2012 half year list

[Fire breath]

Did you hear/like these ones, which are very good for me?

Devil's Train-s/t (one of my faves of the year)
Jeff Scott Soto-Damage Control
A Sound Of Thunder-Out Of The Darkness
Mad Max-Another Night Of Passion (their heavier and best in years) -
Jettblack-Raining Rock
Ibridoma-Night Club
Savage-Sons Of Malice
Herman Frank-Right In The Guts
Doogie White-As Yet Untitled (most of this is very good, with a couple lesser songs only)

I tried some of these but not into them for various reasons. JSS is the best of those and probably should make my list but it didn't in the end.

 

[espz]

After the long thread and all the reviews, no one mentioned Circus Max's Nine?

 

[MysticX9]

After the long thread and all the reviews, no one mentioned Circus Max's Nine?

Glenn did.

 

[Fire breath]

Thanks, Pirage. Post this on PMX, my man! I will add my own list soon. I have you beat, BTW. You should add genre names as well, if you can be arsed.

Actually I started to write the genres but then got bored and posted as is. However just for you here's my quick genre breakdown. You got more than 99 eh? Your quality control standards must be slipping Frankyboy! Nevermind lol! By the way I've already broken the 100 barrier just today so I'll have to catch up with you. Still waiting for your mammoth 280 odd 2011 write up. Are we getting that in 2013? LOL!


3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal - Power/Trad
Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind - Brutal Death
Accept - Stalingrad - Power/Trad
Adrenaline Mob - Omerta - Modern Metal
After All - Dawn of the Enforcer - Thrash
Aggression - Viocracy - Thrash
Amberian Dawn - Circus Black - Power/Trad
Angelus Apatrida - The Call - Thrash
Ascension - Far Beyond the Stars - Power/Trad
At Vance - Facing Your Enemy - Power/Trad
Axel Rudi Pell - Circle of the Oath - Power/Trad
Before The Dawn - Rise Of The Phoenix - Melodic Death
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life - Old School Death
Bludvera - Terrorform - Thrash
Bonded By Blood - The Aftermath - Thrash
Brute - Sophisticated_Atrocity - Death
Burning Point - The Ignitor - Power/Trad
Cannibal Corpse - Torture - Death
Capracide - Theodicy - Death
Charlie Shred - st - Power/Trad
Coffin Texts - The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual - Death
Damnation Angels - Bringer Of Light
Deadborn - Mayhem Maniac Machine - Death
Derelict - Perpetuation - Melodic Death
Divulgence - Future Seed - Death
Dragonforce - The Power Within - Power/Trad
Dynazty - Sultans Of Sin - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
End Of September - st - Modern Heavy Goth
Eradicator - Madness Is My Name - Thrash
Eternal Dream -The Fall Of Salanthine - Power/Trad
Eternal Of Sweden - Chapter I Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Exumer - Fire & Damnation - Thrash
Fear Factory - The Industrialist - Modern/Industrial
Firewind - Few Against Many - Power/Trad
Flayed Disciple - Death Hammer - Thrash/Death
Freedom Call - Land Of The Crimson Dawn - Power/Trad
Gaia Epicus - Dark Secrets - Power/Trad
Game Over - For Humanity - Thrash
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution - Tech Death
Grand Magus - The Hunt - Power/Trad
H.E.A.T - Address The Nation - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Hardline - Danger Zone - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Hideous Divinity - Obeisance Rising - Death
Horrizon - Time For Revenge - Melodic Death
Ian Anderson - Thick as a brick 2 - Prog Rock
Jaded Heart- Common Destiny - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Janus - Nox Aeris - Modern Rock
Jorn - Brind Heavy Rock to the Land - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Kissin’ Dynamite - Money, Sex & Power - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist - Thrash
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline - Modern Metal
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance - Prog/Power
Light Bringer - Genesis - Power/Trad
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending to Infinity - Power/Trad
Lyriel - Leverage - Power/Trad
Mad Maze - Frames of Alienation - Thrash
Morian - Ashen Empire - Modern Melodic Rock
Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast - Thrash
Napalm Death - Utilitarian - Grindcore
Nightmare - The Burden of God - Power/Trad
Offending - Age of Perversion - Death
Otherwise - True Love Never Dies - Modern Rock
Outloud - More Catastrophe [EP] - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Overkill - The Electric Age - Thrash
Oxygen - Final Warning - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol - Doom/Classic Metal
Pathfinder - Fifth Element - Power/Trad
Pharaoh - Bury The Light - Power/Trad
Poets Of The Fall - Temple Of Thought - Modern Dark Melodic Rock
Primal Fear - Unbreakable - Power/Trad
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression - Tech Death
Rage - 21 - Power/Trad
Reinxeed - Welcome To The Theater - Power/Trad
Revel In Flesh - Deathevokation - Old School Death
Rise To Fall - Defying The Gods - Melodic Death
Running Wild - Shadowmaker - Power/Trad
Sabaton - Carolus Rex - Power/Trad
Sacred Gate - When Eternity Ends - Power/Trad
Scarlet Anger - Dark Reign - Thrash
Shinedown - Amaryllis - Modern Rock
Shores of Elysium - The Arbiter's Clockwork - Melodic Death
Skull Hammer - Destroyers of the Faith - Thrash
Sonic Station - st - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Soulfly - Enslaved - Modern Thrash
Stargate - Beyond Space and Time - Power/Prog
Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath - Thrash
Sunstorm - Emotional Fire - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Tank - War Nation - Classic Metal
Teramaze - Anhedonia - Prog/Thrash
Testimony - Transcending Reality [EP] - Tech Thrash
The Forsaken - Beyond Redemption - Brutal Death
The Veer Union - Divide The Blackened Sky - Modern Rock
Thrashist Regime - Fearful Symmetry - Thrash
Unisonic - st - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
West Of Hell - Spiral Empire - Thrash/power
White Skull - Under This Flag - Power/Trad
Wig Wam - Wall Street - Melodic/Classic/Glam Rock/AOR
Words Of Farewell - Immersion - Melodic Death
Xandria - Neverworld's End - Power/Trad

