Best Albums Of The Decade(2000-2009): #98-97

98.Atmosphere-When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold(2008)

Atmosphere is one of the most gifted hip-hop acts around. His most recent effort in a string of masterpieces, When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold reenforces that point. Tracks like "Shoulda Known" and "Wild Wild Horses" are among the best hip hops songs ever recorded. This record is full of many diverse and intresting beats, brillant lyrics and great flow from lead rapper Slug. Atmosphere is one of the most consistent and brillant musical acts around right now and are one of the very few artists that are breathing life into the otherwise dead hip hop/rap genre, a bit of foreshadowing this won't the first apperance from Atmosphere on this list.

Standout Tracks 1.Wild Wild Horses 2.Shoulda Known 3.In Her Music Box

97.Chimaira-The Impossibilty Of Reason(2003)

The Impossibillty Of Reason is the piece of work Chimaira has ever done. Its groovy, heavy and all of the songs are memorable. Rob Arnold's guitar work is put on display throughout the album, his lightning-quick fretwork and knack for groovy riffs is just fantastic. This is the album that put Chimaira on the map and is essential part of their current postion in the metal scene.

Standout Tracks 1.Pictures In The Gold Room 2.The Dehumanizing Process 3.Power Trip

Best Albums Of The Decade(2000-2009): #100-99

Today I am going to start my list of what I believe to be the 100 best albums of the past decade. There were a lot of brillant pieces of work that have been released in the past 10 years and the list was extremely hard to make. My plan is to unveil the list with 2 albums per day with brief write-ups included. I love any comments and I hope you enjoy the list! Without further ado here is number 100 and 99.

100.Cannibal Corpse-Kill(2006)

One of the pioneering acts of death metal made one of their finest albums ever well into their 2nd decade. Tracks like "Murder Worship" and "Make Them Suffer" are easily on the level of their earlier classics and show what death metal is all about. Kill is brutal, no bullshit death metal at its peak level and is the defining 2000's era Cannibal Corpse record.

Standout Tracks 1. Murder Worship 2.Make Them Suffer 3.Death Walking Terror

99.Korn-Take A Look In The Mirror(2003)

Korn's defining era was the 1990's. They pioneered the sound that would later inspire a plethora of copycats and spawn the dreaded term "nu-metal". Korn was coming of 2002's Untouchables which was decent but a huge letdown after their amazing 90's material. 2003's Take A Look In The Mirror brought back their old-school sound and made a great record. Take A Look In The Mirror is the last Korn record to feature the original lineup and it shows. It is the last Korn record that I would consider to be fantastic, there are a lot of Korn classics on this record. Take A Look In The Mirror is the best non-90's Korn album by leaps and bounds.

Standout Tracks 1.Did My Time 2.Deep Inside 3.Right Now