The European Perspective top fifty albums of 2011

1. Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning

2. Von Hertzen Brothers – Stars Aligned

3. Opeth – Heritage

4. The Tangent – COMM

5. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn Of Events 

6. Sean Filkins – War and Peace & Other Short Stories

7. Knight Area – Nine Paths

8. Airbag – All Rights Removed

9. Matt Stevens – Relic

10. Pallas – XXV

11. Arch/Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance

12. Steve Hackett – Beyond The Shrouded Horizon

13. Neal Morse – Testimony 2

14. Magic Pie – The Suffering Joy

15. Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two

16. Dropshard – Anywhere But Home

17. Yes – Fly From Here

18. Pendragon – Passion

19. Phideaux – Snowtorch

20. Karmakanic – In A Perfect World

21. Wobbler – Rites At Dawn

22. Manning – Margaret’s Children

23. Touchstone – The City Sleeps

24. Credo – Against Reason

25. Haken – Visions

26. Cosmograf – When Age Has Done Its Duty

27. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!

28. White Willow – Terminal Twilight

29. Peter Gabriel – New Blood

30. Amorphis – The Beginning Of Times

31. Lazuli – [4603 Battements]

32. Mastodon – The Hunter

33. Riverside – Memories In My Head

34. Radiohead – King Of Limbs

35. Dec Burke – Paradigms & Storylines

36. Also Eden – Think Of The Children

37. Blackfield – Welcome To My DNA

38. Magenta – Chameleon

39. Mars Hollow – World In Front Of Me

40. Comedy Of Errors – Disobey

41. Arena – The Seventh Degree Of Separation

42. Glass Hammer – Cor Cordium

43. The Watch – Timeless

44. Agents Of Mercy – The Black Forest

45. Symphony X – Iconoclast

46. Amplifier – The Octopus

47. Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins – A Scarcity Of Miracles

48. Proto-Kaw – Forth

49. Beardfish – Mammoth

50. Sky Architect – A Dying Man’s Hymn