15 days left to go for 2010 to wind up, so couldn't wait any longer for the lists to begin.

Here's a bit of mine to get started. In no order, and some more to come. Will list out my top 10 as well...

Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Atheist - Jupiter
1349 - Demonoir
Drudkh - Handful Of Stars
Cloudkicker - Beacons / ]]][[[
TesseracT - Concealing Fate
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Veil Of Maya - ID
Ihsahn - After
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Wormrot - Abuse
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
The Sword - Warp Riders
Rotting Christ - AEALO

finally someone mentioned the sword.. \m/

Yes The Sword is also great live band...

The first time I seen them , no one knew anything about them ... They opened for Priestess & Early Man. I got into the venue just as the doors opened...and literally 5 minutes after the doors opened, The Sword started playing.

I told my friends who got there late about them , and they were pissed that they did not get to the concert early enough to see this great new band....

The second time I seen them, they opened for Trivium......

Two other albums I loved this year are:


ACCEPT: Blood Of The Nations

Amazing album from an amazing band..The new vocalist is fantastic and the album kicks ass...

Wolf Hoffman (guitar) and Peter Baltes (bass) are two of the best but underrated mucicians in metal

Accept are one of the few bands (that I love ) who I have not seen....but this week I just bought Tickets to see them in April for my first time...!!!! ( I have been a fan since the early 80's when I heard the song, Fast As A Shark, from their landmark Restless And Wild album)




SISTER SIN: True Sound Of The Underground

KILLER Female vocals with music that has elements of Accept/Motorhead/Judas Priest & early Motley Crue etc...

Seen them this past summer with Lynch Mob & MSG...all 3 bands were fantastic...
Even got pictures taken with the singer and she signed my CD..and her singing was fantastic live...with equal or more power in her voice than most male singers....

Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Weapon- From the Devils Tomb
Burzum- Belus
Drudkh- Handful of Stars
Black Witchery- new album
Orator- Dominion of Avyaktam

Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Burzum - Belus
Negura Bunget - Vîrstele Pămîntului (Dacia Hiperboreana is probably the best song of 2010)
Melechesh - The Epigenesis
Borknagar - Universal

Surprise of the year - Cradle of Filth's "Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa" - Way better than the garbage they have come up with in recent times.

Enforcer - Diamonds
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
The Howling Void - Shadows Over the Cosmos
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void
Immolation - Majesty and Decay
Overkill - Ironbound
The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
Accept - Blood of the nations
Nominion - Monumentomb
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
Grand Magus - Hammer of the north
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Annihilator - Annihilator

Witchery - Witchkreig
Overkill - Ironbound
Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
Ratt - Infestation
Loudness - King Of Pain
Gamma ray - To the metal
Accept - Blood Of Nations
Exodus - Exhibit B
Cataract - Killing the eternal
Ektomorf - Redemption
Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution

Lots I haven't listened to, and I'm probably missing out on some that I may have heard earlier in the year, but anyway:

Oh yeah forgot about these. Great releases, especially Infestation