 

[imaskinbeater]

After the long thread and all the reviews, no one mentioned Circus Max's Nine?

That's because it's in it's own category (#1)

 

[General Zod]

In alphabetical order...

A Sound of Thunder - Out of the Darkness
Christian Mistress - Possession
Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Ihsahn- Eremita
Lamb of God - Resolution
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Orange Goblin - Eulogy for the Damned
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5

 

[labrekk]

Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven

Forgot about the Mustasch. Very good album, their best overall IMO.

 

[zedowns]

Its been pretty good for me so far.

Anathema - Weather Systems
Circus Maximus - Nine
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
Sigur Ros - Valtari
The Omega Experiment - The Omega Experiment
Southern Cross - From Tragedy
Ne Obliviscaris - Portals of I
House of Fools - Versus the Beast
mewithoutYou - Ten Stories
Lord of Mushrooms - Perspectives
Suspyre - Susypre
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Ihsahn - Eremita

 

[johnfrank1970]

Actually I started to write the genres but then got bored and posted as is. However just for you here's my quick genre breakdown. You got more than 99 eh? Your quality control standards must be slipping Frankyboy! Nevermind lol! By the way I've already broken the 100 barrier just today so I'll have to catch up with you. Still waiting for your mammoth 280 odd 2011 write up. Are we getting that in 2013? LOL!

I am at 124 so far. All albums are only of the highest quality.

Thanks for the genre breakdown. I will post my 2012 list fairly soon, I think. Listening to a few more albums first.

My mammoth 2011 writeup? Who the hell knows? It is so damn daunting.

 

[Oblivion Ocean]

Off the top of my head here is the stuff I have listened to the most this year.

Damnnation Angels - Bringer of Light (one of the best prog metal debut I can remember)
Sonata Arctica - Stones Grow Her Name
Shadows Fall - Fire From the Sky
Rush - Clockwork Angels
The Night Flight Orchestra - Internal Affairs
Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
Flying Colors - ST
Circus Maximus - Nine
Epica - Requium for the Indifferent
Effloresce - Coma Ghosts

 

[General Zod]

Damnation Angels- Bringer of Light
Damnations Day- Invisible, the Dead
Nightmare- The Burden of God
Oddland- The Treachery of Senses
Teodor Tuff- Soliloquy

Just checked out your list. These are those I need to investigate further. Gracias.

 

[johnfrank1970]

Ugh. My mom is visiting us, so I don't have the time to get through the albums I wanted to check out before posting, nor did I add genre descriptors for many of the listed titles. Anyway, my list of 125 releases for 2012 is below. Before that is my short list that I have not gotten to yet.

