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

In no certain order

Havok-Time is Up
Theocracy-As the World Bleeds
Megadeth-Thirteen
Wolf-Legions of Bastards
Assassin-Breaking the Silence
Iced Earth-Dystopia
Anthrax-Worship Music
Stryper-The Covering
Core Device-What I've Become
Widow-Lifes Blood
Black Spiders-Sons of the North

1 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
2 Megadeth - 13
3 Anthrax - Worship Music
4 Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
5 Wino - Adrift
6 Ghost - Opus Eponymous
7 Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
8 Motorhead - The World Is Yours
9 Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
10 Foo Fighters - Medium Rare
11 Stryper - The Covering

Honorable mentions to Black Country Communion, Sebastian Bach, Riverside and Social Distortion. Decent releases, but didn't get nearly the amount of spins as those top 11.

Dissapointments: Graveyard and Cauldron. Had high expectations for both and both just left me 'meh'.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

1 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
2 Megadeth - 13
3 Anthrax - Worship Music
4 Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
5 Wino - Adrift
6 Ghost - Opus Eponymous
7 Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
8 Motorhead - The World Is Yours
9 Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
10 Foo Fighters - Medium Rare
11 Stryper - The Covering

Honorable mentions to Black Country Communion, Sebastian Bach, Riverside and Social Distortion. Decent releases, but didn't get nearly the amount of spins as those top 11.

Dissapointments: Graveyard and Cauldron. Had high expectations for both and both just left me 'meh'.

You got Medium Rare? Lucky. I couldn't find it anywhere. =(

And I think the Ghost album came out in 2010, right? I checked, that's what it said, else it would have been on my list for sure.

I wasn't blown away by Rival Sons. Good, but not as good as you bastards had me believe.

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You got Medium Rare? Lucky. I couldn't find it anywhere. =(

Well, if you know where to look, wink-wink. I don't normally do that sort of thing, but it's such a rare release (and in vinyl no less), they aren't giving fans much of a choice. If it ever gets a legit release on cd, I'll get it. Unitl then, too bad Dave. I'm downloading it.

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And I think the Ghost album came out in 2010, right? I checked, that's what it said, else it would have been on my list for sure.

Technically, yes. In Europe. But it didn't get a US release till March of 2011. Same thing with Motorhead. It came out in Europe in Dec. 2010, but not until Jan. of '11 in the states. So both of those album go in my records as 2011 releases.

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I wasn't blown away by Rival Sons. Good, but not as good as you bastards had me believe.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I didn't have much expectations and I just threw a bid out there on ebay for gits & shiggles. I was just as surprised that I won it for so cheap. Now to find their other stuff.

Venom - Fallen Angels
Anvil - Juggernaut Of Justice
Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
Gravehill - When All Roads Lead to Hell
Pegazus - In Metal We Trust
Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich
Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory
Charred Walls of the Damned - Cold Winds on Timeless Days
Cage - Supremecy of Steel
Alestorm - Back Through Time
Oz - Burning Leather
Saxon - Call To Arms
Spellcaster - Under the Spell
Shining Steel - Heavy Rockers
Demonical - Death Infernal


Honorable mentions:

Diabolical - Ars Vitae
Lechery - In Fire
Finally Deceased - Finally Deceased
Wizard - ...Of Wariwulfs And Bluotvarwes
Wolf - Legions Of Bastards
UDO - Rev-Raptor
Vicious Rumors - Razorback Killers
Havok - Time Is Up
Izegrim - Code Of Consequences
Core Device - What I've Become
Lechery - In Fire

MetalGuy71 wrote:

1 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
2 Megadeth - 13
3 Anthrax - Worship Music
4 Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
5 Wino - Adrift
6 Ghost - Opus Eponymous
7 Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
8 Motorhead - The World Is Yours
9 Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
10 Foo Fighters - Medium Rare
11 Stryper - The Covering

Honorable mentions to Black Country Communion, Sebastian Bach, Riverside and Social Distortion. Decent releases, but didn't get nearly the amount of spins as those top 11.

Dissapointments: Graveyard and Cauldron. Had high expectations for both and both just left me 'meh'.

