10 favorite albums of the 10s so far - Version 2

[KevShmev]

I did this thread back in the summer of '12, but now that four years have passed in the 10s, time for an updated list!

My top 10:

1. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels
3. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
4. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
5. Neal Morse - Testimony Two
6. Devin Townsend - Ghost
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
9. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
10. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

Dream Theater's newest one just missed the cut.

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Hmm, in no particular order...

Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
The Ocean - Pelagial
Between The Buried And Me - Parallax Part II: Future Sequence
Big Big Train - English Electric
Trivium - In Waves
Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
Devin Townsend - Ghost
Wintersun - Time I


I'm probably forgetting a few, but this covers most of it, I think.

[Perpetual Change]

1.   Alcest – Escailles de Lune (2010)
2.   Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
3.   Anathema – Weather Systems (2012)
4.   Periphery – Periphery (2010)
5.   Cloudkicker – Beacons (2010)
6.   Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion (2012)
7.   Olafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (2013)
8.   Laura Stevenson – Wheel (2013)
9.   Devin Townsend Project – Ghost (2011)
10.   Protest the Hero – Volition (2013)

[Anguyen92]

All right, here's mine.

1. Alter Bridge - Fortress (2013)
2. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (2011)
3. Rush - Clockwork Angels (2012)
4. Skillet - Rise (2013)
5. Fozzy - Chasing the Grail (2010)
6. Alter Bridge - ABIII (2010)
7. Tremonti - All I Was (2012)
8. Dream Theater - Dream Theater (2013)
9. Sixx: A.M. - This is Gonna Hurt (2011)
10. Trust Company - Dreaming in Black and White (2011)

[ColdFireYYZ]

No particular order:
Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (2013)
Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel (2010)
Jack o' the Clock - All My Friends (2013)
Iamthemorning - ~ (2012)
Thank You Scientist - Maps of Nonexistent Places (2012)
Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold (2013)
Mike Keneally - Wing Beat Fantastic (2012)
Pixel - We Are All Small Pixels (2013)


Honorable Mentions:
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning (2011)
Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony (2013)
Big Big Train - English Electric, Part Two (2013)
Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil (2012)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Souls: Folio A (2013)

[RuRoRul]

1. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
2. Alter Bridge - Fortress
3. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
4. Alter Bridge - AB III
5. Stone Sour - House Of Gold And Bones
6. Symphony X - Iconoclast
7. Tremonti - All I Was
8. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
9. Dream Theater - Dream Theater
10. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

There's a lot of options for the last couple of slots. House Of Gold And Bones Part 1 and Part 2 would probably come right after each other (or maybe Part 2 would be a couple of places lower) so I just put them together as one entry.

[Zantera]

Something like this, in NO particular order:

Swans - The Seer
Kimbra - Vows
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Converge - All You Love You Leave Behind
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up

[Big Hath]

no order here:

Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Leprous - Bilateral
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit
Theocracy - As The World Bleeds
Speaking To Stones - Elements
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Steven Wilson - The Raven . . .
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age

honorables:
Flaming Row - Elinoire
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Aeon Zen - Enigma
Affector - Harmagedon
Anathema - Weather Systems
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Witherscape - The Inheritance

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

no order here:

Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Leprous - Bilateral
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit
Theocracy - As The World Bleeds
Speaking To Stones - Elements
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Steven Wilson - The Raven . . .
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age

honorables:
Flaming Row - Elinoire
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Aeon Zen - Enigma
Affector - Harmagedon
Anathema - Weather Systems
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Witherscape - The Inheritance

Forgot about these two. Not sure where to fit 'em in on my list, though...

[The King in Crimson]

1. Leprous - Bilateral
2. The Sword - Warp Riders
3. Anathema - Weather Systems
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
6. Ihsahn - After
7. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
8. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
9. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
10. Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep

[Mladen]

1. Blaze Bayley - Promise and terror
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic turn of events
3. Stone Sour - House of gold & bones part 1
4. of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar
5. Spock's Beard - X
6. Rush - Clockwork angels
7. Spock's beard - Brief nocturnes and dreamless sleep
8. Iron Maiden - The Final frontier
9. Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing
10. Stratovarius - Elysium

[adace]

in no particular order:

1. Anathema - Weather Systems
2. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
3. The Sword - Apocryphon
4. Threshold - March of Progress
5. Alcest - Les Voyages de L'ame
6. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
7. Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
8. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
9. Enslaved - Riitiir
10. Periphery - Periphery II

