Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so…

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

3.Infestus - E x I s t

4.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

5.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

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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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Does anyone look at these? I really doubt it, I’m mostly just bored. More to come, I’m going back through my library and adding as I go.

1.Leprous - Bilateral

2.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones

3.The Human Abstract - Digital Veil

4.Blue Stahli - Blue Stahli

5.Opeth - Heritage

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1.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

2.Iced Earth - Dystopia

3.Megadeth - Th1rt3en

4.Hell - Human Remains

5.Anthrax - Worship Music

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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010…

1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

2.Gernotshagen - Weltenbrand - ...Den Banner Hoch Der Nacht Entgegen

3.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

4.Sólstafir - Svartir Sandar

5.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Nibiru - Anamorphosis

5.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

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1.In Flames - Clayman

2.In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

3.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

4.In Flames - Colony

5.In Flames - Whoracle

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In Flames was the band that opened the gateway to the metal dimension for me, 15 years ago. I've recently rediscovered them, giving even their newer albums serious consideration, after being separated…

1.In Flames - Colony

2.In Flames - The Jester Race

3.In Flames - Subterranean

4.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

5.In Flames - Battles

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1.In Flames - Whoracle

2.In Flames - The Jester Race

3.In Flames - Colony

4.In Flames - Clayman

5.In Flames - Come Clarity

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2011…

1.Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us

2.Haken - Visions

3.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

4.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

5.Mastodon - The Hunter

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1.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

2.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

3.Amaranthe - Amaranthe

4.In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

5.Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire

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10 albums I really enjoyed from 2011.

1.Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst The Ashes

2.Iced Earth - Dystopia

3.Origin - Entity

4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

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

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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.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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