I'm going to do some straight blasphemy and start this thread out with a non-metal album.

First album of 2011 to really grab my attention-

Bibio - Mind Bokeh
Part Boards of Canada electronic, part 70's elevator music and funk/electro and Part Michael Mcdonald and one of the most refreshing albums I've heard in a long time

haha! I knew you were going to post that album when I read the thread title

Another non-metal album -

Seefeel - Self Titled

For fans of Massive Attack, My Bloody Valentine and Aphex Twin. I've always loved Seefeel. Organic Minimalism yet somehow full depth at the same time

Trap Them - "Darker Handcraft"
Rotten Sound - "Cursed"

So far, both of these albums are amazing!

Deafheaven - Roads to Judah

Getting RS on Thursday. The tracks I've heard online are crazy good.

Trap Them has been on 3x a day rotation for the past 2 weeks for me. Album fucking kills.

I reckon the new Graveyard is going to be on this list soon enough as well.

I'm just going to go ahead and put "The rumor of a new Pig Destroyer album" on the list too. Better to think ahead, I think.

Inquisition/Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm

Dude this album is so good

BLASPHERIAN

up there, it's up there

Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva

SKRILLEX - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites

Rotten Sound - Cursed
Maruta - Forward Into Regression
Wormrot - Dirge
Gridlink - Orphan
Tombs - Path of Totality
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness
TV On the Radio -
Nine Types of Light
The Carrier - Blind To What Is Right
Victims - A Dissident
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
xBRAINIAx - Deprogrammed
Ampere - Like Shadows
Imbroglio - Sleep Deprivation (I think that came out this year)
Ed Gein - Bad Luck

Argus -Abandoning The Gates Of Byzantium
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients
Bones - Bones
Broken gravestones - Let sleeping corpses lie
crowbar - Sever the wicked hand
Crucified Mortals - Crucified Mortals
Deseased - Sureal Overdose
Demonaz - march of the Norse
Desecresy - Arches of Entropy
Disma - Towards the megalith
Exhumed - All Guts no Glory
Ghost - opus Eponymous
Graf Orlock - Doombox
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Origin - Entity
Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
Ramlord - Stenck of Fallacy
Vastum - Carnal law
Vomitory- Opus Mortis VIII

I won't know the best albums of 2011 until at least 2013 when I actually hear any of them.

I have not heard a single album mentioned in this thread.

I'm just gonna go ahead and vote for Master of Puppets.

Ulcerate - Destroyers of All

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James Hetfield turned 48 today.

Add that to my list too, missed that one

What year did the Sex Packets EP come out?

im gonna guess 89 just cause of gutfest.

march 26 1990

Hope you're cereal. Because that album is fucking awesome.

Slag: upcoming release

some decent albums but some of the only ones that come to mind as far as superlatives...

NECROS CHRISTOS "Doom of the Occult"
Negative Plane "Stained Glass Revelations"
Buzum "Fallen"
Creeping "Order of Snakes"
and anything else Dodsengel wishes to release this year

Morne "Asylum" I can see spending some time in the stereo. Disma, Mitochondrion, Aosoth, Vanhelgd, Vastum, Shining and Azarath are all phat but I need to spend more time with them. Inquisition was late 2010 if you wanna split cunt hairs. Looking forward to the Reveal, Saturnalia Temple and Invidious debuts and new Avichi, Craft and Cianide records. New Profanatica will thoroughly decimate buttdarts.

Buzum-Fallen
Omegas-Blasts of Lunacy
Cellgraft/Drainland Split
Ash Borer-s/t
Ulcerate-Destroyers of All
Blessed Offal-s/t
Cold Cave-Cherish the Light Years
Church Whip-Demo
No Faith-Demo
Weekend Nachos-Worthless
White Medal-Alone as Owt
Funerary Bell-The Coven
Rhinocervs (comp)-Odour of Dust and Rot
Ramlord-Stench of Fallacy

Wobbler - "Rites at Dawn"

this album sounds like the best 1970's prog ever.

bennyhillifier

bennyhillifier
favorite single of 2011

that video is epic as fuck

also... fucking XIBALBA!


http://youtu.be/mSQnJkvLeAk

They have a unique approach to making every song sound similar. They kick ass, but they're a "time and place" band imo. I did like Everything Is Fire a lot better.

