This is going to take me some thought, but what are your picks? (sorry if there's already a thread, but if there was, I've managed to miss it!)

Working on mine right now. Taking some research and much thought. Probably be done in the next week or so...

probably my 2 favourite albums ever came out of this decade

Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

Gozu made one there not long ago, but it was you had to pick one best album for every year of the last decade as opposed to an overall favourite album list regardless of annual constraints...

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I'd have to have a think about my overall favourites across the last 10, there's more than just those ten that I listed in that thread....

Much too difficult....will be a time-taker...

I have studying to do.

Wait...I at least know number one:

Terria

Goblin Cock with their album "Come with me if you want to live"

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Okay maybe not.

So yeah. There's been so many great albums released, that I decided to list my Top 10(ish) for each year. The ones in bold are which I consider the truly best of the decade.

2009
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Evile - Infected Nations
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Megadeth - Endgame
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Tenet - Sovereign
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares

2008
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die
Cynic - Traced in Air
Disfear - Live The Storm
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Kiuas - The New Dark Age
Meshuggah - obZen
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Stam1na - Raja
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League with Satan

2007
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Evile - Enter The Grave
Mokoma - Luihin ja Ytimiin
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Type O Negative - Dead Again
The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts

2006
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mokoma - Kuoleman laulukunnaat
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
The Haunted - The Dead Eye
Tool - 10,000 Days

2005
Blake - Planetizer
Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights
Darkane - Layers Of Lies
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Kreator - Enemy Of God
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Non Human Level - ST
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Sentenced - The Funeral Album
Spiritual Beggars - Demons
Stam1na - Stam1na
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
System Of A Down - Mezmerize

2004
Demonoid - Riders Of The Apocalypse
Ensiferum - Iron
Evergrey - The Inner Circle
Fear Factory - Archetype
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Meshuggah - I
Mokoma - Tämän maailman ruhtinaan hovi
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Riverside - Out Of Myself
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Wintersun - Wintersun

2003
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Apocalyptica - Reflections
Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Muse - Absolution
Opeth - Damnation
Strapping Young Lad - S.Y.L.
The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather

2002
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Isis - Oceanic
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

2001
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Devin Townsend - Terria
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Gojira - Terra Incognita
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Kreator - Violent Revolution
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Rammstein - Mutter
Tool - Lateralus

2000
CMX - Dinosaurus Stereophonicus
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Devin Townsend - Physicist
In Flames - Clayman
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
Sentenced - Crimson
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
The Crown - Deathrace King

You forgot Meshuggah's Catch 33 and Nothing albums.

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Well, I discovered a lot of music this decade but a lot of it is not actually from this decade. My personal highlights of those that were released this decade:

Alter Bridge - One Day Remains (2004)
Ayreon - The Human Equation (2004)
Boston - Corporate America (2002)
Devin Townsend - Terria (2001)
The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution (2003)
He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood (2004)
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People (2003)
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor (2005)
Nightwish - Century Child (2002)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001)
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane (2002)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002)
Reuben - Racecar Is Racecar Backwards (2004)
Rush - Vapor Trails (2002)
Rush - Snakes & Arrows (2007)
The Shizit - Soundtrack For The Revolution (2000)
Strapping Young Lad - Alien (2005)

Still need to decide whether Ki and Addicted belong in that list. They're too fresh for now.

Metallica - St Anger

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A list with maximun ONE album per artist (cause otherwise it would obviously include a lot of the albums by my favourite bands:

Devin Townsend - Ki
Wintersun - Wintersun
Mostly Autumn - The Last Bright Light
Riverside - Out of Myself
Symphony X - V
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Disillusion - Back To The Times of Splendor
Ulver - Perdition City
No-man - Together We're Stranger
The Pineapple Thief – Tightly Unwound
Gösta Berlings Saga - Detta Har Hänt
Oceansize - Effloresce
Elliott Smitt – From A Basement On The Hill
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II


And obviously tons and tons more but yeah, there's some I've liked a lot.