Albums that tore my 2010 apart:

A bit late perhaps, but here it is: My list of albums (in no particular order) that I enjoyed more than other releases in 2010:

• Menace Ruine – Union of Irreconcilables (noisefolk)
• Les Chants De Nihil – La Liberte Guidant le Fer (Black metal / suicidal)
• The Body (MS)- All the Waters of the Earth shall turn to Blood (Sludge/ritual) Pitchfork agrees.
• Luftwaffe – Ere I Perish (apocalyptic folk / martial industrial)
• †‡† (rrritualzzz) – s/t (witch house)
• Gnaw Their Tongues – L’arrivé de la terne mort triomphante (martial industrial / noise)
• Urfaust – Der Freiwillige bettler (Black metal / Urfaust)
• Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm (Black metal /think a much better and more interesting Satyricon meets Abbath )
• Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope into the Sky (no wave / experimental)
• Kiss The Anus of a Black Cat - Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water (minimalistic folk)
• Rome – Nos Chants Perdus (neofolk / singer/songwriter)
• Sargeist – Let The Devil In (Black metal / melodic)
• Nachtmystium – Black Meddle Pt. II (Black metal / unconventional)

Great albums as well:

Deathspell Omega – Paracletus (Chaotic black metal)
Ascension – Consolamentum (Black metal)
Necrite - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Black metal / sludge)
Verwüstung – When the Light Broke the Stars, Humanity Rejected Us (Black metal / doom)
Ludicra – The Tenant (Black metal)
Imperium Dekadenz – Procella Vadens (Atmospheric black metal)
Krieg – Isolationist (Black metal)
Burzum – Belus (Black metal)
Woe – Quietly, Undramatically (Black metal)
Man’s Gin – Smiling Dogs (Black metal)
Nightbringer – Aocalypse Sun (Black metal)
Haeiresis – Transparent Vibrant Shadows (Industrial black metal)
Twilight – Monument To Time End (Black metal)
Valkyrja – Contamination (Black metal)
Liturgy – Renihilation (Black metal)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Songs 4 Hate & Devotion (Apocalyptic folk)

EP’s you should check out:
Altar of Plagues – Tides (Black metal)
Terzij De Horde – A Rage of Rapture Against the Dying of the Light (black metal)
White Ring – Black Earth That Made Me (Witch house / drag)
Pallbearer – Demo (doom)

Live album:
Der Blutharsch – Live in Leiden

Interesting end year lists:
Pitchfork readers poll
Hammer Smashed Sound / Hauting the Chapel (Metal)
Barry / Peter (booker) / Tijs (from Incubate)

And I’m looking forward to:

Order of the Source Below (with singer of Nihill)
Preterite (with Genevieve of Menace Ruine)
And from the top of my head: Der Blutharsch, Dornenreich and :Of the Wand and the Moon: come with new material. That’s all I can think of right now, but of course there are many more.

If you think I missed some great releases, don’t hesitate to add them in the comments.