Here are the various Best of 2011 -lists by our staff! Check them out, discover new names and comment away. Lists are purely personal preferences and therefore some of the lists contain secular artists.
Go ahead and post you own list(s) to the comments of this post for all to see!
UPDATE: Couple new lists have been added since this post first was published.
The lists:
- Brandon Jones
- Rob Jensen
- Shawn Harvey
- Joshua Hedlund
- Chris Alexander
- Cimarron Hatch
- Brian Mercer
- Mitch Emerick
- Jessica Cooper
- Brody B
- Chris Works
- Ian Devaney
- Eric Pettersson
- Steve Sloan
Here is the collection of number ones from all the lists:
Best Albums of 2011:
- Thrice “Major / Minor” (3 times)
- Craig’s Brother “The Insidious Lie”
- Grave Robber “You’re All Gonna Die”
- Josh Garrels “Love & War & The Sea In Between”
- Blindside “With Shivering Hearts We Wait”
- Foster The People “Torches”
- Balance & Composure “Separation”
- Close Your Eyes “Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts”
- Victorian Halls “Charlatan”
- The Violet Burning “The Story of Our Lives: Liebe über alles, Black as Death, and The Fantastic Machine”
- Surrogate “Diamonds and Pearls EP”
- Phinehas “thegodmachine”
- The Famine “The Architects of Guilt”
Best Songs of 2011:
- “The Best I Ever Had” by The Swellers
- “Slumber” by Needtobreathe
- “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night” by Five Iron Frenzy (2 times)
- “Crumbling” by Emery
- “I Just Needed You To Know” by Mae
- “Hurt” by Hundredth
- “Children of Fire” by Oh, Sleeper
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Hannah Rose
This City Awaits
Aquile (The Voice)
Victor Griffin and Jeff “Oly” Olson (IN~GRAVED)
Kingdom Band
RED
Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (Plumb)
Southbound Fearing
Matt Baird (Spoken)
CedEnough
Brian “Head” Welch (Love and Death)
Andrew Schwab
KJ-52
Lil’ Dre
The O.C. Supertones
A Past Unknown
Gideon
Memphis May Fire
Heath McNease
Belle Epoque
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like 2/3 of my main list is secular so I’ll just do top 10 Christian to save typing time.
LPs
10) Hands- Give Me Rest
9) Emery- We Do What We Want
8) Across Waters- More Light Is Never Ending
7) Sainthood Reps- Monoculture
6) Switchfoot- Vice Verses
5) Bigfoot Wallace- Malleable
4) Jeff Jacquay- La Cambria
3) Josh Garrels- Love & War & The Sea In Between
2) Kye Kye- Young Love
1) Mae- (e)vening (if it’s an LP, and if it came out in 2011, both of which are debatable)
EPs
5) Ocean Is Theory- Future Fears
4) Hawkboy- King Folly
3) Least of These- More Than Conquerors
2) My Epic- Broken Voice
1) Hawkboy- Hawkboy
also I thought this was a pretty weak year.
Thank you for the Kye Kye love.
Totally agree. This year was, for me, the weakest one in a while. Next year is shaping up to be awesome.
yep I’ve got higher expectations for the coming year. nice pic too, love that album.
my full list: http://www.last.fm/user/DavidShephard/journal/2012/01/02/59qbvi_eko%27s_%2711%3A_lps
Albums:
1) Erra – “Impulse”
2) Vildhjarta – “Måsstaden”
3) Oh, Sleeper – “Children Of Fire”
4) As Hell Retreats – “Volition”
5) Memphis May Fire – “The Hollow”
6) Structures – “Divided By”
7) Volumes – “Via”
8) August Burns Red – “Leveler”
9) For The Fallen Dreams – “Back Burner”
10) Yellowcard – “When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes”
EPs:
1) Substructure – “Monolith”
2) Elitist – “Earth”
3) Wolves At The Gate – “We Are The Ones”
4) Corelia – “Nostalgia”
Songs:
1) Erra – “Heart”
2) Volumes – “Edge Of The Earth”
3) Erra – “Pattern Interrupt”
4) Structures – “Tunnel Vision”
5) The Color Morale – “Be Longing Always”
6) August Burns Red – “Poor Millionaire”
7) Erra – “Render The Void”
8) As Hell Retreats – “Matriarch”
9) Yellowcard – “Be The Young”
10) Memphis May Fire – “The Deceived”
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
Textures – “Dualism”
The Color Morale – “My Devil In Your Eyes”
Close Your Eyes – “Empty Hands And Heavy Hearts”
Ten After Two – “Truth Is…”
Born Of Osiris – “The Discovery”
We Came As Romans – “Understanding What We’ve Grown To Be”
The following bands mentioned on my list are NOT Christian:
Erra, Vildhjarta, Structures, Volumes, For The Fallen Dreams, Yellowcard, Substructure, Elitist, Corelia, Textures, Ten After Two, Born Of Odiris, and We Came As Romans
so glad you put Masstaden at number 2. that album is insane. glad to see someone else knows who they are. also that substructure EP is amazing. But you forgot Eden 2.0 by Tesseract!
I didn’t forget it I just think the songs/albums mentioned were better :/. I wanted to love “One”, it was just really flat. Impressive, but the production makes it feel flat to me. And I haven’t had the time to check out “Eden 2.0″, but I heard there’s no screaming and I loved that about the original version.
The song I left off was “Traces” by Vildhjarta. I do think that album is best listened to straight through, kinda like Tesseract’s “One”, but with a better mix and a little more ambitious.
Just my thoughts though. I still enjoy Tesseract :) I’m stoked for the new Periphery album next year hbu? Apparently Spencer used absolutely zero autotune or pitch corrector on the new album :D
yeah, definitely check out Eden 2.0. much better production and the new singer is phenomenal! yeah, traces is ridiculous! although i prefer the older instrumental version. Yeah new periphery should be sick!
