This year, 2017, marks the 13th anniversary of the launch of Metal Injection. What a whirlwind. In what has become an annual tradition, at the beginning of every year, we like to make ourselves feel old, by doing a quick run through of all the seminal albums that came out a decade ago.
With every passing year, I feel older and older as it truly does feel like yesterday that some of these albums came out. Without further ado, here are 31 albums celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2016. The albums are listed in alphabetical order.
Animosity – Animal
Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant
As I Lay Dying – An Ocean Between Us
August Burns Red – Messengers
Avenged Sevenfold – Avenged Sevenfold
Baroness – The Red Album
Beneath the Massacre – Mechanics of Dysfunction
Between the Buried and Me – Colors
Born of Osiris – The New Reign
Car Bomb – Centralia
Cephalic Carnage – Xenosapien
Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
Dethklok – The Dethalbum
Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient
Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
Divine Heresy – Bleed The Fifth
Down – Down III Over the Under
Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
Five Finger Death Punch – The Way of the Fist
Hellyeah – Hellyeah
Ion Dissonance – Minus the Herd
Job for a Cowboy – Genesis
Korn – Untitled
Machine Head – The Blackening
Manowar – Gods Of War
Megadeth – United Abominations
Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
Naglfar – Harvest
Neurosis – Given to the Rising
Nile – Ithyphallic
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Ozzy Osbourne – Black Rain
Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
Shadows Fall – Threads of Life
Sigh – Hangman's Hymn
Suicide Silence – The Cleansing
The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
Through the Eyes of the Dead – Malice
