Here is a list of the last few months without the most of the extreme metal I listen to. When it has an * behind it means I got it through my job at Aardschok magazine.
Absu - Abzu
Anubis Gate - s/t
Arch/Matheos
Black Country Communion 2
Chickenfoot III *
Communic - The Bottom Deep
Cynthesis - DeEvolution
Damien Thorne - End Of The Game
Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever
Derek Sherinian - Oceana *
Devildriver - Beast
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines US
GNO - Cannibal Tango
Haken - Visions *
Iced Earth - Dystopia *
Innosense - Outcast
Jorn - Live In Black
Leprous - Bilateral
Machine Head - Unto The Locust *
Myrath - Tales Of The Sand
Nightrage - Insidious
Opeth - Herritage
Philip Sayce - Ruby Electric
Primus - Green Naugahyde
Redemption - This Mortal Coil *
Sebastian Bach - Kicking & Screaming *
Shy - Shy *
Subsignal - Touchstones *
Symphony x Iconoclast
Wolverine - Commuication Lost
2011 has been crazy! And again, this is without the extreme metal or older releases from the beginning of the year.
My undisputed number one is Arch/Matheos. The new Subsignal album is damn great as well.
Iced Earth is really impressive. Stu Block really nails it! At times he sounds a bit like Matt Barlow at other times you can hear a very aggressive Rob Halford.
Philip Sayce is a damn good blues guitarist with some Hendrix influences.