Crucial Years in Metal: 2001

Continuing our countdown of Crucial Years in Metal, we arrive at 2001.

It was a year of reinventions and innovation that the metal world greatly needed to maintain relevance in critics circles. Bands like Cathedral came back with a fusion of all their various styles consolidated into a stripped down, crushingly heavy magnum opus, Pig Destroyer had refreshed grind, Enslaved had taken their songwriting to the next level and Katatonia refined their style into a perfect amalgam of indie rock, metal and everything in between. Add to that Converge’s Jane Doe and 2001 stands out in the annals of metal history as a banner year.

Children of Bodom, "Kissing the Shadows", Follow the Reaper

Talkset #1

Opeth, "Bleak", Blackwater Park

Cathedral, "Melancholy Emperor", Endtyme

Enslaved, "Vision: Sphere of the Elements – A Monument Part II", Monumension

Pig Destroyer, "Trojan Whore", Prowler in the Yard

Talkset #2

Converge, "The Broken Vow", Jane Doe

Katatonia, "Passing Bird", Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Rapture, "This is Where I Am", Futile

Neurosis, "From Where Its Roots Run", A Sun That Never Sets

Thorns, "Stellar Master Elite", Thorns