Top 15 Metal albums of 2010...

Overall 2010 was a good year for heavy music. Everyone makes a list, and this list is filled with some hard decisions. Here is the The Cracked Skull's.

1. Agalloch--Marrow of Spirit
2. Ludicra--The Tenant
3. Coffinworm--When All Became None
4. Deathspell Omega--Parcletus
5. Sailors With Wax Wings--Sailors With Wax Wings
6. Unearthly Trance--V
7. The Body--All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
8. Drudkh--Handful of Stars
9. Burzum--Belus
10. Salome--Terminal
11. U.S Christmas--Run Thick in the Night
12. Thou--Summit
13. Horseback--The Invisible Mountain
14. Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini
15. Kvelertak--Kvelertak

2010 releases of interest...

Here is a brief list of bands that dropped slabs of cacophonous goodness this year. There is no order to this list other than The Cracked Skull enjoyed them and thinks you might too. There will be some releases that inevitably get left off due to forgetfulness.

Indianapolis bands dropped some real quality on the collective eardrums of us all this year.
*Coffinworm--When All Became None
*Sleepbringer--Compendium
*Apostle of Solitude--Last Sunrise
*Deadmen--Possession of the Void
*Read Shadows--Red Shadows CD
*Kata Sarka--demo
*The Dockers--Tales From The Dock

Other releases:
*Ludicra--The Tenant
*Agalloch--Marrow of Spirit
*Killing Joke--Absolute Dissent
*U.S. Christmas--Run Thick in the Night
*Year of No Light--Ausserwelt
*Horseback--The Invisible Mountain
*Zoroaster--Matador
*Burzum--Belus
*Salome--Terminal
*Locrian--The Crystal World
*The Body--All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
*Thou--Summit
*Enslaved--Axioma Ethica Odini
*Nails--Unsilent Death
*Deathspell Omega--Paracletus
*Swans--My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
*Celestiial--Where Life Springs Eternal
*Lantlos--Neon
*Triptykon--Eparistera Daimones
*Sailors With Wax Wings--Sailors With Wax Wings
*Drudkh--Handful of Stars
*Unearthly Trance--V
*Dax Riggs--Say Goodnight to the World
*Circle of Animals--Destroy the Light
*Ehnahre--Taming the Cannibals
*Woe--Quietly, Undramatically
*Broughton's Rules--Bounty Hunter 1853
*High on Fire--Snakes for the Divine
*Yakuza--Of Seismic Consequence
*The Austerity Program--Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
*Alcest--Ecailles De Lune
*Suma--Ashes
*Kvelertek--Kvelertek
*Fell Voices/Ash Borer--split release
*Velnias--limited tour EP
*The Howling Wind--Into the Cryosphere
*White Moth--White Moth
*Negura Bunget--Maiestrit
*Altar of Plagues--Tides
*Kowloon Walled City--Gambling on the Richter Scale

Indiana bands that ruled 2010 in some way or another...

Here's a quick list of bands from all over Indiana that The Cracked Skull either enjoyed live, recorded, or both. There are several bands left off this list that The Cracked Skull has heard good things about. Get out and see these bands, and buy stuff from them.

*Coffinworm (Indy)
*Sleepbringer (Indy/Bloomington)
*The Gates of Slumber (Indy)
*Racebannon (Bloomington)
*Medusa (Bloomington)
*World Eater (Indy)
*The Dockers (Indy)
*Daisycutter (Ft. Wanye)
*Kata Sarka (Indy)
*Apostle of Solitude (Indy)
*Slam Dunk (Bloomington)
*Rat Storm (Bloomington)
*Humans (Bloomigton)
*The Dream is Dead (Indy)
*Demiricous (Indy)
*Livermortis (Indy)
*Chaotic Neutral (Indy)
*Hail Architeuthis (Bloomington)
*Christ Beheaded (Indy)
*Tunguska (Indy)

Hopefully The Cracked Skull will catch these bands in 2011.
*Overpower (Indy)
*Still (Indy)
*Na'kay (Ft. Wanye)
*Parasitic Twins (Ft. Wayne)

RIP
*Deadmen
*Red Shadows
*Black Arrows of Filth & Impurity