Top Ten Albums:
1. “The Life and Death of A Plea For Purging” – APFP
2. “Let Go” – Hundredth
3. “Give Me Rest” – Hands
4. “Major/Minor” – Thrice
5. “Thegodmachine” – Phinehas
6. “Room to Run” – States
7. “Siberia” – Lights
8. “Bon Iver” – Bon Iver
9. “Helplessness Blues” – Fleet Foxes
10. “Starting From Nowhere” – Heidecker & Wood
Top 40 albums of 2011:
1. Hands – “Give Me Rest”
2. Sleeping Giant – “Kingdom Days in an Evil Age”
3. Thrice – “Major/Minor”
4. Moving Mountains – “Waves”
5. Life in Your Way – “Kingdoms”
6. A Hope for Home – “Hundredth – “Let Go”
7. Phinehas – “Thegodmachine”
8. Wolves At The Gate – “We Are the Ones”
9. Defeater – “Empty Days and Sleepless Nights”
10. A Hope for Home – “In Abstraction.”
11. Decoder – “S/T.”
12. This Will Destroy You – “Tunnel Blanket”
13. Times of Grace – “The Hymn of a Broken Man”
14. The Ember Days – “Emergency”
15. Mastodon – “The Hunter”
16. Oh, Sleeper – “Children of Fire”
17. Balance and Composure – “Separation”
18. Messengers – “Anthems”
19. Adele – “21″
20. Lights – “Siberia”
21. My Epic – “Broken Voice”
22. Lydia – “Paint It Golden”
23. Jawbone – “Loss of Innocence”
24. Transient – “Alone”
25. Cool Hand Luke – “Of Man”
26. Close Your Eyes – “Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts”
27. Jeremy Riddle – “Furious”
28. Daniel Bashta – “The Sounds of Daniel Bashta”
29. August Burns Red – “Leveler”
30. Josh Garrels – “Love & War & The Sea In Between.”
31. Call to Preserve – “Validation (7-inch)”
32. Hawkboy – “S/T”
33. City and Colour – “Little Hell”
34. Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
35. Between the Buried and Me: “The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues”
36. Counterparts – “The Current Will Carry Us.”
37. In the Midst of Lions – “Shadows”
38. Saving Grace – “The King is Coming”
39. Chevelle – “Hats Off to The Bull”
40. Bon Iver – “S/T”
Love the mention of Transient! Such a good band. If you like them, check out Restore :) not Christian but still very very good.
now this guy… he has a good list
This was a not too bad year! Foo Fighters, Thrice, and o’brother were all big standouts for me. I still haven’t had the chance to really check out Switchfoot’s latest yet.
Next year means new Showbread, probably new Moving Mountains, (hopefully) new The Mars Volta, and new Blood and Water, and those are enough for me to be stoked, lol. :)
*too bad of a year
Best Of
1. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. Drake – Take Care
3. Switchfoot – Vice Verses
4. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
5. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
6. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
7. Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth
8. Youth Lagoon – The Year of HIbernation
9. The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
10. The Black Keys – El Camino
Most Anticipated of 2011
John Mayer
David Crowder Band
Anberlin
Relient K
that Youth Lagoon album is pretty cool, nice to see it getting mentioned here.
Here’s something what mine looks like:
1. thegodmachine – Phinehas
2. As the World Bleeds – Theocracy
3. Leveler – August Burns Red
4. Children of Fire – Oh Sleeper
5. Dissimulation – Hope for the Dying
6. Blacklight – Tedashii
7. With Shivering Hearts We Wait – Blindside
8. Vice Verses – Switchfoot
9. Odd Soul – Mutemath
10. Thrice – Major/Minor
SOLID!! I definitely agree with you on those first five albums!
….but:
1. As The World Bleeds
2. Children of Fire
3. Leveler
4. Dissimulation
5. thegodmachine (Literally THE BEST debut from any metal band I’ve ever heard in a while!)
Every time I try and listen to Phinehas, I think to myself, “If I’m going to listen to an As I Lay Dying knock off band, I’d rather listen to the original.”
So just because they have strong screams, good clean singing, and lots of lead guitar they’re an As I Lay Dying knockoff? There’s more to their music than that.
Ehhhhhh…… To quote the great Chasing Victory, “If you are feeling original, don’t let it go to your head, it’s all been done before.”
If you didn’t know, As I Lay Dying has two vocalists. Phinehas has one. Besides the band has a different sound than AILD.
Best albums of 2011 (twas a good year):
30) Feedback – Derek Webb
29) Response – Phil Wickham
28) Until We Have Faces – RED
27) In Abstraction – A Hope For Home
26) Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
25) Leveler – August Burns Red
24) Emergency – The Ember Days
23) Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts – Close Your Eyes
22) The Valley – Eisley
21) The Reckoning – Needtobreathe
20) Love and War and the Sea In Between – Josh Garrels
19) Monoculture – Sainthood Reps
18) Hawkboy/King Folly Eps – Hawkboy
17) Economy – John Mark McMillian
16) Holding Onto Hope – Holding Onto Hope
15) Odd Soul – MuteMath
14) With Shivering Hearts We Wait – Blindside
13) (e)vening – Mae
12) All Things Bright and Beautiful – Owl City
11) Dark Words on Dark Wings – Quiet Science
10) We Do What We Want – Emery
9) Deas Vail – Deas Vail
8) Give Me Rest – Hands
7) Broken Voice – My Epic
6) Major/Minor – Thrice
5) Vice Verses – Switchfoot
4) Children of Fire – Oh, Sleeper
3) Your Sparkling Death Cometh – Falling Up
2) Of Man – Cool Hand Luke
1) Ghosts Upon the Earth – Gungor
Best Songs of 2011:
25. The Light Beam Rider – Falling Up
24. Selling the News – Switchfoot
23. Mscron – Falling Up
22. Goodbye For Now – Cool Hand Luke
21. In the Wake of Pigs – Oh, Sleeper
20. Prytania – MuteMath
19. Bloodstained Hollywood Ending/Withering – Blindside
18. Let There Be – Gungor
17. Ambulance – Eisley
16. The Resistance – Josh Garrels
15. Summer Forgets Me – Deas Vail
14. Deer in the Headlights – Owl City
13. Mediums – Holding Onto Hope
12. When Death Dies – Gungor
11. The War Inside – Switchfoot
10. I’m Not Here For Rage, I’m Here For Revenge – Emery
9. Blue Ghost – Falling Up
8. The Cheval Glass – Emery
7. A Dying Breed – Quiet Science
6. Brother Moon – Gungor
5. The Family Ruin – Oh, Sleeper
4. Garden – My Epic
3. His Eyes – Cool Hand Luke
2. Are You Coming? – Cool Hand Luke
1. Circadian – Falling Up
Darn it I left Hands completely off that list! Also forgot My Epic’s “Deathbed”. That song is phenomenal!
finally someone listed falling up in their list, my numero uno album of the year….
