No. 20 Songs For the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age (2002)
Hard rock seemed to be dominated by rap-rock and nu metal at the tail-end of the 1990s, but the Queens resurrected sludgy, thundering riffs on this magnum opus of heavy metal. Informed by the trends that had overtaken the genre but not immersed in them, the band delivered a brilliant road-trip album.
