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TOO SOON? VINCE’S BEST OF 2011… SO FAR

 Monday, August 1st, 2011 at 2:00pm by

 

Axl’s published his First Half of 2011 list and Corey’s published his… my turn!

I really do these every year as a way of documenting where my head is mid-year so when December rolls around I can go back and look, not so much as a definitive “Best of the First Half” statement. As such it’s only a half-decent representation on what’ll eventually end up on my final year-end list.

So, here it is, in alphabetical order: my favorite releases of 2011 so far.

  • Abysmal Dawn – Leveling the Plane of Existence
  • Anthrax - Worship Music
  • Believer – Transhuman
  • Decapitated – Carnival is Forever
  • The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
  • Revocation – Chaos of Forms
  • Scale the Summit – The Collective
  • Shining – VII: Född Förlorare
  • Sylosis – Edge of the Earth

Now, get to arguin’.

-VN

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  • Dave

    Makes me drool for that new Revocation if it’s up there with the rest of these…

  • http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1142/624879399_327ac73e5b.jpg Dave Mustaine

    As long as we all can agree Megadeth is better than Metallica, I feel no need to argue while praying today.

    I’ve never heard of any of these bands.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Buckley/515200062 Jon Buckley

      Challenge accepted. Metallica is better than Megadeth, hence why they left you with 5 bucks and a dirty mattress. Creating a shitty ripoff with worse vocals than Hetfields ball bustingly amazing God induced voice is like slapping the devil in the face over disagreeing about who’s turn it is to receive the reach around.

      • Bard

        Terribad trolling yo. We all know Hetfield vocals blow.

        NEVA FREEEEEE NEVA MEEEUUUUUHHHHH!

        • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com Alkahest

          GIMME FUE GIMME FIE GIMME DABAJABAZA

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Buckley/515200062 Jon Buckley

          GO TOUCH HIS DICK bard.

          • Kirk Hammett

            Metallica is better.

    • Steph

      You’ve never heard of Anthrax Dave? Aren’t you touring with them?

      • Jeff Young

        Yeah, but his pansy ass is probably too busy backstage praying to even realize which bands are on the bill. God signed his contracts for him.

        Fuckin’ sellouts, Megadeth was the best when I was in the band.

    • the pair

      I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. plus you kicked suicide silence off a tour and that’s…well, that’s just swell.

  • My Balls on Vince’s chin

    This list sucks.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Buckley/515200062 Jon Buckley

      yeah I only liked two of those releases and they are not favorites by far. I am really surprised at Believer, bleh. Of course EVERYONE on this site will love Digital Veil…

      • Marchosias

        Yeah, not much here that I can relate to. I like Digital Veil, but over time, it’s lost its luster. I would have thought Origin and All Shall Perish would be on here, but it appears not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lou-Guberti/804425053 Lou Guberti

    Chaos of Dorms? Sounds like the last 4 years of college for me.

    SRZ tho, super excited for new Revocation

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Reagan/520958920 Mike Reagan

    Hmmm……….2 albums that aren’t out yet, but I really want to hear

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Tremblay/811265143 Dave Tremblay

    the new Scale the Summit is not that good imo.

  • bryno

    In response to the title: yes, too soon, there’s so much potential for releases in September alone.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Austin-Wells/100000827221296 Austin Wells

    I only see 2 albums on this list that are truly spectacular (The Collective, Edge of the Earth). The rest are good but not great, and in some cases are average at best (Leveling the Plane of Existence, Chaos of Forms). Where the fuck is Krallice? Where’s Gridlink? Where’s Ed Gein? Where’s Trap Them? What the fuck is going on, Obscura doesn’t even get a mention here and neither do Nader Sadek.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jacob-Adolphsen/100000074498810 Jacob Adolphsen

    origin!!!!!!!

    • Douche Baggins

      <3 x2

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Drew-Goodwine/1693216336 Drew Goodwine

      This

    • James

      These

      • http://music.whitearms.com Dr. Chim Richalds

        hell right!

  • Ray Peterson212

    Chimaira comes out in 15 days, which is a guarantee for this list.

    • The_I

      I don’t know… what I’ve heard hasn’t been great.

      Good list, Vince.

      • CreptorStatus

        You gotta be kidding. Chimaira is the most boring, shitty, nu-metal band around. They haven’t done anything good, ever.

    • stu1

      Band is so God awful. Next level terrible. And that new single, “Trigger Finger??” You have GOT to be joking.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Roshin-Wolfson/557092638 Dan Roshin Wolfson

    shitty list

    failed to include disma and mitochondrion as i’ve often stated in my frequent emails

    • Fred Durst

      Disma is the tits.

      • The Flying Scotsman

        +1 on the Disma. Plus: Origin, Nader Sadek, Krallice. Negative Plane, Exhumed, Ash Borer, Krallice, Tombs, Necros Christos, Hell, Deceased…shit the Blut Aus Nord is better than almost all of these.

        Weak.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Roshin-Wolfson/557092638 Dan Roshin Wolfson

          so many legit bands right there

          seriously Mitochondrion deserves attention.

  • Ja5on

    This site is really on Revocation’s nuts, WTF? I mean they’re ok, but really? Shit show Obscura some love or something.

    • Sasquatch

      I think half of what they put on these lists is right and the other half is on there to start arguments, hence more posts.

    • stu1

      They fall into the same category along with Darkest Hour, Daath; bands whom if you’re only context was this site, you’d think they were insanely popular and really really good.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mikael-Chimp-Hansen/1047068918 Mikael Chimp Hansen

    No Black Dahlia???…weird!

    • dicknballs

      Agreed, so far that is the best album of 2011.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mikael-Chimp-Hansen/1047068918 Mikael Chimp Hansen

        very much indeed!

      • Douche Baggins

        <3

  • Trux

    Vince’s list > Corey`s list > Axl`s list.

  • PatrickSTL

    ‘Digital Veil” is staying in my top 10 as well. I wasn’t sure at first but I keep buying and checking out albums and “Digital Veil” still bets most of them.

    I also really like “The Collective” but not sure it will make my top 10.

  • Douche Baggins

    It’s a personal list pole smokers. I’m sure all of our lists would be much different. I rather enjoy Decapitated’s new album quite a bit though.

    • Bilbo Faggins

      I fully agree with this. Especially when you called them all pole smokers lol

      • Dildo Baggins

        Agreed.

        • Douche Baggins

          <3 you guys

    • Charlie

      Oh man oh man number 1 advocator of Carnival is Forever right here.

  • http://giantofthemountain.bandcamp.com Lordassenfroth

    transhuman was great

  • Igottawocket

    Scale the Summit I agree with, but… Where in eff is Devin Townsend?

    • The Uncool Guy Down The Hall

      Addicted came out in 2009.

      /ducks

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mitch-McGregor/1195550656 Mitch McGregor

        yeah dude and deconstruction and ghost came out just over a month ago… And personally I think it’s way too soon to even think about a best of list, there’s still dozens of incredible bands bringing out albums within the next few months

        • The Uncool Guy Down The Hall

          [thatsthejoke.jpg]

          • B-RAD IS RAD

            new DT isnt good.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Barranger/1199176563 Ed Barranger

    no BTBAM?

  • Beowulf

    Yeah I don’t think Vince likes TBDM, if you read some, but cool list even though I haven’t heard a lot of it (Anthrax) still gotta put Amon Amarth on mine!

  • boazhimself

    i do not concur.

  • cyrollan

    Good to see some Abysmal Dawn love here. I think they’re a great modern-yet-old-school death metal band. They don’t need the bells ‘n whistles, because their music stands on its own.

    People out there bash Slayer and Cannibal Corpse for putting out the same record over and over. Other people bash Metallica and Anthrax for changing their sound every few records. It’s a lose-lose situation.

    Abysmal Dawn produce consistent, high-quality, no-frills death metal. They’re skilled musicians and can write a f**king song.

    • Farva

      I agree with you whole heatedly. Leveling the Plane of Existence is my favorite death metal record so far this year, and it’s been a pretty damn good year for death metal (new Origin, Hate Eternal, Obscura).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Raphael-Pinsker/28400447 Raphael Pinsker

    Obscura is the best record of 2011.

    • RandomSoul

      +1

      • Bard

        Fuckin’ thirded, Omnivium=Cosmogensis 2.0 and that is saying something because Comsogensis is an awesome album.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mitch-McGregor/1195550656 Mitch McGregor

          amazing record, they focused on what made Cosmogenesis good and extended on it. Definitely a top contender on my list of favoured albums in ’11,

  • erik

    Scale the Summit – what a little kid band name.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Osborn/100001135401725 Tyler Osborn

      ….

  • David B.

    Why is no one showing love for the new Anaal Nathrakh album. That’s my number 1 pick so far for this year

    • James

      Amazing band, but in my opinion Passion only had three or four good songs.

      For me I don’t think it tops Constellation (which is brilliant), and it’s hard to say it’s
      better than some of the really good metal out this year.

  • Slaughterhouse

    Its fucking hilarious how many people get upset because your tastes are not theirs. God forbid people like different things.

    • Turkey

      You must be new here.

      It’s hilarious at first but then eventually it makes you give up hope for humanity and die of bed sores.

  • Alex

    I wasn’t too big a fan of Digital Veil.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Buckley/515200062 Jon Buckley

      yeah it was okay, I really liked the second track but the rest of the album is just sort lackluster and the overall sound of the record is strange, the drums sound wonky.

  • Kuranes

    I think in general I’m more aligned with Vince’s taste than Axl’s taste, and I haven’t even heard of a lot of these. I guess I’ll check them out on Spotify.

  • John

    Are you kidding me?! no Between The Buried and Me or Obscura OR Black Dahlia Murder?! The new BTBAM was just an EP and still it is 30 mins long with 3 quality tracks. TBDM is fr4eaking amazing as it gets, its the Nocturnal sound with more experimenting how the Fuck are they not on this list?! I shouldnt have to mention why Obscura is on the list(although I will). Freaking amazing guitar, amazing bass and insanley tech drums=awesome.

  • Alex_P

    I need to relisten to Scale the Summit, but otherwise there is absolutely no overlap between our years so far. This of course perturbs me and will force me to rant at you angrily.

  • Poopenshaft

    I love Scale the Summits previous album but I fail to see how this new album is so good. Last Chance to Reason and Origin should be on this list.

    • Savage Animal

      +1 for LCtR and Origin

      • Gipson

        Another agreed for Last Chance to Reason. It took 3 or 4 listens to get there, but once it hit me, it hit me hard. That album is pretty fantastic.

    • Android

      I, too, agree on LC2R. For me, Level 2 is album of the year so far. I am not so sure about Origin. Entity is great, but I just can’t get in to it like I did with Antithesis.

  • RedXIII

    Surprised no one has been whining about Lolgust Burnsn Red

  • RedXIII

    Surprised no one has been whining about Lolgust Burns Red

  • otis

    why no symphony x love on any of these lists? iconoclast was fucking great.

  • The Real Douchebag

    This guy blows at picking favourites.

    Where the fuck is Origin, All Shall Perish, Amon Amarth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Between The Buried And Me, Born Of Osiris, Obscura, Devin Townsend, Hate Eternal, and Septicflesh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-Andrew-Earle/1627303898 Colin Andrew Earle

    Ulcerate – The Destroyers of All
    Subrosa – No Help For the Mighty Ones
    Obscura – Omnivium
    Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Sect(s)
    Wormrot – Dirge
    Hate Eternal – Phoenix Among the Ashes
    Job For A Cowboy – Gloom EP
    Origin – Entity
    Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction
    Jungle Rot – Kill On Command

    And this is all before All Pigs Must Die, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Vader, Revocation, YOB, Wolves In The Throne Room, Opeth, Landmine Marathon, Textures, Mastodon, RWAKE, Absu, Blotted Science and Skeletonwitch have even had a chance to release their records. WAAAAAY too soon.

  • ?

    Forgot Mushuggah dick nose.

    • ?

      That was meant for the gal above me.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-Andrew-Earle/1627303898 Colin Andrew Earle

      An interview with Marten Hagstrom in Guitar World revealed the new Meshuggah would be closer to March 2012. Dick nose.

  • bale

    Loving the Shining appreciation.
    That album was the tits on so many levels.

  • Fred Durst

    Your taste in music is dildos. No Armor Column?

  • Douche Baggins

    Gonna have to check out some new shit. Obscura and Septicflesh are on my list. Anything else? Don’t say Devin boring ass Townsend. That shit makes me zzzzzzzz…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Hurley/1289730334 Matt Hurley

    No Decon = Fail.

  • panks

    Tesseract!

  • john connor

    um no Gold Cobra?
    this list blows.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-MXickmn/502613553 Brandon MXickmän

    roadsaw
    pantheist
    mygrain
    kotiteollisuus
    omnium gatherum
    a storm of light
    silent stream of godless elegy
    vintersorg
    scar of the sun
    communic
    amorphis
    deceased

  • Turkey

    I guess everyone’s already forgotten about Rotten Sound but ‘Cursed’ is still my favorite of 2011, followed by Hate Eternal and Wormrot

    ALL OF YOUR OPINIONS ARE WRONG

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rss-Rbin/598464001 Røss Rübin

    new albums from Mercenary, and Nekrogoblikon are my favorites so far.

  • josh

    How is there no Devin Townsend? And we know everyone is going to love what Mastadon puts out so this list is useless and pointless.

  • jezuzfugginkrap

    Shining shouldn’t be on such a dull list.

  • B-RAD IS RAD

    Zombi – Escpae Velocity

    Fin.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Romanow/708036302 Richard Romanow

    Rotten Sound
    Wormrot
    DISMA
    Obscura
    KEN mode
    Exhumed
    AUTOPSY
    CIANIDE
    Barn Burner

    You only got Shinning right.. Still have to hear the Revocation though.

    Ohh and to everyone Krallice’s new album was kinda not so good.

    But there is new Taake, Yob, Blood Red Throne, Opeth, Amebix, Absu Skeletonwitch and Root.
    And there suppose to be new leviathan.

  • Wowwee!!

    Wtf no love for da gold cobra? no emumure? how bout da suiside silencts?

  • Craig Petersen

    Here is my best of 2011 list – TONS of good stuff in here! I put stars next to the albums that blew me away.

    Abrosis – Tattered and Bound
    Anomalous – OHMnivalent
    *Arsonists Get All The Girls – Motherland
    August Burns Red – Leveler
    Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP
    *The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual
    Born Of Osiris – The Discovery
    Decapitated – Carnival Is Forever
    *Demonaz – March Of The Norse
    DevilDriver – Beast
    *Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony
    Gorod – Transcendence EP
    *Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst The Ashes
    Hope For The Dying – Dissimulation
    *The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
    In Flames – Sounds Of A Playground Fading
    Job For A Cowboy – Gloom EP
    Keith Merrow – Awaken The Stone King
    Last Chance To Reason – Level 2
    Monumental Torment – Element Of Chaos
    Near Death Condition – The Disembodied – In Spiritual Spheres
    Neuraxis – Asylon
    Obscura – Omnivium
    *Origin – Entity
    Periphery – Icarus EP
    Protest The Hero – Scurrilous
    Scar Symmetry – The Unseen Empire
    Septic Flesh – The Great Mass
    *Suicide Silence – The Black Crown
    Sylosis – Edge Of The Earth
    Thomas Giles – Pulse
    Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
    Upheaval – Incubate The Wasteland
    Volturyon – Coordinated Mutilation
    *Xerath – II

    Adele – 21 (non-metal)
    Avril Lagigne – Goodbye Lullaby (non-metal)
    Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (non-metal)
    Sondre Lerche – Sondre Lerche (non-metal)

    • Craig Petersen

      oops… forgot to mention All Shall Perish’s new album.

  • Marcel

    So far, my favorite albums of the year are (in alphabetical order):

    Autopsy – Macabre Eternal
    Batillus – Furnace
    Crowbar – Sever the Wicked Hand
    Flight of Sleipnir – Essence of Nine
    Grayceon – All We Destroy
    KYPCK – Lower
    Scale The Summit – The Collective
    Devin Townsend – Deconstruction

    My favorite album this year, however, is Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest. I doubt there’ll a better album this year, metal/country/otherwise.

  • Phil

    No love for Arch Enemy Khaos Legions?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Leonardo-Castanedo/100001332008546 Leonardo Castanedo

    Really…digital veil. Where the fuck is Ritual of Black Dahlia or OHnmivalent of Anomalous, bought are pretty awesome albums. On the other hand,. chaos of forms has really great songs.