Yet again I've decided to waste my time- and maybe even yours- with another list of my favorite albums. This time, I've compiled a list of my 30 favorite albums from each year of the 2000s. Recommendations are greatly appreciated.
2009 so far
1.
Isis- Wavering Radiant
2.
Fen- The Malediction Fields
3.
Wolves in the Throne Room- Black Cascade
4.
maudlin of the Well- Part the Second
5.
The Field- Yesterday and Today
6.
Dereleech- Servant of Entropy
7.
Blut aus Nord- Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
8.
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
9.
Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
10.
Steve Roach- Dynamic Stillness
11.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.- Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir
12.
Telefon Tel Aviv- Immolate Yourself
13.
Drudkh- Microcosmos
14.
Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country
15.
Funebrarum- The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
16.
Disappearer- The Clearing
17.
Squarepusher- Numbers Lucent EP
18.
The Prophecy- Into the Light
19.
Mono- Hymn to the Immortal Wind
20.
Pelican- Ephemeral EP
21.
Boxcutter- Arecibo Message
22.
Wolves in the Throne Room- Malevolent Grain EP
23.
Phillip Wilkerson- Constant 23
24.
Mountains- Choral
25.
Great Lake Swimmers- Lost Channels
26.
Cobalt- Gin
27.
Amorphis- Skyforger
28.
Absu- Absu
29.
Devin Townsend- Ki
30.
Fleshgod Apocalypse- Oracles
2008
1.
Jóhann Jóhannsson- Fordlândia
2.
Sun Kil Moon- April
3.
ColdWorld- Melancholie²
4.
Dereleech- Downstream
5.
Deepspace- The Glittering Domain
6.
Agalloch- The White EP
7.
Esoteric- The Maniacal Vale
8.
Have a Nice Life- Deathconsciousness
9.
Nadja- The Bungled & the Botched
10.
M83- Saturdays = Youth
11.
Darkspace- Dark Space III
12.
Deerhunter- Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
13.
Genghis Tron- Board Up the House
14.
Ihsahn- angL
15.
Virgin Black- Requiem - Fortissimo
16.
This Will Destroy You- This Will Destroy You
17.
All India Radio- These Winter Dreams
18.
Deathspell Omega- Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon
19.
Steve Roach- Landmass
20.
Aeveron- Existential Dead End
21.
Portishead- Third
22.
Moonsorrow- Tulimyrsky EP
23.
Flying Lotus- Los Angeles
24.
I Shalt Become- Requiem
25.
Lifelover- Konkurs
26.
Atmosphere- When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
27.
Leviathan- Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
28.
Manual- Confluence
29.
Ólafur Arnalds- Variations of Static EP
30.
Enslaved- Vertebrae
2007
1.
Wolves in the Throne Room- Two Hunters
2.
Eluvium- Copia
3.
Walknut- Graveforests and Their Shadows
4.
Primordial- To The Nameless Dead
5.
Lunar Aurora- Andacht
6.
Blonde Redhead- 23
7.
dälek- Abandoned Language
8.
Deepspace- The Barometric Sea
9.
The Marcia Blaine School for Girls- Halfway Into the Woods
10.
Nadja- Thaumogenesis
11.
Stars of the Lid- And Their Refinement of the Decline
12.
Burial- Untrue
13.
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd- Before the Day Breaks
14.
Drudkh- Estrangement
15.
Alcest- Souvenirs d'un autre monde
16.
Amon Tobin- Foley Room
17.
Radiohead- In Rainbows
18.
Moonsorrow- V: Hävitetty
19.
Boxcutter- Glyphic
20.
Krohm- The Haunting Presence
21.
Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
22.
Electric Wizard- Witchcult Today
23.
El-P- I'll Sleep When You're Dead
24.
Rosetta- Wake/Lift
25.
Legiac- Means Feaner
26.
Nine Inch Nails- Year Zero
27.
Dungen- Tio Bitar
28.
The Angelic Process- Weighing Souls With Sand
29.
Darkestrah- Epos
30.
Christ.- Blue Shift Emissions
2006
1.
Warning- Watching From a Distance
2.
Wolves in the Throne Room- Diadem of 12 Stars
3.
Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain
4.
Drudkh- Blood In Our Wells
5.
Jesu- Silver EP
6.
AFX- Chosen Lords
7.
