Thrash Metal is a style which I was very fond of when I was 15-16. I listened to all bands and I knew about them all. These days I listen to very few of them - the ones who deliver, in my ears' opinion. While my interest for thrash, compared to other metal genres, kind of vaned a lot after I discovered death metal, I still find it a fun and interesting topic to discuss the "big 4" thingie.

Obviously, by looking at my charts, you can see I like all of the famous Big-4 bands. However, I do not…

10. David Blomkvist
- Who?!, you think. I'll tell ya. David was the lead guitarist in legendary Swedish death metal band Dismember, a very melodic DM band with obvious 80's heavy-influences like Iron Maiden. Now death metal often comes with either sloppy and noisy solos, or rather technical solos. Dismember, I suppose, falls into the noisy folder, but it's cool noise. No, but really. A lot of Dismember's guitar solos are very melodic and nice, while some maintain noisy much in a Kerry King way, I guess. However, I always loved their guitar sound, and the solos are perfect for…

1. Spread Eagle.

- Spread Eagle are a band from New York City. Their style is raw and heavy sleaze metal in the vein of "Slave to the Grind"-era Skid Row, just that SE came before that album. Their debut from 1990 is a must! Nothing but quality and not a single bad tune!

2. The Almighty.

- From Scottland, The Almighty is not really (in my opinion) especially glam at all. In fact, they're very heavy and punk influenced. They sound more like a Motörhead tribute than a Mötley Crüe tribute anyway, but they're often recognized in this category,…

Here are my personal favorite albums of 2010 (so far, and not in any particular order):

Black Label Society - Order of the Black

- Total kick-ass metal on this one, like always with BLS. But this time, I think that Zakk and his crew have actually made their best album ever.

Rage - Strings To A Web

- This is the first album I've heard with Rage, and well, it's a good start. I really like the symphonic tunes they've done on this albums (heard that they did the same things on previous albums as well). Really cool. I…