| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Popblerd/bLISTerd (USA) - Top 100 (+50) Albums of the 2000s (2012) | 131 |
| Ratings | |
| All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars | 4 Stars |
| Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) | 4 Stars |
| Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 | 7 |
| Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) | 81 |
| Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) | 6 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Spin (USA) - Albums of the Year | 15 |
| The Badger Herald (USA) - Albums of the Year | No Order |
| woxy.com (USA) - Albums of the Year | 34 |
| Kerrang (UK) - Albums of the Year | 19 |
| Metal Hammer (UK) - Albums of the Year | 9 |
| Q (UK) - Albums of the Year | 23 |
| OOR (Netherlands) - Albums of the Year | 27 |
| Visions (Germany) - Albums of the Year | 26 |
