The Best Metal Albums of 2011

Rank	Artist	Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Omnium Gatherum	New World Shadows	Feb 4, 2011	91.4	142	6
2	Symphony X	Iconoclast	Jun 17, 2011	90.7	60	4
3	Vektor	Outer Isolation	Nov 22, 2011	91.8	32	1
4	Royal Hunt	Show Me How to Live	Nov 29, 2011	90.5	41	3
5	Havok	Time Is Up	Mar 29, 2011	89	53	0
6	Insomnium	One for Sorrow	Oct 17, 2011	91.7	27	1
7	Dream Theater	A Dramatic Turn of Events	Sep 13, 2011	86	94	4
8	Machine Head	Unto the Locust	Sep 27, 2011	89.4	41	0
9	Rhapsody of Fire	From Chaos to Eternity	Jun 17, 2011	88.7	45	4
10	Wormrot	Dirge	May 3, 2011	94.4	11	0
11	Theocracy	As the World Bleeds	Nov 25, 2011	89.4	32	2
12	Grand Illusion	Prince of Paupers	Oct 28, 2011	93.9	11	0
13	Downhell	A Relative Coexistence	Apr 21, 2011	87.8	45	4
14	Aquilus	Griseus	Dec 21, 2011	90	27	4
15	The Magnificent	The Magnificent	Nov 4, 2011	93.3	11	0
16	Chthonic	Takasago Army	Jul 6, 2011	88.6	32	1
17	Stratovarius	Elysium	Jan 12, 2011	86	57	5
18	MyGrain	MyGrain	Jan 12, 2011	87.6	39	0
19	All Shall Perish	This Is Where It Ends	Jul 26, 2011	88.7	30	0
20	Visceral Disgorge	Ingesting Putridity	Jun 6, 2011	95	7	1
21	Nightwish	Imaginaerum	Nov 30, 2011	85.7	59	7
22	The Poodles	Performocracy	Apr 15, 2011	91.8	14	0
23	Fallujah	The Harvest Wombs	Nov 22, 2011	91.1	16	2
24	Septicflesh	The Great Mass	Apr 18, 2011	90.4	18	2
25	Amaranthe	Amaranthe	Apr 13, 2011	84.5	65	2
26	Battle Beast	Steel	Apr 13, 2011	88.3	27	1
27	Between the Buried and Me	The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues [EP]	Apr 12, 2011	90.8	15	1
28	Destruction	Day of Reckoning	Feb 18, 2011	89.2	21	0
29	Eumeria	Rebel Mind	Jun 28, 2011	90	17	1
30	Mr.big	What If…	Jan 21, 2011	89.8	17	0
31	In Flames	Sounds of a Playground Fading	Jun 15, 2011	84.7	55	4
32	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Agony	Aug 9, 2011	86.3	38	6
33	Opeth	Heritage	Sep 14, 2011	84.1	63	3
34	Galneryus	Phoenix Rising	Oct 5, 2011	85.6	44	3
35	Vader	Welcome to the Morbid Reich	Aug 12, 2011	88	25	0
36	ReinXeed	1912	May 25, 2011	89.1	19	2
37	Colosseum	Chapter 3: Parasomnia	Mar 9, 2011	91.4	11	0
38	Within Temptation	The Unforgiving	Mar 25, 2011	85.7	39	1
39	Myrath	Tales of the Sands	Sep 26, 2011	90.8	12	0
40	Leprous	Bilateral	Aug 22, 2011	90.4	13	0
41	Unexpect	Fables of the Sleepless Empire	May 31, 2011	91.5	10	1
42	Anterior	Echoes for the Fallen	Aug 29, 2011	89.2	16	0
43	Rotten Sound	Cursed	Mar 15, 2011	94	5	0
44	Christian Muenzner	Timewarp	Apr 29, 2011	91.4	9	0
45	Decapitated	Carnival Is Forever	Jul 12, 2011	88.9	16	0
46	Amorphis	The Beginning of Times	May 25, 2011	88.8	16	0
47	Obscura	Omnivium	Mar 29, 2011	87.8	19	1
48	Breakdown of Sanity	Mirrors	Apr 4, 2011	92.1	7	0
49	Alcest	Le Secret [EP]	May 20, 2011	91.4	8	0
50	Beyond Creation	The Aura	Apr 12, 2011	87.4	20	1

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