The Best Metal Albums of 2011

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Rank	Artist name	Album title	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Omnium Gatherum	New World Shadows	2011-02-04	91.3	144	6
2	Symphony X	Iconoclast	2011-06-17	90.4	59	4
3	Vektor	Outer Isolation	2011-11-22	91.8	32	1
4	Royal Hunt	Show Me How to Live	2011-11-29	90.5	41	3
5	Havok	Time Is Up	2011-03-29	89.1	51	0
6	Insomnium	One for Sorrow	2011-10-17	91.7	28	1
7	Machine Head	Unto the Locust	2011-09-27	89.7	42	0
8	Dream Theater	A Dramatic Turn of Events	2011-09-13	86.1	94	4
9	Wormrot	Dirge	2011-05-03	95	12	0
10	Rhapsody of Fire	From Chaos to Eternity	2011-06-17	88.6	44	3
11	Theocracy	As the World Bleeds	2011-11-25	89.4	32	2
12	Aquilus	Griseus	2011-12-21	90.2	26	4
13	Grand Illusion	Prince of Paupers	2011	93.9	11	0
14	Downhell	A Relative Coexistence	2011-04-21	87.8	45	4
15	The Magnificent	The Magnificent	2011-11-01	93.3	11	0
16	MyGrain	MyGrain	2011-01-12	87.6	39	0
17	All Shall Perish	This Is Where It Ends	2011-07-26	88.7	30	0
18	Visceral Disgorge	Ingesting Putridity	2011-06-06	95	7	1
19	Chthonic	Takasago Army	2011-07-06	88.5	31	1
20	The Poodles	Performocracy	2011-04-15	91.8	14	0
21	Stratovarius	Elysium	2011-01-12	85.8	55	5
22	Fallujah	The Harvest Wombs	2011-11-22	91.1	16	2
23	Nightwish	Imaginaerum	2011-11-30	85.5	56	6
24	Septicflesh	The Great Mass	2011-04-18	90.4	18	2
25	Battle Beast	Steel	2011-04-13	88.3	27	1
26	Between the Buried and Me	The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues [EP]	2011-04-12	90.8	15	1
27	Destruction	Day of Reckoning	2011-02-18	89.2	21	0
28	Amaranthe	Amaranthe	2011-04-13	84.3	65	2
29	Eumeria	Rebel Mind	2011-06-28	90	17	1
30	In Flames	Sounds of a Playground Fading	2011-06-15	84.8	56	4
31	Opeth	Heritage	2011-09-14	84.4	61	3
32	Mr.big	What If…	2011-01-21	89.8	17	0
33	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Agony	2011-08-09	86.3	38	6
34	Galneryus	Phoenix Rising	2011-10-05	85.6	44	3
35	Vader	Welcome to the Morbid Reich	2011-08-12	88	25	0
36	Decapitated	Carnival Is Forever	2011-07-12	90.4	14	0
37	ReinXeed	1912	2011-05-25	88.9	19	2
38	Colosseum	Chapter 3: Parasomnia	2011-03-09	91.6	10	0
39	Within Temptation	The Unforgiving	2011-03-25	85.7	39	1
40	Myrath	Tales of the Sands	2011-09-26	90.8	12	0
41	Unexpect	Fables of the Sleepless Empire	2011-05-31	91.5	10	1
42	Anterior	Echoes for the Fallen	2011-08-29	89.2	16	0
43	Leprous	Bilateral	2011-08-22	90.4	12	0
44	Rotten Sound	Cursed	2011-03-15	94	5	0
45	Christian Muenzner	Timewarp	2011-04-29	91.4	9	0
46	Amorphis	The Beginning of Times	2011-05-25	88.8	16	0
47	Breakdown of Sanity	Mirrors	2011-04-04	92.1	7	0
48	Obscura	Omnivium	2011-03-29	88	18	1