I want to add Parlor Mob's Dogs in the 'honorable mention' category. I've only had it about 2 weeks now, but it's a cracker. I can see it getting lotsa play in the new year.

Lurideath wrote:

Izegrim - Code Of Consequences

that is a good one!

Surprised I haven't seen Symphony X - Iconoclast, I thought it was a great album for 2011.

Eyesore wrote:

I wasn't blown away by Rival Sons. Good, but not as good as you bastards had me believe.

Yeah, I wasn't blown away either after a few spins. Especially because I got The Answer about a week later. For bands trading in the "retro rock" sound, no one beats The Answer in my book (although that's not an entirely accurate classification of The Answer's sound either).

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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You got Medium Rare? Lucky. I couldn't find it anywhere. =(

Well, if you know where to look, wink-wink. I don't normally do that sort of thing, but it's such a rare release (and in vinyl no less), they aren't giving fans much of a choice. If it ever gets a legit release on cd, I'll get it. Unitl then, too bad Dave. I'm downloading it.

It did get a CD release...with Q magazine or something, right? But you had to pay for a subscription, which came out to like $50. Not worth it.

Anyway, didn't know Rival Sons had more than one album. Good to know. I dig them, just had high expectations for some reason.

I'm surprised there is so little love for the new WARBRINGER album.

It is a very enjoyable slab of well-played thrash metal.

Top 20 releases from 2011:

Communic - 'The Bottom Deep'
Riot - 'Immortal Soul'
HammerFall - 'Infected'
Stryper - 'The Covering'
Alice Cooper - 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare'
Symphony X - 'Iconoclast'
Vicious Rumors - 'Razorback Killers'
WitchHammer - 'Chapter 3: In Serenity And Awe'
Iced Earth - Dystopia'
Evergrey - 'Glorious Collision'
Megadeth - 'Thirt3en'
Theocracy - 'As The World Bleeds'
Anthrax - 'Worship Music'
Brainstorm - 'In The Spur Of The Moment'
Liberty 'N' Justice - 'Chasing A Cure'
U.D.O. - 'Rev-Raptor'
Arch Enemy - 'Khaos Legions'
Believer - 'Transhuman'
Nightwish - 'Imaginarium'
In Flames - 'Sounds Of A Playground Fading'

Runners up:

Pagan's Mind - 'Heavenly Ecstasy'

Biggest disappointment:

Edguy - 'Age Of The Joker'

I don't think I've even heard ten releases from 2011. Sigh.

1. Saxon - "Call to Arms"
2. Amon Amarth - "Surtur Rising"
3. Black Country Communion - "2"
4. Symphony X - "Iconoclast"
5. Rhapsody of Fire - "From Chaos to Eternity"
6. Cauldron - Burning Fortune
7. Stratovarius - "Elysium"
8. Children of Bodom - "Relentless Reckless Forever"
9. Warbringer - "Worlds Torn Asunder"
10. Megadeth - "Thirteen"

The new saxon is very good, but i personally think that into the labyrinth was way better

a top 15 from what ive listened to so far:
sutekh hexen - ordo adversarial : dæmons : shadows
wolves in the throne room - celestial lineage
vreid - v
vektor - outer isolation
infernal stronghold/pizza hi-five - split
deafheaven - libertine dissolves
tukaaria/odz manouk - split
satan's host - by the hands of the devil
ouroboros - glorification of a myth
týr - the lay of thrym
vader - welcome to the morbid reich
origin - entity
marduk - iron dawn
acephalix - interminable night
blasphemophagher - the III command of absolute chaos

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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You got Medium Rare? Lucky. I couldn't find it anywhere. =(

Well, if you know where to look, wink-wink. I don't normally do that sort of thing, but it's such a rare release (and in vinyl no less), they aren't giving fans much of a choice. If it ever gets a legit release on cd, I'll get it. Unitl then, too bad Dave. I'm downloading it.

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And I think the Ghost album came out in 2010, right? I checked, that's what it said, else it would have been on my list for sure.

Technically, yes. In Europe. But it didn't get a US release till March of 2011. Same thing with Motorhead. It came out in Europe in Dec. 2010, but not until Jan. of '11 in the states. So both of those album go in my records as 2011 releases.

