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1. • Hopkins
   • is it that time of year?
     
     my top 10, in no particular order (not including the stuff i've put out, which i dearly love)
     
     deftones - diamond eyes
     groan - s/t
     ghost - opus eponymous
     humanfly - darker later
     brutality will prevail - root of all evil
     taint - all bees to the sea
     anathema - we're here because we're here
     flatlands - s/t
     black mass - s/t
     koresh - crippledriver
   • [20:51 on 03/12/10]
2. • mamba
   • I'll have a think about it when I'm not in the pub but Deftones is definitely right up there for me.
   • [20:59 on 03/12/10]
3. • Jack
   • Deftones also
     stone axe II
     ghost
     dextor jones new one
     black mountain wilderness heart
     
     hmm think of more shortly
   • [21:08 on 03/12/10]
4. • Mazz
   • Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
   • [22:55 on 03/12/10]
5. • Jack
   • Black Keys- Brothers
   • [23:35 on 03/12/10]
6. • mike
   • I can never remember what came out this year, but yeah Humanfly album is the tits.
   • [00:17 on 04/12/10]
7. • sabbathfan
   • ones that stand out so far:
     
     Heaven and Hell - Live At Wacken
     Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
     Cathedral - The Guessing Game
   • [12:12 on 04/12/10]
8. • pull-my-plonker
   • Need to write my proper Top10 (in proper one-sentence Plonker stylie!!)
     
     But it will inevitably include:
     Cathedral
     THE SWORD
     High On Fire
     Groan
     Dopefight
     Gospel of the Future
     Ghost
     Electric Wizard
     Tweak Bird
     Wiht
   • [21:36 on 05/12/10]
9. • slack mammoth
   • This year I liked Witchsorrow, Iron Maiden and Wizard. That's it.
   • [21:59 on 05/12/10]
10. • Rob Himself
    • Not bought much new stuff this year but:
      
      Watain - Lawless Darkness
      Ghost - Opus Eponymous
      Electric Wizard - Black Masses
      The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
      Witchsorrow - s/t
      Flatlands - s/t
      [Edited by Rob Himself at 10:19 on 06/12/10]
    • [10:18 on 06/12/10]
11. • Ollie
    • Rob Himself says:

      Not bought much new stuff this year but:
      
      Watain - Lawless Darkness
      Ghost - Opus Eponymous
      Electric Wizard - Black Masses
      The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
      Witchsorrow - s/t
      Flatlands - s/t
      
      
      I'm struggling to get my list down to 10 but it's looking like
      
      JPT Scare Band - Acide Blues is the White Man's Burden
      Stone Axe - II
      Crass - Feeding of the 5000 reissue
      Dopefight - Buds
      Poobah - Let Me In reissue
      Rose Kemp - Golden Shroud
      The Brought Low - 3rd Record
      Solace - AD
      Righteous Fool - 7"
      Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods
      
      Honourable mentions go to
      
      Domes of Silence - Hunter ST
      Wino - Adrift
      Crass - Stations of the Crass reissue
      The Soulbreaker Company - Itaca
      Honcho - Battle of Wits
      Luder - Sonoluminescence
      Sardonis - S/T
      
    • [10:46 on 06/12/10]
12. • basstard
    • Loads to choose from this year, but these make my Top Of the Pops.
      
      Swans- My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To the Sky
      Black Breath- Heavy Breathing
      Kylesa- Spiral Shadow
      Regimes- Bloody Regimes
      Violent Arrest- Minute Manifestos
      Bastard of the Skies- Ichor! Ichor!
      Electric Wizard- Black Masses
      High On Fire- Snakes For the Divine
      Mogwai- Special Moves
      Triptykon- Eparistera Daimones
      
      Oops, had to do a quick edit; just realised I'd missed uncle Tom G from the list.
      
      
      
      [Edited by basstard at 19:55 on 06/12/10]
    • [13:37 on 06/12/10]
13. • Mazz
    • I'm really liking the work of Ratz Ass
    • [13:42 on 06/12/10]
14. • alan
    • I've hardly bought anything this year, especially not anything from this year.
      
