This will probably be the last time I post my list until I start my countdown over at Metalsetlists. Of the albums I have left to listen to this year, most of them could take the spot of number 1, so I wanna keep it sort of a mystery. So here is my best of 2011 list pre-Mastodon, Cormorant, Giant Squid, and Vektor.
1. Protest the Hero – Scurrilous 2. The Seven Mile Journey – Notes for Synthesis 3. sleepmakeswaves - …and so we destroyed everything 4. Light Bearer - Lapsus 5. Subrosa – No Help For The Mighty Ones 6. Grayceon – All We Destroy 7. Yob – Atma 8. Fen – Epoch 9. Symphony X – Iconoclast 10. Loss – Despond 11. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa 12. Red Fang – Murder the Mountains 13. Disma – Toward The Megalith 14. Bloodiest – Descent 15. Hunters – From Birth To Soil 16. Unexpect – Fables of the Sleepless Empire 17. Revocation – Chaos of Forms 18. The Project Hate MCMXCIX – Bleeding The New Apocalypse 19. Helms Alee – Weatherhead 20. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean 21. Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 22. Autopsy – Macabre Eternal 23. Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling 24. Battles – Glass Drop 25. Wood of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason 26. Tesseract – One 27. Vreid – V 28. Primordial – Redemption At Puritans Hand 29. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 30. Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You 31. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues 32. Indian – Guiltless 33. Fear the Fiasco – Hatch 34. Deafheaven – Roads to Judah 35. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light 36. Weedeater - Jason… The Dragon 37. Castle – In Witch Order 38. Maná – Drama Y Luz 39. Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising 40. The Gates Of Slumber – The Wretch 41. Havok – Time Is Up 42. Obscura – Omnivium 43. Witch Mountain – South of Salem 44. Thomas Giles – Pulse 45. Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction 46. Devin Townsend Project – Ghost 47. Amorphis – The Beginning Of Times 48. Arch Enemy – Khaos Legions 49. Yes – Fly From Here 50. Krallice – Diotima 51. Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pink Magcik 52. Dark Castle – Surrender To All Life Beyond Form 53. Polkadot Cadaver – Sex Offender 54. Pentagram – Last Rites 55. Altar of Plagues – Mammal 56. Unearth - Darkness In The Light 57. Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst The Ashes 58. Scale the Summit – The Collective 59. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges 60. Buckethead – It’s Alive 61. Opeth – Heritage 62. Crowbar – Sever The Wicked Hand 63. Dance Gavin Dance – Downtown Battle Mountain II 64. The Human Abstract – Digital Veil 65. Septicflesh – The Great Mass 66. Weird Al Yankovic – Alpocalypse 67. Origin – Entity 68. Boris - Heavy Rocks II 69. Buckethead – Empty Space 70. Children of Bodom – Relentless Reckless Forever 71. Arafel - For Battles Once Fought 72. All Shall Perish – This Is Where It Ends 73. Boris – Attention Please 74. Gridlink – Orphan 75. Trivium – In Waves
1. Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues 2. Trundler - Trundler 3. Ancients – Ancients 4. Thou – The Archer and The Owle 5. Awake in Sleep – Awake in Sleep 6. Firegills – If You Can’t Take The Fire, Stay Out Of The Gills 7. Enslaved – The Sleepless Gods
No. Bitches gonna bitch, it's a great album and I can't wait to hear them play stuff off it next month.
Yes. A lot of it I just found to be boring. Devils Orchard and Famine were the only songs I found to have value. Slither was decent too. But even the best song on Heritage was a piece of crap compared to the worst on Deliverance or Morningrise.
No. Bitches gonna bitch, it's a great album and I can't wait to hear them play stuff off it next month.
Yes. A lot of it I just found to be boring. Devils Orchard and Famine were the only songs I found to have value. Slither was decent too. But even the best song on Heritage was a piece of crap compared to the worst on Deliverance or Morningrise.
