Heavy Metal 2010s Albums - Page 2

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

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

The 2017 debut mini-album, cut with a Finnish engineering team and pressed as a strictly limited 3,000-copy run.

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

Outrage's twelfth album, out on 11 October 2017 and mixed by Peter Tagtgren of Pain and Hypocrisy. It came in the band's thirtieth anniversary year.

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

Produced by Mat Sinner with Dennis Ward, and carrying guest appearances from Gus G, Ricky Warwick and Pete Lincoln.

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

UFO's first covers album, released by Cleopatra Records on 29 September 2017, honours twelve favourites from the Yardbirds and the Doors to ZZ Top.

For All Kings keeps Anthrax’s agile thrash attack while giving equal space to heavy groove, chorus lift and modern weight.

The Stage turns themes of space, science and existence into complex, dramatic heavy metal.

A release that pushes BAND-MAID’s rock-band strength forward and builds the foundation for the breakthroughs that followed.

Four tracks — the title song, "Unfair game", "matchless GUM" and an instrumental — released ahead of the album Just Bring It.

To the Light shapes Blindman’s lyrical melody, expansive vocals and precise guitar work into traditional hard rock with care.

The first full album, four years in — and the source of four of the six songs re-cut for 2025's Reborn 2013-2016.

The Evil Divide brings together Death Angel’s lively speed and twisting guitar work in a tightly focused record.

Theories of Flight raises Fates Warning’s progressive-metal tension through complex rhythm, fluid guitar and introspective vocals.

Titancraft delivers Iron Savior’s science-fiction world and thick-riffed German power metal with complete confidence.

The fifth album, number 14 in Germany and 59 in Switzerland. King Records put the Japanese edition out on its Seven Seas line as KICP-1787 a month ahead of the international release, with the bonus track "All Are Equal".

Dystopia concentrates Megadeth’s sharp riffs, crooked structures and cold, pressurized atmosphere into a tightly focused record.

XI restates the sturdy appeal of traditional American heavy metal through hard riffs, heavy rhythm and commanding vocal lines.

Hardwired. to Self-Destruct places Metallica’s quick, explosive thrash instinct beside longer pieces that patiently accumulate weight.

War Brigade puts Mystic Prophecy’s thick guitar riffs and forceful beat at the front of a combative power-metal record.

The fifteenth album, and the first with Chris Laney on keyboards and guitars.

Rulebreaker assembles Primal Fear’s hard-edged riffs, piercing high vocals and heavy rhythm with great precision.

The Devil Strikes Again reunites Rage’s speed-metal sharpness, heavy riff pressure and technical development in one aggressive flow.

Sabaton's eighth album, from August 2016, a concept record built on last stands from history.

Stand in the Fire brings together Striker’s speed-metal guitar attack, energetic beat and memorable choruses.

Brotherhood of the Snake sharpens Testament’s Bay Area thrash force through modern density and precise execution.

The eleventh studio album, self-titled, issued by Mighty Music on 21 October 2016 as PMZ 200. Eleven songs, opening with the advance track "Only the Brave".

World on Fire commits fully to the neoclassical-metal language Yngwie Malmsteen has made his own.

Radiant A turns Aldious’s speed, vivid twin-guitar work and soaring vocal melody into a stronger sense of forward motion.

An early album that turns the attention around “Thrill” into a stronger and more defined rock direction.

The fifth Bullet for My Valentine album, released by RCA on 14 August 2015 and produced again by Colin Richardson, who had made The Poison and Scream Aim Fire. Jamie Mathias had replaced Jason 'Jay' James on bass. The Japanese edition followed on 19 August with seven bonus tracks, for eighteen.

Ghost's third album, from August 2015; "Cirice" from it won the 2016 Grammy for best metal performance.

Gus G.'s second solo album. He wrote every song himself, and the singers include Elize Ryd, Mats Levén and Jeff Scott Soto. King Records issued the Japanese edition on 22 July 2015 with a thirteenth track: a version of "What Lies Below" sung by Heather St. Marie.

A self-titled fifth album that cuts its song titles down to single words and strips the arrangements to match.

The Book of Souls pours Iron Maiden’s heavy riffs, three-guitar melody and dramatic vocals into large, narrative-like structures.

Released on 28 August 2015 and a UK No. 10, Bad Magic is what the band themselves call "the 23rd (and final) studio album". Warner Music Japan issued the Japanese pressing the same day as WPCR-16754.

A special album of 7 October 2015, built as two sides: covers of seven Japanese rock forebears, and five newly written songs.

The sixth album, home to “Army Of The Night” and “Armata Strigoi” — blessing and possession set against each other in the most direct terms yet.

Condition Hüman brings Queensrÿche’s progressive-metal tension forward through heavy riffs, alert rhythms and shadowed melodies.

The thirteenth album, paid for in part by a Kickstarter campaign that took over $27,000, and rolled out across territories through SPV/Steamhammer in April 2015.

A covers album made as a reward for the Kickstarter backers who helped fund ExtermiNation; the band's own site files it as a bonus release rather than a studio album.

Saxon's twenty-first album, released on 16 October 2015. It reached three on the UK Rock & Metal chart.

Return to Forever brings Scorpions’ sharp guitar riffs, expansive vocals and memorable ballad sense together with the natural breathing of a veteran band.

Repentless puts Slayer’s merciless riffing, raw vocals and cutting lead guitar at the front of a stripped-down thrash assault.

A studio album released in 2015.

Decadent drives U.D.O.’s traditional heavy metal through hard guitar riffs, steel-like vocals and direct rhythm.

UFO's 2015 album, produced by Chris Tsangarides in Kent and first out in Japan and Scandinavia on 18 February, was the first with bassist Rob De Luca.