Narian's Top Metal Albums of 2010

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!

Narian's Best Metal Albums of 2009

01. Fleshgod Apocolaypse (It) - Oracles [Debut of the Year]
T2. Mastodon (US) - Crack the Skye
T2. Behemoth (Po) - Evangelion
04. Vader (Po) - Necropolis
05. Ensiferum (Fi) - From Afar
06. Vektor (US) - Black Future
07. Azarath (Po) - Praise the Beast
08. Hypocrisy (Se) - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
09. Cannibal Corpse (US) - Evisceration Plague
10. Slayer (US) - World Painted Blood
11. Naxzul (Au) - Iconoclast
12. Immortal (No) - All Shall Fall
13. Lost Soul (Po) - Immerse in Infinity
14. Devious (Nld) - Vision
15. Suidakra (De) - Crógacht
16. Be'lakor (Au) - Stone's Reach
17. Tribulation (Se) - The Horror
18. Savage Circus (De) - Of Doom & Death
19. Mistaken Element (Fr) - Mind Over Matter
20. Cobalt (US) - Gin
21. Arckanum (Se) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22. Insomnium (Fi) - Across the Dark
23. Týr (Fa) - By the Light of the Northern Star
24. Voivod (US) - Infini
25. Oranssi Pazuzu (Fi) - Muukalainen Puhuu

Other notable albums from 2009:
Alexisonfire (Ca) - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
The Lonely Island (Us) - Incredibad

Narian's Best Metal Albums of 2008

The Top 10 Best Metal Albums of 2008
01. Keep of Kalessin (No) - Kolossus
02. Metallica (US) - Death Magnetic
03. Stormwarrior (Ge) - Heading Northe
04. Kalmah (Fi) - For the Revolution
05. Dark Empire (US) - Humanity Dethroned
06. Amon Amarth (Se) - Twilight of the Thunder God
07. Firewind (Gr) - The Premonition
08. Ceremonial Castings (US) - Salem 1649
09. Testament (US) - The Formation of Damnnation
10. Gojira (Fr) - The Way of All Flesh

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