I will be logging here everything I check out and at least slightly enjoy on 2012, so I don't miss anything by the end of the year. Scores are subject to change.

1.Ihsahn - Eremita

2.Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow

3.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

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

5.Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

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My personal picks for albums that makes my mind wander. Also a good list for anyone getting into metal.

1.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

4.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

5.Dark Tranquillity - Character

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

2.Enslaved - RIITIIR

3.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

4.Obsidian Kingdom - Mantiis - An Agony In Fourteen Bites

5.Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

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Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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One of likely hundreds of these, more for self-enjoyment (or something) above anything, but if it helps someone find a good album/albums they wouldn't've otherwise heard I'll be happy.

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.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

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

2.Enslaved - RIITIIR

3.Obsidian Kingdom - Mantiis

4.Meshuggah - Koloss

5.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

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1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.Ihsahn - Eremita

3.Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones

4.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

5.Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind

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The bands are in that order on purpose, from most to least favorite, but favorite nonetheless. The format is:

band | favourite album by the band | favorite song (or 2) by the band

Last updated on 4 November 2022.

1.Meshuggah - Nothing

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Immolation - Close To A World Below

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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Last updated on 11 April 2024.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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As title may indicate, this is just a list I made in a moment of boredom, and it include my 2012 top 10 albums based on my last.fm account scrobbles.

Some of my reviews, for some good 2012 albums, when I was writing for JorZine.com

Blaakyum - Lord Of The Night review

Soen - Cognitive review

Crow7 - Symphony Of Souls review

1.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

2.Muse - The 2nd Law

3.Deftones - Koi No Yokan

4.El Rass & Munma - Kachf el Mahjoub / Unveiling the Hidden

5.Lamb Of God - Resolution

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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.BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2

3.Amenra - Mass V

4.Wildernessking - The Writing Of Gods In The Sand

5.Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

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My favorite albums of 2012.

*Now separated into a 'metal' and 'non-metal' section. (non-metal is at the bottom of the list).

Soon to be added: Clocks, Kiko Loureiro, Deathmole, Leonard Cohen, Panzerballett, Coronado, Striker, Dethklok, The Sword.

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

2.Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow

3.The Faceless - Autotheism

4.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

5.Save Us From the Archon - How Terrible, The Undergrowth's Jaws That Tangle

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Bands in my daily listening rotation. Albums chosen are my favorite by the respective band in most cases 🤘

1.200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel

2.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

3.Abbath - Abbath

4.Acid Witch - Rot Among Us

5.Æther Realm - Tarot

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1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Soen - Lotus

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Faith No More - The Real Thing

5.Tool - Ænima

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