      I thought Black Masses was decent, certainly not great though. Had a listen to the new Torche online but got bored. I do need to check out Kylesa though, and probably some others I've forgotten about.
    • [13:44 on 06/12/10]
15. • mike
    • Right thinking about it:
      
      Eagle Twin
      Torche
      Pelican
      Humanfly
      Orthodox
      Reznik
      
      all floated me boat this year.
    • [14:20 on 06/12/10]
16. • bad admiral
    • i liked ghost and i didn't listen to any other music made in 2010
    • [21:11 on 06/12/10]
17. • pull-my-plonker
    • I've finally decided:
      
      1. Cathedral – “The Guessing Game” – If this really is the end of their journey, I’ll be over the moon for them; an epic double-album with beautiful instrumentation, galloping rhythms and progressive passages of astonishing grandeur.
      
      2. The Sword – “Warp Riders” – Indulgently infectious, Austin’s premier riffers launch their most ambitious project to date; a space-rock bible full of power, imagination and finesse.
      
      3. High On Fire – “Snakes For The Divine” – Matt Pike and co smash their way into the mainstream with a stunningly monstrous album which finds that perfect niche between smouldering doom and power-stance heavy metal.
      
      4. Dopefight – “Buds” – I was gobsmacked when I first played this – it’s all I really look for in a band most of the time, an astonishing display of riffing force, gargantuan grooves and intricate percussion play which is subtle enough to e new even after several listens.
      
      5. Tweak Bird – “Tweak Bird” – The brothers Bird prove just how far they have come as musicians with a short but sweet debut album which manages to reach an extra dimension via the traditional stoner fuzz template.
      
      6. Chrome Hoof – “Crush Depth” – These guys cannot be pigeonholed at all, nor do they even have a regular line-up, which makes this disco-doom bonanza even more fascinating with every listen.
      
      7. Electric Wizard – “Black Masses” – The Dorset masters annihilate the competition once again with a psychedelic apocalypse of blackened depression; Jus Osborn’s best vocal performance to date adds another level to their arsenal of musical accomplishments.
      
      8. Astrohenge – “Astrohenge” – Ludicrous musicianship blending turbocharged riffage with jazz funk, Mastodonian progressions and fairground-doom.
      
      9. Gospel of the Future – “The Eclipse” – Definitely took me surprise after I offered to review the fourth album by these little known Czech nasties – huge chasms of scything black metal guitar and sludge-rock pace, complemented by rolling drummed thunder.
      
      10. Dan Sartain – “Dan Sartain Lives” – Groovy Alabaman rockabilly from this addictive one-man show, with a glorious Elvis Costello croon and a thousand song writing styles.
      
      Honourable mentions:
      Groan – “The Sleeping Wizard”
      Koresh – “Crippledriver”
      Ghost – “Opus Eponymous”
      Karma to Burn – “Appalachian Incantation”
      Wiht – “Wiht EP”
      Enforcer – “Diamonds”
      Taint – “All Bees to the Sea EP”
      
    • [17:35 on 18/12/10]
18. • mike
    • The new Enslaved album is quite nice.
    • [23:28 on 18/12/10]
19. • bad admiral
    • i just got this year's reissue of streetcleaner off mcghee. that's a good album. probably doesn't count as it's almost as old as me...
      
      still lovin cee lo!
    • [17:04 on 19/12/10]
20. • Mazz
    • Lightening Wolf – Brain Explosion
      Lucifer’s Hobbit - Hammer & Pain
      Neon Backlash – Mr Saturday Night
      Small Giant – Do you want to put your balls in as well?
      Slogg - Advanced genocide 2000
      Time head – Mushroom power
      Satanchrist – Fuck the lord, make him cum
      Merry Olde England – Does the jester jest?
      Powerfly – Hard touch
      Electric Asshole – In it to win it (Re-issue)
      
    • [14:15 on 24/12/10]

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