THE SLOWEST HARDCORE BAND EVAR!

@Pires- Glad you also appreciate it man

this band has more open stringed chugging than Agaycia Stain

I listened to their album for the first time last name, and I've never heard a "hardcore" band that plays slow almost exclusively like that

thats their gimmick. its basically the same riffs and set ups as any other generic "hardcore" band... just slower. sort of like that one band that does the same exact thing as everyother band, but adds keyboards... or the band that does the same exact riffs as everyone else in the genre, but plays it in drop brown note so it sounds fresh and original. its lazy and awful.

bennyhillifier

no sir, I don't like it

Blut Aus Nord 777 secks
Virus - Agent That Shapes The Desert
Zombi - Escape Velocity

And here I thought their gimmick was being dope as fuuuuuuck! You niggaz is a frivolous buncha dummies who don't know the difference between phat and fresh!

kid, i've been funky fresh for an ill minute, dawg

OK fine. I guess we don't like the same things :'(

I neglected the new Soul Swallower too

Now THAT is some good hardcoe

Weak year.
all that I have bothered with so far:

Voivod/Warriors of Ice
Hate Eternal/Phoenix Among the Ashes
ZZ Top/Live in Germany 1980
Marduk & Enslaved EPs
Decapitated/Carnival is Forever
Sepultura/Kairos

waiting for:
Anthrax
Opeth
Vader
Skeletonwitch
Machine Head
Mastodon

last year was better

The last two years had about 4 REALLY good releases and the rest was meh....this year is pretty solid across the board so far

Of course that's all subjective

Only Poop XIBALBA is real

lol at hate eternal

thanks for the ram-love!
we did new recordings today at dead air, i'll put em all up tomorrow

2011

wormrot
maruta
gridlink
mitochondrian
ulcerate
fen
defeated sanity
heretoir
hellhound
planks
acephalix
agrimonia
and some of those boris albums are cool

bennyhillifier

Massive drops etc etc. Blast this every time I drive.

Other awesome 2011 releases:
Diva Ruzha
Unexpect
40 Watt Sun
Forgotten Tomb

this album is incredible

ive seriously listened to it, all the way through, like 30 times since i picked it up earlier this week.

great album

Graveyard
Omegas
Gates of Slumber
Jeff the Brotherhood
Blood Ceremony
Druid Lord
Ken Mode
Victims

yeah this is pretty cool, diggin'

New Five Finger Death Punch is fukkin sick!!!

Desolate Shrine is up there on my list

Blut Aus Nord - 777 Sect(s)
Blut Aus Nord - 777 (The Desanctification) <-- pending November release
The Axis Of Perdition - Tenements (Of The Anointed Flesh)
Morne - Asylum

The Desanctification comes out on the same day as Skyrim. November 11th...

fap fap fap

I'm glad Vindsval made 2011 an ambitious year for Blut Aus Nord. Sect(s) was so good that it has me fiending for more music. I'm sure once The Desanctification drops, I'll be anticipating 777 (Cosmosophy) just as much, if not more.

Capsule.

Anything goatcatalyst and mikeov mentioned.

INDIAN
Batillus
The Gates Of Slumber
Graveyard
Some others.

Engineer - Crooked Voices
Northless - Clandestine Abuse
KEN Mode - Venerable
Flourishing - Sum of all Fossils
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form
Yob - Atma
Drainland - And So Our Troubles Began
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Across Tundras - Sage
Tombs - Path of Totality
Batillus - Furnace

.... I'll think of others.

i haven't paid much attention to anything new, but the new Anaal Nathrakh is killer. the new Exhumed is meh, it has some solid songs, but overall the riffs are pretty damn boring. so far the best thing released this year is Burzum - Fallen. however i am guessing that Absu - Abzu might take the cake, if it's as mind-boggling as the last album.

good call. fallen is stellar. i'll have to check out other releases in this thread.

Gorillaz - The Fall (http://thefall.gorillaz.com/ ) I'm a big fan of.

