TOP 25 of 2011
1. Accu§er - Dependent Domination
2. Havok - Time is Up
3. Anvil - Juggernaut of Justice
4. Vektor - Outer Isolation
5. Anthrax - Worship Music
6. Megadeth - Th1rt3en
7. Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
8. U.D.O. - Rev-Raptor
9. Yes - Fly from Here
10. Motörhead - The World Is Yours
11. Riot - Immortal Souls
12. Iced Earth - Dystopia
13. Witchhammer - Chapter 3: In Serenity and Awe
12. Vicious Rumors - Razorback Killers
14. Artillery - My Blood
15. Stryper - The Covering
16. Nazareth - Big Dogz
17. The Rods - Vengeance
18. Exciter - Death Machine
19. Hammerfall - Infected
20. Saxon - Call to Arms
21. Believer - Transhuman
22. Journey - Eclipse
23. Whitesnake - Forevermore
24. Uriah Heep - Into the Wild
25. speed\kill/hate - Out For Blood

I've only bought eight. I can still make a top five.

1. Iced Earth - Dystopia
2. Saxon - Call to Arms
3. Uriah Heep - Into the Wild
4. Mystic Prophecy - Ravenlord
5. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

That also pretty much sums up the ones I've really liked. The Nightwish album was a bit of a disappointment as I found it quite dull.

Sounds like I didn't miss much this year.

The first track on the new Yes album is excellent. After that it's really boring.

The RIOT disc was the strongest I have heard all year. I guess 2nd would be DREAM THEATER although I don't feel the urge to return to it too often.

I could only do a top ten:

1) Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2)Stryper - The Covering
3) Megadeth - 13
4) Saxon - Call To Arms
5) Anthrax - Worship Music
6)Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
7) Opeth - Heritage
Pentagram - Last Rites
9) Anvil - Juggernaut Of Justice
10) White Wizzard - Flying Tigers

Disappointments:
Sebastian Back - Kicking & Screaming
Mastodon - The Hunter


WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
Queenryche - Dedicated To Chaos

Vektor -Outer Isolation

I am still working on mine. Its that time of year to take all the 2011 releases and listen to them together

Here's my Top 10 New Releases and Top 5 reissues of 2011.

New Releases:

1. Opeth - Heritage
2. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
3. Rush - Time Machine: Live In Cleveland
4. Yes - Fly From Here
5. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients
6. Orchid - Capricorn
7. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
8. Blackfield - Welcome To My DNA
9. Premonition 13 - 13
10. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

Reissues:

1. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 40th Anniversary
2. Jimi Hendrix - Winterland (box set)
3. Miles Davis - Live In Europe 1967 (box set)
4. Robin Trower - A Tale Untold: The Chrysalis Years (box set)
5. King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black - 40th Anniversary

I still haven't heard the new Jelly Jam and the new Steve Hackett albums, both of which have the potential to change this list.

I didn't even come close to buying enough new releases to make a list, so I can only put them in order of which I've enjoyed most:

1. Riot - Immortal Soul
2. Anthrax - Worship Music
3. Megadeth - Th1rt3en
4. Vektor - Outer Isolation

Struggling to remember if there's any other 2011 releases I have. Really need to get the new Saxon, Symphony X, Vicious Rumors, and Havok

1.Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire
2.Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand
3.Times of Grace - Hymns of a Broken Man
4.Trivium - In Waves
5.Megadeth - Th1rt3en
6.Behold the Kingdom - The Eyes of the Wicked Shall Fail
7.In the Midst Of Lions - Shadows
8.Duff McKagan's Loaded - The Taking
9.Grave Robber - You're All Gonna Die
10.Hands - Give Me Rest
11.Unearth - Darkness in Light
12.Becoming the Archetype - Celestial Completion
13.Charred Walls of the Damned - Cold Winds on Timeless Days
14.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
15.Sleeping Giant - Kingdom Days In An Evil Age
16.Grave Digger - The Clans are Still Marching
17.TYR - The Lay of Thrym
18.Lance King - A Moment in Chiros
19.Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
20.In Flames - Sounds of a Playground

i did a fave 100 on another forum, so i'll just paste that here. in no particular order...

Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Satan's Host - Celebration: For the Love of Satan
Nasty Pig D*ck - Flesh for the Worms
Apostles of Perversion - Meeting of Atrocities
Gridlink - Orphan
Lock Up - Necropolis Transparent
Geinazaug - The Wretched Dominion
Profanation - Contorted Bodies In Pain
Origin - Entity
Cranial Osteotomy - Victim of Wicked Sickness
Visceral Disgorge - Ingesting Putridity
Syphilic - A Composition of Murder
Slamentation - Procreating a New Body Art
Inhabit - Pray for Nothing
Cephalic Impurity - Unique Brute Revival
Faeces - Upstream
Decaying Purity - The Existence of Infinite Agony
Thirst of Revenge - The Instinct of Evil Is Near
Pathology - Awaken to the Suffering
Ingested - The Surreption
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition - Sheep' n' Guns
Deranged - Cut Carve Rip Serve
Scattered Remains - Led to the Slaughter
Proctohematorrea - Herramientas de Tortura
Desecrated Sphere - The Unmasking Reality
Skewered - Skewered
Criminal Vagina - In Gore We Blast
Velocidad Absurda - Reborn for the Extermination
The Unborn Dead - Primitive Origins
Goregast - Desechos Humanos
Wafat - Exhausted Soul
Disfiguring the Goddess - Circle of Nine
Carnivorous Voracity - Debasement Incarnated
Gripe - The Future Doesn't Need You
Bodysnatch - Insights of a Rotten Theatre
Aposepsy - Aposepsy
Auticed - Cemetery of Necronymph
Grog - Scooping the Cranial Insides
F*ck the Facts - Die Miserable
Amongst the Deceit - Tribulations of Man
Genital Nectar - Spermatozoa Extrauterine Slam
Decrepit Cadaver - The Beginning of Depravity
Severed Crotch - The Nature of Entropy
Wadge - Grindcore Lu'au
Gangrena - The Zombie Chronicles
Oblivionized - Abhorrent Evolution
Drain of Impurity - Human Anatomy
Deformed Slut - Stench of Carnage
Vile - Metamorphosis
Rectal Smegma - Because We Care
FleshTorture - The Stench of Humanity
Excision - Brutal Cumshot
Paroxysmal Butchering - Supreme Revulsion
Oerjgrinder - Grind From Da Hood
Cenotaph - Re-puked Purulency
Spasm - Taboo Tales
Carnal Diafragma - Planet of Children's Heads
Basement Torture Killings - The Second Cumming
Cemetery Rapist - The Smut Circus
Vaulting - Nucleus
Krisiun - The Great Execution
Neoandertals - Ebu Gogo Gutting the Child
Abated Mass of Flesh - Moth and Rust in the Temple of Putridity
Hecatomb - Mighty Chaos
Screwrot - Redigested Regurgitation
Haemorrhage - Hospital Carnage
Acranius - The Echo of Her Cracking Chest
Japanische Kampfhörspiele - Kaputte nackte Affen
Plasmoptysis - Dawn the Plague
Demented Retarded - Perverse Spiele Fotzendose
Rottenness - Die Wege der Lust
Carnal Disfigurement - Inhuman Devoured Content From Cranial Cavity
Defeatist - Tyranny of Decay
Abnormity - Irreversible Disintegration
Bodily Wastes / Omphalectoicxanthopsia - Split
Blast Perversion - Female Massacre
Vermis Antecessor - The Subliminal Way of Flesh
Fumes of Decay - Devouring the Excavated
Amputation Spree - Terminal Velocity
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
Askaris - The Waiting Room
Mindly Rotten - Proliferation of Disaster
Condemned - Realms of the Ungodly
Sukkuba - Samar Gore Adok
Gurglectomy - Seas of Rotting Vomit
Disarticulating Extinguishment - Psalms of Wrath
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Natrium - Elegy for the Flesh
Ezophagothomia - Instinct of Inhuman Devourment
Thirst of Revenge - Annihilation of Races
Benighted - Asylum Cave
Gorgasm - Orgy of Murder
Defilement - Revel in Madness
Splattered Entrails - Nauseate
Porky Vagina - Bukkageddon
Extirpated - Decomposition & Decay
Analdicktion - Sluts
Looking for an Answer - Eterno Treblinka
Disfigured - Amputated Gorewhore

