I can't do a top 5 or top 10 albums.... but here are some that I listened to the most this year, or I would consider the most memorable.
Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
Behemoth - The Apostasty
Circus Maximus - Islate
Deliverance - As Above So Below
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omnicient
Evidence One - The Sky is the Limit
Heart of the Sun - s/t
Kaipa - Angling Feelings
Machine Head - The Blackening
Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Pathosray - s/t
Poverty's no Crime - Save My Soul
Primal Fear - New Religion
Raintime - Flies and Lies
Saxon - Inner Sanctum
StarCastle - Song of Times
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Threshold - Dead Reconing
UDO - Mastercutor
Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil
Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
Behemoth - The Apostasty
Circus Maximus - Islate
Deliverance - As Above So Below
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omnicient
Evidence One - The Sky is the Limit
Heart of the Sun - s/t
Kaipa - Angling Feelings
Machine Head - The Blackening
Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Pathosray - s/t
Poverty's no Crime - Save My Soul
Primal Fear - New Religion
Raintime - Flies and Lies
Saxon - Inner Sanctum
StarCastle - Song of Times
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Threshold - Dead Reconing
UDO - Mastercutor
Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil