Best of 2010

Best of 2010

Sean's Last Minute Top 10 Albums of 2010

By: Sean Gresens

Sorry to keep anyone waiting, but this is when I like to reflect on the past year: the final day of the year. I feel like I would be doing myself and you loyal MI Junkies a disservice to thrust a "best of" on you a month before the actual end of the year… OR … This shitbird gots lazy and put it off til now. I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Regardless, here is my, and what I can assume is the final, Best Of for the site… squeaking in at the 11th hour of 2010. I won't bore you with elaborate yarns about why these albums made me happy in my swimsuit area, because lets be honest, with these bands it would probably be shorter to listen to five of their songs than read about them. So, without further fanfare, I present my Top 10 Albums of 2010… In rapidfire tweet form… 140 characters or less… Just how attention spans for this shit like it. (more…)

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CEPHALIC CARNAGE is the Metal Injection Junkies' Pick For Video of the Year

When we released our Top 10 Videos of 2010 on the most recent edition of The FiX, we asked you guys to vote for what you think is the best video of the year. With an astounding 32.18% of the vote, it was clear that Cephalic Carnage was your choice. As I said in the FiX, dick explosions, how could anything top that? Clearly, it can't. For those of you living under a rock, you can watch out the video here, as well as our other top videos of the year:

- Skeletonwitch – Bringers of Death
- The Damned Things – We've Got a Situation Here
- The Chariot – David De La Hoz
- Behemoth – Alas, The Lord Is Upon Me
- iwrestledabearonce – See You In Shell
- Animals As Leaders – CAFO
- Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare
- Municipal Waste – Wolves of Chernobyl
- Rammstein – Haifisch

Best of 2010

Noa's Better Late Than Never Top 10 Albums of 2010



The year is almost over, and this entry will be the final one in our Best of 2010 series as Noa checks in with her picks for the Top Albums of the Year.

By: Noa Avior

I always feel uneasy about compiling a top list of my favorite "something or other". I never really want to dedicate myself to these lists because well, let's face it, I'm a girl and the things I like change with my daily hormone shiftings. Also, I feel that my fellow Metal Injection comrades covered some of the great releases of 2010. The problem is that they only covered SOME and since Brooklyn looks like it's buried in a bag of flour I will take this opportunity during my day off to represent for some of the neglected releases that moved me this year. (more…)

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The Top Albums of 2010 As Decided By The Metal Injection Junkies

Well, the votes have been tallied (thanks to Cancerscare for that) and the results are in! Here are the top albums of the year as decided by YOU, the Metal Injection junkies. We had an open forum thread where we invited everybody to submit their top 10 lists, and we combined everybody's for one definitive list. Check out 2009's list here.

  1. Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis : 133 votes
  2. Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty : 114 votes
  3. Ihsahn – After : 94 votes
  4. Decrepit Birth – Polarity : 86 votes
  5. Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier : 85 votes (more…)
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Grim Kim's Top 10 Releases of 2010 That You've Never Heard Of

by: "Grim" Kim Kelly

Hello again, Metal Injection! It’s been awhile (my bad) but I’ve returned to ruin everyone’s day with yet another year-end list. Are you guys sick of those yet? I definitely am, and I’m not even done submitting all of mine. Unlike everyone else on the fucking planet, though, mine will not be making mention of Deftones, Kylesa, Overkill, or even Enslaved, because 1. I think those bands are boring, 2. I don’t care about their new records, and 3. every other self-styled music critic in the blogosphere has already spewed a few gallons short of an oil spill’s worth of virtual ink all over them. Instead, I’ve followed the blueprint from last year’s list and cobbled together a handful of my favorite underground, unheralded, and willfully obscure releases from 2010. Read ‘em and weep.

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Rob's Top 10 Albums of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. Don't forget, you can still submit your Top 10 album list to be included in the overall Top Albums As Decided by the Metal Injection Junkies list.

by: Robert Pasbani

Picking my personal Top 10 list ended up being much harder than I thought it would be. Before I started compiling the list, I feared I wouldn't even have 10 albums I remembered liking this year. After sorting through all my music, I found the opposite to be true. I could easily write a Top 30 list, but the headline wouldn't be as catchy, so I forced myself to pick 10 albums. Ultimately, it came down to which albums I listened to the most and was blown away by the most. Here is what I ended up with: (more…)

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Frank's Top 10 Albums of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. Don't forget, you can still submit your Top 10 album list to be included in the overall Top Albums As Decided by the Metal Injection Junkies list.

