25 Best Rock/Metal Albums of 2011

Bounce in the heavy metal time machine and lock in — we are glancing back at the Top 25 Metal Albums of 2011!

To begin with, how about we glance back at some huge snapshots of the year — Barack Obama was President of the United States; Donald Trump was all the while facilitating the truth rivalry show The Apprentice; Apple prime supporter Steve Jobs had passed on; Slayer's Jeff Hanneman contracted necrotising fasciitis because of a creepy crawly chomp; a seismic tremor and wave struck Japan; setting off the Fukushima atomic fiasco and Rebecca Black's terrible "Friday" tune was delivered.

Of course, new music was there to help us all through the good and bad times of day by day life. We at long last got another collection from Anthrax, which the band had been discussing for what felt like an unending length of time. That collection hardened the Big 4's quality almost immediately in the new decade.

Dream Theatre had a major purge after drummer Mike Portnoy left and the prog legends made their account debut with new brother, Mike Mangini, after an exceptional and exposed quest for Portnoy's replacement. Somewhere else in prog, Opeth patched up their sound totally and Devin Townsend proceeded to some way or another get significantly more peculiar, all to our advantage, obviously.

Metalcore's sound was advancing, exemplary hefty metal was beginning to be embraced by another yield of groups while a portion of the 21st century's greatest names kept on strengthening their rule.

25 best albums:

Anthrax – Worship music

Asking Alexandria – Reckless & Relentless

August Burns Red – Leveler

Between the Buried and Me – Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP

The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual

Children of Bodom – Relentless, Reckless Forever

The Devil Wears Prada – Dead Throne

Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction

Dir En Grey – Dum Spiro Spero

Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events

In Solitude – The World. The Flesh. The Devil.

Kvelertak – Kvelertak

Machine Head – Unto the Locust

Mastodon – The Hunter

Midnight – Satanic Royalty

Nightwish – Imagineaerum

Obscura – Omnivium

Opeth – Heritage

Protest the Hero – Scurrilous

Septicflesh – The Great Mass

Steel Panther – Knives Out

Trivium – In Waves

Ulcerate – The Destroyers of All

We Came as Romans – Understanding what We’ve Grown to Be

Within Temptation – The Unforgiving