TotalRock’s Top Albums of the Last 20 Years
Written by Tony Wilson on May 29, 2020
TotalRock’s Top Albums of the Last 20 Years
As voted by TotalRock DJs past and present.
Here’s the complete list and there’s a Spotify Playlist of the top albums here
2000
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Motörhead – We Are Motörhead
- Iron Maiden – Brave New World
- AC/DC – Stiff Upper Lip
- Deftones – White Pony
- Papa Roach – Infest
2001
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System of a Down – Toxicity
- Slipknot – Iowa
- Tool – Lateralus
- Slayer – God Hates Us All
- Sum 41 – All Killer No Filler
2002
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System of a Down – Steal This Album!
- Saxon – Heavy Metal Thunder
- Motörhead – Hammered
- Stone Sour – Stone Sour
- Black Label Society – 1919 Eternal
2003
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Anthrax – We’ve Come for You All
- Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
- Marilyn Manson – The Golden Age of Grotesque
- Black Label Society – The Blessed Hellride
- The Darkness – Permission to Land
2004
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Velvet Revolver – Contraband
- Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
- Mastodon – Leviathan
- Motörhead – Inferno
- Van Halen – The Best of Both Worlds (compilation)
2005
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Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil
- Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus
- Mötley Crüe – Red, White & Crüe (Compilation)
- Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution
- Black Label Society – Mafia
2006
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Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
- Slayer – Christ Illusion
- Mastodon – Blood Mountain
- Tool – 10,000 Days
- Satyricon – Now, Diabolical
2007
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Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild
- Symphony X – Paradise Lost
- Machine Head – The Blackening
- Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
- Overkill – Immortalis
2008
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AC/DC – Black Ice
- Mötley Crüe – Saints of Los Angeles
- Tesla – Forever More
- Testament – The Formation of Damnation
- Metallica – Death Magnetic
2009
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Kiss – Sonic Boom
- W.A.S.P. – Babylon
- Steel Panther – Feel the Steel
- Slayer – World Painted Blood
- Europe – Last Look at Eden
2010
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Slash – Slash
- Grand Magus – Hammer of the North
- Deftones – Diamond Eyes
- Accept – Blood of the Nations
- Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier
2011
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Megadeth – TH1RT3EN
- Skindred – Union Black
- Anthrax – Worship Music
- Five Finger Death Punch – American Capitalist
- Whitesnake – Forevermore
2012
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Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
- Orange Goblin – A Eulogy for the Damned
- Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
- Corrosion of Conformity – Corrosion of Conformity
- Accept – Stalingrad
2013
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Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
- Airbourne – Black Dog Barking
- Black Sabbath – 13
- Crashdïet – The Savage Playground
- Carcass – Surgical Steel
2014
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Skindred – Kill the Power
- Ozzy Osbourne – Memoirs of a Madman
- Behemoth – The Satanist
- Judas Priest – Redeemer of Souls
- Monster Magnet – Milking the Stars: A Re-Imagining of Last Patrol
2015
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Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls
- Ghost – Meliora
- Motörhead – Bad Magic
- Halestorm – Into the Wild Life
- Slayer – Repentless
2016
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Gojira – Magma
- Metallica – Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
- Pretty Maids – Kingmaker
- Megadeth – Dystopia
- Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake
2017
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Paradise Lost – Medusa
- Firewind – Immortals
- Kreator – Gods of Violence
- Autograph – Get Off Your Ass
- Motörhead – Under Cöver (covers album)
2018
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Alien Weaponry – Tü
- Judas Priest – Firepower
- Dee Snider – For the Love of Metal
- Clutch – Book of Bad Decisions
- Halestorm – Vicious
2019
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Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
- Rammstein – Untitled
- Tool – Fear Inoculum
- Queensrÿche – The Verdict
- Death Angel – Humanicide
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