Official Your FavoUrite Albums of 2012 Thread

[Krilons Resa]

....List pending.

Necromunchkin...repost here.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Metal Albums

1 - Vaura - Selenelion
2 - Dysrythmia - Test of Submission
3 - Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
4 - Hangman's Chair - Hope///Dope///Rope
5 - Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpent's Scale
6 - Witch Mountain - Cauldron Of The Wild
7 - Sonance - Like Ghosts
8 - Witchcraft - Legend
9 - Goatwhore - Blood For The Master
10 - Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
11 - Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering
12 - Pigs - You Ruin Everything
13 - Dephosphorus - Night Sky Transform
14 - Om - Advaitic Songs
15 - Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir
16 - Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was...Liber II
17 - Galaxicon - Old Gods
18 - Dead Instrument - Violent Death
19 - Grave Siesta - S/T
20 - Buried Sleeper - Colosseum
21 - Meshuggah - Koloss
22 - Family - Portrait
23 - Melvins - Freak Puke
24 - Horseback - Halfblood
25 - Stinking Lizaveta - 7th Direction


Metal Demos/EP's

Hesper Payne - Strange Tale of Samuel Gonzalez
Aleph Null - Dale
Melvins - Bulls & Bees

Non-Metal Albums

Goat - World Music (Tribal/Afrobeat/Krautrock/Psychedelic/Folk)
Thinking Plague - Decline and Fall (RIO)
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel (Experimental Pop)
Angles 8 - By Way of Deception (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III (Modern/Avant Jazz)
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Steve Lehman Trio - Dialectic Fluorescent (Modern Jazz)
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - All There, Ever Out (Avant-Garde Jazz)
Red Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem (Avant/Free Jazz)
Tim Berne - Snakeoil (Modern/Avant Jazz)
Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World (Pop)

 

[NAD]

Dordeduh, Old Man Gloom, and Agalloch blew my fragile little mind.

Probably 10 other honoUrable mentions not necessarily worth mentioning.

 

[ChaosLee]

A lot of this is translating into "What I listened to most often" but whatever, here's what I've gotten most out of this year. Special nod to Ken for multiple finds here.
Edit- Hivesmasher added

Napalm Death "Utilitarian"
Ash Borer - "Cold of Ages"
Black Breath "Sentenced to Life"
Blut Aus Nord - "Cosmosophy"
Goatwhore - "Blood For The Master"
High on Fire "De Vermis Mysteriis"
Mutilation Rites - "Empyrean"
Hivesmasher "Gutter Choir"
Dragged Into Sunlight "Widowmaker" Nachtmystium "Silencing Machine"
Ne Obliviscaris "The Portal of I"
Martyrdod "Paranoia"
Wodensthrone "Curse"
Devin Townsend "Epicloud"
Lunar Aurora - "Hoagascht"
Dephosphorus - "Transform Night Sky"
Overkill - "Electric Age"

Non-Metal
Mary Halvorson Quintet - "Bending Bridges" SWANS - "The Seer"
Fiona Apple - "The Idler Wheel"
Propagandhi - "Failed States"
The Mt Fuji Doomjazz Corporation -"Egor"
Slow Machete - "Evening Dust Choir"

 

[Reign in Acai]

Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Dordeduh-Dar de Duh
Neurosis-Honor Found in Decay
Master's Hammer - Vracejte konve na místo

Heh, no fn clue.

Absolute favorite albums discovered this year weren't even from this year. Rebreather - No. 4 and Fall of Efrafa - Inle


Making a New Year's Resolution to pick up 1-2 new albums a month.

 

[einride]

1. queensrÿche - the warning

 

[Ars Magna]

This is all that comes to mind at the moment:

MGLA - With Hearts Toward None
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
Asphyx - Deathhammer

 

[theoden236]

top picks for 2012 (no order):

1. Wodensthrone - Curse
2. Sear Bliss - Eternal Recurrence
3. Borknagar - Urd
4. Wintersun - Time I
5. Manetheren - Time
6. Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
7. Dodecahedron - s/t
8. Secrets of the Moon - Seven Bells
9. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
10. Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
11. A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
12. Devilish Impressions - Simulacra
13. The Water Witch - The Heavens in Traction
14. Ihsahn - Eremita
15. Candlemass - Psalms for the Dead
16. Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever
17. Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine
18. Khonsu- Anomalia
19. God Seed - I Begin
20. Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel
21. Enslaved - RIITIR

enjoyed, but need to revisit:
Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
Blut Aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy
Meshuggah - Koloss
Ashborer - Cold of Ages

glad i avoided:
Geoff Tate - Kings & Thieves

 

[swizzlenuts]

Where the fuck is everyone's Dodsengel?

