re: Rolling Stone top 100 metal albums

I was pleased to see Dream Theater included, but "Scenes" is their no-brainier greatest album. Sub that in.

I also agree that the prog metal genre was generally and unfortunately disfavored in this list. Mastodon "Crack the Skye" and Between the Buried and Me "Colors" should have been shoo-ins. Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I'm not certain it is properly categorized as "metal." I tend to consider it prog rock with a slight metal bent. Opeth's "Blackwater Park" was a worthy inclusion. That album punches your face.

Finally, how the hell was NIN omitted altogether? Egregious misstep. A case can be made that "Fragile" and/or "Downward Spiral" were among the best metal albums of the entire 90s.

A lot of the list is predictable, with some pleasant surprises (Gojira, LOG, Meshuggah, Dillinger). Rolling Stone is bottom of the barrel trash at this point, so the list seems to me relatively respectable when considering its source.