I found this to be a very weak year for new music that I like. So much so, that I’d seriously consider putting a couple Christmas albums on my best-of list. And I can’t even come up with at top-10 list.
1) Matt Papa – This Changes Everything
2) Mae – (E)vening
3) Mute Math – Odd Soul
4) Switchfoot – Vice Verses
5) Aaron Keyes – Dwell
6) Downhere – On the Altar of Love
Top 15 albums in order:
15. “Lawless” – The Righteous Vendetta
14. “Empty Hands And Heavy Hearts” – Close Your Eyes
13. “Until We Have Faces” – Red
12. “Inheritors” – Serianna
11. “Understanding What We’ve Grown To Be” – We Came As Romans
10. “The Absolute” – Ace Augustine
9. “Heavy Worship” – The Great Commission
8. “thegodmachine” – Phinehas
7. “We Are The Ones” – Wolves At The Gate (So good, it might as well be an LP)
6. “We Do What We Want” – Emery
5. “The War Within Us” – Onward To Olympas
4. “My Devil In Your Eyes” – The Color Morale
3. “Leveler” – August Burns Red
2. “Dead Throne” – The Devil Wears Prada
1. “Children of Fire” – Oh, Sleeper
Top 10 songs:
10. “Valleys” – Close Your Eyes
9. “Draw The Line” – The Great Commission
8. “Heralds” – Wolves At The Gate
7. “The Cheval Glass” – Emery
6. “The War Within Us” – Onward To Olympas
5. “Quote On Quote” – The Color Morale
4. “From One End Of The Sky To The Other” – Phinehas
3. “Constance” – The Devil Wears Prada
2. “Leveler” – August Burns Red
1. “Dealers of Fame” – Oh, Sleeper
Anticipated for 2012:
Demon Hunter
MyChildren MyBride
Emery
Sent By Ravens
Thousand Foot Krutch
Very very awesome list! Every single one of those bands deserve to be in the top 15/20…
(SO looking forward to the new DH, SbR, and TFK albums!!)
And by the way, I LOVE your profile pic… (THE FINISHER!!)
1. The Famine – The Architects of Guilt
2. Oh, Sleeper – Children of Fire
3. Phinehas – Thegodmachine
4. Behold Oblivion – Witness
5. Animals As Leaders – Weightless
6. Sosaveme – The Garden
7. Life In Your Way – Kingdoms
8. Hands – Give Me Rest
9. Memphis May Fire – The Hollow
10. My Epic – Broken Voice
I feel like everyone forgot about the famine because they were so early in the year…
Or because that album was highly overrated.
If you say so.
Maybe real metal scares people.
^This.
Wow. I usually disagree with people, but this year I am totally off from what y’all got. I can’t express enough how important the two albums are on my “best of” list. It would be well worth your time to check out both albums.
Last year, I only put albums that I rated 8.5 or higher in my “best of”. If any album had more than 3 tracks that I skip, then I didn’t put it in the “best of”.
I did the same this year.
THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2011
1. Shai Linne, “The Attributes of God”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a “game changer”. Check out the slow flow on “Lord of Patience”, check out the incredible beats on “Triune Praise (remix)”, “The Glory of God”, “The Omnis” and “Taste and See”. A lot of good hip hop came out in 2011 – certainly more than in any other genre -, but this was the best.
2. Creations “The Gospel”
This album is totally heavy with great lyrics. No clean singing, mega breakdowns, superbly percussive.
Honorable mentions: Braille “Native Lungs”, Da’ TRUTH “The Whole Truth”, Tedashii “Blacklight”, A Plea For Purging “The Life and Death of A Plea For Purging”, Pristina featuring Annabel Adams “The Killing Jar”, The Echoing Green “In Scarlet and Vile”, Lorenguard “Eve of Corruption”.
THE WORST ALBUM OF 2011: Hillsong “Aftermath”.
THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2010
1. Lampmode Records “The Church: Called & Collected”
2. Messengers “Anthems”
3. Living Sacrifice “The Infinite Order”
4. Json “City Lights”
5. Evangel “Expository Journey”,
6. Overcome “The Great Campaign of Sabotage”
7. Jamiroquai “Rock Dust Light Star” (not available in the USA and I’m not paying to have it imported, so I’ve only streamed it)
Honorable mentions: Daft Punk “Tron Legacy” score, the Human League “Credo”, Decipha “Rep”. I spent much of 2010 and 2011 still listening to 2009′s Thieves and Liars “American Rock N Roll” and Huntingtons “Punk Sounds”.
THE ONLY ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2012:
Living Sacrifice, Timothy Brindle, and Flatfoot 56
Couldn’t agree more on worst album, lol. Nice to know I’m not alone on that
Uhh didn’t These Hearts come out this year? That beats Hillsong
Ooh, that’s true. And Design the Skyline too
1. “Young Love” by Kye Kye (Hands down best album of 2011. These guys deserve a lot more attention.)
2. “Children of Fire” by Oh, Sleeper
3. “With Shivering Hearts We Wait” by Blindside
4. “Young Love” by Mat Kearney
5. “Us; The Hollows” by Intohimo
I would like to reference the fact that Intohimo sounds for the most part just like early Underoath, but not as polished (I do however like this band).
I saw intohimo live last spring here in Finland and thought is this Underoath :D But they were good live nonetheless.
I need to get that Kye Kye album!
I’m really considering Kye Kye my Christian aoty, but so many people were including (e)vening on their lists I threw it in there. But yeah Young Love is seriously phenomenal, best CHristian debut I’ve heard in a looooooong while
You all make it sound like sounding like early Underoath is a bad thing. But no one mocks Phinehas for sounding exactly like Haste the Day or As I Lay Dying? And sounding like early Underoath is a great thing. A boy brushed red. Just saying.
Dallas Taylor-Underoath is my fav. :)
1. La Dispute – “Wildlife”
2. Bon Iver – “Bon Iver, Bon Iver”
3. Manchester Orchestra – “Simple Math”
4. Balance and Composure – “Separation”
5. My Epic – “Broken Voice”
6. Sainthood Reps – “Monoculture”
7. Thrice – “Major/Minor”
8. The Wonder Years – “Suburbia I Gave You All and Now I’m Nothing”
9. Touche Amore – “Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me”
10. The Black Keys – “El Camino”
here’s a list i can back
Wow… Sleeping Giant barely made any of the lists. Only a couple. 13th and 5th.
Would have been #1 for me. Hands second.
