Best album of 2011
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gabriel g.
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November is all but over and I still have to say this one takes the cake:
Realy enjoying this one!!!!
Production sounds great on headphones but strange on studio monitors but I dont care songs are awsome...
Liking volumes - via album mor ethen I thought
this one is awsome too : Betrayal - Abandonement
delayshifter
Fariz Pahlevi
Alright guys, I lurk this forum ALL the time and finally got off my ass and made an account this morning after seeing this thread, so i may as well jump in and say hello straight away, gotta get the awkward first post out the way haha.
I've seen Edge of the Earth by Sylosis mentioned a few times already and I've gotta say it's easily my favourite album of this year, and to be honest i'd be suprised if i hear anything that tops it for a long long time. Everything about it is just an absolute masterpiece. I was a pretty big fan of their first album already but after getting EOTE I was just blown away. I genuinely think I must have played it back to back in full a couple of hundred times since getting it in the summer. The depth and innovation in the songwriting is just amazing. From late 2009ish I'd been checking out all their studio videos/blogs and I was already expecting an album that took some serious listening after what I'd seen and heard from them. Now i think the sheer size and vastness of the record is one of my favourite things about it, it's such a good album to enjoy as a whole from start to finish and just absorb myself in listening to. Everything seems so organic and beautifully written, and I feel like I completely understand where they were trying to go with it. I don't think I will ever get bored of listening to any of it, ever. I met and chatted to the drummer and guitarist arout early 2010 at a tiny headline show they played near me, and they were all very cool, very nice guys who seemed genuinely interested to talk to their fans, as well as being just unimaginably tight onstage.
Needless to say the production is killer too. Pretty much the first thing I've heard from Scott Atkins as a producer that sounds a bit more feeley and natural, and not crazily tight (not that there's anything wrong with that mind you, but it's nice to hear someone pushing that sound for once). i don't think there's any aspect of the mix that I don't absolutely love. Totally sold me on the marshall JVM as an amp too, really want one now. Beautiful tones everywhere on that record. The straight up left/right rhythm tone is fucking awesome.
Hopefully I don't sound too obsessive here. i just really really love this album.
I've seen Edge of the Earth by Sylosis mentioned a few times already and I've gotta say it's easily my favourite album of this year, and to be honest i'd be suprised if i hear anything that tops it for a long long time. Everything about it is just an absolute masterpiece. I was a pretty big fan of their first album already but after getting EOTE I was just blown away. I genuinely think I must have played it back to back in full a couple of hundred times since getting it in the summer. The depth and innovation in the songwriting is just amazing. From late 2009ish I'd been checking out all their studio videos/blogs and I was already expecting an album that took some serious listening after what I'd seen and heard from them. Now i think the sheer size and vastness of the record is one of my favourite things about it, it's such a good album to enjoy as a whole from start to finish and just absorb myself in listening to. Everything seems so organic and beautifully written, and I feel like I completely understand where they were trying to go with it. I don't think I will ever get bored of listening to any of it, ever. I met and chatted to the drummer and guitarist arout early 2010 at a tiny headline show they played near me, and they were all very cool, very nice guys who seemed genuinely interested to talk to their fans, as well as being just unimaginably tight onstage.
Needless to say the production is killer too. Pretty much the first thing I've heard from Scott Atkins as a producer that sounds a bit more feeley and natural, and not crazily tight (not that there's anything wrong with that mind you, but it's nice to hear someone pushing that sound for once). i don't think there's any aspect of the mix that I don't absolutely love. Totally sold me on the marshall JVM as an amp too, really want one now. Beautiful tones everywhere on that record. The straight up left/right rhythm tone is fucking awesome.
Hopefully I don't sound too obsessive here. i just really really love this album.
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
Yeah the cymbal pumping is a bit weird but the instruments all fit, bass sounds great, everything is well played, and the vocals have SO much energy that nothing else matters. Can't wait to see these guys live.
Harry Hughes
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Was a hard choice between Decapitated and Protest the Hero, but I'm gonna have to hand it to Protest the Hero's Scurrilous album.
These guys have just gotten better at song writing and seem to be one of the few bands that despite their technicality, I don't even notice how technical the playing is until a hundred listens later because I just enjoyed the songs so much.
The band may have a fair bit of dissonant moments, but they just balance it out with great melodies so well.
In a world full of the same old screaming, it's also really cool to have someone with a unique and distinctive clean vocal voice like Roddy too.
Very powerful voice without ever getting that annoying 'emo-ness' that seems to happen with many 'djent' vocalists.
These guys have just gotten better at song writing and seem to be one of the few bands that despite their technicality, I don't even notice how technical the playing is until a hundred listens later because I just enjoyed the songs so much.
The band may have a fair bit of dissonant moments, but they just balance it out with great melodies so well.
In a world full of the same old screaming, it's also really cool to have someone with a unique and distinctive clean vocal voice like Roddy too.
Very powerful voice without ever getting that annoying 'emo-ness' that seems to happen with many 'djent' vocalists.
MisSigsFan
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My top picks(most of these aren't metal but whatever):
Defeater - Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Stray From the Path - Rising Sun
The Carrier - Blind To What Is Right
Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us
Transit - Listen and Forgive
It Prevails - Stroma
Other notable mentions:
Departures - When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted
Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
Of Virtue - Heartsounds
Last Chance To Reason - Level 2
Rescuer - Some Things You Just Have To Let Go Of
La Dispute - Wildlife
Prawn - You Can Just Leave It All
Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
Those are all that come to mind... As you can see I'm not much of a metalhead. More of a hardcore kid, haha.
I really wanna put Structures - Divided By on there, but Will Putney fucked it up.
Defeater - Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Stray From the Path - Rising Sun
The Carrier - Blind To What Is Right
Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us
Transit - Listen and Forgive
It Prevails - Stroma
Other notable mentions:
Departures - When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted
Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
Of Virtue - Heartsounds
Last Chance To Reason - Level 2
Rescuer - Some Things You Just Have To Let Go Of
La Dispute - Wildlife
Prawn - You Can Just Leave It All
Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
Those are all that come to mind... As you can see I'm not much of a metalhead. More of a hardcore kid, haha.
I really wanna put Structures - Divided By on there, but Will Putney fucked it up.
gabriel g.
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MaellaJohn
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Born of Osiris - The Discovery
Betraying the Martyrs - Breathe in Life
Structures - Divided By
Abiotic - A Universal Plague [great new band from my area, really unique production]
BTBAM - Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Substructure - Monolith
I WISH I could say that The Faceless' new album is one of my favorites but Keene messed up his hand and now all their fans are suffering until early 2012.
Betraying the Martyrs - Breathe in Life
Structures - Divided By
Abiotic - A Universal Plague [great new band from my area, really unique production]
BTBAM - Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Substructure - Monolith
I WISH I could say that The Faceless' new album is one of my favorites but Keene messed up his hand and now all their fans are suffering until early 2012.
My top albums of the year are
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Shining - VII Född Förlorare
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Shining - VII Född Förlorare
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
MisSigsFan
Member
Yeah man. It's really good too. It's no "One Year Later" by any means, but it's daaaamn good.
Vinny
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Metallica and Lou Reed - Lulu
hands down the greatest musical achievement of the year, if not century.
hands down the greatest musical achievement of the year, if not century.
tempe
Captain Midnight
madbutcher
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and to add, Cynic- Carbon based anatomy. Wow.
Dim Mak - Emergence of Reptilian Altars. Awesome riff central.
Dim Mak - Emergence of Reptilian Altars. Awesome riff central.
MisSigsFan
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Seizure.
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