2012

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2012

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A list by
Draugen
Created
May 25, 2012
Entries
117
Endorsements
6
Once again I have put together a top list of albums released during the year from best to worst. However, this time around I have also written a short personal opinion/mini review for most of the albums in their respective comment sections.
117.
1.
Agruss - Morok
(10) Atmospheric Black/Death
117.
2.
Monarch - Omens
(10) Sludge/Drone/Doom
117.
3.
Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes
(9.5) Drone/Neofolk
117.
4.
Summer Fades Away - We Meet The Last Time, Then Departure
(9.0) Post-Rock
117.
5.
Sigh - In Somniphobia
(9.0) Avantgarde/Black
117.
6.
Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
(9.0) Black/Doom
117.
7.
Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay
(9.0) Death/Doom
117.
8.
Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
(9.0) Traditional Doom
117.
9.
Dråpsnatt - Skelepht
(9.0) Atmospheric Black
117.
10.
Netra - Sørbyen
(9.0) Depressive Black/Trip-Hop
117.
11.
Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry
(9.0) Funeral Doom/Black
117.
12.
Monolithe - Monolithe III
(9.0) Death/Doom
117.
13.
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
(9.0) Post/Shoegaze
117.
14.
A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
(9.0) Avantgarde/Black
117.
15.
Alunah - White Hoarhound
(9.0) Stoner/Doom
117.
16.
Anhedonist - Netherwards
(9.0) Death/Doom
117.
17.
Year Of The Goat - Angels' Necropolis
(9.0) Hard Rock
117.
18.
Royal Thunder - CVI
(9.0) Stoner/Heavy
117.
19.
Mono - For My Parents
(8.5) Post-Rock
117.
20.
Panopticon - Kentucky
(8.5) Atmospheric Black/Folk
117.
21.
Profetus - ...To Open The Passages In Dusk
(8.5) Funeral Doom
117.
22.
Wildernessking - The Writing Of Gods In The Sand
(8.5) Progressive/Black
117.
23.
Lethian Dreams - Season Of Raven Words
(8.5) Atmospheric Doom
117.
24.
Jess And The Ancient Ones - Jess And The Ancient Ones
(8.5) Psychedelic Rock
117.
25.
Abigail Williams - Becoming
(8.5) Atmospheric Black
117.
26.
Nadja - The Primitive World [Collaboration]
(8.5) Drone/Doom
117.
27.
Undersmile - Narwhal
(8.5) Sludge/Doom
117.
28.
Igorrr - Hallelujah
(8.5) Experimental/Cybergrind
117.
29.
Reino Ermitaño - Veneración Del Fuego
(8.5) Traditional Doom
117.
30.
Riti Occulti - Riti Occulti
(8.5) Blackened Stoner/Doom
117.
31.
Lycanthia - Oligarchy
(8.5) Gothic/Doom
117.
32.
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
(8.5) Blackened Progressive
117.
33.
Bell Witch - Longing
(8.5) Funeral Doom
117.
34.
Witch Mountain - Cauldron Of The Wild
(8.5) Stoner/Doom
117.
35.
Lurk - Lurk
(8.5) Sludge/Doom
117.
36.
The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
117.
37.
The Slow Death - II
(8.0) Death/Doom
117.
38.
Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
117.
39.
Anna Von Hausswolff - Ceremony
(8.0) Experimental Rock
117.
40.
Ruby The Hatchet - Ouroboros
(8.0) Psychedelic Rock
117.
41.
Om - Advaitic Songs
(8.0) Psychedelic Folk
117.
42.
Wodensthrone - Curse
(8.0) Atmospheric Black
117.
43.
Xandria - Neverworld's End
(8.0) Symphonic
117.
44.
Windhand - Windhand
(8.0) Stoner/Doom
117.
45.
Oak Pantheon - From A Whisper
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
117.
46.
Faustcoven - Hellfire And Funeral Bells
(8.0) Black/Doom
117.
47.
The Water Witch - The Heavens In Traction
(8.0) Progressive Black
117.
48.
Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine
(8.0) Power
117.
49.
Officium Triste - Immersed
(8.0) Death/Doom
117.
50.
