2003

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

Explosions in the Sky

• Label: Temporary Residence
• Released: 4 November 2003

• Post-rock

1. First Breath After Coma
2. The Only Moment We Were Alone
3. Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
4. Memorial
5. Your Hand in Mine

It Still Moves

My Morning Jacket

• Label: ATO
• Released: 9 September 2003

• Indie rock
• Neo-psychedelia

1. Mahgeetah
2. Dancefloors
3. Golden
4. Master Plan
5. One Big Holiday
6. I Will Sing You Songs
7. Easy Morning Rebel
8. Run Thru
9. Rollin' Back
10. Just One Thing
11. Steam Engine
12. One in the Same

The Morning Never Came

Swallow the Sun

• Label: Firebox
• Released: 15 November 2003

• Death-doom
• Melodic death metal

1. Through Her Silvery Body
2. Deadly Inside
3. Out of This Gloomy Light
4. Swallow (Horror Pt. I)
5. Silence of the Womb
6. Hold This Woe
7. Under the Waves
8. The Morning Never Came

Crimson II

Edge of Sanity

• Label: Black Mark
• Released: 26 August 2003

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive death metal

1. Crimson II, Pt. 1 — The Forbidden Words
2. Crimson II, Pt. 2 — Incantation
3. Crimson II, Pt. 3 — Passage of Time
4. Crimson II, Pt. 4 — The Silent Threat
5. Crimson II, Pt. 5 — Achilles Heel
6. Crimson II, Pt. 6 — Covenant of Souls
7. Crimson II, Pt. 7 — Face to Face
8. Crimson II, Pt. 8 — Disintegration
9. Crimson II, Pt. 9 — Aftermath

No Cities Left

The Dears

• Label: MapleMusic
• Released: 15 April 2003

• Indie rock
• Chamber pop

1. We Can Have It
2. Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe?
3. Lost in the Plot
4. The Second Part
5. Don't Lose the Faith
6. Expect the Worst / 'Cos She's a Tourist
7. Pinned Together, Falling Apart
8. Never Destroy Us
9. Warm and Sunny Days
10. 22: The Death of All Romance
11. Postcard from Purgatory
12. No Cities Left

Elephant

The White Stripes

• Label: V2
• Released: 1 April 2003

• Garage rock revival
• Blues rock

1. Seven Nation Army
2. Black Math
3. There's No Home for You Here
4. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
5. In the Cold, Cold Night
6. I Want to Be the Biy to Warm Your Mother's Heart
7. You've Got Her in Your Pocket
8. Ball and Biscuit
9. The Hardesy Button to Button
10. Little Acorns
11. Hypnotize
12. The Air Near My Fingers
13. Girl, you Have No Faith in Medicine
14. Well It's True That We Love One Another

Ok nefna tysvar Ty

Falkenbach

• Label: Napalm Records
• Released: 3 November 2003

• Viking metal
• Folk metal

1. Vanadis
2. ... As Long as Winds Will Blow
3. Aduatuza
4. Donar's Oak
5. ... the Ardent Awaited Land
6. Homeward Shore
7. Farewell

Dopesmoker

Sleep

• Label: Southern Lord
• Released: 2003

• Stoner metal
• Doom metal

1. Dopesmoker
2. Hot Lava Man

Where Lovers Mourn

Draconian

• Label: Napalm Records
• Released: 20 October 2003

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

1. The Cry of Silence
2. Silent Winter
3. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
4. The Solitude
5. Reversio ad Secessum
6. The Amaranth
7. Akherousia
8. It Grieves My Heart

Elements Pt. 2

Stratovarius

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 4 November 2003

• Power metal
• Symphonic metal

1. Alpha & Omega
2. I Walk to My Own Song
3. I'm Still Alive
4. Season of Faith's Perfection
5. Awaken the Giant
6. Know the Difference
7. Luminous
8. Dreamweaver
9. Liberty

Elements Pt. 1

Stratovarius

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 27 January 2003

• Power metal
• Symphonic metal

1. Eagleheart
2. Soul of a Vagabond
3. Find Your Own Voice
4. Fantasia
5. Learning to Fly
6. Papillon
7. Stratofortress
8. Elements
9. A Drop in the Ocean

Her Majesty the Decemberists

The Decemberists

• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• Released: 9 September 2003

• Indie folk
• Chamber pop

1. Shanty for the Arethusa
2. Billy Liar
3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours
4. The Gymnast, High Above the Ground
5. The Bachelor and the Bride
6. Song for Myla Goldberg
7. The Soldiering Life
8. Red Right Ankle
9. The Chimbley Sweep
10. I Was Meant for the Stage
11. As I Rise

The Wolf

Andrew W.K.

