These are the top 20 albums from 2010 as ranked by Revolver Magazine.

1. Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
2. Diamond Eyes - Deftones
3. Mechanize - Fear Factory
4. Eparistera Daimones - Triptykon
5. Beyond Hell/ Above Heaven - Volbeat
6. Option Paralysis- The Dillinger Escape Plan
7. The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
8. Absolute Descent - Killing Joke
9. Heavy Breathing - Black Breath
10. Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2- Nachtymystium
11. Scream - Ozzy Osbourne
12. Hellbilly Deluxe 2 - Rob Zombie
13. Snakes for the Divine - High on Fire
14. Audio Secrecy - Stone Sour
15. Zombie EP - The Devil Wears Prada
16. Korn 3 - Korn
17. Behind the Blackest Tears - Kingdom of Sorrow
18. Crisis in Utopia - Holy Grail
19. Lawless Darkness - Watain
20. Dark Ages - Bison BC

nightmare was an extraordinary album...but number 1? better than ozzy or maiden? i don't think so

and of course Asylum should've been there!