TOP 30 METAL ALBUMS OF 2000
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ANGEL DUST - Enlighten the Darkness (Century Media)
Simply a great Power Metal band with a great singer. Awesome album.
ARMORED SAINT- Revelation (Metal Blade)
Very enjoyable release from the Metal legends. Their first in 9 years!
BRAINSTORM - Ambiguity (Metal Blade)
Their first album with Andy B. Franck as vocalist. Smart move getting him to sing for the band.
DIO - Magica (Spitfire)
Some people thought this was as good as Holy Diver. Not quite, but a very good album.
EDGUY - The Savage Poetry (AFM)
Re-recorded first album with the original album included on a second disc. Worth searching out for the nostalgia alone.
ELEGY - Forbidden Fruit (Noise)
Vocalist Ian Parry's main band. Good Power Metal.
FRETERNIA - Warchants and Fairytales (Loud N' Proud)
Great fantasy Metal about dragons and war.
GAMMA RAY - Blast From The Past (Noise)
Amazing 2-CD Best Of Collection. The songs were picked by their fans and re-recorded by the current line-up for this album.
HALFORD - Resurrection (Metal-Is)
The album Judas Priest has been trying to make since Rob left the band. Classic Metal.
HAMMERFALL - Renegade (Nuclear Blast)
Not as good as Legacy of Kings, but a good album nonetheless.
HEAVENLY - Coming From the Sky (Noise)
Very good first album from this French Metal band.
IN FLAMES - Clayman (Nuclear Blast)
Great melodic Death Metal album.
IRON MAIDEN - Brave New World (Columbia)
A modest comeback for the band.
JAG PANZER - Thane To The Throne (Century Media)
Great US Power Metal band. This is a concept album based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
KILLING MACHINE - Killing Machine (Candlelight)
Awesome Power Metal featuring the legendary Mike Vescera on vocals.
LEFAY - SOS (Noise)
A great German band with some great heavy Power Metal. Deep and brooding stuff.
LIZZY BORDEN - Deal With the Devil (Metal Blade)
Lizzy returns with the classic sound still intact! What took so long?
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN - War To End All Wars (Spitfire)
Yet another solid album by the guitar legend. Features Mark Boals on vocals.
METALIUM - State Of Triumph - Chapter Two (Massacre)
The story continues from their first album. A great German Power Metal band.
NEVERMORE - Dead Heart, In A Dead World (Century Media)
A unique Metal band. Somewhat progressive, somewhat thrash, always dark and heavy. They get better with every album.
NOCTURNAL RITES - Afterlife (Century Media)
Heavier and faster than previous albums. Hard to believe the only difference is the singer! I liked their melodic sound before, and I like what the band has evolved into as well.
OVERKILL - Bloodletting (Metal-Is)
Brutal new album by these Metal giants. Easily one of their best albums. Great production and very heavy.
RHAPSODY - Dawn Of Victory (LMP)
The pinnacle of bombastic Italian Power Metal. The band's third (and possibly best) release.
ROB ROCK - Rage of Creation (Massacre)
Ex-Impellitteri singer steps out on his own. One of the greatest singers ever.
RUNNING WILD - Victory (Pavement)
Strong album by the Metal pirates.
SHADOWKEEP - Corruption Within (SPV)
Great new British band with a Geoff Tate-esque singer.
STRATOVARIUS - Infinite (Nuclear Blast)
In my opinion the band's best work to date.
SYMPHORCE - Sinctuary (Noise)
Vocalist Andy B. Franck's main band. Great follow up to Truth To Promises.
VIRGIN STEELE - The House of Atreus Act II (Noise)
David DeFeis does it again.
VISION DIVINE - Vision Divine (Atrheia)
One of the best Italian Power Metal albums ever.