The Year In Review: 2002

Readers' Top Albums of 2002

	1. Opeth Deliverance

2. Blind Guardian A Night At The Opera
3. Dark Tranquillity Damage Done
4. In Flames Reroute To Remain
5. Iron Maiden Rock In Rio
6. Immortal Sons Of Northern Darkness
7. Dream Theater Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
8. Nightwish Century Child
9. Symphony X Odyssey
10. Soilwork Natural Born Chaos

11. Amon Amarth Versus The World
12. Manowar Warriors Of The World
13. Lacuna Coil Comalies
14. Nile In Their Darkened Shrines
15. Halford Crucible
16. Arcturus The Sham Mirrors
17. Shadows Fall The Art Of Balance
18. Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage
19. Dio Killing The Dragon
20. King Diamond Abigail II: The Revenge
21. HammerFall Crimson Thunder
22. Killswitch Engage Alive Or Just Breathing?
23. Megadeth Rude Awakening
24. Satyricon Volcano
25. Audioslave Audioslave

26. Cannibal Corpse Worm Infested
27. Agalloch The Mantle
28. Black Label Society 1919 Eternal
29. Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
30. Rhapsody Of Fire Power Of The Dragonflame
31. Meshuggah Nothing
32. Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus - Here And Beyond
33. Annihilator Waking The Fury
34. Down II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow
35. Rage Unity
36. Avantasia The Metal Opera, Part II
37. Mastodon Remission
38. System Of A Down Steal This Album!
39. Bathory Nordland I
40. Isis Oceanic
41. Iced Earth Tribute To The Gods
42. Cradle Of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
43. Overkill Wrecking Everything
44. Sepultura Under A Pale Grey Sky
45. The Crown Crowned In Terror
46. Sentenced The Cold White Light
47. Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane
48. Napalm Death Order Of The Leech
49. Primal Fear Black Sun
50. Superjoint Use Once And Destroy
51. Motorhead Hammered
52. Soulfly III
53. Rush Vapor Trails
54. Korn Untouchables
55. Hypocrisy Catch-22
56. Dream Evil Dragonslayer
57. The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead Scene
58. Decapitated Nihility
59. W.A.S.P. Dying For The World
60. Blaze Tenth Dimension
61. Kataklysm Shadows And Dust
62. Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life
63. Hate Eternal King Of All Kings
64. Tiamat Judas Christ
65. Yngwie Malmsteen Attack!!
66. Mudvayne The End Of All Things To Come
67. Immolation Unholy Cult
68. Malevolent Creation The Will To Kill
69. Alice Cooper Dragon Town
70. Vintersorg Visions From The Spiral Generator
71. Danzig I Luciferi
72. ... And Oceans Cypher
73. Cathedral The VIIth Coming
74. Fear Factory Concrete
75. Helloween Treasure Chest
76. Darkane Expanding Senses
77. Kalmah They Will Return
78. Tankard B-Day
79. Falconer Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
80. Angra Hunters And Prey
81. Stone Sour Stone Sour
82. Dew-Scented Inwards
83. Angel Dust Of Human Bondage
84. Watchtower Concepts Of Math: Book One
85. Spiritual Beggars On Fire
86. Sirenia At Sixes And Sevens
87. Running Wild The Brotherhood
88. Grave Digger Tunes Of Wacken
89. Sonata Arctica Songs Of Silence
90. Nirvana Incesticide
91. Tad Morose Matters Of The Dark
92. Andromeda II=I
93. Therion Live In Midgard
94. Iron Savior Condition Red
95. High On Fire Surrounded By Thieves
96. Blitzkrieg Absolute Power
97. Empyrium Weiland
98. My Dying Bride The Voice Of The Wretched
99. Nocturnal Rites Shadowland
100. Susperia Vindication