My favourite albums from 2011

1. 50

   Redemption at the Puritan's Hand

   Primordial

   

   

   Folk metal | Pagan metal

   Tracks:

   1. No Grave Deep Enough
   2. Lain with the Wolf
   3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
   4. God's Old Snake
   5. The Mouth of Judas
   6. The Black Hundred
   7. The Puritan's Hand ●
   8. Death of the Gods

2. 49

   Time Is up

   Havok

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Prepare for Attack
   2. Fatal Intervention
   3. No Amnesty
   4. D.O.A. ●
   5. Covering Fire
   6. Killing Tendencies
   7. Scumbag in Disguise
   8. The Cleric
   9. Out of My Way
   10. Time Is up

3. 48

   Grace for Drowning

   Steven Wilson

   

   

   Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Grace for Drowning
   2. Sectarian ●
   3. Deform to Form a Star
   4. No Part of Me
   5. Postcard
   6. Raider Prelude
   7. Remainder the Black Dog
   8. Belle de Jour
   9. Index
   10. Track One
   11. Raider II
   12. Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye

4. 47

   Capricorn

   Orchid

   

   

   Traditional doom metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Eyes Behind the Wall ●
   2. Capricorn
   3. Black Funeral
   4. Master of It All
   5. Down into the Earth
   6. He Who Walks Alone
   7. Cosmonaut of Three
   8. Electric Father
   9. Albatross

5. 46

   Going out in Style

   Dropkick Murphys

   

   

   Celtic punk

   Tracks:

   1. Hang 'Em High
   2. Going out in Style
   3. The Hardest Mile
   4. Cruel
   5. Memorial Day
   6. Climbing a Chair to Bed
   7. Broken Hymns
   8. Deeds Not Words
   9. Take 'Em Down
   10. Sunday Hardcore Matinee
   11. 1953
   12. Peg O' My Heart ●
   13. The Irish Rover

6. 45

   Another Night

   High Spirits

   

   

   Hard rock | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Another Night in the City ●
   2. Do You Remember
   3. Full Power
   4. Demons at the Door
   5. I'll Be Back
   6. You Make Love Impossible
   7. Where Did I Go Wrong
   8. Nights in Black
   9. Going up

7. 44

   Outer Isolation

   Vektor

   

   

   Technical thrash metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Cosmic Cortex
   2. Echoless Chamber
   3. Dying World
   4. Tetrastructual Minds ●
   5. Venus Project
   6. Dark Creations, Dead Creators
   7. Fast Paced Society
   8. Outer Isolation

8. 43

   Deconstruction

   Devin Townsend

   

   

   Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

   Tracks:

   1. Praise the Lowered ●
   2. Stand
   3. Juular
   4. Planet of the Apes
   5. Sumeria
   6. The Mighty Masturbator
   7. Pandemic
   8. Deconstruction
   9. Poltergeist

9. 42

   Pressure & Time

   Rival Sons

   

   

   Blues rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. All Over the Road
   2. Young Love ●
   3. Pressure and Time
   4. Only One
   5. Get Mine
   6. Burn Down Los Angeles
   7. Save Me
   8. Gypsy Heart
   9. White Noise
   10. Face of Light

10. 41

    Visions

    Haken

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Premonition
    2. Nocturnal Conspiracy ●
    3. Insomnia
    4. The Mind's Eye
    5. Portals
    6. Shapeshifter
    7. Deathless
    8. Visions

11. 40

    Surtur Rising

    Amon Amarth

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. War of the Gods
    2. Töck's Taunt — Loke's Treachery Part II
    3. Destroyer of the Universe
    4. Slaves of Fear
    5. Live Without Regrets ●
    6. The Last Stand of Frej
    7. For Victory or Death
    8. Wrath of the Norsemen
    9. A Beast Am I
    10. Doom Over Dead Man

12. 39

    One for Sorrow

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Inertia
    2. Through the Shadows
    3. Song of the Blackest Bird
    4. Only One Who Waits
    5. Unsung
    6. Every Hour Wounds
    7. Decoherence
    8. Lay the Ghost to Rest ●
    9. Regain the Fire
    10. One for Sorrow

13. 38

    Living with the Ancients

    Blood Ceremony

    

    

    Occult rock | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Great Good Pan
    2. Coven Tree
    3. The Hermit
    4. My Demon Brother
    5. Morning of the Magicians ●
    6. Oliver Haddo
    7. Night of Augury
    8. The Witches Dance
    9. Daughter of the Sun

14. 37

    Conditions of My Parole

    Puscifer

    

    

