Album(s) of the Year: 2012

[bhakan]

In no particular order:

Between The Buried and Me- Parallax 2- The Future Sequence
Periphery- Periphery II (This Time It's Personal)
The Faceless- Autotheism
The HAARP Machine- Disclosure
The Contortionist- Intrinsic
Coheed & Cambria- The Afterman: Ascension

And there are probably more. I feel like this was a great year for music.

 

[wankerness]

Albums I really gave serious attention to that I loved:

The Gathering - Disclosure
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Anathema - Weather Systems
Meshuggah - Koloss
Enslaved - Riitiir

If I had to make it 10 I'd probably add these:

Crystal Castles III
Donny Mccaslin - Casting for Gravity
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

I've been meaning to listen to Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel and figure if I ever do it might be one of my favorites.

The new Smashing Pumpkins album (Oceana) was surprisingly listenable, especially compared to Zeitgeist. I didn't love it but I liked several tracks on it. WARNING: I really like Machina and think Adore is their best album.

 

[DarkWolfXV]

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme

 

[xfilth]

#1: Special Providence - Soul Alert
Runners up: Katatonia, Anathema, Storm Corrosion, The Faceless, Gojira, Ihsahn, Periphery, Devin

 

[fps]

Baroness. By miles for me. Of the others being mentioned, I found Deftones' album particularly disappointing, it sounds like they didn't spend enough time on it to me.

 

[ROAR]

most of shit you guys said,
and
Coheed's Afterman
Jack White's Blunderbuss
LoG's Resolution
Mars Volta Noctouer;alkshg
John Mayer's Born and Raised was quite nice
Odd Future Vol 2, goofy but fun
but what most grabbed me was:

How to Destroy Angels- An Omen EP

 

[Tommy]

Definitely BTBAM: Parallax II.
Baroness Yellow & Green was really good too.

 

[shadowlife]

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.

Lol, i'm in a similar situation- the only thing from this year that i bought is the new Dokken album "Broken Bones".
Jon Levin is an extremely underrated guitarist.

 

[pattonfreak1]

Dethklok-Dethalbum III
Monuments-Gnosis
HAARP-Husks
Jobforacowboy-demonocracy
Tomahawk-Oddfellows
And
Van Halen-A Different Kind of Truth (yeah... I said it)

 

[Underworld]

Only 4 albums really got me this year :

Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
The Faceless - Autotheisme
Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme

**I have not listen to Devin's Epicloud yet due to my inhability to download it properly.

 

[GenghisCoyne]

job for a cowboy- demonocracy
or
danza 4

 

[BIG ND SWEATY]

the acacia strain- death is the only mortal
TTDTE- danza 4
jfac- demonocracy
cannibal corpse- torture
this year was kinda disappointing for me :/

 

[PostOrganic]

These are somewhat in order...

Enslaved - RIITIIR
Aborted - Global Flatline
Ihsahn - Eremita
Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Aeon - Aeons Black
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
Shining - Redefining Darkness
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
Hour of Penance - Sedition

 

[nostealbucket]

BTBAM

 

[HK_Derek]

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

<< seriously humbled. Thank you!

My "best" list?
Skyharbor "Blinding White Noise" (personal disc of the year.. it's been a long time since I've worn anything out like this)
Steven Wilson "Get All You Deserve" (absolutely brilliant live band interpretation of some kinda boring studio discs. LOVE Guthrie joining this band!)
Norah Jones "Little Broken Hearts" (Eat it. She's badass as badass can be)
Monuments "Gnosis" (really starting to grow on me this past month)
Circus Maximus "Nine" (a bit DT-ish obviously, but I've really found myself enjoying it)
Periphery II.. "This Time it's Personal" (additional mention for best album title)

I'd love to add Koloss, but the truth is that it just didn't get near as many plays as Obzen or Catch33.

Most disappointing release by far: Mars Volta "Noctourniquet". Hate the production and overcompression, especially on the drums, and few if any of Cedric's vocal melodies stuck with me at all.

 

[heregoesnothing]

Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
Pat Metheny - Unity Band
John McLaughlin - Now Here This
Marco Sfogli - reMarcoble
Chimp Spanner - All Roads Lead Here
BTBAM - Parallax II
Zelliack - Noir Tone
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
John Mayer - Born and Raised
Veil of Maya - Eclipse
Guthrie Govan - Late Night Sessions 2 (not an album but still amazing lol)

 

[revclay]

Swans - The Seer
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend
Anathema - Weather Systems
How to Dress Well - Total Loss

 

[lurgar]

One album has really stuck out with me this year:

Local H - Hallelujah! I'm a bum

 

[Vostre Roy]

No particular order

Tenacious D - The Rize of the Phoenix
Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
Baroness - Yellow and Green

Edit:

Can't believe I forgot this one:

Dethklok - Dethalbum III

 

[lemeker]

Coheed- The Afterman
Down- The Purple Ep
Skyharbor- Blinding White Noise
sleepmakeswaves- the U.S. Ep
NOFX- self titled