I'm too fickle to number my list this year, there's been too much good metal to choose from that I'm just going to list them in alphabetical order (with italics indicating a new band):
Arkaik - Reflections Within Dissonance [US]
Beyond Creation - Demo [CA]
Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time [DE]
Carach Angren - Death Came Through a Phantom Ship [NL]
Cephalic Carnage - Misled by Certainty [US]
Cephalic Impurity - Unique Brute Revival [Rus]
Cerebral Bore - Maniacal Miscreation [UK]
Decrepit Birth - Polarity [US]
Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance [DE]
First Fragment - The Afterthought Ecstasy (EP) [CA]
Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering [US]
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia (EP) [It]
Formless - Demo [US]
Galar - Til Alle Heimsens Endar [No]
Gamma Ray - To the Metal! [DE]
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos [US]
Hideous Deformity - Defoulment of Human Purity [No]
Hour of Penance - Paradogma [It]
Human Filleted - Blunt Force Embludgeonment [US]
Human Parasite - Proud to Build the Insidious Catastrophe [Fr]
Immersed - In the Ire of Creation [CA]
Innumerable Forms - Dark Worship (Demo) [US]
Kalmah - 12 Gauge [FI]
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned [US]
Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian [No]
Kerasphorus - Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn (Demo) [US]
Martriden - Encounter the Monolith [US]
Maveth - Of Serpent and Shadow (Demo)/Impious Servant (Demo) [FI]
The Monolith Deathcult - The White Crematorium II (2010 Remake) [NL]
Torture Division - Evighetens Dårar [SE]
Trauma - Archetype of Chaos [PL]
Trigger the Bloodshed - Degenerate [UK]
Watain - Lawless Darkness [SE]
The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis [UK]
The Wretched End - Ominous [No]
There were a lot of awesome new death metal bands this year - so many that after listing the ones I deemed to be my favorite the list encompassed almost all of the new bands. I will however give a mention to countrymates Immerse with their awesome melodeath debut, and Beyond Creation and First Fragment for their relative debut tech debut offerings from the year - go Canada!
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