Best 2010 Albums

2010 has been a good year, but 2009 definitely topped it IMO. I'm still waiting on my copies of the new Electric Wizard & Deathspell Omega so those could replace something, but here is a tentative top 15:

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Odem Arcarum - Outrageous Reverie Above the Erosion of Barren Earth
Negură Bunget - Măiestrit
Withered - Dualitas
StarGazer - A Great Work of Ages
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Immolation - Majesty And Decay
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Imperium Dekadenz - Procella Vadens
Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
Vasaeleth - Crypt Born & Tethered to Ruin
U.S. Christmas - Run Thick In The Night
Horn - Distanz
Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead

Honorable mention: Woe - Quietly, Undramatically
 
I'm to fucking OLD SCHOOL to know what's going on in 2010. When you've been here since 03 you gotta keep it fuckin old school. Show all the noobs and shit how it is to be metal as fuck and just pure Old School, down for life.
 
2010 has been a good year, but 2009 definitely topped it IMO. I'm still waiting on my copies of the new Electric Wizard & Deathspell Omega so those could replace something

Agreed, 2009 and 2008 were both superior regarding releases' quality. I also need to check the new Electric Wizard.
 
1. Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
2. Raunchy - A Discord Electric
3. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
4. Michael Cassette - Temporarity
5. Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
6. Demiurg - Slakthus Gamleby
7. Dinner auf Uranos - 50 Sommer - 50 Winter
8. Machinae Supremacy - A View From the End of the World
9. Volbeat - Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
10. Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
 
Albums Ive been enjoying the most:

1. Istapp - Blekinge
2. Raunchy - A Discord Electric
3. White Wizzard - Over the Top

Random rest of albums Ive enjoyed all year:
Alcest - Écailles de lune
Black Sun Aeon - Routa
Reckless Love - Reckless Love
Crashdïet - Generation Wild
Immolation - Majesty and Decay
Ratt - Infestation
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Normand Corbeil - Heavy Rain Soundtrack
Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Severe Torture - Slaughtered
Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
Decrepit Birth - Polarity
Volbeat - Beyond Hell / Above Heaven
Hate - Erebos
Demiurg - Slakthus Gamleby
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Aborted - Coronary Reconstruction EP
Atheist - Jupiter
Machinae Supremacy - A View From the End of the World
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Helloween - 7 Sinners
October Tide - A Thin Shell
Murderdolls - Women and Children Last
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian
Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
Annihilator - Annihilator
Aeon - Path of Fire
Trigger the Bloodshed - Degenerate
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia
Vomitous - Surgical Abominations of Disfigurement
Les Discrets - Septembre et ses dernières pensées
Before the Dawn - Decade of Darkness EP
Violator - Annihilation Process
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
Kalmah - 12 Gauge
Crazy Lixx - New Religion

A very random year, no genre domination. Not had the chance to check out too much stuff, so there are tons of albums Ive been missing out on. Been tons of disappointments this year also though.

Hope for some more tech. death next year...
 
I see no one has mentioned the new Abigail Williams or Nachtmystium. I really enjoyed the new Nachtmystium when it came out but i dont think it quite makes my top ten list.
 
1. black breath - heavy breathing

in no order:

cemetery urn - the conquered are burned
howling wind - into the cryosphere
grave miasma - realm of evoked doom (ep. still kicks ass)
ghost - opus euponymous
martriden - encounter the monolith
hail of bullets - on divine winds
interment - into the crypts of blasphemy
begrime exemious - impending funeral of man
weapon - from the devils tomb
decrepitaph - beyond the cursed tombs
hate - erebos
onheil - razor
 
In my opinion, that Howling Wind album doesn't come close to The Howling Void's 2010 release, Shadows Over the Cosmos. That's a fucking epic, dark record.
 
In my opinion, that Howling Wind album doesn't come close to The Howling Void's 2010 release, Shadows Over the Cosmos." That's a fucking epic, dark record.

havent listened to it... sounds promising though. will download now, thanks
 
my picks of 2010 (no order)

EDIT-Okay, there's really no order. It's just what 2010 releases i chose to pickup

1. Keep of Kalessin-Reptilian
2. Dark Fortress-Ylem
3. Melechesh-The Epigenesis
4. Hate-Erebos
5. Triptykon-Eparistera Daimones/Shatter EP
6. Enslaved-Axioma Ethica Odini
7. Dimmu Borgir-Abrahadabra
8. Finntroll-Nifelvind
9. The Ocean-Heliocentric/Anthropocentric
10. Ihsahn-After
11. Withered-Dualitas
12. Agalloch-Marrow of the Sprit
13. Borknagar-Universal
14. Stargazer-A Great Work of Ages
15. Thulcandra-Fallen Angels Dominion
16. Allegaeon-Fragments of Form and Function
17. Barren Earth-Curse of the Red River
18. Burzum-Belus
19. Nevermore-The Obsidian Conspiracy
20. Watain-Lawless Darkness
21. 1349-Demonoir
22. Dark Tranquillity-We Are the Void
23. Soilwork-The Panic Broadcast
24. Solution 45-For Aeons Past
25. Ov Hell-The Underworld Regime
26. Castevet-Mounds of Ash
27. Sargeist-Let the Devil In
28. Negura Bunget-Virstele Pamintului
29. Therion-Sitra Ahra
30. Abigail Williams-In the Abscence of Light
31. Sjodogg-Ode to Obscurantism
32. Cradle of Filth-Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa
33. Nachtmystium-Addicts
34. Witchery-Witchkrieg
35. Immolation-Majesty & Decay
36. Atheist-Jupiter
37. Witchsorrow-s/t
38. Blind Guardian-At the Edge of Time
39. Daath-s/t
40. The Contortionist-Exoplanet
41. Istapp-Blekinge
42. Woe-Quietly, Undramatically
43. The Funeral Pyre-Vultures at Dawn
44. Deathspell Omega-Paracletus
45. Darkthrone-Circle the Wagons
46. Valkyrja-Contamination
47. Twilight-Monument to Time End
48. October Tide-A Thin Shell
49. Mushroomhead-Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children
50. James Labrie-Static Impulse
51. Sigh-Scenes From Hell
52. Limbonic Art-Phantasmagoria
53. Eluveitie-Everything Remains as it Never Was
54. Orphaned Land-The Neverending Way of ORWarrior
55. Order of Ennead-An Examination of Being
56. Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire-Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation
57. Decrepit Birth-Polarity
58. Haeresiarchs of Dis-Denutias Cinid
59. Rotting Christ-Aeolo
60. Rhapsody of Fire-The Frozen Tears of Angels
61. Iron Maiden-The Final Frontier
62. Unearthly Trance-V
63. Aeon-Path of Fire
 
I have no idea how one can list 50 best albums in one year. Have you given each and every one of them enough spins to actually get a mature impression of every single record? I could never do that. Thats about one aalbum each week and thats only whats on your top 50. If you can list 50 best albums how many did you listen to in total?
 
I have no idea how one can list 50 best albums in one year. Have you given each and every one of them enough spins to actually get a mature impression of every single record? I could never do that. Thats about one aalbum each week and thats only whats on your top 50. If you can list 50 best albums how many did you listen to in total?

What the fuck kind of argument is this? Someone has to listen to a single album for a week to give themselves a "mature impression" (a nebulous, poorly defined concept if I've ever seen one, that's for sure) of it? I think you need to remove the stick from your ass, dude.