I can barely think of any right now. Need more music to listen to. Help.

Autechre - Oversteps
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Nightbringer - Apocalypse Sun

A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves of Spring

Immolation - Majesty and Decay

oh man my brain would collapse thinking. there's so many.. It's been a good year. Same with 09.

right, 2009 had My Dying Bride, Beherit, Ahab, Wodensthrone.... which I was going to list all of those until I realized they've been out for a while, still listen to them a lot.

Darkwor - Fooderatty

Part of my problem is I'm still listening to 80s and 90s metal. There's so many great newer bands (especially in Germany it seems) that I'm out of the damn loop again.

i havent really been impressed with national records this year at all. new Darkwor and Tentacles are good.

thanks anon, i'm flattered

2010 still has new Autopsy, Melechesh...Morbid Angel..??

new macabre is coming out later this year

I'm still patiently waiting new Vinterland and new Dawn.

Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface - Wu-Massacre
Extortion - Loose Screws
Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer
108 - 18:61

only 4 albums that come to mind that came out this year that I'm into

EDIT: accidentally left out Early Graves - Goner

Black Breath - Heavy Breathing

Nachtmystium -Assasins Black Meddle II
Integrity- The Blackest Curse

are the only two albums of 2010 I've listened to repeatedly.

new Fear Factory came out this year right? that album pwns

Burzum-Belus

I guess I'm in the minority in stating that I thought Belus was a little disappointing. A good start for him not plying guitar for a while, and it makes me hope the next is better than Belus. Didn't like the vocals- they weren't excruciating like in then past.

I won't deny being a bit bummed not hearing those Burzum shrieks, but the guitar work was fantastic. Same riff for 8 minutes or you're a pussy.

Integrity and Burzum are definitely up there for me and I agree with Alcest and Nightbringer. I'd also add Watain. Really looking forward to the new Inquisition.

New Profanatica, Krieg, and Inquisition still to come.

Zoroaster
High On Fire
Black Breath
Nachtmystium
Hour of 13
Apostle of Solitude

Probably a bunch I'm forgetting, but those were all really solid. Looking forward to the new Unearthly Trance, that should make the list based on what I've heard of it.

oh shit...totally forgot about High On Fire

New Nachtmystium is so indie rock!!!

The Joyless Parson - Orgone

Hour of Penance - Paradogma
Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
Alcest - Ecailles de Lune
Immolation - Majesty and Decay
...and more. Its been a good year so far.

Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
Ihsahn - After

Daughters - Daughters
The Body - All The Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood
Fang Island - Fang Island
First Aid Kit - The Black and the Blue
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

and I know this will be an unpopular choice, but my favorite record so far this year has been...

Minus the Bear - Omni.

Melvins-the bride screamed murder
Anders Osborne-american patchwork

I don't know if this is 2010, but that Miike Snow record fucking rules.

I'm waiting on the new Vinterland as well...very curious to what its going to sound like.

Lots of good stuff coming out this year.

it's too bad you don't like this album more, i think so highly of it. His vocals are very different from the shrieking, but they are not far off from Filosofem at all. I think it's a good progression, I doubt he can even do those Hvis Lyset Tar Oss style sounds anymore, but there are parts in this album where you can hear him really getting into it.

i think i've only bought 5 new albums this year, one of them being Nevermore which i think sucks pretty bad, but i love the others.

Burzum - Belus
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
Fear Factory - Mechanize

good picks so far dudes. must check these out.

ok, the new Burzum and Watain are definitely awesome. they did suffer a lot of hype. i haven't listened to either in the proper fashion yet.

DARKTHRONE - CIRCLE THE WAGONS...how could i forget that one.

i agree but i'm hoping the songs translate better live. they are playing rock n shock this year i guess.

Nokturnal Mortum
Alcest
Darkthrone
Burzum

Autolux - Transit Transit comes out next week

so that

this is the next one i'm aiming to check out.

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Dodsengel "Mirium Occultum" wastes all. Instant classic.

"Belus" is a distant #2 thus far - half of it's great, half of it's garbage, but that's enough in a relatively weak year. New albums from Inquisition and Morbid Angel remain strong contenders. Watain was a disappointment. Nokturnal Mortem's effort was good but certainly not overwhelming. (Ditto new Immolation, Hour of Penance.)

Nokturnal Mortum and Alcest. Not a lot of good new shit this year. Shining also? maybe?

also new ENSLAVED is coming this September...

does anyone listen to things that are non metal?

this is the band I listed:


bennyhillifier

Only Tegan and Sara are real.

oh, cool.

Not sure if it's 2010, but Silversun Pickups - Swoon. Yep, she's a gem.

D Maniac - "Obsessions"
Lantlos - ".neon"
Alcest - "Escailles De Lune"
Keep of Kalessin - "Reptilian"
Les Discrets - "Septembre Et Ses Dernieres Pensees"
Mekong Delta - "Wanderer on the Edge of Time"

more to come.

the mel gibson tapes are my favorite of 2010

Backed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwZkxxdLWU&feature=related

Anxiously awating its arrival at the library where I work. Just got turned on to that band recently. Not sure why it took so long, but I'm glad I figured it out.

the new massive attack was really disappointing for me. haven't heard a lot of stuff this year outside of metal and electronic that really grabbed me. i've been listening to Sun Ra a lot but that didn't come out this year.

