Albums of The Year 2010

January

Day	Artist	Album
4	Textures	Extracts 2004–2009 (compilation)[101]
5	Marc Rizzo	Legionnaire[102]
14	Aborted	Coronary Reconstruction[103]
15	Dark Sanctuary	Dark Sanctuary[104]
	Demonic Resurrection	The Return to Darkness[105]
	Exodus	Shovel Headed Tour Machine (live DVD/CD)[106]
	Ace Frehley	Behind the Player (DVD)[107]
	Mnemic	Sons of the System[108]
18	Abigor	Time Is The Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint[109]
	Shining	Blackjazz[110]
	Valkyrja	Contamination[111]
19	Six Feet Under	Graveyard Classics 3[citation needed]
	Sigh	Scenes from Hell[112]
	Sons of Azrael	Scouting The Boneyard[113]
20	Royal Hunt	X[114]
21	Tokyo Blade	Live in Germany (DVD)[115]
22	Dark Fortress	Ylem[116]
	Node	In the End Everything Is a Gag[117]
	Orden Ogan	Easton Hope[118]
24	Primordial	All Empires Fall (DVD)[119]
25	Deathbound	Non Compos Mentis[120]
	Dream Evil	In the Night[121]
	Ihsahn	After[122]
	In Mourning	Monolith[123]
	Myrath	Desert Call[124]
	Orphaned Land	The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR[125]
26	Apocalyptica	MAG: S.V.E.R. (soundtrack)[citation needed]
	Fozzy	Chasing the Grail[126]
	Greeley Estates	No Rain, No Rainbow[127]
	Living Sacrifice	The Infinite Order[128]
	Suicidal Tendencies	Live at the Olympic Auditorium (DVD)[129]
27	Troll	Neo-Satanic Supremacy[130]
29	Bruce Kulick	BK3[131]
	Crematory	Infinity[132]
	Excalion	High Time[133]
	Freedom Call	Legend of the Shadowking[134]
	Gamma Ray	To the Metal![135]
	Keel	Streets of Rock & Roll[136]
	Overkill	Ironbound[137]

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	Blaze Bayley	Promise and Terror[138]
2	Charred Walls of the Damned	Charred Walls of the Damned[139]
	Nostradameus	Illusion's Parade[140]
	Rob Zombie	Hellbilly Deluxe 2[141]
	Through the Eyes of the Dead	Skepsis[142]
5	Arsis	Starve for the Devil[143]
	Meshuggah	Alive (live CD/DVD)[144]
	Necrodeath	Old Skull (cover album)[145]
	Rage	Strings to a Web[146]
6	Buckethead	Shadows Between the Sky[147]
8	Ov Hell	The Underworld Regime[148]
9	Fear Factory	Mechanize[149]
	Icarus Witch	Draw Down the Moon[150]
	Killing Time	Three Steps Back[151]
	Look What I Did	Atlas Drugged[152]
15	Sarah Jezebel Deva	A Sign of Sublime[153]
	Rotting Christ	Aealo[154]
	Six Magics	Behind the Sorrow[155]
16	Carnifex	Hell Chose Me[156]
	Chelsea Grin	Desolation of Eden[157]
17	Finntroll	Nifelvind[158]
	Miss May I	Monument[159]
19	Eluveitie	Everything Remains (As It Never Was)[160]
	Fuck the Facts	Unnamed (EP)[161]
	Jon Oliva's Pain	Festival[162]
	Throes of Dawn	The Great Fleet of Echoes[163]
20	Stam1na	Viimeinen Atlantis[164]
22	Abscess	Dawn of Inhumanity[165]
	At the Gates	The Flames of the End (DVD set)[166]
	Borknagar	Universal[167]
23	High on Fire	Snakes for the Divine[168]
	Mutiny Within	Mutiny Within[169]
24	Dark Tranquillity	We Are the Void[170]
	Kalmah	12 Gauge[171]
	Reflexion	Edge[172]
26	Catamenia	Cavalcade[173]

