1. Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
2. Royal Blood
3. Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
4. Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age
5. Steel Panther - All You Can Eat
6. Killer Be Killed
7. Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me
8. Ektomorf - Retribution
9. Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain
10. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds

Top 5 this year fucking nailed it. The rest are pretty cool too and worthy of their places.

I struggled to make this list. Good stuff but not as many as I thought.

1. Alter Bridge - Fortress
2. Black Spiders - This Savage Land
3. Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
4. Dream Theater
5. Evile - Skull
6. Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones, Pt. 2
7. Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
8. Heaven's Basement - Filthy Empire
9. Motorhead - Aftershock
10. Scar The Martyr

This year for me has been pretty decent, lots of releases I've enjoyed quite a lot. Here's my top 10 albums this year and a few EPs at the end which I feel also deserve a mention.

Number 10 :-

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SOUNDGARDEN - KING ANIMAL

A very worthy comeback since their last album if you ask me. Soundgarden are a band I have missed out on for many years and a good friend of mine introducing them to me properly is one of the best things to ever happen to me musically. I do feel that this album isn't as…

This year has been quite difficult for choosing a top 10 but I managed to get one out there. Starting from 10 here it goes.

Number 10:-

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I first heard this band when a friend told me to check out their song Covering Fire. I thought it was pretty amazing and this band definitely deserve more attention. Great thrash metal, nice and fast and crazy. LISTEN IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.

Number 9:-

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I've been a fan of Alestorm near enough since their first album was released and they seem to get better as they go along. They're not…

Pretty good year, had some awesome new stuff :) Some could have been better though *COUGH*fever*COUGH* ;D

10) Baptized In Blood - Baptized In Blood

9) Bullet For My Valentine - Fever

8) Buckcherry - All Night Long

7) Airbourne - No Guts. No Glory.

6) Murderdolls - Women & Children Last

5) Parkway Drive - Deep Blue

4) Swashbuckle - Crime Always Pays…

3) Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy

2) Taking Dawn - Time To Burn

1) Alter Bridge - AB III

Alter Bridge and Taking Dawn definitely nailed it for me this year ;)
I know Time To…