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Another year has come and gone and with it a host of new music releases. Going through my collection I decided to put every new album I got this year in order from best to worst. The order is based in part from the ratings from my RYM profile and from my repeated listening which may have changed what I thought about the album from it's initial listen to now. If you disagree with the order, be my guest and voice your opinion, but it's not gonna change the order.

112. Breathe Carolina - It’s Classy, Not Classic
111. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
110. Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights of America
109. Opiate for the Masses - Manifesto
108. Black Tide - Light From Above
107. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
106. akissforjersey - Victims
105. Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison
104. Staind - The Illusion of Progress
103. Ratatat - LP3
102. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
101. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
100. Funeral for a Friend - Memory and Humanity
99. Carolina Liar - Coming to Terms
98. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
97. The (International) Noise Conspiracy - The Cross of My Calling
96. The Haunted - Versus
95. Destroy The Runner - I, Lucifer
94. A Breath Before Surfacing - Death Is Swallowed in Victory
93. Mudvayne - The New Game
92. Haste the Day - Dreamer
91. Filter - Anthems For the Damned
90. Deadlock - Manifesto
89. Burden of a Day - Blessed Be Our Ever After
88. N*E*R*D* - Seeing Sounds
87. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
86. Misery Signals - Controller
85. Eyes Set to Kill - Reach
84. Alesana - Where Myth Fades to Legend
83. The Acacia Strain - Continent
82. Anthony Green - Avalon
81. Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun
80. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
79. The Human Abstract - Midheaven
78. Light This City - Stormchaser
77. Puscifer - V is For Viagra: The Remixes
76. O.A.R. - All Sides
75. Anberlin - New Surrender
Essential Track: Blame Me! Blame Me!

74. The Classic Crime - The Silver Cord
Essential Track: Abracadavers

73. DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
Essential Track: The Last Journey Home

72. Walls of Jericho - The American Dream
Essential Track: I. The Hunter

71. I Am Ghost - Those We Leave Behind
Essential Track: The Smile of a Jesus Freak

70. Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
Essential Track: Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide

69. Unearth - The March
Essential Track: We Are Not Anonymous

68. Envy/Thursday – Split EP
Essential Track: An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace

67. Earshot - The Silver Lining
Essential Track: MisSunderstood

66. Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Essential Track: Get to the Choppa

65. Throw the Fight - Pursuit of Tomorrow
Essential Track: Ready For War

64. Ill Niño – Enigma
Essential Track: Compulsion of Virus and Fever

63. Senses Fail - Life Is Not a Waiting Room
Essential Track: Wolves at the Door

62. Taproot - Our Long Road Home
Essential Track: Path Less Taken

61. Theory of a Deadman - Scars & Souvenirs
Essential Track: Not Meant to Be

60. Opeth – Watershed
Essential Track: Hessian Peel

59. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III and IV – Air & Earth
Essential Track: Daedalus

58. This Is Hell – Misfortunes
Essential Track: You Are the Antithesis

57. Sever Your Ties - Safety in the Sea
Essential Track: Captive

56. In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Essential Track: Move Through Me

55. This or the Apocalypse – Monuments
Essential Track: The Polymath

54. Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
Essential Track: Inside

53. Dead to Fall - Are You Serious?
Essential Track: Major Rager

52. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Essential Track: Viva La Vida

51. In This Moment - The Dream
Essential Track: You Always Believed

50. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Essential Tracks: The Art of Dying, Wolf Down the Earth

49. Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Essential Tracks: Chelsea Smile, Suicide Season

48. Gavin Rossdale – Wanderlust
Essential Tracks: Forever May Your Run, If You’re Not With Us You Are Against Us

47. Soulfly – Conquer
Essential Tracks: Blood Fire War Hate, Warmageddon

46. Verse – Aggression
Essential Tracks: Suffering to Live, Scared of Love, Earth and Stone

45. Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane
Essential Tracks: World Between Us, Alias

44. The Gaslight Anthem - The ’59 Sound
Essential Tracks: The ’59 Sound, Here’s Looking At You, Kid

43. Fear Before - Fear Before
Essential Tracks: I’m Fine Today, Everything’s Not Shitty

42. Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
Essential Tracks: Gematria (The Killing Name), Psychosocial

41. The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Essential Tracks: Hammerhead, A Lot Like Me

40. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Essential Tracks: I Will Possess Your Heart, Long Division

39. Weezer - The Red Album
Essential Tracks: Pork and Beans, Everybody Get Dangerous

38. SafetySuit - Life Left to Go
Essential Tracks: Find a Way, Down

37. Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
Essential Tracks: I Found Away, Do You Wanna Know?

