Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019- AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!

[ariich]

Rate Your Music is generally the most reliable website for original release dates.

[Stadler]

12. Bossk - Audio Noir

Kiss ass.

 

[lonestar]

 

[nattmorker]

I'm ready to try this, it was fun to make the list, but also super hard! I keep it to one album per band and I already included albums of 2019:

1   Dream Theater - The Astonishing
2   Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
3   Ghost - Opus Eponymous
4   The Night Flight Orchestra - Internal Affairs
5    The Neal Morse Band- The Similitude of a Dream
6   Haken - Affinity
7   Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
8   Avatar - Avatar Country
9    Soilwork - The Ride Majestic
10    Soen - Lotus
11   Amorphis - Queen of Time
12    Dark Moor - Ars Musica
13   Borknagar - Winter Thrice
14    Carach Angren - This is no Fairy Tale
15    Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution

[lonestar]

Hmmm, a few of those (12,13,14) I've never heard of, yet the rest of your list indicates I'd probably like them at some level or another. OFF TO SPOTIFY!!!

[lonestar]

Oh yeah, another side note guys. I saw it happen already, but if you guys could continue to police each other concerning release dates I'd appreciate it.

If you see something, say something 

Thanks in advance!!!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

If anyone posts a list with albums made before or after the decade in question we'll have to bring down the banhammer!

[Crow]

i'm gonna make my list up exclusively of albums that were supposed to come out this decade but didn't

[IDontNotDoThings]

Just so you know, I've already gone through each of the votes to verify the years that each album came out in. So far the only error has been kaos2900 including A Matter Of Life & Death (which he said he'd find a replacement for eventually).

[lonestar]

Much appreciated bro!!!

[Crow]

i somehow missed Caligula's Horse - The Tide, The Thief, and River's End on my list and I'm looking at my list going "how the hell do i replace it anywhere on here what the heck"

i'll probably end up redoing the whole thing by the end of the year

[Elite]

yeah, I missed that one too.

[Kilgore Trout]

Posting this pretty much just to get Paralax II some more points.

1. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012)
2. Jack o'the Clock - Repetitions of the Old City II (2018)
3. Kayo Dot - Hubardo (2013)
4. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin chapter two: Mississippi moonchile (2013)
5. Maria Schneider - The Thompson Fields (2015)
6. Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (2013)
7. Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (2012)
8. Warforged - I: Voice (2019)
9. The Mercury Tree - Permutations (2016)
10. Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Desert ship (2010)
11. Emile Parisien - Spezial Snack (2012)
12. Karnivool - Asymmetry (2013)
13. Monika Roscher Big Band - Of monsters and birds (2016)
14. Henry Threadgill - In for a Penny, In for a Pound (2015)
15. David Torn - Sun of Goldfinger (2019)

[Trav86]

I’m just trying to think of 15 albums from this decade that I’ve listened to!

[Elite]

^ well, that’s a far-out list

[cramx3]

4   The Night Flight Orchestra - Internal Affairs

Im just getting into them and have their two latest albums that I love, I'm guessing you rate this as better than those?  If so, how is that possible  this band is so awesome, fun and catchy.

[nattmorker]

4   The Night Flight Orchestra - Internal Affairs

Im just getting into them and have their two latest albums that I love, I'm guessing you rate this as better than those?  If so, how is that possible  this band is so awesome, fun and catchy.

IMO, the first album is their best. I love the 4 albums, but for me, the first is really special, full of catchy and really special songs. Besides, the lyrics are great.

[cramx3]

I'll be checking it out for sure then, absolutely love these two albums and I've only just got into them.  Looking forward to seeing them at Progpower next year, they might be the most fun band on the bill.

[wolfking]

I come up with a quick shortlist and it was quite easier than expected.  Saying that, there won't be many repeats from most of you lot.

[cramx3]

I just threw together my top 15:

1. 311 - Mosaic (2017)
2. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
3. Avantasia - Ghostlights (2016)
4. Epica - The Holographic Principle (2016)
5. Dream Theater - The Astonishing (2016)
6. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (2015)
7. Devin Townsend - Epicloud (2012)
8. Blind Guardian - At The Edge of Time (2010)
9. Avantasia - The Mystery of Time (2013)
10. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (2019)
11. Seventh Wonder - Tiara (2018)
12. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
13. Kamelot - Silverthorn (2012)
14. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving (2011)
15. Delain - The Human Contradiction (2014)

[wolfking]

I just threw together my top 15:

