Vincent LaHaye's Top 25 Albums of the Decade

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"I really dig Robert's idea of posting our top albums from the 2000's. Since there's ten years of awesomeness to choose from, here's my 25 favorite albums of the past 10 years (arranged alphabetically in order of release):"

  1. Borknagar: Quintessence (2000 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Rivalry of Phantoms, The Ruins of Future, Colossus
  2. Vintersorg: Cosmic Genesis (2000 - Sweden)
    Key tracks - Astral and Arcane, Algol, Cosmic Genesis
  3. Diabolical Masquerade: Death's Design (2001 - Sweden)
    Key tracks - N/A (20 movements broken into 61 short tracks)
  4. Emperor: Prometheus (2001 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Empty, The Tongue of Fire, In the Wordless Chamber
  5. Ensiferum: Ensiferum (2001 - Finland)
    Key tracks - Token of Time, Treacherous Gods, Battle Song
  6. Green Carnation: Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001 - Norway)
    Key tracks - N/A (one 60-minute track)
  7. Opeth: Blackwater Park (2001 - Sweden)
    Key tracks - Bleak, The Drapery Falls, Blackwater Park
  8. Immortal: Sons of Northern Darkness (2002 - Norway)
    Key tracks - One by One, Sons of Northern Darkness, Denonium
  9. Edge of Sanity: Crimson II (2003 - Sweden)
    Key tracks - N/A (9 movements broken into 44 short tracks)
  10. Old Man's Child: In Defiance of Existence (2003 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Sacrifice of Vengeance, The Soul Receiver, Life Deprived
  11. Solefald: In Harmonia Universali (2003 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Nutrisco Et Extinguo, E. Munch Commemoration, Dionysify This Night of Spring
  12. Windir: Likferd (2003 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Martyrium, Fagning, Aetti Morkna
  13. Enslaved: Isa (2004 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Lunar Force, Bounded by Allegiance, Neogenesis
  14. Wintersun: Wintersun (2004 - Finland)
    Key tracks - Winter Madness, Sleeping Stars, Beautiful Death
  15. Dark Tranquillity: Character (2005 - Sweden)
    Key tracks - The New Build, Lost to Apathy, My Negation
  16. Hidden in the Fog: Damokles (2005 - Germany)
    Key tracks - The Ignoramus' Elegy, Miasmic Foreboding, For the Sightless to Behold
  17. Ikuinen Kaamos: The Forlorn (2005 - Finland)
    Key tracks - Grace, Ascent, Fall
  18. Negura Bunget: Om (2006 - Romania)
    Key tracks - Cunoastera Tactua, De Piatra, Hora Soarelui
  19. Limbonic Art: Legacy of Evil (2007 - Norway)
    Key tracks - A Cosmic Funeral of Memories, Lycanthropic Tales, Seven Doors of Death
  20. Moonsorrow: Viides Luku - Havitetty (2007 - Finland)
    Key tracks - Jddstd Syntynyt, Tuleen Ajettu Maa (only two tracks)
  21. Sigh: Hangman's Hymn (2007 - Japan)
    Key tracks - Introitus, Me Devil, Dies Irae
  22. Ihsahn: angL (2008 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Misanthrope, Unbeliever, Monolith
  23. Mirrorthrone: Gangrene (2008 - Switzerland)
    Key tracks - Dismay, No One By My Side, The Fecal Rebellion
  24. Amorphis: Skyforger (2009 - Finland)
    Key tracks - From the Heaven of My Heart, Majestic Beast, From Earth I Rose
  25. Pantheon I: Worlds I Create (2009 - Norway)
    Key tracks - Myself Above All, Ascending, Bannlyst