The decade began before this blog was started , I can not just rely on sorting through previous reviews. I am just embedding video clips to support the reasoning for these albums to be listed as such, since I already did a best of the year list for each sub-genre. Mainstream means straight up metal, now that I have separated out other sub-genres like power metal and thrash. More easily digested by the masses in most cases, in others they were a black metal band who streamlined their sound into something more straight forward . This might not be the most hipster of the lists that say Vice puts out, what matters is the fact these are the albums I listened to the most . Any ways here are the Top 10 Mainstream metal albums of the decade.
10- Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
9- karyn crisis' Gospel of Witches - "Salem's Wounds" 2015
8- Dimmu Borgir - "Eonian" 2018
7- Judas Priest - " Firepower" 2018
6 Rob Zombie - " Electric Warlock and Acid Witch" 2016
5- Enslaved- "Aixoma Ethica Odini" 2010
4- Mastodon- "the Hunter" 2011
3- Life of Agony- "The Sound of Scars" 2019
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2- Katatonia- " Dead End Kings" 2012
1- Shining - "Fodd forlorare" 2011
