My favourite albums from 2010

1. 50

   Heavy Metal Fruit

   Motorpsycho

   
   

   Tracklist

   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)

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Stoner rock

2. 49

   Appalachian Incantation

   Karma to Burn

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Stoner rock

3. 48

   Phosphene Dream

   The Black Angels

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Psychedelic rock
   • Garage rock revival

4. 47

   We're Here Because We're Here

   Anathema

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Progressive rock

5. 46

   Blood of the Nations

   Accept

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Heavy metal

6. 45

   Asylum

   Disturbed

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative metal
   • Heavy metal

7. 44

   This Is the Warning

   Dead Letter Circus

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Progressive rock

8. 43

   Eparistera Daimones

   Triptykon

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Doom metal
   • Gothic metal

9. 42

   Ironbound

   Overkill

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Thrash metal

10. 41

    Sea of Cowards

    The Dead Weather

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Alternative rock

11. 40

    L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante

    Gnaw Their Tongues

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Dark ambient
    • Industrial

12. 39

    Snakes for the Divine

    High on Fire

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Sludge metal

13. 38

    Paracletus

    Deathspell Omega

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Dissonant black metal
    • Avant-garde metal

14. 37

    Anthropocentric

    The Ocean

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Sludge metal

15. 36

    At the Edge of Time

    Blind Guardian

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Power metal
    • Symphonic metal

16. 35

    Brothers

    The Black Keys

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Garage rock

17. 34

    Valley of Smoke

    Intronaut

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Progressive metal

18. 33

    Majesty and Decay

    Immolation

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Death metal

19. 32

    Deep Blue

    Parkway Drive

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Metalcore
    • Heavy metal

20. 31

    Hammer of the North

    Grand Magus

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

21. 30

    Axioma Ethica Odini

    Enslaved

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive black metal
    • Viking metal

22. 29

    After

    Ihsahn

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

23. 28

    Septembre et Ses Dernières Pensées

    Les Discrets

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Post-rock

24. 27

    The Final Frontier

    Iron Maiden

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Progressive metal

25. 26

    Grinderman 2

    Grinderman

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Avant-garde blues
    • Psychedelic rock

26. 25

    Norrøn Livskunst

    Solefald

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Progressive metal

27. 24

    Black Rock

    Joe Bonamassa

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues
    • Blues rock

28. 23

    The Evolution of Chaos

    Heathen

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

29. 22

    Écailles de lune

    Alcest

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Post-metal

30. 21

    Curse of the Red River

    Barren Earth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

31. 20

    Heaven Is Whenever

    The Hold Steady

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Heartland rock
    • Alternative rock

32. 19

    Relentless Retribution

    Death Angel

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Heavy metal

33. 18

    Warp Riders

    The Sword

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Heavy metal

34. 17

    The Obsidian Conspiracy

    Nevermore

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Thrash metal

35. 16

    Slash

    Slash

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • hard rock

36. 15

    12 Gauge

    Kalmah

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

37. 14

    Monolith

    In Mourning

    
    

    Tracklist

    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)

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

38. 13

    Dark Country Magic

    Big Blood

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Psychedelic folk
    • Avant-folk

39. 12

    The Courage of Others

    Midlake

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk
    • Progressive folk

40. 11

    The Guessing Game

    Cathedral

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Stoner metal

41. 10

    AB III

    Alter Bridge

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Hard rock

42. 9

    Marrow of the Spirit

    Agalloch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Atmospheric black metal
    • Folk metal

43. 8

    Road Salt Two

    Pain of Salvation

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Art rock

44. 7

    Order of the Black

    Black Label Society

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

45. 6

    Exhibit B: The Human Condition

    Exodus

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

46. 5

    Søvnløs

    Skambankt

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock

47. 4

    Kvelertak

    Kvelertak

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Black'n'roll

48. 3

    Opus Eponymous

    Ghost

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Occult rock

49. 2

    High Violet

    The National

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Indie rock

50. 1

    I, Vigilante

    Crippled Black Phoenix

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Post-rock
    • Progressive rock