Best 2010 Albums

[Bitencourt29]

I haven't seen any of these so far, so I thought we could start showing our lists and discussing 2010 albums. If there's a similar thread already going I apologize...

Overall I think it is a good year for Metal, not as good as 2009 or 2008 though.

My top 20 in order:

1 - Immolation - Majesty and Decay
2 - Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
3 - Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
4 - Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
5 - Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead
6 - Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds
7 - Dawnbringer - Nucleus
8 - Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
9 - Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant
10 - Melechesh - The Epigenesis

11 - Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual...
12 - Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
13 - Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
14 - Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies against God
15 - Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
16 - Burzum - Belus
17 - Blood of Kingu - Sun in The House of Scorpio
18 - Diocletian - War of All against All
19 - Negura Bunget - Virstele Pamintului
20 - StarGazer - A Great Work of Ages

This will most likely change, as I haven't listened to a lot of releases. Some stuff is on the way.

 

[Draehl]

Of what I've heard Marrow of the Spirit & Belus by a long shot.

 

[Onder]

Ugh, I heard a lot of stuff so I'll have to list it and give it some order first so I don't forget like twenty releases I loved. Also I'll probably categorize it as I don't want to compare different stuff .

 

[Einherjar86]

A few off the top of my head:

Atlantean Kodex- The Golden Bough
Ereb Altor- The End
Draugnim- Horizons Low
Orden Ogan- Easton Hope
Enslaved- Axioma Ethica Odini
Agalloch- Marrow of the Spirit

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'll compile a real list sometime as well, but off the top of my head this is what I got

1) Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
2) Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
3) Hour of 13 - The Ritualist
4) Profanatica Disugusting Blasphemies Against God
5) Briton Rites - For Mircalla

 

[Vossyrus]

I really haven't listened to much this year. I've just paid attention to those albums of more well-known bands.

So off the top of my head, I enjoyed these releases:

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - A Strange Thing to Say
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Abigor - Time Is the Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint...
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Burzum - Belus
Ihsahn - After

I still need to spend more time listening to these albums before I judge them further:
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
The Meads of Asphodel - The Murder of Jesus the Jew
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

And I'll need to check out new albums from Immolation, Profanatica, Inquisition and whatever else I haven't gotten to.

 

[The Ozzman]

Ares Kingdom - Incendiary

I have only bought 5 albums that came out this year

 

[Tonka Time]

Anybody get the new Aborym? Kinda meh from what I've heard. they were better with Attila and Prime Evil.

From the few that I've heard
Blacklodge - T/ME
Abigor - Sulfur...
Profanatica - DBAG
Prosanctus Inferi - Pandemonic Ululations of Vesperic Palpitation

Needa check out the new Diocletian and DsO, I've been lazy
Still waiting for signs of life from Diapsiquir, Alien Deviant Circus, and Pavillon Rouge.

 

[Kulak]

Still loving this.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Won't have a complete list for at least a couple of months. Here's a few that'll probably make it:

Weapon - From the Devil's Tomb
Arckanum - Sviga Læ
Dub Buk - Мертві сорому не ймуть
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Dødsengel - Mirium Occultum
Demontage - The Principal Extinction
Burzum - Belus
Kawir - To Uranus

 

[Pyro Stick]

12 - Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
17 - Blood of Kingu - Sun in The House of Scorpion

Havent listened to much else on that list but i probably should. These 2 are definately in my top ten.

Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons

Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Alcest - Écailles de lune
Twilight - Monument to Time End

Im sure theres more but i cant think of them right now. New Acid Witch might make it onto my list soon. 2010 has definately been a great year for metal.

 

[Bitencourt29]

Weapon - From the Devil's Tomb
Arckanum - Sviga Læ
Dub Buk - Мертві сорому не ймуть

I need to listen to those.

New Acid Witch is not bad but I was expecting more.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i still have a couple albums to go through again, but so far these are at the top of my list ...

Witchaven - Terrorstorm
Denouncement Pyre - World Cremation
Interment - Into The Crypts of Blasphemy
Vasaeleth - Crypt Born and Tethered to Ruin
Decrepit Birth - Polarity
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Brain Drill - Quantum Catastrophe


but theres been a lot of goods stuff this year so far, and a lot of other albums i have to spin again.

 

[unknown]

new Dub Buk?! I need to get on that

 

[Xorv]

alcest - scales of the moon
agalloch - marrow of the spirit
burzum - belus
les discrets - Septembre et ses dernières pensées
anathema - we're here because we're here
immolation - majesty and decay
lantlos - .neon

various artist compliation albums;

Whom the Moon a Nightsong Sings

and

Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

 

[Krow]

1. Electric Wizard - Black Masses
2. Hour of 13 - The Ritualist
3. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
4. The Grotesquery - Tales From the Coffin Born
5. Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
6. Overkill - Ironbound
7. Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance

That'll do for me.

 

[fps]

i think the new enslaved is not up to par as a potential album of the year, though it's very good.

 

[Einherjar86]

I'm surprised I haven't seen more Atlantean Kodex. I thought that album slayed.

 

[Draehl]

I like Enslaved, but the new album is just too... poppy? I won't say it's bad because it's not, but it distinctly lacking the vaguely folky sound I love from their previous material.

 

[Crapples]

Demontage - The Principal Extinction
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Grave Desecrator - Insult
Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
Blasphemophagher - For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation
Briton Rites - For Mircalla
Vomitor - Devils Poison
Weapon - From The Devil's Tomb
Deathhammer - Phantom Knights
Hour of 13 - The Ritualist
Korgull the Exterminator - War of the Voivodes
Force Of Darkness - Darkness Revelation
Vasaeleth - Crypt Born & Tethered to Ruin
Cruel Force - The Rise of Satanic Might

And that's without including a shitload of awesome EP's. Not to shabby a year I gotta say. Hanging out for that Procession full length which will top everything probably, not sure if that's this year though.