Heavy Metal 2000s Albums - Page 3

Arachnophobiac places Michael Schenker’s fluid lead guitar inside a sturdy hard-rock frame.

Regressus joins low guitar riffs, high-energy vocals and heroic choruses in a firm Mystic Prophecy statement.

Tribe uses hard guitar, shifting rhythm and Geoff Tate’s expressive voice to create tense metal with progressive instincts.

Soundchaser builds tense power/thrash metal from cutting guitar, fast rhythm and heavy bass.

The band's return after a three-year gap, recorded at House of Music Studios in Winterbach. Primal Fear's Ralf Scheepers sings backing vocals on "Finalizer".

A live album recorded in Carlisle, in the north-west of England, and released by Angel Air Records in 2003.

A studio album issued by Communique Records as CMG CD026, the second of the band's second life. Its year is not agreed.

1919 Eternal joins Zakk Wylde’s enormous guitar riffs with Black Label Society’s bluesy, shadowed sense of melody.

Turning Back layers soaring vocals, bright keyboards and lyrical guitar with great order and polish.

Long Way Home reunites Dokken’s strengths in melancholy melody, soaring choruses and precise guitar work.

Dragonslayer is Dream Evil’s debut statement of classic heavy-metal pleasure in a clean, modern sound.

Between Heaven and Hell is an early Firewind record driven by sharp riffs, fast drums and soaring vocals.

Condition Red frames Iron Savior’s sturdy riffs, mechanical rhythms and thick choirs within a science-fiction concept.

The tenth album and the last of the Massacre years; months later the band's management collapsed and a long stall began.

Black Sun sharpens Primal Fear’s brand of power metal with cutting riffs, heavy rhythm work and soaring high vocals.

Unity combines Rage’s weighty riffs, detailed rhythm changes and memorable vocal melodies.

Through the Storm carries Riot’s traditional-metal spirit through sharp guitar riffs, driving rhythms and forceful vocals.

Man and Machine uses hard-edged riffs, straight-ahead beats and Udo Dirkschneider’s steel voice to frame a world of humans and machines.

Dying for the World uses heavy guitars and Blackie Lawless’s urgent voice to draw anger, grief and prayer into sharp relief.

Attack!! brings Yngwie Malmsteen’s baroque-shaped phrases, high-speed guitar runs and dramatic harmony into sharp focus.

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is Avenged Sevenfold’s debut, mixing hardcore urgency, melodic-death-metal guitar and classic-metal ambition.

BLINDMAN combines intricate guitar phrasing with lyrical melody in a polished Japanese melodic-hard-rock record.

Dark Assault combines Iron Savior’s mechanical riffs with a cosmic sense of scale.

Demolition uses Tim “Ripper” Owens’s wide vocal range as Judas Priest explore several shades of heaviness.

The World Needs a Hero sees Megadeth move back toward hard riffs and tense songwriting after the broader melodic direction of the late 1990s.

Be Aware of Scorpions puts Michael Schenker’s melodic guitar voice at the heart of every arrangement.

Vengeance combines low, heavy guitars with dark melody to solidify Mystic Prophecy’s imposing power-metal profile.

Down to Earth sets Ozzy’s unmistakable voice against Zakk Wylde’s thick, riff-led guitar work and a hard-edged early-2000s production.

Nuclear Fire places Primal Fear’s heavy riffs and Ralf Scheepers’s piercing high voice with ruthless efficiency.

Welcome to the Other Side adds intricate construction and shadowed melody to Rage’s hard riffs and power-metal drive.

Acoustica revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

God Hates Us All compresses Slayer’s cutting riffs and high-tension rhythms into a brutally direct statement.

First Strike Still Deadly revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

A live album from the band's 1981 concert at Rock City in Nottingham, issued by Spitfire Records in 2001.

A live album from the band's 1999 appearance at Wacken Open Air, issued by Spitfire Records in 2001.

A studio album released by Z Records in 2001 — the band's first new record since Burning in the Shade in 1987, and the first of their second life.

Live from Russia captures U.D.O. onstage in Russia, combining the band’s own catalog with key songs from Udo Dirkschneider’s Accept history.

Unholy Terror emphasizes W.A.S.P.’s darker sense of drama through Blackie Lawless’s theatrical voice and heavily chiseled riffs.

Stronger Than Death pushes Black Label Society further into thick riffs, low-slung groove and Zakk Wylde’s southern-metal grit.

…in the dark presents Blindman’s melancholy-rich melodic hard rock in a compact form.

Disconnected deepens Fates Warning’s progressive-metal tension through precise playing and inward-looking songs.

Brave New World marks Iron Maiden’s renewed momentum with Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith back in the lineup.

A ninth album of twelve songs from the Massacre years, one of which the band later re-recorded and kept.

Moment of Glory revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

A Nuclear Blast-era album that reached number 87 on the German album chart.

War to End All Wars expands Yngwie Malmsteen’s neoclassical vocabulary into a deliberately grand metal spectacle.