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Your Top 10 Albums

So what are your top 10 albums? I mean, the ones you listen to the most, or maybe the ones you don't listen to that often, but when you do, you think "damn, I really fucking love this album".

These are mine, in no real order

All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals

Brutal from the first track (This Calling), filled with lashings of double bass and sweeping guitar solos. It certainly doesn't go downhill from there, with their other (arguably) two famous songs Six (of Guitar Hero 2 fame) and tremolo picking antics of The Air That I Breathe.

36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance

One of the first metal albums I ever bought, the four-piece metalcore band from Alaska left a marked impression on my musical taste. Opening with At The End of August, pushing on to the forceful riffs of Bloodwork and gently taking it downhill from there, Brock Lindows' vocals are unique, and certainly make this some of the best metal around.

Flyleaf (self titled)

Flyleaf are this new brand of hard-rock. Not metal, but fortunately not this indie crap, not soft. Just right. And besides, have you seen how cute the singer is? I'm So Sick and Cassie are possibly my two favorite songs from the album, but only just, its got that kind of consistency that by the time the album is over you wonder if it wasn't all just one big, well written song. And if you look (listen) real carefully, Flyleaf can be soon at the start of Die Hard 4.0.

Ill Niño - Enigma

If you don't know Ill Niño, something is wrong with you. A dreadlocked mess of Spanish-guitar work and heavy, heavy metal, they are entirely unique, original, and their music is so good I didn't know which of their albums to choose. So I chose the latest. Opening with The Alibi of Tyrants, it mixes heavy riffs of Finger Painting (with the enemy) with the classical guitar interludes of Me Gusta La Soledad, its easily on a par for quality and originality that the rest of their material is on.

The Legion of Doom - Incorporated

Modern-day saints really, they took unbearable emo music and made it listenable by mixing it with rap and dirty electro beats. Mixes of From Autum to Ashes vs Dead Poetic and Dashboard Confessional vs Sage Francis make this ABSOLUTELY unmissable. If you don't listen to it at least once you're missing out more than you could ever know.

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache

Holy crap what. When Darkness Falls. Rose of Sharyn. Beathe Life. The End of Heartache. Its like a kick in the face from an angry horse. A fucking angry horse. 

Placebo - Meds

In a vain attempt to make it seem like I don't just listen to men with drop tuned guitars jumping around stage, screaming and thrashing the living daylights out of a bass drum, heres some Placebo. Possibly, the ultimate in stoned late night listening, this well-crafted album has some of my all time favorite songs on it, such as Post Blue and Follow the Cops Back Home. Undeniably good.

Trivium - Ascendancy

Get. The. Fuck. In. The. Pit. Epic, epic riffs, such as Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr, A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation, and Like Light To The Flies show up most other bands. Its a shame their latest album sounds like a Metallica knock-off, because Metallica really suck.

Queenadreena - Drink Me

'Alternative Rock' is how the album is billed, but I'd prefer the title 'just plain fucked up'. Songs such as Pretty Like Drugs and For I Am The Way, make this similar to the Placebo album here listed, easy, relaxing (for me anyway) music.

Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings

Taking their name from the closing line from the original Pirates of the Caribbean, these York based lads are not to be messed with. Fast paced riffage of (I Used To Make Out With) Medusa and the obscenely titled Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick made it an absolute certain for my top 10 list.

So there we have it. My 10 favorite albums. Whats yours? Hit me up with a trackback.