Music of 2012

isn't sigh that asian symphonic black metal band that sounds like cradle of filth on drugs?

They do have two symphonic black metal albums, with avant garde spins...drug abuse can certainly be thought of pertaining to the music...and they are Asian. But the cradle reference is unforgivable. I slap ye.
 
In no particular order:

Asphyx - Deathhammer
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Nile - At the gate of sethu
Puteraeon - Cult Cthulu
Nekromantheon - Rise, Vulcan Spectre
Overkill - The Electric Age
Unleashed - Odalheim
Gospel of the horns - Cermonial conjuration
Desaster - The arts of destruction
Tankard - A girl called cerveza
The Grotesquery - Tsathoggua tales

Disappointments so far include:

Marduk - serpent sermon
Testament - dark roots of the earth
Iced earth - dystopia

And then there are some decent and ok records that I do not care to mention :)
 
I will probably add something later but this is what I can remember right now...

Anathema - Weather Systems (Much better than WHBWH imo)
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme (Band-discovery of the year, fantastic album!)
Meshuggah - Koloss
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird (Not as good as New Moon)

Only heard a few tracks but looks like a killer release...
Inborn Suffering - Regression to Nothingness



Overall I think its hard to find good music these days.
 
In no particular order:

Asphyx - Deathhammer
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Nile - At the gate of sethu
Puteraeon - Cult Cthulu
Nekromantheon - Rise, Vulcan Spectre
Overkill - The Electric Age
Unleashed - Odalheim
Gospel of the horns - Cermonial conjuration
Desaster - The arts of destruction
Tankard - A girl called cerveza
The Grotesquery - Tsathoggua tales

Disappointments so far include:

Marduk - serpent sermon
Testament - dark roots of the earth
Iced earth - dystopia

And then there are some decent and ok records that I do not care to mention :)

Out of curiosity what disappointed you about Serpent Sermon? I can see it not making a top ten, but disappointing has me a bit confused. I want specifics pweeeeeassse.