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Symphony X - The Odyssey
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Spock's Beard - Snow
The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
Opeth - Deliverence
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
My Dying Bride - Voice Of The Wretched
Iced Earth - Tribute To The Gods
Immolation - Unholy Cult
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Isis - Oceanic
Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene
Ancient - Proxima Centauri
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
In Flames - Reroute To Remain
Annihilator - Waking The Fury
Into Eternity - Dead or Dreaming
Pulse Ultra - Headspace
Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
Opera IX - Maleventum
Incantation - Blasphemy
Rush - Vapor Trails

QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf is my pick for album of the year. i must have listened to it over 1000 times this year. great, great album, tons of replay value.

I really enjoyed all the albums nominated, though I have not heard the new Sonic Youth album yet...

not sure if these came out this year but these are also some of my favorites of 2002
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
The Vines - Highly Evolved
N.E.R.D - In Search Of...
I Am Sam Soundtrack
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around

My personal top 22 of 2002---

1. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2. Halfway to Gone - Second Season
3. Orange Goblin - Coupe de Grace
4. Orquesta del Desierto - s/t
5. The Rubes - Hokum
6. Abdullah - Graveyard Poetry
Grand Magus - s/t
7. Sixty Watt Shaman - Reason to Live
8. Black Label Society - E1999 Eternal
Audioslave - s/t
9. Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
10. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
11. Bongzilla - Gateway
12. Artimus Pyldriver demo
13. Alabama Thunderpussy - Staring at the Divine
14. Raging Slab - pronounced eat shit
15. Mastodon - Remission
16. Pentagram - First Daze
17. High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves
18. Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip
19. The Black Keys - The Big Come-up
20. Brant Bjork & the Operators - s/t

Damn, I actually agree with all of Keyser's picks! Except the Vines. They bother me.

Quote:Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey

Dunno what it is about this album....but I can't get into it like I got into Dopethrone.

oh and another one i missed, Missy Elliot's new album is some seriously funky shit.

btw....BRMC came out april of 2001. But I didn't get it til this year either. :thumbs-up:

Quote:Except the Vines. They bother me.

the lead singer looks like hes retarded when he sings

Johnny Cash - IV: The Man Comes Around

or

QOSTA - Songs For The Deaf

I think Songs for the Deaf is gonna win, even though it's not on the poll.

It's got 6 votes now.

Oh and I forgot, Arcturus-the Sham Mirrors.