2010s Metal & Hard Rock Albums – Page 8

Browse 474 metal and hard rock albums from the 2010s, with links to release-year hubs, artists, track lists and English liner notes.

Albums

Immortals
FIREWIND / / Power Metal, Heavy Metal

Immortals shapes mythic storytelling into Firewind’s fast power metal and dramatic melody.

Ultimate Sacrifice
GALNERYUS / / Power Metal, Neoclassical Metal

Ultimate Sacrifice concentrates Galneryus’ fast guitar, flowing keyboards and expansive vocal style into power metal with high tension.

Silver
GOTTHARD / / Hard Rock, Melodic Rock

Silver carries Gotthard’s warm melody, blues-tinted guitar and approachable hard-rock instinct with calm confidence.

Into the Great Unknown
H.E.A.T / / Melodic Rock, Hard Rock

Into the Great Unknown expands H.E.A.T’s big-chorus melodic rock through a broader soundstage and modern production detail.

United
HAREM SCAREM / / Melodic Rock, Hard Rock

United by HAREM SCAREM: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

Reforged – Riding on Fire
IRON SAVIOR / / Power Metal, Heavy Metal

Reforged – Riding on Fire revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

Retribution
JEFF SCOTT SOTO / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Retribution places Jeff Scott Soto’s soulful vocal power in a heavier, more modern rock setting.

Architecture of a God
LABYRINTH / / Power Metal, Progressive Metal

Architecture of a God weaves progressive development and classically colored guitar into Labyrinth’s power-metal drive.

One More Light
LINKIN PARK / / Nu Metal, Alternative Rock

One More Light shifts Linkin Park away from guitar-heavy aggression toward electronic pop and R&B-leaning rhythm.

Awakening from Abyss
LOVEBITES / / Power Metal, Heavy Metal

Awakening from Abyss introduces Lovebites with a remarkably complete union of speed, precise twin guitars, soaring vocals and large melodic payoff.

Wall of Sound
MARTY FRIEDMAN / / Instrumental Rock, Heavy Metal

Wall of Sound places Marty Friedman’s individual melodic sense and emotion-speaking guitar tone at the front of an instrumental record.

PumpKings
MASTERPLAN / / Power Metal, Melodic Metal

PumpKings revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

The Awakening
MILLENIUM / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

The Awakening presents Millenium’s polished AOR and melodic-rock appeal through warm keyboards and open, lifting vocals.

Defying Gravity
MR. BIG / / Hard Rock, Melodic Rock

Defying Gravity brings Mr. Big’s virtuosity and singable melody together with striking ease.

Feed the Machine
NICKELBACK / / Hard Rock, Post-Grunge

Feed the Machine pushes Nickelback’s thicker guitars and heavier rhythms to the front, showing a more aggressive side of the band.

Don't Let Up
NIGHT RANGER / / Hard Rock, AOR

Don't Let Up presents Night Ranger’s melodic hard-rock character with freshness rather than nostalgia.

Phoenix
NOCTURNAL RITES / / Power Metal, Melodic Metal

Phoenix refines Nocturnal Rites’ Scandinavian melodic-metal strengths through hard riffs, clear vocal lines and thick, uplifting choruses.

Headstrong
PINK CREAM 69 / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Headstrong naturally joins Pink Cream 69’s polished melodic-hard-rock side with a more weighty guitar push.

Road Rage
QUIET RIOT / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Road Rage puts Quiet Riot’s familiar strengths in the foreground: direct riffs, bouncing beats and choruses built to be sung back.

Seasons of the Black
RAGE / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Seasons of the Black places Rage’s power-metal speed and thrash sharpness inside a darker tonal world.

Lower the Bar
STEEL PANTHER / / Glam Metal, Hard Rock

Lower the Bar sees Steel Panther recreating the language of eighties glam metal through exaggeration and humor.

Hydrograd
STONE SOUR / / Alternative Metal, Hard Rock

Hydrograd mixes punk urgency, big hard-rock riffs and metal weight into songs that are rough-edged but immediately catchy.

Striker
STRIKER / / Speed Metal, Heavy Metal

The self-titled Striker record joins the band’s speed-metal sharpness with approachable hard-rock hooks in a very concentrated form.

Nightbringers
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER / / Melodic Death Metal, Death Metal

Nightbringers packs The Black Dahlia Murder’s melodic-death-metal velocity and horror-like unease into a very dense form.

Tokyo Motor Fist
TOKYO MOTOR FIST / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Tokyo Motor Fist is a debut that joins the bright instincts of melodic rock with a slightly rougher hard-rock push.

The Sin and the Sentence
TRIVIUM / / Metalcore, Thrash Metal

The Sin and the Sentence integrates Trivium’s thrash sharpness, metalcore aggression and melodic chorus work at a high level of tension.

