Top 10 Best Rock and Metal Albums of 2002

The Top Ten

1 Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation

My third favourite album of all time. The concept, the musicianship, the lyrics all make for a rewarding experience. And oh my god what a year for metal in general.

2 A Night at the Opera - Blind Guardian

3 The Mantle - Agalloch

4 In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

5 Deliverance - Opeth

6 Remission - Mastodon

7 Nothing - Meshuggah

8 Steal This Album! - System of a Down

9 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater

10 Killing the Dragon - Dio

The Contenders

11 Gore Obsessed - Cannibal Corpse

12 Perseverance - Hatebreed

One of the best Hardcore albums ever

13 Untouchables - Korn

14 Believe - Disturbed

15 Hammered - Motorhead

16 Relentless - Jackyl

17 Audioslave - Audioslave

18 By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers

19 X - Def Leppard

20 Sons of Northern Darkness - Immortal

21 The Odyssey - Symphony X

22 In Their Darkened Shrines - Nile

23 Nordland I - Bathory

24 Alive or Just Breathing - Killswitch Engage

Home to some of their best work

25 Natural Born Chaos - Soilwork

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