Best of 2010 thus far...

[Einherjar86]

It's too manly and metal for your pagan folky fantasy tastes.

 

[Lifewithoutpain]

Some good stuff listed already. I've been enjoying:

True - Still Life
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia
Hour of Penance - Paradogama

and really looking forward to the new Decrepit Birth.

 

[George]

Burzum - Belus
Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
WAIL - Wisdom through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy (I think it's a 2010 release)
Bloody Sign - Chaos Echoes
Kerasphorus - Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn
--
That's it so far.

 

[Destructo_Pat]

The first one that comes to mind:

 

[Crapples]

Briton Rites - For Mircalla
Demontage - The Principal Extinction
Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
WAIL - s/t
Force of Darkness - Darkness Revelation
Nocturnal Blood - Both
Hour of 13 - The Ritualist
Blasphemophagher - For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation
Ketzer - Satans Boundaries Unchained
Kerasphorus - Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn
Nocturnal Graves - The Gravespirit Sessions
Hellish Crossfire - Bloodrust Scythe

Can't complain.

 

[VelociBrad]

This is my favorite so far. Fucking killer.

Interment - Into the Crypts of Blasphemy
Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
Force of Darkness - Darkness Revelation
Hour of Penance - Paradogma
Chronic Decay - Justify Your Existence

would be my top 5 so far.

 

[Vossyrus]

I started the year off paying close attention to new releases but the last three or four months I haven't really cared.

The best I've heard this year are:

Darthrone - Circle the Wagons
Abigor - Time Is the Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint
Ihsahn - After
Burzum - Belus

Blacklodge's T/ME was also pretty good.

 

[Caecius]

So far favorites have been:
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos

The new Heathen was pretty weak. I thought they would be one of the few bands to comeback with a strong album.

 

[SkeletonWitch]

Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River

 

[Episteme]

I found Ares Kingdom's Incendiary filled with annoying guitar solos and vocals. Other than that it was pretty okay.

 

[Zephyrus]

I find the vocals match the music perfectly. And who couldn't love that solo in the middle of "Beasts that Perish."?

 

[Episteme]

It's not so much the vocals that annoy me as such as it is the production of it being so upfront. The guitar solos would be okay if the guitarist didn't use the same patterns over and over again. I really like the riffs and harmonies though.

 

[WCannibal]

Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones with new Alcest being a close second.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Sadist (Ita) - Season In Silence

 

[Lateralus14]

I would agree that the production on Ares Kingdom's stuff could be a little better; the vocals can be slightly grating at times with how up front they are. Still pretty awesome in general though...and I'll probably end up getting over it like I did with Asphyx.

 

[The Ozzman]

On my list to purchase in the near future:

The new Hellish Crossfire, Ares Kingdom and Briton Rites
maybe the new Fear Factory, Overkill and Heathen

 

[rms]

dude the new hellish crossfire is fucking awesome..probably clinching top spot for any newer released thrash album

 

[Lateralus14]

What do other people (Yoda/Addo/Dodens/etc.) think about Hellish Crossfire and Interment?

 

[Master_Yoda77]

We have yet to hear either of them.

 

[rms]

What do other people (Yoda/Addo/Dodens/etc.) think about Hellish Crossfire and Interment?

dont lump me in as a poser get the new hellish crossfire