| 4.0 excellent |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood |
| This was awesome, for realz. They extended their song structures and added in an element of post-rock on songs like vex. |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| forget the negative hype, Anberlin has crafted an album with a subtly darker atmosphere leaving behind some of the filler happy go lucky tracks on new surrender. |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Bayside Killing Time |
| album is catchy as hell, and is probably among their most consistent (i.e a step-up from the hit-or-miss shudder). Title Track, Mona Lisa, and It's Not A Bad little War are some of their best songs |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Bridge and Tunnel East/West |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key |
| most solid Oberst material to come out in quite awhile |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| a little summery black metal to go along with that little something in your lemonade |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Envy Recitation |
| pretty sweet, but the vocals sound kind of shitty. They do a good job switching between the post-rock and screamo dynamic, and also mix slower ambient songs with more upbeat tracks like "rain clouds...". definitely one of the best screamo outings of 2010. |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Make Do and Mend End Measured Mile |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope |
| Bump this in your car at full blast, and tell me that you don't have an erection. |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Mist is the kind of song I have been waiting for this band to make for years |
| Rebuke Wouldworks |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| State Radio Us Against the Crown |
| Strike Anywhere Dead FM |
| Strike Anywhere Iron Front |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz |
| The Antlers Familiars |
| on repeated listens this record does exactly what the Antlers have always done best - create the perfect atmospheres - and punishing them for not being mind blowing is unfair |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Riot Before Fists Buried In Pockets |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tidal Arms The Sun Exploding |
| Very impressive for a debut album, Tidal arms are able to create many different types of soundscapes and come across sounding somewhat like Thrice, but a lot darker |
| Two Gallants Two Gallants |
