Metal Hammer's Top 50 Albums of the Decade
One of the most important magazines in the UK, Metal Hammer, made a list of the "Top 50 Albums of the Decade". The readers of the magazine were an important part because their votes decided the included albums.
1. Machine Head - The Blackening
The album of the American band was the indisputable winner. Why? The answer is simple: a good structure, and excellent musical and lyrical content. In other words, the 'Master of Puppets' of the modern age.
Commented Machine Head vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn: "This is just unbelievable. It's mind-blowing for us, because there have been some amazing albums over the last ten years. To think that ours is number one to people is kind of hard to get your head around".
The full list is comprised of these albums:
2. System of a Down – Toxicity
3. Slipknot – Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
4. Lamb of God – New American Gospel
5. Megadeth – Endgame
6. Metallica - Death Magnetic
This recording marked the return of one of the pioneers of thrash metal, proving once more that they remain among the favorites of that musical genre.
7. Rammstein – Mutter
8. Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil
9. HIM – Dark Light
10. Tool – Lateralus
11. Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
12. Motörhead – Motorizer
13. Trivium – Ascendancy
14. Nightwish – Once
15. Opeth – Blackwater Park
This Swedish band is listed in both 15th and 32nd places. Certainly both albums can be called "masterpieces".
16. Korn – Untouchables
17. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
18. Pantera – Reinventing the Steel
19. Bullet For My Valentine – The Poison