*siiiiiigh* I get such a Deep Purple vibe from it on some songs, it's awesome...
And I don't know if you'll find any solace in this, Jay, but I wouldn't have liked the record had it been any other band. I don't dislike it because it's Opeth doing something that isn't what I want from them, I really just don't like the album.
Well, it makes me feel better that you're not an Opeth purist who's going to go to one of the shows on this tour and be totally disappointed because they play these songs. I went over to metalsetlists to read a review of one of the shows and the amount of bitching just made me go <_>.
Well, I would've bitched had I already bought a ticket because I don't like that material. But I'm going to Foo Fighters the day before, so I already couldn't go.
Perhaps. I've still got Priest, Mastodon and BTBAM left to go. And I've seen some awesome acts already. Protest the Hero, Symphony X, Giant Squid, Cormorant, Soundgarden, Red Fang, Yob, Dispirit are all bands I'd give a 9/10 or higher.
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1. Protest the Hero – Scurrilous
2. The Seven Mile Journey – Notes for Synthesis
3. sleepmakeswaves - …and so we destroyed everything
4. Light Bearer - Lapsus
5. Subrosa – No Help For The Mighty Ones
6. Grayceon – All We Destroy
7. Yob – Atma
8. Fen – Epoch
9. Symphony X – Iconoclast
10. Loss – Despond
11. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
12. Red Fang – Murder the Mountains
13. Disma – Toward The Megalith
14. Bloodiest – Descent
15. Hunters – From Birth To Soil
16. Unexpect – Fables of the Sleepless Empire
17. Revocation – Chaos of Forms
18. The Project Hate MCMXCIX – Bleeding The New Apocalypse
19. Helms Alee – Weatherhead
20. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
21. Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
22. Autopsy – Macabre Eternal
23. Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling
24. Battles – Glass Drop
25. Wood of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
26. Tesseract – One
27. Vreid – V
28. Primordial – Redemption At Puritans Hand
29. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
30. Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You
31. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
32. Indian – Guiltless
33. Fear the Fiasco – Hatch
34. Deafheaven – Roads to Judah
35. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
36. Weedeater - Jason… The Dragon
37. Castle – In Witch Order
38. Maná – Drama Y Luz
39. Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising
40. The Gates Of Slumber – The Wretch
41. Havok – Time Is Up
42. Obscura – Omnivium
43. Witch Mountain – South of Salem
44. Thomas Giles – Pulse
45. Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction
46. Devin Townsend Project – Ghost
47. Amorphis – The Beginning Of Times
48. Arch Enemy – Khaos Legions
49. Yes – Fly From Here
50. Krallice – Diotima
51. Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pink Magcik
52. Dark Castle – Surrender To All Life Beyond Form
53. Polkadot Cadaver – Sex Offender
54. Pentagram – Last Rites
55. Altar of Plagues – Mammal
56. Unearth - Darkness In The Light
57. Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst The Ashes
58. Scale the Summit – The Collective
59. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
60. Buckethead – It’s Alive
61. Opeth – Heritage
62. Crowbar – Sever The Wicked Hand
63. Dance Gavin Dance – Downtown Battle Mountain II
64. The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
65. Septicflesh – The Great Mass
66. Weird Al Yankovic – Alpocalypse
67. Origin – Entity
68. Boris - Heavy Rocks II
69. Buckethead – Empty Space
70. Children of Bodom – Relentless Reckless Forever
71. Arafel - For Battles Once Fought
72. All Shall Perish – This Is Where It Ends
73. Boris – Attention Please
74. Gridlink – Orphan
75. Trivium – In Waves
1. Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
2. Trundler - Trundler
3. Ancients – Ancients
4. Thou – The Archer and The Owle
5. Awake in Sleep – Awake in Sleep
6. Firegills – If You Can’t Take The Fire, Stay Out Of The Gills
7. Enslaved – The Sleepless Gods
Duh.