ERIK THOMAS

1. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony.
2. Entrails – The Tomb Awaits.
3. Kverlertak – s/t
4. Light Bearer – Lapsus
5. Vildhjarta – Masstaden
6. Wolves In The Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
7. Ulcerate- The Destroyers of All
8. Disma– Towards the Megalith
9. Life in Your Way – Kingdoms
10. Obscura – Omnivium
11. Deafheaven – Roads to Judah
12. Insomnium – One for Sorrow.
13. Origin – Entity
14. Loss– Despond
15. Mitochondrion – Parasignosis
16. Anomalous – Ohmnivalent
17. Hull – Beyond the Lightless Sky
18. Obsequiae – Suspended in the Brume of Eos
19. Primordial –Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand
20. Mournful Congregation – The Book of Kings
21. All Pigs Must Die – God is War
22. Alestorm – Back Through Time.
23. The Living Fields – Running Out of Daylight
24. Morne– Asylum
25. Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days in an Evil Age

Albums that I heard in 2011, that would have been sure fire for 2010: Journal – Unlorja, Rhino – Weight of Coronation

Sorry guys, you got bumped by a ridiculously good late year flurry of releases and discoveries: Anaal Nathrakh– Passion, Fen – Epoch, Ana Kefr – (II) The Burial Tree, Dekadent – Venera : Trial & Tribulation.

Sorry guys, I Didn’t Get the Hype: 40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room, Absu –Abzu, Vektor – Outer Isolation, Revocation – Chaos of  Forms.

Sorry guys,  I didn’t have enough time to get to know you properly, but I’m pretty sure you were awesome: Unexpect – Fables of the Lost Empire, Tombs –The Path of Totality , Vale of Pnath – The Prodigal Empire , Killing the Dream – Lucky Me, Flourishing – The Sum of All Fossils,  Saille– Irreversible Decay.

Album I had to find a spot for and at least mention somewhere: Ever Forthright – S/T.
Best Vinyl release: Dead in the Dirt – Fear 7″
Best Re-issues: Augury – Concealed, Uncanny – MCMXCI-MCMXCIV
Best Self Released CD (and best fucking cover art)– Vore – Gravehammer
Best Demo – Hessian Crucible – Morbidity
Best comeback: Autopsy – Macabre Eternal
Best EP- Corpsessed – The Dagger & The Chalice
Biggest surprise: Jungle Rot – Kill On Command
Best labels: Dark Descent/ Southern Lord/Profound Lore
Worst albums: Morbid Angel – Illud Divunum Insanus, Denial Fiend– Horror Holocaust.
Best album everyone hated because of the artist, not the actual music: – Liturgy – Aesthetica

Best Songs: Fleshgod Apocalypse “The Betrayal” and “The Violation”, Light Bearer “Primen Movens”, Augury “Lair of Purity”, Alestorm ” I am a Cider Drinker”, Hessian Crucible “Shame Spiral”, Ulcerate “Cold Becoming”, Kverlertak “Utrid Die Svake”, Subrosa “House Carpenter”, Turisas “Hunting Pirates” and “Venetoi! Presino!” , The Living Fields “Glacial Movements” and “Perseverance”, Woods of Ypres “By the Time You Read This” and “I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery”, Liturgy “Tragic Laurel” and “Returner”, All Pigs Must Die “Death Dealer”, Dekadent “Day of Solace”, Illdisposed “The Taste of You”, August Burns Red “Carpe Diem”, Century “Painting Leprosy”, Vrani Vlossa “Rising Red”, Anaal Nathrakh “Drug Fucking Abomination”, Deafheaven “Tunnel of Trees”, Morne “Volition”, Rose Funeral “Malignant Amour”, Primordial “Mouth of Judas”, Ulcerate “Cold Becoming”, Hull “Earth From Water”, Lock Up “Stigmartyr”, Svartsot “Farsoten Kom”,Hands “Northern Lights”, Monsterworks “Everything You Believe is a Lie”, Thousand Year War ‘Spartacus”, Taake “Myr”, Loss – “Cut Up Depressed and Alone”, Skyrim Theme.