My favourite albums from 2012

1. 50

   Legend

   Witchcraft

   

   

   Occult rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Deconstruction
   2. Flag of Fate ●
   3. It's Not Because of You
   4. An Alternative to Freedom
   5. Ghosts House
   6. White Light Suicide
   7. Democracy
   8. Dystopia
   9. Dead End

2. 49

   Kentucky

   Panopticon

   

   

   Black metal | Bluegrass

   Tracks:

   1. Bernheim Forest in Spring
   2. Bodies Under the Falls ●
   3. Come All Ye Coal Miners
   4. Black Soot and Red Blood
   5. Which Side Are You on?
   6. Killing the Giants as They Sleep
   7. Black Waters
   8. Kentucky

3. 48

   Honor Found in Decay

   Neurosis

   

   

   Post-metal | Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. We All Rage in Gold
   2. At the Well ●
   3. My Heart for Deliverance
   4. Bleeding the Pigs
   5. Casting of the Ages
   6. All Is Found ... in Time
   7. Raise the Dawn

4. 47

   I Bet on Sky

   Dinosaur Jr.

   

   

   Alternative rock | Noise rock

   Tracks:

   1. Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
   2. Watch the Corners
   3. Almost Fare
   4. Stick a Toe in ●
   5. Rude
   6. I Know It Oh So Well
   7. Pierce the Morning Rain
   8. What Was That
   9. Recognition
   10. See It on Your Side

5. 46

   Of Breath and Bone

   Be'lakor

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Abeyance
   2. Remnants
   3. Fraught
   4. Absit Omen
   5. To Stir the Sea
   6. In Parting
   7. The Dream and the Waking ●
   8. By Moon and Star

6. 45

   Koloss

   Meshuggah

   

   

   Progressive metal | Groove metal

   Tracks:

   1. I Am Colossus
   2. The Demon's Name Is Surveillance
   3. Do Not Look Down
   4. Behind the Sun
   5. The Hurt That Finds You First
   6. Marrow
   7. Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion
   8. Swarm
   9. Demiurge ●
   10. The Last Vigil

7. 44

   The Lion's Roar

   First Aid Kit

   

   

   Indie folk | Americana

   Tracks:

   1. The Lion's Roar ●
   2. Emmylou
   3. In the Hearts of Men
   4. Blue
   5. This Old Routine
   6. To a Poet
   7. I Found a Way
   8. Dance to Another Tune
   9. New Year's Eve
   10. King of the World

8. 43

   Years Past Matter

   Krallice

   

   

   Black metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. IIIIIII
   2. IIIIIIII ●
   3. IIIIIIIII
   4. IIIIIIIIII
   5. IIIIIIIIIII
   6. IIIIIIIIIIII

9. 42

   The Parallax II: Future Sequence

   Between the Buried and Me

   

   

   Progressive metal | Technical death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Goodbye to Everything
   2. Astral Body ●
   3. Lay Your Ghosts to Rest
   4. Autumn
   5. Extremophile ELite
   6. Parallax
   7. The Black Box
   8. Telos
   9. Bloom
   10. Melting City
   11. Silent Flight Parliament
   12. Goodbye to Everything Reprise

10. 41

    Transfigured in a Thousand Solutions

    Inanna

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ancestral Raging Tides ●
    2. Temporal Beings
    3. I Am Become Death
    4. Age of Decline
    5. Everlasting Suffering
    6. The Crescent Portal of Insanity
    7. Redeeming Chaos
    8. Ascend from the Underworld

11. 40

    Kadavar

    Kadavar

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. All Our Thoughts
    2. Black Sun
    3. Fogotten Past
    4. Goddess of Dawn ●
    5. Creature of the Demon
    6. Purple Sage

12. 39

    Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes

    Downfall of Gaia

    

    

    Atmospheric sludge metal | Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    1. [vulnus]
    2. Drowning by Wing Beats
    3. In the Rivers Bleak
    4. I Fade Away
    5. Beneath the Crown of Cranes ●
    6. Giving Their Heir to the Masses
    7. [asphyxia]

13. 38

    Good Morning Harakiri

    Dwellers

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Secret Revival
    2. Black Bird ●
    3. Vultures
    4. Ode to Inversion Layer
    5. Lightening Ritual
    6. Old Honey

14. 37

    Blues Funeral

    Mark Lanegan Band

    

    

    Alternative rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Gravedigger's Song
    2. Bleeding Muddy Water ●
    3. Gray Goes Black
    4. St. Louis Elegy
    5. Riot in My House
    6. Ode to Sad Disco
    7. Phantasmagoria Blues
    8. Quiver Syndrome
    9. Harborview Hospital
    10. Leviathan
    11. Deep Black Vanishing Train
    12. Tiny Grain of Truth

15. 36

    RIITIIR

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Thoughts Like Hammers ●
    2. Death in the Eyes of Dawn
    3. Veilburner
    4. Roots of the Mountain
    5. RIITIIR
    6. Materal
    7. Storm of Memories
    8. Forsaken

16. 35

    All I Was

    Tremonti

    

    

    Alternative metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Leave It Alone
    2. So You're Afraid
    3. Wish You Well ●
    4. Brains
    5. The Things I've Seen
    6. You Waste Your Time
    7. New Way out
    8. Giving up
    9. Proof
    10. All I Was
    11. Doesn't Matter
    12. Decay

17. 34

    Les Voyages de l'âme

    Alcest

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Autre Temps
    2. Là où naissent les couleurs nouvelles
    3. Les Voyages de l'âme ●
    4. Nous sommes l'émeraude
    5. Beings of Light
    6. Faiseurs de mondes
    7. Havens
    8. Summer's Glory

18. 33

    All We Love We Leave Behind

    Converge

    

    

    Metalcore | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. Aimless Arrow
    2. Trespasses ●
    3. Tender Abuse
    4. Sadness Comes Home
    5. Empty on the Inside
    6. Sparrow's Fall
    7. Glacial Pace
    8. Vicious Muse
    9. Veins and Veils
    10. Coral Blue
    11. Shame in the Way
    12. Precipice
    13. All We Love We Leave Behind
    14. Predatory Glow

19. 32

    In Somniphobia

    Sigh

    

    

    Symphonic metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Purgatorium ●
    2. The Transfiguration Dream
    3. Opening Theme: Lucid Nightmare
    4. Somniphpbia
    5. L'excommunication à minuit
    6. Amnesia
    7. Far Beneath the In-Between
    8. Amongst the Phantoms of Abandoned Tumbrils
    9. Ending Theme: Continuum
    10. Fall to the Thrall
    11. Equale

20. 31

    Phantom Antichrist

    Kreator

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Mars Mantra
    2. Phantom Antichrist ●
    3. Death to the World
    4. From Flood into Fire
    5. Civilization Collapse
    6. United in Hate
    7. The Few, the Proud, the Broken
    8. Your Heaven My Hell
    9. Victory Will Come
    10. Until Our Paths Cross Again

21. 30

    Dark Roots of Earth

    Testament

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rise up
    2. Natove Blood
    3. Dark Roots of Earth
    4. True American Hate ●
    5. A Day in the Death
    6. Cold Embrace
    7. Man KIlls Mankind
    8. Throne of Thorns
    9. Last Stand for Independence

22. 29

    The 2 Mousquetaires

    The Inspector Cluzo

    

    

    Garage rock | Funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. The 2 Mousquetaires of Gasconha
    2. Wild and Free: The Indignés Song
    3. Move on up
    4. Téléfoot
    5. Why a Vulgar French Band Cannot Play Shitty English Pop Music? ●
    6. I Want to Mmm the Wife of the French President
    7. Fuck the Bobos
    8. Put Your Hands up
    9. Power to the People
    10. Fuck Free Hugs
    11. Adishatz
    12. Que Som Cabelhs

23. 28

    Eremita

    Ihsahn

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Arrival ●
    2. The Paranoid
    3. Introspection
    4. The Eagle and the Snake
    5. Catharsis
    6. Something out There
    7. Grief
    8. The Grave
    9. Departure

24. 27

    Carry the Fire

    Delta Rae

    

    

    Folk rock | Gothic folk | Indie pop

    Tracks:

    1. Holding on to Good
    2. Is There Anyone out There
    3. Morning Comes
    4. If I Loved You
    5. Bottom of the River
    6. Country House
    7. Surrounded
    8. Dance in the Graveyards
    9. Fire ●
    10. Forgive the Children We Once Were
    11. Unlike Any Other
    12. Hey, Hey, Hey

25. 26

    De Vermis Mysteriis

    High on Fire

    

    

    Stoner metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Serums of Liao
    2. Bloody Knuckles
    3. Fertile Green
    4. Madness of an Architect ●
    5. Samsara
    6. Spiritual Rites
    7. King of Days
    8. De Vermis Mysteriis
    9. Romulus and Remus
    10. Warhorn

26. 25

    A Eulogy for the Damned

    Orange Goblin

    

    

    Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Red Tide Rising
    2. Stand for Something
    3. Acid Trial
    4. The Filthy & the Few
    5. Save Me from Myself
    6. The Fog ●
    7. Return to Mars
    8. Death of aquarius
    9. The Bishops Wolf
    10. A Eulogy for the Damned

27. 24

    A Joyful Noise

    Gossip

    

    

    Synth pop | Dance-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Melody Emergency
    2. Perfect World
    3. Get a Job
    4. Move in the Right Direction
    5. Casualties of War ●
    6. Into the Wild
    7. Get Lost
    8. Involved
    9. Horns
    10. I Won't Play
    11. Love in a Foreign Place

28. 23

    Mantiis

    Obsidian Kingdom

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Not Yet Five
    2. Oncoming Dark
    3. Through the Glass
    4. Cinnamon Balls ●
    5. The Nurse
    6. Answers Revealing
    7. Last of the Light
    8. Genteel to Mention
    9. Awake Until Dawn
    10. Haunts of the Underworld
    11. Endless Wall
    12. Fingers in Anguish
    13. Ball-Room
    14. And Then It Was

29. 22

    Head Down

    Rival Sons

    

    

    Blues rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Keep on Swinging ●
    2. Wild Animal
    3. You Want to
    4. Until the Sun Comes
    5. Run from Revelation
    6. Jordan
    7. ALl the Way
    8. The Heist
    9. Three Fingers
    10. Nava
    11. Manifest Destiny Pt. 1
    12. Manifest Destiny Pt. 2
    13. True

30. 21

    The Electric Age

    Overkill

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Come and Get It ●
    2. Electric Rattlesnake
    3. Wish You Were Dead
    4. Black Daze
    5. Save Yourself
    6. Drop the Hammer Down
    7. 21st Century Man
    8. Old Wounds, New Scars
    9. All Over but the Shouting
    10. Good Night

31. 20

    Vibrato

    Paul Gilbert

    

    

    Jazz fusion | Funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Enemies (in Jail)
    2. Rain and Thunder and Lightning
    3. Vibrato ●
    4. Put It on the Char
    5. Bivalve Blues
    6. Blue Rondo à la Turk
    7. Atmosphere on the Moon
    8. The Pronghorn
    9. Roundabout
    10. I Want to Be Loved
    11. Go Down

32. 19

    Oceania

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Quasar
    2. Panopticon
    3. The Celestials
    4. Violet Rays
    5. My Love Is Winter ●
    6. One Diamond, One Heart
    7. Pinwheels
    8. Oceania
    9. Pale Horse
    10. The Chimera
    11. Glissandra
    12. Inkless
    13. Wildflower

33. 18

    Moongod

    Aeternam

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Moongod
    2. Invading Jerusalem
    3. Cosmogony
    4. Iram of the Pillars
    5. Rise of Arabia
    6. Xibalba
    7. Descent of Gods
    8. Idol of the Sun
    9. Hubal, Profaner of God ●

34. 17

    The Thousandfold Epicentre

    The Devil's Blood

    

    

    Occult rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Unending Singularity
    2. On the Wings of Gloria ●
    3. Die the Death
    4. Within the Charnel House of Love
    5. Cruel lover
    6. She
    7. The Thousandfold Epicentre
    8. Fire Burning
    9. Everlasting Saturnalia
    10. The Madness of Serpents
    11. Feverdance

35. 16

    The Magic Door

    Chris Robinson Brotherhood

    

    

    Blues rock | Southern rock

    Tracks:

    1. Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
    2. Someday Past the Sunset
    3. Appaloosa
    4. Vibration & Light Suite
    5. Little Lizzie Mae
    6. Sorrows of a Blue-Eyed Liar ●
    7. Wheel Don't Roll

36. 15

    Cabin by the Sea

    The Dirty Heads

    

    

    Reggae rock | Jam rock

    Tracks:

    1. Arrival
    2. Cabin by the Sea
    3. Disguise ●
    4. Spread Too Thin
    5. Your Love
    6. Mongo Push
    7. Dance All Night
    8. Hipster
    9. Notice
    10. Day by Day
    11. Smoke Rings
    12. Burn My Myself
    13. We Will Rise
    14. Best of Us
    15. Love Letters
    16. Farewell

37. 14

    Red Forest

    If These Trees Could Talk

    

    

    Post-rock | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Breath of Life
    2. The First Fire
    3. Barren Lands of the Modern Dinosaur
    4. They Speak with Knives
    5. The Gift of Two Rivers
    6. Red Forest ●
    7. The Aleutian Clouds
    8. Left to Rust and Rot
    9. When the Big Hand Buries the Twelve

