Your Favorite Hard Rock/Metal Released in 2010

Here's Mine...

Everything Remains (As It Never Was) by Eluveitie
Iron Bound by Overkill
Relentless Retribution by Death Angel
The Obsidian conspiracy by Nevermore
Blood Of The Nations by Accept
Eparistera Daimones by Tryptikon
On The Subject Of Mortality by Panopticon
Snakes For The Devine by High On Fire
Of Seismic Consequence by Yakuza
Nucleus by Dawnbringer
Marrow Of The Spirit by Agalloch

Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos
Overkill - Ironbound
Armored Saint - La Raza
Ratt - Infestation
Loudness - King Of Pain
Accept - Blood Of The Nations
Helstar - Glory Of Chaos
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
Grave Digger - The Clans Will Rise Again
Flotsam And Jetsam - The Cold

#10 Scorpions - Sting In the Tail
#9 Loudness - King of Pain
#8 Yngwie Malmsteen - Relentless
#7 Motörhead - The World Is Yours
#6 Sodom - In War and Pieces
#5 RATT - Infestation
#4 The Sword - Warp Riders
#3 Accept - Blood of the Nations
#2 Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
#1 Overkill - Ironbound

007 wrote:

Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos

This is from 2009

Kind of sort of... U.S 2010

metalinmyveins wrote:

007 wrote:

Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos

This is from 2009

Kind of sort of... U.S 2010

Its listed in my rate your music list as 2010, so that's where it goes for me.

Accept - Blood of the Nations
Crashdiet - Generation Wild
Helloween - 7 Sinners
Krokus - Hoodoo
Ratt - Infestation
Overkill - Ironbound
Airbourne - No Guts No Glory
Motorhead - The World Is Yours
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy

Overkill - Ironbound
Enforcer - Diamonds
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Accept - Blood Of The Nations
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Alcest - E'cailles De Lune
Christian Mistress - Agony And Opium
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

Fat Freddy wrote:

Krokus - Hoodoo

Great choice, totally spaced that one off

If we count Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos as a 2010 release, that would be my favorite. But since it was released in 2009 in Japan, I don't count it.

Decrepit Birth - Polarity
Overkill - Ironbound
Unbidden - Slaughtering the Vile

I got thanked in the booklet for that Unbidden album, by the way.

1. Star One - Victims of the Modern Age
The greatest album of the entire decade. I still stand by this statement. Wonderful. Killer guitar tone. So heavy. With this melodic music and powerhouse vocalists.

2. Flotsam and Jetsam - The Cold
My new favourite band, and this one is a masterpiece. Very very dark. This CD was my partner in my recent divorce. "Better Off Dead" must be the song with the most depressing lyrics ever by anyone.

3. Heathen - Evolution of Chaos
I love Heathen. What an album. Heavy, complex, catchy. Leave No Stone Unturned!

4. Blaze Bayley - Promise and Terror
The final four songs are hands down the best work Blaze ever did. So dark. Written about his wife that died. "These scars prove my life was real." Tragic. And inspiring. This man certainly has lived.

5. Rage - Strings to a Web
My first bite at post-80's Rage, and it was such an experience that I ended up collecting their entire discography and now consider Rage one of my absolute favourite bands ever. This album is versatile, catchy and technical. It was the Empty Hollow suite that originally won me over.

6. Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
My other new favourite band. More aggressive than their previous two albums.

7. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
The ending three songs are why this is here. Those are all perfect 10/10.

8. Wuthering Heights - Salt
I had this phase when I adored this band and Nils Patrick Johansson above anything else. This album still holds well. Definitely top 10 for me.

9. Avantasia
They did a double album, or two separate albums. I love Avantasia, I love Tobias. Some of the songs on Wicked Symphony/Angel of Babylon aren't great, but there's enough there to rank this high.

10. Masterplan - Time to Be King
This was actually my first Masterplan CD. Very very good melodic heavy metal. I bought the other two Jorn-fronted CDs from a member here at HoM.

Everybody ranks Overkill's Ironbound... and I only just got it a month or two ago. It's gotten a few spins, it's very good, but...

Maybe I need a few more months with it.

Lari wrote:

Everybody ranks Overkill's Ironbound... and I only just got it a month or two ago. It's gotten a few spins, it's very good, but...

Maybe I need a few more months with it.

(IMHDO) it was leaps and bounds more consistent in the songwriting department than the two albums that preceded it.

Sodom-In War and Pieces
Orphaned Land-The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

James B. wrote:

Lari wrote:

Everybody ranks Overkill's Ironbound... and I only just got it a month or two ago. It's gotten a few spins, it's very good, but...

Maybe I need a few more months with it.

(IMHDO) it was leaps and bounds more consistent in the songwriting department than the two albums that preceded it.

I'll keep playing it. Overkill has been on my player lately.