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
Talkset #3
Akercocke, "Infernal Rites", Goat of Mendes
Tool, "Ticks and Leeches", Lateralus
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