It's that time...Top of 2011!

TOP 25 of 2011
1. Accu§er - Dependent Domination
2. Havok - Time is Up
3. Anvil - Juggernaut of Justice
4. Vektor - Outer Isolation
5. Anthrax - Worship Music
6. Megadeth - Th1rt3en
7. Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
8. U.D.O. - Rev-Raptor
9. Yes - Fly from Here
10. Motörhead - The World Is Yours
11. Riot - Immortal Souls
12. Iced Earth - Dystopia
13. Witchhammer - Chapter 3: In Serenity and Awe
12. Vicious Rumors - Razorback Killers
14. Artillery - My Blood
15. Stryper - The Covering
16. Nazareth - Big Dogz
17. The Rods - Vengeance
18. Exciter - Death Machine
19. Hammerfall - Infected
20. Saxon - Call to Arms
21. Believer - Transhuman
22. Journey - Eclipse
23. Whitesnake - Forevermore
24. Uriah Heep - Into the Wild
25. speed\kill/hate - Out For Blood

I've only bought eight. I can still make a top five.

1. Iced Earth - Dystopia
2. Saxon - Call to Arms
3. Uriah Heep - Into the Wild
4. Mystic Prophecy - Ravenlord
5. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

That also pretty much sums up the ones I've really liked. The Nightwish album was a bit of a disappointment as I found it quite dull.

Sounds like I didn't miss much this year.

The first track on the new Yes album is excellent. After that it's really boring.

The RIOT disc was the strongest I have heard all year. I guess 2nd would be DREAM THEATER although I don't feel the urge to return to it too often.

I could only do a top ten:

1) Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2)Stryper - The Covering
3) Megadeth - 13
4) Saxon - Call To Arms
5) Anthrax - Worship Music
6)Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
7) Opeth - Heritage
Pentagram - Last Rites
9) Anvil - Juggernaut Of Justice
10) White Wizzard - Flying Tigers

Disappointments:
Sebastian Back - Kicking & Screaming
Mastodon - The Hunter


WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
Queenryche - Dedicated To Chaos

Vektor -Outer Isolation

GrandNational wrote:

Scott, you listed speed\kill/hate twice (22 & 25)

Nice list BTW

Oops. Thanks. Left off Uriah Heep.

Cognitive Dissonance wrote:

Vektor -Outer Isolation

Landed fairly high in my list as well.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Sounds like I didn't miss much this year.

The first track on the new Yes album is excellent. After that it's really boring.

The RIOT disc was the strongest I have heard all year. I guess 2nd would be DREAM THEATER although I don't feel the urge to return to it too often.

The new YES is fantastic. Too bad you can't appreciate it. You're missing out.

I am still working on mine. Its that time of year to take all the 2011 releases and listen to them together

Here's my Top 10 New Releases and Top 5 reissues of 2011.

New Releases:

1. Opeth - Heritage
2. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
3. Rush - Time Machine: Live In Cleveland
4. Yes - Fly From Here
5. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients
6. Orchid - Capricorn
7. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
8. Blackfield - Welcome To My DNA
9. Premonition 13 - 13
10. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Reissues:

1. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 40th Anniversary
2. Jimi Hendrix - Winterland (box set)
3. Miles Davis - Live In Europe 1967 (box set)
4. Robin Trower - A Tale Untold: The Chrysalis Years (box set)
5. King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black - 40th Anniversary

I still haven't heard the new Jelly Jam and the new Steve Hackett albums, both of which have the potential to change this list.

I didn't even come close to buying enough new releases to make a list, so I can only put them in order of which I've enjoyed most:

1. Riot - Immortal Soul
2. Anthrax - Worship Music
3. Megadeth - Th1rt3en
4. Vektor - Outer Isolation

Struggling to remember if there's any other 2011 releases I have. Really need to get the new Saxon, Symphony X, Vicious Rumors, and Havok

1.Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire
2.Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand
3.Times of Grace - Hymns of a Broken Man
4.Trivium - In Waves
5.Megadeth - Th1rt3en
6.Behold the Kingdom - The Eyes of the Wicked Shall Fail
7.In the Midst Of Lions - Shadows
8.Duff McKagan's Loaded - The Taking
9.Grave Robber - You're All Gonna Die
10.Hands - Give Me Rest
11.Unearth - Darkness in Light
12.Becoming the Archetype - Celestial Completion
13.Charred Walls of the Damned - Cold Winds on Timeless Days
14.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
15.Sleeping Giant - Kingdom Days In An Evil Age
16.Grave Digger - The Clans are Still Marching
17.TYR - The Lay of Thrym
18.Lance King - A Moment in Chiros
19.Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
20.In Flames - Sounds of a Playground

i did a fave 100 on another forum, so i'll just paste that here. in no particular order...

Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Satan's Host - Celebration: For the Love of Satan
Nasty Pig D*ck - Flesh for the Worms
Apostles of Perversion - Meeting of Atrocities
Gridlink - Orphan
Lock Up - Necropolis Transparent
Geinazaug - The Wretched Dominion
Profanation - Contorted Bodies In Pain
Origin - Entity
Cranial Osteotomy - Victim of Wicked Sickness
Visceral Disgorge - Ingesting Putridity
Syphilic - A Composition of Murder
Slamentation - Procreating a New Body Art
Inhabit - Pray for Nothing
Cephalic Impurity - Unique Brute Revival
Faeces - Upstream
Decaying Purity - The Existence of Infinite Agony
Thirst of Revenge - The Instinct of Evil Is Near
Pathology - Awaken to the Suffering
Ingested - The Surreption
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition - Sheep' n' Guns
Deranged - Cut Carve Rip Serve
Scattered Remains - Led to the Slaughter
Proctohematorrea - Herramientas de Tortura
Desecrated Sphere - The Unmasking Reality
Skewered - Skewered
Criminal Vagina - In Gore We Blast
Velocidad Absurda - Reborn for the Extermination
The Unborn Dead - Primitive Origins
Goregast - Desechos Humanos
Wafat - Exhausted Soul
Disfiguring the Goddess - Circle of Nine
Carnivorous Voracity - Debasement Incarnated
Gripe - The Future Doesn't Need You
Bodysnatch - Insights of a Rotten Theatre
Aposepsy - Aposepsy
Auticed - Cemetery of Necronymph
Grog - Scooping the Cranial Insides
F*ck the Facts - Die Miserable
Amongst the Deceit - Tribulations of Man
Genital Nectar - Spermatozoa Extrauterine Slam
Decrepit Cadaver - The Beginning of Depravity
Severed Crotch - The Nature of Entropy
Wadge - Grindcore Lu'au
Gangrena - The Zombie Chronicles
Oblivionized - Abhorrent Evolution
Drain of Impurity - Human Anatomy
Deformed Slut - Stench of Carnage
Vile - Metamorphosis
Rectal Smegma - Because We Care
FleshTorture - The Stench of Humanity
Excision - Brutal Cumshot
Paroxysmal Butchering - Supreme Revulsion
Oerjgrinder - Grind From Da Hood
Cenotaph - Re-puked Purulency
Spasm - Taboo Tales
Carnal Diafragma - Planet of Children's Heads
Basement Torture Killings - The Second Cumming
Cemetery Rapist - The Smut Circus
Vaulting - Nucleus
Krisiun - The Great Execution
Neoandertals - Ebu Gogo Gutting the Child
Abated Mass of Flesh - Moth and Rust in the Temple of Putridity
Hecatomb - Mighty Chaos
Screwrot - Redigested Regurgitation
Haemorrhage - Hospital Carnage
Acranius - The Echo of Her Cracking Chest
Japanische Kampfhörspiele - Kaputte nackte Affen
Plasmoptysis - Dawn the Plague
Demented Retarded - Perverse Spiele Fotzendose
Rottenness - Die Wege der Lust
Carnal Disfigurement - Inhuman Devoured Content From Cranial Cavity
Defeatist - Tyranny of Decay
Abnormity - Irreversible Disintegration
Bodily Wastes / Omphalectoicxanthopsia - Split
Blast Perversion - Female Massacre
Vermis Antecessor - The Subliminal Way of Flesh
Fumes of Decay - Devouring the Excavated
Amputation Spree - Terminal Velocity
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
Askaris - The Waiting Room
Mindly Rotten - Proliferation of Disaster
Condemned - Realms of the Ungodly
Sukkuba - Samar Gore Adok
Gurglectomy - Seas of Rotting Vomit
Disarticulating Extinguishment - Psalms of Wrath
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Natrium - Elegy for the Flesh
Ezophagothomia - Instinct of Inhuman Devourment
Thirst of Revenge - Annihilation of Races
Benighted - Asylum Cave
Gorgasm - Orgy of Murder
Defilement - Revel in Madness
Splattered Entrails - Nauseate
Porky Vagina - Bukkageddon
Extirpated - Decomposition & Decay
Analdicktion - Sluts
Looking for an Answer - Eterno Treblinka
Disfigured - Amputated Gorewhore

