1. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

2. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Unstille

4. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

5. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry

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1. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2. Wodensthrone - Curse

3. Circus Maximus - Nine

4. Enslaved - RIITIIR

5. Threshold - March Of Progress

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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. Wodensthrone - Curse

2. Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph

3. Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

4. A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

5. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

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Now that the year is coming close to an end, I draw the line and show the albums that impressed me (more or less) this year. This is not a best to worst list.

1. Marillion - Sounds that Can't Be Made

2. Threshold - March of Progress

3. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

4. In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5. OSI - Fire Make Thunder

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1. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2. Dordeduh - Dar de Duh

3. Carnival Slaughter - Reason for Insanity [EP]

4. Incantation - Vanquish In Vengeance

5. Fragments Of Unbecoming - The Art Of Coming Apart

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A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions are welcome. My favourite genres are Doom, Black and Gothic Metal, but I also like Progressive, Thrash and Death Metal. All albums on this list are at least worth an 8/10 rating. I included genres of each album as well.

1. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2. Ablaze In Hatred - Deceptive Awareness

3. A Forest Of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth

4. After Forever - Prison Of Desire

5. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

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Ordered preferentially. Kind of.

I have yet to listen to:

Knaat - Die Lichtung
Feuerseele - Erntezeit
Rhovanion - Land of the Wild

1. Dordeduh - Dar De Duh

2. Butterfly Temple - Дыхание

3. Finsterforst - Rastlos

4. Hel - Das Atmen der Erde

5. Heidevolk - Batavi

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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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My summary of the year. Omitted genres which I don't like.

Each of them has a rating of my worship in a five-star scale (5 stars = I love this shit!).

1. ---------------BEST ALBUMS BY GENRE:---------------

2. ---------------Alternative metal---------------

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

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as of 01.01.13

1. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2. Eyefear - The Inception Of Darkness

3. Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever

4. pg.lost - Key

5. Vesperian Sorrow - Stormwinds Of Ages

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Voila.

1. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

3. Dordeduh - Dar De Duh

4. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Includes every full-length and EP from 2012 I listened to. Ordered alphabetically. More albums will be added, and the ratings are subject to change.

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. Addaura - Burning For The Ancient

3. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

4. Agruss - Morok

5. Alkerdeel - Morinde

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This is a list of almost every album/EP/demo I listened to from 2012. It is primarily composed of the better albums I listened to as I tend to forget about bad albums (and rightfully so).

NOTE: Most of these ratings don't stand anymore.

1. Igorrr - Hallelujah

2. Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber II

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

4. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

5. Elderwind - Волшебство живой природы

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Within the past decade, black metal has seen bands from all over the world incorporating new sounds to the style and changing its delivery like never before. As great as the classic acts are, BM bands today seem to be branching out in every possible direction. From the beautiful chaos of the French bands to the psychedelic dabblings of the Finns to the atmospheric scene out West in the U.S... all the experimentation is helping to create a new identity for the genre. So, in no particular order, here are some of the best releases from this growing trend of originality within black metal's foundations (atmospheric, psychedelic, black doom, and otherwise).

1. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

2. Blut Aus Nord - MoRT

3. Diapsiquir - Virus STN

4. Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness

5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

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