My favourite albums from 2011

1. 50

   Redemption at the Puritan's Hand

   Primordial

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Folk metal
   • Pagan metal

2. 49

   Time Is up

   Havok

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Thrash metal

3. 48

   Grace for Drowning

   Steven Wilson

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Jazz fusion

4. 47

   Capricorn

   Orchid

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Traditional doom metal
   • Heavy metal

5. 46

   Going out in Style

   Dropkick Murphys

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Celtic punk

6. 45

   Another Night

   High Spirits

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Heavy metal

7. 44

   Outer Isolation

   Vektor

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Technical thrash metal
   • Progressive metal

8. 43

   Deconstruction

   Devin Townsend

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Avant-garde metal

9. 42

   Pressure & Time

   Rival Sons

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Hard rock

10. 41

    Visions

    Haken

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Progressive rock

11. 40

    Surtur Rising

    Amon Amarth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Viking metal

12. 39

    One for Sorrow

    Insomnium

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

13. 38

    Living with the Ancients

    Blood Ceremony

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Occult rock
    • Doom metal

14. 37

    Conditions of My Parole

    Puscifer

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Industrial rock

15. 36

    Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa

    Moonsorrow

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Folk metal
    • Pagan metal

16. 35

    Super Van Vacation

    1000mods

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Heavy psych

17. 34

    Degeneration Street

    The Dears

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Indie rock

18. 33

    Forever Abomination

    Skeletonwitch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blackened thrash metal

19. 32

    Blunt Force Trauma

    Cavalera Conspiracy

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Groove metal

20. 31

    Sounds of Violence

    Onslaught

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

21. 30

    Ride with Death

    Speedwolf

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Speed metal

22. 29

    Dead Roots Stirring

    Elder

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Stoner metal

23. 28

    Svartir Sandar

    Sólstafir

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal

24. 27

    Sex Offender

    Polkadot Cadaver

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Alternative metal

25. 26

    Bilateral

    Leprous

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Avant-garde metal

26. 25

    Sensory Overdrive

    Michael Monroe

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Glam punk
    • Hard rock

27. 24

    Little Hell

    City and Colour

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk
    • Indie rock

28. 23

    Dust Bowl

    Joe Bonamassa

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues

29. 22

    Kairos

    Sepultura

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal
    • Thrash metal

30. 21

    Several Shades of Why

    J Mascis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk

31. 20

    The Great Escape Artist

    Jane's Addiction

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Art rock

32. 19

    Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea

    Black Stone Cherry

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Southern rock

33. 18

    Rengeteg

    Thy Catafalque

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Avant-garde metal

34. 17

    Murder the Mountains

    Red Fang

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Stoner metal

35. 16

    El Camino

    The Black Keys

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Garage rock
    • Blues rock

36. 15

    Unto the Locust

    Machine Head

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Groove metal

37. 14

    The Harrow & the Harvest

    Gillian Welch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk
    • Americana

38. 13

    The Beginning of Times

    Amorphis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • melodic death metal

39. 12

    Th1rt3en

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Heavy metal

40. 11

    Green Naugahyde

    Primus

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Funk rock
    • Avant-garde rock

41. 10

    Arrows & Anchors

    Fair to Midland

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Progressive rock

42. 9

    Wasting Light

    Foo Fighters

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Hard rock

43. 8

    Hisingen Blues

    Graveyard

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock

44. 7

    Sons of the North

    Black Spiders

    
    

    Tracklist

    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? ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Stoner rock

45. 6

    Outside

    O'Death

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic Americana
    • Folk

46. 5

    Blood Lust

    Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Occult rock
    • Doom metal

47. 4

    Let England Shake

    PJ Harvey

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Art rock

48. 3

    Heritage

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

49. 2

    The Hunter

    Mastodon

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Sludge metal

50. 1

    The King Is Dead

    The Decemberists

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Americana