1.Skeletonwitch-Forever Abomination
2.Edguy-Age of The Joker
3.Disfiguring The Goddess-Circle of Nine
4.Believer-Transhuman
5.The Famine-The Architects of Guilt

MC, all I have to say is WOW!

I could never put these in order, but here are my top 20.

Beardfish - Mammoth
Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising
Black Sun Aeon - Blacklight Deliverance
Cynthesis - DeEvolution
Devin Townsend Project, The - Deconstruction
Gates Of Slumber, The - The Wretch
Haken - Visions
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Joseph Magazine - Night Of The Red Sky
Leprous - Bilateral
Living Fields, The - Running Out Of Daylight
Machine Head - Unto The Locust
Proto-Kaw - Forth
Redemption - This Mortal Coil
RoutaSielu - Pimeys
Tangent, The - COMM
Times Of Grace - The Hymn Of A Broken Man
Trillium - Alloy
Tyr - The Lay Of Thrym
Wayne Static - Pighammer

If I had to pick an ultimate favorite, it would probably be Dystopia. I mean, I know the lyrics to this album! I never learn lyrics these days. But this album is so catchy and I've listened to it so much, I just know all the words.

1. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
2. Septicflesh - The Great Mass
3. Burzum - Fallen
4. Megadeth - 13
5. Anthrax - Worship Music

MC, where in the world do you find the time to listen to that much music???

I'm jealous!

1. Riot - Immortal Soul
2. The Order Of Chaos - Burn These Dreams
3. Headshot - Synchronicity
4. Tokyo Blade - Thousand Men Strong
5. Consfearacy - Consfearacy
6. Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions
7. Mortillery - Murder Death Kill
8. Tyranex - Extermination Has Begun
9. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
10. Hatesphere - The Great Bludgeoning
11. Evile - Five Serpent's Teeth
12. Onslaught - Sounds Of Violence
13. Anvil - Juggernaut Of Justice
14. Crustacean - Greed, Tyranny & Sodomy
15. Midnight Chaser - Rough And Tough
16. Invection - Facet Of Aberration
17. The Force - Nations Under Attack
18. Revocation - Chaos Of Forms
19. Shredhead - Human Nature
20. Warbringer - World Torn Asunder
21. Hell - Human Remains
22. Asgard - The Seal Of Madness
23. Sign Of The Jackal - The Beyond
24. Degradation - Juggernaut
25. Alpha Tiger - Man Or Machine

I can already pick up my top five:

1- Riot: Immortal soul

2- Havok: Time is up

3- UDO: Rev-Raptor

4- Vicious Rumors: razorback killers

5- Hammerfall: Infected

What a year, huh? so much great metal already bought, so much metal left to buy

Temple of Blood wrote:

MC, where in the world do you find the time to listen to that much music???

I'm jealous!

i literally listen all day long. when i'm not listening at my work or home PCs, i've got 6 iPods that i'm constantly swapping back & forth. i have music playing while i'm working in the garage, playing video games, exercising, reading, driving, working, even while i'm watching tv lol (i put the tv on mute with CC on).

of course aside from my wife who is also musically addicted, i have no friends or family that i see regularly. that makes it easier.

Mastodon - The Hunter
Anthrax - Worship Music
Stryper - The Covering
Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand

Opeth - Heritage
Malison Rogue - Malison Rogue
Yes - Fly from Here

That's all I've heard this year. I would like to see how good the new Vektor, Riot, and Satan's Host albums are, though.

Will delay my list until later, as I expect to get some 2011's for Christmas.

It's been a decent year, in my opinion, and I looks for the above lists that I might have to pick up the new Iced Earth and Megadeth, as well.

Malison Rogue obviously.
I'd like to mention UDO, White Wizzard and Powerwolf also.