Top Alternative Metal albums

Linkin Park again ignore what other people say. Neither having returned to their roots, nor evolving the sound of their last record, have they chosen the third way. Living Things offers another modified version of their unique style

After 5 years of waiting the truly unique and inspirational Tool return with their new album 10,000 Days. This album is a must have, not only for Tool fans, but for music fans in general

Three Days Grace has created a strikingly genuine and affective record One-X filled with a great variety of emotions like misery, rage, passion, loneliness, darkness and many others which is absolutely necessary to make a top level rock album

The band has gone for a much more melodic and dark feel. Phobia is Breaking Benjamin's most musically complex, lyrically the most thought provoking and mature, it is their most ambitious album and the most complete work they have done

About six months after Mezmerize, System Of A Down released its direct follow-up, Hypnotize. Never before has the band released an album that was so spirited. The great variety of musical style makes Hypnotize definitely worth checking out

Disturbed are one of the most successful heavy acts of today. And judging by their newest album Indestructible there is no reason that could prevent them from being ones. It delivers the most impressive instrumentation they ever produced before

After a triple-platinum debut and platinum follow-up, Disturbed fuses the brutality and darkness of The Sickness with the added melodic nature and complexity of Believe for album number three, the ambitious studio full-length Ten Thousand Fists

Just when you thought there was nothing left to be done with rock along came System Of A Down. Adjectives like "ambitious," "jagged," and "startling" have always defined them, and their third official full-length is no different. Mezmerize is the fir

The pioneers of the new wave of the US alt-metal Slipknot came back after a four-year break with the disc All Hope Is Gone. On this excellent album, they performed not only the up-tempo, but also slow songs

Considering that Marilyn Manson never pandered to the Top 40 set, Lest We Forget can't rightfully be dubbed a greatest-hits record; it serves more as a reminder of the man and his group's 10-year blitz of ghoulish, gory, industrial rock

Come What(ever) May has marked certain changes in the performance manner of Stone Sour. The vocals have become cleaner and more melodious and the guitar sounds have obtained some complicated hooks

This latest effort by Korn seems to contain equal parts of heavy metal, industrial, porn rock, goth, and doom metal. See You on the Other Side is probably the most innovative album Korn's released since their unmatched self-titled effort

The US rock band Alice In Chains hired a new vocalist after the tragic death of Lain Staley and recorded the first in about fourteen years long-play Black Gives Way To Blue. The album is a definite success

Avenged Sevenfold were strong enough to take the premature passing away of their drummer James Sullivan. Moreover, shortly afterwards, they pulled off an impressive long player called Nightmare

We Are Not Alone, promises to silence the naysayers for good. Led by powerful vocalist, Breaking Benjamin delivers a snap-tight, streamlined brand of heavy alternative rock with occasional detours into the rhythmic funk-metal territory inhabited