The best of 2010

Blueprint

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Oct 6, 2008
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About time to start posting lists :)

Let's start with mine.

Best albums:
01. Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt
02. Underoath - Disambiguation
03. Thulcandra - Fallen Angel's Dominion
04. Division By Zero - Independent Harmony
05. Raunchy - A Discord Electric
06. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It...
07. James Labrie - Static Impulse
08. Norma Jean - Meridional
09. The Secret - Solve Et Coagula
10. Amia Venera Landscape - The Long Procession

Best shows:
- Lamb Of God (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
- Behemoth (FortaRock, Nijmegen)
- The Black Dahlia Murder (Tivoli, Utrecht)

Best festival:
- ProgPower Europe

Best newcomers:
- Thulcandra
- Amia Venera Landscape
- Son Of Aurelius

Feel free to add more categories :)
 
Here's my top 10 list...

1. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
2. Myrath - Desert Call
3. Darkwater - Where Stories End
4. James LaBrie - Static Impulse
5. Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age
6. Vanden Plas - The Seraphic Clockwork
7. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of The ORwarriOR
8. Aeon Zen - The Face Of The Unknown
9. Dreyelands - Rooms OF Revelation
10.Triosphere - The Road Less Travelled
 
Top 10 2010 in no particular order:
Haken – Aquarius
Echoes – Nature/Existence
Mekong Delta – Wanderer on the Edge of Time
Pain of Salvation –Road Salt One
The Shadow Theory – Behind the Black Veil
Day Six – The Grand Design
The Ocean – Heliocentric
Star One – Victim of the Modern Age
Kaipa – In the Wake of Evolution
Xell – The BulgarianMetalBlowoutPowercore’N’SpeedupMusicstalgia

Most unique, innovative and creative music 2010:
Stick Men – Soup
Best instrumental album:
Lalle Larsson’s Weaveworld – Infinity of Worlds
Honorable mentions:
Extorian – Truth and Silky Rags of Cant

Gigs:
Leprous @ PPE and London, Sheperds Bush Empire
Pain of Salvation in Zoetermeer, Louvain-la-Neuve, Andernach, Glasgow
Haken, Day Six, Myrath, Shadow Gallery, Proghma-C, JoP @ PPE
Griftegard & Solitude Aeturnus @ Hammer of Doom, Würzburg
Katatonia @ Backstage, Munich
7for4 and Counter-World Experience @ Kafe Kult, Munich
Devin Townsend Project @ Backstage, Munich
 
Difficult list, because I still need to listen to some albums of 2010 and I don't know if it's all 2010 but here's my list:

1 Therion - Sitra Ahra
2 Roswell Six - A Line In The Sand
3 James LaBrie - Static Impulse
4 Star One – Victim of the Modern Age
5 Spock's Beard - X
6 Devin townsend - Addicted
7 Haken – Aquarius
8 Anathema - We're here because we're here
9 Neverland - Ophidia
10 Myrath - Desert Call