Top 10 Best Rock and Metal Albums of 2003

1 Train of Thought - Dream Theater

2 Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle

3 Dance of Death - Iron Maiden

4 Meteora - Linkin Park

Should be at least #3

5 Deftones - Deftones

6 Fallen - Evanescence

7 The Blessed Hellride - Black Label Society

8 Through the Ashes of Empires - Machine Head

9 The Link - Gojira

10 Faceless - Godsmack

The Contenders

11 Blackout - Hed Pe

12 Damnation - Opeth

13 Self-Destructive Pattern - Spineshank

14 Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad

15 A Flame to the Ground Beneath - Lost Horizon

16 Valley of the Damned - Dragonforce

17 Tribe - Queensrÿche

18 Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace

19 Nordland II - Bathory

20 We've Come for You All - Anthrax

21 St. Anger - Metallica

22 Viva Emptiness - Katatonia

23 Summer 2003 - Anthrax

24 The Long Road - Nickelback

25 Hate Crew Deathroll - Children of Bodom