Tool- 10,000 Days
8.
Mono- You Are There
9.
Jóhann Jóhannsson- IBM 1401, A User's Manual
10.
Nachtmystium- Instinct: Decay
11.
God Is an Astronaut- A Moment of Stillness
12.
Amesoeurs- Ruines humaines EP
13.
Yndi Halda- Enjoy Eternal Bliss
14.
Ahab- The Call of the Wretched Sea
15.
Mahogany- Connectivity!
16.
Insomnium- Above the Weeping World
17.
Cult of Luna- Somewhere Along the Highway
18.
Steve Roach- Storm Surge: Live at NEARfest
19.
Geïst- Kainsmal
20.
Robin Guthrie- Everlasting
21.
Tenhi- Maaäet
22.
The Knife- Silent Shout
23.
Katharsis- VVorldVVithoutEnd
24.
The Roots- Game Theory
25.
Amon Amarth- With Oden on Our Side
26.
Above & Beyond- Tri-State
27.
Enslaved- Ruun
28.
The Black Angels- Passover
29.
Deftones- Saturday Night Wrist
30.
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
2005
1.
Steve Roach- New Life Dreaming
2.
Boards of Canada- The Campfire Headphase
3.
Jesu- Jesu
4.
Boris- Pink
5.
Oöphoi- Hymns to a Silent Sky
6.
Rosetta- The Galilean Satellites
7.
!T.O.O.H.!- Řád a Trest
8.
Earth- Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method
9.
Darkspace- Dark Space II
10.
Venetian Snares- Rossz csillag alatt született
11.
Lurker of Chalice- Lurker of Chalice
12.
Sigur Rós- Takk...
13.
Robert Rich- Echo of Small Things
14.
Deathspell Omega- Kénôse EP
15.
Meshuggah- Catch 33
16.
Akercocke- Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
17.
Kraftwerk- Minimum-Maximum
18.
Gojira- From Mars to Sirius
19.
Ulver- Blood Inside
20.
Draconian- Arcane Rain Fell
21.
Candlemass- Candlemass
22.
CunninLynguist- A Piece of Strange
23.
Biosphere- Dropsonde
24.
dälek- Absence
25.
William Basinski- Melancholia
26.
Kriegsmaschine- Altered States of Divinity
27.
Autechre- Untitled
28.
Nadja- Truth Becomes Death
29.
65daysofstatic- One Time for All Time
30.
Opeth- Ghost Reveries
2004
1.
Drudkh- Autumn Aurora
2.
Squarepusher- Ultravisitor
3.
Enslaved- Isa
4.
Deathspell Omega- Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
5.
Wintersun- Wintersun
6.
Lunar Aurora- Elixir of Sorrow
7.
Isis- Panopticon
8.
Augury- Concealed
9.
Meshuggah- I EP
10.
Deinonychus- Insomnia
11.
Proem- Socially Inept
12.
Helios- Unomia
13.
Sear Bliss- Glory and Perdition
14.
Madvillain- Madvilliany
15.
Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
16.
Leviathan- Tentacles of Whorror
17.
Jonn Serrie- The Stargazer's Journey
18.
Orphaned Land- Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven
19.
Cult of Luna- Salvation
20.
Robert Rich- Calling Down the Sky
21.
The Flashbulb- Red Extensions of Me
22.
Loscil- First Narrows
23.
Vàli- Forlatt
24.
Jesu- Heart Ache EP
25.
Velvet Cacoon- Genevieve
26.
The Dead Texan- The Dead Texan
27.
Rotting Christ- Sanctus Diavolos
28.
Aura Noir- The Merciless
29.
Arcade Fire- Funeral
30.
Fennesz- Venice
2003
1.
Steve Roach- Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
2.
Drudkh- Forgotten Legends
3.
Enslaved- Below the Lights
4.
Boris- Feedbacker
5.
Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway
6.
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
7.
Gridlock- Formless
8.
Autechre- Draft 7.30
9.
Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher
10.
Opeth- Damnation
11.
Blut aus Nord- The Work Which Transforms God
12.
Hala Strana- Fielding
13.
Forgotten Tomb- Springtime Depression
14.
Ulver- A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP
15.
The Gathering- Souvenirs
16.
Kid606- Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
17.
Ulrich Schnauss- A Strangely Isolated Place
18.