I haven’t put up mine… yet. :D
Sleeping Giant was for me an incredible album. I haven’t done a list or compared it to other albums, but it is definitely up there! Getting to meet Tommy and see the band at Sonshine was also incredible!
Hands also put out a great album, and it was great to see them live as well (though it meant missing FF5 – not much of a sacrifice, considering I’ve seen them before and wasn’t too impressed.).
I’m not sure why, but I’ve never really been able to get fully in to them. I thought the new cd was pretty good though! I think I put it at about 22 which is leagues above how much I’ve enjoyed their other stuff. I really like them live though.
@ Loren Wade: I agree with you man!!! Sleeping Giant would have been my No. 1 also!!! Followed by Saving Grace and (@Boaz, this is for you:-) BTA!!! I haven’t listened to the new albums of Theocracy and Life in Your Way yet though… they might come before BTA in my list… oh, I almost forgot about Lecrae’s “Rehab” and “God is Able” from Hillsong…
My #2 album this year. Unbelievable album. So empowering!!
Lol @ Stevo and I agree about Saving Grace. Got to throw Phinehas some love too.
I am to embarrassed to post my list but that BTA was not on any above probably means would just get ridiculed anyway.
1.Close Your Eyes- Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts
2.No Bragging Rights – Illuminator
3.Debtor – Bloodseeds
4.Adele- 21
5.Hundredth – Let Go
6.Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
7.Big Bang- Tonight
8.Jackie Evancho – Dream With Me
9.Life In Your Way- Kingdoms
10.Hands – Give Me Rest
backed.
1. Shai Linne – Attributes of God
2. Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth
3. Spraynard – Funtitled
4. Joyce Manor – Joyce Manor
5. Bomb the Music Industry – Vacation
6. Craig’s Brother – The Insidious Lie
7. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You My All and Now I’m Nothing
8. Laura Stevenson and the Cans – Sit Resist
9. New Found Glory – Radiosurgery
10. Transit – Listen & Forgive
Notes: Wasting Light by Foo Fighters is not in my top ten, but that was awesome and i like the direction that they’re going
Tedashii’s album Blacklight was good, but a let down for me, I really liked Identity Crisis and I was hoping for better
I havent listened to the new Bosstones enough, but its pretty solid so far (going to see them for hometown throwdown, that will be rad)
Also, just grabbed the Waffle Stompers, so far I love it
If you can’t tell i’m not really into breakdowns and screaming all the time, so excuse me for leaving off your favorite whatever
I guess I’m not hipster enough to do the whole bon iver thing, whatever…
Albums I’m looking forward to:
Relient K
David Crowder* Band (the final one)
Timothy Brindle
Sons of Odin
Trip Lee
Westbound Train (Obi Fernandez)
if Five Iron has their album out by the end of the year that would be rad
Woah this is list is awesome bro. Mad props for Joyce Manor and Vacation. Sit Resist is good stuff too. Didn’t get into Spraynard though when I listened to it, didn’t give it enough of a chance probably.
yeah no one really mentioned joyce manor or vacation, the joyce manor album blew my mind, my friend told me to check it out and i was so happy he did. spraynard is my love for pop punk, its good late 90s early 2000s pop punk and i love it.
now looking at it, my list is so odd, the last 8 go together, but the first two are kind of random
Five Iron Frenzy won’t be out until 2013. I can imagine it will be on my tops for that year though!
Here’s mine.
Best of 2011:
1. Theocracy- As the World Bleeds
2. Phinehas- thegodmachine
3. Hands- Give Me Rest
4. Josh Garrels- Love & War & The Sea In Between
5. Jenny and Tyler- Faint Not
6. Saving Grace- The King is Coming
7. Becoming the Archetype- Celestial Completion
8. Eisley- The Valley
9. Oh, Sleeper- Children of Fire
10. The Ember Days- Emergency
11. Sleeping Giant- Kingdom Days in an Evil Age
12. The Great Commission- Heavy Worship
13. Emery- We Do What We Want
14. Life In Your Way- Kingdoms
15. The Gun Show- Discontentment
Best Christmas album of 2011:
Timbre- Silent Night
Most disappointing albums of 2011:
1. The Devil Wears Prada- Dead Throne
2. Deadlock- Bizzaro World (This isn’t a Christian band, but I figured I’d go ahead and throw it on the list anyway.)
3. The Famine- The Architects of Guilt (This wasn’t a bad album, but it was kind of a disappointment compared to “The Raven and the Reaping”.)
1. The Gun Show- Discontentment
2. Gideon- Costs
3. In the Midst of Lions- Shadows
4. August Burns Red- Leveler
5. Love Begotten- Ugly, Dirty, Poor.
HM- Not One is Upright- God is Not a Watchmaker, and the World Isn’t Ticking.
Top Not- APFP, Their Life and Death or whatever (It was solid, but man… Son, I am disappoint.)
100% without a doubt, if The Gun Show went with Facedown (they were offered, but felt that wasn’t what God wanted for them), they would have been on Scream the Prayer this year and “Discontentment” would be in the top 10 for everyone’s metal list. So unique, that album pushed the boundaries of what Christ-centered aggressive music can be. Also, no one knows them, but Love Begotten’s “Ugly, Dirty, Poor” is probably better than The Chariot’s “Long Live.” I said it and stand by it.
Top Not-Christian Album (for me)
shitbird- Dropping a Deuce http://datathrash.bandcamp.com/album/dropping-a-deuce
Pure insanity, this is probably the heaviest a Game Boy ever sounded. If you like trying new things, you will not be disappointed.
also, I don’t understand “Heavy Worship” on so many lists. Talk about trite. I still enjoy them live, but not that album.
My top 10:
1. The Great Commission – Heavy Worship
2. Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days in an Evil Age
3. FM Static – My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!
4. Life In Your Way – Kingdoms
5. Times of Grace – The Hymn of a Broken Man
6. Oh, Sleeper – Children of Fire
7. Seventh Day Slumber – The Anthem of Angels
8. Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
9. August Burns Red – Leveler
10. Haste the Day – Haste the Day Vs. Haste the Day/Thousand Foot Krutch – Live at the Masquerade (Tie)
Reading Gozola’s post right above this and then reading this made me laugh out loud. Hahaha!
lol, yep, I”m not gonna say anything ^_^
Oh, Sleeper’s – Children of Fire was such a weak sauce album. Shane really needs to stop with the Nickelback acoustic crap. Just saying, talented guy but needs to know that Oh, Sleeper is not the place for that.