by: Frank Godla

10. Mose Giganticus – Gift Horse

"A one man synth punk band" may sound like a joke to some, but I assure you there is nothing funny about the talented song writings of Matt Garfield. Between his unique vocal style, excellent relationship between harmony and groove, and some of the most clever use of a keyboards I've heard in years, this was an easy pick for my top 10. Gift Horse is such a fun record that really lends itself to any mood you may be in. Whether you're angry, happy, horny, or constipated this record has what you need! (more…)

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Kit Brown's Top 10 Albums of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. Don't forget, you can still submit your Top 10 album list to be included in the overall Top Albums As Decided by the Metal Injection Junkies list. (more…)

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Atanamar's Top 10 Albums of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. Don't forget, you can still submit your Top 10 album list to be included in the overall Top Albums As Decided by the Metal Injection Junkies list.

By Atanamar Sunyata

10. Deathspell Omega – Paracletus

Although I find Deathspell Omega's music to be fascinating and cerebral, the question for me has always been how much I actually enjoy it. Paracletus affirmatively answers that question for my ears, combining absurd riffs, astral arpeggiations and corkscrew rhythms to create an aesthetically entertaining experience. This is an album to sit and marvel at while your mind tries to untangle its intricacies. Deathspell Omega have risen above their own obfuscation to craft an album of memorable songs.

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Top 10 Funny Metal Videos of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. We will now take you through the funniest viral clips of the year. The order was determined by the amount of hits the videos received, the shareability as well as the overall hilarity of the clip. Here we go:

1) Betty White Goes Death Metal


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Without a doubt, this was #1, both in views and "horns up." The clip, which originally aired on the Mother's Day episode of Saturday Night Live featured the entire cast signing the theme of The Golden Girls to Betty and her reciprocating with a crushing death metal cover. Everybody loves Betty White, even metalheads! (more…)

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The Top 10 News Stories of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. These are the top 10 stories of 2010. Please note, these are not ranked or in any sort of order. These are just the 10 stories we found to have the biggest impact in 2010:

Big Four of Thrash Jam Out To Am I Evil?

Without a doubt, this was the biggest moment of the year. This had everybody talking. After months of hype, the Big Four played a handful of festivals in Europe over the summer, and at the last date, with the cameras rolling for a DVD, representatives from Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer joined Metallica on stage to jam on Diamondhead's classic thrasher "Am I Evil?". If you were living under a rock, you can watch the performance here. As for the future, the bands have already committed to a UK festival, with rumors highly suggesting that the package is finally going to come to the states. (more…)

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Gruhamed's Top 10 Albums of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. Don't forget, you can still submit your Top 10 album list to be included in the overall Top Albums As Decided by the Metal Injection Junkies list.

By: Graham "Gruhamed" Hartmann

10. Hour of Penance – Paradogma

It seems like Italy has been stealing some Scandinavian thunder lately when it comes to breeding quality metal bands. Accompanying acts such as Fleshgod Apocalypse and Graveworm, Hour of Penance have been responsible for giving their boot-shaped homeland a reputation for more than just good food and women with mustaches. Hour of Penance have been shelling out some of the most aggressive and finely-crafted brutal death metal for over a decade, and Paradogma is no exception. (more…)

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Ben's Top 10 Albums of 2010


As the year is comes to a close, we will be taking you through the Best of 2010. Over the next couple of days, expect top 10 album lists from most of our writers, as well as the top stories & videos of the year. Don't forget, you can still submit your Top 10 album list to be included in the overall Top Albums As Decided by the Metal Injection Junkies list.

By Ben Apatoff

It's no secret that the album as we know it is dying. Filesharing and digital media players are making the art of the finely-crafted full-length obsolete, and artists are complying. But as concepts like "track listings," "liner notes" and "release dates" plunge towards extinction, the artists that dedicate themselves to putting together a great collection of songs become all the more valuable. In a time where good albums (and good metal) are increasingly rare, these artists deserve more respect than ever.

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We Want To Know Your Top 10 of 2010!

The year is almost over, and you know what that means. It's almost time for our Best of 2010 series. We will be chronicalling our favorite albums of the year, our favorite videos, the top stories of the year and much more.

We also want to know what your top 10 albums of the year are. We have started a thread in our forum where you can post your picks for the best albums of the last 12 months. In a few weeks, we will crunch the numbers of all the submissions and compile the definitive Top 10 Albums of the Year as decided by the Metal Injection Junkies.

So think hard and then submit your picks right here.