36. One Day as a Lion - One Day as a Lion
Essential Tracks: Wild International, One Day as a Lion

35. Showbread – Anorexia
Essential Tracks: The Pig, The Death

34. Norma Jean - The Anti Mother
Essential Tracks: Robots 3 Humans 0, Surrender Your Sons…

33. The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the Horizon
Essential Tracks: Chapter II: A Strange Conversation, Chapter IV: Enter the Black Demon

32. The Sword - Gods of the Earth
Essential Tracks: Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians, The Black River

31. The Bronx - The Bronx III
Essential Tracks: Inveigh, Six Days a Week

30. These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Essential Tracks: Red Line Season, Long and Lonely Step

29. Flogging Molly – Float
Essential Tracks: (No More) Paddy’s Lament, The Lightning Storm

28. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
Essential Tracks: We Are Rockstars, Let’s Make Out

27. Ra - Black Sun
Essential Tracks: The First Step, Don’t Turn Away

26. Lower Definition - The Greatest of All Lost Arts
Essential Tracks: To Satellite, Versus Versace

25. Cavalera Conspiracy – Inflikted
Essential Tracks: Inflikted, The Doom of All Fires, Nevertrust

24. Disturbed – Indestructible
Essential Tracks: Inside the Fire, The Curse, Façade

23. Showbread – Nervosa
Essential Tracks: The Journey, The Goat, The Death

22. Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
Essential Tracks: Anyone Can Dig a Hole But it Takes a Real Man to Call it Home, Emergency Broadcast :: The End is Near, Too Bright to See Too Loud to Hear

21. Meshuggah – obZen
Essential Tracks: Electric Red, This Spiteful Snake, Pineal Gland Optics

20. Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast (Part I: The Final Resistance)
Essential Tracks: Endzeit, Murderers of All Murderers, Black Tears

19. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Essential Tracks: Ilyena, Wax Simulacra, Askepios

18. Century - Black Ocean
Essential Tracks: Pantheon, Rising Sun, Terror Starts at Home

17. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Essential Tracks: Hail Destroyer, Deathsmarch, PMA ‘Til I’m DOA

16. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Essential Tracks: The Death of Me, Body In a Box, Waiting…

15. Trivium – Shogun
Essential Tracks: Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis, Down From the Sky, Of Prometheus and the Crucifix

14. Metallica - Death Magnetic
Essential Tracks: All Nightmare Long, The Judas Kiss, My Apocalypse

13. Stick to Your Guns - Comes From the Heart
Essential Tracks: We’re What Seperates the Heart From the Heartless, Impact, Accessory Children

12. Johnny Truant - No Tears For the Creatures
Essential Tracks: The Grotesque, Death Rides, Crush and Devour

11. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Essential Tracks: 1,000,000, Echoplex, Head Down

10. All That Remains – Overcome
Essential Tracks: Before the Damned, Two Weeks, Chiron, Relinquish

9. Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Essential Tracks: Scream Aim Fire, Waking the Demon, Disappear, End of Days

8. Story of the Year - The Black Swan
Essential Tracks: Choose Your Fate, The Antidote, The Black Swan, Welcome to Our New War

7. ASHES dIVIDE - Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright
Essential Tracks: Denial Waits, Enemies, The Stone, Sword

6. Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
Essential Tracks: From Heads Unworthy, Entertainment, Savior, Whereabouts Unknown

5. Bury Your Dead - Bury Your Dead
Essential Tracks: Sympathy Orchestra, Hands to Hide the Shame, Fever Dream, Dust to Dust

4. Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
Essential Tracks: Venomspreader, Misanthropy Pure, To Bear the Brunt of Many Blades, Set Your Body Ablaze

3. Protest the Hero – Fortress
Essential Tracks: Bloodmeat, Sequoia Throne, Limb From Limb, Goddess Gagged

2. Bleeding Through – Declaration
Essential Tracks: Declaration, There Was a Flood, Death Anxiety, Sister Charlatan

1. 10 Years – Division
Essential Tracks: 11:00 AM (Daydreamer), Dying Youth, Picture Perfect (In Your Eyes), Proud of You