Holy 2011 Batman!
For the most part of this year my tastes were expanding back in rtime, it wasn't until I went back rrand thought about what came out rthis year that I realized how much good shit came out. List is rr4.5 and r4's from the year. |
| 38 |  | Full of Hell
Roots of Earth are consuming my home
4 Dirty, grind influenced hardcore. |
| 37 |  | Apollo Brown
Clouds
4 Sit Back, relax. |
| 36 |  | Gridlink
Orphan
4 Fairly tight grind. |
| 35 |  | Today I Caught The Plague
Lore
4 Continuing in the footsteps of their brother Canadian shredders Protest
the Hero. |
| 34 |  | Retox
Ugly Animals
4 Hardcore Ft. Justin Pearson |
| 33 |  | Immolation
Providence
4 Continuing what they did on Majesty and Decay, fairly solid. |
| 32 |  | Small Leaks Sink Ships
Oak Street Basement
4 Sweet Indie with a hint of post-hardcore, band needs more recognition. |
| 31 |  | Engineer
Crooked Voices
4 Metalcore done right. |
| 30 |  | Dead In The Dirt
Fear
4 D-beat, fuck you. |
| 29 |  | Fuck The Facts
Die Miserable
4 These dudes know how to mix it up well, grind meets multiple kinds of metal. |
| 28 |  | Wormrot
Dirge
4 Easily one of today's best grind bands. |
| 27 |  | Will Haven
Voir Dire
4 Will Haven with more atmosphere and what I'm quite sure are 7 or 8
strings, sick. |
| 26 | | O'Brother
Garden Window
4 Honestly an awesome progressive rock record, they just need to sound a
tiny bit less like Thrice. |
| 25 |  | KEN Mode
Venerable
4 Not their best, but band continues to keep me pissed. |
| 24 |  | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
4 Space in my death metal, fuck off. |
| 23 |  | SLOTHS
SLOTHS
4 Making metalcore sloppy again, band could be big if they keep at it. |
| 22 |  | Weekend Nachos
Worthless
4 Get Fucked. |
| 21 |  | Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire
Visceral
4 Gross. |
| 20 |  | This Is Hell
Black Mass
4 Bringing to mind bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis, This is Hell make
hardcore old school again. |
| 19 |  | Junius
Reports From The Threshold of Death
4 Junius attempt to be a bit heavier comes of quite well. |
| 18 | | Oathbreaker
Maelstrom
4 Heavy Converge influence with a solid chick screamer. |
| 17 |  | Animals As Leaders
Weightless
4 Awesome vibe created by the whole band, emphasis on the band. |
| 16 |  | Action Bronson
Dr. Lecter
4 Old school, modern rap. |
| 15 |  | Mastodon
The Hunter
4 The sound of Mastodon just wanting to rock the out. |
| 14 |  | Deafheaven
Roads to Judah
4 Another surprise for me, post-rock meets black metal. |
| 13 |  | Kidcrash
Naps
4 Have such a soft for these guys, nevermind that they rock. |
| 12 |  | Capsule [US]
No Ghost
4 Chaotically Beautiful. |
| 11 |  | Rwake
Rest
4.5 Another great modern sludge band, completely filthy at the same time a
little bit of heart shows through. |
| 10 |  | Flourishing
The Sum of All Fossils
4.5 Probably should be a 4, but the styles these guys throw together is
incredible, even it can be kinda sloppy at times. |
| 9 |  | Cave In
White Silence
4.5 Album is dark and nasty at the same time it likes The Beatles. |
| 8 |  | Citycop
The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope
4.5 Didn't want to 4.5 both, but their just so good. |
| 7 |  | Citycop
Seasons
4.5 Band is my surprise of the year, not usually my kind of thing, I don't
know if it's because their acoustic but this shit jams. |
| 6 |  | Last Chance to Reason
Level 2
4.5 Literally video game metal, blows me away that this is their debut lp,
band also tears it up live. |
| 5 |  | Palehorse
Soft as butter, Hard as ice
4.5 Along with Thou, Palehorse are my favourite modern sludge band and
with this album they continue on the trend of being consistently awesome. |
| 4 |  | Scale the Summit
The Collective
4.5 Best instrumental album of the year, band writes songs like an orchestra. |
| 3 |  | Thursday
No Devolucion
4.5 As bummed as I was to see them go, it was nice to see them come back
into form. |
| 2 |  | Glassjaw
Our Color Green (The Singles)
4.5 |
| 1 |  | Glassjaw
Coloring Book
4.5 It was pretty sweet to see some releases from Glassjaw, both ep's
they released are solid but I prefer this one. |
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