Rethroned brings several notable Finnish vocalists together to recast familiar songs as heavy, symphonic metal.
2000s Metal & Hard Rock Albums – Page 10
Browse 544 metal and hard rock albums from the 2000s, with links to release-year hubs, artists, track lists and English liner notes.
Albums
Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar places Paul Gilbert’s virtuosity up front while seeking a different melody and texture in each instrumental piece.
Carved in Stone pairs Peavy Wagner’s forceful voice and Victor Smolski’s varied guitar work with a blend of heavy metal weight and symphonic breadth.
Collision Course... Paradox 2 revisits the world of Royal Hunt’s Paradox through heavy guitar, classical keyboards and dramatic vocal writing.
Cosmic Universal Fashion keeps Sammy Hagar’s hard-rock strength while blending it freely with funk, blues and pop instincts.
The Sound of Madness connects Shinedown’s heavy guitar and hard-driving rhythm to Brent Smith’s dramatic vocal.
All Hope Is Gone keeps Slipknot’s destructive riffs and heavy rhythm at the center while moving into broader melody and more complex arrangement.
Forever More keeps Tesla’s live-band directness while adding darker melodies and heavier guitar weight.
The Formation of Damnation reunites Testament around high-tension riffs, precise rhythm and Chuck Billy’s powerful voice.
Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before, Vol 1. packs The Wildhearts’ thick guitar, sudden turns and sly melodies into concise songs.
Atlantis is built around Tony Harnell’s high-reaching vocal and Ronni Le Tekrø’s fluid guitar work.
Shogun takes Trivium into extended metal forms through complex structures, sharp guitars and Matt Heafy’s strong vocal.
Return of the Pride finds Mike Tramp bringing White Lion’s open melodies and direct language back to the front.
Good to Be Bad returns Whitesnake to blues-rooted hard rock, built around David Coverdale’s voice with its mixture of power and sensuality.
Perpetual Flame joins Yngwie Malmsteen’s rapid runs and classical harmonic sense to a more forceful vocal presence.
Unholy keeps Altaria rooted in traditional heavy metal while letting bright Scandinavian melodies ring out.
Show Your Colors is a turning point for Amoral, retaining heaviness while bringing clean vocals and strong melodies to the front.
Skyforger blends Amorphis’s heavy guitars with a distinctly northern sense of melancholy.
The Root of All Evil revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.
Congregation of the Damned connects Atreyu’s shadowed atmosphere to rough, forceful metalcore.
Utopia adds bright keyboards and dramatic atmosphere to Axxis’s direct melodic-metal style.
The Circle pairs Bon Jovi’s arena-scale melodies with a more mature point of view.
Gather the Faithful is Cain’s Offering’s debut construction of dramatic power metal around grand keyboards and soaring vocals.
Chickenfoot’s debut channels the experience and distinct personalities of its members into unpretentious hard-rock energy.
Skeletons in the Closet is best heard not simply as a covers-related entry, but as a record that shows how CHILDREN OF BODOM translates outside material
Revolve packs Danger Danger’s strengths—quick riffs and huge choruses—into a focused melodic-rock record.
Autumnal fuses Dark Moor’s classical elegance with the lift of power metal in a romantic style.
Addicted unleashes Devin Townsend’s bright, high-energy side through loud guitars, stacked vocals and huge melodies.
Ki finds Devin Townsend deliberately holding back the usual explosions in favor of quiet tension and spacious sound.
Black Clouds & Silver Linings gathers Dream Theater’s intricate structures, virtuosic playing and dramatic vocal melodies on a grand scale.
Bring the Thunder is Dynazty’s youthful hard-rock debut, driven by immediate energy.
Design Your Universe layers orchestra, choir and metal riffs with great precision, creating an immense sonic space for Epica.
Last Look at Eden shows Europe moving beyond simple 1980s nostalgia toward a tougher modern hard-rock sound.
Aura presents Fair Warning’s refined melodic-rock character with calm confidence.
War Is the Answer connects Five Finger Death Punch’s enormous riffs and heavy groove to choruses that land immediately.
Can't Slow Down is a useful way to hear FOREIGNER from a different angle within the 2009 catalogue.
Need to Believe pairs Gotthard’s weighty hard rock with a mature gift for emotional balladry.
Beg for It combines Hardcore Superstar’s glam flash with rough hard-rock aggression in a volatile balance.
Leaving the End Open layers a polished AOR feel over Hardline’s firm hard-rock foundation.
Beautiful Mess by JEFF SCOTT SOTO: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.
Killswitch Engage balances the band’s metalcore weight and melodic strength with confident consistency.
Sonic Boom finds KISS returning to its fundamentals after a long gap between studio records.
Wrath uses Lamb of God’s massive riffs and biting rhythms to unleash overwhelming aggression.
Dreamcatcher delivers Last Autumn’s Dream’s Scandinavian melodic-rock melancholy with an intimate warmth.
Circus Colossus joins Leverage’s classic hard-rock instincts to a symphonic sense of scale.
Sad Day on Planet Earth keeps Lillian Axe rooted in melodic hard rock while reaching for a more shadowed emotional tone.
Tokyo Jukebox is best heard not simply as a covers-related entry, but as a record that shows how MARTY FRIEDMAN translates outside material into its own
Endgame reconnects Megadeth with speed, intricate riffs and high-level ensemble playing.
Fireangel joins Mystic Prophecy’s dark atmosphere to an aggressive power-metal drive.
16.6 balances Primal Fear’s speed-metal thrust with the weight of traditional heavy metal.
American Soldier turns the experiences and emotions of soldiers into a highly narrative Queensrÿche album.
Retribution integrates the cutting edge of thrash metal with metalcore’s heaviness at high density.
World Painted Blood condenses Slayer’s long-developed language of violent thrash metal into a sharp late-career statement.
The Days of Grays takes Sonata Arctica beyond speed and immediate catchiness into a more symphonic, intricate world.
Feel the Steel is Steel Panther’s debut celebration and send-up of 1980s glam metal.