Through poisoning and perseverance, MetalMattLongo wrenches two reviews from France.

Rating: 5/5
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With this release, Obscura distinguishes by their innate sense of immersion. “Omnivium” maintains the outer space sound from “Cosmogenesis” but has a far more intimate atmosphere.

From the 300+ releases added, they list their 25 best- & 15 worst-scoring albums of 2010!

Our final Best of 2010 is from Brad Barratt, who lists six studio albums and one live release in this lineup of releases he reviewed.

I haven’t heard any of the honorable mentions, but Willie’s Top 10 Metal albums are pretty sweet. That’s him behind the guitar there, and wearing a Death shirt (if you can’t tell).

Rating: 4.5/5
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“Opus Eponymous” is rather short, but that doesn’t matter—better to pare down than pad out. Ghost is a band with plenty of tricks up their Satanic robes. Anton LaVey would be proud.

The included list of bands are an alphabetical order by band name rather than order of appearance, either on the live show or on my list posted here on MindOverMetal.org… guess you’ll need to listen and/or read up to find out!

I thought continuing the top 13 was a good way to go, but for every album I thought of, a parallel arose. So the list turned out as it did (with top slots held by bands found on few metallic year-end lists). Plus more stuff came to mind in the process—perhaps categories will be in order next year.

Rating: 5/5
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To describe Fields of Locust in one word is impossible. While this review might give a little insight into their sound, it cannot be fully understood until listened to. It’s one of those types of things.

Rating: 5/5
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“Absolute Dissent” is a powerful, distinguishable, relevant, and critical album—essential listening for today, and a defining time capsule for the future.