Pitchfork: os melhores de 2011 segundo o site

O site norte-americano Pitchfork, publicou o seu top 40 de 2011. Apesar de estarmos na metade do ano, é sempre interessante ver opiniões de sites, que como este, estão um pouco afastados da mídia mainstream do rock/metal. E talvez descobrir algumas coisas interessantes. Como o próprio autor diz, fazer uma lista de melhores do ano não é uma ciência exata, ou seja, cada um tem a sua. Então vamos lá:

40. Weekend Nachos: Worthless [Relapse]
39. Skeletonwitch: Forever Abomination [Prosthetic]
38. Peste Noire: L'Ordure à l'État Pur [Transcendental Creations/Tour De Garde]
37. Absu: Abzu [Candlelight]
36. Machine Head: Unto the Locust [Roadrunner]
35. Mournful Congregation: The Book of Kings [20 Buck Spin]
34. Vanhelgd: Church of Death [Nuclear War Now!]
33. Negative Plane: Stained Glass Revelations [Ajna Offensive]
32. Rwake: Rest [Relapse]
31. Sonne Adam: Transformation [Century Media]
30. Mitochondrion: Parasignosis [Profound Lore]
29. Gridlink: Orphan [Hydra Head]
28. Loss: Despond [Profound Lore]
27. Drugs of Faith: Corroded [Selfmadegod]
26. Atlas Moth: An Ache for the Distance [Profound Lore]
25. Atriarch: Forever the End [Seventh Rule]
24. Necros Christos: Doom of the Occult [Sepulchural Voice]
23. Indian: Guiltless [Relapse]
22. Deafheaven: Roads to Judah [Deathwish Inc.]
21. Thou: The Archer & the Owle EP [Robotic Empire]
20. SubRosa: No Help for the Mighty Ones [Profound Lore]
19. Vastum: Carnal Law [20 Buck Spin]
18. Altar of Plagues: Mammal [Profound Lore]
17. Krallice: Diotima [Profound Lore]
16. Trap Them: Darker Handcraft [Prosthetic]
15. Ash Borer: Ash Borer [Psychic Violence]
14. Autopsy: Macabre Eternal [Peaceville]
13. Morne: Asylum [Profound Lore]
12. Hammers of Misfortune: 17th Street [Metal Blade]
11. Exhumed: All Guts No Glory [Relapse]
10. Primordial: Redemption at the Puritan's Hand [Metal Blade]
09. In Solitude: The World, the Flesh, the Devil [Metal Blade]
08. Yob: Atma [Profound Lore]
07. Circle of Ouroborus: Eleven Fingers [Handmade Birds]
06. Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage [Southern Lord]
05. Disma: Towards the Megalith [Profound Lore]
04. 40 Watt Sun: The Inside Room [Metal Blade]
03. Ulcerate: The Destroyers of All [Willowtip]
02. Tombs: Path of Totality [Relapse]
01. Blut Aus Nord: 777: Sect(s) / The Desanctification [Debemur Morti]

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Menções Honrosas (sem ordem):

Branoil: Death of this Dry Season [20 Buck Spin], Young Widows: In and Out of Youth and Lightness [Temporary Residence], KEN mode: Venerable [Profound Lore]; Mamaleek: Kurdaitcha [Enemies List]; Batillus: Furnace [Seventh Rule]; Maruta: Forward Into Regression [Willowtip], Flourishing: The Sum of All Fossils [The Path Less Traveled], Wolvhammer: Obsidian Planes [Profound Lore], Corrupted: Garten Der Unbewusstheit [Nostalgia Blackrain], Thou: To the Chaos Wizard Youth EP [Vendetta], Antediluvian: Through the Cervix of Hawwah [Profound Lore], Cianide: Gods of Death [Hells Headbangers], Immolation: Majesty and Decay [Nuclear Blast], Speedwolf: Ride With Death [Hell's Headbangers], Ravencult: Morbid Blood [Hells Headbangers], Raspberry Bulbs: Nature Tries Again [Hospital], Futur Skullz: Futur Skullz [Kemado], Desolate Shrine: Tenebrous Towers [Hammer of Hate], Rotten Sound: Cursed [Relapse], Bringers of Disease: Gospel of Pestilence [Translation Loss], Locrian: The Clearing [Fan Death], Engineer: Crooked Voices [Black Market Activities], Portrait: Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae [Metal Blade], Noisear: Subvert the Dominant Paradigm [Relapse], Morbus Chron: Sleepers in the Rift [Pulverised], Owen Hart: Earth Control [Vitriol], Gates of Slumber: The Wretch [Rise Above/Metal Blade], All Pigs Must Die: God is War [Southern Lord], False: False [Gilead Media], Cynic: Carbon-Based Anatomy EP [Season of Mist]; Solstafir: Svartir Sandar [Season of Mist]; Glorior Belli: The Great Southern Darkness [Metal Blade], Nunfuckritual: In Bondage to the Serpent [Debemur Morti], Rue: Thorns [Shifty], The Swan King: Eyes Like Knives [Seventh Rule], Craft: Void [Southern Lord], Unkind: Harhakuvat (Relapse), Vreid: V [Indie], Seidr: For Winter Fire [Flenser], Russian Circles: Empros [Sargent House], Servile Sect: Trvth [Handmade Birds], Harpoon: Deception Among Birds [Seventh Rule].