Unless Deathspell Omega pulls their usual sneaky pete and sneaks something out by year's end, the upcoming Leviathan or Absu will likely take the top position for me. Oh yeah, and the Nightbitch "Chainmaker" 7", Profanatica "Sickened by Holy Host" LP and Ipsissifuck "The Way of Descent"... because my dick, riffs and ego are just that big

Checking out Indian... goddamn.... good call man.

Nero - Welcome Reality

that graveyard album aint bad, also, Morne

lol at people still caring about bands like hate eternal and vader

That Morne album is killer. Also- Lustrum's demo rapes with impunity.

Midnight Odyssey - Funeral from the Astral Sphere

Sweden got it goin on

bennyhillifier

The new Isole album RAPES

Zygoatsis - Satanic Kultus Unholy Desecration. Digging it big time.

bennyhillifier

Entrails is pretty solid Entombed and Dismember worship.

Archgoat- Heavenly Vulva
Inquisition- Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Black Witchery- Inferno of Sacred Destruction
Disma- Towards the Megalith
Beherit- At the Devil's Studio 1990
Immolation- Providence
Abnormity- Irreversible Disintegration

Clams Casino "Rainforest" EP

havn't really heard anything all the way through, but that Graveyard album was pretty decent.

Check out the band Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats.

YES.

bands from 1990

THIS

also...Spiders, and Dead Man

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand
Burzum - Fallen
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
Anthrax - Worship Music
Benighted - Asylum Cave
Devin Townsend - Ghost and Deconstruction (Both are awesome and deserve this list)
Emery - We Do What We Want
Gorgasm - Orgy of Murder
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Among The Ashes
Origin - Entity
Jesu - Ascension
Obscura - Omnivium
Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Revocation - Chaos of Forms
Scale The Summit - The Collective
Vader - Welcome To The Morbid Reich

best technical death I've heard this year is definitely
Beyond Creation


bennyhillifier

I'm surprised by all the love the 40 Watt Sun album is getting. I think it's great but I didn't expect many other people to care.

Beyond Creation is pure Necrophagist/Obscura/Quo Vadis worship. its still really good but i found myself going "oh this is totally ripped straight from *insert one of those band's albums here*" a lot. again... still good. just... yeah.


new Isole is amazing.

I'm pretty thoroughly impressed with that Beyond Creation there. I don't know how I hadn't heard them sooner.

The Inquisition album came out last year. It's worth mentioning again this year.

High Spirits
Negative Plain
Ulcerate
Necros Christos
Nader Sadik (holy shit!)
Blut Aus Nord
Disma (holy shit x2!)

I need to hear the new Autopsy still and a whole mess of other things. Listening to this Elder LP now and its ruling me.

Yeah but this band is bass driven. None of those other bands come close to the power Forest has on this disc. Hail Quebec.

The latest Inquisition official US release date was Jan.18 011 but HHR had a certain amount of advance copies and digital promos available in late 010. NoColours and Icarus records release was late 010 in Europe and S.A.

Lantlos - agape

Oh and also Lulu.

I think I've finalized my top albums of 2011. Unless something big comes out in December.

1. Midnight - Satanic Royalty
2. Inquisition - Ominus Doctrines of the Perpetual.....
3. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
4. Bones - Bones
5. Deceased - Sureal Overdose
6. Disma - Toward the Megalith
7. Dragged into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind
8. Crowbar - Sever the wicked Hand
9. Zygoatsis - Satanic Kultus Unholy Desecration
10. Necrovorous - Funeral For The Sane
11. Vomitory - Opus Mortis VIII
12. Bastard Priest - Ghouls ofthe Endless Night
13. Cryptborn - In the Grasp of the starving Dead
14. Entrails - The Tomb Awaits
15. Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore
16. Argus - Boldly Stride the Doomed
17. Vastum - Carnal Law
18. Crucified Mortals- Crucified mortals
19. Exhumed - All Guts No Glory
20. Demonical - Death Infernal.

Best EP
Immolation - Providence

Panopticon - Social Disservices. Un-fucking-believably good. I wanted to say the new klabautamann album but after multiple listens, it's missed the mark for me.

Forgot Absu - Abzu

THE NEW JOHN MELLENCAMP CD IS PRIMO, DUDES. I FUCKING ROCK IT OUT DAILY.

