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One of the more interesting developments of this decade is Darkthrone completely abandoning black metal to channel their inner Motorhead/Venom/Celtic Frost
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Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

If anyone is interested, based on ratings and reviews left alone, these are the site's top 100 albums of the 2010s.


I have rated/reviewed seven of those, and had to go all the way to 39 to find the first one!LOL
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There's a lot of albums I like in there. But it's kinda of a problem isn't it: we get so few ratings it only takes a few people with similar taste and our charts are completely dominated. We need more people rating/reviewing albums!
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

One of the more interesting developments of this decade is Darkthrone completely abandoning black metal to channel their inner Motorhead/Venom/Celtic Frost

Well they brought it back somewhat on the last two. Not exactly A Blaze in the Northern Sky anymore though. LOL
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Originally posted by Vim Fuego Vim Fuego wrote:

Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

If anyone is interested, based on ratings and reviews left alone, these are the site's top 100 albums of the 2010s.


I have rated/reviewed seven of those, and had to go all the way to 39 to find the first one!LOL

Only 1 album there that has made (the current draft of) my list, Triptykon at #35, though a couple others that barely didn't make the cut

I'm not very active with ratings/reviews though


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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Vim Fuego Vim Fuego wrote:

Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

If anyone is interested, based on ratings and reviews left alone, these are the site's top 100 albums of the 2010s.


I have rated/reviewed seven of those, and had to go all the way to 39 to find the first one!LOL

Only 1 album there that has made (the current draft of) my list, Triptykon at #35, though a couple others that barely didn't make the cut

I'm not very active with ratings/reviews though

I have bouts of it. I haven't managed a review in a while, but some days I go through and click a few stars. I'm trying to be more proactive on it with new stuff I hear. With the make up of the users here, it's often the only rating those releases get.
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Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

If anyone is interested, based on ratings and reviews left alone, these are the site's top 100 albums of the 2010s.


Interesting to see that at least 8 of those will probably make my top 50. 
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

One of the more interesting developments of this decade is Darkthrone completely abandoning black metal to channel their inner Motorhead/Venom/Celtic Frost

I'm not a huge black metal fan, but I've been quite interested in the rise of the anti-fascist side of it. Bands like Gaylord, Neckbeard Deathcamp and Dawn Ray'd.
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Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

If anyone is interested, based on ratings and reviews left alone, these are the site's top 100 albums of the 2010s.


5 of those are definites on my list, and there's a few that might with a re-listen.

As far as the lack of ratings go, yeah right now it's just the active forum users (which aren't many) mainly that are rating things. I have a couple suggestions though of getting more people, Discord and Plug.dj servers would be a good way to do so.


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no one talks about the band Hexen. fuck i love the band Hexen. the first album State Of Insurgency is just straight up pure thrash with hints and glimmers of what they would do on their next album. their second and finel album Being and Nothingness is a fucking prog thrash masterpiece. i haven't found any other proggy thrash album that can touch it's brilliance. such a god damn shame this band doesn't exist anymore. Being and Nothingness is one of my top 5 favourite albums of the 2010s period. it is so hard to even pick out a favourite track. i can't even imagine what music the follow up to being and nothingness would have sounded like. here is the album cover 



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^ Sounds like it might be worth checking it out. I'll give it a listen.
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

-I'm trying to limit the number of releases per artist, especially from very prolific musicians

I decided on a self-imposed limit of 2 albums per artist, and preferably 1 if there is a clear standout in their discography.

I'm also gonna need to pick a date by which to finalize the 50 albums, or else there is no hope of getting them sorted LOL
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Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

^ Sounds like it might be worth checking it out. I'll give it a listen.
you will be pleasently surprised. i wish this album would have done better and was better known. it deserves more recognition. its virtually unknown. at least i got my buddy into it
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Hexen sounds like it might be up my alley. Will definitely give that one a listen before finalising my best of the decade submission. Thumbs Up
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Seems the better place to put my WIP list.

These are all my relevant 5 star ratings that I currently have on MMA. I have more ratings that I haven't added though. Sorted by genre for now, then I'll rank each one seperately. Then will come the hard part, merging them together for an overall top 50.

Power (Ranked - 12 albums):

Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
Lovebites - Awakening From Abyss
Eternity's End - Unyielding
Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Lovebites - Clockwork Immortality
Triosphere - The Heart of the Matter
Wuthering Heights - Salt
Grave Digger - Return of the Reaper
Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints
Orden Ogan - To the End
Iron Savior - The Landing

Heavy (Ranked - 3 albums):

Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Hell - Human Remains
Metal Church - Damned If You Do

Death (Ranked - 17 albums):

Obscura - Omnivium
Enthean - Priests of Annihilation
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Lascaille's Shroud - The Roads Leading North
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Beyond Creation - Algorythm
Nile - What Should Not be Unearthed
Esoctrilihum - Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas To Awaken The Blind Sovereigns Of Nothingness)
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Lascaille's Shroud - Interval 02: Parallel Infinities - The Abscinded Universe
Obscura - Diluvium
Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River
The Faceless - Autotheism
Obscura - Akróasis
Origin - Entity
Mayan - Dhyana

