Well so far this year has been quite a let-down when it comes to quality metal. Many of you will probably disagree, but to each his own.

So in order for me to even make a list containing 10 entries I had to fetch them from a year ago which had some really fantastic post-July releases!

1. Vale of Pnath - The Prodigal Empire

2. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden

3. Circus Maximus - Nine

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Here follows a short list of albums released in 2010, which did not live up to anything spectacular even if SOME of them showed so much promise based on previous releases. Some less disappointing/some more but they all vary in degrees of Anticipation and eventual Gut-wrenching heart ache.

NOTE: The albums with lowest disappointment factor appear last, progressively becoming more bad until you finally reach the most shockingly unfullfilling album of 2010

1. Dark Lunacy - Weaver Of Forgotten

2. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape

3. Abigail Williams - In The Absence Of Light

4. Finntroll - Nifelvind

5. Arsis - Starve For The Devil

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1. Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

2. In Mourning - Monolith

3. Heljareyga - Heljareyga

4. Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian

5. Destinity - XI Reasons To See

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1. Miseration - Your Demons - Their Angels

2. Amorphis - Silent Waters

3. Sonata Arctica - Unia

4. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup

5. Suspyre - A Great Divide

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1. While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

2. Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

3. Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow

4. Mistur - Attende

5. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious

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1. Suspyre - When Time Fades…

2. Falconer - Among Beggars And Thieves

3. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

4. Mirrorthrone - Gangrene

5. Abigail Williams - In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns

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This was an epic year for metal in my eyes....The first time I ever heard Mirrorthrone and their "Carriers of Dust", is still one of the best releases of the 2000's. Pretty difficult list, because any of the top 5 could have made it to no.1 in any other given year and also features the best releases to date of those 5 bands.

1. Mirrorthrone - Carriers Of Dust

2. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

3. Dark Lunacy - The Diarist

4. Týr - Ragnarok

5. Falconer - Northwind

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1. Hypocrisy - Virus

2. Kiuas - The Spirit Of Ukko

3. Old Man's Child - Vermin

4. Sentenced - The Funeral Album

5. Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad

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1. Behemoth - Demigod

2. Wintersun - Wintersun

3. Ensiferum - Iron

4. Hypocrisy - The Arrival

5. Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

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