Honorable mentions:
Steven Wilson - Raven
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Mastodon - The Hunter
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Ihsahn - Eremita
Devin Townsend - Epicloud, Ghost
Alter Bridge - Fortress

[jingle.boy]

Like others, in no particular order

DT - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age
Beyond the Bridge - Old Man and the Spirit
Affector - Harmageddon
Threshold - March of Progress
Avantasia - The Flying Opera (kinda cheating here, I know)
Neonfly - Outshine the Sun
Dimension Act - Manifestation of Progress

And in order, the top 2

Epysode - Obsessions
Flaming Row - Elinoire

Honorable Mentions
Echoes - Nature|Existence
Vandroya - One
Magnus Karlsson's FreeFall - s/t
Lost in Thought - Opus Arise
Serenity - War of Ages
Mystery - The World is a Game
Rush - Clockwork Angels

[PuffyPat]

2010 was the best year in music for me in a while.

1. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Have You Seen my Prefrontal Cortex? (2010)
2. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE (2012)
3. Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork (2010)
4. Ambassadors - Litost (2012)
5. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (2010)
6. Happy Body Slow Brain - Dreams of Water (2010)
7. Bear Hands - Burning Bush Supper Club (2010)
8. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
9. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (2010)
10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

[Seven Idiots]

These are my favorite albums from the decade

1. World's End Girlfriend - Seven Idiots (2010)
My favorite album ever, very recommended to any DT fan Some sort of prog rock combined with crazy jazz, catchy melodies, video game music and lots of experimentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVMq4vGA9oI

1.5. Sajjanu - Pechiku!! (2009)
Crazy and caffeinated math rock band. Amazing melodies each five seconds with some of the best guitar solos ever. Not from this decade, but deserves a mention.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xN3Lk-PEFqA


2. The Bulletproof Tiger - You wanna kiss about it? (2011)
Math rock band who likes to play a lot of counterpoint. This song contains on of my favorite moments in music at 1:05 approx.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=S2DNTCsqRQ4

3. weyheyhey - Helical Scan (2012)
Catchy and fast breakcore. Very inspiring melodies.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DbyqsYRo7p4

4. Cyclo. - I'd (2011)
Glitch music. Good once you get it, but not for everyone.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y-YKFrr-m80

5. You Slut! - Medium Bastard (2012)
A creative math rock band with a lot of good melodies and rhythms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Rpe3BhU2w0

6. Igorrr - Nostril (2010)
Breakcore combined with Metal and Classical with some sense of humor
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gWca1X7nFGo

7. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (2010)
Glitchy progressive pop combined with chamber instruments. Very dramatic and catchy.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K0g7R3xqdcM

8. Battles - Gloss Drop (2011)
Creative math rock band
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fAbc5yhbBFQ

9. Oneothrix Point Never - Replica (2011)
Cool music made of random samples with a very haunting ambience.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3r3cBP1xgag

10. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (2010)
Instrumental hip hop mixed with electronic jazz
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dr_zDCjphF0

If someone liked the songs above let me know and I can give you other similar bands

[pain of occupation]

i thought we might see some The Smashing Pumpkins once Zantera chimed in.

fuck, i can never contribute to these sorts o threads; cant axe enough contenders to wittle it down.

EDIT: i came up with a solution...

10 favorite instrumental albums of the 10s so far:

Animals As Leaders - Floating
Blotted Science - Down with the Sickness
The Aristocrats - Culture Huuh, What is it Good For?
Evan Brewer - Fuck The Faceless, I Got My Own Thing Going
Fusion Syndicate - Syndicated Fusion(?!)
Levin Minnemann Rudess - Rudess Minnemann Levin
Marty Friedman - Stealing from the Japanese
stOrk - krOts
Virgil Donati - This is the Life
Volto! - To Incite

honorable mentions to Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert for some ridiculous instrumentals on albums with a few too many vox.

[ZKX-2099]

1. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
2. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
3. Dream Theater - Self Titled
4. Between The Buried & Me - The Parallax: 2
5. Stone Sour - The House of Gold and Bones
6. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
7. Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman
8. Alter Bridge - Fortress
9. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
10. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

[Dark Castle]

Grimes - Visions
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Rivers Of Nihil - The Conscious Seed of Light
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form
Indian - Guiltless
Lady Gaga - Artpop
Royal Thunder - Cvi