I thought for sure someone would have posted this thread by now, but I checked and no one has. What are your favorite albums of the past decade?

Mine are presented here:


Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Norma Jean - Meridional
The Chariot - Long Live
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
August Burns Red - Rescue and Restore
Within The Ruins - Phenomena
Every Time I Die - Low Teens
Lamb Of God - Resolution
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade Of Blue
Insomnium - Winters Gate
Iwrestledabearonce - Hail Mary
After The Burial - Dig Deep
Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets and the Migrant Fauna
August Burns Red - Found In Far Away Places
Dark Tranquillity - Atoma
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
Aborted - Retrogore
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Cradle Of Filth - Cryptoriana
TBDM - Nightbringers
Septicflesh - Titan
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Born of Osiris - The Discovery
Taake - Noregs Vaapen
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
Ascension - Consolamentum
3Teeth - Shutdown.exe
Frontierer - Unloved
Sectioned - Annihilated
Inferi - Revenant
Within Destruction - Deathwish
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Exocrine - Molten Giant
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
AKHLYS - The Dreaming I
Dendritic Arbor - Romantic Love
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Gigan - Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery And Super Science
Periphery - PII: This Time It's Personal
BTBAM - Coma Ecliptic
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Author and Punisher - Melk en Honig
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Tryptikon - Melana Chasmata
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno
Noctambulist - Atmospheres of Desolation
Vein - Errorzone
Be'lakor - Vessels
Ihsahn - Arktis.
Wormed - Krighsu
Dodecahedron - Kwintessins
Nokturnal Mortum - Verity
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Altarage - The Approaching Roar
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Periphery - PIII: Select Difficulty
Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstacy
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Numenorean - Adore
Schammasch - Triangle
Car Bomb - Meta
Cult Of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
TBDM - Ritual
Wrvth - Wrvth
Torrential Downpour - Truth Knowledge Vision
TDEP - One Of Us Is The Killer
Periphery - PIV Hail Stan
The Callous Daoboys - Die On Mars
Warforged - I: Voice
The Armed - Untitled
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxory
Emptiness - Not For Music
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Portal - Vexovoid
Ulcerate - Vermis
Death Kharma - The History Of Death and Burial Rituals Pt. 1
Sigh - Graveward
Meshuggah - Koloss
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
BTBAM - Parallax 2: Future Sequence
Converge - The Dusk In Us All
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Code Orange - Forever
Periphery - Periphery
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Protest The Hero - Volition
Septicflesh - The Great Mass
Absu - Abzu
Behemoth - The Satanist
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

Or you could just look through the endless lists that everyone posted

Which you also could make

Written by RaduP on 07.01.2020 at 20:24

Or you could just look through the endless lists that everyone posted

Which you also could make

True, but it's nice to have more of a discussion sometimes.

I'm interested to read some general discussion about the decade's trends, artist trajectories, new labels etc. too. What do you think stood out, got stale, what will you remember the 2010s for?

I'll come back to my favorite albums later. They contain almost no metal, though, so this may be the wrong subforum for them.

Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
High On Fire - Electric Messiah
Enslaved - In Times
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
Darkspace - Darkspace III I
Hatebreed - The Divinity Of Purpose
Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods

Difficult to choose one.

Written by IronAngel on 09.01.2020 at 13:14

I'll come back to my favorite albums later. They contain almost no metal, though, so this may be the wrong subforum for them.

You had my curiosity but now you have my interest

I assume we're talking 2010 - present?
I'll post the albums hat, to me, are the best of each year overall, order is approximate, closer to the top the more definitive the order

2010
Immolation - Majesty & Decay
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Overkill - Ironbound
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon
Allegaeon - Fragments of Form and Function
Atheist - Jupiter

2011
Aquilius - Griseus
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Ouroboros - Glorification of a Myth
Obcura - Omnivium
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich
Anthrax - Worship Music
Immolation - Providence

2012
Svartidaudi - Flesh Cathedral
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Overkill - The Electric Age
Celtachor - Nine Waves From The Shore

2013
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Unhuman - Unhuman
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Aeternum Vale - Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Black Crown Initiate - Song Of The Crippled Bull

2014
Behemoth - The Satanist
Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite
Hoth - Oathbreaker
Mastodon - Once More Round The Sun
Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
Vader - Tibi Et Igni

2015
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
Ne Obliviscaris - Hiraeth

2016
Chethe'Ilist - Le Dernier Crepuscule
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Zhrine - Unortheta
Epica - The Holographic Principle
Insomnium - Winters Gate

2017
Immolation - Atonement
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Septicflesh - Codex Omega
Tchornobog - Tchornobog

2018
Sulphur Aeron - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Judas Priest - Firepower
Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
Hoth - Astral Necromancy
Obscura - Diluvium
Pestilence - Hadeon

2019
Flotsam And Jetsam - End Of Chaos
Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion
Overkill - The Wings Of War
Allegaeon - Apoptosis
Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

2020
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned
Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Havukruunu - Uinuos Syomein Sota

Written by sgtrobo on 06.09.2021 at 07:54

2020
Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus
Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned
Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
Graceless - Where Vultures Know Your Name
On Thorns I Lay - Threnos
Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
Havukruunu - Uinuos Syomein Sota
Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World

That's very similar to my 2020 list!

Necrophobic, Graceless, Butcher, Draconian and Dark Fortress were all in mine.

I can't remember what else I had... Hellripper, Faceless Burial, Panzerfaust possibly, Ulcerate certainly

I'll need to give the Cryptic Shift album a go as I don't think I've listened to that.

Written by gavdann on 13.09.2021 at 15:13

I'll need to give the Cryptic Shift album a go as I don't think I've listened to that.

obviously I highly recommend it.