My favourite albums from 2010

1. 50

   Heavy Metal Fruit

   Motorpsycho

   

   

   Progressive rock | Stoner rock

   Tracks:

   1. Starhammer ●
   2. X-3 (Knuckleheads in Space) / The Getaway Special
   3. The Bomb-Proof Roll and Beyond (for Annuel Hassle)
   4. Close Your Eyes
   5. W.B.A.T.
   6. Gullible's Travails (pt. I - IV)

2. 49

   Appalachian Incantation

   Karma to Burn

   

   

   Stoner rock

   Tracks:

   1. 44
   2. 42
   3. 41
   4. 46
   5. Walking on the Western World ●
   6. 43
   7. 45
   8. 24
   9. Two Times

3. 48

   Phosphene Dream

   The Black Angels

   

   

   Psychedelic rock | Garage rock revival

   Tracks:

   1. Bad Vibrations
   2. Haunting at 1300 McKinley
   3. Yellow Elevator #2
   4. Sunday Afternoon
   5. River of Blood ●
   6. Entrance Song
   7. Phosphene Dream
   8. True Believers
   9. Telephone
   10. The Sniper

4. 47

   We're Here Because We're Here

   Anathema

   

   

   Alternative rock | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Thin Air
   2. Summernight Horizon
   3. Dreaming Light ●
   4. Everything
   5. Angels Walk Among Us
   6. Presence
   7. A Simple Mistake
   8. Get off, Get out
   9. Universal
   10. Hindsight

5. 46

   Blood of the Nations

   Accept

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Beat the Bastards
   2. Teutonic Terror
   3. The Abyss
   4. Blood of the Nations ●
   5. Shades of Death
   6. Locked and Loaded
   7. Kill the Pain
   8. Rolling Thunder
   9. Pandemic
   10. New World Comin'
   11. No Shelter
   12. Bucket Full of Hate

6. 45

   Asylum

   Disturbed

   

   

   Alternative metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Remnants
   2. Asylum
   3. The Infection
   4. Warrior
   5. Another Way to Die
   6. Never Again
   7. The Animal
   8. Crucified
   9. Serpentine ●
   10. My Child
   11. Sacrifice
   12. Innocence
   13. Ishfwilf

7. 44

   This Is the Warning

   Dead Letter Circus

   

   

   Alternative rock | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Here We Divide
   2. One Step
   3. Big
   4. The Space on the Wall ●
   5. The Long Hour
   6. Cage
   7. Reaction
   8. The Drum
   9. The Design
   10. Next in Line
   11. Walk
   12. This Is the Warning

8. 43

   Eparistera Daimones

   Triptykon

   

   

   Doom metal | Gothic metal

   Tracks:

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

9. 42

   Ironbound

   Overkill

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Green and the Black
   2. Ironbound ●
   3. Bring Me the Night
   4. The Goal Is Your Soul
   5. Give a Little Light
   6. Endless War
   7. The Head and the Heart
   8. In Vain
   9. Killing for a Living
   10. The SRC

10. 41

    Sea of Cowards

    The Dead Weather

    

    

    Blues rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Blue Blood Blues
    2. Hustle and Cuss ●
    3. The Difference Between Us
    4. I'm Mad
    5. Die by the Drop
    6. I Can't Hear You
    7. Gasoline
    8. No Horse
    9. Looking at the Invisible Man
    10. Jawbreaker
    11. Old Mary

11. 40

    L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante

    Gnaw Their Tongues

    

    

    Dark ambient | Industrial

    Tracks:

    1. L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante
    2. Les anges frémissent devant la mort ●
    3. La mort dans toute son ineffable grandeur/Splendeur
    4. Le chant de la mort
    5. Le trône blanc de la mort

12. 39

    Snakes for the Divine

    High on Fire

    

    

    Stoner metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Snakes for the DIvine
    2. Frost Hammer
    3. Bastard Samurai ●
    4. Ghost Neck
    5. The Path
    6. Fire, Flood & Plague
    7. How Dark We Pray
    8. Holy Flames of the Fire Spitter

13. 38

    Paracletus

    Deathspell Omega

    

    

    Dissonant black metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Epiklesis I
    2. Wings of Predation ●
    3. Abscission
    4. Dearth
    5. Phosphene
    6. Epiklesis
    7. Malconfort
    8. Have You Beheld the Fevers?
    9. Devouring Famine
    10. Apokastasis pantôn

