A really good year, full of surprises. Never been much of a Sabaton fan and especially not a fan of Lamb of God. Both bands released kick ass albums. Avatar keep on getting better and better. Rush released their best album in 25 years. Kreator gave me one of the best thrash albums I've ever heard.

1. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Only The Ocean Knows

5. Darkend - Grand Guignol - Book I

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Looking at this list I realise that 2011 was a better metal year than I remembered it to be. Interesting year with a lot of surprises. The Shining album is in my opinion awesome, one of their best. Power Quest released their best album since "Wings of Forever". Amon Amarth keep on surprising me with solid releases (and I thought I was over them years ago). Opeth's "Heritage" was way better than my expectations. Amebix gave me some of the best tracks of '11. Overall, a really good year. Although I have to admit that the last four are real fillers worthy of the name.

1. Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

2. Lifelover - Sjukdom

3. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Everything

4. Power Quest - Blood Alliance

5. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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Couldn't be more clear, all the band's I've witnessed live so far and how many times I have seen them.

1. Alice Cooper

2. Amon Amarth

3. Amoral

4. Angrepp

5. Anthrax - x2

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1. Rush - Hold Your Fire

2. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium

3. Sepultura - Schizophrenia

4. Anthrax - Among The Living

5. Kreator - Terrible Certainty

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1. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3. Slayer - South Of Heaven

4. Death - Leprosy

5. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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1. Devil Doll - The Girl Who Was... Death

2. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

3. Kreator - Extreme Aggression

4. Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite

5. Rush - Presto

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1. Devil Doll - Eliogabalus

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying

5. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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1. Death - Human

2. Metallica - Metallica

3. Sepultura - Arise

4. Tiamat - The Astral Sleep

5. Rush - Roll The Bones

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1. Dream Theater - Images And Words

2. Devil Doll - Sacrilegium

3. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

4. Burzum - Burzum

5. Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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1. Devil Doll - The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms

2. Dissection - The Somberlain

3. Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times

4. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

5. Death - Individual Thought Patterns

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Sure, the top 4 is amazing. But looking at this list makes me realise what a shitty year 2010 was. This is my top 20?

1. Watain - Lawless Darkness

2. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Lost

3. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

4. Ghost B.C. - Opus Eponymous

5. Kalmah - 12 Gauge

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1. Dream Theater - Awake

2. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

3. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5. In Flames - Lunar Strain

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1. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2. Mörk Gryning - Tusen År Har Gått...

3. Opeth - Orchid

4. Iron Maiden - The X Factor

5. Moonspell - Wolfheart

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1. Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace

2. Opeth - Morningrise

3. In Flames - The Jester Race

4. Devil Doll - Dies Irae

5. Metallica - Load

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1. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

2. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

3. In Flames - Whoracle

4. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

5. Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

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