January 23, 2012 by A.S. Van Dorston
Best Stoner/Doom/Psych/Metal/Sludge/ Retro/Hardcore/Heavy Rock of 2011
- Graveyard – Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast)
- Elder – Dead Roots Stirring (MeteorCity)
- Been Obscene – Night O’ Mine (Elektrohasch) | Bandcamp
- At Devil Dirt (Corvus Discos) | Bandcamp (FREE!)
- Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Blood Lust (Killer Candy/Svart)
- Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)
- Opeth – Heritage (Roadrunner)
- Sungrazer – Mirador (Elektrohasch)
- Ufesas (Droehnhaus) | Bandcamp (FREE!)
- Causa Sui – Pewt’r Sessions 1 & 2 (El Paraiso)
- Wo Fat – Noche del Chupacabra (Nasoni) | Bandcamp
- Spiders – Spiders EP (Crusher)
- Humo del Cairo – Vol. II (Estamos Felices)
- Hammers Of Misfortune – 17th Street (Metal Blade)
- Lord Vicar – Signs Of Osiris (The Church Within)
- Peaking Lights – 936 (Not Not Fun)
- Boris – New Album (Tearbridge/Sargent House) | Bandcamp
- Krux – III – He Who Sleeps Amongst The Stars (GMR)
- Obrero – Mortui Vivos Docent (Night Tripper) | Bandcamp
- 40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room (Cyclone Empire/Metal Blade)
- Freedom Hawk – Holding On (Small Stone) | Bandcamp
- Amebix – Sonic Mass (Easy Action)
- Årabrot – Solar Anus (Fysisk Format)
- Sleestak – The Fall Of Altrusia (Sleestak) | Bandcamp
- Hills – Master Sleeps (Transubstans)
- Elvis Deluxe – Favourite State Of Mind (Harmony)
- Circle – Infektio (Conspiracy)
- Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador)
- Pantheïst – Pantheist (Grau)
- SubRosa – No Help For The Mighty One (Profound Lore) |Bandcamp
- Yob – Atma (Profound Lore)
- Obake (Rarenoise)
- Monkey3 – Beyond The Black Sky (Stickman)
- Moon Duo – Mazes (Sacred Bones)
- Sahara Surfers – Sonar Pilot (Sound Zero) | FREE!
- Pentagram – Last Rites (Metal Blade)
- Cherry Choke – A Night In The Arms Of Venus… (Elektrohasch)
- Highway Child (Elektrohasch)
- Radio Moscow – The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz (Alive)
- Rival Sons – Pressure & Time (Earache) | Bandcamp (Only $5!)
- The Devil’s Blood – The Thousandfold Epicentre (Van/Profound Lore)
- The Gates Of Slumber – The Wretch (Rise Above)
- Blood Ceremony – Living With The Ancients (Rise Above)
- Witch Mountain – South Of Salem (Mountastic/Relapse) |Bandcamp (Name yr price!)
- Windhand (Forcefield) | Bandcamp
- Castle – In Witch Order (Van)
- Spiders – Spiders EP (Crusher)
- Arenna – Beats of Olarizu (Nasoni) | Bandcamp
- Glitter Wizard – Solar Hits (Archers Guild) | Bandcamp
- Venomous Maximous – The Mission EP (Cutthroat) | Bandcamp
- Slough Feg – Made in Poland (Megadisc)
- Melvins – Sugar Daddy Live (Ipecac)
- Siena Root – Root Jam (Transubstans)
- Cave – Neverendless (Drag City)
- Russian Circles – Empros (Sargent House) | Bandcamp
- The Heavy Eyes (Heavy Eyes) | Bandcamp (Only $5!)
