So, I figure with all the staff picks and ms awards going around, I'd post some of the new favorites I've found in 2012, as well as some anticipated favs of the year! Some of these have really changed since the MS awards, since I found myself enjoying certain albums way more than others, which likely would have been on my list otherwise.

1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3.Enslaved - RIITIIR

4.Xanthochroid - Blessed He With Boils

5.Atoma - Skylight

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

3.Opeth - Deliverance

4.Opeth - Morningrise

5.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

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Personal best picks...

1.Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2)

2.TesseracT - Altered State

3.Alter Bridge - Fortress

4.The Ocean - Pelagial

5.Haken - The Mountain

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1.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

2.Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm

3.Type O Negative - Dead Again

4.Marduk - Rom 5:12

5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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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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1.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

2.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

3.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

4.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Saivon Lapsi

5.Mourning Beloveth - Formless

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Weeee my ballot in the MS Awards. I guess I was Kvlt City, USA this year. Only Black Breath snagged more than 50 votes. And only The Great Old Ones placed higher than fifth. \m/

1.The Great Old Ones - Al Azif

2.Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

3.Abske Fides - Abske Fides

4.Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

5.Phobia - Remnants Of Filth

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1.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

2.Metallica - Metallica

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Annihilator - Set The World On Fire

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1.Leprous - Coal

2.Lingua Mortis Orchestra - LMO

3.Orphaned Land - All Is One

4.Stratovarius - Nemesis

5.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

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Alphabetically sorted list of concept albums I know and love them so much to feature them here. Just one album per band in case they have more.

1.Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

2.Aina - The Metal Opera - Days Of Rising Doom

3.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

4.Ayreon - The Human Equation

5.Crystallion - Hundred Days

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1.Novembers Doom - Aphotic

2.Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising

3.Benighted - Asylum Cave

4.MyGrain - MyGrain

5.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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1.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

2.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

3.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

4.Mouth Of The Architect - The Violence Beneath

5.Rosetta - A Determinism Of Morality

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