That Jasta CD is wicked phat!

The Devil's Blood- The Thousandfold Epicentre

Dim Mak- The Emergence of Reptilian Altars...still getting used to the new singer, music is tight

Brutal Truth-End Times....hands down their best album to date

Kelly Clarkson-Stronger...meh, has some memorable tunes, a few singles on there

Brain Famine EP... Weymouth grind. Nuff said

Ghamorean - Terra Ruina
Alghazanth - Vinum Intus
Blut aus Nord - 777 Sect(s)
Chthonic - Takasago Army

These have all been in heavy rotation for me as of late.

love chthonic. need that cd.

It's brilliant! Every song of theirs sounds like the score to a movie.

Alghazanth is an extremely underappreciated band.

just downloaded this from Grindcore Karaoke...can't wait to hear it

^^ lol

No love for East of the Wall - The Apologist??

RIP Ray Traylor : (

No metal - fuck off

Washed Out - Within Without
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
M83 - Hurry Up we're dreaming
Tycho - Dive
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place

Too many others to list

mediaeval baebes' the huntress will be on my list if it comes out this month

slag, you would dig the new cold body radiation.

new Arckanum album ("Helvítismyrpsjvgfhfl;knrvf;wenmjef;wmjf") is good.

This.

That BC track that BSV posted reminded me more of a more brutal Vehemence. I like it though, definitely enough cool riffs to remain interesting.

damn this is actually pretty killer

haven't heard it yet...but EOTW is awesome

yeah I picked this up based on it being on A389, they've been killing it. Wasn't disappointed.

Seven Sisters of Sleep LP and Pharaoh 7" on A389 were great this year, too.

also, Noothgrush 2xLP of live radio recordings on SL could be reish of the year.

final thoughts, still tons of stuff i need to check out. i hate the majority of lists i've read this year, figure I'll add my two cents and not help the problem

in no particular order

burzum - the fallen
midnight odyssey - funerals from the astral sphere
vektor - outer isolation
40 watt sun - the inside room
absu - abzu
forteresse - crépuscule d'octobre
krisiun - the great execution
neuraxis - asylum
neige et noirceur - hymnes de la montagne noire
morbus chron - sleepers in the rift
beyond creation - the aura
blessed offal - s/t
pilgrim - forsaken man
putrid goat - rehearsals 06/2011
sabbat - sabbatrinity
cianide - gods of death
zemial - dusk

tons of stuff i really want to hear but just havn't gotten around to it yet...

New Haemoth just blew my list out of the water, that fucking good.

Still shit I haven't heard yet. Have yet to wrap my mind around Antediluvian's filth and Blut Aus Nord's expansive fuck

Hah, I just found out Warning turned into a new band... getting that shit now.

I'm only about what, 8 months behind?

Their show in Milford was one of the year's finest

Yeah, decent is a good way of putting it. Too many of this type of band get by on mediocrity these days. Decent songs, it's just that this style has been done to death, and much better.

I should hear those Blut Aus Nord albums. Of all the black metal bands I can think of, they are one of the select few bringing anything new and interesting to the table.

They're really perving the paradigm with that last one. I mean, they always kinda have but this one especially perturbs my vicar.

I think I need to get that Exhumed record.

And Ulcerate. That shit is like smoking embalming fluid and going for a swim.

Graf Orlock - Doombox
Soul Swallower - Devoured
Young And In the Way - I Am Not What I Am (they released another album this year too, but I haven't heard it yet)
Dead Language - s/t
Punch - Nothing Lasts
Brutal Truth - End Time
Wu-Tang - Legendary Weapons
Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable
VYGR - Hypersleep
Dysentery - Internal Devastation
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
East of the Wall - The Apologist
Explosions In the Sky - Take Care Take Care Take Care
Revocation - Chaos of Forms
Electro Quarterstaff - Aykroyd
Beartrap - Nailed Shut
Sick/Tired - Highlife
Code Orange Kids - Cycles
Dead In the Dirt - Fear
Meek Is Murder - Algorithms
Gripe - The Future Doesn't Need You
Oak and Bone - s/t
Scapegoat - s/t

These lists are awesome. They are an amazing download guide.

