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150. dälek - Absence
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Eyes to Form Shadows


149. The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Wet Dream War Machine


148. Buried Inside - Chronoclast
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Time as Abjection


147. The Strokes - Is This It
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Alone Together


146. Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Waitress


145. Circa Survive - Juturna
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: We're All Thieves


144. The Chariot - Wars and Rumors of Wars
Year of release: 2009
Favourite track: Evolve


143. Ignite - Our Darkest Days
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Let it Burn


142. Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Prelude 3.0


141. City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: When Was the Last Time We Painted Over the Blood on the Walls?


140. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground


139. Melvins - A Senile Animal
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: The Talking Horse


138. These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Angela's Secret


137. Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: A Present for Those Who Are Present


136. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: The Stars Are Projectors


135. VAST - Nude
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Winter In My Heart


134. Modern Life Is War - Witness
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: John and Jimmy


133. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Red Eyes And Tears


132. Kylesa - Static Tensions
Year of release: 2009
Favourite track: Running Red


131. Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Talk Is Cheap


130. Doves - Lost Souls
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Break Me Gently


129. As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: This Is It, This Is It


128. dredg - El Cielo
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Same Ol' Road


127. Million Dead - A Song to Ruin
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Pornography for Cowards


126. Agalloch - The Mantle
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion


125. Orchid - Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: ...And The Cat Turned To Smoke


124. Callisto - True Nature Unfolds
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Blackhole


123. Knut - Terraformer
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: kyoto


122. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Memorial


121. The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: The Same Mistakes


120. Breach - Kollapse
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Breathing Dust


119. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: I, the Witchfinder


118. God Is an Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Forever Lost


117. The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Whacko Jacko Steals the Elephant Man's Bones


116. Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Back to the Motor League


115. Beecher - This Elegy, His Autopsy
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Psycho Galvanic Skin Response


114. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Rusty


113. Amplifier - Amplifier
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Airborne


112. Dir en grey - UROBOROS
Year of release: 2008
Favourite track: VINUSHKA


111. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: The Pioneers


110. Keelhaul - II
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: new void


109. Thursday - Common Existance
Year of release: 2009
Favourite track: You Were The Cancer


108. Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Farewell to Words


107. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Eradicate the Doubt


106. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: A Simple Process of Elimination


105. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: Rebel Without Applause


104. ZAO - Parade of Chaos
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: The Buzzing


103. Old Man Gloom - Christmas
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: The Volcano


102. Sigur Rós - Takk...
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Glósóli


101. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Wolf Am I! (and Shadow)


100. The Red Chord - Clients
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Fixation on Plastics


99. Bleeding Through - Declaration
Year of release: 2008
Favourite track: Germany


98. Jesu - Jesu
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Friends Are Evil


97. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Storm


96. Johnny Truant - In the Library of Horrific Events
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: The Bloodening


95. earthtone9 - arc'tan'gent
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Tat Twan Asi


94. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Jigsaw


93. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Music Is Math


92. Curl Up and Die - Unfortunately We're Not Robots
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Total Pandemonium


91. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: One Line


90. Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Buildings Began to Stretch Wide Across the Sky, and the Air Filled with A Reddish…


89. SikTh - The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out Wait for Something Wild
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Pussyfoot


88. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Just Because You Sleep Next to Me Doesn't Mean You're Safe


87. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: How Near, How Far


86. This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Quiet


85. Burnt by the Sun - Soundtrack To The Personal Revolution
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Dracula With Glasses


84. Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: 101 North


83. Underoath - Cries of the Past
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Walking Away


82. As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: Wrath Upon Ourselves


81. Verse - From Anger And Rage
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Start A Fire


80. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Auto Rock


79. Will Haven - Carpe Diem
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Saga


78. Architects - Nightmares
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: In The Desert


77. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: The Gentleman


76. Deftones - Deftones
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: When Girls Telephone Boys


75. The Ocean - Precambrian
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: Hadean


74. Interpol - Antics
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Take You on a Cruise


73. Pg.99 - document#5
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Humans With Forked Tongues


72. Nine Inch Nails - Still
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Leaving Hope


71. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: March to the Sea


70. Baroness - Red Album
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: Rays On Pinion


69. Devil Sold His Soul - A Fragile Hope
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: As the Storm Unfolds


68. Oceansize - Effloresce
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Massive Bereavement


67. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Year of release: 2009
Favourite track: A Looking In View


