Heavy Metal 2000s Albums - Page 2

Take Cover is a covers album on which QUEENSRYCHE recasts songs by artists as varied as Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel in its own sound.

Saxon's seventeenth album, from March 2007. It is the first with the drummer Nigel Glockler back since 1997.

Humanity: Hour I keeps Scorpions’ heavy riffs and large melodic instincts while stepping into a more modern, shadowed sound.

Recorded at Leon studio outside Stuttgart with engineers Achim Köhler and Samson Geiger, and issued by MTM Music. Former Primal Fear drummer Klaus Sperling plays on it.

Mastercutor joins thick riffs, marching rhythm, and Udo Dirkschneider’s instantly recognizable voice into a single hard-metal drive.

Dominator uses W.A.S.P.’s dramatic heavy-metal language to emphasize pressure and anger.

Immortal is Anthem's eleventh studio album, released on 30 August 2006, with a European edition following in the autumn of 2007 - the point at which the reformed band began looking beyond Japan.

Shot to Hell builds Black Label Society around Zakk Wylde’s thick guitar, low rolling rhythm, and rough vocal style.

Pain for the Pleasure joins Blindman’s expansive vocal lines, melodic guitar, and full keyboards into dramatic melodic hard rock.

United puts Dream Evil’s thick riffs, forceful beat, and crowd-ready choruses in the foreground.

Allegiance brings together Gus G’s cutting guitar, forward-driving rhythm, and Apollo Papathanasio’s powerful vocal.

A Matter of Life and Death joins Iron Maiden’s multi-guitar harmonies and extended structures to weighty themes of war and belief.

Breaking the Taboo is the twentieth Loudness album, released by Tokuma Japan Communications on 27 December 2006, and the seventh made since the original line-up reunited.

Loudspeaker takes Marty Friedman’s sharp metal-guitar voice deep into melodies shaped by Japanese pop and kayōkyoku sensibility.

A Light in the Dark centers Metal Church on cutting riffs, low heavy rhythm, and strong vocal presence.

Tales of Rock'n'Roll reunites Michael Schenker with a range of past vocal collaborators and presents his melodic guitar world anew.

Kiss of Death was released on 29 August 2006. An official video was made for "Be My Baby", and a half-speed-remastered twentieth-anniversary edition followed in 2026.

Savage Souls puts Mystic Prophecy’s low, cutting riffs, hard rhythms, and forceful vocal delivery in the foreground.

The first album for Frontiers, held over from 2005 to 2006 while the drum and keyboard chairs both changed hands.

Operation: Mindcrime II returns Queensrÿche to the story begun in 1988, turning its characters’ conflict and resolution into dramatic metal.

Speak of the Dead places an orchestral suite beside direct heavy-metal songs, showing Rage at two different scales.

Army of One centers Riot on sharp twin guitars, forceful beat, and expansive vocal lines.

Christ Illusion puts Slayer’s cutting riffs, accelerating drums, and Tom Araya’s furious presence in the foreground.

A Twisted Christmas is a covers album on which TWISTED SISTER plays standard Christmas songs in the language of heavy and glam metal.

UFO's album of 25 September 2006 brought founding drummer Andy Parker back and was the band's last album with bassist Pete Way.

City of Evil combines intricate twin-guitar lines, restless rhythm and expansive vocals.

Mafia anchors its sound in heavily distorted guitar, low groove and Zakk Wylde’s rough vocal character.

The debut album, released by Visible Noise on 3 October 2005 and widely credited with defining British metalcore. "Tears Don't Fall" is still the band's signature song. The Japanese edition followed on 26 October with two live recordings added, for fifteen tracks.

Dir En Grey's fifth album, out on 9 March 2005. It was the first of their records given an official release in Europe, North America and South Korea.

Shovel Headed Kill Machine charges forward on rapid chugging, sharp guitar and a snarling vocal attack.

Forged by Fire by FIREWIND: track list, Spotify player and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

Angel of Retribution puts thick riffs, sharp twin leads and Rob Halford’s high-voltage voice directly at the front.

Under Cover is a covers album of classic 1960s and 1970s rock songs, OZZY OSBOURNE's own roots, sung in his distinctive voice.

Church organ, an operatic voice and straight-driving riffs: the debut on which Powerwolf's style is already assembled.

Seven Seals puts tightly chugging guitar, driving drums and Ralf Scheepers’s high vocal power at the front.

A studio album released in 2005, fifteen years after the one before it.

A live album released by Angel Air Records on 6 June 2005 as SJPCD206. The band's own discography lists it under a different title, Live In Dokkum, Holland '05. Three bonus studio recordings close the disc.

Mission No. X puts thick guitar, solid beat and Udo Dirkschneider’s rough, singular voice directly up front.

Unleash the Fury is driven by flowing shred, classical harmony and forceful riffing.

Eternal Warrior is Anthem's tenth studio album, released on 21 July 2004. The title track is among the signatures of the band's second era and was re-recorded in English for Nucleus in 2019.

The Greater of Two Evils revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

Hangover Music Vol. VI steps away from Black Label Society’s usual riff-heavy attack toward acoustic guitar, piano and melancholy melody.

The Art of Dying brings Death Angel back to the thrash-metal front through sharp riffs, shifting rhythms and tense vocals.

Dio's tenth and last studio album, released in Europe on 30 August 2004, brought back guitarist Craig Goldy and had Jeff Pilson on bass.

Hell to Pay is built around fluid guitar phrases, thick riffs and shadowed melody in a steady Dokken form.

The Book of Heavy Metal uses thick riffs, racing beat and proud choruses to state Dream Evil’s love of heavy metal without hesitation.

Tempo of the Damned reasserts Exodus through slicing riffs, accelerating beats and a raw vocal attack.