Yes, sooner or later this thread should be here, and im just going to post mine now even though i still need to hear some stuff, like the new Mastodon for example:

Iceage - New Brigade
Gridlink - Orphan
Pulling Teeth - Funerary
Deafheven - Roads to Judah
Trapped Under Ice - Big Kiss Goodnight
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore
Foundation - When The Smoke Clears
Touche Amore - Parting the Sea, Between Brightness and Me

+++ Negative Plane, Rot in Hell, Title Fight

random order, only full lenghts, only albums ive bought, all subject to change etc.

Ive only heard the Leviathan albums once so far, but it rocks, I think it should be on the list


also hoping there will be Deathwish lists again this year

I wanna be part of the deathwish list this year.

I'd have to say my favorite album this year is Title Fight's Shed. Trap Them's Darker Handcraft would be a close second.

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love these threads, let's me know what good stuff i missed all year...

Obsequiae - Suspended in the Brume of Eos
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
and you will know us by the trail of the dead - tao of the dead
Cave In - White Silence
Various Artists - AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered
Tombs - Path of Totality
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
Trash Talk - Awake EP
Young Widows - In And Out Of Youth And Lightness

the obsequiae album is by far my favorite of the year, and the Lou Reed/ Metallica collaboration is by far the worst album of 2011, perhaps ever.

Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Thursday - No Devolucion
Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
Opeth - Heritage
Rotting Out - Street Prowl
Deafheaven - Roads To Judah
My Fictions - I Want Nothing
Globe and Beast - The Life And Times
Disma - Towards The Megalith
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

Raindance- Love Under the Sun
The Cinema- My Blood is Full of Airplanes
Circle Takes the Square - Rites of Initiation
Braid- Closer to Closed
The Dangerous Summer- War Paint
Harm's Way- Isolation
Taking Back Sunday -ST
Ed Gein- Bad Luck
Frank Ocean- Nostalgia, Ultra
The Weeknd- House of Balloons
Moving Mountains- Waves
Lower than Atlantis- World Record


These albums got the heaviest rotation according to my last.fm for 2011 releases.

top 15
(no particular order)
Mastodon- the hunter
battles- gloss drop
tombs- path of totality
psychic limb - queens
mogwai - hardcore will never die but you will
pj harvey- let england shake
trap them- darker handcraft
all pigs must die - god is war
young widows - in and out of lightness
cave in - white silence
cold cave - cherish the light years
helms alee - weatherhead
the men - leave home
russian circles - empros
my disco - little joy

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I can't think of many records that came out this year that I really like, especially full length.
here's my list:

Anchor - Recovery LP
Between Earth & Sky - Of Roots and Wings 12"
Birds in Row - Cottbus 12"
Give - Everything they released this year
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why LP
Mouth of Flowers - Emma Town 7"
Remission - Winds of Promise 7"
Remission & Police & Thieves split 7"

I think this was a great year for music...

The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
O'Brother - Garden Window
Oathbreaker - Maelstrom
This is Hell - Black Mass
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
Pulling Teeth - Funerary
Scale The Summit - The Collective
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Lemuria - Pebble

Special mention goes to the riff at the end of "Breeding Grounds" by Harm's Way. Not the biggest fan of that band, but if you don't want to bang your head/break something at the end of that song, I am suspicious of you.

I feel like I am missing something, but I think that is a decent list.

Really great year for music...

Metal/Hardcore/Whatever LP
25. Decapitated - Carnival is Forever
24. Wormrot - Dirge
23. All Pigs Must Die - God is War
22. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
21. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
20. Septicflesh - The Great Mass
19. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
18. YOB - Atma
17. Brutal Truth - End Time
16. Indian - Guiltless
15. Altar of Plagues - Mammal
14. Rotten Sound - Cursed
13. Shining - VII: Född Förlorare
12. Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings
11. Atriarch - Forever the End
10. Disma - Towards the Megalith
09. The Atlas Moth - An Ache for Distance
08. Krallice - Diotima
07. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
06. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
05. GridLink - Orphan
04. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
03. Peste Noire - L'Ordure à l'état Pur
02. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s) & 777 - The Desanctification
01. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

Non-Metal LP
15. Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness
14. Mike Patton - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
13. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
12. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
11. Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
10. Doomtree - No Kings/Dessa - Castor, The Twin
09. Björk - Biophilia
08. Primus - Green Naugahyde
07. Thursday - No Devolución
06. Arms and Sleepers - The Organ Hearts
05. Helms Alee - Weatherhead
04. Chris Florio - Seven Possible Solutions
03. Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis
02. Blueneck - Repetitions
01. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning

EPs
10. Enslaved - The Sleeping Gods
09. ††† - EP †
08. Arms and Sleepers - A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama
07. Punch - Nothing Lasts
06. Fuck the Facts - Misery
05. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallex: Hypersleep Dialogues
04. Self Defense Family - I'm Going Through Some Shit b/w All Fruit Is Ripe
03. Immolation - Providence
02. Blotted Science - The Animation of Entomology
01. Glassjaw - Coloring Book

Splits
05. Narrows/Heiress (Technically a 2010 release, but I didn't hear it until this year)
04. Irons/Pulling Teeth
03. Converge/Dropdead
02. Starkweather/Overmars
01. Aussitôt Mort/Heaven in Her Arms

how could I have forgot Pulling Teeth's "Funerary" on my list ?

Touche amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me... This album changed my life

Here is my list

http://www.lukephysioc.com/blog/top-20-albums-of-2011/

You might need to hit refresh on mine.