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach is really good.

Non metal albums I've liked so far:

Owen Pallett - Heartland - darkish weird violin pop but very well composed

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise - Atmospheric minimal electronic, again, fairly well composed, nice soundscapes

Eluvium -Similes - piano driven ambient downtempo with very little in the way of percussion. Soak it in.

Wu-Massacre ain't metal, neither is Red Sparowes

and I also left out Murder By Death's new record, which ain't metal either

bump

I want to go see the gorillaz, there are a few local shows coming up

Still holding in my pee for the new Unexpect album to release. Apparently it's all done but they're looking for a new label to release it or something.

Les Discrets "Septembre et Ses..."
Istapp "Blekinge"
Nàttsôl "Stemning"

non-metal stuff:

free the robots - ctrl alt delete
the golden filter - voluspa
crystal castles - crystal castles ii

black(ish) metal:

altar of plagues - tides
castevest - mounds of ash
lantlos - .neon
les discrets - septembre et ses derniers pensees
xasthur - portal of sorrow

death metal:

circle of dead children - psaim of the grand destroyer
decrepit birth - polarity
defeated sanity - chapters of repugnance
fleshgod apocalypse - mafia
hour of penance - paradogma

grind/doom:

coffinworm - when all became none
defeatist - sixth extinction
howl - full of hell
rosetta - a determinism of morality

and late the rest of 2010 should give us new albums from autopsy, jesu, agalloch, and flesh consumed. also new gorguts and ulcerate records in early 2011... peen = rock hard.

mmmbump

powerglove Saturday Morning Apocalypse and a perfect day The Gothenburg Post Scriptum

yeah. that album rules.

ohhh equilibrium rekreatur

That Coffinworm album owns.


I listen to a lot of non-metal. Mostly neo-psychedelic stuff. New Quest For Fire is great, Black Angels - Phosphene Dream is awesome too.

fleshgod apocalypse - mafia
hour of penance - paradogma
First Aid Kit - The Black and the Blue

I'm really digging Sael - "The Sixth Extinction"

Traveling Wilbury's box set
Dead Boys- young loud and snotty

Ramesses - Take the Curse

Soreption - Deterioration of Minds (BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR)

This shit owns. For realz.

interesting. will check out.

i gotta add Melechesh - The Epigenesis to the list.

More for me:

Autopsy - the Tomb Within
Inherit Disease - Visceral Transcendence
Cerebral Effusion - Impulsive Psychopathic Acts
Decimation - Anthems of an Empyreal Dominion
Alcest - Ecailles de Lune

Deathmetal bands have excellent vocabulary

Shit is weird. Weird and totally sick. Thanks for the heads up.

edit: it's like an autistic version of Decapitated.

Here's what I'm thinking thus far:

1) Unearthly Trance - V
2) Zoroaster - Matador
3) Coffinworm - When All Became None
4) Nachtmystium - Addicts
5) Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
6) Hour of 13 - The Ritualist
7) Apostle of Solitude - Sincerest Misery
8) High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
9) ?
10)?

We'll see what happens when the year is actually up...

here are some more that I didn't hear before I posted in this thread

Punch - Push Pull (the album of the year IMO)
Vaccine - Human Hatred
Enabler - Eden Sank to Grief

actually that could be my 1, 2, 3 of the year...depends on if the new Envy record is as good as everyone says it is

Fear Factory - Mechanize

Caribou - Swim (electronic)
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
ohhh yeaaaa

Ghost
Enabler
Parasitic
Defeatist
Powerglove
Lich King

Probably more, but these are the ones that come to mind.

Though Dynazty and Motherboar would be at the top of my list, but Dynazty is 2009 and Motherboar technically is 2011.

1. High on Fire- Snakes for the Divine

2. Ghost - Opus Eponymous

3. Integrity - The Blackest Curse

4. Hooded Menace- Never Cross the Dead

5. Nachtmystium - Addicts Black Meddle 2

6. Acid Witch- Stoned

7. Punch - Push Pull

8. Immolation- Majesty and Decay

9. Electric Wizard- Black Masses

10. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke

11. Ceremony - Rohnert Park

12. Gwar - Bloody Pit of Horror

13. Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight to the World

14. Black Anvil- Triumvirate

15. Blind Guardian- At the Edge of Time

16. Thou - Summit

17. Torche Songs for singles

18. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

19. Starkweather - This Sheltering Night

20. Coffin Worm- When All Becomes None



Best Live Album - At The Gates - Purgatory Unleashed

Best Ep's - (Tie) Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia

Rotten Sound - Napalm

Nice list on display here.

RAVEN - Walk Through Fire (Yeah, came out in '09, but that was Japan only - Came out this year here and Europe.)

