Can't say I like a single one of those. Anyway, here are mine:

2000: Soulfly - Primitive
2001: Tool - Lateralus
2002: Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing (By far their best)
2003: Lot of great albums (Machine Head, Arch Enemy, etc.) but I'm gonna go with Lamb Of God - New American Gospel
2004: Mastodon - Leviathan
2005: Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
2006: Pinkly Smooth - Unfortunate Snort
2007: Machine Head - The Blackening
2008: Opeth - Watershed
2009: Behemoth - Evangelion

Gonna have to go with Machine Head as my favorite

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2000: Something To Write Home About - The Get Up Kids
2001: Your Favorite Weapon - Brand New
2002: Lifted... - Bright Eyes
2003: Deja Entendu - Brand New
2004: Hot Fuss - The Killers
2005: Speak For Yourself - Imogen Heap
2006: Grand Unification - Fightstar
2007: The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
2008: The Glass Passenger - Jack's Mannequin
2009: Say Anything - Say Anything

ooh, I should've added those

2000 - Some good albums in 2000. Honourable mentions go to Shellac - 1000 Hurts, Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn, Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, Deftones - White Pony, Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030, Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (my favourite MM release), Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R, Eyehategod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives, Outkast - Stankonia, Crowbar - Equilibrium, Sugababes debut album, & a very, very close second place would go to Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. But ultimately the answer has to be At The Drive-In - Relationship of command, the only one of those albums I was actually listening to in 2000 and have, even a decade later, yet to get bored of.

2001 - Opeth - Blackwater Park is the winner this year and it's a wee bit easier than 2000 to decide if I'm honest. Honourable mentions for Dog Fashion Disco - Anarchists of Good Taste, Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (the only good Angela Gossow-era album), White Stripes - White Blood Cells, Crowbar - Sonic Excess in its Purest Form, Fantômas - The Director's Cut, Converge - Jane Doe, Akercocke - Goat Of Mendes, System of a Down - Toxicity & Emperor - Prometheus.

2002 - A year with a lot of solid releases but nothing really standout to my ears, Down - Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow wins by virtue of 8 years of being awesome. Eels - Souljacker, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton, Mastodon - Remission, Tegan & Sara - If It Was You, Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene EP, Isis - Oceanic, Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers, Sigur Rós - () & Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage are all worthy mentions.

2003 - 2003 may well have been poorer than 2002. Which in turn was hardly better than 2001. A few mediocre years on the trot now. The winner this year? Well, it was a two horse race between Dizzee, but ultimately the winner is The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium. SunnO))) - White1, Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather, Metallica - St Anger (I hated it at the time. Now? Well frankly I think it's a hilarious piece of music. And 2003 is really lacking in tunes), Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner, Sugababes - Three (possibly even better than their debut), Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place get mentions.

2004 - Fantômas - Delìrium Còrdia, Exodus - Tempo of the Damned, Modest - Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Brian Wilson - SMiLE, SunnO))) - White2, Isis - Oceanic Remixes/Reinterpretations, Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine, Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now, Mastodon - Leviathan, Tegan & Sara - So Jealous, Old Man Gloom - Christmas, Tom Waits - Real Gone. At the time I'd have said that Leviathan was my album of the year, utterly loved it, but then I also utterly loved Ulver - Blood Inside and that was responsible for my taste in music really broadening to take in alot of non-metally things. It's also fucking phenomenal.

I'll do 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008 later. It's too early to do 2009 yet. I'm almost tempted to say it's too early for 2008.

2000 Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2001 Agora - Segundo Pasado/Old Man Gloom - Seminar III
2002 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2003 Opeth - Damnation (rather a weak year, at least for me)
2004 Orphaned Land - Mabool
2005 Edan - Beauty and the Beat/Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
2006 Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2007 Jonas Hellborg - Art Metal
2008 Testament - Formation of Damnation
2009 Mastodon - Crack the Skye/ Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Well, you introduced me to Old Man Gloom but what's the other one?

Sunn O))), which I was not sure about, so I said possibly.

I actually can agree with 2003, now that I think about it, but not 2005. 30 Seconds To Mars's A Beautiful Lie was had very deep and emotional songs, and even though they carried a touch of pop, so what? it was still dark and very deep, and Jared Leto is an incredible singer, and 30stm are master of anything they put their mind to. Although, I'm not really digging their new album. Don't get me wrong, it sounds fine, just it's not their style, nor is it one that I like.

Sorry, this is the "favourite albums" thread, not the "debatably best-with-no-winners albums" thread.

Altar and Part the Second are amazing records I forgot, as well as Things Viral