Have not gotten to these yet:

Bonded by Blood - The Aftermath
Comus - Out of the Coma
Cripper - Antagonist
Deathspell Omega - Drought EP
Forte - Unholy War
Ophidian I - Solvet Saeclum
Periphery - Periphery II
Prayers of Sanity - Confrontations
Serj Tankian - Harakiri
The Forsaken - Beyond Redemption

Recommended releases for 2012 so far (125)

1945 - Restless EP /
4arm - Submission for Liberty / modern thrash
A Catalyst for Destruction - Inexorable Authority
Abnormality - Contaminating the Hive Mind
Adrenaline Mob - Omerta / mainstream metal
Aerodyne Flex - Transmissions
Affector - Harmageddon
After All - Dawn of the Enforcer
Aggression - Viocracy / thrash
Agresiva - Eternal Foe
Akaname - s/t
Akphaezya - Anthology IV (?)
Algebra - Polymorph
Algol - Complex Shapes (?)
Allegaeon - Formshifter
Angelus Apatrida - The Call / thrash
Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone
Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous / complex death
Blessed Curse - s/t / thrash
Blinded by Faith - Chernobyl Survivor
Blinded in Bliss - Constancy
Bloodshot Dawn - s/t / thrashy death
Bludvera - Terrorform EP / thrash
Capracide - Theodicy
Casketgarden - The Estrangement Process / thrashy death
Circus Maximus - Nine
Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
De Lirium's Order - Veniversum / thrashy death
De Profundis - Emptiness Within
Deadborn - Mayhem Maniac Machine / death
Deals Death - Elite
Derelict - Perpetuation / death
Disaffected - Rebirth
Dissona - s/t
Divulgence - Future Seed
Dynazty - Sultans of Sin / hair metal
Effloresce - Coma Ghosts
Eluveitie - Helvetios / melodeath
End of September - s/t
Engel - Blood of Saints
Eradicator - Madness Is My Name
Exumer - Fire and Damnation / thrash
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
Flayed Disciple - Death Hammer
Frater - Into the Light
Game Over - For Humanity / thrash
Gods of Eden - s/t (?)
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution / complex death
Gory Blister - Earth-Sick / death
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Heaven Below - Falling from Zero / hair metal
Hess & Franzen - ClosedLockedSealed
Hour of Penance - Sedition
Hung - s/t /
Ihsahn - Eremita
Imbalance - Readymade Contraptions of Descent EP
Jettblack - Raining Rock
Job for a Cowboy - Demonocracy / complex death
Kadavrik - N.O.A.H.
Keith Merrow - Retrospecial
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance / prog metal
Lifecurse - Prophecies / deathcore
Mad Maze - Frames of Alienation / thrash
Malrun - The Empty Frame / melopowerdeath
Martyrd - The Mortal Coil
Meridian - s/t EP
Mordax - Violence Fraud Treachery
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Netherward - BloodMeal
New Eden - Solving for X / American power metal
Nowen - Essence of Fear / thrashy death
Oddland - The Treachery of Senses /
Orange Goblin - Eulogy for the Damned / traditional metal
Outcast - Awaken the Reason / complex death
Pharaoh - Bury the Light / American power metal
Prong - Carved into Stone / groove metal
Protest - The Corruption Code
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression / complex death
Rage - 21 / power metal
Rager - Image of Fear EP
Ram - Death / traditional metal
Ram-Zet - Freaks in Wonderland / eclectic metal
Rapid Dominance - Premonition EP /
Re-Armed - Worldwide Hypnotize /
Savage Messiah - Plague of Conscience / thrash
Scarlet Anger - Dark Reign
Sectu - Gerra
Serocs - So on and So Forth
Shores of Elysium - The Arbiter's Clockwork
Sicocis - s/t
Skull Hammer - Destroyers of the Faith / thrash
Slash - Apocalyptic Love
Soen - Cognitive / mainstream metal
Spawn of Possession - Incurso / complex death
Spike the Tomb - Gods Be Forgotten EP
Steel Assassin - WWII: Metal of Honor
Steelwing - Zone of Alienation / traditional metal
Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath / thrash
Suspyre - s/t / prog metal
Syopsis - Dimensions of an Underlying Race EP /
Tantara - Based on Evil
Teodor Tuff - Soliloquy
Teramaze - Anhedonia / American power metal
Testimony – Transcending Reality / thrash
The Catalyst - Origins / thrash
The Day of Remission - Charity Dies EP (?) / deathcore
The Isosceles Project - Bridges EP
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet / prog rock
The Safety Fire - Grind the Ocean / progcore
This Cold Life - Ascent of the Fallen /
Thrashist Regime - Fearful Symmetry / thrash
Throne of Heresy - The Stench of Deceit /
Tracedawn - Lizard Dusk
Traitor - Scorching the Surface of Infinity EP / thrash
Unbodied - s/t
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth / hard rock
Vindicator - United We Fall
West of Hell - Spiral Empire /
Wig Wam - Wall Street
Will O Wisp - Kosmo /
Wolfen - Chapter IV /
Wyruz - Fire at Will /
Xenocide - Galactic Oppression / complex death