14. 37

    Anthropocentric

    The Ocean

    

    

    Post-metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Anthropocentric ●
    2. The Grand Inquisitor I: Karamazov Baseness
    3. She Was the Universe
    4. For He That Wavereth ...
    5. The Grand Inquisitor II: Roots & Locusts
    6. The Grand Inquisitor III: A Tiny Grain of Faith
    7. Sewers of the Soul
    8. Wille zum Untergang
    9. Heaven TV
    10. The Almightiness Contradiction

15. 36

    At the Edge of Time

    Blind Guardian

    

    

    Power metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sacred Worlds
    2. Tanelom (Into the Void)
    3. Road to No Release
    4. Ride into Obsession
    5. Curse My Name
    6. Valkyries
    7. Control the Divine
    8. War of the Thrones
    9. A Voice in the Dark
    10. Wheel of Time ●

16. 35

    Brothers

    The Black Keys

    

    

    Blues rock | Garage rock

    Tracks:

    1. Everlasting Light
    2. Next Girl
    3. Tighten up
    4. Howlin' for You ●
    5. She's Long Gone
    6. Black Mud
    7. The Only One
    8. Too Afraid to Love You
    9. Ten Cent Pistol
    10. Sinister Kid
    11. The Go Getter
    12. I'm Not the One
    13. Unknown Brother
    14. Never Gonna Give You up
    15. These Days

17. 34

    Valley of Smoke

    Intronaut

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Elegy
    2. Above
    3. Miasma
    4. Sunderance
    5. Core Relations
    6. Below
    7. Valley of Smoke ●
    8. Past Tense

18. 33

    Majesty and Decay

    Immolation

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. The Purge
    3. A Token of Malice
    4. Majesty and Decay ●
    5. Divine Code
    6. In Human Form
    7. A Glorious Epoch
    8. Interlude
    9. A Thunderous Consequence
    10. The Rapture of Ghosts
    11. Power and Shame
    12. The Comfort of Cowards

19. 32

    Deep Blue

    Parkway Drive

    

    

    Metalcore | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Samsara
    2. Unrest
    3. Sleepwalker ●
    4. Wreckage
    5. Deadweight
    6. Alone
    7. Pressures
    8. Deliver Me
    9. Karma
    10. Home Is for the Heartless
    11. Hollow
    12. Leviathan I
    13. Set to Destroy

20. 31

    Hammer of the North

    Grand Magus

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. I, the Jury
    2. Hammer of the North ●
    3. Black Sails
    4. Mountains Be My Throne
    5. Northern Star
    6. The Lord of Lies
    7. At Midnight They'll Get Wise
    8. Bond of Blood
    9. Savage Tales
    10. Ravens Guide Our Way

21. 30

    Axioma Ethica Odini

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ethica Odini ●
    2. Raidho
    3. Waruun
    4. The Beacon
    5. Axioma
    6. Giants
    7. Singular
    8. Night Sight
    9. Lightening

22. 29

    After

    Ihsahn

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Barren Lives
    2. A Grave Inversed
    3. After
    4. Frozen Lakes on Mars ●
    5. Undercurrent
    6. Austere
    7. Heaven's Black Sea
    8. On the Shores

23. 28

    Septembre et Ses Dernières Pensées

    Les Discrets

    

    

    Post-metal | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. L'Envol des corbeaux
    2. L'Échappée
    3. Les Feuilles de l'olivier
    4. Song for Mountains ●
    5. Sur les quias
    6. Effet de nuit
    7. Septembre et ses dernières pensées
    8. Chanson d'automne
    9. Svipdagr & Freyja
    10. Une matinée d'hiver

24. 27

    The Final Frontier

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Heavy metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Satellite 15 ... The Final Frontier
    2. El Dorado
    3. Mother of Mercy
    4. Coming Home
    5. The Alchemist
    6. Isle of Avalon
    7. Starblind
    8. The Talisman
    9. The Man Who Would Be King
    10. When the Wild Wind Blows ●

25. 26

    Grinderman 2

    Grinderman

    

    

    Avant-garde blues | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man
    2. Worm Tamer ●
    3. Heathen Child
    4. When My Baby Comes
    5. What I Know
    6. Evil
    7. Kitchenette
    8. Palaces of Montezuma
    9. Bellringer Blues