- Mars Red Sky (Emergence)
- Corrupted – Garten Der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain)
- Lonely Kamel – Dust Devil (Napalm)
- The Cosmic Dead – Cosmik Tape I (Who Can You Trust?) |Bandcamp
- DeWolff – Orchards/Lupine (REMusic)
- 1000mods – Super Van Vacation (Kozmik Artifactz) |Bandcamp
- Human Eye – They Came From The Sky (Secretly Canadian)
- Grayceon – All We Destroy (Profound Lore) | Bandcamp
- Eggnogg – Moments in Vacuum (Palaver) | Bandcamp
- Green & Wood – Devil’s Plan (Cyclopean) | Bandcamp
- Turisas – Stand Up And Fight (Century Media)
- In Solitude – The World. The Flesh. The Devil (Metal Blade)
- Thy Catafalque – Rengeteg (Season Of Mist)
- Leather Nun America – Kult Occult (PsycheDOOMelic)
- Wooden Stake – Dungeon Prayers & Tombyard Serenades (Razorback)
- Loon (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- The Wounded Kings – In The Chapel Of The Black Hand (I Hate Records)
- The Atomic Bitchwax – The Local Fuzz (Tee Pee)
- U.S. Christmas – The Valley Path (Neurot)
- Acid Baby Jesus (Slovenly) | Bandcamp
- The Flying Eyes – Done So Wrong (Flying Eyes) | Bandcamp
- Sandrider (Good To Die) | Bandcamp
- Across Tundras – Sage (Neurot) | Bandcamp
- Dopethrone – Dark Foil (Dopethrone) | Bandcamp
- Altar Of Plagues – Mammal (Profound Lore) | Bandcamp
- Tombs – Path Of Totality (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Rotor – Festsaal Kreuzberg (Elektrohasch)
- Pharaoh Overlörd – Out Of Darkness (Ektro)
- Argus – Boldly Stride The Doomed (Cruz Del Sur) | Bandcamp
- Brotherhood Of Sleep – Dark As Light (Catch The Soap) | Bandcamp (Name yr price!)
- Wiht – The Harrowing Of The North (Wiht) | Bandcamp (Name yr price!)
- Jeff The Brotherhood – We Are The Champions (Infinity Cat)
- Shooting Guns – Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 (Teargas) | Bandcamp (Only $5!)
- Portrait – Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae (Metal Blade)
- Wolf – Legions Of Bastards (EMI)
- Dark Forest – Dawn Of Infinity (Cruz Del Sur) | Bandcamp
- White Wizzard – Flying Tigers (Earache)
- Arkona – Slovo (Napalm)
- Absu – Abzu (Candlelight) | Bandcamp
- Psychic Paramount – II (No Quarter)
- Pharaoh – Ten Years EP (Cruz Del Sur) | Bandcamp
- Beastwars (Destroy/Universal) | Bandcamp
- Demonic Death Judge – The Descent (Inverse) | Bandcamp
- Cauldron – Burning Fortune (Earache)
- Poseidótica – Cronicas del Futuro (Aquatalan) | Bandcamp(FREE!)
- Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning (Ksope)
- Bullet – Highway Pirates (Black Lodge)
- Troglodyte – Welcome To Boggy Creek (noMore Tomorrow)
- Korpiklaani – Ukon Wacka (Nuclear Blast)
- Wizard Smoke – The Speed Of Smoke (Wizard Smoke) |FREE!
- Tia Carrera – Cosmic Priestess (Small Stone)
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Tao Of The Dead (Superball)
- Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (PID)
- Grails – Deep Politics (Temporary Residence)
- Wooden Shjips – West (Thrill Jockey)
- Trap Them – Darker Handcraft (Prosthetic)
- Orchid – Capricorn (Doom Dealer) | Bandcamp
- The Flight of Sleipnir – Essence of Nine (Northern Silence)
- Maligno – The Funeral Domine (Maligno)
- Lento – Icon (Denovali)
- Seidr – For Winter Fire (Flenser)
- Ice Dragon – The Sorrowful Sun (Ice Dragon) | Bandcamp
- Denizen – Whispering Wild Stories (Denizen) | Bandcamp
- Lo-Pan – Salvador (Small Stone)
- Sigiriya – Return To Earth (The Church Within)
- Lüger – Concrete Light (Giradiscos) | Bandcamp (name yr price!)