    Art rock | Industrial rock

    Tracks:

    1. Tiny Monsters
    2. Green Valley ●
    3. Monsoons
    4. Telling Ghosts
    5. Horizons
    6. Man Overboard
    7. Toma
    8. The Rapture (Fear Is a Mind Killa Mix)
    9. Conditions of My Parole
    10. The Weaver
    11. Oceans
    12. Tumbleweed

15. 36

    Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa

    Moonsorrow

    

    

    Folk metal | Pagan metal

    Tracks:

    1. Tähdetön ●
    2. Hävitetty
    3. Muinaiset
    4. Nälkä, väsymys ja epätoivo
    5. Huuto
    6. Kuolleille
    7. Kuolleiden maa

16. 35

    Super Van Vacation

    1000mods

    

    

    Stoner rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Road to Burn
    2. 7 Files
    3. El Rollito
    4. Set You Free
    5. Vidage
    6. Navy in Alice
    7. Track Me
    8. Johnny's
    9. Abell
    10. Super Van Vacation ●

17. 34

    Degeneration Street

    The Dears

    

    

    Alternative rock | Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. Omega Dog
    2. 5 Chords
    3. Blood
    4. Thrones
    5. Lamentation
    6. Torches
    7. Galactic Tides
    8. Yesteryear
    9. Stick with Me Kid
    10. Tiny Man
    11. Easy Suffering
    12. Unsung
    13. 1854 ●
    14. Degeneration Street

18. 33

    Forever Abomination

    Skeletonwitch

    

    

    Blackened thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill)
    2. Reduced to the Failure of Prayer
    3. Of Ash and Torment
    4. Choke Upon Betrayal
    5. Erased and Forgotten
    6. The Infernal Resurrection
    7. Rejoice in Misery
    8. Cleaver of Souls ●
    9. Shredding Sacred Flesh
    10. Sink Beneath Insanity
    11. My Skin of Deceit

19. 32

    Blunt Force Trauma

    Cavalera Conspiracy

    

    

    Thrash metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Warlord
    2. Torture
    3. Lynch Mob
    4. Killing Inside
    5. Thrasher
    6. I Speak Hate
    7. Target
    8. Genghis Khan
    9. Burn Waco
    10. Rasputin
    11. Blunt Force Trauma ●

20. 31

    Sounds of Violence

    Onslaught

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Into the Abyss
    2. Born for War
    3. The Sound of Violence
    4. Code Black
    5. Rest in Pieces
    6. Godhead
    7. Hatebox
    8. Antitheist ●
    9. Suicideology
    10. End of the Storm
    11. Bomber

21. 30

    Ride with Death

    Speedwolf

    

    

    Speed metal

    Tracks:

    1. Speedwolf
    2. Up All Night
    3. Out on Bail
    4. I Am the Demon
    5. Time to Annihilate
    6. Never Twice
    7. I Can't Die
    8. Death Ripper
    9. Hell & Back
    10. The Reaper
    11. Ride with Death
    12. Denver 666 ●

22. 29

    Dead Roots Stirring

    Elder

    

    

    Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Gemini
    2. Dead Roots Stirring ●
    3. III
    4. The End
    5. Knot

23. 28

    Svartir Sandar

    Sólstafir

    

    

    Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ljós í stormi
    2. Fjara ●
    3. Þín orð
    4. Sjúki skugginn
    5. Æra
    6. Kuki
    7. Melrakkablús
    8. Draumfari
    9. Stinningskaldi
    10. Stormfari
    11. Svartir sandar
    12. Djákninn

24. 27

    Sex Offender

    Polkadot Cadaver

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Opus Dei
    2. Seagrave
    3. Bloodsucker
    4. Starlight Requiem ●
    5. Stronger Than Weak
    6. Slaughterhouse Striptease
    7. Sex Offender
    8. Cake & Eat It Too
    9. Mongoloid
    10. Forever & a Day

25. 26

    Bilateral

    Leprous

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bilateral ●
    2. Forced Entry
    3. Restless
    4. Thorn
    5. Mb. Indifferentia
    6. Waste of Air
    7. Mediocrity Wins
    8. Cryptogenic Desires
    9. Acquired Taste
    10. Painful Detour

26. 25

    Sensory Overdrive

    Michael Monroe

    

    

    Glam punk | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Trick of the Wrist
    2. '78
    3. Got Blood?
    4. Superpowered Superfly ●
    5. Modern Day Miracle
    6. Bombs Away
    7. All You Need
    8. Later Won't Wait
    9. Gone Baby Gone
    10. Center of Your Heart
    11. Debauchery as a Fine Art

