Metal Reviews

This be ridiculously hard. Here I go. I'm going to keep it within 20 selections, List will include a live album or two, if they're that amazing.

Iron Maiden- Brave New World
Judas Priest- Angel of Retribution
Virgin Steele- The House of Atreus, Vol II
Destruction- The Antichrist
Tankard- Beast of Bourbon
Sodom- M16
Ensiferum- Ensiferum
Manticora- Hyperion
Kamelot- The Black Halo
Blind Guardian- Live
Lost Horizon- A Flame to the Ground Beneath
Shadows Fall- The Art of Balance
Slough Feg- Traveller
Kreator- Hordes of Chaos
Helloween- Gambling With the Devil
Torture Squad- Pandemonium
Metal Church- This Present Wasteland
Symphony X- Paradise Lost
Mekong Delta- Lurking Fear
Rush- Snakes and Arrows

All in all, been a great decade for metal.

Ah, there's so much... I have probably rated stuff not mentioned higher than a couple here. But these are albums that have been most influential and crucial to me and my taste this decade. The fat ones are the absolute best

Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
A.C.T - Last Epic
Akercocke - Antichrist
Akercocke - Words that go unspoken, deeds that go undone
Allen & Lande - The Battle
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Andy McKee - Art of Motion
Arcana Coelestia - Le Mirage de L'ideal
At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
At War - Infidel
Axehammer - Windrider
Bal-Sagoth - The Cthonic Chronicles
Behemoth - Demigod
Cathedral - Garden of Unearthly Delights
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
Converge - Axe to Fall
Converge - No Heroes
Converge - Jane Doe
Crom - Vengeance
The Crown - Deathrace King
Dark Quarterer - Symbols
Decapitated - Nihility
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
DGM - Different Shapes
Dream Theater - Train of Thoughts
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Enslaved - Ruun
Equilibrium - Sagas
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Extol - Synergy
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, Grace
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Helheim - Kaoskult
Hibria - Defying the Rules
Icarus Witch - Songs for the Lost
Jeroan Drive - The Stones Remain in Silence
Jr Ewing - Maelstrom
Jr Ewing - Ride Paranoia
Kamelot - Epica
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Kreator - Enemy of God
Kiuas - The Spirit of Ukko
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
Macbeth - Gotteskrieger
Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Norma Jean - Redeemer
Obituary - Xcecutioners Return
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic: Calling
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver
Razor of Occam - Homage to Martyrs
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn
Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
Sodom - M-16
Speedtrap - Raw Deal
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Tankard - B-day
Tankard - Beast of Bourbon

Need to dig through Aesop's list some intriguing choices which I have yet to hear. A +1 on the Dax Riggs.

Why Black Seeds of Vengeance and not In Their Darkened Shrines? I find BSoV to be the weakest Nile album.

But it has some of their best songs? I don't find anything wrong with Black Seeds.

Best Of The Decade:

In Flames - Clayman
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
Helloween - The Dark Ride
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
Cynic - Traced In Air

Honorable Mentions:

Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Halford - Resurrection
Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Ulcerate's new album is some of the modern death metal I've ever heard along with Decrepit Birth's Diminishing between Worlds. I've since purchased the new Gorod and it has nothing on either of those albums.