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As we are two months into 2010 soon, we should have started one of these threads already.

1. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
2. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
3. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
4. Sabaton - Coat Of Arms
5. Heidevolk - Uit Oude Grond
6. Kalmah - 12 Gauge
7. Skyforger - Kurbads
8. King Of Asgard - Fi'mbulvintr
9. Equilibrium - Rekreatur
10. Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos
11. Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
12. Svartsot - Mulmets Viser
13. Grimner - A Call For Battle
14. Finntroll - Nifelvind
15. Masterplan - Time To Be King
16. Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North
17. Unleashed - As Yggdrasil Trembles
18. Northland - Northland
19. Steelwing - Lord Of The Wasteland UPDATE
20. Gamma Ray - To The Metal!


Latest update: December 7th 2010

"To The Metal" is quite good, but, I too, always expect better from Gamma Ray.

Between the new Overkill, Fear Factory, and Arsis I'm thinking 2010 is starting off to a killer start.

Burzum - Belus

most probably one of the following, thats if they release anything

meshuggah
decrepit birth
iron maiden
burzum
morbid angel

1. Celestiial - Where Life Springs Eternal
2. Burzum - Belus
3. Sigh - Scenes From Hell
4. Shining - Blackjazz
5. Ihsahn - After
6. Overkill - Ironbound
7. Bethroned - Clash of Pride
8. Blasphemophager - …For Chaos, Obscurity And Desolation…
9. Ares Kingdom - Incendiery
10. Borknagar - Universal
11. Immolation - Majesty and Decay
12. Decrepitaph - Beyond the Cursed Tombs
13. The Grotesquery - Tales of the Coffin Born
14. Stonecircle - Myth
15. The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
16. Abigor - Time Is the Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint
17. Dark Fortress - Ylem
18. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
19. Rotting Christ - Aealo
20. Dragobrath - Fra Myrer Taake...

...I already had to narrow it down (Helloween and Ramma Gay were easy eliminations ;-)).

Edit 3/19/10

After the atrocity that is Heretic I hold little hope for much from Trey and crew. Hopefully they surprise me, but at least we have the back catalog.

david vincent is back in the fold, so fingers crossed...

and heretic wasnt that bad, stricken arise and enshrined by grace were 2 great songs. its just spoilt by the crapper than crap instrumentals.

As a whole it was garbage, broken down there were definitely some good songs.

Well considering the last album MA put out with Dave was the disastrous Domination, I don't know how quality their new album may be.

Disatrous, eh? Hmm... Nope, I'm afraid you sir are incorrect. Definitely a stylistic shift (as was Covenant), but easily better than the Tucker era.

Domination was more like a commercial stab than a "progression". They were on a big label, and I guess that just caused their songwriting skills to go down the crapper.

I'm not much for the Tucker era, largely because of his vocals. Some of the music on Formulas is all right though. Concerning Morbid Angel I stick to the first 3 albums and of course Abominations of Desolation.

Um... Covenant was released on Giant/Earache as well ;-)

Call it a fluke then, I still think Domination is rubbish.

Have I ever told you that you suck? If not, then, you suck! I love "Domination", and consider it one of my favorite death metal albums.

Sorry, but I thought the new Sigh was a huge disappointment, and I consider myself a borderline fanboy. It didn't come close to the standard set by Hangman's Hymn. I think Mirai got too bogged down in composing for a full chamber orchestra, and lost sight of writing good music.

Hopefully, this was just a learning stage, and the next abum will return them to greatness. Mikannibal's presence is an excellent addition, but was not enough to save this one.