We continue to count down the finest slabs of metal from the last year, as chosen by the devout scribes here at BW&BK;/BraveWords.com. As with previous years, each writer was asked to pick his top 20 albums of the year (no live records, compilations or covers etc...). We perform a little behind-the-scenes metal math and voila, we have our list! We'll be counting down the Top 30 all month - yup, one a day until we get to New Year's - yes, we're aware that December has 31 daze but we thought we'd let you hang until January 1st!

It's time for #29 - drum roll please...

#29 - APOCALYPTICA - 7th Symphony (Sony)

7th Symphony landed at #31 on the Billboard 200 in the US and at #19 on the album charts in Canada. Many famous classical composers including Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert have written pieces called ‘Symphony No. 7’, however that didn’t influence Eicca Toppinen and his bandmates when they made the decision to title their new album 7th Symphony. “We’re not actually referring to any kind of classical symphony," Toppinen told BraveWords.com's Aaron Small for a major feature found here. It’s more like we wanted to point out the fact that we think this album has more classical elements and flavour than the previous couple of Apocalyptica records. The album has such a big variety of different styles and emotions; we wanted to call it 7th Symphony.”

Brave Picks Top 30 Of 2010

#30 - STONE SOUR: Audio Secrecy (Roadrunner)

#29 - APOCALYPTICA - 7th Symphony (Sony)