Without repeating bands, not in mega particular order but roughly

I made a playlist so you can listen to a song from each here
http://www.rdio.com/people/Ajdelcholo/playlists/10737071/Songs_from_fav_metal_albums/
(Excluding Tool & Metallica because their music isn't available on Rdio)

1. Behemoth - The Apostasy

2. The Faceless - Autotheism

3. System Of A Down - Mezmerize

4. Machine Head - The Blackening

5. Arch Enemy - War Eternal

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We've had the Crushing and we've had the Dark, Harrowing and Ravaging, now it's time for the Anger. This list could be seen as a sort of Dance of the Dregs from those other two lists (as in albums that didn't get on either), but some of these albums to me might be classified as either or neither.

1. Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

2. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

3. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

4. Alkerdeel - Morinde

5. All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature

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1. The Faceless - Planetary Duality

2. Slayer - Reign in Blood

3. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

4. Death - Human

5. Obscura - Cosmogenesis

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At last but not least, my list of my favorite albums of 2011, a year on which I've been quite far from music because of my medical duties, but after some months listening to all the things I've been missing, I can say this albums are the ones I enjoyed the most last year. I was quite hard to order them, because in my humble opinion, most of them deserve the first place of their particular genre.

1. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

2. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

3. Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

4. Loss (USA) - Despond

5. Maligno - The Funeral Domine

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1. Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire

2. Havok - Time Is Up

3. Crisix - The Menace

4. Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5. Revocation - Chaos Of Forms

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1. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

2. Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

3. Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

4. MyGrain - Mygrain

5. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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Here we go again...

This year I had more trouble than usual with the order, so I just kind of threw the list together rather than messing with the rankings for hours on end.

1. Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich

2. Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

3. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations

4. Vektor - Outer Isolation

5. Disma - Towards the Megalith

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Well it seems to be the popular thing to do (creating a 2011 faves list) so why shouldn't I jump on the bandwagon too...

Alphabetically of course...although if I was going to put one at the top it would be Archspire (it's unfortunate I haven't seen it on many lists)...

1. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling The Plane Of Existence

2. After Oblivion - Vultures

3. Archspire - All Shall Align

4. Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising

5. Beyond Creation - The Aura

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Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so will increase in size. Also, not entirely in order, middle order mainly just an approximation.

1. Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2. Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

3. Infestus - E x I s t

4. Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

5. Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

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It remains to add bands that haven't released album and add personal comments.

1. Symphony X - Iconoclast

2. Iced Earth - Dystopia

3. Vektor - Outer Isolation

4. Megadeth - Th1rt3en

5. Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

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Ordered best to worst. This is entirely my opinion.

1. Insomnium - One For Sorrow

2. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

3. Havok - Time Is Up

4. Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command

5. Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

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Hey and welcome to my top 20 albums of 2011! All these albums I think are absolutely awesome and definatly deserve to be on this list one way or another. This list may also change if i hear a better album which I think should be on this list.

1. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

2. Vektor - Outer Isolation

3. Forefather - Last Of The Line

4. Dragonland - Under the Grey Banner

5. Total Fucking Destruction - Hater

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A list I created during 2011. No longer being edited. Just a nice snapshot in time of what albums really grabbed me in 2011.

1. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

2. The Fallen Divine - The Binding Cycle

3. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

4. Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command

5. Smohalla - Resilience

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1. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

2. Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

3. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling The Plane Of Existence

4. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

5. Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever

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My personal top 50 list.
(In no particular order)

1. Decrepit Birth - Polarity

2. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

3. Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult

4. Joe Satriani - Time Machine

5. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

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