Best of 2012...so far

[Krilons Resa]

So we are past the midway point of 2012. What have been your favorite releases of the year so far? No genre parameters; if it excites your nether regions, I wanna know about it!

 

[Agalloch]

Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Meshuggah - Koloss
Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

Those three come to mind.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I still have to listen to that Agalloch. [/slacker]

 

[Dick Sirloin]

JULIA HOLTER - Ekstasis
LIARS - WIXIW
DIIV - Oshin

 

[dorian gray]

I was beginning to think you'd been Van der Slooted

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Nile (duh)
Dying Fetus
Spawn of Possession
I enjoy the newest Psycroptic, but those other 3 are far beyond it.
I really dont have a lot of 2012 disks.
im always behind on music

 

[Krilons Resa]

Metal

Meshuggah - Koloss
Goatwhore - Blood For The Master

Non-Metal

Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III
Steve Lehman Trio - Dialectic Flourescent

 

[Dick Sirloin]

My list is looking like this right now:

1. SWANS - The Seer
2. JULIA HOLTER - Ekstasis
3. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Centipede Hz
4. BAT FOR LASHES - The Haunted Man
5. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Epicloud + Epiclouder
6. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
7. DIIV - Oshin
8. DEAD CAN DANCE - Anastasis
9. KILLER MIKE - R.A.P. Music
10. SPIRITUALIZED - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

...and a few more on the way that I'm psyched about (Big Boi, Prince Rama, Cemeteries, The Soft Moon, Emeralds, Scott Walker, etc.)

BANDS I ALREADY LIKED THAT ALSO RELEASED GOOD TO VERY GOOD ALBUMS THIS YEAR: Lunar Aurora, Comus, Agalloch, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala, Kayo Dot, Liars, Beach House and a few more I can't remember right now.

2012 has ruled hard.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Angles 8 - By Way Of Deception (Live In Ljubljana)
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
Steve Lehman Trio - Dialectic Flourescent
Tim Berne - Snakeoil
Red Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - All There Ever Out
Anglagard - Viljans Oga
Om - Advaitic Songs
Goatwhore - Blood For The Master
Meshuggah - Koloss
Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall
Anathema - Weather Systems
Buried Sleeper - Colosseum
Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunders Roar
Hesper Payne - The Strange Tale Of Samuel Gonzalez
Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was...Liber II
Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World
Propagandhi - Failed States
Witchcraft - Legend
Swans - The Seer
Colour Haze - She Said
Lords of Bastard - Cuddles
Hangman's Chair - Hope///Dope///Rope
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Horseback - Half Blood
GAZA - No Absolutes In Human Suffering
Galaxicon - Old Gods

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World

This makes me sad.

 

[ChaosLee]

Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges <--- brilliant goddamn album

 

[General Zod]

A Sound of Thunder - Out of the Darkness
Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone
Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Icarus Witch - Rise
In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Lamb of God - Resolution
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Marillion - Sounds that Can't Be Made
Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven
Oddland - The Treachery of Sense
Orange Goblin - Eulogy for the Damned
Savage Messiah - Plague Of Conscience
Summoner - Phoenix
Teodor Tuff - Soliloquy
Testament - Dark Roots of the Earth
Witchcraft - Legend
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5

 

[einride]

A Sound of Thunder - Out of the Darkness
Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone
Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Icarus Witch - Rise
In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Lamb of God - Resolution
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Marillion - Sounds that Can't Be Made
Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven
Oddland - The Treachery of Sense
Orange Goblin - Eulogy for the Damned
Savage Messiah - Plague Of Conscience
Teodor Tuff - Soliloquy
Testament - Dark Roots of the Earth
Witchcraft - Legend
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5

yo do you realize it is your reco week right now

 

[Krilons Resa]

This makes me sad.

Weep on broseph.

Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges <--- brilliant goddamn album

Fuckin' A.

yo do you realize it is your reco week right now

 

[Krilons Resa]

I still need to listen to that new Orange Goblin.

 

[refraction]

Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunders Roar
Aldaaron - Suprême Silence
Borknagar - Urd
Sear Bliss - Eternal Recurrence
Eluveitie - Helvetios
St. Vitus - Lillie F65

Im sure Im forgetting a few... 2012 has been a good year to be a metalhead.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Wait. So Doomy. You're saying that the new DMB > The Seer???

We need to talk.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Wait. So Doomy. You're saying that the new DMB > The Seer???

We need to talk.

That list is in NO WAY in any kind of order.

 

[General Zod]

yo do you realize it is your reco week right now

Actually... no. I'll get on it.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

That list is in NO WAY in any kind of order.

I know damn well you ninja-edited it in there