 

[Disgustipated]

I have not heard any of the albums mentioned thus far. This upsets me.

 

[NAD]

I still have a few unopened 2012 albums I bought earlier this year.

...

Hmm.

I still have a few unopened 1983 albums I bought earlier this year.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Where the fuck is everyone's Dodsengel?

I still need to get around to hearing the whole album.

 

[Ars Magna]

I have not heard any of the albums mentioned thus far. This upsets me.

I've heard very few. It was a slow year for new releases for this guy. I feel shame.

 

[einride]

ok realtalk time. there is so little i've listened enough to, as usual. but these are likely to be on the list:

vemod - venter på stormene
vetter - vetterkult
katatonia - dead end kings
ne obliviscaris - portal of i
dordeduh - dar de duh
dødsengel - imperator
antimatter - fear of a unique identity

NOTE TO SELF: REMEMBER TO LISTEN MORE TO:
saturnus - saturn in ascension
evoken - atra mors
worship - terranean wake
kontinuum - earth blood magic
murw - kanker
mgla - with hearts towards none

blah blah blah

 

[dorian gray]

I havent heard a single one of these albums. I, like NAD, was busy buying albums from 20 years ago.

 

[refraction]

Theres no way Ill get everything, but heres a few. 2012 was a damn good year.

Fuzz Manta - Vortex Memplex
A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Secrets of the Moon - Seven Bells
Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever
Sear Bliss - Eternal Recurrence
Borknagar - Urd
Stoned Jesus - Im the Mountain
The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
Dawn of Disease - Crypts of the Unrotten
Swallow the Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
St. Vitus - Lillie: F-65
Beardfish - The Void

 

[Ellestin]

Ellestin's official 2012 Top 10

1. Proclamation - Nether Tombs of Abaddon
2. Borknagar - Urd
3. Canaan - Of Prisoners, Wandering Souls and Cruel Fears
4. Deathspell Omega - Drought
5. Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
6. Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel
7. Monolithe - Monolithe III
8. Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
9. Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay
10. Sturmpercht/Rauhnacht - Zur ew'gen Ruh

Almost there...

Blut aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
Witchrist - The Grand Tormentor
Desiderii Marginis - Procession

A few more spins and maybe...

Mutilation Rites - Empyrean
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Dordeduh - Dildo Duh

 

[NAD]

I probably won't like the new Katatonia until the next one comes up. That's how it has been their last few albums for me.

I forgot about the new Deathspell Omega. It's really god damn good, I usually listen to it a couple of times in a row, so that's a great sign.

The new Neurosis is very good. So is the new Drudkh. I am looking forward to exploring the Ne Obliviscaris album.

I liked the Great Old Ones a good bit. I will purchase the new Antimatter soon. I should probably get Witch Mountain.

There are probably 10 albums that Doomcifer told me to buy that I have not yet, but that happens every year really.

My favoUrite album this year is The Swan Road because that's the only Drudkh I never picked up until very recently, turns out it's amazing.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

damn there's a ton of stuff I need to check out

The few that I own are...
Nile (awesome)
Dying Fetus (awesome)
Spawn of Possession (awesome)
the Forsaken (awesome)
Testament (not good)
Psycroptic (decent)
the Hobbit soundtrack (duh, awesome)
Wintersun (meh, first is much better)
Hour of Penance (decent)
Overkill (pretty cool)
Dawn of Demise (not bad, need more listens)
Cannibal Corpse (eh, its ok)

 

[Krilons Resa]

Where the fuck is everyone's Dodsengel?

I'm pretty sure I have some in my medicine cabinet.