All the metal albums I've listened to in 2011, including stuff missing from this site on the grounds of its unpopularity and anything else vaguely metal or Steven Wilson. Ratings out of 10.

1.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

2.Symphony X - Iconoclast

3.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

4.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

5.Hypomanie - A City In Mono

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I don't have this in any special order. Seems like 2011"s flavor for metal has been Death, Prog and Thrash.and that's good with me.I feel in most part the up and coming bands have out did their idols,that's a good thing!!!!

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

3.Havok - Time Is Up

4.Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

5.Revocation - Chaos Of Forms

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A list of my favorite recent albums in 2011. I'll update this list regularly. In no particular order. I added the rating next to them for the curious ones, but you should check them all.

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2.Mitochondrion - Parasignosis

3.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

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1.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

2.Heavenwood - Abyss Masterpiece

3.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

4.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

5.Mercenary - Metamorphosis

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1.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

2.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4.Mercenary - Metamorphosis

5.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

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1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

2.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

3.Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising

4.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

5.Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse

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1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Heretoir - Heretoir

3.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

4.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

5.Heavenwood - Abyss Masterpiece

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Marillion - Brave

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Insomnium - Across The Dark

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My favorite 25 albums of the year

1.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

2.Obscura - Omnivium

3.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

4.Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

5.We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach

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Last Updated: 20th November 2012

1.Forefather - Last Of The Line

2.Bloodiest - Descent

3.Ava Inferi - Onyx

4.Cormorant - Dwellings

5.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

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These are 36 of the my favorite Melodeath albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2.The Absence - Riders Of The Plague

3.Darkane - Expanding Senses

4.Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

5.Luna Mortis - The Absence

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1.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

2.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

5.Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

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