Louder Harder Faster
WARRANT / / Glam Metal, Hard Rock

Louder Harder Faster brings Warrant’s instinct for catchy hard rock into a thicker guitar sound and a more forceful rhythmic frame.

Victim of the New Disease
ALL THAT REMAINS / / Metalcore, Melodic Metalcore

Victim of the New Disease shifts All That Remains back toward a heavier metalcore center after the broader reach of Madness.

Helix
AMARANTHE / / Modern Metal, Power Metal

Helix sharpens Amaranthe’s meeting point of modern metal, electronic rock and pop.

Queen of Time
AMORPHIS / / Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal

Queen of Time expands Amorphis’s blend of melodic death metal, progressive shape and Finnish shadow into its most cinematic scale to date.

Ømni
ANGRA / / Power Metal, Progressive Metal

Ømni gathers Angra’s fast metal, Brazilian rhythmic identity, classical harmony and progressive construction inside a science-fiction narrative.

In Our Wake
ATREYU / / Metalcore, Post-Hardcore

In Our Wake retains Atreyu’s sharp riffs and breakdowns while putting the force of the choruses in clear view.

Monster Hero
AXXIS / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Monster Hero delivers Axxis’ long-running melodic hard-rock pleasure with direct energy.

Grimmest Hits
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Despite its title, Grimmest Hits is not a compilation but Black Label Society’s tenth studio record, packed with the band’s heaviest strengths.

Reach for the Sky
BLINDMAN / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Reach for the Sky turns Blindman’s live-bred unity as a newer lineup into a precise tenth studio album.

Origins
DARK MOOR / / Symphonic Power Metal, Power Metal

Origins moves Dark Moor away from the science-fiction focus of its predecessor toward Celtic lore and images of nature.

Evolution
DISTURBED / / Alternative Metal, Nu Metal

Evolution keeps Disturbed’s hard-edged riffs and David Draiman’s commanding voice intact while giving more space to inward-looking, melodic material.

Firesign
DYNAZTY / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Firesign brings Dynazty’s neoclassical guitar work, speed and extremely catchy melody into a modern, high-impact production.

Atomic Generation
FM / / AOR, Melodic Rock

Atomic Generation joins FM’s polished British melodic-rock identity to a blues-tinted hard-rock feel with effortless confidence.

The Fallen King
FROZEN CROWN / / Power Metal, Melodic Metal

The Fallen King presents Frozen Crown’s speed, twin-guitar drive and fantasy atmosphere in vivid form from the start.

When Legends Rise
GODSMACK / / Post-Grunge, Hard Rock

When Legends Rise builds on Sully Erna’s low, powerful voice and Godsmack’s heavy riffs while expanding the melodic range of the band’s seventh album.

Groundbreaker
GROUNDBREAKER / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Groundbreaker is a melodic-rock project built around Steve Overland’s voice, with Robert Säll and Alessandro Del Vecchio among the key creative figures.

Firepower
JUDAS PRIEST / / Heavy Metal, NWOBHM

Firepower reignites the heavy-metal language Judas Priest established over decades with a muscular, contemporary sound.

The Shadow Theory
KAMELOT / / Power Metal, Symphonic Metal

The Shadow Theory combines Kamelot’s symphonic scale with modern guitar hardness around themes of fear and inner duality.

Fourteen
LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Fourteen gently draws on the warmth and touch of melancholy that Last Autumn’s Dream do so well in Scandinavian melodic rock.

Secret Treasures
LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Secret Treasures is a useful way to hear LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM from a different angle within the 2018 catalogue.

Clockwork Immortality
LOVEBITES / / Power Metal, Heavy Metal

Clockwork Immortality expands the speed-metal and power-metal strengths Lovebites showed on their debut into a larger scale.

Catharsis
MACHINE HEAD / / Groove Metal, Thrash Metal

Catharsis gathers Machine Head’s anger, social gaze and personal feeling in its most expansive form.

Damned If You Do
METAL CHURCH / / Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal

Damned If You Do shows the stability of Metal Church in the Mike Howe reunion era through traditional heavy-metal form.

Second Coming
NORDIC UNION / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Second Coming connects Pretty Maids singer Ronnie Atkins’ powerful voice with Eclipse frontman Erik Mårtensson’s modern writing and production instincts.

All Rise
PERFECT PLAN / / Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

All Rise shows Perfect Plan’s deep love for eighties-style melodic rock with the weight of modern production.

Apocalypse
PRIMAL FEAR / / Power Metal, Heavy Metal

Apocalypse pursues the pleasures of traditional power metal with complete commitment around Ralf Scheepers’ fierce high voice and Mat Sinner’s heavy bass.