20. Marilyn Manson – Holy wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
21. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
22. Lacuna Coil – Comalies
The third album from these Italians appears in the list. One of the reasons is because the voice of the beautiful Cristina Scabbia shines at its brightest.
23. Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
24. Mayhem – Ordo Ad Chao
25. Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
26. Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution
27. AC/DC – Black Ice
28. Deftones – White Pony
29. Velvet Revolver – Contraband
30. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
31. Mastodon – Leviathan
32. Opeth – Watershed
33. Testament – The Formation of Damnation
It took 9 years for this band to delight us with a new musical production. Perhaps it passed unnoticed for many people, but still reached a place in this list.
34. Slayer – Christ Illusion
35. In Flames – Come Clarity
36. Children of Bodom – Are You Dead Yet?
37. Disturbed – Down With the Sickness
38. Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
39. Down – II: A Bustle in your Hedgerow
40. A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms
41. Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
42. Megadeth – United Abominations
The band led by Dave Mustaine outlined in two positions, number 5 and the one shown immediately. Both discs are must-haves for all metal lovers.
43. DevilDriver – The Last Kind Words
44. Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
45. Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild
46. Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
47. Converge – Jane Doe
48. Anthrax – We’ve Come For You All
49. Cavalera Conspiracy – Inflikted
50. Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion
Proving that not only men can be capable of growling, the band of Angela Gossow managed to be placed in the top 50.
Throughout the list we notice bands of different musical genres: some of them are what we call "classical" (i.e., Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Testament and Anthrax), and others that have recently been working their way into music (such as Trivium, Bullet For My Valentine, DevilDriver and Cavalera Conspiracy).
Listing 50 albums is no easy task -and we even dare to say that some albums were missing-, but as we mentioned in the beginning of the article: the readers were those who picked the albums that formed part of the list.