DTF Album of the Year 2011: Round 1

[Nick]

Okay, as in past years it is time to determine DTF's 2011 album of the year.

As in the past all full-length original material originally released in 2011 can be submitted. This year a slight change will be made to prior years in order to allow for Original Sound Tracks to be included.

What cannot be included:
*EPs (Exception: The Color Spectrum may be included as a whole)
*Live albums
*Compilations
*Albums released digitally or in some countries in 2010 to be later released as hard copy or other countries in 2011.
*Krotchraut

As in past years your lists should be submitted in order in the following format:

1. Band - Album
2. Band - Album
3. Band - Album
etc

Lists not in that format will not be included. You may include up to 10 albums in your list. If you wish to edit your initial list after I've posted that I've updated standings please PM with your list prior to and after the edit.

Albums in the 1st spot get 10 points, 2nd spot 9 points, 3rd spot 8 points, etc.

The top 10 albums move on to the next round.

Round ends Jan. 17th at Noon EST.

[glaurung]

Just to clarify, what about an album that is only came out out digitally last year and will be out physically this one?

[Nick]

What about an album that is only came out out digitally last year and will be out physically this one?

That can be included as it was originally released in 2011.

[Sigz]

1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. Floex - Zorya
3. Eisley - The Valley
4. Fair to Midland - Arrows and Anchors
5. Grayceon - All We Destroy
6. Above & Beyond - Group Therapy
7. Necro Deathmort - Music of Bleak Origin
8. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
9. So Hideous, My Love... - To Clasp a Fallen Wish with Broken Fingers
10. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil

[Ravenheart]

1. Emilie Simon - Franky Knight
2. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo OST
3. Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Have You Seen This Ghost?
4. Sarah Fimm - Near Infinite Possibility
5. Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials
6. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
7. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
8. Thrice - Major/Minor
9. Noisuf-X - Dead End District
10. Bjork - Biophillia

[Nick]

I suppose I should actually compile my list soon.

[ariich]

What cannot be included:
*EPs (Exception: The Color Spectrum may be included as a whole)
*Live albums
*Compilations
*Albums released digitally or in some countries in 2010 to be later released as hard copy or other countries in 2011.
*Krotchraut

1. The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection
2. Haken – Visions
3. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events
4. Thrice – Major/Minor
5. Hiromi – Voice
6. Protest the Hero – Scurrilous
7. Devin Townsend – Ghost
8. Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two
9. Petter Carlsen – Clocks Don’t Count
10. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math

[ariich]

ZANDER YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW THE FORMAT

[AcidLameLTE]

1. Thundersword
2. Thundersword
3. Thundersword
4. Thundersword
5. Thundersword
6. Thundersword
7. Thundersword
8. Thundersword
9. Thundersword
10. Thundersword

[Ravenheart]

ZANDER YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW THE FORMAT

I don't know what you're talking about.

[antigoon]

1. Thundersword
2. Thundersword
3. Thundersword
4. Thundersword
5. Thundersword
6. Thundersword
7. Thundersword
8. Thundersword
9. Thundersword
10. Thundersword

[bosk1]

1.  Dream Theater - ADTOE
2.  Redemption - This Mortal Coil
3.  Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
4.  Neal Morse - Testimony 2 
5.  Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
6.  Trivium - In Waves.
7.  Megadeth - Th1rt3en
8.  Journey - Eclipse
9.  Symphony X - Iconoclast
10.  The Anabasis - Back From Being Gone* 


*This album is not yet available to major distributors like Amazon and brick & mortar stores, BUT was available internationally through the label's website in 2011 and the CD jacket lists the release date as 2011, so I think it should qualify.  If not, let me know and I will replace it.

And can we have a rule that Devin Townsend, Steven Wilson, and any band that either of them appear in is automatically disqualified?

[Xanthul]

1. Opeth - Heritage
2. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
3. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
4. Thrice - Major/Minor
5. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
6. dredg - Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy

I also purchased / listened to DT, Radiohead, Blackfield... (not many more, it's mostly been a retrospective year for me) but I haven't particularly enjoyed those so I prefer not to give them any points.

[antigoon]

1. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
2. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. Eisley - The Valley
5.  Devin Townsend - Ghost
6. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
7. Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys
8. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
9. Mastodon - The Hunter
10. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto

[AcidLameLTE]

Round ends Jan. 17th at Noon EST.

Oh good, I have time to actually make a serious entry (want to have all my albums from 2011 in front of me before I make a list).

[Nick]

Yeah, I always give people a ton of time for the first round. 2nd round will go about 5 days and final vote will be around 3 days.

[pogoowner]

1. Opeth - Heritage
2. Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
3. 3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me
4. Redemption - This Mortal Coil
5. Haken - Visions
6. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
7. Proto-Kaw - Forth

Updated to here: 2012-01-07.

