Album(s) of the Year: 2012

[Cappleton23]

Cloudkicker - Fade
The Contortionist -Intrinsic
The Haarp Machine - Disclosure
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Periphery - Periphery II
The Safety Fire - Grind The Ocean
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes
T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca
Meshuggah - Koloss
Architects - Daybreaker
The Faceless - Autotheism
Everything Went Black - Cycles of Light



I think thats it.

 

[Cappleton23]

I forgot BTBAM. idiot.

 

[Sofos]

top 6:
Apocryphon - The Sword
Becoming - Abigail Williams
The Manticore and Other Horrors - Cradle of Filth
Of Breath and Bone - Be'lakor
Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris
I Begin - God Seed

Honorable Mentions:
Caligvla - Ex Deo
The Giant - Ahab
In Somniphobia - Sigh
Revelry & Resilience - Gypsyhawk
RIITIIR - Enslaved
Timing of the Void - Eagle Claw
Unknown Rooms - Chelsea Wolfe

 

[MythicSquirrel]

In no order:
Hammock - Departure Songs
Swans - The Seer
The Safety Fire - Grind The Ocean
Asa & Stumbleine - Your Secret EP
The Acacia Strain - Death Is The Only Mortal
Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte

 

[MrPepperoniNipples]

I'll give 5

Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
Jeff Loomis - Plains of Oblivian
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Paul Gilbert - Vibrato

 

[JoshuaKaroshi]

Deftones - Koi No Yokan

 

[abandonist]

Oh,

Elitist - Fear in a Handful of Dust

 

[Sebastian]

Fear Factory - The Industrialist

 

[danger5oh]

Periphery II and Koi No Yokan.

 

[guitareben]

Amazing album

Vai crafts a beautiful album, as always

^ Check that one out

 

[DLG]

Baroness – Yellow & Green
Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
Enslaved – RIITIIR
Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Humanity
Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
Meshuggah – Koloss
Torche – Harmonicraft
Pharaoh – Bury the Light
Gaza – No Absolutes in Human Suffering
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Gojira – l’Enfante Sauvage
Om - Avaitic Songs

 

[Kiwimetal101]

My two favorites..

BTBAM - Parallax II
Periphery - Periphery II

 

[chinnybob]

Periphery - Periphery II
Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise
Muse - The 2nd Law
Deftones - Koi No Yokan

 

[tm20]

Cannibal Corpse -Torture
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza -Danza IIII
Amity Affliction -Chasing Ghosts

 

[heineken_fretwalker]

The album of the year is Cattle Decapitation- Monolith of Inhumanity

Others:
Meshuggah- Koloss
Dying Fetus- Reign Supreme
Pig Destroyer- Book Burner
Enslaved- RIITIIR

 

[Fat-Elf]

I have to go with the Periphery II. It was just so epic when it came out and I listened it through at least 3-4 times everyday during the summer. Good times.

Edit: Oh yeah, and Skyharbor's debut. Just listening to it, sick album.

 

[SenorDingDong]

This year was surprisingly good, considering most years I end up pretty bummed.



Flyleaf - New Horizons

Anberlin - Vitals

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (excluding the last track--I don't even know why she thought it should have been recorded)

The Cranberries - Roses

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Deftones - Koi No Yokan

OSI - Fire Make Thunder

 

[FrancescoFiligoi]

Wintersun - Time I

I really liked Gojira and Periph too

 

[Thrashmanzac]

my favorites:
hermatude - hyperparadise
flume - flume
alt-j - an awesome wave
tame impala - lonerism

 

[Beachbum4894]

Periphery II....that is all