1. 311 - Mosaic (2017)
2. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
3. Avantasia - Ghostlights (2016)
4. Epica - The Holographic Principle (2016)
5. Dream Theater - The Astonishing (2016)
6. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (2015)
7. Devin Townsend - Epicloud (2012)
8. Blind Guardian - At The Edge of Time (2010)
9. Avantasia - The Mystery of Time (2013)
10. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (2019)
11. Seventh Wonder - Tiara (2018)
12. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
13. Kamelot - Silverthorn (2012)
14. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving (2011)
15. Delain - The Human Contradiction (2014)

This has the chance to make my list too.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I just threw together my top 15:

1. 311 - Mosaic (2017)
2. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
3. Avantasia - Ghostlights (2016)
4. Epica - The Holographic Principle (2016)
5. Dream Theater - The Astonishing (2016)
6. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (2015)
7. Devin Townsend - Epicloud (2012)
8. Blind Guardian - At The Edge of Time (2010)
9. Avantasia - The Mystery of Time (2013)
10. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (2019)
11. Seventh Wonder - Tiara (2018)
12. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
13. Kamelot - Silverthorn (2012)
14. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving (2011)
15. Delain - The Human Contradiction (2014)

I'm going to preface this by saying, TASTES, but I hated Mosaic. It was such a disappointing album.

[cramx3]

whatttt to me, that is the best thing 311 has done in sooooo long.  Makes their latest album look like garbage too    That album made me want to see them 5 times that summer.  I absolutely love every song on it.  It could go down as my favorite, but the blue album is so damnn nostalgic to me that it's hard to top from that perspective.

Also, Slipknot's album is quickly rising (seems like it's going right to the top) of my albums for 2019.  I'm really not sure where it goes in this list, it's just too new to compare to albums that have had many years to settle.  But if it tops my 2019 list, I think it deserves to be on here somewhere.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

whatttt to me, that is the best thing 311 has done in sooooo long.  Makes their latest album look like garbage too    That album made me want to see them 5 times that summer.  I absolutely love every song on it.  It could go down as my favorite, but the blue album is so damnn nostalgic to me that it's hard to top from that perspective.

Yea, I haven't liked anything they have done since From Chaos I guess. And yeah their new album was trash too 

[Sacul]

Posting this pretty much just to get Paralax II some more points.

1. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012)
2. Jack o'the Clock - Repetitions of the Old City II (2018)
3. Kayo Dot - Hubardo (2013)
4. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin chapter two: Mississippi moonchile (2013)
5. Maria Schneider - The Thompson Fields (2015)
6. Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (2013)
7. Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (2012)
8. Warforged - I: Voice (2019)
9. The Mercury Tree - Permutations (2016)
10. Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Desert ship (2010)
11. Emile Parisien - Spezial Snack (2012)
12. Karnivool - Asymmetry (2013)
13. Monika Roscher Big Band - Of monsters and birds (2016)
14. Henry Threadgill - In for a Penny, In for a Pound (2015)
15. David Torn - Sun of Goldfinger (2019)

Seems you really like obscure, weird jazz, huh . Besides Parallax II and Hubardo, I haven't listened to anything else from the list, and am only familiar with Matana Robert's Coin Coin chapter one (great album). I'd love you to participate in my next roulette, whenever it happens.

[Moor]

Here is my list:

1.   Dream Theater - The Astonishing
2.   Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3.   The Neal Morse Band - Similitude of a Dream
4.   Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
5.   Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
6.   Haken - The Mountain
7. Opeth – Heritage
8.   Ne Obliviscaris – The Citadel
9.   Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
10.   Mastodon – Emperor of Sand
11.   Opeth - Pale Communion
12.   Haken - Vector
13.   Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase
14.   Neal Morse – Testimony 2
15.   Neal Morse – Momentum

[Kilgore Trout]

Seems you really like obscure, weird jazz, huh .

Not that obscure. Maria Schneider won 5 grammy awards (including "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album" for The Thompson Fields), Henry Threadgill won the Pulitzer Price for Music for In for a Penny, In for a Pound in 2016, and Wadada Leo Smith was nominated for the same prize in 2013. I expect these three albums to be on many jazz critics lists for the best albums of the decade.
Also, Tim Berne has been a major figure of the New York jazz scene for more than 30 years, and Satoko Fujii, in a time when the economical context of music makes particularly difficult to create big bands, leads not one but five of them. Finally, Emile Parisien is one of the major young french jazz artists, and has won several prizes.
They do play weird music (except Maria Schneider), but they're widely recognized in the genre. The problem is that the genre gets more obscure every year (even if there seems to be a development of a more easier to listen, rock and pop influenced, jazz nowadays)...
I've probably listened more to other, more accessible, records in recent years, but these are some of the albums that I see myself still listening to in 5 or 10 years, because their musical density is such that I still discover new things in them after dozens of listens.

