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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #70 on: October 31, 2019, 11:05:28 PM »
01. Dream Theater - The Astonishing
02. Haken - The Mountain
03. iamthemorning - iamthemorning
04. Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit
05. Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
06. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
07. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata
08. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
09. Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
10. iamthemorning - Lighthouse

So Citadel is your least favorite Ne Obliviscaris album? whaaaaaaa... ???


I've been waiting for a thread like this tbh. Will post mine sometime soon.

I wouldn't read too much into it, it's the difference between a 9/10 and a 10/10 lol. Citadel is great, but Urn is more cohesive and has a better overall structure imo. Citadel has some padding to it, Pyrrich is tied with As Icicles Fall for my least favorite song by NeO, and the piano-sections aren't really that interesting to me. Every song on Urn is a 9/10 or 10/10, the cyclic violin theme is one of the best they've ever written, the choral bits in Libera Pt 1 are AMAZING, there's a great balance of harsh and clean vocals, and the overall feel of it is very great and consistent. Citadel has some great moments, like all of Devour Me Colossus Pt II: Blackholes and Reveries from a Stained Glass Womb.

Basically, Urn is more structure and melody focused than Citadel, and overall it's more conservative (and imo refined) than its predecessor. Citadel is probably their most technical and proggy album. I think it's just a matter of preference, what elements of music you tend to put more focus on.

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #71 on: October 31, 2019, 11:09:55 PM »
100% agree on sgurr being the best Thy Catafalque album btw
Deconstruction is also really good but Devin's humor doesn't always jive with me

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #72 on: October 31, 2019, 11:12:44 PM »
100% agree on sgurr being the best Thy Catafalque album btw


Sgurr
Regenteg
Roka Hasa Radio
Meta / Geometria (idk, they're both like a light 6/10)


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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #73 on: October 31, 2019, 11:15:19 PM »
don't bother, tbh, before roka the production is crap & the symphonic instruments are mostly synthetic/midi-ish. i'd maybe swap roka & rengeteg but they're pretty close. meta and geometra just feel like they don't really matter/are retreading ground already beat into the dirt. honestly don't have high hopes for the upcoming one either but ehh??

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #74 on: October 31, 2019, 11:22:43 PM »
meta and geometra just feel like they don't really matter/are retreading ground already beat into the dirt. honestly don't have high hopes for the upcoming one either but ehh??

I agree with Meta being mostly a retread. Even Urania which is great and easily my favorite song on the record kinda just feels like a lesser version of the first track from Regenteg.

Geometria is weird because it's like a 50/50 split of cool ambient / electronic focused stuff and some of the most tedious and lame metal songs he's written, namely the closer which is just a really shitty version of Urania. :lol And there's not a ton of cohesion between the electronic songs and the metal songs, aside from the transiton between the 2nd song and Totles which is probably the coolest moment on the album.

I don't have too high expectations for the new one either but it could pleasantly surprise me.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #75 on: October 31, 2019, 11:37:18 PM »
Interesting to see Immersion.. I guess it’s the only Pendulum album that came out this decade though so fair enough, but I think that’s by far their worst album even though it still has some killer tracks (Witchcraft, Self Vs Self, Watercolour, The Island 1, Crush)
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #76 on: October 31, 2019, 11:48:35 PM »
I almost put The Color Spectrum in my top 10, but figured since it's a compilation I would leave it off. It would probably be number 3 if I had left it.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #77 on: November 01, 2019, 05:23:37 AM »
My tastes are a little more mainstream than some of the rest of the posts, but this seemed like fun.

Similitude of a Dream - The Neal Morse Band
A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park
California - Blink-182
Flying Colors - Flying Colors
Speak in Code - Eve6
The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow
Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
Vice Verses - Switchfoot
Screaming Bloody Murder - Sum 41
Mosaic - 311

No DT... I love all four of this decades albums, and DT12 almost made it, but it wasn’t as perfect of an album as the ten above.

