Year-End Lists

Guitar World: Top 50 Albums of 2011

[see also 2024]

1. Foo Fighters
   Wasting Light
2. Opeth
   Heritage
3. Asking Alexandria
   Reckless & Relentless
4. Anthrax
   Worship Music
5. Mastodon
   The Hunter
6. Joe Bonamassa
   Dust Bowl
7. Children of Bodom
   Relentless Reckless Forever
8. Megadeth
   TH1RT3EN
9. Cage the Elephant
   Thank You, Happy Birthday
10. Dream Theater
    A Dramatic Turn of Events
11. Black Veil Brides
    Set the World on Fire
12. Black Country Communion
    2
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers
    I’m With You
14. Animals As Leaders
    Weightless
15. Machine Head
    Unto the Locust
16. Gregg Allman
    Low Country Blues
17. Explosions in the Sky
    Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
18. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
19. Of Mice & Men
    The Flood
20. Warren Haynes
    Man in Motion
21. Falling In Reverse
    The Drug in Me Is You
22. Wilco
    The Whole Love
23. Protest the Hero
    Scurrilous
24. Korn
    The Path of Totality
25. Brad Paisley
    This Is Country Music
26. Skeletonwitch
    Forever Abomination
27. Tedeschi Trucks Band
    Revelator
28. Iced Earth
    Dystopia
29. Russian Circles
    Empros
30. Kenny Wayne Shepherd
    How I Go
31. Black Dahlia Murder
    Ritual
32. Primus
    Green Naugahyde
33. Steel Panther
    Balls Out
34. Jane’s Addiction
    The Great Escape Artist
35. Jimmie Vaughan
    Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites
36. The Black Keys
    El Camino
37. The Human Abstract
    Digital Veil
38. Revocation
    Chaos of Forms
39. The Cars
    Move Like This
40. George Thorogood and the Destroyers
    2120 South Michigan Ave.
41. The Devil Wears Prada
    Dead Throne
42. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
43. Decapitated
    Carnival is Forever
44. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
45. Textures
    Dualism
46. Chickenfoot
    Chickenfoot III
47. Gang of Four
    Content
48. Five Finger Death Punch
    American Capitalist
49. Brian Setzer
    Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL!
50. Trivium
    In Waves