1.Skeletonwitch-Forever Abomination
2.Edguy-Age of The Joker
3.Disfiguring The Goddess-Circle of Nine
4.Believer-Transhuman
5.The Famine-The Architects of Guilt

MC, all I have to say is WOW!

I could never put these in order, but here are my top 20.

Beardfish - Mammoth
Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising
Black Sun Aeon - Blacklight Deliverance
Cynthesis - DeEvolution
Devin Townsend Project, The - Deconstruction
Gates Of Slumber, The - The Wretch
Haken - Visions
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Joseph Magazine - Night Of The Red Sky
Leprous - Bilateral
Living Fields, The - Running Out Of Daylight
Machine Head - Unto The Locust
Proto-Kaw - Forth
Redemption - This Mortal Coil
RoutaSielu - Pimeys
Tangent, The - COMM
Times Of Grace - The Hymn Of A Broken Man
Trillium - Alloy
Tyr - The Lay Of Thrym
Wayne Static - Pighammer

If I had to pick an ultimate favorite, it would probably be Dystopia. I mean, I know the lyrics to this album! I never learn lyrics these days. But this album is so catchy and I've listened to it so much, I just know all the words.

1. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
2. Septicflesh - The Great Mass
3. Burzum - Fallen
4. Megadeth - 13
5. Anthrax - Worship Music

MC, where in the world do you find the time to listen to that much music???

I'm jealous!

1. Riot - Immortal Soul
2. The Order Of Chaos - Burn These Dreams
3. Headshot - Synchronicity
4. Tokyo Blade - Thousand Men Strong
5. Consfearacy - Consfearacy
6. Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions
7. Mortillery - Murder Death Kill
8. Tyranex - Extermination Has Begun
9. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
10. Hatesphere - The Great Bludgeoning
11. Evile - Five Serpent's Teeth
12. Onslaught - Sounds Of Violence
13. Anvil - Juggernaut Of Justice
14. Crustacean - Greed, Tyranny & Sodomy
15. Midnight Chaser - Rough And Tough
16. Invection - Facet Of Aberration
17. The Force - Nations Under Attack
18. Revocation - Chaos Of Forms
19. Shredhead - Human Nature
20. Warbringer - World Torn Asunder
21. Hell - Human Remains
22. Asgard - The Seal Of Madness
23. Sign Of The Jackal - The Beyond
24. Degradation - Juggernaut
25. Alpha Tiger - Man Or Machine

I can already pick up my top five:

1- Riot: Immortal soul

2- Havok: Time is up

3- UDO: Rev-Raptor

4- Vicious Rumors: razorback killers

5- Hammerfall: Infected

What a year, huh? so much great metal already bought, so much metal left to buy

Mastodon - The Hunter
Anthrax - Worship Music
Stryper - The Covering
Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand

Opeth - Heritage
Malison Rogue - Malison Rogue
Yes - Fly from Here

That's all I've heard this year. I would like to see how good the new Vektor, Riot, and Satan's Host albums are, though.

Will delay my list until later, as I expect to get some 2011's for Christmas.

It's been a decent year, in my opinion, and I looks for the above lists that I might have to pick up the new Iced Earth and Megadeth, as well.

Malison Rogue obviously.
I'd like to mention UDO, White Wizzard and Powerwolf also.