I think its time we can start putting out the year end lists, I doubt there's anything dropping before the end of the year that's going to blow me away. All the good hardcore albums I discovered this year were from 2009 or earlier(or just weren't good enough to make the cut). It's a little more to the punk side of things; but regardless here's mine:

10. Counterparts - "Prophets"
9. Comeback Kid - "Symptoms + Cures"
8. The Gaslight Anthem - "American Slang"
7. The Bouncing Souls - "Ghosts On The Boardwalk"
6. Look Mexico - "To Bed To Battle"
5. Iron Chic - "Not Like This"
4. Make Do and Mend - "End Measured Mile"
3. None More Black - "Icons"
2. Carpenter - "Sea To Sky"
1. The Flatliners - "Cavalcade"



Most Anticipated for 2011:
Defeater, Living With Lions, Strung Out???, This Is A Standoff...

I really want to hear what everyone else was listening to this year, I need some new shit to listen to.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

This is all just hardcore stuff. Demos don't count.

LP
1. More Than Life - Love Let Me Go
2. Dangers - Messy, Isn’t It?
3. The Effort - Wartime Citizens
4. Punch - Push Pull
5. The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
6. End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
7. Burning Love - Songs For Burning Lovers
8. Mountain Man - One (This counts)
9. Ceremony - Rohnert Park LP
10. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing

EP
1. Damages - Unrequited
2. The Rival Mob - Hardcore For Hardcore
3. Mindset - Time & Pressure
4. The Effort - Demo Sessions
5. True Colors - Consider It Done
6. Sabertooth Zombie - Human Performance
7. Sabertooth Zombie - Human Performance II
8. Gray Ghost - Succubus
9. Rape Revenge - Rape Revenge
10. Free Spirit - Free Yourself

free spirit 7"
rm h4h 7"
sump - taken dead cs
boston strangler demo
noose chicago demo
urban blight 7"
confines - withdrawn 7"
white medal -agbrigg beast cs
furdidurke - native 7"
willing feet demo cs


there were a ton of great releases this year, that's just a few cs and 7" that made my list.

LP

1. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
2. Get The Most - Together
3. Crucified - Coldest Winter; Darkest Reaches of The Mind
4. Alpha and Omega - Life Swallower
5. Devotion - Bastard Son of Affluence Blues (edit - apparently this was 2009, oh well)
6. The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
7. Killing The Dream - Lucky Me
8. More Than Life - Love Let Me Go
9. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone...
10. Ill Intent - All Lions

EP
1. The Rival Mob - Hardcore For Hardcore
2. Free Spirit - Free Yourself
3. Mindset - Time & Pressure
4. Hammer Bros - Sleep Forever
5. Midnight Souls - Colder
6. Seahaven - Ghost
7. Backtrack - Deal With The Devil (was this 2009?)
8. Go Rydell - The Golden Age
9. Betrayed - Suffering
10. Lowtalker - People Worry About Everything

Making that list was mind numbing.

the merchandise lp is really good, thought i just started listening to it a couple days ago

Devotion was 2009 bro.

I enjoyed the new More Than Life disc, haven't listened to it a ton, but its good.(killer artwork too) I also almost put the new Crime In Stereo on my list, fucking great album. I hope they filmed the last show and release a live dvd like they did with Have Heart, that would be incredible.

I'll have to check out The Rival Mob and Killing The Dream, I've only heard good things about them.


Other awesome albums from this year:
Knucklehead - "Hearts On Fire"(best album to come out of Calgary, fuck Alberta this year)
The Riot Before - "Rebellion"
The Menzingers - "Chamberlain Waits"(guaranteed to end up on a ton of lists around the internet)
Smoke Or Fire - "The Speakeasy"
The Provincial Archive - "Maybe We Could Be Holy"(featuring ex members of The FullBlast and The Johnsons)
Rufio - "Anybody Out There"
Jimmy Eat World - "Invented"
Four Year Strong - "Enemy Of The World"
Alkaline Trio - "This Addiction"
Against Me - "White Crosses"
Sundowner - "We Chase The Waves"

Ep's
Reviver - "Potential Wasteland"(Defeater fans should check this out)
The Stereo State - "Caffeine Beer and Quoting Movies"
Lowtalker - "People Worry About Everything"
Alexisonfire - "Dogs Blood"(yes its AOF, I haven't been into this band in years, but somehow this ep is actually awesome)

1. HELLKONTROLL - WANKER WAR 10"
otherwise
Urban Blight - Total War EP
White Medal - Agbrigg Beast
Cosmic Church - Absoluutin Lävistämä
Furdidurke - Native EP
Kallathon - Before Falling Into The Abyss cassette
Nukkehammer - Future Of Siberia demo
Sump - Taken Dead cassette
Kriegshog - ST
Canadian Rifle - Facts EP
Masshysteri - ST
Bastard Priest - Under The Hammer Of Destruction
Complications - ST
Vile Gash EP

1. Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik 0-60
2. Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
3. Bitter End - Guilty as Charged
4. Gravemaker - Ghosts Among Men
5. Charlie Clips - "Legendary" The Street Album
6. Ceremony - Ronhert Park
7. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty
8. Carpathian - Wanderlust
9. Cruel Hand - Lock and Key (is this 2010?)
10. Down To Nothing - All My Sons

no order.

honorable mention: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
i feel bad for liking this album.

in no particular order... and off the top of my head

vaccuum - demo
noose - demo (chi)
nomos - notes from the acheron ep
urban blight - total war ep
crazy spirit - ep
rival mob - hc4hc ep
duress - st ep
culo - military trend ep
otan - both ep's
rot shit - dead ep

Messy isn't it? is probably number 1 for me.