IgnimKeif2011
Yes, it's finally here: the list you've all been waiting for. The end-of-year ranking to end ALL end-of year rankings. The end-all of AOTY rundowns: It's wyankeif2011. Enjoy, my brothers. |
| 100 |  | Uneven Structure Februus
Plentitude - djent |
| 99 |  | Trap Them Darker Handcraft
Saintpeelers - hardcore/grind/crust punk |
| 98 |  | Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Empty Glass - melodic hardcore |
| 97 |  | Cloudkicker Loop
12 - post-rock |
| 96 |  | Manners Apparitions
Last Words - hardcore |
| 95 |  | Amon Amarth Surtur Rising
War of the Gods - melodeath |
| 94 |  | Midnight Odyssey Funerals From the Astral Sphere
Those Who Linger At Night - Atmospheric black metal |
| 93 |  | Tombs Path of Totality
Bloodletters - post-metal/idk |
| 92 |  | All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends
The Past Will Haunt Us Both - deathcore |
| 91 |  | Hands Give Me Rest
Give Me Rest - metalcore/post-metal |
| 90 |  | Thou To the Chaos Wizard Youth
Helen Hill Will Have Her Revenge on New Orleans - sludge metal |
| 89 |  | Immolation Providence
What They Bring - death metal |
| 88 |  | Carbonscape Artistry of Exhaustion II
When Autumn Comes I'd Like to Die - ambient |
| 87 |  | Event Horizon 2011 Demo
Divisions - post-metal/screamo |
| 86 |  | Oskoreien Oskoreien
Illusions Perish - Atmospheric black metal |
| 85 |  | Cold Body Radiation Deer Twillight
A Change In Pace - Atmospheric black metal/blackgaze |
| 84 |  | Pulling Teeth Funerary
Whispers - hardcore/sludge |
| 83 |  | Lantlos Agape
Bliss - Atmospheric black metal |
| 82 |  | Alaskan Adversity; Woe
Congonhas - post-metal |
| 81 |  | TRUSTcompany Dreaming In Black and White
Dreaming in Black and White - alternative metal/hard rock |
| 80 |  | Jesu Ascension
King of Kings - idk, it's Jesu |
| 79 |  | Glassjaw Coloring Book
Black Nurse - post-hardcore/alternative |
| 78 |  | Fen Epoch
Half-Light Eternal - Atmospheric black metal |
| 77 |  | Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual
Nastiez - post-metal w/ 8-strings and a female vocalist |
| 76 |  | Banner Pilot Heart Beats Pacific
Spanish Reds - pop punk |
| 75 |  | Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II
The White Mountain View - Atmospheric black metal/blackgaze |
| 74 |  | Low Threat Profile Product #2
idk, most of them are 30 seconds long - old-school hardcore |
| 73 |  | The Matador (AU) Descent Into the Maelstrom
Kingdom of Glass - Post-metal |
| 72 |  | Born of Osiris The Discovery
Shaping the Masterpiece - symphonic deathcore |
| 71 |  | God Harvest Demo 2011
Untitled - hardcore/grind |
| 70 |  | Until Your Heart Stops Errors
Errors - Hardcore |
| 69 |  | Kokomo If Wolves
Go, Mordecai - heavy post-rock |
| 68 |  | Just Die! A Momentary Lapse In Positive Thinking
These Words - Hardcore |
| 67 |  | Forge of Clouds Forge of Clouds
Ten - Post-metal |
| 66 |  | Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Rano Pano - Post-rock |
| 65 |  | Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted
A Life in Pieces - melodic hardcore |
| 64 |  | Wreck and Reference Black Cassette
Evening Redness - idk what the fuck to call this |
| 63 |  | Full of Hell Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home
Dregs of Pluto - Blackened hardcore |
| 62 |  | Seven Sisters of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep
Follow the Serpent - Hardcore/sludge metal |
| 61 |  | Cryptic Forest Dawn of the Eclipse
Tale of Frozen Tears - Symphonic/progressive black metal |
| 60 |  | Fell Voices Untitled
II - Atmospheric black metal |
| 59 |  | MNMNTS The Good Life
Showerpissing - Hardcore |
| 58 |  | Alda Tahoma
Wandering Spirit - Atmospheric black metal |
| 57 |  | Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II
Pagan Sun - Post-rock/post-metal/psychedelic |
| 56 |  | Battlefields Agassiz
Structured Delusion - Hardcore/post-metal |
| 55 |  | Some Mistakes Glamorous Thoughts
You Have Killed the Boy - hardcore |
| 54 |  | Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known
Vehement Coalescence - Atmospheric black metal |
| 53 |  | Thou The Archer and the Owle
Bonnet Carre - sludge metal |
| 52 |  | Pensees Nocturnes Ceci est de la musique
it's one track - Classical/ambient black metal |
| 51 |  | Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Amends - Hardcore/screamo |
| 50 |  | Kerouac/The Long Haul Split
Porcelain - Hardcore |
| 49 |  | Pariso/Kerouac Split
Fiends - Hardcore |
| 48 |  | VYGR Hypersleep
Flares - Post-metal/sludge |
| 47 |  | Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things
Wicklewood Haze - Blackgaze/Atmospheric black metal |
| 46 |  | Rosetta/Junius Split
TMA-3 - Post-metal (Rosetta), post-rock/indie (Junius) |
| 45 |  | August Burns Red Leveler
Salt & Light - metalcore |
| 44 |  | Beyond Creation The Aura
Omnipresent Perception - Tech death |
| 43 |  | Tesseract One
Lament - Atmospheric-y math metal |
| 42 |  | Light Bearer Lapsus
Lapsus - Post-metal |
| 41 |  | Mitochondrion Parasignosis
