Monday, August 31, 2015

The Best Rock Albums of 2010

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2010. I have covered 44 years of music in other posts (1965-2009), which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?
  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Mojo
  • Ringo Starr- Y Not
  • Foghat- Last Train Home
  • Kings of Leon- Come Around Sundown
  • Linkin Park- A Thousand Suns
  • Papa Roach- Time for Annihilation
  • John Mellencamp- No Better Than This
  • Kid Rock- Born Free
  • Neil Young- Le Noise
  • Stone Temple Pilots- Stone Temple Pilots
  • Disturbed- Asylum
Avenged Sevenfold- Nightmare
Nightmare is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal group Avenged Sevenfold released on July 27, 2010. The album reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart and #5 on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified Gold in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
 
Nightmare includes four singles-- "Nightmare," "Welcome to the Family," "So Far Away," and "Buried Alive." Other notable songs on the album include: "Danger Line," "Victim," "Fiction," and "Save Me."
 
Notable of the album is that it is the first Avenged Sevenfold album without drummer James "The Rev" Sullivan, who died in December 2009. Sullivan wrote parts for Nightmare that were used in the final recordings, making it the final album to feature Sullivan's works.  
 
Former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was hired to play drums for Nightmare and the band's tour supporting the album, due to Portnoy's separation at the time with Dream Theater. Following the departure of Mike Portnoy, Arin Ilejay became Avenged Sevenfold's new drummer. Ilejay remained with the group for four years until his dismissal in 2015, and is featured on the group's sixth studio album Hail to the King, which was released in 2013.  
 
Nightmare has sold 818,000 copies in the United States as of May 2014 according to the RIAA.
 
Alexander Schwartz - JPageFan71
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