Best Extreme Metal Releases of 2011 So Far

YES WE HAVE ONE TOO!

Ladies and Gentlemen as well as You Others it is that time of year for SCUMFEAST METAL's Annual Mid Year Best Extreme Metal Releases of 2011. Alright actually it's our first one. Look for years now every swinging dick in print and now online puts out a year end list of with what they believe are the year's best releases. They usually come out at the "End of the Year", but (as I predicted once) now they come out earlier each year. Sure there's valid reasons like advertising dollars. Look big name magazine or website says this release on "our label" is the best thing since Thomas Edison invented the quadraphonic stereo system or something technical like that. But lets be honest here it's really about competition and were print publications are slow the Internet is faster.

Now today while I was getting ready for my three day holiday weekend drinking binge I stumbled upon another music related website that had a mid year best of 2011 list of metal (well some of them were metal) releases. My first thought was hey they stole my idea, seriously I had that idea in January. My second thought was wow their choices are really bad but hey maybe they don't get as many really cool and Extreme releases like Scumfeast Metal 666. So with that said here's what I believe are at least the best 35 releases so far for 2011 that I've heard.

NEGATIVE PLANE - Stained Glass Revelations CD (Ajna Offensive) Genre: Black Metal
ABYSMAL DAWN - Leveling the Plane of Existence CD (Relapse Records) Genre: Death Metal
ISKALD - The Sun I Carried Alone CD (Indie Recordings) Genre: Black Metal
DESTRUCTION - Day of Reckoning CD (Nuclear Blast Records) Genre: Thrash
INQUISITION - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm CD (Hells Headbangers) Genre: Black Metal
LEGION OF THE DAMNED - Descent into Chaos CD (Massacre Records) Genre: Thrash
MITOCHONDRION - Parasignosis CD (Profound Lore Records) Genre: Blackened Death
BENEDICTUM - Dominion CD (Frontiers Records) Genre: Metal
ORCHID - Capricorn CD (Doom Dealer/The Church Within Records) Genre: Doom
MACABRE - Grim Scary Tales CD (Decomposed Records) Genre: Murder Metal
KORPIKLAANI - Ukon Wacka CD (Nuclear Blast Records) Genre: Folk Metal
WOODEN STAKE - Dungeon Prayers and Tomb Yard Serenades CD (Razorback Records) Genre: Doom
DESTRUCTION - Day of Reckoning CD (Nuclear Blast Records) Genre: Thrash
VREID - V CD (Indie Recordings) Genre: Black Metal
BLODSGARD - Solve et Coagula demo (Self Released) Genre: Black Metal
DEICIDE - To Hell With God CD (Century Media Records) Genre: Death Metal
BLOOD CEREMONY - Living with the Ancients CD (Rise Above Records) Genre: Doom/70's Hard Fuckin Rock
MIASMAL - Self Titled CD (Dark Descent Records) Genre: Death Metal
ROTTEN SOUND - Cursed CD (Relapse Records) Genre: Grindcore
WOLFCHANT - Call of the Black Winds CD (Massacre Records) Genre: Pagan/Viking Metal
KAMPFAR - Mare CD (Napalm Records) Genre: Black Metal/Pagan
HAVOK- Time is Up CD (Candlelight Records) Genre: Thrash
ANCIENT CREATION – Moonlight Monument CD (Heaven and Hell Records) Genre: Heavy Metal
BLUT AUS NORD - 777 Sect(s) CD (Debemur Morti Productions) Genre: Black Metal
GATES OF SLUMBER - The Wretch CD (Rise Above Records) Genre: Doom
NETHER REGIONS - Into the Breach CD (Self Released) Genre: Doom
TURBOCHARGED - AntiXtian CD (Chaos Records) Genre: Scum Punk/Metal
FLAME - March Into Firelands CD (Hells Headbangers) Genre: Blackened Thrash
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Split Roast compilation CD (Condate Records) Genre: Extreme UK Metal
CASTLE - In Witch Order CD (Van Records) Genre: Doom/Heavy Metal
DIRGE - Elysian Magnetic Fields CD (Division Records) Genre: Doom/Post Rock
DECEASED - Surreal Overdose CD (Patac Records) Genre: Death Metal/Thrash
TYR - The Lay of Thrym CD (Napalm Records) Genre: Folk/Viking Metal
IN SOLITUDE - The World, The Flesh, The Devil CD (Metal Blade Records) Genre: Heavy Metal
WOLF - Legions of Bastards CD (Century Media Records) Genre: Traditional Heavy Metal