HEAVEN & HELL - Live in Europe

TRIPTYKON - Epistera Diamones

Samael "Ceremony of Opposites"

1. Hank Williams III - Rebel Within
2. Kill the Client - Set for Extinction
3. Trash Talk - Eyes and Nines
4. Phobia - Unrelenting
5. Trap Them - Filth Rations
6. Circle of Dead Children - Psalm of the Grand Destroyer
7. Panzerbastard - Centurion ep
8. Nightbitch - Sex and Magic
9. Zoroaster - Matador
10. Magrudergrind - Grind Crusher
11. Crippled Black Phoenix - Vigilante
12. Blood of the Gods - Shadow Before
13. Rotten Sound - Napalm
14. Integrity- The Blackest Curse
15. Punch - Push Pull
16. Defeatist - Sixth Exinction
17. Burning Love - Songs for Burning Lovers
18. Anal Cunt - Fuckin A
19. Thou - Summit
20. Wormrot - Abuse

I think those all came out this year

oh yuh also Destroyed in Seconds, Murder Construct and Terror all had good records this year

Wormrot came out this year? if so, that's def on my list too

that's what it says on the internet, but it's all older releases so yuh

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Cold is a great album. They've gone under my radar for a long time but this album is sweet.

I think my year favorite is going to be Spiritual Beggars - Return to Zero.

Also I really like Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man. A lot of the songs are blatant pop songs but frankly they are really, really good at that.

AGALLOCH - Marrow of the Spirit
Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Decibel posted their top 40 for the year.

Bunch of bullshit, with a few exceptions.

post link for lulz?

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/11/decibels_top_40_1.html

Defeater-lost ground, Danza III, Circa survive-blue sky noise, Stick to your guns- the hope division, Converge-axe to fall, The ocean- anthropocentric and heliocentric, Kylesa-spiral shadow, Inspired Flight- we all want to fly, Daughters-S/T, Abominable Iron sloth- The id will overcome, All pigs must die EP.

Jesus... how did Converge not make it on Decibels' list? Such a hard-on for all those cookie cutter black metal bands.

It's nice to see Ghost on that list, though it should be higher

and while I haven't listened to the album yet, also nice to see Christian Mistress on that list too!

Agalloch even made it into NPR's top 40.

That agalloch stuff sounds like members of Rush trying to be grimm.

haha.

I saw this and was quite... surprised.

Converge did not put out an album this year. That Decibel list is horrible.

Shit.. my bad. I thought that newest one came out early this year. just late to the game, I guess.

Innerspeaker - Tame Impala

Weird 70's sounding something something. Love the production in combo with the bands' sound/arrangement.

Trap Them - Filth Rations

new Electric Wizard is WYLD.

mine is up at metal army america... They asked panzerbastard for a top 10. Ill copy paste it when i get home.

The new Integrity is not that good. :(

http://www.metal-army.com/?p=15599

Top Albums of 2010 (in no particular order):

Deathspell Omega – Paracletus

Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones

Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons

Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini

The Devil’s Blood – The Time of No Time Evermore

Corpse Molestation – Holocaust Wolves Of The Apocalypse (discography)

Burzum – Belus

Castevet – Mounds ofAsh

Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit

The Lord Weird Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits

DVD Release: ASPHYX – Live Death Doom

Reading: George RR Martin – A Dance with Dragons

thanks for the shout bruthah....that devil's blood LP was 09 tho

Burzum - Belus
Castevet - Mounds of Ash
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Integrity - The Blackest Curse
Alcest - Escallies De Lune
Nocturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Decrepit Birth - Polarity
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
New Blessed Offal

Profanatica or you don't savour the nun's weeping rectum, buttdart

burzum - belus
decrepit birth - polarity
nightbringer - apocalypse sun
nokturnal mortum - the voice of steel
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
AGALLOCH - Marrow of the Spirit
Aun - Black pyramid
Visions - Summoning The Void

Lutomysl - Lutomysl
Slavland - Lechita

the new Twilight is good too

ah twilight has a new one, did not know.

I haven't heard the new Nokturnal Mortum, Deathspell, Slough Feg, or many others yet....but my favorites for the year are split between

The Meads of Asphodel - The Murder of Jesus the Jew
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Autechre - Oversteps
Immolation - Majesty and Decay (no new Morbid Angel but this delivers just fine)
Tryptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Melechesh - The Epigenesis

which rise just above a lot of the rest of the mentions in this thread which are all good. while we complaing about how shitty music has become in general, 2010 was an amazing year for music looking back at it.

bump for working from home

1. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Cloudkicker - Beacons
East of the Wall - Ressentiment
Castevet - Mounds of Ash
Periphery - Periphery
Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit
Shad - TSOL
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz


Converge put out one new track this year and it was pretty awesome, but obviously not enough to make anyones list.

I can't believe Polarity made anyones list, honestly. Couldn't stand that album, and I loved DBW and ATB.

Setherial - Ekpyrosis

excellent album, much better production than Death Triumphant. excellent guitar work, not boring drone with indecipherable riffs like majority of the "black" metal coming out now.