Top 20 releases from 2011:

  1. Riot - 'Immortal Soul'

  2. Communic - 'The Bottom Deep'

  3. HammerFall - 'Infected'

  4. Stryper - 'The Covering'

  5. Alice Cooper - 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare'

  6. Symphony X - 'Iconoclast'

  7. Vicious Rumors - 'Razorback Killers'

  8. WitchHammer - 'Chapter 3: In Serenity And Awe'

  9. Iced Earth - Dystopia'

  10. Theocracy - 'As The World Bleeds'

  11. Brainstorm - 'In The Spur Of The Moment'

  12. Evergrey - 'Glorious Collision'

  13. Megadeth - Thirt3en'

  14. Anthrax - 'Worship Music'

  15. Liberty 'N' Justice - 'Chasing A Cure'

  16. U.D.O. - 'Rev-Raptor'

  17. Arch Enemy - 'Khaos Legions'

  18. Nightwish - 'Imaginarium'

  19. Pagan's Mind - 'Heavenly Ecstasy'

  20. In Flames - 'Sounds Of A Playground Fading'

Runners up:

Hell - 'Human Remains'

Believer - 'Transhuman'

Talon - 'III'

Biggest disappointment:

Edguy - 'Age Of The Joker'