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I wasn't blown away by Rival Sons. Good, but not as good as you bastards had me believe.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I didn't have much expectations and I just threw a bid out there on ebay for gits & shiggles. I was just as surprised that I won it for so cheap. Now to find their other stuff.

Actually for awhile they were offering it on CD if you subscribed to Q magazine I beleive How is Medium Rare I have most of those covers already but Im keeping my eye open for it vinyl or cd

Some of my favorite 2011 releases


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Foo Fighters- Wasting Light
Megadeth - 13
Redline Chemistry - Dying for a Living
She Wants Revenge- Valleyheart
The Violet Burning- The Story of Our Lives

Ult, I assume you have all of these in your collection, so you should probably remove Yes - Fly From Here and Riot - Immortal Soul from your Wants List.

TheKing's Top 30 of 2011

1. Haken - Visions
2. Toby Hitchcock - Mercury Down
3. The Slam – Hit It
4. Leprous - Bilateral
5. Iced Earth - Dystopia
6. Wolfpakk – S/T
7. Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
8. Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate
9. Underride - Distorted Nation
10. Reckless Love – Animal Attraction

11. Billion Dollar Babies - Die for Diamonds
12. Hibria - Blind Ride
13. Megadeth - Thirteen
14. Bullet- Highway Pirates
15. Theocracy – As the Worlds Bleeds
16. Wolf – Legion of B@stards
17. The Poodles - Performacracy
18. The Tangent - Comm
19. Whitesnake - Forevermore
20. White Wizzard – Flying Tigers

21. Sideburn - Jail
22. ICS Vortex - Storm Seeker
23. Electric Orange - Netto
24. Joseph Magazine - Night of the Red Sky
25. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times
26. Artillery - My Blood
27. Hell in the Club - Let the Games Begin
28. Falconer - Armod
29. Believer - Transhuman
30. Rhapsody - From Chaos to Eternity

Disappointments
Fair To Midland Arrows and Anchors
Hammerfall Infected
Journey Eclipse
Serenity Death and Legacy

different top cos there is no album for me in 2011

KiSS - Asylum
KiSS - CCN
Bon Jovi - CrossRoads
Motley Crue - SotD
Motley Crue - Dr.Feelgood
Motley Crue - GGG
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Master of reality
Judas Priest - Screming...
Judas Priest - Defenders...
Judas Priest - Turbo

Because of this thread I Youtube'd Assassin and Havok...badass!

Rank Artist Title

CHRISTIAN
1 Crossforce Rockin til the Final Day
2 Stryper The Covering
3 Liberty n Justice Chaisng a Cure LP
4 Times of Grace The hymn of a broken man
5 Deliverance What a Joke (Remaster)
6 Grave Robber You're all gonna die!
7 Marques, Jack Shine among the shadow
8 Mass New Birth (20th Anniversary Edition)
9 Theocracy As the world bleeds
10 Elgibbor The Imminent Invasion


METAL
1 Megadeth Th1rt3en
2 Chickenfoot 3
3 Anvil Juggernaut of Justice
4 Tesla Twisted Wires
5 Sixx AM This is gonna hurt
6 Bach, Sebastian Kicking and Screaming
7 Mr Big What if…
8 Black Country Communion 2
9 Motorhead The World is yours
10 Anthrax Worship Music

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Because of this thread I Youtube'd Assassin and Havok...badass!

And that's what this board is for.

I edited my list (as I continue to catch up with 2011 releases). Laura Marling's "A Creature I Don't Know" easily jumped into the top 10 for me (pushing out the Graveyard album, which was only "okay" to begin with).

Fat Freddy wrote:

I don't think I've even heard ten releases from 2011. Sigh.

I was right. I only picked up five new releases this year.
Fortunately, I dug all five of the ones I *did* get, so here they are:

Iced Earth - DYSTOPIA (whatacomeback!)
Anthrax - WORSHIP MUSIC (ditto!)
Anvil - JUGGERNAUT OF JUSTICE
Stryper - THE COVERING
Megadeth - TH1RT3EN

Hopefully Publishers Clearing House will come thru with that "million dollars a year for life" check I've been waiting for in 2012 so I can get caught up on all the stuff I missed.