Heavy Metal 2000s Albums - Page 4

Outrage's eighth album, out on 25 July 2002. It is the first full-length made as a trio and holds fourteen songs.

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.

UFO's sixteenth album, released in September 2002 and produced by Mike Varney and Steve Fontano, was Michael Schenker's last with the band.

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.

Seven Hills is Anthem's eighth studio album, released on 22 August 2001. It is the first record of the band's second era, restarted by Naoto Shibata nine years after the 1992 split on the condition that it be a band living in the present rather than a nostalgia act.

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.

Pandemonium is the sixteenth Loudness album, released on 21 November 2001, just eight months after the reunited line-up's first record. All the music is credited to Loudness and all the lyrics to Minoru Niihara.

Spiritual Canoe is the first album by the reunited original line-up, released on 7 March 2001. It was the first time Takasaki, Niihara, Yamashita and Higuchi had recorded together since Jealousy in 1988.

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.

Savatage's eleventh album, released in 2001: their first after leaving Atlantic, with Jon Oliva singing every lead vocal for the first time since Streets.

Saxon's fifteenth album, released in 2001. It includes a King Crimson cover and reached twenty-six in Germany.

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. It documents the Spellbound-era line-up, with John Sykes on guitar, and was reissued in 2018 as Hellbound Spellbound Live 1981. It is on no streaming service, so this page leads with the sleeve.

A live album from the band's 1999 performance at Wacken Open Air, issued by Spitfire Records in 2001. The band's own discography lists it as Live At Wacken, Germany '99.

The studio album that broke the long silence after the 1980s split, released by Z Records in 2001. It is the first record of the band Robb Weir restarted.

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.

Heavy Metal Anthem, released on 21 April 2000, is the project album on which Graham Bonnet sings Anthem songs in English over backing tracks newly recorded by Naoto Shibata, Akio Shimizu and others. It led directly to the band reforming.

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.

Dio's eighth studio album, released by Spitfire on 21 March 2000, was Ronnie James Dio's first concept album and the first part of a planned trilogy.

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

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.

Released on 15 May 2000, We Are Motörhead includes a cover of the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen"; official videos were made for it and for the title track.

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.

UFO's fifteenth album, released in July 2000 with Michael Schenker back and Aynsley Dunbar on drums, came with the live disc Live USA.

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