2010 Staff Picks

Check it out. This is where our Hard Music staff weigh in on what was great in 2010.
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
Fav indie band:
Fav live show:

[tell us what your favs were in the comments section below]

Keven Crothers

#1 the Rex Carroll Band – That Was Then This is Now

#2 Sinbreed – When Worlds Collide

#3 Reinxeed – Majestic

#4 Darkwater – Where Stories End

#5 Holy Blood – Shining Sun

Favorite Live Act – Grave Robber

Favorite Indie – Walk the Sky

Chris Beck

#1 Darkwater – Where Stories End

#2 Reinxeed – Majestic

#3 Holy Blood – Shining sun

#4 HB – Paakallonpaikka

#5 Mass – Sea of Black

Favorite Live Show – Stryper

I don’t really have a response for favorite unsigned band, as about everyone is signed to a small label.

Chris Gatto

1. Living Sacrifice- Infinite Order

2. Saint- Hellblade

3. Sinbreed- When Worlds Collide

4. The Sacrificed- 2012

5. Golden Resurrection- Glory to my King

Favorite Live Show: As I Lay Dying and Demon Hunter

Favorite Indie Artist: Krig

Loyd Harp

Krig – Narcissistic Mechanism

My Silent Wake/The Drowning – Black Lights and Silent Roads

Grave Forsaken – Fight to the Death

Wintersoul – Frozen Storm Apocalypse

Malchus – Didymos

Indie:

Sons of God – Hogtie’n the Devil

Live Show:

No metal bands play where I live unfortunately . . .

Jeff McCormack

1. Darkwater – Where Stories End

2. Showdown – Blood in the Gears

3. Place of Skulls – As a Dog Returns

4. Innerwish – No Turning Back

5. Saint – Hellblade

Indie band: Place of Skulls

Concert: As I Lay Dying – Demon Hunter – War of Ages tour

Jonathan “Doc” Swank

1. Orphaned Land – The Never Ending Way of ORwarrior

2. Coriolis – The Endless Funeral

3. Sinbreed – When Worlds Collide

4. Living Sacrifice – The Infinite Order

5. Darkwater – Where Stories End

Favorite Live Show: Megadeth “Rust In Peace 20^th anniversary tour”

Favorite indie/unsigned band: Souljourners (souljournersband.com)

Corey Erb

1) Greeley Estates – No Rain, No Rainbow

2) The Chariot – Long Live

3) Sleeping With Sirens – With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear

4) As They Sleep – Dynasty

5) Mae – (e)vening

Favorite live show:
Mae at Eureka College 8.23.10

Favorite unsigned artist:
Lovedrug (they left their label and went independent, that count?)
lovedrugmusic.com

Nick Cotrufo

5. The Chariot – Long Live

4. Comeback Kid – Symptoms and Cures

3. Close Your Eyes – We Will Overcome

2. Mychildren Mybride – Lost Boy

1. For Today – Breaker

FAV LIVE SHOW
The AK-47 tour with War of Ages, The Color Morale, The Great Commission, The Contortionist, and Legend. I saw them in Lynchburg, VA and THE COLOR MORALE played the best show.

FAVE INDIE BAND
http://www.myspace.com/thegunshowofficial

Matt Leonard

TOP 5 ALBUMS

5. Norma Jean – Meridional

4. As They Sleep – Dynasty

3. For Today – Breaker

2. War of Ages – Eternal

1. As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise

FAV. SHOW
The Chariot – Cornerstone

INDIE BAND
Written in Red
http://www.myspace.com/writteninredrawk

Matt Conner

1. Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz

2. The Choir – Burning Like the Midnight Sun

3. Anberlin – Dark is the way…

4. Robbie Seay Band – Miracle

5. Gungor – Beautiful Things

Fav live show
Switchfoot

Fav indie/unsigned artist

Josh Garrels
www.joshgarrels.com

Doug Van Pelt

For Today – Breaker

As I Lay Dying –The Powerless Rise

Demon Hunter – The World Is A Thorn

Seabird – Rocks Into Rivers

Anberlin – Dark is the Way, Light is a Place

Fav indie band: Bradley Hathaway
Fav live show: Flatfoot 56 at Cornerstone

Tim Harris

1. The Devil Wears Prada – Zombie EP

2. Impending Doom – There Will Be Violence

3. Comeback Kid – Symptoms And Cures

4. Anberlin – Dark Is the Way, Light Is A Place

5. Underoath – Ø (Disambiguation)

Favorite live show
The Chariot

Favorite indie band
Lorna Shore

http://www.myspace.com/lornashore

Rob Shameless

1. My Epic- Yet

2. Living Sacrifice- Infinite Order

3. Messengers- Anthems

4. John Mark Mcmillian- The Medicine

5. PND- Dirty Words

Fav live show: Take it Back Cstone Monday Night Solace Stage
Fav unsigned band: Carrying The Fire
http://stereokiller.com/carryingthefire

Jason Irvin

Top 5 Albums:

1) A Plea For Purging – The Marriage of Heaven & Hell

2) Anberlin – Dark Is the Way, Light Is The Place

3) As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise

4) Manafest – The Chase

5) Tenth Avenue North – The Light Meets The Dark

Fav Live Show: A Plea For Purging – over 100 stage dives

Fav unsigned artist: Embers In Ashes
http://www.facebook.com/EmbersInAshes

Fav unsigned band- Carrying The Fire

Fav Show- Take It Back Cstone monday night solace stage