It's crazy to think 2001 was twenty years ago, but it was! As we do every year, let's take a moment to look back at what was happening in the metal scene 20 years ago.
Amon Amarth – The Crusher
Angra – Rebirth
Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
Avenged Sevenfold – Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Chimaira – Pass Out of Existence
Converge – Jane Doe
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Enslaved – Monumension
Entombed – Morning Star
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die – Last Night in Town
Fantômas – The Director's Cut
Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
Avenged Sevenfold – Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Chimaira – Pass Out of Existence
Converge – Jane Doe
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Enslaved – Monumension
Entombed – Morning Star
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die – Last Night in Town
Fantômas – The Director's Cut
Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Chimaira – Pass Out of Existence
Converge – Jane Doe
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Enslaved – Monumension
Entombed – Morning Star
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die – Last Night in Town
Fantômas – The Director's Cut
Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Enslaved – Monumension
Entombed – Morning Star
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die – Last Night in Town
Fantômas – The Director's Cut
Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Entombed – Morning Star
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die – Last Night in Town
Fantômas – The Director's Cut
Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Every Time I Die – Last Night in Town
Fantômas – The Director's Cut
Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Fear Factory – Digimortal
God Forbid – Determination
Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Godflesh – Hymns
Gojira – Terra Incognita
Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Gwar – Violence Has Arrived
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Ill Nino – Revolution Revolución
Judas Priest – Demolition
Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Kittie – Oracle
Machine Head – Supercharger
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation



Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Ozzy Osbourne – Down to Earth

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard

Rage – Welcome to the Other Side

Rammstein – Mutter

Sepultura – Nation

Slipknot – Iowa

Static-X – Machine

System of a Down – Toxicity

Tomahawk – Tomahawk

Tool – Lateralus

Unearth – The Stings of Conscience

Vision of Disorder – From Bliss to Devastation














What albums did you remmeber picking up in 2001?