26. 25

    Norrøn Livskunst

    Solefald

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Song til stormen ●
    2. Norrøn livskunst
    3. Tittentattenteksti
    4. Stridsljod / Blackabilly
    5. Eukalyptustreet
    6. Raudedauden
    7. Vitets vidd i verdi
    8. Hugferdi
    9. Waves Over Valhalla (An Icelandic Odyssey, Part III)
    10. Til heimen yver havet

27. 24

    Black Rock

    Joe Bonamassa

    

    

    Blues | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Steal Your Heart
    2. I Know a Place
    3. When the Fire Hits the Sea
    4. Quarryman's Lament ●
    5. Spanish Boots
    6. Bird on a Wire
    7. Three Times a Fool
    8. Night Life
    9. Wandering Earth
    10. Look Over Yonder's Wall
    11. Athens to Athens
    12. Blue and Evil
    13. Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind

28. 23

    The Evolution of Chaos

    Heathen

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Dying Season
    3. Control by Chaos
    4. No Stone Unturned ●
    5. Arrows of Agony
    6. Fade Away
    7. A Hero's Welcome
    8. Undone
    9. Bloodkult
    10. Red Tears of Disgrace
    11. Silent Nothingness

29. 22

    Écailles de lune

    Alcest

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Écailles de lune — Part 1 ●
    2. Écailles de lune — Part 2
    3. Percées de lumière
    4. Abysses
    5. Solar Song
    6. Sur l'océan couleur de fer

30. 21

    Curse of the Red River

    Barren Earth

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Curse of the Red River
    2. Our Twilight
    3. Forlorn Waves
    4. Flicker
    5. The Leer
    6. The Ritual of Dawn ●
    7. Ere All Perish
    8. Cold Earth Chamber
    9. Deserted Morrows

31. 20

    Heaven Is Whenever

    The Hold Steady

    

    

    Heartland rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Sweet Part of the City
    2. Soft in the Center
    3. The Weekenders
    4. The Smidge
    5. Rock Problems
    6. We Can Get Together
    7. Hurricane J
    8. Barely Breathing
    9. Our Whole Lives
    10. A Slight Discomfort ●

32. 19

    Relentless Retribution

    Death Angel

    

    

    Thrash metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Relentless Revolution
    2. Claws in So Deep
    3. Truce
    4. Into the Arms of Righteous Anger
    5. River of Rapture
    6. Absence of Light
    7. This Hate
    8. Death of the Meek
    9. Opponents at Sides ●
    10. Volcanic
    11. Where I Lay

33. 18

    Warp Riders

    The Sword

    

    

    Stoner metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Acheron / Unearthing the Orb
    2. Tres brujas
    3. Arrows in the Dark ●
    4. The Chronomancer I: Hubris
    5. Lawless Lands
    6. Astraea's Dream
    7. The Warp Riders
    8. Night City
    9. The Chronomancer II: Nemesis
    10. (The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire

34. 17

    The Obsidian Conspiracy

    Nevermore

    

    

    Progressive metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    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 ●

35. 16

    Slash

    Slash

    

    

    Alternative metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Ghost
    2. Curucify the Dead
    3. Beautiful Dangerous
    4. Back from Cali
    5. Promise
    6. By the Sword ●
    7. Gotten
    8. Doctor Alibi
    9. Watch This
    10. I Hold on
    11. Nothing to Say
    12. Starlight
    13. Saint Is a Sinner
    14. We're All Gonna Die
    15. Baby Can't Drive
    16. Mother Maria
    17. Paradise City

36. 15

    12 Gauge

    Kalmah

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rust Never Sleeps
    2. One of Fail
    3. Bullets Are Blind
    4. Swampwar
    5. Better Not to Tell
    6. Hook the Monster
    7. Godeye
    8. 12 Gauge ●
    9. Sacramentum

37. 14

    Monolith

    In Mourning

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. For You to Know
    2. Debris ●
    3. The Poet and the Painter of Souls
    4. The Smoke
    5. A Shade of Plague
    6. With You Came Silence
    7. Pale Eye Revelation
    8. The Final Solution (Entering the Black Lodge)

38. 13

    Dark Country Magic

    Big Blood

    

    

    Psychedelic folk | Avant-folk

    Tracks:

    1. Oh My Child
    2. Creepin' Crazy Time
    3. Ringers in the Ford
    4. She-Wander(er) ●
    5. Reverse Hymnal
    6. This Is Record, OK?
    7. AIRAIR AIR RAID
    8. ... Is All We Have
    9. Waiting Is ...
    10. Song for RO-HE-GE
    11. Coming Home pt. III
    12. Moo-Hoo

