Rolling Stone just published their list of The 250 Greatest Albums Of The 21st Century So Far and it's certainly something. The list at least includes some selections by Queens Of The Stone Age, Converge, Mastodon, System Of A Down, and Deftones, but largely shies away from any heavier music.
Rolling Stone also notes up top that "In compiling our top 250 albums of the quarter-century, we wanted to show as much of the scope of this story as possible. So when given the choice between including multiple albums by an artist and finding room for a record that added something important or interesting to the list, we almost always took the second option." Then they proceeded to put multiple albums by Beyoncé, Kanye West, Radiohead, The White Stripes, and probably more… so there's that.
Anyway, here's some of the rock and metal choices Rolling Stone added. The full list is available here.
No. 243 Pierce The Veil – Collide With The Sky
No. 236 Turnstile – Glow On
No. 214 Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
No. 192 Converge – Jane Doe
No. 184 Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
No. 182 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
No. 171 Mastodon – Leviathan
No. 159 System Of A Down – Toxicity
No. 135 Fall Out Boy – From Under the Cork Tree
No. 113 My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
No. 107 Deftones – White Pony
No. 75 The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
No. 68 Green Day – American Idiot
No. 55 Radiohead – In Rainbows
No. 53 Paramore – Riot!
No. 24 David Bowie – Black Star
No. 14 The White Stripes – Elephant
No. 10 The Strokes – Is This It
No. 2 Radiohead – Kid A
