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by **metal_bryan** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:24 pm

Resurrecting this thread so we can discuss 2010 in metal! What new albums did you love? (note: these are my overall lists, so it's not ALL metal)

MY BEST ALBUMS OF 2010:
1. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
2. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
3. Grave Digger - The Clans Will Rise Again
4. Rhapsody of Fire - The Frozen Tears Of Angels
5. Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian
6. Kamelot - Poetry For The Poisoned
7. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
8. Elvenking - Red Silent Tides
9. Therion - Sitra Ahra
10. Dark Moor - Ancestral Romance

Honorable Mentions:
Magic Kingdom - Symphony Of War
Elton John/Leon Russell - The Union
Unleashed - As Yggdrasil Trembles
Arsis - Starve For The Devil
Gamma Ray - To The Metal
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise

MY FAVORITE SONGS OF 2010:
1. Blind Guardian - The Voice In The Dark
2. Rhapsody of Fire - Reign Of Terror
3. Kamelot - The Great Pandemonium
4. Grave Digger - The Piper McLeod/Coming Home
5. Angra - Weakness Of A Man
6. Elvenking - The Cabal
7. Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian Majesty
8. Dark Moor - Alaric de Marnac
9. Angra - Spirit Of The Air
10. Melechesh - Grand Gathas Of Baal Sin

FAVORITE DISCOVERIES OF 2010:
1. Artillery - By Inheritance
2. Serenity - Fallen Sanctuary / Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
3. Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
4. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
5. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
6. Artch - Another Return
7. Dark Moor - Beyond The Sea / The Gates of Oblivion
8. Obituary - Cause Of Death
9. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
10. Nocturnal Rites - Grand Illusion

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MY BEST OF 2009 (for reference):
1. Amorphis - Skyforger
2. Savage Circus - Of Doom & Death
3. Vektor - Dark Future
4. Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
5. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
6. Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
7. Cain's Offering - Gather the Faithful
8. HammerFall - No Sacrifice, No Victory
9. Stratovarius - Polaris
10. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest

Honorable Mentions:
11. HORSE the Band - Desperate Living
12. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
13. Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
14. Megadeth - Endgame

So far this year my two favorite albums are from Stratovarius and Serenity. The new Serenity comes out on friday (listening to a leaked version right now until I can buy it).

Stratovarius - Infernal Maze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujwbfuvTCGY

Serenity - When Canvas Starts To Burn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtrdYBHwLec

by **jellydonut25** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:34 am

wow, i really don't follow music anymore...

maybe that's because thrash isn't really popular and i hate death/scream (and TONS of people tell me "oh you like <metallica, maiden, megadeth, slayer, anthrax, iced earth>? you'd LOVE <gojira, lamb of god, opeth>" and i effing hate those bands...

I also thought Endgame was REALLY weak and that's coming from a die-hard Megadeth fan. I like RISK!!! I just find Endgame to lack ANY hooks whatsoever and outside of the first two tracks, the title track and Headcrusher I find it to be actually quite bland...and Headcrusher is a not-as-good version of Sleepwalker.

A good band that I discovered in late 2009/early 2010 and absolutely LOVE is Volbeat. They've got a really cool, fun Metallica/Godsmack/Johnny Cash vibe...

by **Destroysall** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:21 am

While Bryan may disagree on me on this

, but jelly, have you ever listened to Trivium's "Crusade" album. It's quite thrashy, not entirely thrashy though. I would not compare it to any of the bands you mentioned because I think that each band has their own sound, regardless of which genre they are in. However, I do think its worth checking out.

by **metal_bryan** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:03 pm

Yeah, I know what you mean about thrash, Jelly. This recent thrash revival has a lot of bands trying to be awesome and very few actually are.

I guess the days of amazing albums like By Inheritance, Victims Of Deception, Rust In Peace, Nosferatu, Think This and Energetic Disassembly really are over.

Heathen did put out an awesome new album though. Vektor and Gama Bomb are pretty dang good too for newer bands.

by **metal_bryan** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:50 am

by **MouthForWar** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:16 am

by **metal_bryan** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:27 am

by **jellydonut25** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:59 am

by **Psycho Soldier** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:35 am

In case you ever struggle to find new metal someplace, is more or less a directory for free albums. I haven't downloaded much from the list yet, but I can confirm that Lavagoat and High Priest of Saturn's self-titled releases are pretty decent doom metal, and The Last Alliance's heavy metal cover of "Moskau" is well done.

by **gila-monster** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:44 am

by **metal_bryan** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:37 am

http://m.metalhammer.co.uk/news/randy-b ... ch-prison/

Randy has been granted bail. Finally.

by **metal_bryan** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:45 pm

by **MouthForWar** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:47 pm

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