The Best Metal Albums of 2011

Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows	Feb 4, 2011	91.7	153	5
2	Symphony X Iconoclast	Jun 17, 2011	90.9	65	4
3	Visceral Disgorge Ingesting Putridity	Jun 6, 2011	96.5	12	1
4	Vektor Outer Isolation	Nov 22, 2011	91.5	38	1
5	Royal Hunt Show Me How to Live	Nov 29, 2011	90.1	47	3
6	Insomnium One for Sorrow	Oct 17, 2011	91.3	34	1
7	Havok Time Is Up	Mar 29, 2011	89	55	0
8	Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events	Sep 13, 2011	86.1	102	4
9	Rhapsody of Fire From Chaos to Eternity	Jun 17, 2011	88.8	49	4
10	Wormrot Dirge	May 3, 2011	94.5	13	1
11	Aquilus Griseus	Dec 21, 2011	90.8	28	4
12	Machine Head Unto the Locust	Sep 27, 2011	88.6	43	0
13	Theocracy As the World Bleeds	Nov 25, 2011	89.6	34	3
14	Stratovarius Elysium	Jan 12, 2011	86.8	61	6
15	Nightwish Imaginaerum	Nov 30, 2011	86.5	63	7
16	Downhell A Relative Coexistence	Apr 21, 2011	87.6	48	4
17	Grand Illusion Prince of Paupers	Oct 28, 2011	93.5	12	0
18	Chthonic Takasago Army	Jul 6, 2011	88.7	33	1
19	Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony	Aug 9, 2011	87.3	43	8
20	MyGrain MyGrain	Jan 12, 2011	87.6	39	0
21	All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends	Jul 26, 2011	88.7	30	0
22	The Poodles Performocracy	Apr 15, 2011	91.8	14	0
23	Leprous Bilateral	Aug 22, 2011	90.6	18	0
24	Fallujah The Harvest Wombs	Nov 22, 2011	91.1	16	2
25	Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues [EP]	Apr 12, 2011	90.7	17	3
26	Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning	Sep 26, 2011	96	5	1
27	Obscura Omnivium	Mar 29, 2011	89.9	20	1
28	Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire	May 31, 2011	92.4	11	1
29	The Magnificent The Magnificent	Nov 4, 2011	92.2	11	0
30	Amaranthe Amaranthe	Apr 13, 2011	84.2	69	2
31	Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich	Aug 12, 2011	88.3	26	0
32	Christian Muenzner Timewarp	Apr 29, 2011	92	11	0
33	Beyond Creation The Aura	Apr 12, 2011	88.8	22	1
34	Destruction Day of Reckoning	Feb 18, 2011	88.3	24	0
35	Mr.big What If…	Jan 21, 2011	89.5	18	0
36	Opeth Heritage	Sep 14, 2011	83.8	66	3
37	In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading	Jun 15, 2011	84.8	52	4
38	Battle Beast Steel	Apr 13, 2011	87.6	27	1
39	ReinXeed 1912	May 25, 2011	89.1	19	2
40	Colosseum Chapter 3: Parasomnia	Mar 9, 2011	91.4	11	0

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