Album(s) of the Year: 2012

[IamSatai]

Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (and Epiclouder)
Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

I would love to say Time I as well, as I have been waiting so very long for it, but it is just not my kind of music anymore. I still really enjoy the album, but isn't quite an album of the year.

I feel rather disappointed with this year. 2011 was a far better year for me, I can think of 7 or 8 of my favorite albums which are from 2011 off the top off my head. Also, many of the albums I was hoping for this year won't be out until next year. I am looking forward to the 2013 releases, I'm hoping for a better year next year.

 

[MerlinTKD]

Meshuggah - Koloss
Periphery - II: This Time It's Personal
Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Deftones - Koi No Yokan

These are albums I listened to repeatedly without getting bored, and keep coming back to. KNY has been in my car CD player non-stop since it came out, I might have to give it the edge (of course, it's the newest).

 

[Ralyks]

So far, I just know that Periphery II is getting my top honors. It was pretty much the soundtrack to my summer and has gotten more spins than any other record this year.

Still need to digest more records before I can come up with my final list.

 

[celticelk]

I still haven't picked up a bunch of 2012 releases that interest me, but so far the group that's holding up is:

Baroness
Samothrace
Eagle Twin
Eluveitie

And some non-metal stuff:
Anais Mitchell
Bill Laswell: Means of Deliverance
Earth

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

Got mine!

The Faceless - Autotheism (At last they returned!!!)
Wintersun - Time I
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
The Word Alive - Life Cycles
Upon This Dawning - To Keep Us Safe (Amazing guys! It was great seeing them live twice in the past few weeks! And they are the coolest, nicest dudes to chat with.)
Periphery - Periphery II
Between the Buried and Me - Parallax II
Meshuggah - Koloss (Who doesn't love Meshuggah?)
The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
Upon a Burning Body - Red. White. Green.
Deftones - Koi No Yokan (This album set it off from start to finish!)
Veil of Maya - Eclipse
Cradle of Filth - Midnight In the Labyrinth (orchestral renditions of their best songs from their back catalogue! AMAZING!)

 

[Dwellingers]

Deftones - Koi no yokan
Cannibal Corpse - torture
Soundgarden - King Animal
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Psycroptic - The Inherited repression
Deathspell Omega - Drought
Death Comes Pale - World Grave

 

[RiffRaff]

Haji's Kitchen - 2012
(So glad these guys are back making music )

The Faceless - Autotheism

 

[blister7321]

Tremonti> all i was
Kris Roe of the ataris> hang your head in hope acoustic album

 

[Bauer91]

Between the Buried and Me- The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Meshuggah- Koloss
Gojira- L'Enfant Sauvage
Periphery- Periphery II
Baroness- Yellow & Green
Rush- Clockwork Angels
Steve Vai- The Story of Light
Trioscapes- Seperate Realities
Om- Advaitic Songs

I've yet to properly listen to quite a few more that'll probably end up being on my list though.

 

[Hankey]

Lots of good stuff came out this year .

My number 1:

Every Time I Die - Ex Lives

Other favourites:

Periphery - Periphery II
Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise
Whitechapel - Whitechapel
The Safety Fire - Grind The Ocean

 

[BucketheadRules]

Necrophagist's new alb... OH WAIT.

 

[BucketheadRules]

Anyway.









And this... which is just incredible.

 

[Djent]

1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels
3. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
4. BTBAM - Parallax II
5. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives

/thread

 

[TheFerryMan]

The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
Periphery - Periphery II
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
The Safety Fire - Grind The Ocean
Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Call me No one - Last Parade
Dark New Day - New Tradition
DTP - Epicloud

also, I'm a genius. i forgot
Converge - All we love we leave behind

 

[StevenC]

Banks of Eden by The Flower Kings or Lingua Franca by T.R.A.M. get my vote.

 

[SirMyghin]

Rush - Clockwork angels

Probably the only 2012 album I purchased this year, didn't see anything else I had to buy right the hell now.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Nile - Sethu
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Pathology - The Time of Great Purification
Resurgency - False Enlightenment
the Forsaken - Beyond Redemption

damn, there are a few I'd like to mention because they came out so late lastyear.
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Dragonland - Under the Gray Banner

and holy crap im way behind on black metal

 

[Sikthness]

Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Tree of Tongues #1
The Safety Fire - GTO
The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Gorod - Perfect Absolution
Car Bomb - ^v^v^v^v or whatever the hell
Glass Cloud - Royal Thousand
Monuments - Gnosis
Art by Numbers - whatever this was called

 

[gunshow86de]

Close 2nd;

Best EP;

Most (pleasantly) surprising;

 

[BillNephew]

Testament - Dark Roots of the Earth
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Six Feet Under - Undead
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
The Faceless- Autotheism
Devin Townsend Project