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Top 50 Of 2010-2014

1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon
2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken
5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 28.07.2022



Top 20 Of 2011

Must Listen: The First 4

1.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2.Nightwish - Imaginaerum
3.Trivium - In Waves
4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
5.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 27.06.2021



A Decade Of Aggression

1.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
2.Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne
3.Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
4.Baroness - Yellow & Green
5.Bring Me The Horizon - Amo

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Created by Iron Men on 30.01.2020



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150 Albums To Become An Adult To: 2010-2019

I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith
2.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
5.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

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Created by musclassia on 27.12.2019



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Current Top 100, 5 Years On

Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Sylosis - Monolith
3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Protest The Hero - Kezia

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Created by musclassia on 23.03.2016



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2010-2014: Top 100 Albums (WIP)

2008 might've been my first proper taste of metal, with the acquisition of albums from the likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and that most grandiose of gateway bands, DragonForce. 2009 might've seen me expanding my palette, with Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, and more entering my world, and Guns N' Roses triumphantly re-entering it. But 2010 was when I delved into more 'intense' stuff with Machine Head, In Flames, and most notably of all, Sylosis, and saw my relationship with metal shift from ever-increasing interest into full-blown love affair. To commemorate this 5-year anniversary, and because I love making lists, I decided to do a retrospective of the best albums and songs that have been released during this time period, and give brief tributes to them. Yay music!

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
2.Sylosis - Monolith
3.Protest The Hero - Volition
4.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Created by musclassia on 08.01.2015



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My Top-10 Albums From 2011

1.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
2.The Haunted - Unseen
3.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
4.Mastodon - The Hunter
5.Flotsam & Jetsam - The Cold

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Created by Iron Men on 27.07.2012



Coolingsrock's Best Of 2011

Albums from 2011 That I managed to listen and know very well. Best to worst

1.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
2.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth
3.Revocation - Chaos Of Forms
4.The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
5.Leprous - Bilateral

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Created by Coolingsrock on 13.04.2012



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My Favorite Albums Of 2011

that was disappointing year.most of the old bands i like didn't make any thing special for example my dying bride,ghost brigade

1.TesseracT - One
2.Wolverine - Communication Lost
3.The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis)
4.Septicflesh - The Great Mas
5.Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

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Created by Night Sight on 13.04.2012



Albums Of 2011 - Personal Rankings

This is retrospective ranking of the albums I listened to in 2011. The list is a work-in-progress and the order is likely to change.

10 - Godly Album. Will likely listen to at least once a week for a decade.
9 - Fantastic Album. Will be a classic I remember even in senility.
8 - Great Album. Will recommend to friends.

1.Obscura - Omnivium
2.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones
3.Paul Wardingham - Assimilate Regenerate
4.Blotted Science - The Animation Of Entomology
5.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

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Created by MiranTrescu on 23.03.2012



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K?ulu's TOP of 2011

Not a very good year. Not a single 9, the first six releases coming close though. Finally 20 worthy albums to called the "TOP."

The three EPs were included because they are all over 30 minutes.

1.Magnus - Magnus
2.Beyond Creation - The Aura
3.Obscura - Omnivium
4.Fluxious - Why So Serious?
5.Gorod - Transcendence

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Created by K✞ulu on 07.02.2012



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Top 2011

1.Obscura - Omnivium
2.Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy
3.Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
4.Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy
5.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

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Created by zarahuztra on 28.01.2012



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MY FAVORITE METAL ALBUMS OF 2011

1.Metallica - Beyond Magnetic
2.Machine Head - Unto The Locust
3.Sepultura - Kairos
4.In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading
5.Anthrax - Worship Music

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Created by Ralle on 03.01.2012



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2011: Favourite To Least

Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so will increase in size. Also, not entirely in order, middle order mainly just an approximation.

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
2.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
3.Infestus - E x I s t
4.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
5.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

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Created by musclassia on 18.11.2011



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A Completely Incorrect Ranking of 2011 Albums

Ordered best to worst. This is entirely my opinion.

1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow
2.Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
3.Havok - Time Is Up
4.Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command
5.Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

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Created by Fade To Black on 24.10.2011