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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My best to worst of 2011 so far. I'll keep this updated as the year progresses and as I listen to more.

1.Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning

2.Vektor - Outer Isolation

3.Haken - Visions

4.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

5.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

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1.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

2.Helheim - Heiðindómr Ok Mótgang

3.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones

4.Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients

5.Kroda - Schwarzpfad

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Here we go again...

This year I had more trouble than usual with the order, so I just kind of threw the list together rather than messing with the rankings for hours on end.

1.Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

2.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

3.Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations

4.Vektor - Outer Isolation

5.Disma - Towards The Megalith

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1.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

2.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

3.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

4.Obscura - Omnivium

5.MaYaN - Quarterpast

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1.Revocation - Chaos Of Forms

2.Hell - Human Remains

3.Obscura - Omnivium

4.Charred Walls Of The Damned - Cold Winds On Timeless Days

5.Disma - Towards The Megalith

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So far I stand by my position on this decade, it's awful and so is anyone who lived through it.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Draconian…

1.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

2.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

3.Ava Inferi - Onyx

4.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

5.Belphegor - Blood Magick Necromance

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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.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

3.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

4.Vreid - V

5.Havok - Time Is Up

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The top 10 is more or less set so far, I'm still listening to many albums from the rest of the pack plus some not on the list so it is most likely going to change. Although, I don't believe Peste…

1.Peste Noire - L'Ordure à L'état Pur

2.Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

3.Lifelover - Sjukdom

4.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

5.Taake - Noregs Vaapen

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My personal top 10 albums of 2011…

1.Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

2.Forefather - Last Of The Line

3.Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever

4.Demonaz - March Of The Norse

5.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever

3.Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

4.Vomitory - Opus Mortis VIII

5.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

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1.Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World

2.Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite

3.In Vain - Ænigma

4.Obscura - Omnivium

5.Wolfheart - Shadow World

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#1 - Eaten Back To Life…

1.Mgła - Groza

2.Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life

3.Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn

4.Ulcerate - Of Fracture And Failure

5.In Mourning - Monolith

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