My Top 50 of 2010

[METALPRIEST]

Alright well we can have up to 50 so it makes it a bit easier...now onto my list!

My favorites this year. Will also add other great mentions later!! Nice thread!!!



Apocalyptica ~ 7th Symphony
Avantasia ~ The Wicked Symphony
Avantasia ~ Angel Of Babylon
Blind Guardian ~ At The Edge Of Time
Bullet For My Valentine ~ Fever
Circle II Circle ~ Consequence Of Power
Cradle Of Filth ~ Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
Dimmu Borgir ~ Abrahadabra
Elvenking ~ Red Silent Tides
Gamma Ray ~ To The Metal
Halford ~ Made Of Metal
Helloween ~ 7 Sinners
Iron Maiden ~ The Final Frontier
Jon Oliva's Pain ~ Festival
Judas Priest ~ British Steel - 30th Anniversary Edition
Kamelot ~ Poetry For The Poisoned
Lordi ~ Babez For Breakfast
Yngwie Malmsteen ~Relentless
Megadeth ~ Rust In Peace Live
Nevermore ~ The Obsidian Conspiracy
Ozzy Osbourne ~ Scream
Revolution Renaissance ~ Trinity
Rhapsody Of Fire ~ The Frozen Tears Of Angels
Scorpions ~ Sting In The Tail
Soilwork ~ The Panic Broadcast
Taking Dawn ~ Time To Burn
We Are The Fallen ~ Tear The World Down

 

[DaKillerWolf]

OK, as good as I can do at this point I have narrowed by picks to 25
..my best of year picks never includes EPs, compilations or live albums ..at least 5 others on my list could just as easily be here instead of something that did make it but narrowing as requested


NEVERMORE ~ The Obisidian Conspiracy
TRIPTYKON ~ Eparistera Daimones
SLOUGH FEG ~The Animal Spirits
IRON MAIDEN ~ The Final Frontier
HIGH ON FIRE ~ Snakes of the Divine
BARREN EARTH ~ Curse of the Red River
HOUR OF 13 ~ The Ritualist
DANZIG ~Deth Red Sabaoth
GRAND MAGUS ~Hammer of the North
ENSLAVED ~ Axioma Ethica Odini
MOTORHEAD ~ The Wörld Is Yours
LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR ~ Evil Power
NOMAD SON ~ The Eternal Return
DEATH ANGEL ~ Relentless Retribution
OVERKILL ~ Iron Bound
HELSTAR ~ Glory of Chaos
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY ~Order of the Black
FORBIDDEN ~ Omega Wave
BLACK LAND ~ Extreme Heavy Psych
STARGAZER ~ A Great Work of the Ages
SODOM ~ In War & Pieces
MELECHESH ~ The Epigenesus
PROCESSION ~ Destroyer of Faith
DECREPIT BIRTH ~ Polarity
CATHEDRAL ~ The Guessing Game


I have to say that the below featured album is probably my favorite of the year and therefore I will start here.

NEVERMORE ~ The Obsidian Conspiracy



Progressive Power Thrash

band members

Warrel Dane - Vocals (Sanctuary (USA), Serpent's Knight)
Jeff Loomis - Guitars (Experiment Fear, Sanctuary (USA), Fear-Tech, System)
Jim Sheppard - Bass (Sanctuary (USA), Alice in Chains)
Van Williams - Drums (Pure Sweet Hell)


Track listing :

1. The Termination Proclamation
2. Your Poison Throne
3. Moonrise (Through Mirrors Of Death)
4. And The Maiden Spoke
5. Emptiness Unobstructed
6. The Blue Marble And The New Soul
7. Without Morals
8. The Day You Built The Wall
9. She Comes In Colors
10. The Obsidian Conspiracy

Dark, Sorrowful, Twisted, Angry and Beautiful ...the moving soundscape of a lost dejected soul cursed to wander alone while glimpsing the light ahead and knowing it shall never be allowed entrance.....

 

[LG]

^^I have that one DKW...haven't listened to it enough to give any meaningful insight but I like Nevermore, from Seattle I believe.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

^^I have that one DKW...haven't listened to it enough to give any meaningful insight but I like Nevermore, from Seattle I believe.