• Label: Island
• Released: 9 September 2003

• Hard rock
• Power pop

1. Victory Strikes Again
2. Long Live the Party
3. Tear It up
4. Free Jump
5. Never Let Down
6. Your Rules
7. The Song
8. Make Sex
9. Totally stupid
10. Really in Love
11. The End of Our Lives
12. I Love Music

The Puppet Master

King Diamond

• Label: Massacre
• Released: 21 October 2003

• Heavy metal
• Progressive metal

1. Midnight
2. The Puppet Master
3. Magic
4. Emerencia
5. Blue Eyes
6. The Ritual
7. No More Me
8. Blood to Walk
9. Darkness
10. So Sad
11. Christmas
12. Living Dead

Get Born

Jet

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 15 September 2003

• Garage rock revival
• Hard rock

1. Last Chance
2. Are You Gonna Be My Girl
3. Rollover D.J.
4. Look What You've Done
5. Get What You Need
6. Move on
7. Radio Song
8. Get Me Outta Here
9. Cold Hard Bitch
10. Come Around Again
11. Take It or Leave It
12. Lazy Gun
13. Timothy

Fallen

Evanescence

• Label: Wind-up
• Released: 4 March 2003

• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock

1. Going Under
2. Bring Me to Life
3. Everybody's Fool
4. My Immortal
5. Haunted
6. Tourniquet
7. Imaginary
8. Taking Over Me
9. Hello
10. My Last Breath
11. Whisper

Mit Gas

Tomahawk

• Label: Ipecac
• Released: 6 May 2003

• Alternative rock
• Avant-garde rock

1. Birdsong
2. Rape This Day
3. You Can't Win
4. Mayday
5. Rotgut
6. Capt. Midnight
7. Desastre natural
8. When the Stars Begin to Fall
9. Harelip
10. Harlem Clowns
11. Aktion 13F14

A Flame to the Ground Beneath

Lost Horizon

• Label: Music for Nations
• Released: 21 June 2003

• Power metal

1. Transdimensional Revelation
2. Pure
3. Lost in the Depths of Me
4. Again Will the Fire Burn
5. The Song of Earth
6. Cry of a Restless Soul
7. Think Not Foreber
8. Highlander (The One)
9. Deliverance

Kivenkantaja

Moonsorrow

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 10 March 2003

• Folk metal
• Viking metal

1. Raunioilla
2. Unohduksen lapsi
3. Jumalten kaupunki / Tuhatvuotinen perintö
4. Kivenkantaja
5. Tuulen tytär/Soturin tie
6. Matkan lopussa

Nocturama

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Label: Mute
• Released: 3 February 2003

• Alternative rock
• Post-punk

1. Wonderful Life
2. He Wants You
3. Right out of Your Hand
4. Bring It on
5. Dead Man in My Bed
6. Still in Love
7. There Is a Town
8. Rock of Gibraltar
9. She Passed by My Window
10. Babe, I'm on Fire

Swampsong

Kalmah

• Label: Spikefarm
• Released: 23 May 2003

• Melodic death metal
• Power metal

1. Heroes to Us
2. Burbot's Revenge
3. Cloned Insanity
4. The Third, the Magical
5. Bird of Ill Omen
6. Doubtful About It All
7. Tordah
8. Man with Mystery
9. Moon of My Nights

Death Cult Armageddon

Dimmu Borgir

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 9 September 2003

• Symphonic black metal

1. Allegiance
2. Progenies of the Great Apocalypse
3. Lepers Among Us
4. Vredesbyrd
5. For the World to Dictate Our Death
6. Blood Hunger Doctrine
7. Allehelgens død i helveds rike
8. Cataclysm Children
9. Eradication Instinct Defined
10. Unorthodox Manifesto

The Beyond

Cult of Luna

• Label: Earache
• Released: 10 February 2003

• Atmospheric sludge metal
• Post-metal

1. Inside Fort Meade
2. Receiver
3. Genesis
4. The Watchtower
5. Circle
6. Arrivaal
7. Leash
8. Clones
9. Deliverance
10. Further

Choirs of the Eye

Kayo Dot

• Label: Tzadik Records
• Released: 21 October 2003

• Avant-garde metal
• Post-metal

1. Marathon
2. A Pitcher of Summer
3. The Manifold Curiosity
4. Wayfarer
5. The Antique

The Eyes of Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper

• Label: Spitfire
• Released: 23 September 2003

• Garage rock
• Hard rock

1. What Do You Want from Me?
2. Between High School & Old School
3. Man of the Year
4. Novocaine
5. Bye Bye, Baby
6. Be With You Awhile
7. Detroit City
8. Spirits Rebellious
9. This House Is Haunted
10. Love Should Never Feel Like This
11. The Song That Didn't Rhyme
12. I'm So Angry
13. Backyard Brawl

