In 2011, we had a poll of our readers, an annual tradition, to vote on what you thought were the best metal albums of that year. It's crazy to think it's been an entire decade since then, where does the time go? We thought it would be fun to take a look down memory lane to see what we were spinnin' 10 years ago.
How many of these albums do you still listen to?
- The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual – 170 votes
- Mastodon The Hunter – 165 votes
- Revocation Chaos of Forms – 130 votes
- Machine Head Unto the Locust – 107 votes
- Devin Townsend Deconstruction – 96 votes
- Animals as Leaders Weightless – 91 votes
- Born of Osiris The Discovery – 90 votes
- Amon Amarth Surtur Rising – 84 votes
- Obscura Omnivium – 80 votes
- Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony – 75 votes
- Protest the Hero Scurrilous – 61 votes
- Decapitated Carnival is Forever – 52 votes
- East of the Wall The Apologist – 52 votes
- All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends – 51 votes
- Trivium In Waves – 51 votes
- Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination – 47 votes
- Havok Time is Up – 41 votes
- Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage – 41 votes
- Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues – 40 votes
- Hate Eternal Phoenix Amongst the Ashes – 40 votes
- Anthrax Worship Music – 40 votes
- Ulcerate The Destroyers of All – 39 votes
- Tesseract One – 37 votes
- Opeth Heritage – 37 votes
- Insomnium One for Sorrow – 36 votes
- Origin Entity – 33 votes
- Rwake Rest – 32 votes
- Abysmal Dawn Leveling the Plane of Existence – 30 votes
- Trap Them Darker Handcraft – 29 votes
Cynic Carbon Based Anatomy – 29 votes - Vektor Outer Isolation – 28 votes
Wormrot Dirge – 28 votes - DevilDriver Beast – 27 votes
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist – 27 votes - Megadeth Th1rt3en – 26 votes
Tombs Path of Totality – 26 votes - Disma Towards the Megalith – 25 votes
- Foo Fighters Wasting Light – 24 votes
Suicide Silence Black Crown – 24 votes - Children of Bodom Reckless Relentless Forever – 23 votes
Krallice Diotima – 23 votes - Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing – 22 votes
The Human Abstract Digital Veil – 22 votes
Anaal Nathrakh Passion – 22 votes - Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command – 21 votes
- Beyond Creation The Aura – 20 votes
Fallujah The Harvest Wombs – 20 votes - Absu Abzu – 19 votes
Scale the Summit The Collective – 19 votes
KEN Mode Venerable – 19 votes
Russian Circles Empros – 19 votes - Last Chance To Reason Level 2 – 18 votes
Molotov Solution Insurrection – 18 votes - Chimaira The Age of Hell – 17 votes
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events – 17 votes
Serious Break Huxwhukw – 17 votes
Red Fang Murder the Mountains – 17 votes
Leperous Bilateral – 17 votes - Arch Enemy Khaos Legions – 16 votes
Baring Teeth Atrophy – 16 votes
Cormorant Dwellings – 16 votes
Unearth Darkness In the Light – 16 votes
Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise – 16 votes - Job For a Cowboy Gloom – 15 votes
Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows – 15 votes - Times of Grace Hyms of a Broken Man – 14 votes
Textures Dualism – 14 votes
Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand – 14 votes - Batillus Furnace – 13 votes
Exhumed All Guts No Glory – 13 votes
Yob Atma – 13 votes
Warbringer Worlds Torn Asunder – 13 votes
Deicide To Hell With God – 13 votes
Blut Aus Nord 777 Sects – 13 votes
Devin Townshend Ghost – 12 votes
Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich – 12 votes
Iced Earth Dystopia – 12 votes - In Solitude The World, The Flesh, The Devil – 10 votes
The Atlas Moth An Ache for Distance – 10 votes
Battlecross Push Pull Destroy – 10 votes
Khann Erode – 10 votes
Fuck the Facts Die Miserable – 10 votes
Before the Dawn Deathstar Rising – 10 votes
Milk White Throat Milk White Throat – 10 votes
Sylosis Edge of the Earth – 10 votes
Altar of Plagues Mammal – 10 votes
In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading – 10 votes
Leviathan True Traitor True Whore – 10 votes
A Storm of Light As The Valley of Death Becomes Us Our Silver Memories Fade – 10 votes
The Crevices Below Below the Crevices – 10 votes
Ed Gein Bad Luck – 10 votes
Chasma Declarations of the Grand Artificer – 10 votes
Grayceon All We Destroy – 10 votes
Steel Panther Balls Out – 10 votes
Coreilia Nostaligia – 10 votes - Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology – 9 votes
Falkenbach Tiurida – 9 votes
Death Toll 80k Harsh Realities – 9 votes
Rotten Sound Cursed – 9 votes
Cipher System Communicate the Storms – 9 votes
Subrosa No Help For the Mighty Ones – 9 votes
Subversion Lest We Forget – 9 votes
The Odious The Night a Forest Grew – 9 votes
Holy Grail Crisis in Utopia – 9 votes
Bloodiest Descent – 9 votes
Vildhjarta Masstaden – 9 votes
Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance – 9 votes
Mitochondrion Parasignosis – 9 votes
