DTF Album of the Year 2011: Round 1

[kirksnosehair]

I guess I'm going to have to check out that Grace For Drowning record

[orcus116]

I don't see why these things have to go beyond this round.  The results are what they are.  DT wins in a landslide, and the rest have a mix of supporters and detractors to varying degrees.  It's no ones ideal list, but it most accurately reflects the consensus of the community.  That list is single-malt scotch folks.  It's the good stuff.  Any further attempts at distillation and blending will make it not as good and cheaper, same with scotch.  I'm a Macallan guy.  Don't serve me crap.

I mean I don't see why we even had to do this round since we could just guess at what the results would have been.

We probably couldve guessed in late 2010 heh.

[ZirconBlue]

it's not my consensus.

Um, "my consensus"? 

[Phantasmatron]

My list seems to be pretty late.

1.  Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
2.  Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
3.  Redemption - This Mortal Coil
4.  Mastodon - The Hunter
5.  Amorphis - The Beginning of Times
6.  In Flames - Sound of a Playground Fading
7.  Bayside - Killing Time
8.  The Cars - Move Like This
9.  3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me
10.  Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning

[Ultimetalhead]

In all seriousness,

1. DTP - Deconstruction
2. DT - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Primus - Green Naugahyde
4. DTP - Ghost
5. Deicide - To Hell With God
6. Mastodon - The Hunter
7. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
8. Anthrax - Worship Music
9. Megadeth - Th1rt3en
10. Polkadot Cadaver - Sex Offender

Bottom 3:
1. Metardica ft. Some Old Fuck - Lulu
2. Nu-Opeth -  Heritage
3. Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum "I Seriously Waited 8 Years For This?" Insanus

[Nick]

Final results are in, and the final two voters managed to send Pain of Salvation and Redemption into the next round while kicking out Fair to Midland and Symphony X.

Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events   337
The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection   133
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning   111
Opeth - Heritage   100
Mastodon - The Hunter   92
Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction   86
Devin Townsend Project – Ghost   76
Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two   67
Redemption - This Mortal Coil   67
Haken – Visions   66
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Symphony X - Iconoclast   64
Fair to Midland - Arrows and Anchors   63
Protest the Hero – Scurrilous   60
Thrice - Major/Minor   60
Bon Iver - Bon Iver   53
Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance   47
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light   44
Neal Morse - Testimony 2   44
Eisley - The Valley   42
Radiohead - The King of Limbs   39
Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire   39
Flaming Row - Elinoire   28
Amorphis - The Beginning of Time   26
Machine Head - Unto The Locust   26
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead   26
Trivium - In Waves   26
Adele - 21   24
Yes - Fly From Here   23
Scale the Summit - The Collective   21
Bright Eyes - The People's Key   20
Lady Gaga - Born This Way   20
3 - The Ghost You Gave to Me   18
Anthrax - Worship Music   18
Leprous - Bileral   18
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will   18
Death Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys   17
James Blake - James Blake   17
Megadeth - Th1rt3en   17
Stratovarius - Elysium   17
They Might Be Giants - Join Us   17
Toby Hitchcock - Mercury's Down   17
Hiromi – Voice   16
In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading   15
Tesseract - One   15
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket   15
August Burns Red - Leveler   14
The Aristocrats - The Aristocrats   14
Work of Art - In Progress   14
Blackfield - Welcome to my DNA   13
Obscura - Omnivium   13
Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy   13
Scar Symmetry - Unseen Empire   13
Ulver - Wars of the Roses   13
Born of Osiris - The Discovery   12
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care   12
Journey - Eclipse   12
Kimbra - Vows   12
Nightwish - Imaginaerium   11
Primus - Green Naugahyde   11
Tori Amos - Night of Hunters   11
Arena - The Seventh Degree of Separation   10
Beardfish - Mammoth   10
Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge   10
Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form   10
Eden's Curse - Trinity   10
Emilie Simon - Franky Knight   10
Eumeria - Rebel Mind   10
Fleet Foxes - Helpnessness Blues   10
Mike Rood - The Desert & The City   10
Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud   10
Textures - Dualism   10
The Human Abstract - Digital Veil   10
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving   10
Evanescence - Evanescence   9
Floex - Zorya   9
Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable   9
Iced Earth - Dystopia   9
Lost In Thought - Opus Arise   9
O'Brother - Garden Window   9
Pendragon - Passion   9
Russian Circles - Empros   9
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo OST   9
Amplifier - The Octopus   8
As Blood Runs Black - Instinct   8
Childish Gambino - Camp   8
CunninLynguists - Oneirology   8
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues   8
Kanye West and Jay-Z - Watch The Throne   8
Karmakanic - In a Perfect World   8
Love Story - Original London Cast Recording   8
Myrath - Tales of the Sands   8
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds   8
Petter Carlsen – Clocks Don’t Count   8
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Have You Seen This Ghost?   8
Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour   8
Animals As Leaders - Weightless   7
Black Tusk - Set the Dial   7
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony   7
Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials   7
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming   7
Powerwolf – Blood of the Saints   7
Sarah Fimm - Near Infinite Possibility   7
Saxon - Call to Arms   7
Staind - Staind   7
The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain   7
The Strokes - Angles   7
Unearth - Darkness In The Light   7
Darren Korb - Bastion OST   6
dredg - Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy   6
Drivemouth - Off The Ground   6
Fullforce - One   6
Grayceon - All We Destroy   6
Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra   6
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots   6
The Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two   6
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow   6
Tony MacAlpine - Tony MacAlpine   6
Deicide - To Hell With God   6
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy   5
Altar of Plagues - Mammal   5
Alternative 4 - The Brink   5
Devil Driver - Beast   5
Evergrey - Glorious colision   5
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones   5
Hillsong United - Aftermath   5
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity of Miracles   5
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow   5
Rise To Remain - City of Vultures   5
The Anabasis - Back From Being Gone   5
The Magnificent - The Magnificent   5
Theocracy – As the World Bleeds   5
Threat Signal - Threat Signal   5
Van der Graaf Generator - A Grounding in Numbers   5
Your Sister's Canary - Good And Alone   5
Black Country Communion - 2   4
Bury Your Dead - Mosh n' Roll   4
Fury N Grace - Diabolism of Conversation   4
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne   4
Kasabian - Velociraptor!   4
Love.Might.Kill - Brace For Impact   4
Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math   4
Necro Deathmort - Music of Bleak Origin   4
Proto-Kaw - Forth   4
Selah Sue - Selah Sue   4
Steel Panther - Balls Out   4
The Antlers - Burst Apart   4
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light   4
Wolverine – Communication Lost   4
World Under Blood - Tactical   4
Bayside - Killing Time   4
Amon Tobin - ISAM   3
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix   3
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto   3
Intervals - The Space Between   3
Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling   3
Of Mice & Men - The Flood   3
Polkadot Cadaver - Sex Offender   3
Vicious Rumors-  Razerback Killers   3
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage   3
The Cars - Move Like This   3
Agents of Mercy - The Black Forest   2
Alexandre Desplat - Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2: OST   2
Braids - Native Speaker   2
Discipline – To Shatter All Accord   2
Johann Johannsson - The Miner's Hymn   2
Mute Math - Odd Soul   2
Noisuf-X - Dead End District   2
Royal Hunt - Show Me How to Live   2
Sebastian Bach - Kicking and Screaming   2
So Hideous, My Love... - To Clasp a Fallen Wish with Broken Fingers   2
Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark   2
Bass Communion - Cenotaph   1
Bjork - Biophillia   1
Caligula’s Horse – Moments from Ephemeral City   1
Elbow - build a rocket boys!   1
I'm With You - Red Hot Chili Peppers   1
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers   1
Peter, Bjorn & John - Gimme Some   1
Septic Flesh - The Great Mass   1
The Weeknd - House of Balloons   1
Polkadot Cadaver - Sex Offender   1

[Zook]

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