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2010s albums that will be timeless classics?


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I think that one album would probably be Mgła's "Exercises in Futility."  The entire album has excellent riffs, pacing, and lyrics.  All instrumentation is executed with great skill (especially the drummer!), and the singer's voice is perfectly suited for his music.

Paysage d'Hiver's "Das Tor" was another great example of black metal from the 2010s.  The entire album was filled with hypnotic riffs and excellent, atmospheric ambiance.

I will try to post some more as I think of them.

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Allow me to add some

- Deafheaven - Sunbather.

Seminal blackgaze album. Also has a big impact since it appeals to the masses and got many hipsters into black metal. 

- Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

evil complex BM

- Behemoth - The Satanist

Behemoth’s most ambitious release to date

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-Gorguts: Colored Sands

Memorable, unusual and atmospheric, A strong addition to the Gorguts discography.

-Unhuman (s/t)

Unique vocals on an album of varying tracks, a classic to most who know it.

-Vektor: Terminal Redux. Progressive blackened thrash, full of energy, low on wank. I've seen it hailed as "the album that simultaneously saved thrash and black metal", I think that may be pushing it a little but the album is undeniably a classic. Another example of strange vocals adding to memorability.

-Pyrrhon: What Passes for Survival: Often compared to Gorguts' Obscura in its presence as a further step away from convention. A collection of strange tomes from the unconventionally distorted guitars and bass to the demented vocals. Dissonant note selection and unlikely guitar techniques meet strong mathcore influences.

-King Parrot: Dead Set. The most ambitious album of a grindcore act who managed to become popular enough over the 2010's for some of my metalhead friends who couldn't name a Death album to know. Possibly only classic to Australians.

-Sutrah: Dunes. The debut album of a Montreal progressive death metal trio. Interesting melodies of distinctly different flavors from those used in 90% of death metal.

-Gogira: L'Enfant Sauvage. A progressive death/groove concept album, full of simultaneous groove and tension.

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People might disagree but IMHO one of the strongest subgenres in the 2010's is Doom (and its subgenres eg. Sludge, Stoner, etc.). It's surprising that we haven't named any doom albums. Here we go:

- Sleep - The Sciences

Sleep never disappoints. It was just released a couple of months ago, but is already making its mark.

- Uncle Acid - Blood Lust

Solid psych-y doom. Very fuzzy and hazy.

- Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

Arguably one of the best funeral doom releases this decade. Perfect mix of doomy and beautiful. This release also garnered attention from non-metalheads.

- Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom

Instrumental sludge at its finest. Bongripper will be playing 2 nights in Brooklyn this month, the first of which they'll play Satan Worshipping Doom in entirety, and the second of which they'll play Terminal (their new 2018 album). Interestingly, they sold out the first night, but not the second night yet.

- Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden

I personally prefer Sorrow and Extinction, but I think many people like Foundations more. Honestly Pallbearer has a strong discography so I'm ok with any of their albums.

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Trees of eternity hour of the nightingale  is will go down as a one of best doom metal album it’s their one and only  Aleah Stanbridge wrote about her diagnosis of cancer all the songs revolve around  she ultimately passed away at the age of 39 before her album was release 

Obscura diluvium one of great tech Death releases it’s being hailed as one of the best releases and album of the month 

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Hard to know, and even harder to answer as I feel I'd just be putting my favourite albums down. It usually turns out that the albums that I love the most are very seldom hailed by the broader metal community to the same degree. 

The albums that stand out for me, however, and are already classics include: 

Marduk - 'Frontschwein' (album of the decade)

Rotting Christ - 'Rituals'

Septicflesh - 'Titan'

Moonspell - '1755'

Put them in the hall of fame immediately. 

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