Your top five albums of 2011

this was the year I actually lost interest in Devin Townsend. I've been a fanboy of his since high school, and none of the new stuff does anything for me and doesn't connect with me emotionally like all his old albums.

my favorite albums were, in no order

Textures – Dualism

Ulcerate – The Destroyers of All

Gridlink – Orphan

Fair to Midland – Arrows & Anchors

40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room

Revocation – Chaos of Forms

3 – The Ghost You Gave to Me

Leprous – Bilateral

Vektor – Outer Isolation

Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance

Arch/Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance

Mastodon – The Hunter

Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I

Immolation – Providence EP

Protest the Hero – Scurrilous

Primordial – Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand

Cynthesis – DeEvolution

Yob – Atma

Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
 
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Mastodon - The Hunter

Honorable mention: Leprous - Bilateral...I didn't like it on the first few listens but it slowly grew on me. It's not something I listen to on a regular basis, but it's a fantastic album with great songs.
 
Hmm... In no particular order... But of course, Devin Townsend always tops my lists. Sylosis definitely put out one great album though...

Decapitated - Carnival is Forever

SepticFlesh - A Great Mass

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

Sylosis - Edge of the Earth

The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction

The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost

Revocation - Chaos of Forms

Animals as Leaders - Weightless

Ghoul - Transmission Zero

Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
 
2011 was so much better musically than 2010.

1. Primordial- Redemtion at the Puritan´s Hand.

2. Negative Plane- Stained Glass Revelations.

3. P.J. Harvey- Let England Shake.

4. Esoteric- Paragon of Dissonance.

5. Blut Aus Nord- 777:Sect(s)
 
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honorable mentions:
dim mak -The Emergence Of Reptilian Altars
blut aus nord- 777 sect(s)
aosoth - III
helene grimaud's mozart concertos
septic flesh- the great mass
 
Also, I've been forgetting to check out that Hate Eternal album until your post and so I Youtubed some shit.

Holy fuck! It's great!