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I’m getting old. It’s either that, or music is getting boring. Just like last year I feel I haven’t been catching up with what the hell is going on in this shithole filled with music. In my mind, the very best albums of 2010 were all black metal albums: Lawless Darkness, Paracletus, Stained Glass Revelations, Belus and Ominous Doctrines of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm.

Last year I was complaining about how shitty the rap scene really is. Same thing this year. Until yesterday I had only one rap record on the list, but then Master Skråd posted a video with one helluva good dude named Roc Marciano. I haven’t even heard his name before, but Marcberg is insanely good! This is like the perfect blend of Raekwon, Mobb Deep and Madlib. I’ve only listened to the album six times (since yesterday…), but it feels like a true rap classic already. We’ll see about that in a year or two.

Still, lots of really good releases, of course. Here’s the stuff I’ve enjoyed during the year, stuff that’s definitely worthy of your attention. Hopefully you’ll discover something new.
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Arckanum – Sviga Lae

Autopsy – The Tomb Within

Bloody Phoenix – Death To Everyone

Bombs of Hades – Chambers of Abominations

Bonnie Prince Billy – The Wonder Show of The World

Burzum – Belus

Celph Titled & Buckwild – Nineteen Ninety Now

Circle – Rautatie

Counterblast – Faceless

Deathspell Omega – Paracletus

Electric Wizard – Black Masses

Ghost – Opus Eponymous

Grand Magus – Hammer of The North

High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine

Hofmästarn med Roffe Ruff – Panterparken FREE DOWNLOAD HERE!

Hour of 13 – The Ritualist

Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm

Interment – Into The Crypts of Blasphemy

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Massgrav / Blood I Bleed – SPLIT

Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder

Modorra – The Putrid

Motorpsycho – Heavy Metal Fruit

Nominon – Monumentomb

Okkultokrati – No Light For Mass

PP7 Gaftzeb And The Tormentors of 1984 – Preaching The Gospel To The Non-Believers

Profanatica – Disgusting Blasphemies Against God

Pyramido / Suma – SPLIT

Ramesses – Take The Curse

Roc Marciano – Marcberg

Stench – In Putrescence

Suma – Ashes

Svarte Greiner – Penpals Forever (And Ever)

Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

Tid – Giv Akt FREE DOWNLOAD HERE!

Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones

Ufomammut – Eve

U.S. Christmas – Run Thick In The Night

Watain – Lawless Darkness

White Hills – White Hills

Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers

Ättestupa – Begraven Mot Norr