13. Amia Venera Landscape
The Lowdown: Artful, shimmering, elegant metalcore laced with gorgeous post rock passages and bruising rumbles, Italy's Amia Venera landscape released one of 2011's most critically acclaimed but least publicized releases in The Long Procession. Though quiet for a couple of years, the sextet has supposedly written around 80 songs that are supposed to arise over the next three years. However, a release that was set for this last winter has yet to surface. Regardless, the band has publicly stated they don't want to work with a label, so whatever the band releases (hopefully soon), they will still remains fiercely independent.
RIYL: Misery Signals, Poison the Well, The Ocean.