The Best Metal Albums of 2011

Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows	Feb 4, 2011	91.9	146	6
2	Symphony X Iconoclast	Jun 17, 2011	91.1	66	4
3	Vektor Outer Isolation	Nov 22, 2011	92.6	43	1
4	Royal Hunt Show Me How to Live	Nov 29, 2011	90.4	47	3
5	Havok Time Is Up	Mar 29, 2011	89.3	56	2
6	Insomnium One for Sorrow	Oct 17, 2011	91.5	33	1
7	Rhapsody of Fire From Chaos to Eternity	Jun 17, 2011	89.3	48	4
8	Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events	Sep 13, 2011	86.1	99	4
9	Nightwish Imaginaerum	Nov 30, 2011	87.3	69	7
10	Stratovarius Elysium	Jan 12, 2011	87.3	62	6
11	閃靈 (Chthonic) 高砂軍 (Takasago Army)	Jul 6, 2011	89.6	33	2
12	Downhell A Relative Coexistence	Apr 21, 2011	88.4	42	4
13	Theocracy As the World Bleeds	Nov 25, 2011	89.8	30	3
14	Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony	Aug 9, 2011	88.5	40	6
15	Machine Head Unto the Locust	Sep 27, 2011	88.4	39	0
16	Beyond Creation The Aura	Apr 12, 2011	90.2	23	1
17	Grand Illusion Prince of Paupers	Oct 28, 2011	93.8	10	0
18	The Magnificent The Magnificent	Nov 4, 2011	93.3	11	0
19	Visceral Disgorge Ingesting Putridity	Jun 6, 2011	91.9	15	1
20	Aquilus Griseus	Dec 21, 2011	90	23	3
21	MyGrain MyGrain	Jan 12, 2011	87.9	36	0
22	Leprous Bilateral	Aug 22, 2011	90.9	18	0
23	The Poodles Performocracy	Apr 15, 2011	92.3	13	0
24	Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues [EP]	Apr 12, 2011	90.6	17	2
25	Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich	Aug 12, 2011	88.3	28	0
26	Origin Entity	Jun 7, 2011	92.2	11	0
27	Fallujah The Harvest Wombs	Nov 22, 2011	90.8	15	2
28	Christian Muenzner Timewarp	Apr 29, 2011	92.3	10	0
29	Haken Visions	Oct 25, 2011	90.8	14	0
30	Amaranthe Amaranthe	Apr 13, 2011	84.4	60	1
31	Septicflesh The Great Mass	Apr 18, 2011	88.8	21	2
32	Obscura Omnivium	Mar 29, 2011	89.7	17	1
33	Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning	Sep 26, 2011	94.2	6	0
34	Battle Beast Steel	Apr 13, 2011	87.6	27	1
35	ReinXeed 1912	May 25, 2011	89.5	17	2
36	Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason	Feb 25, 2011	89.3	17	2
37	Opeth Heritage	Sep 14, 2011	83.7	60	3
38	Colosseum Chapter 3: Parasomnia	Mar 9, 2011	92.4	8	0
39	The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual	Jun 17, 2011	92.9	7	0
40	Destruction Day of Reckoning	Feb 18, 2011	87.9	22	0
41	Within Temptation The Unforgiving	Mar 25, 2011	85.7	36	2
42	Mr.big What If…	Jan 21, 2011	88.9	17	0
43	In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading	Jun 15, 2011	84.3	49	4
44	Eumeria Rebel Mind	Jun 28, 2011	88.7	17	1
45	All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends	Jul 26, 2011	87	25	0
46	Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors	Apr 4, 2011	91.9	8	0
47	Epheles Je Suis Autrefois	May 5, 2011	91.3	9	2
48	Amorphis The Beginning of Times	May 25, 2011	88.5	17	0
49	Galneryus Phoenix Rising	Oct 5, 2011	84.8	38	3
50	Wormrot Dirge	May 3, 2011	89.1	13	1

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