Alternative Metal 2000s Albums - Page 2

The second studio album, a concept record drawn from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the band's last for Relapse Records. It opens with "Blood and Thunder".

Rammstein's fourth album, released on 27 September 2004. It went to number one in seven countries.

Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) keeps Slipknot’s destructive riffs and urgent vocals while drawing in more melody, silence and strange texture.

Cave In's third album, from 2003. It was their only record for RCA, and it trades most of the metal for spacious progressive rock.

Deftones' fourth album, out on 20 May 2003. The self-titled record takes its trip hop and shoegaze leanings further than anything the band had done.

Accelerated Evolution combines walls of guitar, dense arrangement and soaring vocals to make heaviness and release coexist.

Dir En Grey's fourth album, released on 10 September 2003 and co-produced by the band with Tatsuya Sakamoto.

Fallen layers hard guitar, piano, strings and Amy Lee’s clear voice to make darkness and accessibility coexist.

Faceless puts physical weight at the front through thick guitar, low-stepping rhythm and rough vocals.

Take a Look in the Mirror uses low, rolling guitar, bouncing bass and Jonathan Davis’s pained voice to make direct, raw music.

Dir En Grey's third album, released on 30 January 2002, sixteen tracks running 69:57 and produced by the band.

Believe uses heavy repeating riffs, muscular groove and David Draiman’s tense vocal delivery to examine conviction and loss.

Reroute to Remain keeps In Flames’ melodic-death-metal core while introducing more modern rhythms, electronic texture and direct hooks.

Untouchables layers low, rolling bass, heavy guitar and electronic texture with great precision, creating one of Korn’s biggest and darkest soundscapes.

Lacuna Coil's third album, released in September 2002, whose single "Heaven's a Lie" became their breakthrough in America.

The debut album, released by Relapse Records in 2002 by the band formed in Atlanta in 2000.

Stone Sour’s debut combines heavy guitar riffs, alternative-rock atmosphere and vocals that leave emotion exposed.

System of a Down's third album, out on 26 November 2002: sixteen songs from the Toxicity era, finished by the band after unfinished versions leaked online.

Beautiful Creatures is a debut that blends L.A. hard-rock flash with punk roughness.

Terria uses heavy guitar, but places atmosphere, silence and scale at the center of Devin Townsend’s writing.

Lacuna Coil's second album and their first as a six-piece, recorded with Waldemar Sorychta in late 2000 and released in January 2001.

Rammstein's third album, out on 2 April 2001. The sleeve is a photograph of a dead foetus, and it yielded six singles, more than any other Rammstein record.

Iowa by SLIPKNOT: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

System of a Down's second album, out on 4 September 2001. It brings in sitar and banjo and leans far more on melody and singing than the debut did.

Tool's third album, released on 15 May 2001 after their dispute with Volcano was settled: their first Billboard 200 number one.

Deftones' third album, out on 20 June 2000. It is the first record with Frank Delgado as a full member on turntables and synthesiser.

Physicist collides Devin Townsend’s enormous sound pressure with introspective, off-kilter melody.

Dir En Grey's second album, released on 20 September 2000, thirteen tracks running 72:57.

The Sickness gives nu metal a distinctive center of gravity through bouncing rhythms, blunt riffs and David Draiman’s instantly recognizable delivery.

Awake by GODSMACK: track list, Spotify player and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

Clayman balances In Flames’ melodic-death aggression with unusually strong accessibility.

A five-song EP from 2000, the first with guitarist Marco Biazzi, on which Lacuna Coil first tried Italian lyrics and covered Dubstar's "Stars".

Renegades turns Rage Against the Machine’s influences into material that still sounds like Rage.