Man, Vice Verses is a great album.  I forgot it came out in 2011.  Selling the News is a song that hauntingly ages more and more better as the years goes on.  That album in addition with Hello Hurricane are two fine albums from Switchfoot.

Totally agree. Switchfoot were completely at the top of their game with those two albums (Vice Verses and Hello Hurricane). Hoping they get back there at some point, but the last couple of albums seem to be going a different direction.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #78 on: November 01, 2019, 05:27:33 AM »


A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park

Glad I'm not the only one who absolutely loved this album start to finish, I've been listening to LP since the beginning and have to say this one is my absolute favorite.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #79 on: November 01, 2019, 07:54:45 AM »
Interesting to see Immersion.. I guess it’s the only Pendulum album that came out this decade though so fair enough, but I think that’s by far their worst album even though it still has some killer tracks (Witchcraft, Self Vs Self, Watercolour, The Island 1, Crush)

*immense confusion*

I could see someone liking Hold Your Color more since it's pretty different in style. It's my least favorite of theirs but that's mostly just a tastes thing. But I truly don't understand how you could like In Silico more. To me, Immersion feels like they took another stab at what they were trying to do with In Silico and executed it infinitely better.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #80 on: November 01, 2019, 09:39:07 AM »


A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park

Glad I'm not the only one who absolutely loved this album start to finish, I've been listening to LP since the beginning and have to say this one is my absolute favorite.

Dude. I actually fell off the bandwagon after M2M, because I wasn’t a huge fan of The Catalyst when it came out. After Chester died, I went back and listened to the last four albums. ATS blew me away on first listen, and in my opinion, is their masterpiece. I feel like Catalyst makes sense in the context of the album. It’s the climax, really. Just an odd choice for the single release, considering the change in direction.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #81 on: November 01, 2019, 10:18:48 AM »
It's hard for me to compare 'recent' discoveries to bands I listened to a lot but maaaybe something like:

1. Frank Ocean - Blonde
2. The Dear Hunter - Act IV
3. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
4. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
5. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
6. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
7. Bonobo - Migration
8. Haken - Affinity
9. Sleep Party People - Floating
10. Lorde - Pure Heroine
11. Olafur Arnalds -Re:member
12. Leprous - Bilateral
13. James Blake - Assume Form
14. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
15. Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #82 on: November 01, 2019, 11:16:57 AM »
I almost put The Color Spectrum in my top 10, but figured since it's a compilation I would leave it off. It would probably be number 3 if I had left it.

many like myself consider it 1 album.

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #83 on: November 01, 2019, 11:52:46 PM »
I'll post it here as well, so some rule changes....

We'll allow lists of 15 albums to allow for the large time period, but let's limit it to two albums per band please. Any posts before this one are grandfathered in. Any albums after the two per band limit will not be counted.

Please rank the albums 1-15 for scoring purposes, otherwise all albums on the list get 2pts ea

Freely edit the lists as you see fit, I'll either a cutoff date or cut it off progressively as I start counting.


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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #84 on: November 02, 2019, 12:48:46 AM »
Sure why not:
#1. Swans - The Glowing Man (2016)
#2. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland (2017)
#3. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
#4. Yes - Fly From Here (2011)
#5. The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional (2016)
#6. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (2010)
#7. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls (2015)
#8. DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity (2017)
#9. Haken - Affinity (2016)
10. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel (2014)
11. Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase (2015)
12. Tangerine Circus - A Brief Encounter With Myself (2018)
13. Muse - Drones (2015)
14. AWOLNATION - Run (2015)
15. Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand (2017)

Honourable mentions:
16. Symphony X - Iconoclast (2011)
17. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage (2016)
18. Queensryche - Condition Human (2015)
19. Caligula's Horse - In Contact (2017)
20. Opeth - Pale Communion (2014)
21. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

Edit (16/12/19): Added some albums that I forgot about, & also changed the order a bit. Here's the original version:

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Sure why not:

