The other day I came across Decibel Magazine’s top 100 albums of the last decade. Of course, I recognized a lot of the albums and artists on the list, and the ones that I knew, I really liked. So, I thought, why not start buying and listen to the other ones?
It’s been a great week so far, I’ve really been digging into Cave In, At the Drive In, Torche, and Baroness. I love discovering new music, especially when it’s really good. Now, don’t get me wrong, I can only go so far into the depths of noise and screaming before I give up. For instance, Converge’s album Jane Doe is the number 1 album. It’s almost unlistenable! It’s noisy and about as fun as scratching a yeast infection.
Everyone has issues with Top 10/100 list of albums. How can you not? Black Sabbath is better than Pink Floyd. That’s completely unanswerable and if you think it’s the other way around, then you work for Decibel. Let it be known, I’m thankful for any list of music that someone out there is passionate enough to make, and if it’s not full of Boyz to Men albums, I want to listen to it.
I’ve listened to At the Drive In in passing, but I had the opportunity to sit down and really listen to their album Relationship of Command. It’s original, raw, emotional, aggressive, unrestrained and just amazing. It’s bound to be a top album in my collection, and it came in at a whopping #53. Converge is #1? While the great and completely left-field Cave In Jupiter came in at #2, the album of the decade, Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf came in at a mediocre #7. To add salt to the wound, the wonderful Isis, with an incredible album – Panopticon, somehow Oceanic made the list at #4 under Opeth’s Blackwater Park?
Ahh well, enough list-gnashing, I’m sure I could go on forever about how bad they fucked up this list, in the end if one just flattens it out, its a good “listing” of albums, even if THEY’RE order of them sucks bad. I know they put it at the crappy 100 spot, but Slayer’s awfully ridiculous World Painted Blood made the list. They may as well have put the new Motorhead album on there too, if you’re at a loss for space.
I can’t help it, Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone made #10! That album is as deep and original as a spoonful of water. Now, just think about this, there’s not a single Southern Lord album on the list. Also, there’s not a one Clutch album here. WHAT? Iron Maiden came in at #8 and Clutch is somewhere below Slayer’s epic failure?
Well, see it for yourself, here’s the list:
1. Converge – Jane Doe
2. Cave In – Jupiter
3. Opeth – Blackwater Park
4. Isis – Oceanic
5. Mastodon – Remission
6. Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
8. Iron Maiden – Brave New World
9. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
10. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
11. Torche – Meanderthal
12. Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless
13. Baroness – Blue Record
14. Napalm Death – Enemy of the Music Business
15. Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
16. The Red Chord – Clients
17. Converge – Axe to Fall
18. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
19. Melt-Banana – CellScape
20. Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain
21. Enslaved – Isa
22. Tragedy – Tragedy
23. Fugazi – The Argument
24. Mare – Mare
25. Celtic Frost – Monotheist
26. Jesu – Silver
27. High on Fire – Surrounded By Thieves
28. Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
29. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
30. Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet
31. Mastodon – Leviathan
32. Craft – Fuck the Universe
33. Isis – Panopticon
34. Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro
35. Shellac – 1000 Hurts
36. Witchcraft – Witchcraft
37. Killswitch Engage – Alive or Just Breathing
38. Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard
39. Converge – You Fail Me
40. Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
41. Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness
42. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
43. Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
44. Watain – Sworn to the Dark
45. Between the Buried and Me – Alaska
46. Evoken – Quietus
47. Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
48. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
49. Arsis – A Celebration of Guilt
50. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
51. Ludicra – Fex Urbis, Lex Orbis
52. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
53. Isis – Celestial
54. Jesu – Jesu
55. Enslaved – Below the Lights
56. Cult of Luna – Somewhere Along the Highway
57. High on Fire – Death Is This Communion
58. Disfear – Live the Storm
59. Dying Fetus – Destroy the Opposition
60. Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
61. Deftones – White Pony
62. Botch – An Anthology of Dead Ends
63. Converge – No Heroes
64. Hatebreed – Perseverance
65. Withered – Memento Mori
66. Leviathan – Tentacles of Whorror
67. Meshuggah – Catch 33
68. Thorns – Thorns
69. Rotten Sound – Murderworks
70. Trap Them – Seizures in Barren Praise
71. Deathevokation – The Chalice of Ages
72. Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I
73. Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness
74. Nasum – Human 2.0
75. Fucked Up – Hidden World
76. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
77. Taint – The Ruin of Nova Roma
78. System of a Down – Toxicity
79. Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
80. Warhorse – As Heaven Turns to Ash
81. Mayhem – Chimera
82. Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
83. Drowningman – How They Light Cigarettes in Prison
84. Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer
85. Watain – Casus Luciferi
86. Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
87. Psyopus – Ideas of Reference
88. The Haunted- The Haunted Made Me Do It
89. Cryptopsy – …And Then You’ll Beg
90. Asunder – Works Will Come Undone
91. Godflesh – Hymns
92. Cathedral – Endtyme
93. The Paper Chase – Now You Are One Of Us
94. Decapitated – Nihility
95. Coalesce – Ox
96. In Flames – Clayman
97. Battle of Mice – A Day of Nights
98. Cobalt – Gin
99. My Dying Bride – The Dreadful Hours
100. Slayer – World Painted Blood
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