- Skraeckoedlan – Äppelträdet (Transubstans)
- Unkind – Harhakuvat (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Black Cobra – Invernal (Southern Lord)
- Weekend Nachos – Worthless (Relapse) ) | Bandcamp
- Suplecs – Mad Oak Redoux (Small Stone)
- Autopsy – Macabre Eternal (Peaceville)
- Hell – Human Remains (Nuclear Blast)
- Weird Owl – Build Your Beast A Fire (Tee Pee)
- Seven That Spells – The Death And Resurrection of Krautrock: AUM (Beta-Lactam) | Bandcamp (name yr price!)
- Acid Mothers Temple – The Ripper at the Heavens’ Gates of Dark (Riot Season)
- Woods – Sun And Shade (Woodsist)
- Boris – Heavy Rocks (Sargent House)
- Hypatia Lake – Ouroboros (Hypatia Lake) | Bandcamp(Name yr price!)
- Eidetic Seeing – Drink The Sun (Chybucca) | Bandcamp
- Cosmonauts Day – Paths of The Restless (Cosmonauts Day) |Bandcamp (Name yr price!)
- Samsara Blues Experiment – Revelation & Mystery (World In Sound)
- Danava – Hemisphere Of Shadows (Kemado)
- Black Rainbows – Supermothafuzzalicious!! (Longfellow Deeds)
- Ironweed – Your World Of Tomorrow (Small Stone)
- Esoteric – Paragon Of Dissonance (Season Of Mist)
- Premonition 13 – 13 (Volcom)
- Poseidótica – Cronicas del Futuro (Aquatalan) | Bandcamp(FREE!)
- Zebulon Pike – Space Is The Corpse Of Time (Aquarius)
- Zombi – Escape Velocity (Relapse)
- Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord)
- Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned – 30 Weight (Small Stone)
- Borracho – Splitting Sky (CDBY) | Bandcamp
- Gordon Fights (Transubstans)
- Hands Of Orlac (Horror)
- Condenados – A Painful Journey Into Nihil (Shadow Kingdom)
- Red Fang – Murder The Mountains (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Anatomy Of Habit (Self) | Bandcamp
- Gentleman’s Pistols – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure (Rise Above)
- Underdogs – Revolution Love (Go Down)
- Roadsaw (Small Stone)
- Wight – Wight Weedy Wight (Kozmik Artifactz)
- Dixie Witch – Let It Roll (Small Stone)
- Black Capricorn (12th Records)
- SerpentCult – Raised By Wolves (Listenable)
- Black Pyramid – Stormbringer (MeteorCity)
- Black Spiders – Sons Of The North (Dark Riders)
- The Grand Astoria – Omnipresence (TGA) | Bandcamp
- Thalamus – Subterfuge (Zyx)
- We Are The Damned – Holy Beast (Bastardized)
- Totimoshi – Avenger (At A Loss)
- Soul Manifest – White Season (Night Tripper) | Bandcamp
- Belzebong – Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves (Self-released) | Bandcamp (Just $5!)
- Valley of the Sun – The Sayings of the Seers EP (Self-released) | Bandcamp (Just $5!)
- Anathema – Falling Deeper (Kscope)
- Karma To Burn – V (Napalm)
- East Of The Wall – The Apologist (Translation Loss)
- Virus – The Agent That Shapes The Desert (Duplicate) |Bandcamp (Just $5!)
- Hull – Beyond the Lightless Sky (The End)
- Dir En Grey – Dum Spiro Spero (The End) | Bandcamp (Just $3!)
- Wolves In The Throne Room – Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
- Liturgy – Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
- Morne – Asylum (Profound Lore)
- Giant Squid – Cenotes (Translation Loss) | Bandcamp
- Cynic – Carbon Based Anatomy EP (Season Of Mist)
- Weedsnake (Weedsnake) | Bandcamp
- Caina – Hands That Pluck (Profound Lore)
- Crumbling Ghost (Withered Hand)
- Weedeater – Jason…The Dragon (Southern Lord)
- Rwake – Rest (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Slabdragger – Regress (Holy Roar)
- Brutal Truth – End Time (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- The Atlas Moth – An Ache For The Distance (Profound Lore) | Bandcamp
- Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus – Bloom (Transubstans)
- Sólstafir – Svartir Sandar (Season Of Mist)
- Ancient VVisdom – A Godlike Inferno (Shinebox)
- Ixion – To The Void (PID)
- Ancestors – Invisible White EP (Tee Pee)
- The Quill – Full Circle (Metalville)
- Motörhead – The Wörld Is Yours (EMI)
- The Company Corvette – End Of The Summers (The Company)
- Bloodiest – Descent (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Three Seasons – Life’s Road (Transubstans)
- Grifter (Ripple Music)
- Cave In – White Silence (Hydra Head)
- Kamchatka – Bury Your Roots (Ais)
- The Heads – Vertigo Swill (Rocket/Rooster)
- Cormorant – Dwellings (Cormorant) | Bandcamp
- Lazarus A.D. – Black Rivers Flow (Metal Blade)
- Black Tusk – Set The Dial (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination (Prosthetic)
- Loss – Despond (Profound Lore) | Bandcamp
- Sun Araw – Ancient Romans (101)
- Machine Head – Unto The Locust (Roadrunner)
- Hella – Tripper (Sargent House) | Bandcamp
- The Swan King – Eyes Like Knives (Seventh Rule)
- Graf Orlock – Doombox EP (Vitriol) | Bandcamp
- Obscura – Omnivium (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- TesseracT – One (Century Media)
- OvO – Cor Cordium (Supernatural Cat) | Bandcamp
- Scar Symmetry – The Unseen Empire (Nuclear Blast)
- Leprous – Bilateral (Inside Out)
- Bruce Lamont – Feral Songs For The Epic Decline (At A Loss)
- Fair To Midland – Arrows & Anchors (Entertainment One)
- Today is the Day – Pain is a Warning (!K7/Black Marke)
- Gridlink – Orphan (Hydra Head)
- Riot – Immortal Soul (Steamhammer)
- One Inch Giant – Malva (One Inch Giant) | Bandcamp
- Junius – Reports From the Threshold of Death (Prosthetic) | Bandcamp
- Devil – Time To Repent (Soulseller)
- Arkham Witch – Croms Mountain (Barbarian Wrath)
- Vektor – Outer Isolation (MRI)
- Demonaz – March Of The Norse (Nuclear Blast)
- Rotten Sound – Cursed (Relapse)
- Skinny Puppy – Handover (SPV)
- Primus – Green Naugahyde (ATO/Red)
- Acid Witch – Stoned (Hell’s Headbangers)
- Ringworm – Scars (Victory)
- Chris Connelly – Artificial Madness (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Indian – Guiltless (Relapse) | Bandcamp
- Midnight Zombie Alligator – See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil (MZA) | Bandcamp
- Dantesco – Seven Years Of Battle (Stormspell)
- Ordog – Remorse (Violent Journey)
- Wooden Stake – Black Caped Carnivore EP (Sorcerer’s Pledge)
- Wreck of the Hesperus – Light Rotting Out (Aesthetic Death)
- Firebird – Double Diamond (Rise Above)
- Foo Fighters – Wasting Light (RCA)
- Monster Coyote – Stoner To The Boner (Monster Coyote)
- Leviathan – True Traitor, True Whore (Profound Lore)
- Felipe Arcazas – Induction To The Subconscious EP (Arcazas)
- Molior Superum – Towards The Haze EP (Molior Sperum)
- Tank 86 – Rise (Rising Magma)
- Roadkillsoda – A Fucked Up Trip Gone Bad (Asiluum)
- Black Acid Devil – Mountains Of Madness (BAD) ) | Bandcamp (Choose yr price!)
- Beneath Oblivion – From Man To Dust (The Mylene Sheath)
- American Heritage – Sedentary (Translation Loss)
- Il Malpertugio – Deranged (Il Malpertugio)
- Unearth – Darkness in the Light (Metal Blade)
- Krallice – Diotima (Profound Lore) | Bandcamp
- Blut Aus Nord – 777: Sect(S) (Debemur Morti)
- Primordial – Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand (Metal Blade)
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP (Metal Blade)
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