Favourite Albums of 2012 so Far?

Nephilim Wolf

This year has been a real scorcher music wise for me, and I've heard some real incredible albums this year. I also think to make this thread more interesting is for the next person to post their favourites, and to comment on the above posters albums. Here are my favourite albums of 2012.

Angel Witch - As Above, So Below
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbirds
Moonspell - Alpha Noir\Omega White
Hypocrisy - Hell Over Sofia
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Borknagar - Urd
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
The Foreshadowing - Second World
Carach Angren - Where Corpses Sink Forever
Fields Of The Nephilim - Ceromonies
The Cult - Choice of Weapon
Sear Bliss - Eternal Recurrence

RayCon

Rush - Clockwork Angels
Howlin Rain - The Russian Wilds
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Throw It To The Universe
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

I haven't heard one album from the OPs list

GLaDOS

Clockwork Angels and Storm Corrosion are both top class albums.

Nine, by Circus Maximus, is pretty good too.


Have to give The Hunt a listen.

Angron

My favourites so far:

Ahab - The Giant
Aborted - Global Flatline
Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity


Haven't listened to the new Dying Fetus, Nile, Six Feet Under or Marduk offerings, though I plan to eventually.

Joe_Dull

Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour
Engel - The Blood of Saints
Lostprophets - Weapons
Meshuggah - Koloss
Pulled Apart By Horses - Tough Love

Been a much better year so far for electronic and indie music than metal, but still a handful of solid offerings.

EyesClosed

Rush - clockwork angels
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

These are my two favs so far

Hyperbullet

Paradise Lost: Tragic Idol
Lamb of God: Resolution
Gojira: L'Enfant Sauvage

xerces

I've been meaning to listen to the new Smashing Pumpkins, Meshuggah and Ahab, but I've enjoyed these top albums so far:

Rush - Clockwork Angels
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
Gojira - L'enfant Sauvage
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
Anathema - Weather Systems
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
Adrenaline Mob - Omertá
Alcest - Les Voyages de L'âme
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Soen - Cognitive

2012 still has some highly anticipated albums to come too .

nacho libre

Ihsahn- Eremita
Aquilus - Griseus
Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme
Meshuggah - Koloss
Winglord - Heritage
Atoma - Skylight
Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Hypomanie - Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
Wodensthrone - Curse

Schism

Accept - Stalingrad
Overkill - The Electric Age
Grand Magus - The Hunt

Kess73

Grand Magus - The Hunt
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Fields Of The Nephilim- Ceromonies
Godsmack - Live And Inspired
Arcane Roots - Left Fire
The Mercy House - A Broken State Of Bliss
Turbowolf - Turbowolf
Killing Joke - MMXII
Nitrogods - Nitrogods
Hot Water Music - Exister
Orange Goblin - Eulogy For The Damned
Lostalone - I'm A UFO In This City
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror


Would be the ones that came to mind after sitting down for ten minutes before starting to type this post.




Am still waiting on one killer album to come out though. The new Mark Tremonti album comes out next week and I like (really surprised at how good his voice is) what I have heard so far from it, so fingers crossed. The new album from The Gaslight Anthem comes out a week after that, so that will be another for me to look out for, and then a week after that again sees the release of the new Testament album.

Wrongway1985

The High fives segment of the metal hammer podcast will be directly related to this topic (The hosts will pick their top 5 somethings most weeks in this case top 5 albums of the year so far). I'm sure a nice chunk of what some of ye mentioned will be chosen, should be live on their site in or around 1pm this Friday for anyone whose interested.

Clockwork Angels by Rush is currently going down a treat!!

EyesClosed

How I managed to forgot this I don't know
Bruce Springsteen - Wreaking Ball
great album

RayCon

RayCon wrote: »

Rush - Clockwork Angels
Howlin Rain - The Russian Wilds
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Throw It To The Universe
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

D'oh .... forgot

Astra - The Black Chord

hellyeah

fear factory tragic idol
paradise lost the industrialist
korn the path of totality (bought it this year)

MetalDog

Good reccommendations there must check out a few of them

triggermortis

only 2 in it for me...

Van Halen - A different Kind Of Truth

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Planemo

Using this primarily as a way of getting recommendations, here's mine:

16 – Deep Cuts From Dark Clouds
Ahab – The Giant
Ancestors – In Dreams And Time
Bologna Violenta – Utopie e Piccole Soddisfazioni
Coffins – March Of Despair
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Graf Orlock – Los Angeles
High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Mark Lanegan – Blues Funeral
Napalm Death -Utalitarian (probably best album of the year)
Primitive Weapons – The Shadow Gallery
Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65
The Melvins – The Bulls & The Bees EP/Freak Puke
Torche – Harmonicraft
Unsane – Wreck

Alonso77

Killing Joke - MMXII
Prong - Carved into Stone
Ministry - Relapse

Malice

Duplicate threads merged.

Kess73

Kess73 wrote: »

Grand Magus - The Hunt
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Fields Of The Nephilim- Ceromonies
Godsmack - Live And Inspired
Arcane Roots - Left Fire
The Mercy House - A Broken State Of Bliss
Turbowolf - Turbowolf
Killing Joke - MMXII
Nitrogods - Nitrogods
Hot Water Music - Exister
Orange Goblin - Eulogy For The Damned
Lostalone - I'm A UFO In This City
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror


Would be the ones that came to mind after sitting down for ten minutes before starting to type this post.




Am still waiting on one killer album to come out though. The new Mark Tremonti album comes out next week and I like (really surprised at how good his voice is) what I have heard so far from it, so fingers crossed. The new album from The Gaslight Anthem comes out a week after that, so that will be another for me to look out for, and then a week after that again sees the release of the new Testament album.

Now have a few more to add to my list.

Kreator - Phantom Antochrist

Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

Mark Tremonti - All I Was

Cory Branan - Mutt

Hellyeah - Band Of Brothers


Kill Devil Hill - Kill Devil Hill