#1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland (2017)
#2. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (2019)
#3. Yes - Fly From Here (2011)
#4. The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional (2016)
#5. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (2010)
#6. Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase (2015)
#7. Swans - The Glowing Man (2016)
#8. DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity (2017)
#9. Tangerine Circus - A Brief Encounter With Myself (2018)
10. Haken - Affinity (2016)
11. Muse - Drones (2015)
12. Symphony X - Iconoclast (2011)
13. Opeth - Pale Communion (2014)
14. Mastodon - Once More Round The Sun (2014)
15. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

I'm not at all confident with my ability to keep up to date on album releases though, so take this with a grain of salt.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #85 on: November 02, 2019, 01:03:47 AM »
if you put a gun to my head and made me rank these right now;

1. East of the Wall - The Apologist
2. The Hirsch Effekt - Holon : Anamnesis
3. Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places
4. A Novelist - Folie
5. El Drugstore - Plague Ship
6. Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
7. Mithras - On Strange Loops
8. Spectral Lore - III
9. The Ocean - Pelagial
10. Haken - The Mountain
11. Poly-math - House of Wisdom | We Are the Devil
12. Actor | Observer - Pareidolia
13. Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
14. Exist - Sunlight
15. Leprous - Bilateral

HMs that just barely got pushed off:
Bent Knee - Shiny-Eyed Babies
Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
Midnight Odyssey - Funerals From the Astral Sphere
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Stellar & Finisterre

this ranking could probably change hourly a lot of these are super dang close

interesting to see how things have changed since my top 50 albums list i made in 2015

i'm definitely gonna have to redo that list in 2020, god

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #86 on: November 02, 2019, 01:32:05 AM »
I hear ya on the changing the top 50 list, mine would look vastly different now.

Just did a preliminary list, got to cut down from 26 albums, and see what else pops up.

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« Reply #87 on: November 02, 2019, 05:50:46 AM »
#9. Tangerine Circus - A Brief Encounter With Myself (2018)

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #88 on: November 02, 2019, 09:56:12 AM »
Ok..... I will give it a shot.


1. Evan Carson - Ocipinski

2. iamthemorning - Lighthouse

3. Beatrix Players - Magnified

4. IQ - The Road of Bones

5. Opeth - In Cauda Veneum

6. Gentle Storm - The Diary

7. Ostura - The Room

8. Steven Wilson  - The Raven that Refused to Sing

9. Dream Theater - The Astonishing

10. Soul Enema  -  Of Clans and Clones and Clowns

11. Karmakanic - Dot

12. Kaipa - Vittjar

13. The Neal Morse Band  - The Great Adventure

14. We Came From Space- While you were away

15. Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

Edit...... just remembered that I had forgot the marvel that is Karmakanic - Dot (Sorry Vulkan but your album Observants is still fantastic)









 
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #89 on: November 02, 2019, 10:49:52 AM »
Two of those will be making my list. Still struggling with which IQ to choose from Frequency, Road of Bones, and Resistance. I'll probably leave out Road of Bones, but not sure yet.

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« Reply #90 on: November 02, 2019, 10:57:56 AM »
#1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland (2017)

Man, I wish I liked this album as much as you. Crumbling Castle is a fantastic song, and King Gizzard doing prog rock sounds fantastic on paper (especially with how well they pulled off thrash metal on Infest The Rats Nest) but I just cannot get into any of the songs after the first one. I don't understand why the rest of the record is so consistently quiet and reserved.
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019
« Reply #91 on: November 02, 2019, 11:06:46 AM »
For me, and keeping it to one title per artist:

Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing
Frost*: Falling Satellites
Dream Theater: Distance Over Time
Skyharbor: Guiding Lights
Haken: Affinity
sleepmakeswaves: Made of Breath Only
Meshuggah: The Violent Sleep of Reason
IQ: Resistance
BTBAM: Parallax II
Rush: Clockwork Angels

So updating with ranking and expansion to 15 titles:

1. Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing
2. sleepmakeswaves: Made of Breath Only
3. Frost*: Falling Satellites
4. Haken: Affinity
5. Steven Wilson: Hand. Cannot. Erase
6. Dream Theater: Distance Over Time
7. Skyharbor: Guiding Lights
8. Meshuggah: The Violent Sleep of Reason
9. Between the Buried and Me: The Parallax II: Hypersleep Dialogues
10. IQ: Resistance
11. Mastodon: Emperor of Sand
12. Haken: The Mountain
13. Leprous: Coal
14. Karnivool: Asymmetry
15. Caspian: Waking Season
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #92 on: November 02, 2019, 12:28:28 PM »
Here's a redo based on the new rules and a change of heart/mind.

