The AllMusic editors are recapping the year in recordings with well over a dozen posts in which they present their favorites within specific genres and styles. Right now, on the AllMusic Blog, they provide a list of their favorite metal releases of 2010. It was a big year for the extreme side, with black metal making a resurgence by way of Nachtmystium, Watain, and Agalloch, who delivered some of the year's best albums.
Harvey Milk -
A Small Turn of Human Kindness
Watain -
Lawless Darkness
Triptykon -
Eparistera Daimones
The Ocean -
Heliocentric
Torche -
Songs for Singles
High on Fire -
Snakes for the Divine
Agalloch -
Marrow of the Spirit
Deftones -
Diamond Eyes
Electric Wizard -
Black Masses
Enslaved -
Axiomoa Ethica Odini
Daughters -
Daughters
Black Tusk -
Taste the Sin
Overkill -
Ironbound
Kylesa -
Spiral Shadow
Rosetta -
A Determinism of Morality
Locrian -
The Crystal World
Deathspell Omega -
Paracletus
Nachtmystium -
Addicts: Black Meddle, Pt. II
Sigh -
Scenes from Hell
Ludicra -
The Tenant