Mid-Year Report: Music

2011 has been a monumental year in music so far. The level of quality among albums released so far this year has been crazy. Sure, there has been some disappointments (I'm looking at you The Crimson Armada, Rise Against, and most of all Morbid Angel.), but for the most part this year has been mind-blowing. Making a year-end top 10 is going to be a near-impossible task and there is still a large number of releases that are potential top 10 candidates (including new ones from Revocation, The Faceless,Fleshgod Apocalypse, Tool(if it comes out),Converge,Gojira(EP),All Shall Perish, Landmine Marathon,Skeletonwitch, and of course, Mastodon) along with many others that I am excited for. Let's see what the rest of 2011 has in store. Here is my complete list of albums and EP's I've heard so far along with ratings.
(*No Review Written **No Review Written, but will be written in the near future)
EP's
3.Periphery-Icarus*(3.5/5)
2.Job For A Cowboy-Gloom(4/5)
1.Between The Buried and Me-The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues(4.5/5)



LP's
41.Emmure-Speaker Of The Dead(0/5)
40.The Crimson Armada-Conviction(1/5)
39.Morbid Angel-Illuid Divinum Insanus(1.5/5)
38.Rise Against-Endgame(2/5)
37.Devin Townsend Project-Ghost(2/5)
36.Suicide Silence-The Black Crown**(2.5/5)
35.Lazarus A.D-Black Rivers Flow(3/5)
34.Winds Of Plague-Against The World(3/5)
33.TesseracT-One(3/5)
32.In Flames-Sounds Of A Playground Fading(3/5)
31.Abysmal Dawn-Leveling The Plane Of Existence(3.5/5)
30.Red Fang-Murder The Mountains*(3.5/5)
29.Texas In July-One Reality(3.5/5)
28.Tyler, The Creator-Goblin(3.5/5)
27.Crowbar-Sever The Wicked Hand*(3.5/5)
26.Sepultura-Kairos**(3.5/5)
25.Dropkick Murphys-Going Out In Style(3.5/5)
24.Devildriver-Beast(4/5)
23.Becoming The Archetype-Celestial Completion*(4/5)
22.Hate Eternal-Phoenix Amongst The Ashes(4/5)
21.Scale The Summit-The Collective(4/5)
20.The Human Abstract-Digital Veil(4/5)
19.Amon Amarth-Surtur Rising(4/5)
18.Thomas Giles-Pulse(4/5)
17.Atmosphere-The Family Sign(4/5)
16.Arsonists Get All The Girls-Motherland(4/5)
15.Last Chance To Reason-Level 2(4/5)
14.Beastie Boys-Hot Sauce Committee Part 2(4/5)
13.Children Of Bodom-Relentless Reckless Forever(4/5)
12.Grieves-Together/Apart**(4/5)
11.August Burns Red-Leveler(4/5)
10.Devin Townsend Project-Deconstruction(4/5)
9.Obscura-Omnivium*(4/5)
8.Foo Fighters-Wasting Light(4/5)
7.Darkest Hour-The Human Romance(4/5)
6.Times Of Grace-The Hymn Of A Broken Man(4/5)
5.Born Of Osiris-The Discovery(4.5/5)
4.Unearth-Darkness In The Light**(4.5/5)
3.Arch Enemy-Khaos Legions(4.5/5)
2.Protest The Hero-Scurrilous(4.5/5)
1.The Black Dahlia Murder-Ritual(5/5)