1. Anathema - Weather Systems
2. Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
3. Vektor - Terminal Redux
4. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
5. Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
6. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
7. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
8. Warforged - I: Voice
9. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
10. Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed and Cursed
11. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
12. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
13. Messa - Feast for Water
14. Haken - The Mountain
15. Hibernal - The Machine
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« Reply #93 on: November 02, 2019, 12:33:03 PM »
Thanks, doing it like that will make my job much easier. And remember, these aren't written in stone and won't be for a while, you got time to think and edit. As I said, I probably won't even start the math part till after Thanksgiving.

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« Reply #94 on: November 02, 2019, 12:39:11 PM »
was gonna be like "oh i've never heard Hibernal so you should send 'em in my roulette" but i looked 'em up and I think I listened to Replacements a few times back when it dropped, never got too into it tho
everything else on the list I do know though to at least a minimal extent, nice

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« Reply #95 on: November 02, 2019, 12:40:28 PM »
20: Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother (2013)

This is the album on here I've discovered the most recently, thanks to Sacul sending a song from it in my most recent roulette. Oppressively dark, immensely thick guitar riffs, fantastic vocals, and one of the best closing tracks I've heard in recent memory. If it weren't for one lackluster track (Decimation) this might have ranked even higher.

19: Anathema - We’re Here Because We’re Here (2010)

Anathema's second best album. Great record, but everything this album does well is, in my opinion, done even better by the other Anathema album on this list.

18: Destiny Potato - Lun (2014)

There's a few tracks on here I'm not crazy for, but when it comes to the songs I like (which is the majority of them) I can't stop listening to them. Best pop metal album (unless you count some of Devin Townsend's poppier albums) and the best female metal vocalist I've ever heard.

17: Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)

I'm glad Steven Wilson went with a more modern sound on this album after all the retro throwbacks he did previously. Couple that with some fantastic songwriting, incredibly melancholy atmospheres, and some gut-wrenching emotion at points, and you get easily his best solo album, if you ask me.

11: Devin Townsend - Epicloud (2012)

A lot of Devin Townsend's records this decade have been trying to go in a more accessible direction, and this is by far the album where it payed off the most. From front to back, this album is anthemic, massive, emotional, and incredibly catchy. Fantastic album, and one of the most accessible metal albums in existence. In a good way.


10: Ulver - The Assasination Of Julius Caesar (2017)

This is the album that truly sold me on Ulver, and I can't think of any other record quite like it. They took their signature dark and experimental sound, infused it with catchy, poppy new wave songs, and the end result works infinitely better than it has any right to. It has a good amount of variety too, remaining engaging throughout with a mix of more straightforward songs and more freeform, experimental tracks like the amazing closer Coming Home. If you haven't listened to this, do it.

7: David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0 (2013)

Leave it to some random dude to take all the best elements from Periphery and Devin Townsend, mix it with a heaping portion of child-like wonder and nostalgia, and create one air-tight and varied album that covers so much ground in a relatively short amount of time and executes it all effortlessly. This is just a really special album. Songs like Where Is Now? and Daydreamers make me happier listening to them than almost anything else.

4: Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)

Many people will say this album is just We're Here Because We're Here but not as good. Look, musical tastes are entirely subjective and all, but come on. This album takes everything that its predecessor did so well and elevates it to an almost transcendental level. From start to finish, it hits you with one song just overflowing with passion and heart-wrenching emotion right after another. Untouchable Part 1, The Beginning And The End, Internal Landscapes... just to name a few. It's bright, it's melancholy at times, it's warm, it's incredibly atmospheric, and it's just amazing.

