The Best Metal Albums of 2010

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Alcest Écailles de lune	Mar 29, 2010	92.1	82	9
2	Seventh Wonder The Great Escape	Dec 3, 2010	94.4	44	2
3	Kalmah 12 Gauge	Mar 3, 2010	91.6	77	3
4	Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm	Nov 19, 2010	96.5	21	1
5	Ophelia 당신의 환상을 동정하라	Feb 2010	93.1	44	5
6	Galneryus Resurrection	Jun 23, 2010	90.1	86	7
7	Helloween 7 Sinners	Oct 31, 2010	89.5	92	4
8	Rhapsody of Fire The Frozen Tears of Angels	Apr 30, 2010	89.6	60	7
9	Overkill Ironbound	Jan 29, 2010	89.5	55	0
10	Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time	Jul 30, 2010	90.4	40	4
11	Scorpions Sting in the Tail	Mar 19, 2010	90.5	38	2
12	Avantasia The Wicked Symphony	Apr 3, 2010	88.8	56	6
13	In Mourning Monolith	Jan 25, 2010	90.1	33	3
14	Heaven Shall Burn Invictus	May 21, 2010	89.4	38	1
15	Firewind Days of Defiance	Oct 18, 2010	89.3	32	2
16	Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void	Feb 24, 2010	86.3	56	5
17	Rage Strings to a Web	Feb 5, 2010	88.2	35	1
18	Megadeth Rust in Peace Live [Live]	Sep 7, 2010	87.6	36	1
19	Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare	Jul 27, 2010	84.9	66	3
20	Anathema We're Here Because We're Here	May 31, 2010	87.8	32	0
21	Opera Magna Poe	May 30, 2010	91.9	12	1
22	Labÿrinth Return to Heaven Denied Pt.II - A Midnight Autumn's Dream	Jun 21, 2010	88.2	28	2
23	Deathspell Omega Paracletus	Nov 8, 2010	86.2	43	3
24	Gru Cosmogenesis	Oct 18, 2010	91	14	1
25	Dio Dio at Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987 [Live]	Nov 9, 2010	92.8	9	1
26	As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise	May 7, 2010	87.3	31	0
27	Crash The Paragon of Animals	Aug 11, 2010	87	33	1
28	Accept Blood of the Nations	Aug 20, 2010	88.9	21	1
29	Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia [EP]	May 18, 2010	88.1	25	1
30	Sigh Scenes From Hell	Jan 19, 2010	90.9	13	2
31	Blasphemophagher …For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation…	Jan 18, 2010	95	5	0
32	Barren Earth Curse of the Red River	Mar 8, 2010	88	25	1
33	Hwimory Hwimory	Jun 23, 2010	88.7	21	1
34	Soilwork The Panic Broadcast	Jul 2, 2010	87.4	28	1
35	Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned	Sep 14, 2010	84.8	49	4
36	Golden Resurrection Glory to My King	Nov 26, 2010	91.4	10	0
37	Defeated Sanity Chapters of Repugnance	May 4, 2010	92.9	7	0
38	Deftones Diamond Eyes	May 4, 2010	92.9	7	0
39	Silent Eye Into the Nightmare [EP]	Nov 23, 2010	90.6	11	0
40	After the Burial In Dreams	Nov 23, 2010	94	5	0
41	Black Witchery Inferno of Sacred Destruction	Sep 2010	90	12	0
42	Profanatica Disgusting Blasphemies Against God	Aug 31, 2010	92.1	7	0
43	Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra	Sep 24, 2010	84.1	41	5
44	Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret	Oct 4, 2010	90.6	9	2
45	Ares Kingdom Incendiary	Jan 15, 2010	93	5	0
46	Vanden Plas The Seraphic Clockwork	Jun 4, 2010	88.2	15	3
47	Disentomb Sunken Chambers of Nephilim	Nov 10, 2010	93.8	4	0
48	Instanzia Ghosts	Nov 22, 2010	93.8	4	0
49	Black Country Communion Black Country	2010	95	3	0
50	Equilibrium Rekreatur	Jun 18, 2010	85.6	26	1

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