I’ve never been one for “best of” or year end highlight lists. The main reason is because I can rarely choose such a small amount of albums from the plethora of damn good metal released every year. Also, even though every metal publication or blog you read may claim to have their own original thoughts, many of the year-end lists I’ve seen mostly contain the same releases.  I’m a pretty cynical guy about half the time, so this also serves as a spouting off point for myself to give a platform to some lesser promoted and lesser heard albums from 2010.