Trials - Blackened death metal |
| 40 |  | Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands
Sarah - instrumental post-metal/post-rock |
| 39 |  | Laura Stevenson and the Cans Sit Resist
Master of Art - Indie (idk) |
| 38 |  | Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs
Beneath Highway and Street - Atmospheric black metal (has cool flamenco moments) |
| 37 |  | Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit
Gekkou No Daichi - sludge metal |
| 36 |  | Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Towers - Folk |
| 35 |  | And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs
BEAUTIFULUNIVERSEMASTERCHAMPION - Post-rock/instrumental progressive something |
| 34 |  | Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers
The Smell of Blood and Iron - death metal |
| 33 |  | REKA III
Dependance - Post-metal/sludge (sounds a lot like Amenra) |
| 32 |  | Huldra Signals From the Void
A Signal Permeates the Sky - Post-metal (like Isis w/ pianos) |
| 31 |  | sleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds...
He Loved to See the World Through His Camera - Shoegaze/indie |
| 30 |  | Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood
Awaiting the Fire or Flood That Awakes It - Atmospheric black metal |
| 29 |  | Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage
Thuja Magus Imperium - Atmospheric black metal |
| 28 |  | Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light (Volume 1)
Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I - Drone w/ western influences |
| 27 |  | Nameless Coyote Devoured By the Swirling Night
Devoured By the Swirling Night - Blackgaze/Atmospheric black metal |
| 26 |  | Dopamine Dying Away in the Deep Fall
????, idk - Atmospheric black metal |
| 25 |  | The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
We've Got a Score to Settle - Alternative |
| 24 |  | Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge
Let Yourself Be Huge - Post-rock |
| 23 |  | Flourishing The Sum of all Fossils
Fossil Record - Death metal with a ton of "wtf" post-rock and atmospheric touches |
| 22 |  | Chevelle Hats off to the Bull
Envy - Alternative metal/hard rock |
| 21 |  | Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason
An Unbroken Moment - Atmospheric black metal |
| 20 |  | Altar of Plagues Mammal
Neptune Is Dead - Atmospheric black metal |
| 19 |  | Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden the Fields
Landmarks - Post-rock w/ hella pianos and jazz influence |
| 18 |  | Vildhjarta Masstaden
All These Feelings - Meshuggah worship |
| 17 |  | Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance
Abandonment - Doom metal w/ psychedelic touches |
| 16 |  | sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything
to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest - post-rock |
| 15 |  | Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Helplessness Blues - Folk |
| 14 |  | 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room
Carry Me Home - Doom metal |
| 13 |  | Cave In White Silence
Summit Fever - Metalcore/sludge metal/alternative rock, idk |
| 12 |  | Panopticon Social Disservices
Patient - Atmospheric black metal |
| 11 | | Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Lain With the Wolf - Folk/celtic metal |
| 10 |  | Thrice Major/Minor
Words in the Water - Dustin's voice is so sexy in a completely non-gay way. Also, his lyrics are absolutely beautiful. Alternative/post-hardcore |
| 9 |  | *shels Plains of the Purple Buffalo
Butterflies On Luci's Way - so overblown, yet so awesome. Post-rock/post-metal |
| 8 |  | Weekend Nachos Worthless
The Fine Art Of Bullshit - makes me want to MOSH. Powerviolence |
| 7 |  | Ash Borer Ash Borer
My Curse Was Raised In the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence - holy shit I cannot fucking wait to hear the album they have lined up for next year /fanboy. Atmospheric black metal |
| 6 |  | Scale the Summit The Collective
Whales - epicness. Instrumental progressive metal |
| 5 |  | Deafheaven Roads to Judah
Violet - It's not exactly original, but Deafheaven just pull it off so fucking well. Atmospheric black metal w/ post-rock influence |
| 4 |  | Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After
Spine - I can't believe I waited to listen to this for as long as I did. Hardcore/screamo w/ post-rock influences |
| 3 |  | Russian Circles Empros
309 - It's Geneva, an already awesome album, without all the filler that held it back. Heavy post-rock |
| 2 |  | Omega Massif Karpatia
W?lfe - Heavy, bleak, crushing instrumental post-metal that got so fucking overlooked this year that idkfuckidgafwtfdammit |
| 1 |  | Ulcerate The Destroyers of All
Omens/Burning Skies - I did not expect this to end up in the top spot, but once I realized exactly how often I come back and listen to this on regular occasion, it deserved nothing less. Death metal w/ weird atmospheric touches |
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