1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

3.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

4.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

5.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

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1.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

2.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4.Mercenary - Metamorphosis

5.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

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1.Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning

2.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

3.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

4.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

5.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

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my list of top headbangers (any album that will make me wanna move my body or do something crazy or anything that can feed my appetite for raw aggression) for the year 2011

1.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

2.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

5.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

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1.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

3.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

4.The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne

5.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

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1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Heretoir - Heretoir

3.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

4.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

5.Heavenwood - Abyss Masterpiece

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It remains to add bands that haven't released album and add personal comments.

1.Symphony X - Iconoclast

2.Iced Earth - Dystopia

3.Vektor - Outer Isolation

4.Megadeth - Th1rt3en

5.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

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A ranking including all albums of my former favorites.

1.Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

2.Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design

3.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

4.Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire

5.Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions

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These are the bands that have spent the most time coming through my speakers (or will have by the end of the year). In other words: TOP PICKS for 2011, listed in no particular order and updated but not finished...

1.Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire

2.Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy

3.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

4.Heavenwood - Abyss Masterpiece

5.Havok - Time Is Up

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I don't believe in illegal downloading of easily available albums, so this list is only albums I have actually purchased and own a hard copy or official download of. The order is VERY fluid, and in all likelihood, wrong. But oh well....

Coming soon: Comments for each album & finalised order for the year...

1.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

2.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

3.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

4.Symphony X - Iconoclast

5.Cormorant - Dwellings

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Welcome, no matter if you're a long-term MS member or an Avenged Sevenfold listener. Don't know what to vote for? Here's ANOTHER yearly best-of list for you to go through, or, more likely, for the usual tl;dr. But, wait - what makes this one different: 1) unqualified and totally subjective two-line reviews, 2) conscious restriction to the litte-more-than-20 most impressive albums, 3) an aversion against the much too generic thrash & power metal genres and anything without recall value.

1.Amaranthe - Amaranthe

2.Alestorm - Back Through Time

3.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

5.The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre

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A top ten from another year being added a few years late...

1.MyGrain - MyGrain

2.Obscura - Omnivium

3.Benighted - Asylum Cave

4.Beyond Creation - The Aura

5.Neuraxis - Asylon

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Heavy metal + power + thrash + death metal top 50 / 2011

1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

3.Samael - Lux Mundi

4.Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Aagony

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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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1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Symphony X - Iconoclast

3.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

4.The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

5.Opeth - Heritage

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