Here is my top Metal and Hardcore List:
1) Animals As Leaders – Weightless
2) Hands – Give Me Rest
3) Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
4) Close Your Eyes – Empty Hands & Heavy Hearts
5) Hundredth – Let Go
6) La Dispute – Wildlif
7) Gideon – Costs
8) The Famine – Architects of Guilt
9)August Burns Red – Leveler
10) The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
11) Uneven Structure – Februus
12) Tesseract – One
13) Hope For The Dying – Dissimulation
14) A Plea For Purging – The Life & Death
15) Pianos Become The Teeth – The Lack Long After
16) Oh, Sleeper – Children of Fire
17) Touche Amore – Parting The Sea Between Brightness & Me
18) The Devil Wears Prada – Dead Throne
19) Decoder – Self Titled
20) Balance & Composure – Separation
How anyone can compare anything Oh, Sleeper has done to Nickelback is beyond me. I thought Means to Believe was amazing and a nice break from the heaviness on Children of Fire. I hate how some people listen to metal so long it’s like they can’t appreciate anything soft anymore.
“Children of Fire was such a weak sauce album”…
Yet its in your top metal album list.
That made sense…
Amen Lucas. Means to Believe lyrically has such a deep meaning, especially considering Shane wrote it about his own life and it originally wasn’t even intended for the album. And it’s pretty much insanely beautiful musically too…
good to see Pianos Become the Teeth on here! great album!
I’ll narrow my list down to my top 5:
Phinehas
Blindside
James Durbin
Midnight Hour
Life on Repeat
Top EP’s(Includes Bands I started listening to this year)
The Parousia
Stellar Kart
The Rugged Spud
Quinn Ivory
Altars
Good list. I enjoyed what I heard from James Durbin and the Quinn Ivory 3 song thing was great. It was more of an unofficial demo which is why it didn’t end up on my list. Also Keith never sent me The Parousia ep ;)
Oh and I don’t own Life on Repeat or new Ocean is Theory
technically the EP was released in 2010 but it looks like Brandon may be getting a stocking suffer.
BTW Steve, I might see you in february
I know when the EP was release I just didn’t have it until this year =P. Awesome I hope I get to see you in feb!
good call on The Parousia
Here are the albums I loved:
Children of Fire – Oh, Sleeper
Leveler – August Burns Red
Kingdoms – Life in Your Way
Haste the Day vs. Haste the Day – Haste the Day
The Infinite Order – Living Sacrifice
Struggle + Sleep – Life on Repeat
We Do What We Want – Emery
Ghosts Upon the Earth – Gungor
Kingdom Days in an Evil Age – Sleeping Giant
With Shivering Hearts We Wait – Blindside
Vice Verses – Switchfoot
Lawless – Righteous Vendetta
Best 2012 albums already:
Feel the Power – Blessed By a Broken Heart
Mychildren Mybride – Mychildren Mybride
So wired for those!
Chandler, Living Sacrifice’s The Infinite Order came in 2010. AWESOME album though. It’s one of my favorites too! Anyways, they are planning on having a new album in 2012 though! Should I say next year? It just sounds weird because “next year” is in a few days. HA!
Oh yeah haha I guess idk why I was thinking that. That thing hasn’t stopped playing since then. Maybe it’ll be in my top albums of the year every year ;) And they were talking about writing a covers album, which, in my opinion would be awesome!
Me too Chandler. I’m listening to it now. It’s one of my favorites for sure! 2010 was an awesome year. Living Sacrifice’s and Demon Hunter’s albums of last year are still in my rotation since they came out. Not to mention the War of Ages, Haste the Day, and Disciple albums that year too. Top 5 of last year for sure. But those LS and DH albums…man. Too good! They are also my favorite bands though.
A Living Sacrifice covers album? That sounds awesome! I didn’t know. That would be cool if it happened. Thanks Chandler!
I don’t want an album of LS doing covers but and album of newer bands doing LS covers would be AWESOME.
It was awhile ago they talked about it, so I actually doubt they’d do it. But hm maybe some cover songs, who knows. But not sure I agree with you @Boaz, depends on what band would be covering LS and what song too. I’d honestly be more stoked for LS doing covers :)
Here is my list in no particular order…
The Wonder Year – Suburbia
Friends – Better Off Alone
Childish Gambino – Camp
Stickup Kid – The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
Emery – We Do What We Want
Ocean Is Theory – Future Fears EP
Set Your Goals – Burning At Both Ends
Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
The Gun Show – Discontentment
Man Overboard – Self-Titled
Cootie Catcher – Self-Titled EP
The Great Commission – Heavy Worship
Fireworks – Gospel
Grouplove – Self-Titled EP
I’m just realizing that I didn’t really get that much new music this year. Also I still have several new albums that I haven’t listened to yet.
I forgot about that Stickup Kid album, yeah it was good. I think they will be even better on the next album. Good list however I didn’t dig the Man Overboard album on the first few listens. You should seriously check out the punk band, MUTE, from Quebec, Canada quality stuff there.
Here is my list for top albums (includes EPs):
1. Love & War & The Sea In Between – Josh Garrels
2. Simple Math – Manchester Orchestra
3. We Do What We Want – Emery
4. Children of Fire – Oh, Sleeper
5. As the World Bleeds – Theocracy
6. Broken Voice – My Epic
7. Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
8. Straight Outta Console / The House Always Wins – Heath McNease
9. Man Up – 116 Clique
10. Siberia – Lights
Top Songs:
1. “Simple Math” – Manchester Orchestra
2. “Hush Yael” – Oh, Sleeper
3. “Pilot Me” – Josh Garrels
4. “Internal Cannon” – August Burns Red
5. “Deathbed” – My Epic
6. “Hallelujah” – Lecrae
7. “30 Pieces of Silver” – Theocracy
8. “Damaged” – Plumb
9. “Daddy’s Little Peach” – Emery
10. “Selling the News” – Switchfoot
Side note: the video for Simple Math is probably the coolest video of all time.
True that. The cinematography is amazing.
Breathing Light by BTA was my video of the year. CLIFTON!
