Not a top year, but the finalists are:…

1.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

2.Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us Melancholic Sludge/post-grunge. Good-a little bit below its predecessor

3.Junius - Reports From The Threshold Of Death

4.Black Sun Aeon - Blacklight Deliverance

5.Mastodon - The Hunter

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Looking at this list I realise that 2011 was a better metal year than I remembered it to be. Interesting year with a lot of surprises. The Shining album is in my opinion awesome, one of their best. Power…

1.Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

2.Lifelover - Sjukdom

3.Aquilus - Griseus

4.An Autumn For Crippled Children - Everything

5.Öxxö Xööx - Rëvëürt

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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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1.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

2.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

3.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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The best albums off 2011…

1.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

2.Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

3.Obscura - Omnivium

4.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

5.DevilDriver - Beast

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1.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

2.Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

3.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

4.MyGrain - MyGrain

5.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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1.Mastodon - The Hunter

2.foo fighters - wasting light

3.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

4.High Spirits - Another Night

5.Opeth - Heritage

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1.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

2.Mastodon - The Hunter

3.Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

4.Revocation - Chaos Of Forms

5.Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

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Another Pointless top 20 albums of 2011 list. Most of these are bands I had not listened to before or had listened to very little of.

1.Symphony X - Iconoclast

2.Mastodon - The Hunter

3.Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us

4.Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy

5.Iced Earth - Dystopia

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My top 20 albums of the year, roughly in order.

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Anterior - Echoes Of The Fallen

3.Born Of Osiris - The Discovery

4.The Human Abstract - Digital Veil

5.Beyond Creation - The Aura

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1.Myrath - Tales Of The Sands

2.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

3.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

4.Amaranthe - Amaranthe

5.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

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1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

2.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

3.Opeth - Heritage

4.Symphony X - Iconoclast

5.Obscura - Omnivium

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1.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

2.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

3.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two

4.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

5.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

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1.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

2.Blood Stain Child - ε Psilon

3.Symphony X - Iconoclast

4.Trivium - In Waves

5.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

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All the metal albums I've listened to in 2011, including stuff missing from this site on the grounds of its unpopularity and anything else vaguely metal or Steven Wilson. Ratings out of 10.

1.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

2.Symphony X - Iconoclast

3.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

4.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

5.Hypomanie - A City In Mono

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