Since 2005, Randy “Rocket” Cody’s THE METAL DEN has set a high standard for excellence in heavy music with its yearly “Top 10” list, selecting metal bands based on their overall musical accomplishment in a studio recording. The criteria Rocket and TMD uses to make these selections is based on technical musicianship and the level of artistry involved in singing or playing music on an album.
TMD searched far and wide during 2010, listening to new releases throughout the entire global metal landscape, in all of the underground scenes, including: U.S.A., United Kingdom, Russia, Croatia, Italy, Egypt, Germany, Poland, Tokyo, and so many countless other great world cities/countries that celebrate a phenomenal love for heavy metal music.
Bands did not have to be signed to a brick-and-mortar record label to make our list and for the
first time EP’s were allowed entry.
Beyond its musical production, the ‘album theme’ and ‘song lyrics’ also get considered during the tough judging process, helping to lend a more fully informed selection based on all of these separately stated criteria.
We salute each and every musician that recorded on each of the following masterpieces in metal.
Drum roll, please…
TMD’s Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of 2010!
1. Fear Factory “Mechanize” (Candlelight Records)
2. Warbeast “Krush The Enemy” (Housecore Records)
3. Black Label Society “Order of The Black” (E1 Music)
4. Deliver Us From Evil “Still I Rise” (EP- self-released)
5. Hostility “Set In Stone” (Voltaic Records)
6. Kingdom of Sorrow “Behind The Blackest Tears” (Relapse Records)
7. Hellyeah “Stampede” (Epic Records)
8. Danzig “Deth Red Sabaoth”(Evillive/The End Records)
9. Infernaeon “Genesis To Nemesis” (Prosthetic Records)
10. Iron Maiden “The Final Frontier”(Columbia/Legacy)
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