lördag 31 Dec 2011, 18:33

In no particular order. Completely subjective. (Note: no updates after the end of 2012.)

Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme (shoegaze / post-black metal)

Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape (progressive rock / post-rock)

Glass Kites - Glass Kites (progressive rock)

Soen - Cognitive (progressive metal)

Anathema - Weather Systems (progressive rock)

Arctic Plateau - The Enemy Inside (shoegaze / post-rock)

Villebråd - Ampersand (progressive rock)

Sigur Rós - Valtari (post-rock / ambient)

Ian Anderson - Thick As a Brick 2 (progressive rock)

Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (progressive rock / psychedelic folk)

North Atlantic Oscillation - Fog Electric (art rock)

Trioscapes - Separate Realities (jazz fusion)

Farmers Market - Slav To THe Rhythm (jazz / folk / progressive rock)

Analogik - New Seeland ("gypsy polkatronica")

The Samuel Jackson Five - The Samuel Jackson Five (progressive rock / post-rock)

Brasstronaut - Mean Sun (indie rock / jazz)

Ihsahn - Eremita (extreme progressive metal)

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata (avant-garde metal)

Baby Woodrose - Third Eye Surgery (psychedelic rock)

Änglagård - Viljans Öga (progressive rock)

Baroness - Yellow & Green (sludge / progressive metal)

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Crown and Treaty (folk / art rock)

Germ - Wish (atmospheric black metal)

Ornithos - La Trasfigurazione (progressive rock)

Katatonia - Dead End Kings (alternative / gothic / progressive metal)

The Contortionist - Intrinsic (progressive metal)

Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (darkwave / ethereal / world)

Mono - For My Parents (post-rock)

Beardfish - The Void (progressive rock)

Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (progressive metal)

Big Big Train - English Electric, Part One (progressive rock)

The Faceless - Autotheism (progressive death metal)

Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (progressive metal)

Tame Impala - Lonerism (psychedelic rock)

Enslaved - RIITIIR (progressive black metal)

Wintersun - Time I (symphonic metal)

Hexvessel - No Holier Temple (psychedelic folk)

Echolyn - echolyn (progressive rock)

Tall Ships - Everything Touching (math rock)

Magma - Félicité Thösz (zeuhl)

Grizzly Bear - Shields (indie rock / folk)

Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (progressive rock)

Kotebel - Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble (progressive rock)
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Other good albums: Rpwl, Sear Bliss, Special Providence, Les Discrets, Earth, Gavin Harrison & 05Ric, Barren Earth, If These Trees Could Talk, Burzum, pg.lost, Jeff Loomis, Maps & Atlases, OSI, Meshuggah, James Blackshaw, Lamb of God, Bloc Party, Swans, Ensiferum, Frequency Drift, The Pineapple Thief, The Safety Fire, Neal Morse, Caspian, Hidria Spacefolk, Muse, Snarky Puppy, Mumford & Sons, Sebastian Hardie, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Yeasayer, Battlestations, Hammock, Cloudkicker, The Cast Of Cheers, Coheed and Cambria, Moon Duo, Converge, Caravan Palace, Wilds Forlorn, Jack White, Message To Bears, Mount Eerie, Spiritualized, The Mars Volta, Veil Of Maya, Rome, Maserati, Trevor Rabin, The HAARP Machine, Big Foot Mama, Dordeduh, SoundArcade, Sunpocrisy, Milanku, Therion, Dissona, Sabbath Assembly, Children Of Nova, The Fusion Syndicate, Naïve, Shining, Metz, Lalle Larsson, Follow the White Rabbit, Niechęć, Parov Stelar, Alamaailman Vasarat, Kong, Ides of Gemini, Counter-World Experience, VI-X, The Intersphere, Solace, L'Alba di Morrigan, Aoria, Twelve Foot Ninja, John Surman, My Education, Finsterforst, Ancients, Lis Er Stille, Circus Maximus, Adolf Plays the Jazz, Astra, Adrenaline Mob, The Gathering, Flying Lotus, Microfilm, Overhead, Dimension Act, The Elijah, Anatomy of the Bear, Ne Obliviscaris, Horseback, Tusmørke, DeWolff, Neurosis, Sunlight Ascending, Threshold, Psychic, Panzerballett, Scott Walker, Japandroids, Kiko Loureiro, Stabat Akish, Nine Stones Close, Shadow Circus, Flying Colors, Skyharbor, Gazpacho, Dry The River, Comus, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Samara Lubelski, The Flower Kings, Antimatter, White Hills,

To do list: Hail Spirit Noir, Buckethead, Drudkh, Borknagar, John Zorn, Delusion Squared, Hemina, The American Dollar, Prisma, Sonata Arctica, Rush, Dreamscape, Turing Machine, A Whisper In The Noise, Gojira, Producers, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, Norah Jones, Xiu Xiu Larsen, Circa Survive, Toundra, My Sleeping Karma, My Baby Wants To Eat Your Pussy, Marillion, Art By Numbers, Sigh, Øresund Space Collective, IZZ, Badbadnotgood, My Dying Bride, Anaal Nathrakh, Sithu Aye, iLiKETRAiNS, Constants, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Cloudyhead, The Wilderness of Manitoba, Alexander Tucker, Forgotten Silence, Blaze Of Sorrow, Rolo Tomassi, Coma Stereo, Kayo Dot, Alexander Tucker, Raën, Teen Daze, The Algorithm, Standing Ovation, Cosmos, Old Man Gloom, Joy Wants Eternity, Lights Out Asia, A Place to Bury Strangers, 2econd Class Citizen, Matryoshka, Affector, I Am Oak, Year Of The Goat, Ringo DeathStarr, Squackett, Five Alarm Funk, Oddland, Tu Fawning, Diagonal, Sinew, Travis & Fripp, Igorrr, Circle, Gravenhurst, Atoma, Maribel, Kaki King, Sonar, Julia Holter, Torche, Mother of Fire, Golden Void,