27. 24

    Little Hell

    City and Colour

    

    

    Folk | Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. We Found Each Other in the Dark
    2. Natural Disaster
    3. The Grand Optimist ●
    4. Little Hell
    5. Fragile Bird
    6. Northern Wind
    7. O' Sister
    8. Weightless
    9. SOrrowing Man
    10. Silver and Gold
    11. Hope for Now

28. 23

    Dust Bowl

    Joe Bonamassa

    

    

    Blues

    Tracks:

    1. Slow Train
    2. Dust Bowl
    3. Tennessee Plates
    4. The Meaning of the Blues
    5. Black Lung Heartache ●
    6. You Better Watch Yourself
    7. The LAst Matador of Bayonne
    8. Heartbreaker
    9. No Love on the Street
    10. The Whale THat Swallowed Jonah
    11. Sweet Rowenna
    12. Prisoner

29. 22

    Kairos

    Sepultura

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Spectrum
    2. Kairos ●
    3. Relentless
    4. 2011
    5. Just One Fix
    6. Dialog
    7. Mask
    8. 1433
    9. Seethe
    10. Born Strong
    11. Embrace the Storm
    12. 5772
    13. No One Will Stand
    14. Structure Violence
    15. 4648

30. 21

    Several Shades of Why

    J Mascis

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Listen to Me
    2. Several Shades of Why
    3. Not Enough
    4. Very Nervous and Love
    5. Is It Done
    6. Make It Right
    7. Where Are You
    8. Too Deep
    9. Can I ●
    10. What Happened

31. 20

    The Great Escape Artist

    Jane's Addiction

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Underground
    2. End to the Lies
    3. Curiosity Kills
    4. Irresistible Force ●
    5. I'll Hit You Back
    6. Twisted Tales
    7. Ultimate Reason
    8. Splash a Little Water on It
    9. Broken People
    10. Words Right out of My Mouth

32. 19

    Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea

    Black Stone Cherry

    

    

    Hard rock | Southern rock

    Tracks:

    1. White Trash Millionaire ●
    2. Killing Floor
    3. In My Blood
    4. Such a Shame
    5. Won't Let Go
    6. Blame It on the Boom Boom
    7. Like I Roll
    8. Can't You See
    9. Let Me See You Shake
    10. Stay
    11. Change
    12. All I'm Dreamin' of

33. 18

    Rengeteg

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fekete mezők ●
    2. Kel keleti szél
    3. Trilobita
    4. Kő koppan
    5. Vashegyek
    6. Holdkomp
    7. Kék ingem lobogó
    8. Az eső, az eső, az eső
    9. Tar gallyak végül
    10. Minden test fű

34. 17

    Murder the Mountains

    Red Fang

    

    

    Stoner rock | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Malverde
    2. Wired ●
    3. Hank Is Dead
    4. Dirt Wizard
    5. Throw up
    6. Painted Parade
    7. Number Thirteen
    8. Into the Eye
    9. The Undertow
    10. Human Herd

35. 16

    El Camino

    The Black Keys

    

    

    Garage rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lonely Boy
    2. Dead and Gone
    3. Gold on the Ceiling
    4. Little Black Submarines ●
    5. Money Maker
    6. Run Right Back
    7. Sister
    8. Hell of a Season
    9. Stop Stop
    10. Nova Baby
    11. Mind Eraser

36. 15

    Unto the Locust

    Machine Head

    

    

    Thrash metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)
    2. Be Still and Know ●
    3. Locust
    4. This Is the End
    5. Darkness Within
    6. Pealrs Before the Swine
    7. Who We Are

37. 14

    The Harrow & the Harvest

    Gillian Welch

    

    

    Folk | Americana

    Tracks:

    1. Scarlet Town
    2. Dark Turn of Mind
    3. The Way It Will Be
    4. The Way It Goes ●
    5. Tennessee
    6. Down Along the Dixie Line
    7. Six White Horses
    8. Hard Times
    9. Silver Dagger
    10. The Way the Whole Thing Ends

38. 13

    The Beginning of Times

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Battle for Light
    2. Mermaid ●
    3. My Enemy
    4. You I Need
    5. Song of the Sage
    6. Three Words
    7. Reformation
    8. Soothsayer
    9. On a Stranded Shore
    10. Escape
    11. Crack in a Stone
    12. Beginning of Time

39. 12

    Th1rt3en

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sudden Death
    2. Public Enemy No. 1
    3. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
    4. We the People
    5. Guns, Drugs & Money
    6. Never Dead
    7. New World Order
    8. Fast Lane
    9. Black Swan ●
    10. Wrecker
    11. Millenium of the Blind
    12. Deadly Nightshade
    13. 13

