Half the year is over. I like 99 albums so far 23 of which I like more than the rest. I will hazard a guess that my 99 will almost certainly dwarf anyone else's figures! I am sure the total will be close to 200 by year's end. I guess I am easy to please and have low quality control as some would say, but I could care less really, I like what I like I can't help it. It has been a really solid year so far personally speaking but maybe not as good as 2011. However of all the genres I like, I have gained the most joy from the thrash releases in my list surprisingly enough. Thrash is king in 2012! Although cheesy power metal remains my first love and there's been plenty cool albums to keep me happy there. All praise, hate, indifference is welcome! The top 23 albums are in bold.
3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal
Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind
Accept - Stalingrad
Adrenaline Mob - Omerta
After All - Dawn of the Enforcer
Aggression - Viocracy
Amberian Dawn - Circus Black
Angelus Apatrida - The Call
Ascension - Far Beyond the Stars
At Vance - Facing Your Enemy
Axel Rudi Pell - Circle of the Oath
Before The Dawn - Rise Of The Phoenix
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Bludvera - Terrorform
Bonded By Blood - The Aftermath
Brute - Sophisticated_Atrocity
Burning Point - The Ignitor
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Capracide - Theodicy
Charlie Shred - st
Coffin Texts - The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
Damnation Angels - Bringer Of Light
Deadborn - Mayhem Maniac Machine
Derelict - Perpetuation
Divulgence - Future Seed
Dragonforce - The Power Within
Dynazty - Sultans Of Sin
End Of September - st
Eradicator - Madness Is My Name
Eternal Dream -The Fall Of Salanthine
Eternal Of Sweden - Chapter I
Exumer - Fire & Damnation
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
Firewind - Few Against Many
Flayed Disciple - Death Hammer
Freedom Call - Land Of The Crimson Dawn
Gaia Epicus - Dark Secrets
Game Over - For Humanity
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
Grand Magus - The Hunt
H.E.A.T - Address The Nation
Hardline - Danger Zone
Hideous Divinity - Obeisance Rising
Horrizon - Time For Revenge
Ian Anderson - Thick as a brick 2
Jaded Heart- Common Destiny
Janus - Nox Aeris
Jorn - Brind Heavy Rock to the Land
Kissin Dynamite - Money, Sex & Power
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance
Light Bringer - Genesis
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending to Infinity
Lyriel - Leverage
Mad Maze - Frames of Alienation
Morian - Ashen Empire
Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Nightmare - The Burden of God
Offending - Age of Perversion
Otherwise - True Love Never Dies
Outloud - More Catastrophe [EP]
Overkill - The Electric Age
Oxygen - Final Warning
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Pathfinder - Fifth Element
Pharaoh - Bury The Light
Poets Of The Fall - Temple Of Thought
Primal Fear - Unbreakable
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
Rage - 21
Reinxeed - Welcome To The Theater
Revel In Flesh - Deathevokation
Rise To Fall- Defying The Gods
Running Wild - Shadowmaker
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Sacred Gate - When Eternity Ends
Scarlet Anger - Dark Reign
Shinedown - Amaryllis
Shores of Elysium - The Arbiter's Clockwork
Skull Hammer - Destroyers of the Faith
Sonic Station - st
Soulfly - Enslaved
Stargate - Beyond Space and Time
Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath
Sunstorm - Emotional Fire
Tank - War Nation
Teramaze - Anhedonia
Testimony - Transcending Reality [EP]
The Forsaken - Beyond Redemption
The Veer Union - Divide The Blackened Sky
Thrashist Regime - Fearful Symmetry
Unisonic - st
West Of Hell - Spiral Empire
White Skull - Under This Flag
Wig Wam - Wall Street
Words Of Farewell - Immersion
Xandria - Neverworld's End
20 fave songs in no order
3 Inches of Blood - Leather Lord
Accept - Twist of Fate
Ascension - Somewhere Back in Time
Bludvera - Terrorform
Cannibal Corpse - Rabid
Dragonforce - Cry Thunder
H.E.A.T - In and Out of Trouble
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Dark Fate of Atlantis