Honorable mentions:
Erra – Impulse
The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
The Browning – Burn This World
Volumes – Via
Maylene & The Sons of Disaster – IV
City and Colour – Little Hell
15. Mae – (E)vening
14. Adele – 21
13. Scale The Summit – The Collective
12. Animals as Leaders – Weightless
11. Times of Grace – Hymns of a Broken Man
10. Betraying The Martyrs – Breathe in Life
9. Hope For The Dying – Dissimulation
8. Blindside – With Shivering Hearts We Wait
7. The Famine – The Architects of Guilt
6. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony
5. Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days in an Evil Age
4. Panic! at The Disco – Virtue and Vices
3. Born of Osiris – The Discovery
2. Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
1. Dead Letter Circus – This is The Warning
Ep’s:
1. Between The Buried and Me -The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
2. Wavorly – The Ep
3. Elitist – Earth
Most anticipated for 2012 (and beyond):
Five Iron Frenzy
Becoming The Archetype
Showbread – Cancer
Demon Hunter
Soul Embraced
As I Lay Dying
Living Sacrifice
See The Light – Tepid
DUDE! YES! dead letter circus!!! i love them so much!! thank you for putting that album in number 1! so freaking amazing!!
So I skimmed over all the lists so far (both fan and staff) and did some math as to which are the best albums of the year overall. I had a lot of free time today and was incredibly bored. :) Anyways this is what I came up with:
15. Simple Math – Manchester Orchestra
14. Vice Verses – Switchfoot
13. Let Go – Hundredth
12. Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts – Close Your Eyes
11. Kingdom Days in an Evil Age – Sleeping Giant
10. Celestial Completion – Becoming the Archetype
9. As the World Bleeds – Theocracy
8. Love and War and the Sea In Between – Josh Garrels
7. Leveler – August Burns Red
6. With Shivering Hearts We Wait – Blindside
5. Give Me Rest – Hands
4. thegodmachine – Phineas
3. Kingdoms – Life In Your Way
2. Major/Minor – Thrice
1. Children of Fire – Oh, Sleeper
Narrowing down my favorites from the whole entire year is really hard. Such a great year in music (IMO).
Top Metal/Hardcore albums:
Saving Grace, “The King Is Coming”
The Devil Wears Prada, “Dead Throne”
Life In Your Way, “Kingdoms”
Oh, Sleeper, “Children of Fire”
Nothing Til Blood, “When Lambs Become Lions”
Hands, “Give Me Rest”
Sleeping Giant, “Kingdom Days In An Evil Age”
Top EP:
Willows, “Walk Home”
Top Indie/Acoustic Albums:
The Civil Wars, “Barton Hollow”
Little Hurricane, “Homewrecker”
Josh Garrels, “Love and War and The Sea In Between”
The Decemberists, “The King is Dead”
Coldplay, “Mylo Xyloto”
Death Cab For Cutie, “Codes and Keys”
oh, I forgot Willows! That is a darn good ep. Such a brutal drop on that one track, “God have mercy, for I/ have none! Blegh.”
The Gun Show
Sleeping Giant
August Burns Red
Gideon
Oh, Sleeper
And I am yet to buy…
Hundredth
Blindside
Close Your Eyes
Life in Your Way
Holding onto Hope
And I probably forgot some. Oh, and best non-Christian, Bon Iver, by far.
I really can’t get into Bon Iver…sounds too pretentious and hipster-ish to me.
too pretentious? no way dude, that man makes music of legends
The music is decent, but the vocals are not my thing
Yea, I love Dead Letter Circus. Such an awesome band and good sound. They need more recognition here in the US!
yeah i went and saw them a couple of weeks ago, they were so incredible live, kim’s voice was perfect, i don’t even know.
I seriously didn’t realize how much this website listened to metal/metalcore/etc until all of these lists started going up.
and that’s why I frequent here, because a lot people listen to that kinda sturf.
And I don’t know why that is… Only couple of the staff are “metal-oriented”. But maybe they are/have been very active in posting. I personally would love a wider focus cause I’m sure there is way more out there. But maybe metal is very popular in christian circles outside the regular CCM crowd?
In my experience, it isn’t popular at all haha.
10. Panda Bear – Tomboy
9. Sainthood Reps – Monoculture
8. Saves The Day – Daybreak
7. Sea & Cake – The Moonlit Butterfly
6. Cave In – White Silence
5. Thursday – No Devolucion
4. Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming
3. Mike Adams at his Honest Weight – Oscillate Wisely
2. M83 – Hurry Up, we’re Dreaming
1. Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
1. Thrice- Major/Minor
2. Gideon-Costs
3. Emery-We Do What We Want
4. Phineas-Thegodmachine
5.A Plea for Purging- The Life & Death of A Plea For Purging
6.Close Your Eyes- Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts
7. As Hell Retreats- Volition
8.Becoming The Archetype- Celestial Completion
9.Oh Sleeper-Children of Fire
10. August Burns Red- Leverler
15 albums that I loved :
Dinner and a Suit – Since our Departure
Emery – We Do What We Want
Life in your way – Kingdoms
Josh Garrels – Love and War and the Sea In Between
Mutemath – Odd Soul
Oh Sleeper – Children of Fire
Hands – Give Me Rest
Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days In An Evil Age
August Burns Red – Leveler
The City Harmonic – I Have A Dream (It Feels Like Home)
Adele – 21
My Epic – Broken Voice
Phinehas – thegodmachine
Texas In July – One Reality
John Mark McMillan – Economy
I still haven’t had the chance to listen to the new ones from Phil WIckham, A hope for Home, A plea for purging, Gideon, Close your eyes and other albums that would probably be up there too.
Where’s the The Chariot Love? :)
Yeah “Long Live” was late 2010. If it was this year it would’ve been very high on my list.
December 2010, lol. I had to check it for my list ^_^
(reply to Marshall)
Just added some new 2011 releases to my collection (thank you gift cards): John Mark McMillan “Economy”, By a Thread “By a Thread”, Chuck Ragan “Covering Ground. Good stuff. I also picked up this 2009 release from The Casting Out which features the Boysetsfire vocalist in a punk band.
need to get on that Kye Kye thing Brandon :)
My list:
1. Mutemath – Odd Soul
2. Becoming the Archetype – Celestial Completion
3. Switchfoot – Vice Verses
4. Thrice – Major/Minor
5. Sainthood Reps – Monoculture
6. Blindside – With Shivering Hearts We Wait
7. My Epic – Broken Voice
8. Cool Hand Luke – Of Man
9. Falling Up – Your Sparkling Death Cometh
10. Decoder – Decoder
11. Hands – Give Me Rest
12. Josh Garrels – Love & War & the Sea In Between
13. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
14. A Hope for Home – In Abstraction
15. I Am Empire – Kings
Overall, a great year with releases from many of my top 10 favorite bands that either lived up to my expectations or came really close. I was expecting Thrice to be better but for some reason it just never clicked with me the way their past 3 or 4 releases have. Still a great album nonetheless. I guess some might wonder about BtA being so high but that album remains my favorite summer metal release and I still have more fun spinning it then any metal album. Also, Sainthood Reps wins my award of best debut and best new band. Look forward to hearing more from them in the future. That album blew me away.