49	Alcest	Le Secret [EP]	2011-05-20	91.4	8	0
50	Origin	Entity	2011-06-07	91.3	8	0
51	Trivium	In Waves	2011-08-02	86.2	26	1
52	Dreamshade	What Silence Hides	2011-01-26	86.7	23	1
53	Devin Townsend Project	Deconstruction	2011-06-20	89.3	12	0
54	Scar Symmetry	The Unseen Empire	2011-04-15	84.8	31	3
55	Essence	Lost in Violence	2011	91.7	6	1
56	Autopsy	Macabre Eternal	2011-05-16	91.7	6	0
57	Beyond Creation	The Aura	2011-04-12	86.7	19	1
58	Anthrax	Worship Music	2011-09-13	87.7	15	0
59	Epheles	Je Suis Autrefois	2011-05-05	91	7	2
60	Times of Grace	The Hymn of a Broken Man	2011-01-18	86.9	18	1
61	Megadeth	TH1RT3EN	2011-11-01	82.8	46	4
62	Mercenary	Metamorphosis	2011-02-25	87.1	17	0
63	Mastodon	The Hunter	2011-09-27	87	17	1
64	Exhumed	All Guts, No Glory	2011-07-05	92	5	0
65	Sylosis	Edge of the Earth	2011-03-11	89.4	9	0
66	Haken	Visions	2011-10-25	88.8	10	0
67	Woods of Desolation	Torn Beyond Reason	2011-02-25	87.9	12	2
68	Heretoir	Heretoir	2011-02-25	87.2	14	3
69	Ruined	맞불놀이	2011-04-22	89.5	8	1
70	Angel Vivaldi	Universal Language [EP]	2011-05-24	88.9	9	0
71	Andy James	Andy James	2011-05	87.5	12	3
72	DevilDriver	Beast	2011-02-22	86.7	14	0
73	Anomalous	Ohmnivalent	2011-03-15	88.1	10	1
74	Sólstafir	Svartir Sandar	2011-10-14	91	5	0
75	Orpheus	Bleed the Way	2011-02-18	89.4	7	1
76	Xerath	II	2011-04-25	90.8	5	0
77	Tesseract	One	2011-03-21	89.3	7	1
78	Work Of Art	In Progress	2011-08-26	86.6	13	0
79	Versailles	Holy Grail	2011-07-15	89.7	6	0
80	Age Of Artemis	Overcoming Limits	2011-12	89.7	6	0
81	Amon Amarth	Surtur Rising	2011-03-25	83.5	25	2
82	To My Last Breath	The Deadly Horde	2011-12-23	88.3	8	1
83	Evile	Five Serpent's Teeth	2011-09-26	88.6	7	0
84	Toxic Holocaust	Conjure and Command	2011-07-19	90	5	0
85	Beherit	At the Devil's Studio 1990	2011-06-19	89.2	6	0
86	Deicide	To Hell With God	2011-02-15	84.4	18	1
87	Betraying The Martyrs	Breathe in Life	2011-09-20	86.9	10	3
88	Ninesin	Ninesin	2011-09-17	89	6	0
89	Cerebral Bore	Maniacal Miscreation	2011-04-11	85.8	12	1
90	Animals as Leaders	Weightless	2011-11-04	85.8	12	0
91	Revocation	Chaos of Forms	2011-08-16	86.1	11	0
92	The Black Dahlia Murder	Ritual	2011-06-17	87.9	7	0
93	Terrormight	Civilization Down	2011-02-11	84.8	14	3
94	Dragon Guardian	聖魔剣ヴァルキュリアス( Holy & Evil Sword Valkyrious)	2011-12-07	84.6	14	2
95	Blaspherian	Infernal Warriors of Death	2011-03-08	89	5	0
96	Dir En Grey	Dum Spiro Spero	2011-08-09	89	5	0
97	The Unguided	Hell Frost	2011-11-30	83.5	17	1
98	Blood Stain Child	ε psilon	2011-06-15	80.7	32	3
99	Whitesnake	Forevermore	2011-03-25	85.2	11	0
100	Wolverine	Communication Lost	2011-05-23	87.8	6	1

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