Blogg → 2012 albums

5.0 = amazing, everyone should get it, almost unquestionably aoty.
4.5 = extremely good, definitely aoty material but i don't feel comfortable with giving it a 5.
4.0 = very good, definitely worth grabbing.
3.5 = quite good, i would strongly recommend all albums at this level or above.
3.0 = good. i usually default to this if i feel it needs more listens but was pretty good on first / second listen.
2.5 = solid, worth getting. i usually default to this if i feel it needs more listens to fully get the hang of.
2.0 = not bad, worth getting if you're a fan of the band.
1.5 = mediocre, if you really like the band you may as well grab it but otherwise i don't recommend it.
1.0 = pretty bad.

* = needs another listen or two, may get deleted


- [album artist=][/album]
A Liquid Landscape - Nightingale Express
A Silver Mt. Zion - "The West Will Rise Again"
Absolace - Fractals
Acyl - Algebra
Adeia - Hourglass
Adolf Plays The Jazz - Form Follows Function
Afternoon - between
Ahab - The Giant 3
Al-Namrood - Kitab Al-Awthan
Alcest - Les voyages de l'Âme
Alco - Alco
Amberian Dawn - Circus Black
American Hollow - Screaming into the Void
Anathema - Weather Systems 4
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Ancient Sky - T.R.I.P.S.
And Also the Trees - Hunter Not The Hunted
Ange - Moyen-âge 2.5
Anguish - Through the Archdemon's Head
Arc of Ascent - The Higher Key
Arctic Plateau - The Enemy Inside
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real 3.5
Astra - The Black Chord
Atlantyca - To Nowhere and Beyond
AtletA - Verdad 3
Atoma - Skylight
Avenger - Bohemian Dark Metal
B.U.G. - You Will Hate This *
Baby Woodrose - Third Eye Surgery
Barock Project - Coffee in Neukölln
Behold! the Monolith - Defender, Redeemist
Bereft - Leichenhaus
Beyond Terror Beyond Grace - Nadir
Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit 3.5
Black Bombaim - Titans 3.5
Black Mountain - Year Zero: The Original Soundtrack
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid II
Black Sheep Wall - No Matter Where It Ends
Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai
Borknagar - Urd 3
Buckethead - Electric Sea
Buey - Universe Bellowing *
Buried Sleeper - Colosseum
Candlemass - Psalms for the Dead
Carpe Nota - Carpe Nota
Cartoon Theory - Cartoon 1.0 Theory
Centric Jones - The Antikythera Method
Children of Nova - Impossible Landscape
cimmerian - Infinite Perdition
Circus Maximus - Nine 4
Citizen Cain - Skies Darken
Cloud Zero - Floatening
Colaris - Renewal
Counter-World Experience - Music for Kings
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape 4
Dan Johansen - Life Systems 3.5
David Daniell and Douglas McCombs - Versions
Deathmøle - Meade's Army *
Delain - We Are the Others
Destinos - Fireflies For Fireworks
Desultor - Masters of Hate
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
Dimension Act - Manifestation of Progress
Disappears - Pre Language
Dissona - Dissona 4.5
Distorted Harmony - Utopia
DumbSaint - Something That You Feel Will Find Its Own Form
Dwellers - Good Morning Harakiri
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Eclat - L'esprit du cercle
Eisbrecher - Die Hölle muss warten
El Caco - Hatred, Love & Diagrams
Electric Wizard - Legalise Drugs & Murder
Eluveitie - Helvetios
Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails
Enskye - Eosphorus/Quintessence
Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent
Ereb Altor - Gastrike
Eschar - Elements
Eternal Deformity - The Beauty of Chaos
Fall - W blasku umierającego słońca
Father Golem - I/O
Fehler - Dissona
FireScent - Passengers
Flying Colors - Flying Colors
Fourteen Twentysix - In Halflight Our Soul Glows
Frames - In Via
From Oceans to Autumn - Oath Of Eternals
Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
Giardini di Mirò - Good Luck
Glass Kites - Glass Kites 4.5
Goldenseed - The War Is In My Mind
Goodbye, Titan - Real Life Awaits Us
Grzegorz Skawiński - Me & My Guitar
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma 3.5
Hands Of The Templar - Explore
Havok - Point Of No Return 2.5
Hideous Divinity - Obeisance Rising
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Hogjaw - Sons of the Western Skies
Horn of the Rhino - Grengus
Howlin Rain - The Russian Wilds
Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow
Hypomanie - Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire
I Saw the Deep - Astronavigation
Ian Anderson - Thick As a Brick 2 3
Ice Dragon - Tome of the Future Ancients
If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest 3.5
In Mourning - The Weight of Oceans 4
In the Company of Serpents - In the Company of Serpents
Innerty - Tabula Rasa
Ioearth - Moments
Jeff Loomis - Plains of Oblivion
Judd Madden - Doomgroove *
Jumping Jack - Trucks & Bones
Kasan - Drown
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife
Képzelt Város - Hélium
