Top 10 Best Rock Albums of 2010
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A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park
Linkin Park everywhere. When I heard it the first time, I found it okay, but as time passed, I found this one excellent. Many Linkin Park fans are hating this because it's a bit slow. I just want to say that we can't expect the same thing from them all the time. No band or artist remains the same throughout a career. This one was experimental and great, and this album has awesome beats.
Whatever they do to their style, it's like they know what the mind needs while it feeds on music. Not my favorite, but it still sounds really good. I loved Nightmare too.
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Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
Add up all the emotion from all the other albums listed, and you still won't come close to what Avenged put into this album.
And to top it all off, it's musically one of their best. They ranged from ballad to heavy thrash a la Pantera, with blistering dueling guitars and perfect vocals.
Considering their friend, brother, and drummer died before recording commenced, a less than satisfactory record would have been acceptable and lightly critiqued. But these guys showed the resilience to shred their way to a masterpiece. It's commendable and awe-inspiring.
Even though the music speaks enough of its greatness, I think this album deserves to be listed higher as one of the best albums of the year when you combine the music with the emotion and work put in.
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Diamond Eyes - Deftones
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Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance
How is Mumford and Sons above My Chemical Romance? What has the world come to. Fair enough, they're awesome, but not as awesome as the Fabulous Killjoys. For the win.
Killjoys, make some noise.
I love this album.
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Asylum - Disturbed
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The Oracle - Godsmack
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All American Nightmare - Hinder
There are amazing songs in there. It's not an album with a theme and all, but musically it's far better than A Thousand Suns. Come on, people, are you done overrating Linkin Park and underrating Hinder? Get over it.
This is one of their best albums. It deserves this place.
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No Apologies - Trapt
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Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
This has to be number one. Mumford and Sons is one of the best rock and folk bands ever. I like Linkin Park, but Mumford and Sons are so much better than Avenged Sevenfold and Linkin Park.
Best album ever created by the best band ever formed. They bring a new twist on folk, with beautiful lyrics that have such meaning. How can this album not be number 1?
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Le Noise - Neil Young
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Truth Rising - (hed) p.e.
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Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children - Mushroomhead
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Fever - Bullet for My Valentine
It should be in the top ten. The guitars and drums are really amazing.
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Plead the Fifth - Taproot
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The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
Really? The Final Frontier at 11th? All hope in humanity lost.
It deserves to be number 1.
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Korn III: Remember Who You Are - Korn
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Audio Secrecy - Stone Sour
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High Violet - The National
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Monsters - D'espairsRay
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Time for Annihilation - Papa Roach
1. Burn
2. One Track Mind
3. Kick in the Teeth
4. No Matter What
5. The Enemy
Five awesome tracks. Still, this album is not on top.
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Imperfect Harmonies - Serj Tankian
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Majesty Shredding - Superchunk
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Scream - Ozzy Osbourne
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Dance & Scream - Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas
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AB III - Alter Bridge
Definitely the best of all of these. It should be number 1. I can't wait to hear their new album Fortress. No one can compare with Myles Kennedy's stunning voice, and Tremonti is a beast on the guitar. AB has more talent than any other band on this list.
This by far outclasses anything else on the list, except maybe Florence and the Machine and Deftones.
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Come Around Sundown - Kings of Leon
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For We Are Many - All That Remains
