21st century metal man

[PeterG]

Well, as it's 2013, let's have your 13 fav metal albums per decade of the 21st century.
13 for the first decade 2000-2009. And another 13 for the second decade thus far 2010-2013.
Let your conscience alone decide what is and isn't metal. If it isn't, others will soon let you know

There are only TWO conditions
1. Only ONE (studio) album per band - no bootlegs, live albums, compilations.
2. The album must already have been on public release - so no unreleased albums.

2000-2009 Alph. order only, as I love them all equally:
Atrox - Orgasm - 2003 (Norway)
Avantasia - The Metal Opera - 2001 (Germany)
Deathstars - Termination Bliss - 2006 (Sweden)
Doomsword - Resound The Horn - 2002 (Italy)
Edguy - Hellfire Club - 2004 (Germany)
Evanesence - Fallen - 2003 (USA)
Hammerfall - Threshold - 2006 (Sweden)
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death - 2003 (UK)
Mandragora Scream - A Whisper of Dew - 2003 (Italy)
Mandrake - The Balance of Blue - 2004 (Germany)
Sahg - II - 2008 (Norway)
Tiamat - Judas Christ - 2002 (Sweden)
Within Temptation - Mother Earth - 2001 (Netherlands)


2010-2013
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough - 2010 (Germany)
Avatarium - s/t debut - 2013 (Sweden)
Black Label Society - Order of the Black - 2010 (?)
Black Sabbath - 13 - 2013 (UK)
Candlemass - Psalms for the Dead - 2012 (Sweden)
Coronatus - Recreatio Carminis - 2013 (Germany)
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution - 2010 (USA)
Generation Kill - We're All Gonna Die - 2013 (USA)
Hybris - Heavy Machinery - 2013 (UK)
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline - 2012 (Italy)
My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures - 2012 (UK, France)
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol - 2012 (UK)
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control - 2013 (UK)

[Wounded Land]

I'll play:

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood the rules a little bit...but now that I look at it again, I want to make a few other changes:

2000-2009
Agalloch The Mantle
Angra Temple of Shadows
Ayreon The Human Equation
Beyond Twilight For the Love of Art and the Making
Cynic Traced in Air
Heaven & Hell The Devil You Know
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Opeth Blackwater Park
Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Tool Lateralus
Devin Townsend Terria
Vanden Plas Christ 0

2010-2013
Alcest Ecailles de Lune
Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Ihsahn After
Leprous Bilateral
Moonsorrow Varjoina...
Seventh Wonder The Great Escape
Symphony X Iconoclast
Threshold March of Progress
Triptykon Eparistera Daimones
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire

NP: Keith Jarrett The Out-of-Towners

[PeterG]

Good calls on Angra, Ayreon,Tool and Blind Guardian

[JKL2000]

Doesn't 2000 belong to the 20th century?

I kid, I kid - I, too, am impressed to see Blind Guardian on here - also Edguy!

[Rufus]

Headspace's debut would have to be in there!

[PeterG]

Want to take this off at a tangent now and focus on 21st century female fronted metal. Here are a few of my favs:


Huntress - Zenith - from 2013 album.


Arch Enemy - Yesterday is Dead & Gone - from 2011 album


Eluveitie - A Rose for Epona - from 2012 album, very Celtic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTT6picaCoQ
Lacuna Coil - Trip The Darkness - from 2012 album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTT6picaCoQ
Cadaveria - Flowers in Fire - from 2012 album


And here's a 25-starter pack if you want more hard rock singing women but don't know many band names. There's plenty of them out there, you just have to look around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjA5sfp5G74