Yeah , they are my favorite band from Seattle ...maybe my favorite band ..definitely top 5 ..They rose from the ashes of Sanctuary another great though short lived band.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

Another one of my favorites of 2010

SLOUGH FEG ~ The Animal Spirits ( previously known as The Lord Weird Slough Fey )

Heavy Metal

band members :
Mike Scalzi (guitar, vocals), Greg Haa (drums, 1990-93, 1994-?), Chris Haa (guitar, 1990-94), Justin Phelps (bass, 1990-96), John Cobbett (guitar, 1998-2005), Adrian Maestas (bass, 2003-present), Angelo Tringali (guitar, 2005-present), Harry Cantwell (drums, ?-present), Jon Torres (bass), Jim Mack (bass), Scott Beach (bass), Antoine Reuben-Diavola (drums), Omar Herd, Stu Kane, Dave Passmore, Andrew Sebba

track listing

1 Trick the Vicar
2 The 95 Thesis
3 Materia Prima
4 Free Market Barbarian
5 Lycanthropic Fantasies
6 Ask the Casket
7 Heavyworlder
8 The Tell-Tale Heart........ Awesome Alan Parsons Project cover
9 Kon-Tiki
10 Second Coming
11 Tactical Air-War

Great band steeped in the Traditional Heavy Metal camp yet with an indefinable quirkiness about them .If I had to put a sound tag on this album I would say it is something along the lines of a mixture between Manilla Road , a bit of Brocas Helm and old Iron Maiden ...yet remaining what it is that makes Slough Fey . .....The Lord Weird Slough Fey .....
Sonic Shamans that they are, The Weird Lord summon ancient animal spirits and set them loose upon the modern world

 

[DaKillerWolf]

So I guess you get the point by now and I probably don't need to explain this is a favorite of mine from 2010

TRIPTYKON ~ Eparistera Daimones

Doom / Black / Death / Thrash / Gothic / whatever

band members :

Thomas Gabriel Fischer (vocals, guitar, programming)..,AKA Tom G. Warrior ala the mighty Celtic Frost
V. Santura (guitar, vocals), Vanja Slajh (bass),
Reed St. Mark (drums, percussion, 2008),
Norman Lonhard (drums, percussion, 2008-present)

Awesome mixture of doom , black , death ,gothic and thrash metal stirred up in the witches cauldron forming a complicated and intriguing musical combination .Tom G. Warrior returns to carry on in the direction of the very last Celtic Frost album, Monotheist but it is doomier and also more crushing .The heavy guitar licks and Tom's vocal output are indescribably monstrous . A behemoth of an album the magnitude of which will probably be lost on most the others here at this site who might attempt a listen but one that I could have easily picked for my number one spot.

Track Listing :

1 Goetia
2 Abyss Within My Soul
3 In Shrouds Decayed
4 Shrine
5 A Thousand Lies
6 Descendant
7 Myopic Empire
8 My Pain
9 The Prolonging

 

[joe]

Triptykon really surprised me. Sheer power and great riffs. I didn't think I would like this after reading your intro on the band but I was wrong. All those elements combined really work for my ears. Excellent.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

Triptykon really surprised me. Sheer power and great riffs. I didn't think I would like this after reading your intro on the band but I was wrong. All those elements combined really work for my ears. Excellent.

I was thinking out of everyone here that you might like it, other then Bob of course.
But you never know.....

I'll be putting more up soon.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

Since Joe surprised me with his appreciation of Triptykon I thought that I would post this next release and see if I am not pleasantly surprised once more . Either way Joe, I have to say I respect the fact that you are open minded enough to have given it a chance.

COUGH ~ Ritual Abuse

Psychedelic / Doom / Sludge / with some Black Metal influences

This is a release that I recently picked up due to recommendation from a fellow doom metal enthusiast. I have only listened to it twice so far but
had I heard it before trimming my list it would have been given a spot somewhere without a doubt.


1 Mind Collapse
2 A Year In Suffering
3 Crippled Wizard
4 Crooked Spine
5 Ritual Abuse

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

BISON B.C ~ Dark Ages
BLACK TUSK ~ Taste The Sin
KYLESA ~ Spiral Shadow
HIGH ON FIRE ~ Snakes of the Divine
CANCER BATS ~ Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones
ELETIRC WIZARD ~ Black Masses
OVERKILL ~ Iron Bound
LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR ~ Evil Power

Hardcore/Punk
ARSON ANTHEM ~ Insecurity Notoriety
CEREMONY ~ Rohnert Park

Other
TALLEST MAN ON EARTH ~ The Wild Hunt