Kill - Burning Blood
Killing Joke - MMXII
King Salmon - Lucid Nightmare *
Kotebel - Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble
Kris Pohlmann Band - One For Sorrow
L'Alba di Morrigan - The Essence Remains
L'ombra della sera - L'ombra della sera
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Landmarq - Entertaining Angels
Lastdayshining - Our Heated Backs Encircle Us
Leech - If we get there one day, would you please open the gates?
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
Lis Er Stille - NOUS
Lord of Mushrooms - Perspectives
Low Gravity - Incarnadine
low torque - Low Torque
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Lurk - Lurk
Lyonnais - Want For Wish For Nowhere
Major Kong - Doom for the Black Sun
Mangoo - Neverland
Mares of Thrace - Pilgrimage
Max Karon - Will to Exist *
Megaherz - Götterdämmerung
Mekong Delta - Intersections
Melvins - Freak Puke
Melvins - The Birds and The Bees
Merkabah - A Lament for the Lamb
Mescaliner - Willow Spree
Meshuggah - Koloss 4
Message to Bears - Folding Leaves
Mgła - With hearts towards none
Microfilm - AF127
MirrorMaze - Walkabout
Mondstille - Seelenwund
Moonfrost - Starfall
Moonspell - Alpha Noir
Moonspell - Omega White
Mörglbl - Brutal Romance
Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Mr. Fastfinger - In Motion
Musica Ficta - A child & a well
Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven 3
Natural Snow Buildings - Beyond the Veil
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I 4.5
Neale scott - Tower
Necronomicon - Invictus
Ninth Moon Black - Chronophage
Notturno Concertante - Canzoni Allo Specchio
Obsidian Sea - Between Two Deserts
Ohmphrey - Posthaste
Okera - A Beautiful Dystopia
Oomph! - Des Wahnsinns fette Beute
Opera IX - Strix Maledictae in Aeternum
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned
Øresund Space Collective - West, Space and Love
Ørkenkjøtt - Ønskediktet
OSI - Fire Make Thunder
Osmium - The Misery Harvest
Pale Divine - Painted Windows Black
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 4
PeerGynt Lobogris - Desires on the BlueMoon's Shadows
Pelican - Ataraxia/Taraxis
pg.lost - Key
Pilgrim - Misery Wizard
PostHumanBigBang - Posthumanbigbang
Powder! Go Away - we don't know when it has begun, but we know that it will never end
Prisma - you name it
Pythia - The Serpent's Curse
Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension 4
Rezet - Civic Nightmares
Rituals - Rituals
Rogue Sounds - Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite
Royal Thunder - CVI
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Savage Messiah - Plague of Conscience 4
SBB - SBB
Screaming Savior - Infinity
Sebastian Hardie - Blueprint
Severed Fifth - Liberate *
Shoulder of Orion - Winterstar
Sigur Rós - Valtari
Skorzum - Ecce Occulto
Sky Architects - The Promise of Tomorrow
SKYHARBOR - Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
Sleepmakeswaves - sleepmakeswaves
So Much for Nothing - Livsgnist *
Soen - Cognitive
Special Providence - Soul Alert
Spelljammer - Vol II
Staal - Rambokniv
Status Minor - Ouroboros
Steve Thorne - Crimes & Reasons
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Sumilan - Natural Selection
Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas 4.5
Suspyre - Suspyre
T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Exegesis
Taylor's Universe - Kind of Red *
TEE - Trans Europe Expression
Tenacious D - Rize of the Fenix
TesseracT - Perspective 2.5
The Addiction Dream - Essence
The Bad Light - Marrow of Sound
The Element - From Sand - Part I 2.5
The Firstborn - Lions Among Men
The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
The Heads - Enten - Eller
The Machine - Calmer Than You Are
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
The Next Hundred Years - Troppo
The Ocean - The Grand Inquisitor
The Omega Experiment - The Omega Experiment
The Samuel Jackson Five - The Samuel Jackson Five
The Souldiggers Band - Search For Greater Things
Thee Orakle - Smooth Comforts False
Torche - Harmonicraft
Torso - Inside
Towards Darkness - Barren
Tramortiria - Wrath Among The Dead 3.5
Transfixed - The Architect
Trioscapes - Separate Realities
Ufomammut - ORO: Opus Primum
Umbra Noctis - Il Primo Volo
Vespero - Subkraut: U-Boats Willkommen Hier
Villebråd - Ampersand 4
Vulture - Oblivious to Ruin
Waning - The Human Condition
Wassermanns Fiebertraum - Brandung 3.5
West of Hell - Spiral Empire
Whales and Aurora - The Shipwreck 3.5
White Hills - Frying on this Rock
White Hills - Oddity III: Basic Information 3.5
Wild Hunt - Before The Plane Of Angles
Windhand - Windhand
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light 3.5
Worm Ouroboros - Come the Thaw
Xandria - Neverworld's End 3
X SUNS - X SUNS
Yossi Sassi - Melting Clocks
잠비나이 - 차연
16 - Deep Cuts from Dark Clouds

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