Crucial Years in Metal: 2001

Continuing our countdown of Crucial Years in Metal, we arrive at 2001. It was a year of reinventions and innovation that the metal world greatly needed to maintain relevance in critics circles. Bands like Cathedral came back with a fusion of all their various styles consolidated into a stripped down, crushingly heavy magnum opus, Pig Destroyer had refreshed grind, Enslaved had taken their songwriting to the next level and Katatonia refined their style into a perfect amalgam of indie rock, metal and everything in between. Add to that Converge’s Jane Doe and 2001 stands out in the annals of metal history as a banner year.   Children of Bodom, "Kissing the Shadows", Follow the Reaper   Talkset #1 Opeth, "Bleak", Blackwater Park Cathedral, "Melancholy Emperor", Endtyme Enslaved, "Vision: Sphere of the Elements – A Monument Part II", Monumension Pig Destroyer, "Trojan Whore", Prowler in the Yard   Talkset #2 Converge, "The Broken Vow", Jane Doe Katatonia, "Passing Bird", Last Fair Deal Gone Down Rapture, "This is Where I Am", Futile Neurosis, "From Where Its Roots Run", A Sun That Never Sets Thorns, "Stellar Master Elite", Thorns   Talkset #3 Akercocke, "Infernal Rites", Goat of Mendes Tool, "Ticks and Leeches", Lateralus   RequiemMetal.com Email us - [email protected] Support us on Patreon! Follow us on social media: Requiem Facebook Instagram @requiem_metal_podcast Twitter @PodcastRequiem