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2010 Heavy Metal Awards

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About.com Heavy Metal has published our list of the best heavy metal CDs of 2010. We also came up with some other "best of" awards for 2010, some serious, some a little more lighthearted. Here are our 2010 Heavy Metal Awards, sorted by writer.

Chad Bowar:

Chad's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2010
1. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
2. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
3. Ihsahn - After
4. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
5. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

Dave Schalek:

Dave's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2010
1. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
2 Immolation - Majesty and Decay
3. Vasaeleth - Crypt Born And Tethered To Ruin
4. Ufomammut - Eve
5. Blood Cult - We Are The Cult Of The Plains

  • Best Heavy Metal DVD: Destruction - A Savage Symphony: The History Of Annihilation
  • Best Heavy Metal Book: Tom Gabriel Fischer - Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost
  • Label Of The Year: Ibex Moon/Hells Headbangers/Pulverised (tie)
  • Biggest Disappointment: Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
  • Best Newcomer: Horseback
  • Most Overrated CD: Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
  • Most Underrated CD: Black September - The Forbidden Gates Beyond
  • Best Concert: Cannibal Corpse/1349/Skeletonwitch
  • Best Circus Act: Watain
  • Best Comeback: Heathen
  • Man of the Year: Tom G. Warrior
  • In Memoriam: Ronnie James Dio
Kelley Simms:

Kelley's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2010
1. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
2. Accept - Blood of the Nations
3. Fear Factory - Mechanize
4. Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
5. Forbidden - Omega Wave

  • Best Heavy Metal DVD: Heaven & Hell - Neon Nights: Live in Europe
  • Best Heavy Metal Book: Dave Mustaine - Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
  • Label Of The Year: SPV/Steamhammer
  • Biggest Disappointment: Axel Rudi Pell - The Crest
  • Best Newcomer: Charred Walls of the Damned
  • Most Overrated CD: Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
  • Most Underrated CD: Annihilator - Annihilator
MetalGeorge Pacheco:

Metal George's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2010
1. Watain - Lawless Darkness
2. Sabbath Assembly - Restored To One
3. Alcest- Écailles de Lune
4. Dawnbringer - Nucleus
5. Accept - Blood of the Nations

  • Best Heavy Metal DVD: The Haunted - Road Kill
  • Best Heavy Metal Book: Dani Filth - The Gospel of Filth
  • Label Of The Year: Rise Above
  • Biggest Disappointment: Volbeat -Beyond Heaven/Above Hell
  • Best Newcomer: Ghost
  • Most Overrated CD: Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
  • Most Underrated CD: Shadowgarden - Ashen and Algaion- Exthros
Dan Marsicano:

Dan's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2010
1. Jucifer - Throned In Blood
2. Sigh - Scenes From Hell
3. Watain - Lawless Darkness
4. The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
5. Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos

  • Label Of The Year: Profound Lore
  • Biggest Disappointment: Abigail Williams - In The Absence of Light
  • Best Newcomer: Blood Revolt
  • Most Overrated CD: Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
  • Most Underrated CD: Nails - Unsilent Death
  • Best Concert: Faith No More July 3rd, Philadelphia
Justin M. Norton:

Justin's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2010
1. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
2. Nails - Unsilent Death
3. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
4. Atheist - Jupiter
5. Salome - Terminal

  • Best Heavy Metal DVD: Von-Satanic Blood Ritual
  • Best Heavy Metal Book: Tom Gabriel Fischer - Only Death Is Real
  • Label Of The Year: Profound Lore
  • Biggest Disappointment: Dio's untimely passing. May one of the great fathers of heavy metal rest in peace.
  • Best Newcomer: Nails and Howl (tie)
  • Most Overrated CD: Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
  • Most Underrated CD: Vasaeleth - Crypt Born and Tethered To Ruin

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