Top Albums Of 2012

[phantomfreak]

It's time for the obligatory albums of the year lists. There were a lot of really good albums this year and it took quite a while to narrow down the list to 15.

Honorable Mentions

Antimatter - Fear Of A Unique Identity
The Cruxshadows - As The Dark Against My Halo
Kamelot - Silverthorn


Top 15

15) Garbage - Not Your Kind Of People
14) Armonight - Tales From The Heart
13) When Nothing Remains - As All Torn Asunder
12) Eliphasz - Le Royaume Des Poussieres
11) Alcest - Les Voyages De L'ame
10) Vintersorg - Orkan
9) Wintersun - Time I
8) Borknagar - Urd
7) Unisonic - Unisonic
6) Lethian Dreams - Season Of Raven Words
5) Worm Ouroboros - Come The Thaw
4) Dokken - Broken Bones
3) Christian Mistress - Possession
2) The Gathering - Disclosure
1) Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

So what were your favorites.

 

[shredsofautumn]

Woods 5 and Wintersun: Time take it for me. However, i don't think i ever shared this with you guys. Here's my list of my favorite Autumn-influenced albums on my blog. Check it out. Let me know what you agree/disagree with. Didn't go too far underground with it, just the obvious. http://jackylantern.blogspot.com/

 

[matt schrauben]

In no particular order:

Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
Eluveitie - Helvetios
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Sonata Arctica - Stones Grow Her Name
Borknagar - Urd
Cannibal Corpse - Torture

 

[orcslayr23]

In no order:

Kamelot: Silverthorn
Woods of Ypres: Woods 5
Katatonia: Dead End Kings
Poets of the Fall: Temple of Thought
Meshuggah: Koloss
Paradise Lost: Tragic Idol
Mnemic: Mnemesis
ORCumentary: Praise Gor-Nacular! EP

I have a feeling I missed a couple.

Disappointments of the year:

Elvenking - Era
Firewind - Few Against Many

 

[shredsofautumn]

paradise lost, eluveitie, and katatonia killed it this year!

 

[zekeyou]

1. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
2. Baroness - Yellow and Green
3. Enslaved - RIITIIR
4. Anathema - Weather Systems
5. Accept - Stalingrad
6. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
7 - Rush - Clockwork Angels
8 . Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
9. Christian Mistress - Possession
10. Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
11. Asphyx - Deathhammer
12. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
13. Corrosion of Confromity - Corrosion of Conformity
14. Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones
15. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

 

[Murvudd]

1) Woods of Ypres - Grey Skies & Electric Light
2) The Agonist - Prisoners
3) Serj Tankian - Harakiri
4) Eluveitie - Helvetios
5) Stone Sour - House Of Gold And Bones, Part 1
6) All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win

 

[The Black Death]

In no particular order...

Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Wintersun - Time I
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Vintersorg - Orkan
Wodensthrone - Curse
Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
Overkill - The Electric Age
Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine
Moonspell - Alpha Noir - Omega White

 

[Miltbrand]

This is hard, but I think this is it. The top 5 are extremely hard to place!

1. Deep Dark Woods - The Place I Left Behind
2. Altar Of Oblivion - Grand Gesture Of Defiance
3. Denial Of God - Death And The Beyond
4. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
5. Woods Of Ypres - Woods V (although this album has more emotional value than any other album ever will. I hope!)
6. The Gathering - Disclosure
7. Shining - Redefining Darkness
8. Burzum - Umskiptar
9. Forgotten Tomb - ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil
10. My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures

 

[Inis Mona]

1. Woods of Ypres - Woods V (of course! And it was last music album I've heard in 2012)
2. Eluveitie - The early years.
3. Eluveitie - Helvetios.
4. Sabaton - Carolus Rex.
5. Saltatio Mortis - Sturm aufs Paradies (even despite the fact that album is 2011 :3 ).
6. Korpiklaani - Manala.
7. Krampus - Survival of the Fittest.
8. Raubtier - Från Norrland Till Helvetets Port.

Something like that x)

 

[Darth Grimby]

Great lists! I rushed to do my list for the BWBK forum, so this may change over the next month:

1. Woods of Ypres - V: Grey Skies & Electric Light
2. Steelwing - Zone of Alienation
3. Helcaraxë - Red Dragon
4. Eluveitie - Helvetios
5. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal
6. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
7. Soulfly - Enslaved
8. Paradox - Tales of the Weird
9. Testament - The Dark Roots of Earth
10. Korpiklaani - Manala
11. Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost
12. Ascension - Far Beyond The Stars
13. Gaia Epicus - Dark Secrets
14. Black Moor - Lethal Waters
15. Overkill - The Electric Age

 

[Illnath]

01: Woods of Ypres - Grey skies and electric light.
02: Barren Earth - The Devils Resolve.
03: Saturnus - Saturn in Acension.
04: In Mourning - The weight of the Ocean.
05: Katatonia - Dead End Kings.
06: Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming
07: Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph
08: Anathema - Weather Systems
09: Finsterforst - Rastlos
10: Soulfallen - The promise of Hell.
11: Ereb Altor - Gasstrike
12: Vintersorg - Orkan.

Good but not amazing.

Obscurity - S/T
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Alcest - Les Voyages de L'Âme
Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées

Disapointing Albums

Before the Dawn - Rise of the Phoenix
Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

 

[JeiSiN]

1. Woods of Ypres - Grey Skies and Electic Light [obviously. Listening to the promo copy of the album the day after David Gold died was a listening experience like no other before it or ever again.]
2. O'Brother - Garden Window
3. Enslaved – RIITIIR
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust
5. Alcest - La Voyages de L'Ame
6. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
7. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubilees
8. Iroha - Shepherds & Angels
9. A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
10. Marilyn Manson - Born Villain[(Fuck Manson. Needed 2 or 3 heavy songs to make it complete, but still top 10 cause I listened the shit out of it]
11. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
12. Amenra - Mass V
13. Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
14. Nontinuum - The Stars You Gathered
15. Royal Thunder – CVI
16. Asphyx – Deathammer
17. Brutality Will Prevail - Scatter The Ashes
18. Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black
19. Sybreed - God Is An Automation
20. Between The Buried and Me - The Paralax II