Our 2011 Picks in Music

There was way too much good music this year to try and constrain to a top ten list. Here’s what we dug this year:

• Absu - Abzu
• Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
• The Atlas Moth - An Ache for Distance
• Black Cobra - Invernal
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
• Cave In - White Silence
• Craft - Void
• Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form
• Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
• East of the Wall - The Apologist
• Falls of Rauros - The Light that Dwells in Rotten Wood
• Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable
• Helms Alee - Weatherhead
• The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
• Indian - Guiltless
• KEN Mode - Venerable
• Krallice - Diotima
• Mastodon - The Hunter
• Origin - Entity
• Red Fang - Murder the Mountains
• Rwake - Rest
• Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
• Speedwolf - Ride with Death
• Tombs - Path of Totality
• Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
• Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
• Veil of Pnath - The Prodigal Empire
• Weedeater - Jason… the Dragon
• Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
• Wolvhammer - The Obsidian Plains

On the Lighter Side:

• And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
• Austra - Feel It Break
• Battles - Gloss Drop
• The Globes - Future Self
• Man Man - Life Fantastic
• The Tree Ring - Generous Shadows
• Typhoon - A New Kind of House
• Zola Jesus - Conatus