Album(s) of the Year: 2012

[sawtoothscream]

BTBAM
Born of osiris
Circa survive
Oh sleeper

dont know if the albums are all 2012 but those are my favorites

 

[gunshow86de]

do I need to check out this Sylosis?

Yes. Their earlier albums, while technically good, never wowed me. Monolith is a really killer album though. That's why I put it as my "most surprising." It's a well done, modern take on thrash.

 

[DLG]

I'll check it out on youtube, thanks.

 

[cronux]

Meshuggah - Koloss
The Acacia Strain - Death Is The Only Mortal
Lamb Of God - Resolution
Bermuda - The Wandering
Deftones - Koi No Yokan

But Meshuggah takes the cake as always, the whole album blows my mind even after 31507150 listens

 

[travis bickle]

no particular order:

meshuggah - koloss
chimp spanner - all roads lead here
trash talk - 119
pat metheny group - unity
the faceless - autotheism
proclamation - nether tombs of abaddon
black breath - sentenced to life

 

[wankerness]

Still gotta check out Dead End Kings!

It's good, but it didn't grab me that much on first listen. Same thing happened with the previous album though and after a year or two I realized that one was actually great. So, who knows, this one might be great too, I'll let you know in a year or two.

 

[DLG]

black breath - sentenced to life

forgot about this, really fun record

 

[ASoC]

Only heard 2 new albums this year

Awesome:
Periphery II

Let Down:
Rize of the Fenix

 

[skisgaar]

Periphery II
Sylosis - Monolith
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
The Faceless - Autotheism
Glass Cloud - The Royal Thousand
Monuments - Gnosis
Veil Of Maya - Eclipse
Whitechapel
Impending Doom - Baptized In Filth
Bleeding skies - I Choose To Awaken
Sectioned - Monotonne
Jeff Loomis


Intervals was okay, I gues...

 

[skisgaar]

do I need to check out this Sylosis?

Yes. It's thrash revival, and their albums are a fucking experience. If you don't like it, that makes you a robot. You don't want to be a robot do you?

 

[abandonist]

I'm old enough to remember thrash the first time.

This "revival" is embarrassing.

 

[ScarSymmetry]

MNEMIC-Mnemesis

 

[Thrashmanzac]

i have just decided that for me my favorite album is Alt-J, An awesome wave

 

[metaljohn]

Gaza, Black Breath, Coheed & Cambria, Dragged Into Sunlight, Grave and Neurosis.

 

[matt397]

PII
Danza IIII
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Meshuggah Koloss

Im sure Im missing some.

 

[x360rampagex]

Vildhjarta - Mâsstaden
Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
Meshuggah - Koloss
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza 4: The Alpha- The Omega
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

 

[Pablo Zuta]

Anathema - Weather system
Spawn of possession - Incurso

 

[wankerness]

Vildhjarta - Mâsstaden

That was 2011, otherwise I'd have put it on mine. I don't know why but I like that album far more than anything Periphery or the other darlings of the subgenre have done.

 

[Overtone]

It's good, but it didn't grab me that much on first listen. Same thing happened with the previous album though and after a year or two I realized that one was actually great. So, who knows, this one might be great too, I'll let you know in a year or two.

I loved Night is the New Day so we'll see... my order got here today. Along with the Gazpacho and Marillion albums that came out this year.

 

[Don Vito]

Yes. It's thrash revival, and their albums are a fucking experience. If you don't like it, that makes you a robot. You don't want to be a robot do you?

I like them but they're not THAT good...