WHAT WERE MY FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2011?

	1) DECAPITATED: Carnival Is Forever The band's comeback album after such a tragic loss is just fantastic, great riffs in the Decapitated style.
	2) DEVIN TOWNSEND: Deconstruction Just the heaviest and most convoluted album from Dev. It'll make your ears bleed.
	3) DREAM THEATER: A Dramatic Turn Of Events Despite a soso drum performance from new drummer Mangini, the song writing on this album is just excellent.
	4) NEURAXIS: Asylon Dark, pounding tech metal from Montreal. A worthy follow-up to their last album. Lovers of technical metal take note.
	5) ORIGIN: Entity No surprise, just ridiculous speed all the way.
	6) DEVOLVED: Oblivion More excellent tech metal, the wait was far too long for this album, but the results are excellent.
	7) VADER: Welcome To The Morbid Reich After a few soso albums, this album shows the band back at full force, incorporating a few tastefully placed keyboards to help bolster their sound.
	8) VOYAGER: The Meaning Of I Great progressive album with fantastic hooks.
	9) MACHINE HEAD: Unto The Locust A worthy follow-up to an album that's difficult to follow up. I'm glad they decided to not just repeat themselves with this new one.
	10) TESSERACT: One Since most of the material on this album was already released as an EP, this hangs onto the 10 spot, with a few extra songs that make it all worth it.

	PERIPHERY: Icarus Lives Only 2 new songs, but a good collection of hard to find stuff.
	PESTILENCE: Doctrine Fantastic death metal with great riffs and just enough oddity to make their sound unique.