I have been listening to new music nonstop for over a week. My commute comes to almost 4 hours a day on train and subway, so that opens a lot of time. By the new year I'll slap up my own useless 2 cents up here and then spend half of 2012 hunting everything down.

really liked the new Earth, Motherboar, Arch/Matheos, Exhumed, Dysentery.

There are thousands more that I still haven't listened to

new autopsy was killer, I like that graveyard album too. cant think of much else i listened to that came out this year.

also, I actually saw blessed offal ITT more than once.

These are terrible awful good:

Clams Casino "Rainforest"EP + instrumentals mix
Salem "OhK" 7"
oOoOO / White Ring split 7"
Drive soundtrack
Balam Acab "Wander/Wonder"
Ladytron "Gravity the Seducer"
M83 "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"

so many albums I need in this thread, obv

Illegal.

u r arrest

If that fucking Orgone album would come out already it would be #1 without a doubt.

Only top 10 Girlfriendiest predictions is real

Thrillhouse - Self Titled

OK, adding more that I forgot, or I didn't hear until after my last post

Cloud Rat - Fever Dreams
Inside the Beehive - Drink Bleach; Live Forever
Deathrite - s/t
Defeatist - Tyranny of Decay
Curmudgeon - Human Ouroboros
Seven Sisters of Sleep - s/t
ACxDC - The Second Coming
Eddie Brock - Demo
Ultra//Negative - Finally, I'm At Peace

this thread is piling on the records. I have accepted a challenge to listen to as many albums as I can this month - for releases from 2011. I have listened to 60 so far. my long ass commute opens a lot of time.

I recently got Ravencult's morbid blood CD it came out earlier this year, it is pretty good. I dig the album artwork too.

And yes it is black metal...:P:P

that Ravencult is awesome. No word of a lie, I had it on today.

Good to know someone is in agreement with me

Backed so hard. This album is incredible.

Portrait and In Solitude put out decent albums. In Solitude are a little suspect, but they at least play real metal.

Manilla Road's newest is stellar. Argus is pretty decent.

Autopsy was disappointing and shitty despite all the hip young types being all about it. Listen to Mental Kingdom, faggots. This new shit sucked.

Deceased and Disma rendered all other death metal releases from 2011 irrelevant, but I still deleted them after two listens and never bought them, as all of those dudes are clearly past their creative peaks. Not bad, just old and weak sounding.


Everything else can fuck off. Too much shit metal being released. 60 albums in a month? Why the fuck bother, plenty of metal albums released when metal was still metal and not the hipster crap you faggots listen to.


Here's to less hip and shit metal coming out in 2012, and everything pre 1995 still ruling everything that will come out this year.

Mental kingdom? You mean mental funeral right?

HAHA what a POSER.

Also, Macabre Eternal was killer, you NUMB FUCKIN BROAD.

Dudes closet newfag

Disma have only released stuff since 2009.

The troll acknowledges that the Deceased have one of the best of the year, but then dislikes it because they are old and might not be considered hip.

Disma had 3 releases this year one of which was a full length. God who are you people.

I assume he's connecting Disma to Incantation.

HIGH SPIRITS - ANOTHER NIGHT

Not a 2011 release, but I feel the need to make everyone aware of the Mayheecan Black Metal Xibalba.



bennyhillifier

Manowarrior you arent chill bro

No, just death metal is always a joke compared to real metal, Nancy. Best of the year isn't saying much when you're talking about death metal, and that has always been made best by kids barely out of puberty. All of you are either too young or too stupid to understand the very basics of metal 101.

If you are going to be a trend jumping faggot and listen to death metal, at least listen to the older stuff when these dudes were young and not a bunch of watered down garbage made by aging losers almost as sad as yourselves.

Ain't my cup of joe, but at least I can respect people who use their ears and not what the hype says. Making year end lists is for those who want to suck critic cock.

Some of that new Autopsy sounded as gay as My Dying Bride. Just go full faggot already and buy a Nightwish album.

If you're into finding new soundtracks to your nightly jerk off sessions with your autographed picture of Gaahl, keep it off of metal forums and go have a bakesale, you fucking women.

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