March

Day	Artist	Album
1	Mortemia	Misere Mortem[174]
2	The Bled	Heat Fetish[175]
	Derdian	New Era Pt. 3 - The Apocalypse[176]
3	Ludicra	The Tenant[177]
	Metsatöll	Äio[178]
5	Soulgrind	The Tuoni Pathway[179]
8	White Wizzard	Over the Top[180]
9	Daughters	Daughters[181]
	Demon Hunter	The World Is a Thorn[182]
	Immolation	Majesty and Decay[183]
8	Burzum	Belus[184]
12	Theatre of Tragedy	Addenda (EP)[185]
15	Katatonia	The Longest Year (EP)[186]
	Killing Addiction	Fall of the Archetypes[187]
	Christopher Lee	Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross[188]
16	Armored Saint	La Raza[189]
	Landmine Marathon	Sovereign Descent[190]
	Serj Tankian	Elect the Dead Symphony (live DVD/CD)[191]
19	Sadist	Season in Silence[192]
	Scorpions	Sting in the Tail[193]
	Unleashed	As Yggdrasil Trembles[194]
22	Enthroned	Pentagrammaton[195]
	Poisonblack	Of Rust and Bones[196]
	Ragnarok	Collectors of the King[197]
	Triptykon	Eparistera Daimones[198]
23	Diabolic	Excisions of Exorcisms[199]
	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Option Paralysis[200]
	Down	Diary of a Mad Band: Europe in the Year of VI (live DVD/CD)[201]
24	Svartsot	Mulmets Viser[202]
26	Cathedral	The Guessing Game[203]
	Heidevolk	Uit oude Grond[204]
	Negură Bunget	Vîrstele Pamîntului[205]
	Wuthering Heights	Salt[206]
	Xasthur	Portal of Sorrow[207]
29	Alcest	Écailles de Lune[208]
30	Pantera	1990-2000: A Decade of Dominance (compilation)[209]
	Rotten Sound	Napalm (EP)[210]
31	Kiuas	Lustdriven[211]

April

Day	Artist	Album
2	The Foreshadowing	Oionos[212]
	The Vision Bleak	Set Sail to Mystery[213]
3	Avantasia	Angel of Babylon[214]
		The Wicked Symphony[214]
	Salem	Playing God and Other Short Stories[215]
5	DarkSun	Touching the Sun[216]
	October File	Our Souls To You[217]
	Primitive Graven Image	Celebrating Impending Chaos[218]
6	Slash	Slash
	Darkthrone	Circle the Wagons[219]
	Veil of Maya	[id][220]
9	Solution .45	For Aeons Past[221]
13	Astral Doors	Requiem of Time[222]
	Bison B.C.	Dark Ages[223]
	Bleeding Through	Bleeding Through[224]
	Cancer Bats	Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones[225]
	Judgement Day	Peacocks/Pink Monsters[226][227]
	The Ocean	Heliocentric[228]
	War of Ages	Eternal[229]
	Lair of the Minotaur	Evil Power[230]
	Woe of Tyrants	Threnody[231]
	Wormrot	Abuse[232]
16	Periphery	Periphery[233]
19	Order of Ennead	An Examination of Being[234]
20	Kayo Dot	Coyote[235]
	Engel	Threnody[236]
	Ratt	Infestation[237]
	Sevendust	Cold Day Memory[238]
	Sick of It All	Based on a True Story[239]
23	Audiovision	Focus[240]
	Candlemass	Ashes to Ashes Live (live DVD)[241]
	Tarot	Gravity of Light[242]
26	1349	Demonoir[243]
	Axel Rudi Pell	The Crest[244]
	Bullet for My Valentine	Fever[245]
	Kivimetsän Druidi	Betrayal, Justice, Revenge[246]
	Master	The Human Machine[247]
	Raintime	Psychromatic[248]
	Skyforger	Kurbads[249]
27	Drowning Pool	Drowning Pool[250]
	Mouth of the Architect	The Violence Beneath (EP)[251]
	Twilight	Monument To Time End[252]
30	Eisregen	Schlangensonne[253]
	Lacrimas Profundere	The Grandiose Nowhere[254]
	Rhapsody of Fire	The Frozen Tears of Angels[255]
	Saltatio Mortis	Manufactum II[256]

