Top 10 Albums of the Last 15 Years (or so)

In Episode 41 of the podcast we did a Top 10 Albums of the Last 15 Years list. In case you missed it, or couldn't be bothered, here are our lists from that episode, as well as a combined list John put together based on which albums showed up the most on all of our lists.

The Combined List

  1. Mastodon - Leviathan
  2. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
  3. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  4. Sentenced - The Cold White Light
  5. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
  6. Machine Head - The Blackening
  7. Tied for 7th - Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
  8. Tied for 7th - Opeth - Ghost Reveries
  9. Tied for 9th - Anthrax - Worship Music
  10. Tied for 9th - Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

George's List

  1. Woods of Ypres – Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
  2. Sentenced – The Cold White Light
  3. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
  4. Ahab – The Giant
  5. Timeless Miracle – Into the Enchanted Chamber
  6. Celtic Frost – Monotheist
  7. Powerwolf – Blood of the Saints
  8. Anthrax – Worship Music
  9. Children of Bodom – Hatecrew Deathroll
  10. Bloodbath – Ressurection through Carnage

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Amon Amarth – With Oden on Our Side
  2. Dissection – Reinkaos
  3. In Mourning – The Weight of Oceans
  4. Machine Head – The Blackening
  5. The Ocean – Pelagial

Buke's List

  1. Machine Head - The Blackening
  2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
  3. Sentenced - The Cold White Light
  4. Between the Buried & Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
  5. Hatebreed - Perseverence
  6. Killswitch Engage - Alive of Just Breathing
  7. Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
  8. Bloodbath - Ressurection through Carnage
  9. 3 Inches of Blood - Advance & Vanquish
  10. Anthrax - Worship Music

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Children of Bodom – Hatecrew Deathroll
  2. Tombs - Savage Gold
  3. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
  4. Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
  5. Mastodon - Leviathan
  6. Pantera - Reinventing the Steel
  7. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Jay's List

  1. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
  2. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
  3. Mastodon - Leviathan
  4. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  5. Isis - Oceanic
  6. Enslaved - Ruun
  7. Machine Head - The Blackening
  8. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
  9. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
  10. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Vanden Plas - Christ-O
  2. Goatwhore - Blood For the Master
  3. Type O Negative - Dead Again
  4. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
  5. Tool - Lateralus
  6. System of a Down - Toxicity

Will's List

  1. Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
  2. Cannibal Corpse – Kill
  3. Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
  4. Bloodbath – Nightmares Made Flesh
  5. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
  6. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
  7. Slayer – Christ Illusion
  8. Borracho - Splitting Sky
  9. Pyres – Year of Sleep
  10. Hark – Crystalline

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Yesterday Saints – Generation of Vipers
  2. Iron Maiden – Brave New World
  3. High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine
  4. Deicide – To Hell With God
  5. Testament – Formation of Damnation
  6. Mastodon – Leviathan
  7. Cavalera Conspiracy – Inflikted
  8. Behemoth – The Satanist
  9. Candiria – What Doesn’t Kill You
  10. Sick of it All – Death to Tyrants
  11. V.Y.G.R. – Hypersleep
  12. Every Cannibal Corpse Album

John's List

  1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  2. Mastodon - Leviathan
  3. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
  4. Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
  5. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
  6. Amorphis - Eclipse
  7. Devin Townsend - Addicted
  8. Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
  9. The Ocean - Pelagial
  10. Opeth - Deliverance

Honorable Mentions:

  1. Isis - Oceanic
  2. Enslaved - Below the Lights
  3. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
  4. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
  5. Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
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