39. 12

    The Courage of Others

    Midlake

    

    

    Folk | Progressive folk

    Tracks:

    1. Acts of Man ●
    2. Winter Dies
    3. Small Mountain
    4. Core of Nature
    5. Fortune
    6. Rulers, Ruling All Things
    7. Children of the Grounds
    8. Bring Down
    9. The Horn
    10. The Courage of Others
    11. In the Ground

40. 11

    The Guessing Game

    Cathedral

    

    

    Doom metal | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Immaculate Misconception
    2. Funeral of Dreams ●
    3. Painting in the Dark
    4. Death of an Anarchist
    5. The Guessing Game
    6. Edwige's Eyes
    7. Cats, Incense, Candles and Wine

41. 10

    AB III

    Alter Bridge

    

    

    Alternative metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Slip to the Void ●
    2. Isolation
    3. Ghost of Days Gone by
    4. All Hope Is Gone
    5. Still Remains
    6. Make It Right
    7. Wonderful Life
    8. I Know It Hurts
    9. Show Me a Sign
    10. Fallout
    11. Breathe Again
    12. Coeur d'Alene
    13. Life Must Go on
    14. Words Darker Than Their Wings

42. 9

    Marrow of the Spirit

    Agalloch

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. They Escaped the Weight of Darkness
    2. Into the Painted Grey
    3. The Watcher's Monolith
    4. Black Lake Niðstång ●
    5. Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires
    6. To Drown

43. 8

    Road Salt Two

    Pain of Salvation

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Road Salt Theme
    2. Softly She Cries
    3. Conditioned
    4. Healing Now ●
    5. To the Shoreline
    6. Eleven
    7. 1979
    8. The Deeper Cut
    9. Mortar Grind
    10. Through the Distance
    11. The Physics of Gridlock
    12. End Credits

44. 7

    Order of the Black

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Crazy Horse
    2. Overlord
    3. Parade of the Dead ●
    4. Darkest Days
    5. Black Sunday
    6. Southern Dissolution
    7. Time Waits for No One
    8. Godspeed Hellbound
    9. War of Heaven
    10. Shallow Grave
    11. Chupacabra
    12. Riders of the Damned
    13. January

45. 6

    Exhibit B: The Human Condition

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Ballad of Leonard and Charles ●
    2. Beyond the Pale
    3. Hammer and Life
    4. Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)
    5. Downfall
    6. March of the Sycophants
    7. Nanking
    8. Burn, Hollywood, Burn
    9. Democide
    10. The Sun Is My Destroyer
    11. A Perpetual State of Indifference
    12. Good Riddance

46. 5

    Søvnløs

    Skambankt

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Kaos, så inferno
    2. Jesus av vår tid
    3. Mantra ●
    4. Amnesti
    5. En lang strek
    6. Nattergal
    7. Født på ny
    8. Berlin
    9. Kvelertak!
    10. Retrett

47. 4

    Kvelertak

    Kvelertak

    

    

    Black'n'roll

    Tracks:

    1. Ulvetid
    2. Mjød
    3. Fossegrim
    4. Blodtørst ●
    5. Offernatt
    6. Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)
    7. Sultans of Satan
    8. Nekroskop
    9. Liktorn
    10. Ordsmedar Av Rang
    11. Utrydd Dei Svake

48. 3

    Opus Eponymous

    Ghost

    

    

    Doom metal | Occult rock

    Tracks:

    1. Deus Culpa
    2. Con Clavi Con Dio
    3. Ritual
    4. Elizabeth
    5. Stand by Him ●
    6. Satan Prayer
    7. Death Knell
    8. Prime Mover
    9. Genesis

49. 2

    I, Vigilante

    Crippled Black Phoenix

    

    

    Post-rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Troublemaker
    2. We Forgotten Who We Are
    3. Fantastic Justice
    4. Bastogne Blues ●
    5. Of a Lifetime
    6. Burning Bridges

50. 1

    High Violet

    The National

    

    

    Art rock | Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. Terrible Love
    2. Sorrow
    3. Anyone's Ghost
    4. Little Faith
    5. Afraid of Everyone
    6. Bloodbuzz Ohio ●
    7. Lemonworld
    8. Runaway
    9. Conversation 16
    10. England
    11. Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks