in no order whatsoever

caspian - waking season
menzingers - on the impossible past
annabel - youth in youth
glocca morra - just married
pan - these are the things i love
joyce manor - of all things
birds in a row - you, me and the violence
title fight - floral green
joie de vivre - we're all better than this
mutiny on the bounty - trials
prawn - ships
the jealous sound - a gentle reminder
troubled coast - i've been thinking about leaving you

The Early November - In Currents
FUN - Some Nights
Feed The Rhino - The Burning Sons
mewithoutYou - Ten Stories
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Mallory Knox - Signals (not released yet but what I've heard rules)

Those albums have made my year

amazing year for me, so much great doom, grindcore, powerviolence, and black metal. Roughly the first 10 are in order.

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Column of Heaven - Mission from God
Evoken - Atra Mors
Samothrace - Reverence to Stone
Dragged into Sunlight - Widowmaker
Tree of Sores - A Cry of Despair
Asphyx - Deathammer
Death of Self - Mental Disintegration
Torture Chain - Time Is But A Doorway To The Incinerator
Electric Wizard - Legalise Drugs & Murder
Agowilt - Clocks Made of Their Own Bones
Dead Instrument - Violent Death
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication
Serpentine Path - S/T
Sonance - Like Ghosts
Book of Sand - Mourning Star
Noose - Woe Unto You, Oh Earth and Sea
Sixbrewbantha - S/T
Bell Witch - Longing
Horseback - On The Eclipse
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Amenra - Mass V
IDYLLS - Farewell All Joy
Coffinworm / Fistula split
On Pain of Death - Year Naught Doom
SFN - split w/ In Disgust (SFN tracks only)
The Secret - Agnus Dei
Dephosphorus - Night Sky Transform
Tadroaev - Fuck, Blast, Kill Da’Bay
Acephalix - Deathless Master
Sky Burial - There I Saw The Grey Wolf Gaping
Locrian & Mammifer - Bless Them That Curse You
Witch In Her Tomb - S/T
Casque - Devour the Lion
Suffering Luna w/ The Astronaut King - Most High (just one song, but it’s like 8 and a half minutes long)
Indesinence - Vessels of Light and Decay
Noisear - Turbulent Resurgence
Sodb - Don Seantalamh a Chuid Féin
Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil
Nothing - Downward Years to Come
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Om - Advaitic Songs
Opium Warlords - We Meditate Under the Pussy in the Sky
Behold the Arctopus - Horrorscension
ILSA - Intoxicantations
Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes

If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest

Definitely my favorite record of this year

DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky
DInosaur Jr - I Bet on Sky

Caspian - Waking Season is GREAT.
Dobi, I own the shirt you had designed for them, great job on that piece.

In no order . . .

Birds In Row - You, Me and The Violence
The Chariot - One Wing
Xerxes - Our Home is a Deathbed
Gallows - Gallows

POS - We Don't Even Live Here

Funny that you mention Casque and Coffinworm, Kevin. Those are both local bands for me. Have you heard Kata Sarka? They have the same vocalist as Casque, maybe other members too.

Tom Philibeck said:Funny that you mention Casque and Coffinworm, Kevin. Those are both local bands for me. Have you heard Kata Sarka? They have the same vocalist as Casque, maybe other members too.

I haven't, but from what I'm reading on last.fm they seem like a band I would enjoy. Definitely going to check them out

Right on.

This was a great year! Some of my favorites:

Abigail Williams - Becoming
Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron
Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Gallows - Gallows
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
Old Man Gloom - No
Narrows - Painted
The Chariot - One Wing
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
War From a Harlots Mouth - Voyeur
Meshuggah - Koloss
Job for a Cowboy - Demonocracy
Beach House - Bloom

Matt Borchert said:POS - We Don't Even Live Here

This.

Failed States - Propagandhi
I'd Rather Die than Live Forever - Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds
Cancer For Cure - El-P
Yellow and Green - Baroness
Skelethon - Aesop Rock
Exister - Hot Water Music

In no order as well:

Parkway Drive- Atlas
Worthwhile- Carry on Kid
Title Fight- Floral Green
Such Gold- Misadventures
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis- The Heist
G-Eazy- Must be Nice

Honorable Mentions

City Lights- In it to Win it
With the Punches- Seams and Stitches
Major League- Hard Feelings

Thirteen: Paradox Design said:This was a great year! Some of my favorites:

Abigail Williams - Becoming
Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron
Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Gallows - Gallows
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
Old Man Gloom - No
Narrows - Painted
The Chariot - One Wing
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
War From a Harlots Mouth - Voyeur
Meshuggah - Koloss
Job for a Cowboy - Demonocracy
Beach House - Bloom

I could've sworn that Dodecahedron album came out last year, I remember listening to it while playing Skyrim in my old apartment around Christmas. I guess it just leaked in 2011 though, such an amazing album.

No order at all (except alphabetically), but these all were way above average, it's been a great year for music.

LP's

Abel - Make It Right
Absrvdist - Illusory
The Casket Lottery - Real Fear
The Cariot - One Wing
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Fire & Ice - Not Of This Earth
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering
If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
Jakarta Project - Beauty Lies In Lovers Eyes
Niech?? - ?mier? w mi?kkim futerku
No Trigger - Tycoon
The Secret - Agnus Dei
The Smith Street Band - Sunshine And Technology
State Faults - Desolate Peaks
The Tower And The Fool - How Long

EP's

Citizen/Turnover Split
Dredd - Recurring Nightmare
Hail The Sun - Elephantitis
Napoleon - What We See
Night Verses - Out Of The Sky
Snailking - Samsara
Suburban Scum - Hanging By A Thread

Ty Segall Band- Slaughterhouse
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Kadavar
King Tuff
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Wall Of Death - Main Obsession
Naam - The Ballad of the Starchild, Movements I-V
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Dont Bend! Ascend!
Bear In Heaven - I Love you, Its Cool
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers 2
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Allah-Las
Diiv - Oshin
Tweak Bird - Undercover Crops
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
A Place To Bury Strangers - Onwards To The Wall
Porcelain Raft - Strange Week
Jeff The Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights
Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams

Why? - Mumps Etc.
Young Fathers - Tape One
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
BTBAM - Parallax II
Melvins Lite - Freak Puke
Menomena - Moms
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
The Faceless - Autotheism
Serengeti - C.A.R.
Doseone - G is for Deep
The Tallest Man on Earth - There's no leaving now
Pelican - Ataraxia / Taraxis

Plus a lot of the shit you guys already said

Albums that I constantly listen to from throughout the year in no specific order:
Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart
The xx - Coexist
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Grimes - Visions
Ke$ha - Warrior
XXYYXX - XXYYXX
Zedd - Clarity
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Rihanna - Unapologetic
One Direction - Up All Night/Take Me Home
alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Ellie Goulding - Halcyon
Aiden Grimshaw - Misty Eye
Crystal Castles - III (even though it disappointed me a little)
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die/Paradise Edition
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Usher - Looking For Myself
Purity Ring - Shrines
Santigold - Master of My Make Believe

Albums that I liked, but didn't really stick with me:
GOOD Music - Cruel Summer
The Big Pink - Future This
Mumford and Sons - Babel
Nicki Minaj - Roman Reloaded/The Re-Up
Mike Show - Happy to You
Calvin Harris - 18 Months
Passion Pit - Grossamer
No Doubt - Push and Shove
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Madonna - MDNA
Muse - 2nd Law
The Killers - Battle Born

Mixtapes/EPs:
Azealia Banks - 1991/Fantasea
Iggy Azalea - Trap Gold
The Kickdrums - Follow the Leaders
Charli XCX - SUPER ULTRA
Tinashe - Reverie
The Cataracs - Gordo Taqueria
Solange - True
A$AP Rocky - LongLiveA$AP
Ke$ha - Deconstructed

Well, some are mixtapes, but those are essentially free albums, aren't they?

1) Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
2) fun. - Some Nights
3) Clear Soul Forces - Detroit Revolution(s)
4) Joey Bada$$ - 1999
5) Chance the Rapper - #10Day
6) Motion City Soundtrack - Go
7) Purity Ring- Shrines
8) Yonas - The Transition
9) XXYYXX - XXYYXX
10) The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

The Cult - Choice of Weapon
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
Witchcraft - Legend
Kadavar - Kadavar
Maserati - VII
Zodiac - A Bit of Devil

^ dick

Not many to mention I'll think of more some point soon.
Bury Tomorrow - The Union of Crowns
Foxy Shazam - Church of Rock & Roll

Others worth a note.
While She Sleeps - This is the Six

fuggart said:^ dick

¿Qué

Babel - Mumford & Sons
Without a doubt.

Paul Carrack - Good Feeling

Jupit said:

fuggart said:^ dick

¿Qué

It was aimed at some guy who came on dropping the spam bomb about his crappy SEO business. His comment must have been deleted. I'm not racist against other peoples music taste

cool.

No Particular order:

PallBearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Andrew Bird - Hands of Glory
Purity Ring - Shrines (nearly burnt out on this one, but we had a good run.)
Metric - Synthetica
How To Dress Well - Total Loss
Royal Thunder - CVI
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Perfume Genius - Put your Back N 2 It
Lambchop - Mr. M
The Weeknd - Trilogy
Graveyard - LIghts Out
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy

1. White Lung - Sorry
2. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
3. DZ Deathrays - Bloodstreams
4. Matt and Kim - Lightning
5. Passion Pit - Gossamer
6. Blood Red Shoes - In Time to Voices
7. A Place to Bury Strangers - Worship
8. Holograms - Holograms
9. Metric - Synthetica
10. Bondage Fairies - Bondage Fairies

Converge - AWLWLB
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
The Men - Open Your Heart
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
Birds In A Row - You, Me, & The Violence
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Gypsy - Giants Despair
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

Just a few that I listened to heavily this year:

Annabel - Youth in Youth
Title Fight - Floral Green
Dikembe - Broad Shoulders
Misser - Every Day I Tell Myself I'm Going To Be A Better Person
You Blew It! - Grow Up, Dude

I forgot to put Icona Pop's EP in there aswell

I'm surprised no one put this Album of our Generation on their list...

Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
Glocca Morra - Just Married
POLICA - Give You The Ghost
Purity Ring - Shrines
Joey Bada$$ - 1999
P.O.S - We Don't Even Live Here
Bloc Party - Four
Port St. Willow - Holiday
Tame Impala - Lonerism

Joey Cape & Tony Sly - Acoustic Vol. 2 for sure.

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Liars - WIXIW
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Holy Other - Held
Clown & Sunset - Don't Break My Love EP
Flying Lotus - Until The Quite Comes
JJ DOOM - Keys To The Kuffs

P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here
Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
El-P - Cancer For Cure
Such Gold - Misadventures
With the Punches - Seams and Stitches
No Trigger - Tycoon
Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
Real Friends - 3 Songs About The Past Year + Acoustic EP
Motion City Soundtrack - Go
The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
Pennywise - All or Nothing

waited all year for this

_starryeyez_ said:

I'm pissed she didn't release this flaw free song as a single