One of the optional categories that all Hellbound contributors were asked to write about in our year end polls was their favourite Metal DVD of 2010. As it was optional – and because not all of us watched music DVDs in 2010 – not everyone has participated but I think that it is obvious from those that had a favourite to offer that the new RUSH: Beyond The Lighted Stage documentary was hands down the favourite, followed by the Norwegian black metal documentary Until The Light Takes Us. Here are the individual favourite Metal DVDs of 2010, in alphabetical order by contributing writers.

ADRIEN BEGRAND

Meshuggah – Alive (Nuclear Blast)

KEITH CARMAN

Frank Zappa – The Torture Never Stops (Eagle Vision)

LAINA DAWES

Rush – Beyond the Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

JAY H. GORANIA

MARYLAND DEATHFEST: The Movie

ALLAN GRUSIE

TRANSATLANTIC – Whirld Tour 2010: Live From Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (Radiant)

KYLE HARCOTT

RUSH – Beyond the Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

ROB HUGHES

RUSH – Beyond the Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

ROB KACHLUBA

Rush – Beyond the Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

MATT LEWIS

Rush – Beyond The Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

ALBERT MANSOUR

RUSH – Beyond the Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

OLA MAZZUCA

Until The Light Takes Us (Factory Twenty-Five)

METAL GEORGE PACHECO

I only watched one, so by default I suppose it goes to The Haunted’s Road Kill

SEAN PALMERSTON

RUSH – Beyond The Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

JONATHAN SMITH

Until The Light Takes Us (Factory Twenty-Five)

KEVIN STEWART-PANKO

Sodom – Lords of Depravity II (SPV)

RENEE TROTIER

Opeth – Live at Royal Albert Hall (Roadrunner)

JASON WELLWOOD

HEAVEN & HELL: Neon Nights Live In Europe (Armoury)

LAURA WIEBE

Rush – Beyond The Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)

ADAM WILLS

RUSH – Beyond The Lighted Stage (Alliance Atlantis)