Some easy stuff, some different. Mostly prog.
Things after 10 aren't really in any order

1. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2. Orphaned Land - Mabool

3. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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This is my personal list of the best albums in 2012. Only full-length albums, no EPs or live albums.

1. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

2. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

3. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

4. Rush - Clockwork Angels

5. Overkill - The Electric Age

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My personal top 20 albums of 2012 (in alphabetical order). I would have liked to add the debut album 'Lingua Franca' from T.R.A.M. but they are not on Metal Storm.

1. Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme

2. Aura Noir - Out To Die

3. Baroness - Yellow & Green

4. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

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WIP !!!!

Quite opposite to 2011, which featured both freakingly awesome releases (Terra Tenebrosa, Lazuli, Thy Catafalque...) and crap that redefined crap (Lulu or Illud Divinum Isanus), 2012 was quite consistent. Sadly, consistently average. OK, consistently quite correct, but groundbreaking releases were few and far between...

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

3. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4. Klone - The Dreamer's Hideaway

5. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

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1. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

2. Anathema - Weather Systems

3. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4. Atoma - Skylight

5. Torche - Harmonicraft

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Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.

1. Sylosis - Monolith

2. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4. Abigail Williams - Becoming

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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1. Wintersun - Time I

2. My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures

3. Kamelot - Silverthorn

4. Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming

5. Forgotten Tomb - ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil

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1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Ancestors - In Dreams And Time

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Royal Thunder - CVI

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As of 16 October 2012

1. Anathema - Weather Systems

2. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

3. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

4. Baroness - Yellow & Green

5. Napalm Death - Utilitarian

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These are the albums that have been burning a hole in my iPod this past year. I have really only created this list so that I can keep track of the albums I have enjoyed in 2012, but if you have any suggestions feel free it send them my way.

The albums with stars (*) next to their ratings, are albums that I am still currently listening to.

1. Godspeed You!Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

2. Enslaved - RIITIIR

3. Wildernessking - The Writing Of Gods In The Sand

4. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

5. BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2

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Work in progress

1. WIntersun - Time I

2. Enslaved - Riitiir

3. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4. The Faceless - Autotheism

5. Anathema - Weather Systems

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While I'm slightly disappointed the world didn't end this year, I thought I'd share my musical tastes from throughout the year by arbitrarily ranking other people's art. When the year began I was really into sludge and stoner but as the year has worn on, it's been the black metal releases which by and large have won my attention and appreciation.

1. Royal Thunder - CVI

2. Ancestors - In Dreams and Time

3. Merrimack - The Acausal Mass

4. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

5. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago

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Another year, another favourites of the year list... But hopefully this will be more complete than the previous years ones. Rather than making a massive list of everything I have listened to, I'll be as selective as possible. I've only started listening to 2012 releases since February, so I'll be playing catch up throughout the year as my time is limited. I've only gone through 556 releases this year properly as of 07/01/2013, so the list can only expand! If you feel strongly about certain albums released this year and it's not here, be sure to leave a comment! Feel free to make a list that's exactly the same =P

1. CSSABA - Underground Lo-Fi Songs

2. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

3. Monolithe - Interlude Second

4. Nadja - The Primitive World

5. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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Being that this is the last year of humanity you would figure it would be an excellent year for Metal!!! So far it seems so ,some great releases to enjoy as the oceans rise ,the earth cracks,and the polar axis shifts so we all float into oblivion,ENJOY!!!!!!

1. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

2. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

3. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

4. Sylosis - Monolith

5. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

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My top 20 favorite albums of 2012 (will be updated as time moves along)

1. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

2. In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

3. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

4. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

5. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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