great list! so many good heavy records this year.

1. Oxbow 'The Narcotic Story'
2. Neurosis 'Given To The Rising'
3. Tomahawk 'Anonymous'
4. Dillinger Escape Plan 'Ire Works'
5. Big Business 'Here Come The Waterworks'
6. Dälek 'Abandoned Language'
7. John Zorn 'Six Litanies For Heliogabalus'
8. Om 'Pilgrimage'
9. Jesu 'Conqueror'
10. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 'In Glorious Times'
11. The Locust 'New Erections'
12. Angels Of Light 'We Are Him'
13. High On Fire 'Death Is This Communion'
14. Unsane 'Visqueen'
15. Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO 'Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars'
16. KTL '2'
17. Pig Destroyer 'Phantom Limb'
18. Fog 'Ditherer'
19. Qui 'Love's Miracle'
20. Pelican 'City Of Echoes '
21. Orthodox 'Amanecer En Puerta Oscura
22. Thurston Moore 'Trees Outside The Academy'
23. Sunburned Hand Of The Man 'Fire Escape'
24. Shining 'Grindstone'
25. Magik Markers 'Boss'
26. Battles 'Mirrored'
27. Caina 'Mourner'
28. Merzbow 'Coma Berenices'
29. Pissed Jeans 'Hope For Men'
30. Liars 'Liars'