May

Day	Artist	Album
4	Deftones	Diamond Eyes[257]
	Dokken	Greatest Hits[258]
	Godsmack	The Oracle[259]
	Nonpoint	Miracle[260]
5	Ufomammut	Eve[261]
6	Defeated Sanity	Chapters of Repugnance[262]
7	Exodus	Exhibit B: The Human Condition[263]
	Pro-Pain	Absolute Power[264]
8	Violator	Annihilation Process (EP)[265]
10	Keep of Kalessin	Reptilian[266]
	Madder Mortem	Where Dream and Day Collide (EP)[267]
11	As I Lay Dying	The Powerless Rise[268]
	Beneath the Sky	In Loving Memory[269]
	Brain Drill	Quantum Catastrophe[270]
	Fuck the Facts	Disgorge Mexico: The DVD (DVD)[271]
	Howl	Full of Hell[272]
	Low Twelve	Splatter Pattern[273]
	Misery Index	Heirs to Thievery[274]
	Attila	Rage[275]
14	Black Majesty	In Your Honor[276]
	Mael Mórdha	Manannán[277]
	Pretty Maids	Pandemonium[278]
15	Kekal	8[279]
17	Cynic	Re-Traced (EP)[280]
	Annihilator	Annihilator[281]
18	Anew Revolution	iMerica[282]
	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Mafia (EP)[283]
	Iced Earth	Box of the Wicked (box set)[282]
	Silent Civilian	Ghost Stories[284]
	Widow Sunday	In These Rusted Veins[285]
19	Loudness	King of Pain[286]
	Pain of Salvation	Road Salt One[287]
21	Aeon	Path of Fire[288]
	Detente	Decline[289]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Invictus (Iconoclast III)[290]
	Masterplan	Time To Be King[291]
	Sabaton	Coat of Arms[292]
	Y&T	Facemelter[293]
24	Dew-Scented	Invocation[294]
	Enforcer	Diamonds[295]
	Leng Tch'e	Hypomanic[296]
25	Dir En Grey	Uroboros (DVD)
	Krokus	Hoodoo[282]
	Rosetta	A Determinism of Morality[297]
	Soulfly	Omen[282]
	Starkweather	This Sheltering Night[298]
26	Sotajumala	Kuolemanpalvelus[299]
28	Disbelief	Heal[300]
	Enemy of the Sun	Caedium[301]
	Exilia	Naked[302]
	Magica	Dark Diary[303]
31	Anathema	We're Here Because We're Here[304]
	Lyzanxia	Locust[305]
	Nevermore	The Obsidian Conspiracy[306]
	Slechtvalk	A Forlorn Throne[307]

June

Day	Artist	Album
1	Diskreet	Engage The Mechanicality[308]
	Stick to Your Guns	The Hope Division[309]
2	Primal Fear	16.6- All Over The World (live DVD)[310]
		Live in the USA (live CD)[310]
4	Five Star Prison Cell	Matriarch[311]
	Vanden Plas	The Seraphic Clockwork[312]
7	Purified in Blood	Under Black Skies[313]
	Watain	Lawless Darkness[314]
8	Circle of Dead Children	Psalm of the Grand Destroyer[315]
	Eyes Set to Kill	Broken Frames[282]
	The Funeral Pyre	Vultures at Dawn[316]
	The Haunted	Road Kill (CD/DVD)[282]
	Lamb of God	Hourglass: The Anthology (box set)[282]
	Kingdom of Sorrow	Behind the Blackest Tears[317]
	MyChildren MyBride	Lost Boy[318]
	Nachtmystium	Addicts: Black Meddle, Part II[319]
	Whitechapel	A New Era of Corruption[320]
	The Ghost Inside	Returners[321]
10	Mekong Delta	Wanderer on the Edge of Time[322]
14	Grave	Burial Ground[323]
	Setherial	Ekpyrosis[324]
15	In Fear and Faith	Imperial[282]
	Ozzy Osbourne	Scream[325]
18	Equilibrium	Rekreatur[326]
21	Angelus Apatrida	Clockwork[327]
	Kerion	The Origins[328]
	Kvelertak	Kvelertak[329]
	Void of Silence	The Grave of Civilization[330]
	Ramesses	Take The Curse[331]
	Witchery	Witchkrieg[332]
22	Danzig	Deth Red Sabaoth[333]
	Early Graves	Goner[334]
	Yakuza	Of Seismic Consequence[335]
23	Amorphis	Forging The Land of Thousand Lakes (DVD)[336]
	Charon	A-Sides, B-Sides & Suicides (Compilation)[337]
	Grand Magus	Hammer of the North[338]
26	Stigmata	Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom[339][340]
28	Sodom	Lords of Depravity II (DVD)[341]
	Severe Torture	Slaughtered[342]
29	Haste the Day	Attack of the Wolf King[343]
	Knut	Wonder[344]
	Mastodon	Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly (EP)[345]
	Parkway Drive	Deep Blue[346]
30	Edenbridge	Solitaire[347]