40. 11

    Green Naugahyde

    Primus

    

    

    Funk rock | Avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. PRelude to a Crawl
    2. Hennepin Crawler
    3. Last Salmon Man
    4. Eternal Consumption Engine
    5. Tragedy's a' Comin'
    6. Eyes of the Squirrel
    7. Jilly's on Smack
    8. Lee Van Cleef ●
    9. Moron TV
    10. Green Ranger
    11. HOINFODAMAN
    12. Extinction Burst
    13. Salmon Men

41. 10

    Arrows & Anchors

    Fair to Midland

    

    

    Alternative metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Heavens to Murgatroyd
    2. Whisky & Ritalin
    3. Musical Chairs
    4. Uh-Oh
    5. Amarillo Sleeps on My Pillow
    6. A Loophole in Limbo
    7. Typhoid Mary Sends Her Best
    8. Short-Haired Tornado
    9. The Upset at Bailey Bridge
    10. Rikki Tikki Tavi
    11. Golden Parachutes
    12. Bright Bulbs and Sharp Tools
    13. Coppertank Island
    14. Three Foolproof Ways to Buy a Farm
    15. The Greener Grass ●

42. 9

    Wasting Light

    Foo Fighters

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Bridge Burning
    2. Rope
    3. Dear Rosemary ●
    4. White Limo
    5. Arlandria
    6. These Days
    7. Back & Forth
    8. A Matter of Time
    9. Miss the Misery
    10. I Should Have Known
    11. Walk

43. 8

    Hisingen Blues

    Graveyard

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Ain't Fit to Live Here
    2. No Good, Mr. Holden
    3. Hisingen Blues
    4. Uncomfortably Numb ●
    5. Buying Truth (Tack & Förlåt)
    6. Longing
    7. Ungrateful Are the Dead
    8. RSS
    9. The Siren
    10. Cooking Brew

44. 7

    Sons of the North

    Black Spiders

    

    

    Hard rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Stay Down
    2. Kiss Tried to Kill Me
    3. Just Like a Woman
    4. Easy Peasy
    5. Blood of the Kings
    6. St. Peter
    7. Mans Ruin
    8. Medusa's Eyes
    9. Sí, el Diablo
    10. What Good's a Rock without a Roll? ●

45. 6

    Outside

    O'Death

    

    

    Gothic Americana | Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Bugs
    2. Ghost Head
    3. Alamar
    4. Black Dress ●
    5. Ourselves
    6. Look at the Sun
    7. Howling Through
    8. Don't Come Back
    9. Pushing out
    10. Back of the Garden
    11. The Lake Departed

46. 5

    Blood Lust

    Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

    

    

    Occult rock | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. I'll Cut You Down
    2. Death's Door
    3. Over and Over Again ●
    4. Curse in the Trees
    5. I'm Here to Kill You
    6. 13 Candles
    7. Ritual Knife
    8. Withered Hand of Evil
    9. Down to the Fire

47. 4

    Let England Shake

    PJ Harvey

    

    

    Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Let England Shake
    2. The Last Living Rose
    3. The Glorious Land
    4. The Words That Maketh Murder ●
    5. All and Everyone
    6. On Battleship Hill
    7. England
    8. In the Dark Places
    9. Bitter Branches
    10. Hanging in the Wire
    11. Written on the Forehead
    12. The Colour of the Earth

48. 3

    The King Is Dead

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Folk rock | Americana

    Tracks:

    1. Don't Carry It All
    2. Calamity Song
    3. Rise to Me
    4. Rox in the Box
    5. January Hymn
    6. Down by the Water ●
    7. All Arise!
    8. June Hymn
    9. This Is Why We Fight
    10. Dear Avery

49. 2

    Heritage

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Heritage
    2. The Devil's Orchard
    3. I Feel the Dark
    4. Slither
    5. Nepenthe
    6. Häxprocess
    7. Famine
    8. The Lines in My Hand
    9. Folklore ●
    10. Marrow of the Earth

50. 1

    The Hunter

    Mastodon

    

    

    Progressive metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black Tongue
    2. Curl of the Burl
    3. Blasteroid
    4. Stargasm
    5. Octopus Has No Friends
    6. All the Heavy Lifting
    7. The Hunter
    8. Dry Bone Valley
    9. Thickening
    10. Creature Lives
    11. Spectrelight
    12. Bedazzled Fingernails
    13. The Sparrow ●