2011年 Jan 5日 Wednesday, 10:44

It was really a tough struggle to finally compile this, partly because simple lack of time and partly because there were so many albums I desperately tried to listen at the very last moments. Nevertheless, here it is: the only 2010 summary worth your attention!

2/10 and the title of The Worst Album of the Year:
Bullet For My Valentine – Fever

3/10:
Eminem – Recovery

4/10:
And Hell Followed With – Proprioception
Parkway Drive – Deep Blue
The Ocean – Heliocentric

4.5/10:
Catamenia – Cavalcade
Good Charlotte – Cardiology
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events

5/10:
Devil Sold His Soul – Blessed & Cursed
Disturbed – Asylum
Pendulum – Immersion
Rings Of Saturn – Embryonic Anomaly
Saving Grace – Unbreakable
The Automatic – Tear the Signs Down
The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood (The Most Overhyped Band or I Just Don’t Get It Award)
The Sorrow – The Sorrow
Through the Eyes of the Dead – Skepsis

5.5/10:
Charred Walls of the Damned – Charred Walls of the Damned
I The Breather – These Are My Sins
In the Midst of Lions – The Heart of Man

6/10:
After the Burial – In Dreams
Allen/Lande - The Showdown (The Disappointment of the Year)
Annotations of an Autopsy – The Reign of Darkness
Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Forbidden – Omega Wave
Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus (Iconoclast III)
Knights Of The Abyss – The Culling of Wolves
Les Discrets - Septembre et ses dernières Pensées
Made of Hate – Pathogen
Periphery – Periphery
Soulfly – Omen
Volumes – The Concept of Dreaming EP

6.5/10:
Aborted – Coronary Reconstruction EP
Alcest - Écailles de lune
Arma Gathas – Dead to this World
Frontside – Zniszczyć wszystko
Rage – Strings to a Web
The Wretched End – Ominous

7/10:
Alesana – The Emptiness
All That Remains – For We Are Many
Arsis – Starve for the Devil
Dream Evil – In the Night
Engel – Threnody
Grand Magus – Hammer of the North
Iconocaust – Judas Complex
Immolation – Majesty and Decay
Kataklysm – Heaven’s Venom
Neaera – Forging the Eclipse
Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy
Tarot – Gravity of Light
The Kandidate – Until We Are Outnumbered

7.5/10:
Allegaeon – Fragments of Form and Function
Angra – Aqua
As Hell Retreats – Revival
Avantasia – Angel of Babylon
Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony
DÅÅTH – DÅÅTH
Dark Tranquillity – We Are the Void
Fear Factory – Mechanize
Ghost – Opus Eponymous
Grave – Burial Ground
Haste the Day – Attack of the Wolf King
Keep of Kalessin – Reptilian
Kingdom of Sorrow – Behind the Blackest Tears
Korn – Korn III: Remember Who You Are
The Sword – Warp Riders
Trauma – Archetype of Chaos
Veil of Maya –
Woe of Tyrants – Threnody

8/10:
Accept – Blood of the Nations
Airbourne – No Guts. No Glory
Annihilator – Annihilator
Arkhum – Anno Universum
Black Breath – Heavy Breathing
Bleed From Within – Empire
Defeated Sanity – Chapters of Repugnance
Drudkh – Handful of Stars
Facebreaker – Infected
Godsmack – The Oracle
Grave Maker – Ghosts Among Men
Helloween – 7 Sinners
Holy Grail – Crisis in Utopia
Hour of Penance – Paradogma
House vs. Hurricane – Perspectives
In Mourning – Monolith
Intronaut – Valley of Smoke
Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier
King Conquer – America’s Most Haunted
Lostprophets – The Betrayed
Miss May I – Monument
Sigh – Scenes from Hell
Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast
Solution .45 – For Aeons Past
Stam1na – Viimeinen Atlantis
Story of the Year – The Constant
Terror – Keepers of the Faith
The Crown – Doomsday King
Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones
Whitechapel – The New Era of Corruption

8.5/10:
Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
Arckanum – Sviga Lae
Atheist – Jupiter
Blaze Bayley – Promise and Terror
Bonded By Blood – Exiled to Earth
Celeste – Morte(s) Nee(s)
Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
Firewind – Days of Defiance
Fukpig – Belief Is the Death of Intelligence
God Falls – Make Me Alpha
Hundredth – When Will We Surrender
Ion Dissonance – Cursed
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow
Machinae Supremacy – A View from the End of the World
Nominon – Monumentomb
Red Line Chemistry – Dying for a Living
Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels
Rotting Christ – AEALO
Sabaton – Coat of Arms
Slice The Cake – Cleansed EP (and special award for The Best Band Name Ever)
Structures – All of the Above EP
System Divide – The Conscious Sedation
These Are They – Disposing of Betrayers
Undergang - Indhentet Af Døden
Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles
Woe – Quietly, Undramatically
Wuthering Heights – Salt

9/10, which is pretty damn awesome:
A Plea For Purging – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Aeternam – Disciples of the Unseen
As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise
Aspera – Ripples
Bleeding Through – Bleeding Through
Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time
Blut Aus Nord – What Once Was… Liber I
Castevet – Mounds of Ash
Dezerter – Prawo do bycia idiotą
Eluveitie – Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
God Dethroned – Under the Sign of the Iron Cross
Hail of Bullets – On Divine Winds
Masterplan – Time To Be King
More Than A Thousand – Vol. 4: Make Friends and Enemies
Mose Giganticus – Gift Horse
Myrath – Desert Call
O.S.T.R. – Tylko dla dorosłych
Overkill – Ironbound
Pretty Maids – Pandemonium
Space Eater – Aftershock
Tank – War Machine
The Eyes Of A Traitor – Breathless
This or the Apocalypse – Haunt What’s Left
With Life In Mind – Grievances

9.5/10, we’re almost there!:
A Loathing Requiem – Psalms of Misanthropy
Blindead – Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
Bring Me The Horizon – There is a Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There is a Heaven, Let’s Keep It a Secret
Death Angel – Relentless Retribution
Hail The Villain – Population: Declining
Heathen – Evolution of Chaos
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards

10/10, something like masterpiece:
Aldaaron – Nous Reviendrons Immortels
Ihsahn – After

667/10 and the title of The Album of the Year:
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis
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Oh man, I really hadn’t got the time to properly listen to this stuff:
Against The Plagues – Decoding the Mainframe
Black Country Communion – Black Country Communion
Black Tusk – Taste the Sin
Borknagar – Universal
Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty
Dark Fortress – Ylem
Dark Moor – Ancestral Romance
Deivos – Gospel of Maggots
Divinity – The Singularity
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns
Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
Orden Ogan – Easton Hope
Ratt – Infestation
Sworn Amongst – Severance
Terminal – Tree of Lie
Yakuza – Of Seismic Consequence

I can see this bashing coming, I just smell it in the air. So c’mon, bash me. I love it.