July

Day	Artist	Album
2	Contrive	The Internal Dialogue[348]
	Soilwork	The Panic Broadcast[349]
6	Helstar	Rising from the Grave[350]
	The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza	Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events[351]
	Valkyrie	Man of Two Visions[352]
	A Plea for Purging	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell[353]
12	Norma Jean	Meridional[354]
	Devil Sold His Soul	Blessed & Cursed[355]
13	Canvas Solaris	Irradiance[356]
	Hell Within	God Grant Me Vengeance[357]
	Hellyeah	Stampede[358]
	In This Moment	A Star-Crossed Wasteland[359]
	Korn	Korn III – Remember Who You Are[360]
16	Darkseed	Poison Awaits[361]
19	The Eyes of a Traitor	Breathless[362]
20	The Acacia Strain	Wormwood[363]
	Chimaira	Coming Alive (DVD/CD)[364]
	Early Man	Death Potion[365]
	Impending Doom	There Will Be Violence[366]
	Lillian Axe	Deep Red Shadows[350]
	Mose Giganticus	Gift Horse[350]
	Valdur	Raven God Amongst Us[367]
26	36 Crazyfists	Collisions and Castaways[368]
27	Avenged Sevenfold	Nightmare[369]
	Decrepit Birth	Polarity[370]
	The Rotted	Anarchogram (EP)[371]
29	Darkane	Layers of Live (DVD)[372]
30	Blind Guardian	At the Edge of Time[373]

August

Day	Artist	Album
3	Paul Gilbert	Fuzz Universe[374]
	Dax Riggs	Say Goodnight To The World[375]
	All Out War	Into the Killing Fields[376]
5	Wacken Open Air	Wacken Open Air 2009 (DVD)[377]
6	Immortal	The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh (DVD)[378]
	Lordi	Babez for Breakfast[379]
10	The Binary Code	Priest (EP)[380]
	Bonded by Blood	Exiled to Earth[381]
	Black Label Society	Order of the Black[382]
	Crash	The Paragon of Animals[383]
16	Iron Maiden	The Final Frontier[384]
17	Knights of the Abyss	The Culling of Wolves[385]
	Miss May I	Monument[386]
18	Satanic Warmaster	Nachzehrer[387]
20	Kataklysm	Heaven's Venom[388]
	Toxik	Think Again (DVD)
	Tarja Turunen	What Lies Beneath
21	SIC	Fighters They Bleed[389]
23	Apocalyptica	7th Symphony[390]
	Ion Dissonance	Cursed[391]
24	The Devil Wears Prada	Zombie (EP)[392]
	Helmet	Seeing Eye Dog[393]
	Malevolent Creation	Invidious Dominion[394]
	Shadows Fall	Madness in Manila: Shadows Fall Live In The Philippines 2009 (DVD)[395]
	The Showdown	Blood in the Gears[396]
	The Sword	Warp Riders[397]
25	Tristania	Rubicon[398]
	Sonic Syndicate	We Rule the Night[399]
27	Liv Kristine	Skintight[400]
30	Dagoba	Poseidon[401]
	Mar De Grises	Streams Inwards[402]
	Neurosis	Live at Roadburn 2007 (DVD)[403]
	Nightfall	Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants[404]
	Sahg	Sahg III[405]
	Spiritual Beggars	Return to Zero[406]
	Terror	Keepers of the Faith[407]
31	10 Years	Feeding the Wolves[408]
	The Autumn Offering	The Autumn Offering[409]
	Cephalic Carnage	Misled by Certainty[410]
	Disturbed	Asylum[411]
	Murderdolls	Women and Children Last[412]
	For Today	Breaker[413]
	The Word Alive	Deceiver[414]

