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.Opeth - Heritage

2.Mastodon - The Hunter

3.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

4.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two

5.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

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One song per album.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Gorod - Transcendence

3.Opeth - Deliverance

4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

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Here is my top 50 of 2011. Albums rated 8+

In 2011, I started my second MS account after losing the first to the discontinuation of my Uni email address.

"But your account says you joined in…

1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Mastodon - The Hunter

3.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

4.Leprous - Bilateral

5.Helheim - Heiðindómr Ok Mótgang

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2011 was a solid year for metal, one of the best for black metal in years, a revival…

1.Aquilus - Griseus

2.Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust

3.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

4.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

5.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

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1.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

2.Leprous - Bilateral

3.Aquilus - Griseus

4.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two

5.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums…

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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Must Listen: The First 4…

1.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

2.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

3.Trivium - In Waves

4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

5.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

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1.Leprous - Bilateral

2.Textures - Phenotype

3.Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 1)

4.Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day

5.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

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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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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.Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning

2.Karmakanic - In A Perfect World

3.Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

4.Opeth - Heritage

5.Anathema - Falling Deeper

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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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