I'd love you to participate in my next roulette, whenever it happens.

I'll try, if I have the time and if I understand how these roulette things work  .

[Sacul]

That's fair, I'm not into the jazz scene at all so looking up those names and seeing them have very few ratings on RYM led me to think they were rather niche . I'll prob check out a few of them.

Don't worry, roulettes are simple and fun!

[Trav86]

1. Dream Theater-A Dramatic Turn of Events
2. Dream Theater-Distance Over Time
3. Flying Colors-Flying Colors
4. Mr. Big-What If...
5. Rush-Clockwork Angels
6. Stone Sour-Hydrograd
7. Shadows Fall-Fire From the Sky
8. Sons of Apollo-Psychotic Symphony
9. Avenged Sevenfold-Nightmare
10. Stone Sour-House of Gold & Bones-Part 1
11. Van Halen-A Different Kind of Truth
12. Avenged Sevenfold-Hail to the King
13. Chickenfoot-III
14. James LaBrie-Impermanent Resonance
15. James LaBrie-Static Impulse

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Wow, Hail to the King and Nightmare over The Stage?

[SoundscapeMN]

1. The River Empires - Epilogue (2010)
2. Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave (2012)
3. Small Leaks Sink Ships - Face Yourself and Remove Your Sandals (2015)
4. Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Terror and Everything After (2011)
5. Cloud Cult - Light Chasers (2010)
6. Kimbra - Vows (2011)
7. Foals - Total Life Forever (2010)
8. Lehto and Wright - Children's Songs (2010)
9. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight (2016)
10. Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats (2015)

11. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (2011)
12. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
13. Fjokra - Thoughtsteps (2014)
14. 3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me (2011)
15. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)

I'm currently working on a list(s) for my blog, that is 86 favorites and another 100+ Honorable Mentions

[krands85]

I have finalised my list at last. Not 100% sure on the positions of some of the albums (even after typing my post I've made 2 changes!), but this is what I've come up with:

1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
2. Tesseract - Altered State (2013)
3. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (2015)
4. Deftones - Koi no Yokan (2012)
5. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)
6. Haken - Visions (2011)
7. Bad Salad - Uncivilized (2012)
8. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope (2014)
9. Haken - The Mountain (2013)
10. Leprous - The Congregation (2015)
11. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
12. Redemption - The Art of Loss (2016)
13. Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)
14. Soen - Lotus (2019)
15. Edens Curse - Cardinal (2016)

Honourable Mentions:

Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path One) & Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II. This is a 2-part album, released a year apart. If they were released at the same time as a double album, I would have put them in. But as individual albums, I couldn't find 2 spots for them in the list.
Haken - Affinity. I usually struggle to pick my favourite Haken album, but listening to them all again, I have to go with Visions over The Mountain and Affinity misses out as it has a couple of songs I don't like that much. Probably would have made it in the list if I was allowed more than 2 albums per artist.
Anathema - Distant Satellites. Quite similar to Haken, I really like this album, but there are a couple of tracks that drag it down below Anathema's other 2 in my list.
Tool - Fear Innoculum. Might have squeezed in if it had been out a bit longer. Also feel like I'm comparing it a bit to Lateralus and 10,000 Days, which it isn't quite as good as.
Maybeshewill - I was Here for a Moment, then I was Gone. Never really going to be a contender, but it's still a great album and I needed at least some post-rock representation, as it's a genre I listened to loads early in the decade.
Teramaze - Are we Soldiers. Again, it was never likely to threaten the top 15, but I really like these guys and this is a solid album.

Just noticed there's nothing from 2017 or 2018 in my list. Would be interesting to see which year is deemed the best once all the votes are tallied.

[Elite]

Just noticed there's nothing from 2017 or 2018 in my list. Would be interesting to see which year is deemed the best once all the votes are tallied.

My list only had two album released after 2015, and both were from 2017.

[Stadler]

I didn't put them because they are not "new" material, but have we talked about the Jellyfish re-releases from... I think they were 2013?   If you get the double Bellybutton and Spilt Milk, you essentially have their entire discography, save for a couple live b-sides, and man, are those records still good.  I'm way late to the party, but they just grow and grow and grow...

[SwedishGoose]

I didn't put them because they are not "new" material, but have we talked about the Jellyfish re-releases from... I think they were 2013?   If you get the double Bellybutton and Spilt Milk, you essentially have their entire discography, save for a couple live b-sides, and man, are those records still good.  I'm way late to the party, but they just grow and grow and grow...

Jellyfish 

Soo good..... so glad that I got to see them live.