September

Day	Artist	Album
1	Acid Drinkers	Fishdick Zwei - The Dick Is Rising Again (cover album)[415]
	Atrocity	After the Storm[416]
3	Death Angel	Relentless Retribution[417]
	The Red Shore	The Avarice of Man[418]
7	Megadeth	Rust in Peace Live (DVD)[419]
	Stone Sour	Audio Secrecy[420]
	Suicidal Tendencies	No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family[421]
9	Marseille	Unfinished Business[422]
10	Swashbuckle	Crime Always Pays...[423]
	Kamelot	Poetry for the Poisoned[424]
	Volbeat	Beyond Hell/Above Heaven[425]
13	Autopsy	The Tomb Within (EP)[426]
	DragonForce	Twilight Dementia (live album)[427]
14	The Absence	Enemy Unbound[428]
	Accept	Blood of the Nations[429]
	Beneath the Massacre	Marée Noire (EP)[430]
	Flotsam and Jetsam	The Cold[431]
	Sully Erna	Avalon[432]
	System Divide	The Conscious Sedation[433]
17	Elvenking	Red Silent Tides[434]
	Secret Sphere	Archetype[435]
	Therion	Sitra Ahra[436]
20	Drudkh	Handful of Stars[437]
	Manticora	Safe[438]
	Metallica	Six Feet Down Under (EP)[439]
	Raunchy	A Discord Electric[440]
21	Opeth	In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (live DVD)[441]
	Serj Tankian	Imperfect Harmonies[442]
	Torche	Songs for Singles (EP)[443]
24	Circle II Circle	Consequence of Power[444]
	Dimmu Borgir	Abrahadabra[445]
	Exciter	Death Machine[446]
	Revolution Renaissance	Trinity[447]
27	Cataract	Killing The Eternal[448]
	The Crown	Doomsday King[449]
	Enslaved	Axioma Ethica Odini[450]
28	Abigail Williams	In the Absence of Light[451]
	August Burns Red	Home (live DVD/CD)[452]
	Avian	The Path (EP)[453]
	Alice Cooper	Theatre of Death: Live At Hammersmith 2009 (DVD)[454]
	Halford	Halford IV: Made of Metal[455]
	James LaBrie	Static Impulse[456]
	Mushroomhead	Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children[457]
	October Tide	A Thin Shell[458]
	Powerglove	Saturday Morning Apocalypse[459]
	Slipknot	(sic)nesses (live DVD)[460]
	Unearthly Trance	V[461]
29	Angra	Aqua[462]
	Iron Fire	Metalmorphosized[463]
30	Place of Skulls	As A Dog Returns[464]

