Decibel Magazine's best albums of 2010 list was recently revealed, and the number one spot has gone to Portland's own Agalloch. Their dark, powerful, and downright epic offering, Marrow of the Spirit was only released last month, but has already been showered with hyperbolic praise from nearly all who hear it.
Now, before you get in a tizzy and be all like, "I'ma let you finish, but Kanye West had one of the best albums of ALL TIME", keep in mind that Mr. West is not really Decibel's cup of Four Loko—the mag has been covering the world of metal, grind, and otherwise experimental and extreme musics since 2004. The rest of the list—pretty solid, though I'm not sure I can give a thumbs up to including Deftones but not Swans—is below, as well as an MP3 of Agalloch's "The Watcher's Monolith" from Marrow of the Spirit.
40. Darkthrone — Circle The Wagons
39. Lantlôs — Neon
38. Hail of Bullets — On Divine Winds
37. The Dillinger Escape Plan — Option Paralysis
36. Decrepit Birth — Polarity
35. Intronaut — Valley of Smoke
34. Early Graves — Goner
33. The Body — All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood
32. Father Befouled — Morbid Destitution Of Covenant
31. Deftones — Diamond Eyes
30. Nachtmystium — Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
29. Christian Mistress — Agony & Opium
28. Unearthly Trance — V
27. Fear Factory — Mechanize
26. Pivixki — Gravissima
25. Withered — Dualitas
24. Ghost — Opus Eponymous
23. Integrity — The Blackest Curse
22. Kvelertak — Kvelertak
21. Deathspell Omega — Paracletus
20. Electric Wizard — Black Masses
19. Atheist — Jupiter
18. Burzum — Belus
17. High On Fire — Snakes For The Divine
16. Kylesa — Spiral Shadow
15. Horseback — The Invisible Mountain
14. Coliseum — House With a Curse
13. Sailors With Wax Wings — Sailors With Wax Wings
12. Immolation — Majesty And Decay
11. Castevet — Mounds of Ash
10. The Austerity Program — Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
9. Nails — Unsilent Death
8. Thou — Summit
7. Ludicra — The Tenant
6. Torche — Songs for Singles
5. Enslaved — Axioma Ethica Odini
4. Dawnbringer — Nucleus
3. Triptykon — Eparistera Daimones
2. Watain — Lawless Darkness
1. Agalloch — Marrow of the Spirit
LISTEN:
Agalloch - "The Watcher's Monolith"