Best Metal Albums of 2010

With respect to Agalloch, this disc is really beginning to grow on me. I suspect I, like many, didn't take to it at first as it was vastly different than what I was expecting.
180° shift.

So I thought this disc was beginning to grow on me. But it turns out, it's not. In the end, it's just too disjointed. Obviously, there are parts I like. However, it just doesn't measure up to the band's three previous full-lengths.
 
180° shift.

So I thought this disc was beginning to grow on me. But it turns out, it's not. In the end, it's just too disjointed. Obviously, there are parts I like. However, it just doesn't measure up to the band's three previous full-lengths.

hahah, this disc is like some temperamental chick that you like but not sure what to make of her. seems to have the RC up in arms.

so, has Ghost – Opus Eponymous been discussed?
 
I didn't listen to much new stuff from this year. I'm not even sure if I've heard 20 albums but these were the ones that stood out.

Stargazer - A Great Work Of Ages / A Work Of Great Ages
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Burzum - Belus
Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead