Se essa lista fosse um projeto, diria que ela foi entregue no último dia do prazo final com o chefe cobrando de cinco em cinco minutos desde a semana anterior, afinal, não faz sentido álgum, lançar uma lista sobre um assunto de 2011 no ano seguinte!
Desta vez a coluna Lista da Ilha do Metal – eu sei que muita gente odeia listas, para isso existe Ctrl + W -, traz  os 20 (sim! VINTE) melhores álbuns lançados ao longo de 2011, então, sem mais delongas, vamos começar!

#20 Day Of Reckoning [Destruction]

1. The Price
2. Hate Is My Fuel
3. Armageddonizer
4. Devil’s Advocate
5. Day of Reckoning
6. Sorcerer of Black Magic
7. Misfit
8. The Demon Is God
9. Church of Disgust
10. Destroyer or Creator
11. Sheep of the Regime

#19 Heritage [Opeth]

1. Heritage
2. The Devil’s Orchard
3. I Feel the Dark
4. Slither
5. Nepenthe
6. Häxprocess
7. Famine
8. The Lines in My Hand
9. Folklore
10. Marrow of the Earth

#18 Quarterpast [Mayan]

1. Symphony of Aggression
2. Mainstay of Society (In the Eyes of the Law: Corruption)
3. Quarterpast
4. Course of Life
5. The Savage Massacre (In the Eyes of the Law: Pizzo)
6. Essenza Di Te
7. Bite the Bullet
8. Drown the Demon
9. Celibate Aphrodite
10. War on Terror (In the Eyes of the Law: Pentagon Papers)
11. Tithe
12. Sinner’s Last Retreat (Deed of Awakening)

#17 A Dramatic Turn of Events [Dream Theater]

1. On the Backs of Angels
2. Build Me Up, Break Me Down
3. Lost Not Forgotten
4. This Is the Life
5. Bridges in the Sky
6. Outcry
7. Far from Heaven
8. Breaking All Illusions
9. Beneath the Surface

#16 Glorious Collision [Evergrey]

1. Leave It Behind Us
2. You
3. Wrong
4. Frozen
5. Restoring The Loss
6. To Fit The Mold
7. Out Of Reach
8. The Phantom Letters
9. The Disease…
10. It Comes From Within
11. Free
12. I’m Drowning Alone
13. … And The Distance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjdAYmlo5lY

#15 Unto the Locust [Machine Head]

1. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)
2. Be Still and Know
3. Locust
4. This Is the End
5. Darkness Within
6. Pearls Before the Swine
7. Who We Are

#14 The Lay Of Thrim [Týr]

1. Flames of the Free
2. Shadow of the Swastika
3. Take Your Tyrant
4. Evening Star
5. Hall of Freedom
6. Fields of the Fallen
7. Konning Hans
8. Ellindur Bóndi á Jaðri
9. Nine Worlds of Lore
10. The Lay of Thrym
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFEFeF3bEM

#13 Into The Wild [Uriah Heep]

1. NAIL ON THE HEAD
2. I CAN SEE YOU
3. INTO THE WILD
4. MONEY TALK
5. I’M READY
6. TRAIL OF DIAMONDS
7. SOUTHERN STAR
8. BELIEVE
9. LOST
10. T-BIRD ANGEL
11. KISS OF FREEDOM
12. HARD WAY TO LEARN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pe1de7sFnc

#12 The Unforgiving [Within Temptation]

1. Why Not Me
2. Shot in the Dark
3. In the Middle of the Night
4. Faster
5. Fire and Ice
6. Iron
7. Where Is the Edge
8. Sinéad
9. Lost
10. Murder
11. A Demon’s Fate
12. Stairway to the Skies

#11 Aphotic [Novembers Doom]

1. The Dark Host
2. Harvest Scythe
3. Buried
4. What Could Have Been
5. Of Age and Origin – Part 1: A Violent Day
6. Of Age and Origin – Part 2: A Day of Joy
7. Six Sides
8. Shadow Play

#10 In Waves [Trivium]

1. Capsizing the Sea
2. In Waves
3. Inception of the End
4. Dusk Dismantled
5. Watch The World Burn
6. Black
7. A Skyline’s Severance
8. Built To Fall
9. Caustic Are The Ties That Bind
10. Forsake Not the Dream
11. Chaos Reigns
12. Of All These Yesterdays
13. Leaving This World Behind

#9 Inner Monster Out [Shadowside]

1. Gag Order
2. Angel with Horns
3. Habitchual
4. In the Name of Love
5. Inner Monster Out
6. I’m Your Mind
7. My Disrupted Reality
8. A Smile Upon Death
9. Whatever Our Fortune
10. A.D.D.
11. Waste of Life

#8 TH1RT3EN [Megadeth]

1. Sudden Death
2. Public Enemy No. 1
3. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
4. We the People
5. Guns, Drugs & Money
6. Never Dead
7. New World Order
8. Fast Lane
9. Black Swan
10. Wrecker
11. Millennium of the Blind
12. Deadly Nightshade
13. 13

#7 Dystopia [Iced Earth]

1. Dystopia
2. Anthem
3. Boiling Point
4. Anguish of Youth
5. V
6. Dark City
7. Equilibrium
8. Days of Rage
9. End of Innocence
10. Tragedy and Triumph

#6 The Hunter [Mastodon]

1. Black Tongue
2. Curl of the Burl
3. Blasteroid
4. Stargasm
5. Octopus Has No Friends
6. All the Heavy Lifting
7. The Hunter
8. Dry Bone Valley
9. Thickening
10. Creature Lives
11. Spectrelight
12. Bedazzled Fingernails
13. The Sparrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3LLX9ThXjI

#5 Iconoclast [Symphony X]

1. Iconoclast
2. The End of Innocence
3. Dehumanized
4. Bastards of the Machine
5. Heretic
6. Children of a Faceless God
7. Electric Messiah
8. Prometheus (I Am Alive)
9. When All Is Lost

#4 Deconstruction [Devin Townsend]

1. Praise the Lowered
2. Stand
3. Juular
4. Planet of the Apes
5. Sumeria
6. The Mighty Masturbator
7. Pandemic
8. Deconstruction
9. Poltergeist

#3 The Great Execution [Krisiun]

1. The Will to Potency
2. Blood of Lions
3. The Great Execution
4. Descending Abomination
5. The Extremist
6. The Sword of Orion
7. Violentia Gladiatore
8. Rise and Confront
9. Extinção em Massa
10. Shadows of Betrayal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjO42Pmgjw

#2 Workship Music [Anthrax]

1. Worship (intro)
2. Earth on Hell
3. The Devil You Know
4. Fight ‘em ‘til You Can’t
5. I’m Alive
6. Hymn 1
7. In the End
8. The Giant
9. Hymn 2
10. Judas Priest
11. Crawl
12. The Constant
13. Revolution Screams / New Noise (Refused cover)

#1 Surtur Rising [Amon Amarth]

1. War of the Gods
2. Töck’s Taunt – Loke’s Treachery Part II
3. Destroyer of the Universe
4. Slaves of Fear
5. Live Without Regrets
6. The Last Stand of Frej
7. For Victory or Death
8. Wrath of the Norsemen
9. A Beast Am I
10. Doom Over Dead Man
11. Aerials (cover System of a Down)