October

Day	Artist	Album
1	Grave Digger	The Clans Will Rise Again[465]
	Melechesh	The Epigenesis[466]
4	Bring Me the Horizon	There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.[467]
5	Joe Satriani	Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards[468]
10	Mortiis	Perfectly Defect[469]
12	All That Remains	...For We Are Many[470]
	Dakrya	Crime Scene[471]
	Intronaut	Valley of Smoke[472]
	Madball	Empire[473]
	Motionless in White	Creatures[474]
	Negligence	Coordinates of Confusion[475]
15	All Ends	A Road To Depression[476]
	Magic Kingdom	Symphony of War[477]
	Mirror of Deception	A Smouldering Fire[478]
	Rhapsody of Fire	The Cold Embrace of Fear - A Dark Romantic Symphony[479]
	Symphorce	Unrestricted[480]
17	Crionics	N.O.I.R. (EP)[481]
18	The Meads of Asphodel	The Murder of Jesus The Jew[482]
20	Amberian Dawn	End of Eden[483]
	Arckanum	Sviga Læ[484]
22	Cradle of Filth	Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa[485]
	Forbidden	Omega Wave[486]
	Neaera	Forging the Eclipse[487]
	Virgin Steele	The Black Light Bacchanalia[488]
25	Helheim	Åsgards Fall (EP)[489]
	Tank	War Machine[490]
	Triptykon	Shatter (EP)[491]
26	Agathocles	This is Not a Threat, It's a Promise[492]
	Dååth	Dååth[493]
	Firewind	Days of Defiance[494]
	Ill Niño	Dead New World[495]
	Krieg	The Isolationist[496]
	Kylesa	Spiral Shadow[497]
	Monster Magnet	Mastermind[498]
	Sacred Oath	World on Fire[499]
	Slough Feg	The Animal Spirits[500]
	Star One	Victims of the Modern Age[501]
	Withered	Dualitas[502]
	Diskreet	Engage the Mechanicality[503]
27	Verjnuarmu	Lohuton[504]
29	Heljareyga	Heljareyga[505]
	The Sorrow	The Sorrow[506]
	War from a Harlots Mouth	MMX[507]
	Angband	Visions of the Seeker[508]
30	Shape of Despair	Written in My Scars (EP)[509]
31	Helloween	7 Sinners[510]

November

Day	Artist	Album
1	Ross the Boss	Hailstorm[511]
2	Anal Cunt	Wearing Out Our Welcome[512]
	Escape the Fate	Escape the Fate[513]
3	Machinae Supremacy	A View from the End of the World[514]
5	Allen/Lande	The Showdown[515]
	Forgotten Tales	We Shall See the Light[516]
8	Aborym	Psychogrotesque[517]
	Atheist	Jupiter[518]
	Deathspell Omega	Paracletus[519]
	Therapy?	We're Here to the End[520]
9	Am I Blood	Existence of Trauma[521]
	Behemoth	Evangelia Heretika (DVD)[522]
	First Blood	Silence Is Betrayal[523]
	Gwar	Bloody Pit of Horror[524]
	Oceano	Contagion[525]
	Sargeist	Let the Devil In[526]
	Underoath	Ø (Disambiguation)[527]
	Vreid	Vreid Goddamnit (DVD)[528]
15	Hate	Erebos[529]
	Solefald	Norrøn Livskunst[530]
19	Astral Doors	Testament of Rock - The Best of Astral Doors[531]
	The Ocean	Anthropocentric[532]
	Samael	Antigod (EP)[533]
20	Impaled Nazarene	Road to the Octagon[534]
22	Sodom	In War and Pieces[535]
23	After the Burial	In Dreams
	Agalloch	Marrow of the Spirit[536]
	The Chariot	Long Live[537]
	God Dethroned	Under the Sign of the Iron Cross[538]
	Yngwie Malmsteen	Relentless[539]
	Phobia	Unrelenting (EP)[540]
24	Dark Moor	Ancestral Romance[541]
	Dark the Suns	Sleepwalking in a Nightmare[542]
	Teräsbetoni	Maailma Tarvitsee Sankareita[543]
26	Metallica	Live at Grimey's (live EP)[544]
30	Chapter 14	Like Trees in November (EP)[545]

December

Day	Artist	Album
3	Seventh Wonder	The Great Escape[546]
	Theatres des Vampires	Moonlight Waltz[547]
7	Death	Live in Japan (DVD)[548]
	Flyleaf	Remember to Live (EP)[549]
14	Motörhead	The Wörld Is Yours[550]
	The Damned Things	Ironiclast[551]
	Sea of Treachery	Wonderland[552]
17	Ektomorf	Redemption[553]
	Sinister	Legacy of Ashes[554]
	Tankard	Vol(l)ume 14[555]
31	Helrunar	Sól[556]