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2010 has come and gone...
It was a pretty uneven year in metal, with average albums coming from great bands, and good, beautiful surprises popping up from unexpected corners.
2010 was also quite a special year for me - music-wise at least. Thanks to Ivor (yeah, you), a few weird reviews, and other factors, my tastes somehow exploded. Not that it was a surprise, this was already an event in the making. But still. Plus, a year that sees the release of two life-changing albums (whether personally or because they change how you see music) is always a good thing...
Anyway, the first 6 albums are in preference order, while the 19 other ones are arranged alphabetically - just because.
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Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR Soulful, exceptional. Period. A new 'proverbial desert island' album. |
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Shining (NOR) - Blackjazz Agressively, mind-blowingly awesome. Weirdly jazzy, noisy, electronic, and most of all great. It definitively changed my perception of music. |
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Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini Even more black, even more prog, even more perfect. |
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Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent The most varied Killing Joke record ever. |
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Agrypnie - 16[485] A sad, agressive and beautiful piece of black metal. |
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Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards A wonderful piece of soulful and really beautiful music. |
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Angst Skvadron - Sweet Poison Slightly weird and disturbing Valium-induced music... |
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Beati Mortui - Let The Funeral Begin What? Electro-industrial suited for a goth dancefloor? Indeed. Count me in! |
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Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time A nice comeback, after the lame A Twist In The Myth. |
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Chrome Hoof - Crush Depth Weirdo disco fun. Or not (try "Towards Zero"). Oh, and there's Cathedral's Leo Smee on that one. |
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Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void Another 'enjoyable, but could have been better' 2010 album. And yes, I'm still a DT fan ;) |
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Deathspell Omega - Paracletus A weird melodic, dissonant, aggressive and insane beast. |
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Destrage - The King Is Fat'N'Old A fun, hard-rocking, groovy metal(core) album. |
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Fungoid Stream - Oceanus Weird and relaxing ambiant, oceanic funeral doom? Yes, sir! |
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Immolation - Majesty And Decay Well, Immolation. Crushing. |
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In Mourning - Monolith Melancholic proggy melodeath, all-in-one for a great album. |
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Mekong Delta - Wanderer On The Edge Of Time Yet another 'enjoyable, but could have been better' 2010 album. Thanfully, there's this awesome "The Apocalypt" song on it. |
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Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle, Part 2 Weirder, and yet more mainstream, than Part 1... |
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Neuromist - Move Of Thought Great tech-death debut, with impressive song-writing. |
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Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy And yet another 'enjoyable, but could have been better' 2010 album. "Your Poison Throne", eh, eh. |
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Noctiferia - Death Culture Aggressive industrial metal FTW. |
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Project: Failing Flesh - Count Back From Ten Quite unique indus/thrash/whatever album. Nice upgrade from the previous ones! |
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Rhapsody Of Fire - The Frozen Tears Of Angels They're free from Manowar, and it shows. Rhapsody are back! |
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Shaolin Death Squad - Five Deadly Venoms Pleasant proggy album with a few unhinged songs, not unlike a user-friendly version of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. |
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Vangough - Game On A nerd's dream, video game musics covered in metal! |
Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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