DREAM THEATER Drummer Mike Portnoy Issues Decade-End Wrap Up - "A Special Mention Must Be Made Declaring OPETH As My Band Of The Decade"
December 16, 2009, 14 years ago
DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has issued his annual Best Of... list for 2009 (found here), but he has also issued a Best Of 00's Decade-End Wrap Up. An excerpt can be viewed below. Go to this location for the entire list.
MP's Best Of 00's Decade-End Wrap Up (CDs):
Top 10:
1. MUSE - Absolution
2. BIGELF - Cheat The Gallows
3. OPETH - Blackwater Park *
4. SPOCK'S BEARD - Snow
5. THE FLAMING LIPS - At War With The Mystics
6. ENDOCHINE - Day Two
7. BEARDFISH - Sleeping In Traffic Pts 1&2
8. METALLICA - Death Magnetic
9. LAMB OF GOD - Ashes Of The Wake
10. PETER GABRIEL - Up
Top 20:
11. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Colors
12. MACHINE HEAD - The Blackening
13. WILCO - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14. SLIPKNOT - Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
15. PAIN OF SALVATION - Remedy Lane
16. COLDPLAY - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
17. KING CRIMSON - The Power To Believe
18. WEEZER - Green Album
19. PORCUPINE TREE - Fear Of A Blank Planet
20. MASTODON - Crack The Skye
* "A special mention must be made declaring Opeth as my 'Band Of The Decade' as I could have easily listed Deliverance, Damnation, Ghost Reveries and Watershed all in my top 10 as well, but I had a self-imposed rule of only one album per band..."