Since there wasn't a proper poll for 2011, lets use this topic to post our best albums of the year. We'll go by genre (fill in the genres that I skipped):

Progressive/Experimental Metal
Cormorant-Dwellings

Black Metal
Krallice-Diotima

Death Metal
Ulcerate-Destroyers of All

Doom Metal
Yob-Atma

Sludge Metal
Subrosa-No Help For the Mighty Ones

Grindcore
Wormrot-Dirge

Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore
Between the Buried and Me-The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues

Atmospheric Sludge/Post Metal
Tombs-Path of Totality

Progressive Metal
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

Thrash Metal
Toxic Holocaust-Conjure and Command

You missed: alternative metal, symphonic metal, extreme doom metal, folk metal...

Oh and heavy metal, power metal...

Does we need it can we simply wate till real awards starts?

Written by Bad English on 02.01.2012 at 12:53

Does we need it can we simply wate till real awards starts?

Posting your own list is something completely different than voting in the awards, though.

I'm editing my top list in the Lists section soon, 50 first albums in order of preference or something, but I guess this is different enough to warrant another post. Will edit this space, I guess.

My list ...... then open tread ''best of 2011 in metal'' or other title

Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.01.2012 at 07:00

You missed: alternative metal, symphonic metal, extreme doom metal, folk metal...

Oh and heavy metal, power metal...

and Yob won't be in doom metal but in sludge/stoner

Is there going to be a proper poll?

Because making lists is fun, and this is a nice break from trying to decide where to stop ordering my top 2011 albums by preference; I thought top 50 would do, but I'm down to 100 now and still not sure. >_>


Black Metal:
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

Death Metal:
Sonne Adam - Transformation

Doom Metal:
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

Extreme Doom Metal:
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit (I guess it fits)

Gothic Metal:
Wormfood - Posthume

Grindcore:
A Million Dead Birds Laughing - Force Fed Enlightenment

Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore:
Helms Alee - Weatherhead/Will Haven - Voir Dire/Betraying The Martyrs - Breathe In Life (Three picks for three genres, I guess. All of them OK, none of them much better than the others.)

Heavy Metal:
Argus - Boldly Stride The Doomed

Industrial Metal:
Necro Deathmort - Music Of Bleak Origin

Post-Metal/Avant-Garde:
Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light pt. 1

Progressive Metal:
Giant Squid - Cenotes

Sludge/Stoner Metal:
Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones

And then some bonus levels to compensate for those metal categories I skipped:

Contemporary Classical/Modern Composition:
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Ambient:
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell

Post-Rock:
Einar Stray - Chiaroscuro

Neofolk:
Rome - Die Æsthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit

Album Of The Year:
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Written by IronAngel on 02.01.2012 at 18:34

Black Metal:
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

Death Metal:
Sonne Adam - Transformation

Grindcore:
A Million Dead Birds Laughing - Force Fed Enlightenment

Contemporary Classical/Modern Composition:
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Album Of The Year:
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

You have got to be the guy with the most annoyingly wide taste in music I've ever encountered.

The awards will be back as always, in FEBRUARY.

i am retitling this thread to avoid confusion... it will henceforth be known as "Favorite Albums of 2011 by Genre".

so let it be typed, so let it be done.


finally, let's not criticize anyone who omits a genre. i'd rather have people just skip what they are unfamiliar with rather than cast a vote on the one band out of 10 they've heard before.