Nordland II

Bathory

• Label: Black Mark
• Released: 31 March 2003

• Folk metal
• Viking metal

1. Fanfare
2. Blooded Shore
3. Sea Wolf
4. Vinland
5. The Land
6. Death and Resurrection of a Northern Son
7. The Messenger
8. Flash of the Silverhammer
9. The Wheel of Sun
10. Outro

Déjà Entendu

Brand New

• Label: Triple Crown
• Released: 17 June 2003

• Alternative rock
• Post-hardcore

1. Tatou
2. Sic Transit Gloria ... Gloria Fades
3. I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
4. Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't
5. The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
6. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
7. Jaws Theme Swimming
8. Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis
9. Guernica
10. Good to know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die
11. Play Crack the Sky

As the Palaces Burn

Lamb of God

• Label: Prosthetic
• Released: 6 May 2003

• Groove metal
• Thrash metal

1. Ruin
2. As the Palaces Burn
3. Purified
4. 11th Hour
5. For Your Malice
6. Boot Scraper
7. A Devil in God's Country
8. In Defense of Our Good Name
9. Blood Junkie
10. Vigil

Killing Joke

Killing Joke

• Label: Zuma
• Released: 28 July 2003

• Industrial metal
• Industrial rock

1. The Death & Resurrection Show
2. Total Invasion
3. Asteroid
4. Implant
5. Blood on Your Hands
6. Loose Cannon
7. You'll Never Get to Me
8. Seeing Red
9. Dark Forces
10. The House That Pain Built

Office of Strategic Influence

OSI

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 17 February 2003

• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock

1. The New Math (What He Said)
2. OSI
3. When You're Ready
4. Horseshoes and B-52's
5. Head
6. Hello, Helicopter
7. ShutDOWN
8. Dirt from a Holy Place
9. Memory Daydreams Lapses
10. Standby (Looks Like Rain)

Valley of the Damned

DragonForce

• Label: Noise
• Released: 25 February 2003

• Power metal

1. Invocation of the Apocalyptic Evil
2. Valley of the Damned
3. Black Fire
4. Black Winter Night
5. Starfire
6. Disciples of Babylon
7. Revelation
8. Evening Star
9. Heart of a Dragon

Below the Lights

Enslaved

• Label: Osmose
• Released: 5 May 2003

• Progressive black metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. As Fire Swept Clean the Earth
2. The Dead Stare
3. The Crossing
4. Queen of Night
5. Havenless
6. Ridicule Swarm
7. A Darker Place

Decoration Day

Drive-By Truckers

• Label: New West
• Released: 17 June 2003

• Southern rock
• Country rock

1. The Deeper in
2. Sink Hole
3. Hell No, I Ain't Happy
4. Marry Me
5. My Sweet Annette
6. Outfit
7. Heathens
8. Sounds Better in the Song
9. (Something's GOt to) Give Pretty Soon
10. Your Daddy Hates Me
11. Careless
12. When the Pin Hits the Shell
13. Do It Yourself
14. Decoration Day
15. Loaded Gun in the Closet

Absolution

Muse

• Label: Taste
• Released: 22 September 2003

• Progressive rock
• Alternative rock

1. Intro
2. Apocalypse Please
3. Time Is Running out
4. Sing for Absolution
5. Stockholm Syndrome
6. Falling Away From You
7. Interlude
8. Hysteria
9. Blackout
10. Butterflies and Hurricanes
11. The Small Print
12. Endlessly
13. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
14. Ruled by Secrecy

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

• Label: Barsuk
• Released: 7 October 2003

• Art rock
• Indie rock

1. The New Year
2. Lightness
3. Title and Registration
4. Expo 86
5. The Sound of Settling
6. Tiny Vessels
7. Transatlanticism
8. Passenger Seat
9. Death of an Interior Decorator
10. We Looked Like Giants
11. A Lack of Color

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Coheed and Cambria

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 7 October 2003

• Post-hardcore
• Progressive rock
• Emo

1. The Ring in Return
2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
3. Cuts Maked in the March of Men
4. Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)
5. The Crowing
6. Blood Red Summer
7. The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts
8. The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever
9. The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer
10. A Favor House Atlantic
11. The Light & the Glass
12. 21:13

Souvenirs

The Gathering

• Label: Psychonaut
• Released: 24 February 2003

• Art rock
• Alternative rock

1. These Good People
2. Even the Spirits Are Afraid
3. Broken Glass
4. You Learn About It
5. Souvenirs
6. We Just Stopped Breathing
7. Monsters
8. Golden Grounds
9. Jelena
10. A Life All Mine

