And over at Hellbound.ca you can peruse the individual top 10s of all us Hellbound writers.
But 2011 was a pretty good year for heavy music, so here is a list of stuff I enjoyed listening to but didn't make the 'best of' cut for whatever reason (lack of utter awesomeness and sketchy or multiple release dates included):
40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room (Cyclone Empire)
A Forest of Stars – Opportunistic Thieves of Spring (Prophecy)
Anaal Nathrakh – Passion (Candlelight)
Atlas Moth – An Ache For the Distance (Profound Lore)
Belphegor – Blood Magick Necromance (Nuclear Blast)
Bruce Lamont – Feral Songs For The Epic Decline (At a Loss) [see what the computer world has done to my alphabetization!]
Death Wolf – Death Wolf (Regain/Blooddawn)
Decaying – Devastate (Hellthrasher)
Entrails – The Tomb Awaits (Dark Descent / FDA Rekotz)
Fen & De Arma – Toward the Shores of the End (Nordvis Produktion)
Gates of Slumber – The Wretch (Rise Above)
Ghost – Opus Eponymous (Rise Above)
Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness (Metal Blade)
Hammers of Misfortune – 17th Street (Metal Blade)
House of Capricorn – In the Devil's Days
Iced Earth – Dystopia (Century Media)
Lake of Tears – Illwill (AFM)
Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)
Megadeth – TH1RT3EN (Roadrunner)
Midnight Odyssey – Funerals From the Astral Sphere (I Voidhanger)
Mournful Congregation – The Book Of Kings (20 Buck Spin) and The Unspoken Hymns (20 Buck Spin)
My Dying Bride – Evinta (Peaceville) and The Barghest O' Whitby (Peaceville)
Novembers Doom – Aphotic (The End)
Pentagram – Last Rites (Metal Blade)
Riverside – Memories in my Head EP (Laser's Edge)
Septicflesh – The Great Mass (Season of Mist)
Subrosa – No Help for the Mighty Ones (Profound Lore)
USX – The Valley Path (Neurot Recordings)
Vallenfyre – A Fragile King (Century Media)
Woebegone Obscured – Deathstination (I Voidhanger)
Wolves In the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
Yob – Atma (Profound Lore)
(and whatever else I may have forgotten was good)
* my Canadian list is another (upcoming) story
1 comment:
If you assume from this list that I just like everything, you would be wrong. I heard many albums this year that failed to make a good – or, in some cases, any – impression. And the list of albums I deliberately or accidentally missed hearing is much much longer.
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