Black (Ranked - 28 albums):

Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Fen - Epoch
Spectral Lore - III
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Winterhorde - Underwatermoon
Wodensthrone - Curse
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
Winterhorde - Maestro
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Fen - Winter
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Mare Cognitum/Spectral Lore - Sol
Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.
Uada - Devoid of Light
Aquilus - Griseus
Entropia - Ufonaut
Pure Wrath - Ascetic Eventide
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Fen - Dustwalker
Dordeduh - Dar de duh
Saor - Aura
Mesarthim - Isolate
Sojourner - Empires of Ash
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
White Ward - Futility Report
Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind

Thrash (Ranked - 5 albums):

Vektor - Outer Isolation
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Sacral Rage - Beyond Celestial Echoes
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
Vorbid - Mind

Doom (Ranked - 3 albums):

Avatarium - The Girl with the Raven Mask
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Paradise Lost - Medusa

Prog (Ranked - 6 albums):

Haken - The Mountain
Arch / Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Threshold - Legends Of The Shires
Haken - Aquarius
Ihsahn - After

Symphonic (Ranked - 4 albums):

Epica - The Holographic Principle
Xandria - Neverworld's End
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

Hard Rock (Ranked - 2 albums):

Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule

Final List Draft

Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Fen - Epoch
Spectral Lore - III
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Avatarium - The Girl with the Raven Mask
Winterhorde - Underwatermoon
Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
Wodensthrone - Curse
Lovebites - Awakening From Abyss
Eternity's End - Unyielding
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
Obscura - Omnivium
Enthean - Priests of Annihilation
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
Winterhorde - Maestro
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Lascaille's Shroud - The Roads Leading North
Fen - Winter
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Hell - Human Remains
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Lovebites - Clockwork Immortality
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Epica - The Holographic Principle
Beyond Creation - Algorythm
Nile - What Should Not be Unearthed
Haken - The Mountain
Mare Cognitum/Spectral Lore - Sol
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.
Xandria - Neverworld's End
Esoctrilihum - Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas To Awaken The Blind Sovereigns Of Nothingness)
Uada - Devoid of Light
Aquilus - Griseus
Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule
Arch / Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Entropia - Ufonaut
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Triosphere - The Heart of the Matter
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Pure Wrath - Ascetic Eventide
Wuthering Heights - Salt
Sacral Rage - Beyond Celestial Echoes
Threshold - Legends Of The Shires
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Fen - Dustwalker
Lascaille's Shroud - Interval 02: Parallel Infinities - The Abscinded Universe
Grave Digger - Return of the Reaper
Dordeduh - Dar de duh
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
Obscura - Diluvium
Saor - Aura
Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints
Metal Church - Damned If You Do
Haken - Aquarius
Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River
Mesarthim - Isolate
Sojourner - Empires of Ash
The Faceless - Autotheism
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
White Ward - Futility Report
Ihsahn - After
Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind
Obscura - Akróasis
Origin - Entity
Vorbid - Mind
Orden Ogan - To the End
Iron Savior - The Landing
Mayan - Dhyana


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^ Not a bad idea. I always find it hard to really compare two releases of different genres. Right now I'm doing a lot of re-listening and sliding each album into the main list where it feels more appropriate, but some are getting changed again as I go. Inevitably there are going to be some albums I absolutely love that get no points and even some of my favourite bands are going to get shafted completely. I'm actually having some inner turmoil over Blind Guardian. I've historically rated their two 2010s albums as 4.5's which would preclude them completely from my top 50. But they're my favourite band of all time and it feels wrong not to include at least one of those albums somewhere. And they probably will get in there because I know it's because they are my favourite band I hold them to a higher standard than anyone else: I know there are power metal albums I like less that got 5 stars from me where At the Edge of Time only has 4.5, because it's not Somewhere Far Beyond. LOL

In fact, I probably have a lot of 4.5's that deserve revaluation due to being growers. Cult of Luna/Julie Christmas is easily one of my most played releases of the last decade and I already had to up that one to 5 stars and it will definitely feature high on the final list even though based on original ratings it wouldn't have got a look in. 
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Oh and @vmoore, got the Hexen album on and it's damn fine thrash. Unknown after one listen whether it will get a 5/5 and/or break top 50 for for the decade, but it's definite 4.5 first impression. 
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@Colin, have you ever heard the sludge metal band Obake? I'm re-listening to their debut from 2011 now and forgot how great it is. I could see it being something up your alley:

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Originally posted by Unitron Unitron wrote:

@Colin, have you ever heard the sludge metal band Obake? I'm re-listening to their debut from 2011 now and forgot how great it is. I could see it being something up your alley:


nope I'll check it out
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Colin you've put Opeth - Heritage on your Non-Metal list. That album is in Metal Related so is eligible for the main list, not the bonus Non-Metal round. 
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