Best album of 2011

Ok. After careful consideration, I'm going with Anthrax "Worship Music"

If for no other reason than I've waited 20 years to hear Belladonna make the rest of the band eat every and any negative comment they made about him during the JB years

On top of that the cd just delivers ... Really no weak sings, great production, great performances, and some really classic Anthrax moments throughout without being a fake attempt at sounding old school
 
March Hare of course... Oh wait... The album is not out yet!lol This year is being a big disappointment. Not very good albuns.

Until now I can say:
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
 
Off of what I have listened to, my favourites so far are:
Decapitated - Carnial Is Forever
Mastodon - The Hunter
Textures - Dualism
 
Probaby not the best 2011 album, but I really liked how "straight to the point" the new Sepultura album is.

I was pretty disappointed with the new album... Sure it sounds more like the Sepultura from the golden days (BTR - Arise - Chaos AD) musicwise and production-wise but songwriting quality is lacking IMO. If i had to compare with other Derrick Green-era records, for me Against/Nation are way better.

Cureently enjoying the new Opeth, and the new Warbringer and New Found Glory.

The Textures album is really amazing btw. New Hatesphere is crushing also.
 
Fuck! I heard today the new scar symmetry album and it´s fucking awesome. The best metal album of the year for me until now. It´s much more melodic than the others but really good. The best album since Pitch Black Progress.
 
lol!I understand, there are albums that just don't say nothing, even good albuns. I can say the same with the new Symphony X. But I have to give more a chance.
 
based on albums I keep going back to, it would have to be one of these three:
sylosis - edge of the earth
revocation - chaos of forms
obscura - omnivium (this one more so!)
 
My updated list :

On the top of my head :

Top ones :

Incubus - If not now, when ?
Mobb Deep - Black Cocaine (EP)
Step In Fluid - One Step Beyond
Earth Crisis - neutralize the threat
Decapitated - carnival is forever
Set your goals - burning at both ends
Omnium Gatherum - new world shadows
Textures - dualism
Mastodon - hunter
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Revocation - chaos of forms
Trials - Witness to the downfall (not sure if it's 2010 or 2011 though...)
Steel Panther - Balls out
Sick Of It All - nonstop


Great albums :

Crowbar - Sever the wicked hand
Hatesphere - the great bludgeoning
Immolation - providence EP
S.O.S - i owe you nothing (ep)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
Skarhead - Dreams Don't Die (cover album)
H2O - Don't Forget Your Roots (cover album)
Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory
In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading
Truth'n'rights - ep (2010 or 2011 ?)
Wisdom in Chains - Pocono Ghosts ep
Unfold - Cosmogon
Chimaira - the age of hell (not stunning but i loved the experimentation and the fact that they didn't try to sound too much like their classic stuff, and there was a lot of "fresh" killer parts)
Crosses - ep (Chino Moreno / Jonah Matranga project)
Will Haven - Voir Dire
Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
Fuck the facts - Die Miserable
Warbringer - World Turn Asunder

not out yet/not listened to yet but facemelting potential :

new Vision of disorder
new Glassjaw
new Down e.p
new Aborted
new God Forbid
new Pearl Jam
new Medeïa
new Homicidal

Not 2011 but i finally got into it recently :
Comes with the fall (amazing rock band fronted by William Duvall (Alice in chains))
Forbidden
Paramore
Extreme
Steel Panther
and a lot of classic NYHC/NJHC bands : Leeway, Bad Brains, Maximum Penalty, Both Worlds, Bitter End (amazing blend of Sepultura / Cro-Mags / Merauder), Bulldoze, Aggressive dogs, For the love of, train of thought, Homicidal, Karma never forgives, Ripface invasion, Cro-mags, Crown of thornz, Inhuman, Life of agony, NJ bloodline, Stigmata, ...

2011 disappointments :
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs (fine for 3 songs but then gets really boring (i loved his first solo album though))
Sepultura - kairos
New Found Glory - Radiosurgery
Dying Fetus - history repeats itself EP
All Shall perish - this is where it ends
Machine head - into the locust
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinus Insanus (not as bad as people said, but not amazing either, just a good album)
L'esprit du clan - drama
 
I have to add the following to my list:

Theocracy - As The World Bleeds :headbang:
Andy Timmons - plays Sgt. Pepper (amazing interpretations of Beatles songs)
Tony Macalpine - (self titled)
 
Favorites:

Aosoth - III
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)
Maruta - Forward Into Regression
Immolation - Providence

Stuff that was alright:

Absu - Abzu
Burzum - Fallen
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Despise You - And On And On... (split)
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst The Ashes
Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore
Marduk - Iron Dawn (ep)
Obscured Secretions - Demo
Origin - Entity
Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
Wormrot - Dirge

Major Dissapointments:
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus (absolute tripe)
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion

Shit I haven't received/got around to yet:
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification
Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory
Craft - Void
 
This is my list for now. I haven't listened to that many new things this year but here it goes

Favorites:

Noisear – Subvert the Dominant Paradigm - This shit rules minus the noise track.
Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria - Most relentless music since Disgorge. brutal shit done right
Execration - Odes Of The Occult - Old school and evil.
Wormrot - Dirge - catchiest grind ever. plus they're my brown brothers.
Baring Teeth - Atrophy - awesome, weird music.
Weekend Nachos - Worthless - Hard-ass jams.
Priapus - Airloom and the new split - They're like Maruta but better.

Other stuff

Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All - I'm kind of disappointed with this one but it still rules. Just not as much as I was hoping
Mitocondrion - Parasignosis - This one is sick too, but it just didn't stick with me.
Yob - Atma - Not my type of music at all but it' so, so heavy. It might be my favorite guitar tone this year.
Disma - Towards the Megalith - I just started listening to this so I have to give it more time, but I can already tell that if I had listened to it earlier it would be in my favorite list. Filthy old school death metal.
Gridlink - Orphan - not even gonna lie, I'm pretty let down with this one
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes - This one is ok. I liked it at first but now I'm not sure how to feel about it. They're never going to top conquering the throne, thouh.
Fluorishing - The Sum of All Fossils - I need to listen to this one more but I like it a lot.
Psudoke - Space Grind - Holy shit. Not for everyone.
Gorgasm - Orgy of Muder - Amazing but it's not really Gorgasm anymore.
Maruta - Forward Into Regression - Band sucks, production blows. They're all brown and gay.

These are all the ones that stand out for now