 

[broegaard]

Some - no order

This cold life, Xandria, Accept, Unisonic, Before the Dawn, Eluvietie, Kreator

 

[MelbCro]

Death Grips - The Money Store
The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Hot Water Music - Exister
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Liberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees
Blessed By a Broken Heart - Feel the Power
7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes of Absolution
Primal Rock Rebellion - Awoken Broken
Xerxes - Our Home is a Deathbed
Christian Mistress - Possession
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
Meshuggah - Koloss
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Pale Divine - Painted Windows Black
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Light Asylum - Light Asylum

Still need to let the new Rush sink in. Really enjoying that one. Also need to check out the new Änglagård.

Hold up, Änglagård have released a new album? Holy shit

 

[Taliwakker]

Van Halen, Circus Maximus, The Omega Experiment are the 3 standouts so far for me.

 

[MetalJen]

For me it has to be Evil Masquerade - Pentagram. If you like Firewind you should check this album out - hopefully you'll like the music as well, but Apollo's voice will blow you away! He's one of my all time favourite singers, but to me he's never sounded this good before.

 

[mattbrood]

alphabetical order of what I've heard so far:

Accept - Stalingrad
Affector - Harmagedon
Anathema - Weather Systems
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real
Astra - The Black Chord
Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man & The Spirit
Circus Maximus - Nine
Crystal Viper - Crimen Excepta
Delain - We Are The Others
Dimension Act - Manifestation of Progresss
DSO - Pandora's Pinata
End of September - End of September
Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
Hemina - Synthetic
Huntress - Spell Eater
Iron Fire - Voyage of the Damned
Kontrust - Secondhand Wonderland
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance
Mirrormaze - Walkabout
A Sound of Thunder - Out of The Darkness
Tornado - Amsterdamn, Hellsinki
Xandria - Neverworld's End

 

[General Zod]

Recommended releases for 2012 so far (125)

Just curious... how much time do you spend listening to music?

 

[johnfrank1970]

Just curious... how much time do you spend listening to music?

I listen to music when working, driving (as long as the wife is not in the car), walking the dog. Basically, whenever I am not interacting with someone directly, I can listen to music if I so desire.

New releases do occasionally make my list of all-time faves, but those are usually in my top 5 of that given year. I am perfectly okay with albums being just worthwhile. Though I would gladly trade every rethrash album I own for even one of my beloved classic thrash albums, I do not have to make that choice. And even though I love that classic thrash album, I really don't want to listen to it all the time. I am addicted to seeking out music that is new to me, even if the style is very old.

I used to lament buying a CD, listening to it several times during its year of release and then letting it sit on a shelf for years. This no longer bothers me for a few reasons.

(1) I like novelty and variety. I realize that I usually prefer to hear something that I don't know by heart. In order for things to be novel, I must constantly acquire new discs. Novelty fades, leaving many discs less valuable to me, but they have still provided value. As I revisited discs this year, I proved to myself that most of these discs still retain some value even though they have not been played for years.

(2) The cost of a CD is slightly more than eating lunch at a restaurant and slightly less than seeing a movie in the theater while munching on popcorn and drinking pop. Eating at restaurants and seeing movies are time-limited experiences, but a CD is the gift that keeps on giving. Plus, I am supporting the musicians that create something I love. Why would I lament the cost of a CD given the other targets for my expendable income?

 

[Fire breath]

It's funny John, cause people always ask you that question and you always have this same answer! You must have it saved on one of your posts on PMX and one copy and paste later and voila we have the answer!

Personally speaking I don't have to constantly play an album to like it a lot. I don't need constant confirmation of the usefulness of the music that I like. For example I'll play an album and really enjoy it for the first time and think yeah these guys are good and note the album as good for me and I might not even play it a handful of times more in the same year. This is not the norm however it is possible cause I have my stronger faves and those tend to get more airtime. It's probably seen as a fault and a craze by others who don't have the urge to hear new music and like to absorb the same album for a long time rather than move on. I tend to agree it is a slight craze to be like this but I put it more to my broad taste. One more thing I'll reveal about my listening habits. It's very very very rare for me to listen to previous year's music in any given year. It might happen to some songs that I love, but I don't think I have listened to one full 2011 album in 2012 that I recall. I don't have any 2011 music on my ipod and I don't listen to the CDs I bought from 2011 and don't have the urge even though I consider 2011 an amazing year personally as far as music goes. As for the amount of time spent listening to music it's probably not actually that much. Maybe 2-3 hours a day during the week and 4-5 hours a day during the weekend.