Paradise Lost - Fear of Impending Hell
Poets of the Fall - Morning Tide
Pathfinder - The Day When I Turn Back Time
Sabaton - The Carolean's Prayer
Running Wild - Riding on the Tide
Primal Fear - Where Angels Die
Reinxeed - Stranger Tides
Suicidal Angels - Face of God
Soulfly - Gladiator
West of Hell - Singularity
Xandria - Valentine
Firewind - Few Against Many
3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal
Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind
Accept - Stalingrad
Adrenaline Mob - Omerta
After All - Dawn of the Enforcer
Aggression - Viocracy
Amberian Dawn - Circus Black
Angelus Apatrida - The Call
Ascension - Far Beyond the Stars
At Vance - Facing Your Enemy
Axel Rudi Pell - Circle of the Oath
Before The Dawn - Rise Of The Phoenix
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Bludvera - Terrorform
Bonded By Blood - The Aftermath
Brute - Sophisticated_Atrocity
Burning Point - The Ignitor
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Capracide - Theodicy
Charlie Shred - st
Coffin Texts - The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
Damnation Angels - Bringer Of Light
Deadborn - Mayhem Maniac Machine
Derelict - Perpetuation
Divulgence - Future Seed
Dragonforce - The Power Within
Dynazty - Sultans Of Sin
End Of September - st
Eradicator - Madness Is My Name
Eternal Dream -The Fall Of Salanthine
Eternal Of Sweden - Chapter I
Exumer - Fire & Damnation
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
Firewind - Few Against Many
Flayed Disciple - Death Hammer
Freedom Call - Land Of The Crimson Dawn
Gaia Epicus - Dark Secrets
Game Over - For Humanity
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
Grand Magus - The Hunt
H.E.A.T - Address The Nation
Hardline - Danger Zone
Hideous Divinity - Obeisance Rising
Horrizon - Time For Revenge
Ian Anderson - Thick as a brick 2
Jaded Heart- Common Destiny
Janus - Nox Aeris
Jorn - Brind Heavy Rock to the Land
Kissin Dynamite - Money, Sex & Power
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance
Light Bringer - Genesis
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending to Infinity
Lyriel - Leverage
Mad Maze - Frames of Alienation
Morian - Ashen Empire
Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Nightmare - The Burden of God
Offending - Age of Perversion
Otherwise - True Love Never Dies
Outloud - More Catastrophe [EP]
Overkill - The Electric Age
Oxygen - Final Warning
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Pathfinder - Fifth Element
Pharaoh - Bury The Light
Poets Of The Fall - Temple Of Thought
Primal Fear - Unbreakable
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
Rage - 21
Reinxeed - Welcome To The Theater
Revel In Flesh - Deathevokation
Rise To Fall- Defying The Gods
Running Wild - Shadowmaker
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Sacred Gate - When Eternity Ends
Scarlet Anger - Dark Reign
Shinedown - Amaryllis
Shores of Elysium - The Arbiter's Clockwork
Skull Hammer - Destroyers of the Faith
Sonic Station - st
Soulfly - Enslaved
Stargate - Beyond Space and Time
Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath
Sunstorm - Emotional Fire
Tank - War Nation
Teramaze - Anhedonia
Testimony - Transcending Reality [EP]
The Forsaken - Beyond Redemption
The Veer Union - Divide The Blackened Sky
Thrashist Regime - Fearful Symmetry
Unisonic - st
West Of Hell - Spiral Empire
White Skull - Under This Flag
Wig Wam - Wall Street
Words Of Farewell - Immersion
Xandria - Neverworld's End
20 fave songs in no order
3 Inches of Blood - Leather Lord
Accept - Twist of Fate
Ascension - Somewhere Back in Time
Bludvera - Terrorform
Cannibal Corpse - Rabid
Dragonforce - Cry Thunder
H.E.A.T - In and Out of Trouble
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Dark Fate of Atlantis
Paradise Lost - Fear of Impending Hell
Poets of the Fall - Morning Tide
Pathfinder - The Day When I Turn Back Time
Sabaton - The Carolean's Prayer
Running Wild - Riding on the Tide
Primal Fear - Where Angels Die
Reinxeed - Stranger Tides
Suicidal Angels - Face of God
Soulfly - Gladiator
West of Hell - Singularity
Xandria - Valentine
Firewind - Few Against Many
