This year was great despite Morbid Angel, Opeth, and Lulu.
Top Metal/Hardcore/Whatever
25. Decapitated - Carnival is Forever
24. Wormrot - Dirge
23. All Pigs Must Die - God is War
22. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
21. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
20. Septicflesh - The Great Mass
19. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
18. YOB - Atma
17. Brutal Truth - End Time
16. Indian - Guiltless
15. Altar of Plagues - Mammal
14. Rotten Sound - Cursed
13. Shining - VII: Född Förlorare
12. Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings
11. Atriarch - Forever the End
10. Disma - Towards the Megalith
09. The Atlas Moth - An Ache for Distance
08. Krallice - Diotima
07. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
06. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
05. GridLink - Orphan
04. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
03. Peste Noire - L'Ordure à l'état Pur
02. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s) & 777 - The Desanctification
01. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
EPs
10. Enslaved - The Sleeping Gods
09. ††† - EP †
08. Arms and Sleepers - A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama
07. Punch - Nothing Lasts
06. Fuck the Facts - Misery
05. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallex: Hypersleep Dialogues
04. Self Defense Family - I'm Going Through Some Shit b/w All Fruit Is Ripe
03. Immolation - Providence
02. Blotted Science - The Animation of Entomology
01. Glassjaw - Coloring Book
Things I haven't listened to yet...
Ash Borer - S/T, Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions, Vol. 1: Rites of Initiation, Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory, Insomnium - One for Sorrow, Jesu - Ascension, Junius - Reports from the Threshold of Death, Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore, Locrian - The Clearing, Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die but You Will, Morne - Asylum, Origin - Entity, Ringworm - Scars, Russian Circles - Empros, SubRosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones, Today is the Day - Pain is a Warning, Tom Waits - Bad As Me, Zola Jesus - Conatus