2: Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (2012)

This album is so atmospheric that the mental images and landscapes it conjures in my mind just by listening to it are unparalleled. That's really what this album is all about. If you're waiting for "exciting stuff" to happen on this record, you're missing the point. It's very quiet and ambient, and you need to just sit down and soak it all in. But at the same time, it's not ambient to the point where there's nothing to grab onto besides texture. It's very melodic, and incredibly engaging if you're willing to put in a bit of attention. I love every song on it, and I hope that Wilson and Akerfeldt do another true collaboration sometime in the future.
Some really great picks here buddy, cool writeups too :metal

I'll make mine soon, there just are way too many amazing records from this decade.

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #96 on: November 02, 2019, 12:40:56 PM »
was gonna be like "oh i've never heard Hibernal so you should send 'em in my roulette" but i looked 'em up and I think I listened to Replacements a few times back when it dropped, never got too into it tho
everything else on the list I do know though to at least a minimal extent, nice
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #97 on: November 02, 2019, 12:54:05 PM »
Thanks, doing it like that will make my job much easier. And remember, these aren't written in stone and won't be for a while, you got time to think and edit. As I said, I probably won't even start the math part till after Thanksgiving.
I can help you, I wrote a small program last year to help count the forum's top 10 albums of 2018 and it made things a lot easier.

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #98 on: November 02, 2019, 12:54:42 PM »
i'll probably never run another album roulette (way too much work for me haha) so maybe i'll just check it out on my own time, if it's that good

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #99 on: November 02, 2019, 01:23:59 PM »
Thanks, doing it like that will make my job much easier. And remember, these aren't written in stone and won't be for a while, you got time to think and edit. As I said, I probably won't even start the math part till after Thanksgiving.
I can help you, I wrote a small program last year to help count the forum's top 10 albums of 2018 and it made things a lot easier.

Thanks for the offer, if it seems too much I'll take you up on the offer.




Also, anyone who reposts there lists, please delete your first ones so stuff doesnt get counted twice please. Thanks in advance!!!

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #100 on: November 02, 2019, 01:34:42 PM »
1. Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
2. Ostura - The Room
3. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
4. Redemption - The Art of Loss
5. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
6. The Neal Morse Band - Similitude of a Dream
7. Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds Part I
8. Dream Theater - Distance over Time
9. Haken - The Mountain
10. Haken - Affinity
11. Symphony X - Underworld
12. Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
13. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
14. Kamelot - Silverthorn
15. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful



 

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #101 on: November 02, 2019, 01:44:54 PM »
Pretty solid list there, and a few I'll have on mine for sure. Ostura and Haken will make an appearance for sure, still unsure whether DT will make the cut though. If they do, it'd be ADToE.

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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #102 on: November 02, 2019, 02:14:44 PM »
Alright I'll post a placeholder for now and maybe come back to it at the actual end of the decade.

1. Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)
2. Haken - The Mountain (2013)
3. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection (2011)
4. Caligula's Horse - In Contact (2017)
5. Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns (2017)
6. TesseracT - Altered State (2013)
7. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012)
8. Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places (2012)
9. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones (2011)
10. Haken - Vector (2018)
11. The River Empires - The River Empires (Epilogue) (2010)
12. The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (2015)
13. Anathema - Distant Satellites (2014)
14. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
15. Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour (2011)

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« Reply #103 on: November 02, 2019, 02:15:42 PM »
Glad to see history correcting itself and more people placing Weather Systems over We're Here Because We're Here  :biggrin:
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Re: Best Album of the Decade 2010 to 2019 (Rules changed a bit in OP)
« Reply #104 on: November 02, 2019, 02:16:07 PM »
Pretty solid list there, and a few I'll have on mine for sure. Ostura and Haken will make an appearance for sure, still unsure whether DT will make the cut though. If they do, it'd be ADToE.

Thanks. I actually owe it to your thread about Ostura. That's how I discovered them, so thanks.

And I knew I forgot an album. I have shamed the Sons of Apollo!