A few weeks ago, we opened up a forum thread asking you junkies to submit your top 10 albums of the year. We would calculate the top albums by awarding 10 points to your number one pick, 9 points to your number two pick and so on. We have tallied all the results and here are the top albums of the year, with the amount of votes it received.
- Mastodon – Crack the Skye 264 votes
- Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect 188 votes
- The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate 185 votes
- Lamb of God – Wrath 172 votes
- Behemoth – Evangelion 167 votes
- Baroness – The Blue Record 138 votes
- The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine 135 votes
- Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor 105 votes
- Converge – Axe To Fall 101 votes
- Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague 92 votes
- Obscura – Cosmogenesis 91 votes
- Nile – Those whom the gods detest 79 votes
- Dying Fetus – Descend into depravity 64 votes
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse 61 votes
- Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic 59 votes
- Immortal – All Shall Fall 57 votes
- Dethklok – The Dethalbum II 55 votes
Slayer – World Painted Blood 55 votes - Devildriver – Pray For Villains 54 votes
Goatwhore – Carving Out the Eyes Of God 54 votes
Megadeth – Endgame 54 votes - Revocation – Existence is Futile 53 votes
- Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue 51 votes
- Suffocation – Blood Oath 49 votes
- Katatonia – Night Is The New Day 48 votes
- Kylesa – Static Tension 46 votes
- Despised Icon – Day of Mourning 45 votes
- Devin Townsend – Addicted 44 votes
- Born of Osiris – A Higher Place 43 votes
- Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire 42 votes
- Daath – The Concealers 34 votes
Magrudergrind – Magrudergrind 34 votes - God Forbid – Earthsblood 33 votes
Job For A Cowboy – Ruination 33 votes
Municipal Waste – Massive Agressive 33 votes - Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity 32 votes
Suicide Silence – No Time To Bleed 32 votes - Augury – Fragmentary Evidence 30 votes
Epica – Design Your Universe 30 votes
Swallow The Sun – New Moon 30 votes - Cormorant – Metazoa 29 votes
Ulcerate – Everything Is Fire 29 votes - Devin Townsend – KI 28 votes
- Isis – Wavering Radiant 27 votes
Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave 27 votes
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade 27 votes - Gorod – Process of a New Decline 26 votes
- Ensiferum – From Afar 25 votes
- Chimaira – The Infection 21 votes
- Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow 19 votes
Burnt By the Sun – Heart of Darkness 19 votes - Darkest Hour – Eternal Return 18 votes
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive 18 votes - Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria 17 votes
- Coalesce – OX 16 votes
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War 16 votes - Be'lakor – Stone's Reach 15 votes
Impending Doom – Serpent Servant 15 votes
Insomnium – Across The Dark 15 votes
Paria – The Barnacle Cordius 15 votes
Psyopus – Odd Senses 15 votes
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder 15 votes
The Agonist – Lullabies For The Dormant Mind 15 votes
Vader – Necropolis 15 votes - Animals As Leaders – Animals As Leaders 13 votes
Architechts – Hollow Crown 13 votes
Ghost Brigade – Isolation songs 13 votes
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos 13 votes - Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal 12 votes
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings 12 votes
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second 12 votes - Brand New – Daisy 11 votes
- Absu – Absu 10 votes
After the Burial – Rareform 10 votes
GWAR – Lust In Space 10 votes
Lazarus A.D. – The Onslaught 10 votes
Obituary – Darkest Day 10 votes
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us 10 votes
Sybreed – The Pulse of Awakening 10 votes
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone 10 votes - Ancestors – Of Sound Mind 9 votes
Assjack – Assjack 9 votes
Blood Red Throne – Souls of Damnation 9 votes
Enfold Darkness – Our Cursed Rapture 9 votes
HORSE the Band – Desperate Living 9 votes
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return to Obscurity 9 votes
Miss May I – Apologies Are for the Weak 9 votes
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre 9 votes
Worm Ouroboros – Worm Ouroboros 9 votes - Black Cobra – Chronomega 8 votes
Blood Tsunami – Grand feast for vultures 8 votes
Fondlecorpse – Creaturegore 8 votes
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist 8 votes
Infernal Revulsion – Dead But Breathing 8 votes
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal 8 votes
Pelican – What We All Come to Need 8 votes
Portal – Swarth 8 votes
Punch – Punch 8 votes
Tenet – Sovereign 8 votes
The Lonely Island – Incredibad 8 votes
Insect Warfare – Noise Grind Power Death 8 votes
Soulfallen – Grave New World 8 votes - Alexisonfire – Old Crows Young Cardinals 7 votes
Horrific -Your Worst Nightmare 7 votes
The Crimson Armada – Gaurdians 7 votes
The Empire Shall Fall – Awaken 7 votes
Vomit the Soul – Apostles of Inexpression 7 votes
Old Man's Child – Slaves of the World 7 votes
Impetuous Ritual – Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence 7 votes - Eternal Tears Of Sorrow – Children Of The Dark Waters 6 votes
Man Must Die – No Tolerance For Imperfection 6 votes
Mournful Congregation – The June Frost 6 votes
Nashville Pussy – From Hell To Texas 6 votes
Revolting – Dreadful Pleasures 6 votes
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions 6 votes
SWWATTS – The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry 6 votes
Viatrophy – Viatrophy 6 votes
Suidakra – Crógacht 6 votes - 3 Inches Of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom 5 votes
August Burns Red – Constellations 5 votes
Believer – Gabriel 5 votes
Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn 5 votes
Ingested – Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering 5 votes
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye 5 votes
Loan – Gontziria 5 votes
Rammstien – Liebe ist Für Alle Da 5 votes
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata 5 votes
Samael – Above 5 votes
Sanctification – Black Reign 5 votes
YOB – The Great Cessation 5 votes
Zoroaster – Voice of Saturn 5 votes
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone 5 votes - Azarath – Praise the Beast 4 votes
Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back 4 votes
Insidious Decrepancy – Extirpating Omnicient Certitude 4 votes
Lay Down Rotten – Gospel Of The Wretched 4 votes
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares 4 votes
Weekend Nachos – Unforgivable 4 votes
Altar of Plagues – White Tomb 4 votes
God Dethroned – Passiondale 4 votes - Beherit – Engram 3 votes
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom 3 votes
Chthonic – Mirror Of Retribution 3 votes
Hellwitch – Omnipotent Convocation 3 votes
KISS – Sonic Boom 3 votes
Lye by Mistake – Fea Jur 3 votes
Muse – The Resistance 3 votes
Steel Panther – Feel the Steel 3 votes
Struck by Lightning – Serpents 3 votes
Threat Signal – Vigilance 3 votes
Within The Ruins – Creature 3 votes
Pussygutt – Gathering Strengths 3 votes
Neaera – Omnicide 3 votes - Devourment – Unleash the Carnivore 2 votes
Gorgoroth – Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt 2 votes
Hatebreed – For The Lions 2 votes
Skyfire – Esoteric 2 votes
The Burning – Rewakening 2 votes
War From A Harlots Mouth – In Shoals 2 votes
Darzamat – Sulfernu's Path 2 votes - A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal 1 vote
Blackguard – Profugus Mortis 1 vote
Brutal Truth – Evolution through Revolution 1 vote
Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed 1 vote
Gory Blister – Graveyard Of Angels 1 vote
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage 1 vote
Septycal Gorge – Erase the Insignificant 1 vote
Squash Bowels – Grindvirus 1 votes
The Binary Code – The Binary Code 1 vote
Throwdown – Deathless 1 vote
Ignivomous – Death Transmutation 1 vote
Antigama – Warning 1 vote
How do you guys feel about this list? Leave your thoughts in the comments…