It feels absolutely bamboozling that 2010 was a whole decade ago. From the devastating Haitian earthquake and Chilean miner’s miracle to the vuvuzela-infested South African Football World Cup and spiralling Wikileaks fiasco, there was plenty – good, bad and downright ugly – to stick in the memory. In terms of rock music, though, it was a resounding annus mirabilis. As the pop-punk and metalcore trends that had dominated the ’00s had stagnated, we saw a return to a truly alternative sound. Whether in the establishment of new artists who would go on to dominate (Ghost, Kvelertak, The Menzingers, letlive.), in the daring diversification of existing heavyweights (Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon), or in the return to form of the most reliable standard-bearers (Defton...