No Oh Sleeper?
I know, that’s a weird thought considering I loved their first two albums so much. It’s right there with #15. I just couldn’t really get into it though. I loved the clean singing and softer songs the most. The heavier stuff had some cool moments but overall I’ve heard it from them before. It’s no coincidence that the heavy stuff I do have on my list aren’t at all metalcore and are more experimental. That’s the heavy stuff I like and I like the more ‘experimental’ songs from Oh Sleeper the most.
Like your list Michael. The problem is that Major/Minor should be on the top :D
How do I change my avatar?
http://www.indievisionmusic.com/2011/02/14/get-your-own-image-to-show-with-your-comments/
Changing your avatar is fun!
1) Emery- we do what we want
2)oh sleeper- children of fire
3)transit-listen and forgive
4)The devil wears prada-dead throne
5)life in your way- kingdoms
6)bright eyes – the peoples key
7)august burns red- leveler
8)thrice-major/minor
9)new found glory- radiosurgery
10)we came as romans-understanding what we’ve grown to be
my top 10
Times of Grace – Hymn Of A Broken Man
Psalters – Chapter VII Carry the Bones
Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth
Life In Your Way – Kingdoms
Craig’s Brother – The Insidious Lie
Betraying The Martyrs – Breathe In Life
The Famine – The Architects of Guilt
Tedashii – Blacklight
Schrijvers voor Gerechtigheid – Zeeën van Recht
The Spirit That Guides Us – Innocent Blood
Album of the year: Hands – Give Me Rest
No contest.
For the rest of my ‘top 10′, check my blog: http://bit.ly/sXBe32
My top ten albums of 2011 (subject to change):
10. Life In Your Way – Kingdoms
9. The Ember Days – Emergency
8. Josh Garrels – Love & War & The Sea In Between
7. Mattie Montgomery – The Keys To Open Ancient Gates
6. Levi The Poet – Monologues EP
5. Theocracy – As The World Bleeds
4. Switchfoot – Vice Verses
3. My Epic – Broken Voice EP
2. Hands – Give Me Rest
1. Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days In An Evil Age
I just listened to Phinehas’s “thegodmachine” today, and it is incredible as well! Based on that listen, I would probably put it as number 4 on the list.
Top 21… in no particular order once it hits 11.
1. The Famine – Architects of Guilt
2. Colosseum – Parasomnia
3. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony
4. Seth.ECT – Godspeak
5. Inevitable End – The Oculus
6. Hope for the Dying – Dissimulation
7. The Lay of Thrym – Týr
8. A Hill to Die Upon – Omens
9. Breathe In Life – Betraying the Martyrs
10. Oh Sleeper – Children of Fire
11. Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness
12. Chthonic – Takasago Army
13. Becoming the Archetype – Celestial Completion
14. August Burns Red – Leveler
15. Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising
16. Your Chance to Die – Suscitatio Somnus
17. As I Lay Dying – Decas
18. Immortal Souls – IV: The Requiem for the Art of Death
19. The Devil Wears Prada – Dead Throne (But don’t tell anyone)
20. Belphegor – Blood Magick Necromance
21. Decapitated – Carnival is Forever
1 – Thrice – Major_Minor
2 – Falling Up – Your Sparkling Death Cometh
3 – Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
4 – Eisley – The Valley
5 – Mat Kearney – Young Love
6 – Shawn McDonald – Closer
7 – Josh Garrels – Love & War & The Sea In Between
8 – Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
9 – Switchfoot – Vice Verse
10 – Mute Math – Odd Soul
11 – The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
12 – Emery – We Do What We Want
13 – Needtobreathe – The Reckoning
14 – Jason Gray – A Way To See In The Dark
15 – Andy Zipf – Jealous Hands
16 – Owl City – All Things Bright And Beautiful
17 – Cold War Kids – Mine Is Yours
18 – Hyland – Weights & Measures
19 – Gungor – Ghosts Upon The Earth
20 – Icon For Hire – Scripted
Honorable Mentions:::
Abandon Kansas – Ad Astra Per Aspera
Gideon – Costs
I Am Empire – Kings
Onward To Olympas – The War Within Us
FM Static – My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!
My Epic – Broken Voice
Woves At The Gate – We Are The Ones
Jon McLaughlin – Forever If Ever
A Plea For Purging – The Life And Death Of A Plea For Purging
Hundredth – Let Go
Sleep For Sleepers – Conditions
alright, I finally typed it all up. My complete top 35 albums from 2011:
35. Red City Radio – The Dangers of Standing Still
34. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
33. La Dispute – Wildlife
32. Hands – Give Me Rest
31. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
30. Emery – We Do What We Want
29. Sorne – House of Stone
28. Old Man Markley – Guts n’ Teeth
27. CityCop – The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope
26. Across Waters – More Light Is Never Ending
25. Sainthood Reps – Monoculture
24. Mutemath – Odd Soul
23. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
22. Laura Stevenson and the Cans – Sit Resist
21. Bigfoot Wallace – Malleable
20. Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
19. Switchfoot – Vice Verses
18. Bomb the Music Industry! – Vacation
17. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
16. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
15. Hey Rosetta! – Seeds
14. Russian Circles – Empros
13. Owen – Ghost Town
12. Death Cab For Cutie – Codes and Keys
11. The Men – Leave Home
10. Joyce Manor – Joyce Manor
9. The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
8. Jeff Jacquay – La Cambria
7. Crash of Rhinos – Distal
6. Josh Garrels – Love & War & The Sea In Between
5. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
4. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
3. Kye Kye – Young Love
2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
1. Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
mewithoutYou aoty 2012
I tried posting it once but it didn’t work for some reason…
anyways my full 2011 list is at http://www.last.fm/user/DavidShephard/journal/2012/01/02/59qbvi_eko%27s_%2711%3A_lps
woops it showed up now. sorry for the double/triple post.
I realize this is super late, but I had a hard time truly deciding how everything should be ordered. If something is on the list, it is because I didn’t have the time to listen to it. This isn’t final by any means. I am sure that I will eventually come to enjoy some of these albums more than others but oh well.
10. WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to The Mountain
9. James Blake – James Blake
8. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
7. Devotchka – 100 Lovers
6. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
5. Little Wings – Black Grass
4. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
3. Man Man – Life Fantastic
2. La Dispute – Wildlife
1. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
My full 42 album list can be found here: http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=283057&show=25&start=0
link is broken but nice top ten
Thanks for the heads up. This should work and if not, I give up: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/bobbythebuff/best_of_2011
Thanks by the way. I still don’t feel completely sure about it. So many wonderful releases were put out this year. Like I said, this whole list might fluctuate from time to time.
nice full list too, we share quite a bit
1. Zao – Liberate Te Ex Inferis
2. A Plea For Purging – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
3. Soul Embraced – For the Incomplete/This Is My Blood/Dead Alive
4. Cannibal Corpse – Butchered at Birth
5. Stacie Orrico – Stacie Orrico
6. Take It Back! – Atrocities
Oh… released in 2011. Not favorites in 2011. Hm.
1. My Epic – Broken Voice
2. Thrice – Major/Minor
3. The Famine – Architects of Guilt
4. Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
5. Oh, Sleeper – Children of Fire
6. Inhabit – Pray For Nothing
7. Immolation – Providence (Probably the only album of theirs I’ll ever get into)
8. Megadeth – Th1rt3en
9. Your Chance to Die – Suscitatio Somnus
Certainly Grave Robber and In The Midst of Lions also, but I just got those so it wouldn’t be fair to say. Also missing is an album I want and haven’t heard yet, the new Plea.
In no particular order:
Andrew Jackson Jihad – Knife Man
The Appleseed Cast – Middle States EP
Blackbird Raum & Hail Seizures – Split 7″
Denison Witmer – The Ones Who Wait
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
Hawkboy – Hawkboy EP
Theilallogicalspoon – Sings the Last Breath of a Luna Moth Under the Morel Moon EP
Larry and His Flask – All That We Know
Loney Dear – Hall Music
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Memory Tapes – Player Piano
MuteMath – Odd Soul
My Brightest Diamonds – All Things Unwind
Peter Bjorn and John – Gimme Some
Psalters – Ch. VII: Carry the Bones
Ramshackle Glory – Live the Dream
The Soil & the Sun – Wake Up, Child
Jon Felton and Soulmobile – Everlasting Light
Thrice – Major/Minor
Timber – Silent Night
Washed Out – Within and Without
Wilder Adkins – Oak & Apple
Efterklang – Magic Chairs
Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
Aradhna – Namaste Sate
Danielson – The Best of Gloucester County
Gold Panda – Companion
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Sainthood Reps – Monoculture
Son Lux – We Are Rising
I know this is incredibly late but I decided to post it anyway.
My Top 20 Albums Of 2011 R.I.P HASTE THE DAY….. YOU WILL BE MISSED :(
#1 – August Burns Red’s Leveler
#2 – Oh Sleeper’s Children Of Fire
#3 – The Devil Wears Prada’s Dead Throne
#4 – Emery’s We Do What We Want
#5 – Reliant K’s K Is For Karaoke
#6 – Needtobreathe‘s The Reckoning
#7 – Switchfoot’s Vice Verses (Collectors Deluxe Edition)
#8 – Owl City’s All Things Bright And Beautiful
#9 – Chickenfoot’s 3
#10 – Stryper’s The Covering
#11 – I Am Empire’s Kings
#12 – The Almost’s Monster Monster EP
#13 – Trivium’s In Waves
#14 – Phinheas’ Thegodmachine
#15 – Haste The Day’s Haste The Day VS Haste The Day (Live Album)
#16 – Deas Vail’s For Shepherds And Kings EP
#17 – Red’s Until We Have Faces
#18 – As I Lay Dying’s Decas
#19 – Family Force 5’s 3
#20 – Sleeping Giant’s Kingdom Days In An Evil Age
Albums that would’ve have probably made my list but haven’t bought yet
Deas Vail’s Self Titled
Phil Wickham’s Response
Times Of Grace’s Hymn Of A Broken Man
Aaron Gillespie’s Anthem Song
Falling Up’s Your Sparkling Death Cometh
Hands’ Give Me Rest
A Plea For Purging’s A Life And Death Of A Plea For Purging
We Came As Romans’ Understanding What We’ve Grown To Be
Megadeth’s Thirteen
Gideon – Costs
Thrice – Major/Minor
Saving Grace – The King Is Coming
Life In Your Way – Kingdoms
Hundreth – Let Go
Blindside – With Shivering Hearts We Wait
Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Top 12 Favorite Songs Of 2011 In No Particular Order
Emery’s The Curse Of Perfect Days
Switchfoot’s Where I Belong
August Burns Red’s Internal Cannon
Phinehas’s A Pattern In Pain
Oh, Sleeper’s Dealers Of Fame
Owl City’s Galaxies
The Devil Wears Prada’s Born To Lose
Oh, Sleeper’s Hush Yael
Switchfoot’s Souvenirs
Needtobreathe’s White Fences
Stryper’s God
Falling Up’s Diamnds
Trivium’s Caustic Are The Ties That Bind
Anticipated Releases Of 2012 In No Particular Order
For Today – Immortal
Blessed By A Broken Heart – Feel The Power
Reliant K – Untitled
Living Sacrifice – Untitled
Anberlin – Untitled
Vocal Few – She’ll Be Right EP
The Classic Crime – Untitled
House Of Heroes – Untitled
I Am Empire – TBA
MyChildren MyBride – Self-Titled
Emery – Untitled
Emery – Untitled (Acoustic Record)
Stryper – Untitled
Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth
Disciple – Untitled
As I Lay Dying – Untitled
Killswitch Engage – TBA
Underoath – TBA
The Almost – Untitled
Judas Priest – TBA
Ratt – TBA
Demon Hunter – True Defiance
Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight Rises Film Score
Skillet – TBA (Not because I consider myself a fan, but I am interested to see what direction they take after the abysmal Awake.)
Thousand Foot Krutch – The End Is Where We Begin
Fiction Family – TBA
Austrian Death Machine – TBA
Becoming The Archetype –TBA
As They Sleep – TBA
Capital Lights – TBA
Gideon – TBA
Norma Jean – TBA
The Devil Wears Prada – Live DVD – Untitled
Write This Down – TBA
Paramore –TBA
Jon Foreman – TBA