JD's Top Metal Albums of 2010

In the same boat as Meta this year with being generally not so thrilled with a good portion of albumsI have heard this year, but that is probably the result of being spoiled by a few really amazing years this past decade. There is a lot of quality nonetheless.

Top 20 Metal Albums

01. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

02. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

03. Sargeist - Let the Devil In

04. Solefald - Norron Livskunst

05. Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber I

06. Calm Hatchery - Sacriledge of Humanity

07. The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis

08. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

09. Island - Island

10. Twilight - Monument to Time End

11. I Shalt Become - Poison

12. Mar de Grises - Streams Inwards

13. Melechesh - The Epigenesis

14. Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds

15. Mortualia - Blood of the Hermit

16. Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead

17. Dark Fortress - Ylem

18. Electric Wizard - Black Masses

19. Trauma - Archetype of Chaos

20. Burzum - Belus

Top 5 Non-Metal Albums

01. MGMT - Congratulations

02. Sanctus Daemoneon - The UnaVOIDable

03. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

04. Klaxons - Surfing the Void

05. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

JD's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2009

01 Insomnium - Across the Dark
02 Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
03 Blut Aus Nord - In Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
04 Vektor - Black Future
05 Andacht - Chapter I
06 Klabautamann - Merkur
07 Katatonia - Night is the New Day
08 Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us
09 Peste Noire - Ballad Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
10 Tombs - Winter Hours
11 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
12 Portal - Swarth
13 Wodensthrone - Loss
14 Midnight Odyssey - Firmament
15 Nazxul - Iconoclast
16 Devious - Vision
17 Denial - Catacombs of the Grotesque
18 Funebrarum - Sleep of Morbid Dreams
19 Ekron Cult- Queen of the Luxury
20 Abigail - Sweet Baby Metal Slut

JD's Best Metal Albums of 2008

01. Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War
02. Cynic - Traced In Air
03. Outcast - Self-Injected Reality
04. Pharaoh - Be Gone
05. Septic Flesh - Communion
06. Ophiolatry - Transmutation
07. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
08. Lifelover - Konkurs
09. Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
10. Horn - Naturkraft
11. The Faceless - Planetary Duality
12. Necroblaspheme - Destination: Nulle Part
13. Enslaved - Vertebrae
14. Severed Savior - Servile Insurrection
15. Blood of the Black Owl - A Feral Spirit
16. Den Saakaldte - Øl, Mørke og Depresjon
17. Pyramids - Pyramids
18. Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
19. Janvs - Vega
20. Aeon of Horus - Embodiment of Darkness and Light