Steve Roach- Texture Maps: The Lost Pieces Vol. 3
19.
Alias- Muted
20.
Falkenbach- Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
21.
System 7- Live Transmissions
22.
M83- Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
23.
William Basinski- The Disintegration Loops IV
24.
Pan•American- The River Made No Sound
25.
Virus- Carheart
26.
The Angelic Process- Coma Waering
27.
Madlib- Shades of Blue
28.
Devin Townsend- Accelerated Evolution
29.
Edge of Sanity- Crimson II
30.
Solefald- In Harmonia Universali
2002
1.
Agalloch- The Mantle
2.
Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
3.
Isis- Oceanic
4.
Sigur Rós- ( )
5.
Opeth- Deliverance
6.
Arcturus- The Sham Mirrors
7.
Nine Inch Nails- And All That Could Have Been/Still EP
8.
Shining- III - Angst - Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie
9.
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10.
múm- Finally We Are No One
11.
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
12.
El-P- Fantastic Damage
13.
Nile- In Their Darkened Shrines
14.
Empyrium- Weiland
15.
In Gowan Ring- Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home
16.
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
17.
Biosphere- Shenzhou
18.
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead- Source Tags & Codes
19.
Six Organs of Admittance- Dark Noontide
20.
Judas Iscariot- To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
21.
Murcof- Martes
22.
Immortal- Sons of Northern Darkness
23.
Dark Tranquillity- Damage Done
24.
Steve Roach- Streams & Currents
25.
Diary of Dreams- Freak Perfume
26.
!T.O.O.H.!- Pod vládou biče
27.
Beck- Sea Change
28.
dredg- El Cielo
29.
Lustmord- Zeotrope
30.
Jóhann Jóhannsson- Englabörn
2001
1.
maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map (Also: Bath)
2.
Aphex Twin- Drukqs
3.
Tool- Lateralus
4.
Opeth- Blackwater Park
5.
Björk- Vespertine
6.
Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
7.
Autechre- Confield
8.
Ulrich Schnauss- Far Away Trains Passing By
9.
Devin Townsend- Terria
10.
Emperor- Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
11.
Aesop Rock- Labor Days
12.
Tim Hecker- Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
13.
J-Live- The Best Part
14.
My Dying Bride- The Dreadful Hours
15.
Daft Punk- Discovery
16.
Pete Namlook- Silence V
17.
Absu- Tara
18.
Plaid- Double Figure
19.
Evoken- Quietus
20.
Cult of Luna- Cult of Luna
21.
Dolorian- Dolorian
22.
Gorguts- From Wisdom to Hate
23.
Neurosis- A Sun That Never Sets
24.
DJ Tiësto- Magik, vol. 7: Live in Los Angeles
25.
Liquid Morphine- GrijsGebied
26.
Squarepusher- Go Plastic
27.
Sigh- Imaginary Sonicscape
28.
The Shins- Oh, Inverted World
29.
André Estermann- Balloon
30.
Therion- Secret of the Runes
2000
1.
Weakling- Dead as Dreams
2.
Radiohead- Kid A
3.
Boards of Canada- In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP
4.
Boris- Flood
5.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
6.
Lykathea Aflame- Elvenefris
7.
DJ Tiësto- Magik, vol. 6: Live in Amsterdam
8.
Harold Budd- The Room
9.
Robert Rich- Humidity
10.
Ulver- Perdition City
11.
Jedi Mind Tricks- Violent by Design
12.
The Gathering- If_Then_Else
13.
Aesop Rock- Float
14.
Reflection Eternal- Train of Thought
15.
Sol Invictus- Trieste
16.
Gas- Pop
17.
Shape of Despair- Shades of...
18.
Garden of Shadows- Oracle Moon
19.
Deltron 3030- Deltron 3030
20.
A Silver Mt. Zion- He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...
21.
Hypocrisy- Into the Abyss
22.
Primordial- Spirit the Earth Aflame
23.
Bloodbath- Breeding Death EP
24.
Amon Tobin- Supermodified
25.
Immolation- Close to a World Below
26.
A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms
27.
Morbid Angel- Gateways to Annihilation
28.
Deftones- White Pony
29.
Modest Mouse- The Moon & Antarctica
30.
Behemoth- Thelema.6
Phillip Wilkerson