66. Nasum - Shift
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Wrath


65. Rammstein - Mutter
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Zwitter


64. The Bronx - II
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Mouth Money


63. Meshuggah - Catch 33
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Shed


62. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: The Crowing


61. Alexisonfire - Watch Out
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Control


60. Minus - Halldor Laxness
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Boys of Winter


59. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Ghost of Perdition


58. Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Autodidact


57. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Finland


56. Radiohead - Amnesiac
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: I Might Be Wrong


55. Gospel - The Moon is a Dead Place
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Yr Electric Surge Is Sweet


54. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Orestes


53. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Stones From the Sky


52. Tool - 10,000 Days
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Right in Two


51. Norma Jean - O' God, the Aftermath
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Disconnecktie


50. Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Numbered Days


49. Fugazi - The Argument
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Cashout


48. Cancer Bats - Birthing The Giant
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Pneumonia Hawk


47. mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Torches Together


46. Portishead - Third
Year of release: 2008
Favourite track: We Carry On


45. The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: USA Nails


44. AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: The Great Disappointment


43. Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
Year of release: 2008
Favourite track: I Won't Come Back Alive


42. The Ghost of a Thousand - This is where the Fight Begins
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: New Toy


41. Poison the Well - You Come Before You
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: loved ones


40. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Mu Empire


39. The Bled - Pass The Flask
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Porcelain Hearts And Hammers For Teeth


38. Cursed - Two
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: R.I.P.


37. Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Stare At The Sun


36. Trap Them - Seizures In Barren Praise
Year of release: 2008
Favourite track: Day Twenty: Flesh And Below


35. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: Mouth of Ghosts


34. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Citizen Erased


33. Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Trojan Whore


32. Eden Maine - To You the First Star
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Murder Was Her Name


31. System of a Down - Toxicity
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Forest


30. Every Time I Die - Hot Damn
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Floater


29. Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: The Waiting Makes Me Curious


28. Cave In - Jupiter
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Big Riff


27. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Better Living Through Chemistry


26. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Eriatarka


25. Mastodon - Remission
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Where Strides the Behemoth


24. Isis - Oceanic
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Carry


23. Opeth - Blackwater Park
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: The Drapery Falls


22. Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends
Year of release:2002
Favourite track: Japam


21. Converge - You Fail Me
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Last Light


20. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Killing All the Flies


19. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Year of release: 2006
Favourite track: Luca


18. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: The Noose


17. Cult of Luna - Salvation
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Adrift


16. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Burn


15. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: Only


14. Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Siberian Kiss


13. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: Obstacle 1


12. Thrice - Vheissu
Year of release: 2005
Favourite track: The Earth Will Shake


11. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Year of release: 2002
Favourite track: A Song for the Deaf


10. Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
Year of release: 2003
Favourite track: Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste


9. Radiohead - Kid A
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Everything In Its Right Place


8. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Year of release: 2007
Favourite track: White Walls


7. Mastodon - Leviathan
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Iron Tusk


6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: Sunshine the Werewolf


5. Isis - Panopticon
Year of release: 2004
Favourite track: In Fiction


4. At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Cosmonaut


3. Deftones - White Pony
Year of release: 2000
Favourite track: Passenger


2. Tool - Lateralus
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: The Grudge


1. Converge - Jane Doe
Year of release: 2001
Favourite track: Heaven in Her Arms


Fucking hell this has taken me absolutely ages! It better not vanish when I post it, or I shall cry. But aye, that's my top 150 musical releases of what was a fantastic decade for music in my opinion. I capped the list at 2 albums per band, to make it more varied, as there are probably at least 10 bands I could easily have put everything they made in the decade in from. Apart from the top 40 or 50 a lot of the albums are pretty interchangeable and could have been either 58 or 137 etc.

There might be a few albums on the list that I listened to death in the past and don't listen to so much these days, but the majority of them I do, and at some point over the last 10 years they have all enriched my life. I hope there are just as many amazing albums to come this decade.