BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2010: LET THE ARGUING BEGIN!

It’s only November 10th and Thanksgiving is still two full weeks away, yet I’m already starting to see ads for holiday sales and gifts cropping into my TV regimen of football (University of Michigan and NY Jets!), Mantracker and Survivorman. Just as “the holiday season” seems to start earlier and earlier every year, so too does it seem like journalists begin talking about their year-end “best of” lists earlier and earlier with each passing year. But hey, I suppose that by mid-November just about everything that’s gonna come out in a given year already has, and since us webmasters aren’t dealing with print deadlines we can always sneak a release in last-minute if needed.

So, what are the best metal records of 2010?

The first metal site to arrive to 2010’s “best of” party is Stereokiller, an awesome site that’s recently come onto my radar. Stereokiller has put together a nifty little voting app that allows you to pick your favorite albums of the year, rank them, and have them weighted against other peoples’ votes to produce a running ranked list. If your album isn’t on the existing list (which already has 325 albums!) you can simply write it in as I just did with three of my favorite albums of 2010, Ihsahn’s After, Mantric’s The Descent and Ratt’s Infestation (in no particular order).

So, go get on your horse and vote for your favorites of 2010. As we always do, MetalSucks will have our own countdown of sorts to close out the year.

As if we needed to tell you, have at it in the comments and tell us what your 2010 lists are gonna look like.

-VN