[Gorille85]

1. Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire
2. Ulver - Wars of the Roses
3. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (The Complete Collection)
4. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
5. Thrice - Major/Minor
6. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
8. Amon Tobin - ISAM
9. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
10. CunninLynguists - Oneirology

[Heretic]

1. Fair to Midland - Arrows and Anchors
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Mastodon - The Hunter
4. Thrice - Major/Minor
5. August Burns Red - Leveler
6. Haken - Visions
7. Scale the Summit - The Collective
8. Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge
9. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
10. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)

Not getting to include BTBAM in this angers me.

[Zantera]

1. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
2. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
3. Amplifier - The Octopus
4. Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
5. Petter Carlsen - Clocks Don't Count
6. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
7. Kimbra - Vows
8. Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge
9. Thrice - Major/Minor
10. Bass Communion - Cenotaph

[Dark Castle]

0. Kvelertak - Kvelertak  (some count this as a 2011 release even though you could easily order it from their website back in 2010)
1. Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form
2. Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable
3. Obscura - Omnivium
4. Black Tusk - Set the Dial
5. Mastodon - The Hunter
6. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
7. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
8. Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
9. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
10. Born of Osiris - The Discovery

[jingle.boy]

1.  Flaming Row - Elinoire
2.  Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3.  Toby Hitchcock - Mercury's Down
4.  Work of Art - In Progress
5.  Neal Morse - Testimony 2
6.  The Magnificent - s/t
7.  Symphony X - Iconoclast
8.  Eden's Curse - Trinity
9.  Eumeria - Rebel Mind
10. Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy

Don't take it as my final rating, might move some things around

[jjrock88]

1. Symphony X - Iconoclast
2. Anthrax - Worship Music
3. Dream Theater - ADTOE
4. Saxon - Call to Arms
5. Iced Earth - Dystopia
6. Steel Panther - Balls Out
7. Vicious Rumors-  Razerback Killers
8. Sebastian Bach - Kicking and Screaming

[Global Laziness]

1.   Haken – Visions
2.   Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events
3.   Devin Townsend – Ghost
4.   Protest the Hero – Scurrilous
5.   Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning
6.   The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum
7.   Wolverine – Communication Lost
8.   Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling
9.   Discipline – To Shatter All Accord
10.   Caligula’s Horse – Moments from Ephemeral City

[Jamesman42]

1. DT - A Dramatic Turn of Events (lol)
2. Thrice - Major/Minor
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
5. Eisley - The Valley
6. Hillsong United - Aftermath
7. Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge
8. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
9. Neal Morse - Testimony 2
10. Mastodon - The Hunter

Updated to here, 2012-01-09

[YtseBitsySpider]

Will submit tomorrow

[Chino]

Steel Panther - Balls Out

[TheVoxyn]

Don't have a list (yet) but it's awesome to see Petter Carlen included here! I pimped him out succesfully  .

[Accelerando]

1. Adele - 21
2. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Kanye West and Jay-Z - Watch The Throne
4. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
5. Radiohead - King Of Limbs
6. Mastodon - The Hunter
7. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
8. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care


I couldn't think of two more. I may or may not update this post later.

[Zydar]

1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
4. Yes - Fly From Here
5. Opeth - Heritage
6. Mastodon - The Hunter
7. Kasabian - Velociraptor!
8. Symphony X - Iconoclast
9. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
10. Iced Earth - Dystopia

[MK_Ultra]

1. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
3. Unexpect - Fables of The Sleepless Empire
4. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
5. Fair To Midland - Arrows And Anchors
6. Mastodon - The Hunter
7. The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
8. Trivium - In Waves
9. Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two
10. Symphony X - Iconoclast

[matt1722]

1. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. Dream Theater -  A Dramatic Turn Of Events
3. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
4. Symphony X - Iconoclast
5. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
6. The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
7. The Anabasis - Back From Being Gone 
8. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
9. Trivium - In Waves
10. Mastodon - The Hunter

[Elite]

1. Haken - Visions
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
4. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
5. Leprous - Bilateral
6. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
7. Opeth - Heritage
8. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
8. Scale The Summit - The Collective
9. Eisley - The Valley
10. Sky Architect - A Dying Man's Hymn

[JRundquist]

1.) Devin Townsend- Deconstruction
2.) Daniel Jakubovic- Elef Kirot
3.) Mastodon- The Hunter
4.) Dream Theater- A Dramatic Turn Of Events
5.) Revocation- Chaos Of Forms
6.) 3- The Ghost You Gave To Me
7.) Iced Earth- Dystopia
8.) Scale The Summit- The Collective
9.) Novembers Doom- Aphotic
10.) Redemption- This Mortal Coil

[wolfking]

1. Redemption - This Mortal Coil
2. Toby Hitchcock - Mercury's Down
3. Stratovarius - Elysium
4. Work of Art - In Progress
5. Fullforce - One
6. Scar Symmetry - Unseen Empire
7. Amorphis - The Beginning of Time
8. Eden's Curse - Trinity
9. Symphony X - Iconoclast
10. Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance