My Top Albums Of 2012

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My Top Albums Of 2012

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A list by
Red_Travis
Created
January 02, 2012
Entries
182
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1.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
182.
2.
Amiensus - Restoration
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3.
Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live
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4.
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
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5.
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
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6.
Evoken - Atra Mors
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7.
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
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8.
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
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Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
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10.
Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
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11.
Nadja - Excision
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12.
Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth
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After Oblivion - Stamina
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14.
Xandria - Neverworld's End
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Antimatter - Fear Of A Unique Identity
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16.
Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
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In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans
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18.
Funeral - Oratorium
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19.
Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
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20.
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
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21.
Killing Joke - MMXII
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22.
Soundgarden - King Animal
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23.
Mono - For My Parents
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Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
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25.
Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
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The Faceless - Autotheism
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Striker - Armed To The Teeth
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28.
Arcana - As Bright As A Thousand Suns
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29.
Rush - Clockwork Angels
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30.
Anathema - Weather Systems
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Asphyx - Deathhammer
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32.
Shining - Redefining Darkness
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Witchcraft - Legend
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34.
Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
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35.
Ihsahn - Eremita
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36.
Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
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Kamelot - Silverthorn
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Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy
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Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
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40.
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
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Swans - The Seer
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42.
Fear Factory - The Industrialist
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Wo Fat - The Black Code
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Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be
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Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
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46.
Arbor - The Plutonian Shore
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Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
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48.
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
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49.
Incantation - Vanquish In Vengeance
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50.
In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad
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Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
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52.
Anneke Van Giersbergen - Everything Is Changing
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53.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Unstille
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54.
Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry
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55.
Anhedonist - Netherwards
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56.
Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas
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Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
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58.
Holocausto Canibal - Gorefilia
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Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
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60.
Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion
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Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White
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62.
Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming
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Waylander - Kindred Spirits
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Propagandhi - Failed States
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Worship - Terranean Wake
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Korpiklaani - Manala
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Destruction - Spiritual Genocide
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Amenra - Mass V
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An Autumn - Only The Ocean Knows
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The Gathering - Disclosure
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Lich King - Born Of The Bomb
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72.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
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Wintersun - Time I
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My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures
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Threshold - March Of Progress
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Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Tree of Tongues
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Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
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God Seed - I Begin
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Enslaved - RIITIIR
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Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron
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The Foreshadowing - Second World
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Collapse Under The Empire - Fragments Of A Prayer
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Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy Of Nerak
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Trioscapes - Separate Realities
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Wodensthrone - Curse
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Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
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The Sword - Apocryphon
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Diskord - Dystopics
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Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Exegesis
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Pathfinder - Fifth Element
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Hour Of Penance - Sedition
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real
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Overkill - The Electric Age
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Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering
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Arctic Plateau - The Enemy Inside
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Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever
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Temple - On The Steps Of The Temple
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Meshuggah - Koloss
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Sylosis - Monolith
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Cannibal Corpse - Torture
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The Chariot - One Wing
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Atoma - Skylight
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Allegaeon - Formshifter
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Accept - Stalingrad
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Oddland - The Treachery Of Senses
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If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
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Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
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Bison B.C. - Lovelessness
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Agruss - Morok
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Soul Cycle - Soul Cycle II
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Herodias - Dance Of The Seven Veils
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Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
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Latitudes - Individuation
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Nadja - The Primitive World
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Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
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Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light
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Nadja - Dagdrøm
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Ahab - The Giant
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Rage - 21
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Royal Thunder - CVI
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Pennywise - All Or Nothing
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Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
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Ram-Zet - Freaks In Wonderland
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Unsane - Wreck
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Before The Dawn - Rise Of The Phoenix
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Opera Diabolicus - 1614
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Janus - Nox Aeris
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Sabaton - Carolus Rex
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Art By Numbers - Reticence: The Musical
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Beardfish - The Void
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Whitechapel - Whitechapel
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Soen - Cognitive
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Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
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Six Feet Under - Undead
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Horrendous - The Chills
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Lurk - Lurk
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Nile - At The Gate Of Sethu
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The Agonist - Prisoners
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Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
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Ufomammut - Oro - Opus Primum
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Circus Maximus - Nine
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Lord Mantis - Pervertor
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DragonForce - The Power Within
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Eluveitie - Helvetios
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Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones
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The Omega Experiment - The Omega Experiment
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Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent
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Ørkenkjøtt - Ønskediktet
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Dissona - Dissona
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Pseudogod - Deathwomb Catechesis
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Diabulus In Musica - The Wanderer
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Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow
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Prong - Carved Into Stone
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Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
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Aborted - Global Flatline
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Thee Orakle - Smooth Comforts False
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Sigh - In Somniphobia
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Drudkh - Вічний Оберт Колеса (Eternal Turn Of The Wheel)
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King Of Asgard - ...To North
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Angelus Apatrida - The Call
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Step In Fluid - One Step Beyond
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Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
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Folkstone - Il Confine
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Undergang - Til Døden Os Skiller
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The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
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Azaghal - Nemesis
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Nekromantheon - Rise, Vulcan Spectre
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Napalm Death - Utilitarian
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Funeral Whore - Step Into Damnation
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Unleashed - Odalheim
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Aeon - Aeons Black
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Om - Advaitic Songs
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Tracedawn - Lizard Dusk
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Greenleaf - Nest Of Vipers
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Christian Mistress - Possession
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Savage Messiah - Plague Of Conscience
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Hung - Hung
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Mnemic - Mnemesis
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Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
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Job For A Cowboy - Demonocracy
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Upon A Burning Body - Red.White.Green
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18.03.2012 - 05:13

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Alcest? Drudkh? I feel like those were both pretty bland
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18.03.2012 - 06:09

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Written by Alex F on 18.03.2012 at 05:13

Alcest? Drudkh? I feel like those were both pretty bland

Different views on the albums, I guess. But I really enjoyed both of them
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19.03.2012 - 03:01
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I also thought Alcest was somewhat a dissapointment. Les Discrets did a great job on the other hand, and I think they surpassed their debut album

I still have to check out Dodecahedron
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19.03.2012 - 18:42

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Written by Unhealer on 19.03.2012 at 03:01

I also thought Alcest was somewhat a dissapointment. Les Discrets did a great job on the other hand, and I think they surpassed their debut album

I still have to check out Dodecahedron

Yeah, Dodecahedron is a pretty crazy album. I might actually like it more then Les voyages de l'âme, I just need to give it a few more listens.
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21.03.2012 - 15:51

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Nice that you included Ram-Zet! I loved it too!
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21.03.2012 - 19:04

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Written by SceneryOfLoss on 21.03.2012 at 15:51

Nice that you included Ram-Zet! I loved it too!

Yeah, I heard tid bits of it when it was first released, but didn't get around listening to the whole thing until a couple of days ago, it's pretty sweet.
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16.08.2012 - 21:13

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My god you listen to a lot of music
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18.08.2012 - 01:24

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How do you feel about that Arcana album? I was excited to see it drop, but compared to the new Dead Can Dance it was kinda disappointing and average. (DCD is definetely album of the year material, so check it out if you haven't.)
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18.08.2012 - 01:42

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Written by IronAngel on 18.08.2012 at 01:24

How do you feel about that Arcana album? I was excited to see it drop, but compared to the new Dead Can Dance it was kinda disappointing and average. (DCD is definetely album of the year material, so check it out if you haven't.)

Hmm, it's been a few months since I heard Arcana's new album, and I thought it was real good, got to go and give it another listen. As far as DCD goes, I had no IDEA they just released a new album, I have to go and check that out as well. Thanks for the heads up
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Iron Nostarion
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26.08.2012 - 01:28
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Rush is way underrated on this list. I think you should give it more listens.
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There is their gold, treasure and wealth,
The only condition is to ignore them,
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29.08.2012 - 02:58

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Written by Iron Nostarion on 26.08.2012 at 01:28

Rush is way underrated on this list. I think you should give it more listens.

Listened to the album all week when it was first released, then I stopped listening to it because I figured it was going to be a bore after a while. I went back to it just recently, and......it rules, lol. But with the the last four months rolling in, and a ton of highly anticipating albums coming out, it's gonna be real hard for the list to look the way it is now, even with Clockwork Angels staying in the top 20.
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24.10.2012 - 20:48
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How was the new Bison album?
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25.10.2012 - 01:42

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Written by Boxcar Willy on 24.10.2012 at 20:48

How was the new Bison album?

It didn't necessarily impress me right off the bat, but the album is a grower. It's sludgie, and raw, but it's not something I would listen to everyday. All that being said, it ended up being a pretty solid album.
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08.11.2012 - 19:00

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Its awesome to see Godspeed getting some recognition on this site! Definitely one of my favourites of 2012 too, great list \m/
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09.11.2012 - 01:35

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Written by 1Yossarian1 on 08.11.2012 at 19:00

Its awesome to see Godspeed getting some recognition on this site! Definitely one of my favourites of 2012 too, great list \m/

Thanks a bunch for the feedback, and yes, the new GY!BE album is amazing.
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psykometal
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13.11.2012 - 03:16
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Missing a lot of of good Slam and BDM releases...tsk tsk
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15.11.2012 - 06:27

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Written by psykometal on 13.11.2012 at 03:16

Missing a lot of of good Slam and BDM releases...tsk tsk

Gorefilia and Vanitas are the ones I forgot, but some of the BDM albums just didn't cut it with me this year.
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15.11.2012 - 06:31
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Written by Red_Travis on 15.11.2012 at 06:27

Gorefilia and Vanitas are the ones I forgot, but some of the BDM albums just didn't cut it with me this year.

Both of those are really good releases but HC are deathgrind and AN is black/grind, neither are BDM or Slam...:P
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02.12.2012 - 13:29
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Nice list bro. I have noticed your name a lot on the same bands I am a fan of! Their is a lot of stuff on your list that's on my 2012 list, check it out. I bet you'd dig Sunpocrisy's latest.
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