Best 2010 Albums

[Vegard Pompey]

I haven't heard enough to make a list but the Ghost debut is amazing.

 

[Dak]

Good to hear you got the real Volbeat album , it's a winner. It might make my list as well. 7 Shots is absolutely one of their best songs ever, if not THE best.

Sorry for the late reply, but as far as 7 Shots goes, HELL YES.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

WELCOME TO A WORLD OF CHAOS, YOU'VE BEEN CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT!

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Edit: On topic, Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm just might dethrone Incendiary for the top spot of this year. I'm leaning toward the position that it's the best Inquisition album, but I still need to "piece" the album together completely before I go ahead and take that stand.

THIS! So good.

 

[MWM]

In no order:

Zoroaster - Matador
Twilight - Monument to Time End
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of such and such...
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Nightbringer - Apocalypse Sun
Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds
Weapon - From the Devil's Tomb
Electric Wizard - Black Masses

 

[Belligerent]

Godlike

Excellent
SIG:AR:TYR - Godsaga

Good
Imperium Dekadenz - Procella Vadens
Enslaved - Axioma Etica Odini

These 3 are in my Top 5 no doubt.

 

[SwarmOvRats]

The best I've heard, in no particular order:

Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm
Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
Nomad Son - The Eternal Return
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Realmbuilder - Summon the Stone Throwers
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Zuul - Out of Time
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages
Sahg - III
Procession - Destroyers of the Faith
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead
Grand Magus - Hammer of the North
Ereb Altor - The End
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Enforcer - Diamonds
Dawnbringer - Nucleus
Craven Idol - Ethereal Altars
Blood Revolt - Indoctrine
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
Ludicra - The Tenant

Still need to give more listening time to Inquisition, Christian Mistress, Deathspell Omega, and a few others. This was actually a really good year I think.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Damn, seeing your list made me realize how much I've been fucking missing.

 

[SwarmOvRats]

I'm missing alot myself. Just looking in your sig. reminded me that I still haven't heard new Acid Witch, Bastard Priest and Diocletian, for example.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

My top 10 Metal albums of the year -

10 - In Mourning - Monolith

9 - Ihsahn - After

8 - Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

7 - Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy

6 - Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

5 - Immolation - Majesty And Decay

4 - Sigh - Scenes From Hell

3 - These Are They - Disposing Of Betrayers

2 - Alcest - Écailles de Lune

1 - Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

 

[Mortado]

Watain – Lawless Darkness
Weapon – The Devil’s Tomb
Burzum – Belus
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Rage – Strings to a Web
Sigh – Scenes from Hell
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons

More of my best of 2010 (music, shows, movies, etc...) can be found here

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol @ anyone listing strings to a web

 

[Disepticillusion]

My Top 10:

1. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
2. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
3. Ea - Aullu Eina
4. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
5. Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River
6. Lantlôs - .neon
7. Demiurg - Slakthus Gamleby
8. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
9. Rotting Christ - Aealo
10. In Mourning - Monolith

 

[The Necrotizer]

Autopsy - The Tomb Within
Profanatica -Disugusting Blasphemies Against God
Prosanctus Inferi - Pandemonic Ululations of Vesperic Palpitation
Decrepit Birth – Polarity
Blasphemophagher - For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza III
Extirpation - Tormentor Supreme Black Katharsis
and I also quite enjoyed Cephalic Carnage - Misled by Certainty

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

^great list, i also really enjoyed Misled by Certainty.

 

[The Necrotizer]

^great list, i also really enjoyed Misled by Certainty.

Glad to see someone else did! I got the impression that many CepC fans didn't like it, beats me as to why, they're a fucking brilliant band.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I totally fucking forgot that Blasphemophagher released an album this year. I own it and I don't think I've even listened to it. Damn, what the hell is wrong with me?

 

[Bitencourt29]

^ It's a good album, nothing amazing though.

 

[JontRevolting]

Inquisition,Stargazer,Man's Gin,Sacriphyx,Sloughfeg and Atlantean Kodex,they're probably my favourite for 2010

 

[Cythraul]

So I usually don't like year-end 'best of' lists as a matter of principle. Perhaps it's also an issue of practicality. I have neither the time nor the desire to attentively listen to enough albums released in a given year during their year of release to be able to make a top 10 that I won't regret after those albums are subjected to the test of time and cool-headed assessment. And the amount of stuff that has made a lasting impression on me over the years is pretty small. There are only about 3 albums from '09 for instance that I'm still listening to, I think. The rest of it is good for a couple of listens and then it can go straight to the landfill for all I care.

Despite what I've just said, I think I want to say that the new Inquisition album is probably the best I've heard all year out of the handful of albums that I have heard. I predict that if anything sticks with me long after 2010 it will be that album. Everything else I've heard was disappointing, mediocre, or enjoyable for a couple of spins. Notable disappointments were Immolation and Atlantean Kodex. I've also listened to a smattering of tracks from various albums mentioned here and elsewhere, and almost none of it has piqued my interest.

edit: hmmm, maybe I should check out that Sloughfeg album.