Best of 2011

[skeptik]

Did you actually enjoy that Briton Rites album?

Christ.

Get over yourself.

 

[Onder]

I think you overstate the 'unique' qualities of the albums that you mention, first of all, especially the Deathspell Omega album. Secondly, uniqueness is not a necessary nor sufficient condition for a work to stand the test of time. And it also depends on what standard you use for such a phrase. Does it need to be an album that random fags will still talk about on UM in 5 years? If so, then I couldn't really give less of a shit what stands the test of time. Anyway, I haven't even heard enough from 2011, so I'm going to use 2010 as a personal standard for what I will be remembering for years to come as hallmarks of the genre.

Inquisition
Stargazer
Blood Revolt
Countess
Briton Rites
Triptykon
Burzum
Bloody Sign
Ares Kingdom
Dødsengel

New Burzum won’t get any attention in 5 years FYI. People will still return to the classic albums.

EDIT: I agree on Inquisition and Stargazer though.

 

[skeptik]

I specified albums that I would still be listening to in future years. I don't care whether or not others would.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Cool.

 

[skeptik]

That was cool ca. internet 2001 or so. Now it's just kind of sad. Have fun being a dick on the internet.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Get over yourself.



Am I doing it right?

 

[SomeGuyDude]

This year's winner, of everything I've heard, is Infestus.

E X | I S T is, quite simply, the best album I ran into in 2011. Bar none.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Hypocrisy - Hell Over Sofia

(This is only a subjective preference)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

As of right now, i can confirm that Vektor's Outer Isolation and Oscura's Omnivium are my AOTY's, might need another year before i can figure out which one i like more.

everything else ...

2. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass
3. Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder
4. Origin - Entity
5. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
6. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
7. Disma - Towards the Megalith
8. Havok - Time is Up
9. Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
10. Burzum - Fallen
11. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
12. Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich

 

[Kara-Shehr]

I keep meaning to buy those Septic Flesh and Havok albums and yeah Vektor definitely did not disappoint.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yea, i think you'll dig that Septic Flesh album.

 

[ArneZ]

Your list is looking a lot like mine is going to end up, haha good stuff...

 

[Janga666]

Top albums this year according to me:

Isole - Born From Shadows (2011)

Mortal Sin - Psychology of Death (2011)

Krux - III - He Who Sleeps Amongst the Stars (2011)

Savage Messiah - Plague of Conscience (2011)

Saxon - Call to Arms (2011)

The Last Alliance - Out of the Ashes (2011)

Symphony X - Iconoclast (2011)

While Heaven Wept - Fear of Infinity (2011)

Mastodon - The Hunter (2011)

Dreamtale - Epsilon (2011)

Sinister Realm - The Crystal Eye (2011)


Hellbringer - Hellbringer (2011)

Anthrax - Worship Music (2011)

Megadeth - Th1rt3en (2011)

Bloodbound - Unholy Cross (2011)

Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (2011)

Draconian - A Rose for the Apocalypse (2011)

Sun Caged - The Lotus Effect (2011)

Borealis - Fall From Grace (2011)

Stratovarius - Elysium (2011)

Novembers Doom - Aphotic (2011)

Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination (2011)

Redemption - This Mortal Coil (2011)

The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch (2011)

Accu§er - Dependent Domination (2011)

Absu - Abzu (2011)

Twisted Tower Dire - Make It Dark (2011)

Doomsword - The Eternal Battle (2011)

Evergrey - Glorious Collision (2011)

Destruction - Day of Reckoning (2011)

Havok - Time Is Up (2011)

Witch Mountain - South of Salem (2011)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Your list is looking a lot like mine is going to end up, haha good stuff...

 

[Avigrus]

Top albums this year according to me:

Mortal Sin - Psychology of Death (2011)
Hellbringer - Hellbringer (2011)
Anthrax - Worship Music (2011)
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (2011)
Draconian - A Rose for the Apocalypse (2011)
Destruction - Day of Reckoning (2011)
Havok - Time Is Up (2011)

Awesome...

 

[Umodian]

Haven't listened to all that much from this year, but for me I think it would be something like this: (No particular order)

Assaulter - Boundless!
Byfrost - Of Death
Hell - Human Remains
Megadeth - TH1RT3EN
Sabbat - Sabbatrinity
Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil.
The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch


Still need to listen to the latest from Manilla Road, Artillery, Riot, Vektor, Vader and Mastodon though, but I'd imagine they'd be up there as well.
[Edit: missed some]

 

[Physicx]

Craft – Void
Encoffination – O/ Hell, Shine in Thy Whited Sepulchures
Ravencult – Morbid Blood
Aosoth - III
Nightbringer – Hierophany, of the Open Grave
Sonne Adam – Transformation
Maveth – Breath of an Abomination
Negative Plane – Stained Glass Revelations
Blaspherian – Infernal Warriors of Death
Mitochondrion – Parasignosis
Vanhelgd – Church of Death
Vastum – Carnal Law
Flame – March into Firelands
Azarath – Blasphemers Malediction
Ulcerate – The Destroyers of All
40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room
Cianide – Gods of Death
Disma – Towards the Megalith

 

[wikman]

havent rly bought all that many albums this year taht were actuly released this year but out of the few i have these are my favs in no particular order

Anthrax - Worship music

Wormrot - Dirge

Havok - Time is up

Ghoul - Transmission zero

SSS - Problems to the answers

 

[VelociBrad]

my top 10 favorites this year:

1. Antichrist - Sacrament of Blood
2. Cruciamentum - Engulfed in Desolation
3. Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages
4. Disma - Towards the Megalith
5. Antediluvian - Through the Cervix of Hawaah
6. Lantern - Subterranean Effulgence
7. Blasphemophagher - The III Command of the Absolute Chaos
8. Deceased - Surreal Overdose
9. Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult
10. Dominus Xul - For the Glory of the Ancient Ones

rest of my top 50 is here: Top 50 of 2011

Still waiting on Teitanblood - Purging Tongues, and Wrathprayer's newest though.

 

[theoden236]

top 15 in no order:

1. Infestus: ExIst
2. Thulcandra: Under a Frozen Sun
3. Kampfar: Mare
4. Arch/Matheos: Sympathetic Resonance
5. Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
6. Altar of Plagues: Mammal
7. Absu: Abzu
8. Mercenary: Metamorphosis
9. Opeth: Heritage
10. Obscura: Omnivium
11. World Under Blood: Tactical
12. The Atlas Moth: An Ache for the Distance
13. Leviathan: True Traitor, True Whore
14. Insomnium: One for Sorrow
15. Decapitated: Carnival is Forever