The Blessed Hellride

Black Label Society

• Label: Spitfire
• Released: 22 April 2003

• Heavy metal
• Southern metal

1. Stoned and Drunk
2. Doomsday Jesus
3. Stillborn
4. Suffering Overdue
5. The Blessed Hellride
6. Funeral Bell
7. Final Solution
8. Destruction Overdrive
9. Blackened Waters
10. We Live No More
11. Dead Meadow

Viva Emptiness

Katatonia

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 29 April 2003

• Alternative metal
• Progressive metal

1. Ghost of the Sun
2. Sleeper
3. Criminals
4. A Premonition
5. Will I Arrive
6. Burn the Remembrance
7. Wealth
8. One Year from Now
9. Walking by a Wire
10. Complicity
11. Evidence
12. Omerta
13. Inside the City of Glass

The Impossibility of Reason

Chimaira

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 13 May 2003

• Groove metal

1. Cleansation
2. The Impossibility of Reason
3. Pictures in the Gold Room
4. Power Trip
5. Down Again
6. Pure Hatred
7. The Dehumanizing Process
8. Crawl
9. Stigmurder
10. Eyes of a Criminal
11. Overlooked
12. Implements of Destruction

Meteora

Linkin Park

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 25 March 2003

• Alternative metal
• Alternative rock

1. Foreword
2. Don't Stay
3. Somewhere I Belong
4. Lying from You
5. Hit the Floor
6. Easier to Run
7. Faint
8. Figure.09
9. Breaking the Habit
10. From the Inside
11. Nobody's Listening
12. Session
13. Numb

Dance of Death

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 2 September 2003

• Progressive metal
• Heavy metal

1. Wildest Dreams
2. Rainmaker
3. No More Lies
4. Montsegur
5. Dance of Death
6. Gates of Tomorrow
7. New Frontier
8. Paschendale
9. Face in the Sand
10. Age of Innocence
11. Journeyman

Silence Is Easy

Starsailor

• Label: EMI
• Released: 15 September 2003

• Baroque pop

1. Music Was Saved
2. Fidelity
3. Some of Us
4. Silence Is Easy
5. Telling Them
6. Shark Food
7. Bring My Love
8. White Dove
9. Four to the Floor
10. Born Again
11. Restless Heart
12. Could You Be Mine?
13. At the End of a Show

Thirteenth Step

A Perfect Circle

• Label: Virgin
• Released: 16 September 2003

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. The Package
2. Weak and Powerless
3. The Noose
4. Blue
5. Vanishing
6. A Stranger
7. The Outsider
8. Crimes
9. The Nurse Who Loved Me
10. Pet
11. Lullaby
12. Gravity

Birds of Pray

Live

• Label: Radioactive
• Released: 20 May 2003

• Alternative rock

1. Heaven
2. She
3. The Sanctity of Dreams
4. Run Away
5. Life Marches on
6. Like I Do
7. Sweet Release
8. Everytime I See Your Face
9. Lighthouse
10. River Town
11. Out to Dry
12. Bring the People Together
13. What Are We Fighting for?

Rainy Day Music

The Jayhawks

• Label: American
• Released: 8 April 2003

• Country rock
• Indie rock

1. Stumbling Through the Dark
2. Tailspin
3. All the Right Reasons
4. Save It for a Rainy Day
5. Eyes of Sarah Jane
6. One Man's Problem
7. Don't Let the World Get in Your Way
8. Come to the River
9. Angelyne
10. Madman
11. You Look So Young
12. Tampa to Tulsa
13. Will I See You in Heaven
14. Stumbling Through the Dark (Reprise)

De-loused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

• Label: Universal
• Released: 24 June 2003

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. Son et Lumiere
2. Inertiatic Esp
3. Roulette Dates (The Haunt of)
4. Tira me a las arañas
5. Drunkship of Lanterns
6. Eriatarka
7. Cicatriz Esp
8. This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
9. Televators
10. Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt
11. Ambuletz

High Anxiety

Therapy?

• Label: Spitfire
• Released: 5 May 2003

• Alternative metal
• Punk rock

1. Hey Satan You Rock
2. Who Knows
3. Stand in Line
4. Nobody Here But Us
5. Watch You Go
6. If It Kills Me
7. My Voodoo Doll
8. Limbo
9. Last Blast
10. Rust

Train of Thought

Dream Theater

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 11 November 2003

• Pogressive metal

1. As I Am
2. This Dying Soul
3. Endless Sacrifice
4. Honor Thy Father
5. Vacant
6. Stream of Consciousness
7. In the Name of God

Damnation

Opeth

• Label: Music for Nations
• Released: 22 April 2003

• Pogressive rock

1. Windowpane
2. In My Time of Need
3. Death Whispered a Lullaby
4. Closure
5. Hope Leaves
6. To Rid the Disease
7. Ending Credits
8. Weakness