Lake of Blood As Time and Tide Erode Stone – 9 votes
40 Watt Sun The Inside Room – 9 votes
Wednesday 13 Calling All Corpses – 9 votes - Meek is Murder Algorithms – 8 votes
Arkona Solvo – 8 votes
Whitechapel Recorrupted – 8 votes
Fucked Up David Comes To Life – 8 votes
Legend The Pale Horse – 8 votes
Admiral of Black Blood and Fire – 8 votes
Black Tusk Set the Dial – 8 votes
Evile Five Serpents Teeth – 8 votes
Sees TheenD – 8 votes
Uneven Structure Februus – 8 votes
Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs – 8 votes
Crooked Necks Alright is Exactly What it Isn't – 8 votes
Atilla Outlawed – 8 votes
In The Eyes of a Mistress Nobody Move, this is a Breakdown Shakedown – 8 votes
Murder Therapy Molochian – 8 votes
Samael Lux Mundi – 8 votes - Blackguard Firefieght – 7 votes
Septic Flesh The Great Mass – 7 votes
Korpiklaani Ukon Wacka – 7 votes
Arabrot Solar Anus – 7 votes
Ghost Opus Eponymous – 7 votes
Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma – 7 votes
Angus Boldly Stride the Doomed – 7 votes
Orwell AVOHFASIH – 7 votes
Essence Lost in Violence – 7 votes
Young and in the Way V. Eternal Depression – 7 votes
Lost Dreams Blinded by Rage – 7 votes
Misfits The Devil's Rain – 7 votes
iwrestledabearonce Ruining it For Everybody – 7 votes
Volumes Via – 7 votes
Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason – 7 votes - Hemoptysis Misanthropic Slaughter – 6 votes
White Arms of Athena Astrodrama – 6 votes
And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs – 6 votes
Memphis May Fire The Hollow – 6 votes
Chelsea Grin My Damnation – 6 votes
Manilla Road Playground of the Damned – 6 votes
Ringworm Scars – 6 votes
Euphoreon Euphoreon – 6 votes
Motorhead The World is Yours – 6 votes
Mortal Sin Psychology of Death – 6 votes
Primus Green Naugahyde – 6 votes
Isole Born from Shadows – 6 votes
Kartikeya Mahayuga – 6 votes
Loss Despond – 6 votes
Anterior Echoes of the Fallen – 6 votes
Gustnado Hallucination Boulevard – 6 votes - Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus – 5 votes
Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa – 5 votes
Capsule No Ghost – 5 votes
Krisiun The Great Execution – 5 votes
Hammers of Misfortune 17th Street – 5 votes
Seether Holding on to Strings Left to Fray – 5 votes
Mystic Prophecy Ravenlord – 5 votes
Earth Flight Blue Hour Confessions – 5 votes
Satanized Technical Virginity – 5 votes
Across the Sun Until the Night Takes Us – 5 votes
World Under Blood Tactical – 5 votes - Gorgasm Orgy of Murder – 4 votes
Amorphis The Beginning of Times – 4 votes
Heavenwood Abyss Masterpiece – 4 votes
Deafheaven Roads to Judah – 4 votes
Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us – 4 votes
An Autumn for Crippled Children Everything – 4 votes
Aosoth III – 4 votes
Circles The Compas – 4 votes
Graviton Massless – 4 votes
Nekromantheon Divinity of Death – 4 votes - Threat Signal Threat Signal – 3 votes
American Heritage Sedentary – 3 votes
Believer Transhuman – 3 votes
Gorod Transcendence – 3 votes
Blaspherian Infernal Warriors of Death – 3 votes
Otep Atavist – 3 votes
Turisas Stand Up and Fight – 3 votes
*shels Plains of the Purple Buffalo – 3 votes
As You Drown Rat King – 3 votes
Betraying the Martyrs Breate in Life – 3 votes
Artillery My Blood – 3 votes
Of Virtue Heartsounds – 3 votes
Dornenreich Flammentriebe – 3 votes
All Pigs Must Die God is War – 3 votes
Lifelover Konkurs – 3 votes
Burzum Fallen – 3 votes
The Holy Guile Guardians 2.0 – 3 votes - Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You – 2 votes
Norther Circle Regenerated – 2 votes
August Burns Red Leveler – 2 votes
Winds of Plague Against the World – 2 votes
Negative Plane Stained Glass Revelations – 2 votes
Symphony X Iconoclast – 2 votes
Psychostick Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs 3D – 2 votes
Fir For an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination – 2 votes
Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us – 2 votes
Paul Wardingham Assimilate Regenerate – 2 votes
Wolverine Communication Lost – 2 votes
Today is the Day Pain is a Warning – 2 votes
Welkin Dusk Born into a Dying World – 2 votes
Arsonists Get All the Girls Motherland – 2 votes
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra – 2 votes
Alice Cooper Welcome 2 My Nightmare – 2 votes
Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge – 2 votes - The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne – 1 votes
Miss May I Monument – 1 votes
As I Lay Daying Decas – 1 votes
Hatesphere The Great Bludgeoning – 1 votes
Red Seas Fire Red Seas Fire – 1 votes
Loutallica Lulu – 1 votes
Darkest Hour Human Romance – 1 votes
Oh Sleeper Children of Fire – 1 votes
Witchery Witchkrieg – 1 votes
Thy Catafalque Rengeteg – 1 votes
Heartless Hell is Other People – 1 votes
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire – 1 votes
Rootless Dominate the Chaos – 1 votes
Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes – 1 votes
Barn Burner Bangers II: Scum of the Earth – 1 votes
