008)
Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me (2014)
Watain - Lawless Darkness (2010)
While She Sleeps - This Is The Six (2012)
Ihsahn - After (2010)
HIM - Dark Light (2005)
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know (2009)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (2004)
Carcass - Surgical Steel (2013)
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God (2008)
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness (2002)
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (2009)
Papa Roach - Infest (2000)
Parkway Drive - Ire (2015)
Isis - Oceanic (2002)
Kvelertak - Kvelertak (2010)
Sikth - Death Of A Dead Day (2006)
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (2005)
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives (2012)
Lacuna Coil - Comalies (2002)
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (2007)
In Flames - Come Clarity (2006)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual (2011)
The Darkness - Permission To Land (2003)
Cannibal Corpse - Kill (2006)
Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell, Volume 1 (2013)
Steel Panther - Feel The Steel (2009)
Slayer - God Hates Us All (2001)
Strapping Young Lad - Alien (2005)
Turisas - Battle Metal (2004)
Marmozets - The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets (2014)
Korn - Untouchables (2002)
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage (2006)
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (2002)
Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living (2012)
Enslaved - Isa (2004)
Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll (2003)
Anthrax - We've Come For You All (2003)
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade (2009)
Asking Alexandria - From Death To Destiny (2013)
Cult Of Luna - The Beyond (2003)
Hatebreed - Perserverance (2002)
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild (2007)
Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather (2003)
Atreyu - Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses (2002)
Disturbed - The Sickness (2000)
Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion (2003)
Beastmilk - Climax (2013)
Tesseract - Polaris (2015)
Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying (2007)
Akercocke - Choronzon (2003)
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God (2003)
BABYMETAL - Babymetal (2014)
Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason (2003)
Cradle Of Filth - Midian (2000)
Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (2015)
Of Mice & Men - The Flood (2011)
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned (2012)
Sabaton - The Art Of War (2008)
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Halestorm - Into The Wild Life (2015)
Metal Hammer released The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the 21st Century (October 2018) on Sat Oct 13 2018.