My top 2011 list per November…

1.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

2.Mitochondrion - Parasignosis

3.Ana Kefr - Burial Tree (II)

4.Atlas Moth - An Ache For The Distance

5.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty One

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One album per band/artist, in order.

1.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

2.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

3.An Axis Of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital

4.Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega

5.Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye

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20 Essential Hipster Black Metal Albums. (One Album Per Band)…

1.Liturgy (US-NY) - Aesthethica

2.Krallice - Diotima

3.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

4.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

5.Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1

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What I listened to last year.

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2.Alda - : Tahoma :

3.Alrakis - Alpha Eri

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Passion

5.Ash Borer - Ash Borer

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1.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

2.Thurisaz - Scent Of A Dream

3.Opeth - Morningrise

4.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...

5.Anathema - Eternity

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1.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

2.Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5.Beyond Creation - The Aura

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Pending listen: Vektor, Blut Aus Nord, Iron Savior, Aenaon

By the end of the year, this will be my top 50.

1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

2.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

3.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5.Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse

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1.Falls Of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood

2.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

3.Krallice - Diotima

4.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

5.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

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Only the 9s or 10s / 10 are here. Roughly ordered in time.

1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2.Kingcrow - Phlegethon

3.Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante

4.Igorrr - Nostril

5.Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

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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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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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After browsing a number of the Top Albums of 2011 lists I felt that I was obligated to put together my own list based on the fact that my tastes seem a bit different than what I've seen on here. So,…

1.Krisiun - The Great Execution

2.Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

3.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

4.Beyond Creation - The Aura

5.Anaal Nathrakh - Passion

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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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