Black Metal.

[divine_torture]

Thought Gehenna was fairly well known/respected, underground wise, I mean.

We're all elitist fags, though.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Thought Gehenna was fairly well known/respected, underground wise, I mean.

I guess I'm just not that cool.

 

[brooks55]

Lunar Aurora & Kawir win the 2012 awards IMO. I think I have listened to the most relevant 2012 releases, and nothing can touch those.

 

[AllShallFall]

great stuff:

 

[Bitencourt29]

^ The new Winterfylleth is a good album.

 

[Mort Divine]

Lunar Aurora & Kawir win the 2012 awards IMO. I think I have listened to the most relevant 2012 releases, and nothing can touch those.

Dar De Duh?

 

[brooks55]

Dar De Duh?

Would make my top 5 black metal releases of the year, but no. I like the Kawir & Lunar Aurora a lot more.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Dar De Pooh is more liek it amirite?

Mgla - With Hearts Toward None wins my 2012 black metal of the year.

 

[KafkaX]

There are still a lot of releases I still have yet to listen to, but Manetheren - Time and Kawir - Isotheos are the top holders for me so far.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Random observation: I seriously fucking love those "desolate" album covers like the Trist and Gehenna covers up there.

 

[Bitencourt29]

Mgla - With Hearts Toward None wins my 2012 black metal of the year.

Yeah, the best 2012 BM I've listened to so far.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Yeah I'd go for "With Hearts Toward None" so far, but there's a good amount of stuff I haven't listened to yet.

 

[Bitencourt29]

Same here, still got a lot of stuff to listen to.

This is among my favorite 2012 BM albums as well:

 

[Krow]

Regardless of how great anything else is, I'll most likely listen to A Shadowplay for Yesterday's far more than anything else released this year. Lots of good bm released this year though

 

[Bitencourt29]

Found and ordered a copy of the new Furia (Pol). Considering the quality of their material I expect this one to make my 2012 best albums list.

 

[Raina]

^ speaking of Polish, I've discovered a damn good BM band! They only have one Ep in 2011, so I'm waiting to see what else they come up with...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVrtxkHWjAg&noredirect=1[/ame]

 

[Bitencourt29]

^ Never heard of them, sounds good to me, very promising.

 

[divine_torture]

That wasn't bad, but lacked anything to set it apart from any other band in the genre. Meh.

 

[Astrum]

Dying to remember the name of a beautiful black metal band from France I know for a fact is popular on this forum. I could have sworn it was Trist, but then of course theres no French Trist and I already know of the German and Czech bands...off to scourge the rec forum to see if I can spot a familiar name.

french, extremely beautiful, somewhat "ambient", "atmospheric", "depressive"

 

[ASD]

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