38. 13

    Advaitic Songs

    Om

    

    

    Stoner metal | Maqam

    Tracks:

    1. Addis
    2. State of Non-Return
    3. Gethsemane ●
    4. Sinai
    5. Haqq al-Yaqin

39. 12

    Dead End Kings

    Katatonia

    

    

    Progressive metal | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Parting
    2. The One You Are Looking for Is Not Here
    3. Hypnone
    4. The Racing Heart ●
    5. Buildings
    6. Leech
    7. Ambitions
    8. Undo You
    9. Lethean
    10. First Prayer
    11. Dead Letters

40. 11

    The Black Chord

    Astra

    

    

    Space rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Cocoon
    2. The Black Chord ●
    3. Quake Meat
    4. Drift
    5. Bull Torpis
    6. Barefoot in the Head

41. 10

    King Animal

    Soundgarden

    

    

    Alternative metal | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Been Away Too Long
    2. Non-State Actor
    3. By Crooked Steps
    4. A Thousand Days Before
    5. Blood on the Valley Floor
    6. Bones of Birds
    7. Taree ●
    8. Attrition
    9. Black Saturday
    10. Halfway There
    11. Worse Dreams
    12. Eyelids Mouth
    13. Rowing

42. 9

    Yellow & Green

    Baroness

    

    

    Sludge metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Yellow Theme
    2. Take My Bones Away
    3. March to the Sea
    4. Little Things
    5. Twinkler
    6. Cocainium ●
    7. Back Where I Belong
    8. Sea Lungs
    9. Eula
    10. Green Theme
    11. Board up the House
    12. Mtns. (the Crown & Anchor)
    13. Foolsong
    14. Collapse
    15. Psalms Alive
    16. Stretchmarker
    17. The Line Between
    18. If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry

43. 8

    The Seer

    Swans

    

    

    Avant-garde rock | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lunacy
    2. Mother of the World
    3. The Wolf
    4. The Seer ●
    5. The Seer Returns
    6. 93 Ave. B Blues
    7. The Daughter Brings the Water
    8. Song for a Warrior
    9. Avatar
    10. A Piece of the Sky
    11. The Apostate

44. 7

    Tragic Idol

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Solitary One
    2. Crucify
    3. Fear of Impending Hell ●
    4. Honesty in Death
    5. Theories from Another World
    6. In This We Dwell
    7. To the Darkness
    8. Tragic Idol
    9. Worth Fighting for
    10. The Glorious End

45. 6

    Storm Corrosion

    Storm Corrosion

    

    

    Progressive rock | Ambient

    Tracks:

    1. Drag Ropes ●
    2. Storm Corrosion
    3. Hag
    4. Happy
    5. Lock Howl
    6. Ljudet Innan

46. 5

    Sorrow and Extinction

    Pallbearer

    

    

    Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Foreginer
    2. Devoid of Redemption
    3. The Legend
    4. An Offering of Grief
    5. Given to the Grave ●

47. 4

    L'Enfant Sauvage

    Gojira

    

    

    Progressive metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Explosia
    2. L'Enfant Sauvage ●
    3. The Axe
    4. Liquid Fire
    5. The Wild Healer
    6. Planned Obsolescence
    7. Mouth of Kala
    8. The Gift of Guilt
    9. Pain Is a Master
    10. Born in Winter
    11. The Fall

48. 3

    Manzanita

    Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

    

    

    Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. L.A. Sacrifice
    2. (Gone) 'Round the Corner
    3. Blue Wire
    4. Sunshine
    5. Ghost String ●
    6. Slithery Thing
    7. Green Meadow Slowdown
    8. The Flume
    9. Low Island Blues

49. 2

    The Weight of Oceans

    In Mourning

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Colossus ●
    2. A Vow to Conquer the Ocean
    3. From a Tidal Sleep
    4. Celestial Tear
    5. Convergence
    6. Sirens
    7. Isle of Solace
    8. The Drowning Sun
    9. Voyage of a Wavering Mind

50. 1

    Ten Stories

    mewithoutYou

    

    

    Art rock | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. February, 1878
    2. Grist for the Malady Mill
    3. East Enders Wives
    4. Cardiff Giant
    5. Elephant in the Dock
    6. Aubergine
    7. Fox's Dream of the Log Flume
    8. Nine Stories
    9. Fiji Mermaid
    10. Bear's Vision of St. Agnes ●
    11. All Circles