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2011 - Best Of
| 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 |
| + 39 more |
Top 500 Albums of All Time
I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Opeth - Still Life |
| + 495 more |
2011: What I'm Listening To
A list of my favorite recent albums in 2011. I'll update this list regularly. In no particular order. I added the rating next to them for the curious ones, but you should check them all.
| 1. | 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room |
| 2. | Mitochondrion - Parasignosis |
| 3. | Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields |
| 4. | Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All |
| 5. | Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification |
| + 100 more |
Matt's Favs Of 2011
My favorite 25 albums of the year
| 1. | Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason |
| 2. | Obscura - Omnivium |
| 3. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 4. | Deafheaven - Roads To Judah |
| 5. | We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach |
| + 20 more |
My Top Albums Of 2011
| 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 |
| + 118 more |
Some Essential Melodic Death Albums
These are 36 of the my favorite Melodeath albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's…
| 1. | Dark Tranquillity - Fiction |
| 2. | The Absence - Riders Of The Plague |
| 3. | Darkane - Expanding Senses |
| 4. | Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down |
| 5. | Luna Mortis - The Absence |
| + 32 more |
2011 Stuff I Spun A Lot (last update: February 2012)
In order roughly, by the number of spins. A lot = A LOT. So when I give ten more spins to the rest of the albums I've listened to, and forgot to rate most probably, this will grow larger. Or not.
| 1. | Subsignal - Touchstones |
| 2. | Symphony X - Iconoclast |
| 3. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 4. | Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two |
| 5. | Iced Earth - Dystopia |
| + 19 more |
The Bestest Metal Of 2011
I don't have this in any special order. Seems like 2011"s flavor for metal has been Death, Prog and Thrash.and that's good with me.I feel in most part the up and coming bands have out did…
| 1. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 2. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 3. | Havok - Time Is Up |
| 4. | Devin Townsend - Deconstruction |
| 5. | Revocation - Chaos Of Forms |
| + 15 more |
Artists With Only 8+ Albums
Only bands with at least 3 albums, and all albums rated over 8 (with at least 50 votes).
| 1. | Allegaeon - USA / 7 albums / Formed in: 2005 / Genres: Melodic death metal, Technical death metal |
| 2. | Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function |
| 3. | Allegaeon - Formshifter |
| 4. | Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite |
| 5. | Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience |
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Best Metal Albums Of 2011
This list will expand later and the positions here will probably change a bit as well. An interesting feature is an album in top 10 from a band that's not featured on Metal Storm yet.
| 1. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 2. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 3. | MyGrain - MyGrain |
| 4. | Constantine - Divine Design |
| 5. | Chaos Divine - The Human Connection |
| + 22 more |
My Top 20 Of 2011
As the MS Awards 2011 have ended I've closed the editing of this list, so here are the final standings.
| 1. | Kauan - Kuu.. |
| 2. | Insomnium - One For Sorrow |
| 3. | Demonaz - March Of The Norse |
| 4. | Septicflesh - The Great Mass |
| 5. | Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising |
| + 15 more |