Mud Walk - The Drifters Forgotten Lore
(8.0) Hard Rock/Blues
117.
51.
The Eden House - Timeflows
(8.0) Gothic
117.
52.
Frequency Drift - ... Laid To Rest
(8.0) Progressive
117.
53.
Psychonaut 4 - Have A Nice Trip
(8.0) Depressive Black
117.
54.
Wilds Forlorn - We, The Damned
(8.0) Atmospheric Black
117.
55.
Blues Pills - Bliss
(8.0) Psychedelic Rock
117.
56.
Nadja - Dagdrøm
(7.5) Drone/Doom
117.
57.
Dissona - Dissona
(7.5) Progressive
117.
58.
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs
(7.5) Acoustic
117.
59.
Ahab - The Giant
(7.5) Funeral Doom/Post
117.
60.
Evoken - Atra Mors
(7.5) Funeral Doom/Death
117.
61.
Trees - Sickness In
(7.5) Drone/Doom
117.
62.
Alexander Paul Blake - Die Rückkehr Ins Goldene Zeitalter
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
117.
63.
Into Darkness (GER) - Into Darkness
(7.5) Death/Doom
117.
64.
Black Moth - The Killing Jar
(7.5) Stoner/Doom
117.
65.
Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
(7.5) Black/Folk
117.
66.
Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil
(7.5) Death/Doom
117.
67.
Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
117.
68.
Ides Of Gemini - Constantinopole
(7.5) Psychedelic Post
117.
69.
Abske Fides - Abske Fides
(7.5) Death/Doom
117.
70.
Narrow House - A Key To Panngrieb
(7.5) Funeral Doom
117.
71.
Verdunkeln - Weder Licht Noch Schatten
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
117.
72.
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
(7.0) Atmospheric Black/Shoegaze
117.
73.
Anguish - Through The Archdemon's Head
(7.0) Traditional Doom
117.
74.
Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
117.
75.
Frailty - Melpomene
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
117.
76.
Havnatt - Havdøgn
(7.0) Neofolk
117.
77.
Graveyard - Lights Out
(7.0) Hard Rock/Blues
117.
78.
An Autumn For Crippled Children - Only The Ocean Knows
(7.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
117.
79.
Angellore - Errances
(7.0) Atmospheric Doom
117.
80.
Ereb Altor - Gastrike
(7.0) Black/Folk
117.
81.
Pandemonium - Misanthropy
(7.0) Blackened Death
117.
82.
Vintersorg - Orkan
(7.0) Melodic Black/Progressive
117.
83.
Castle - Blacklands
(7.0) Heavy/Doom
117.
84.
The 11th Hour - Lacrima Mortis
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
117.
85.
Árstíðir Lífsins - Vápna Lækjar Eldr
(7.0) Black/Folk
117.
86.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
(7.0) Symphonic/Avantgarde
117.
87.
Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
(7.0) Blackened Death
117.
88.
The Howling Void - The Womb Beyond The World
(7.0) Funeral Doom
117.
89.
Dämmerfarben - Herbstpfad
(7.0) Black/Folk
117.
90.
Funeral - Oratorium
(7.0) Gothic/Doom
117.
91.
Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
(7.0) Atmospheric Black
117.
92.
Derkéta - In Death We Meet
(7.0) Death/Doom
117.
93.
Begräbnis - Begräbnis
(7.0) Funeral Doom
117.
94.
Christian Mistress - Possession
(7.0) Heavy
117.
95.
In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans
(7.0) Melodic Death/Progressive
117.
96.
To-Mera - Exile
(7.0) Progressive
117.
97.
Rituals Of The Oak - Come Taste The Doom
(6.5) Traditional Doom
117.
98.
Occultation - Three & Seven
(6.5) Psychedelic Doom
117.
99.
Vagrant God - Vagrant God
(6.5) Gothic
117.
100.
Worship - Terranean Wake
(6.5) Funeral Doom
117.
101.
Porta Nigra - Fin De Siècle
(6.5) Black/Avantgarde
117.
102.
Skogen - Eld
(6.0) Black/Folk
117.
103.
Worm Ouroboros - Come The Thaw
(6.5) Post/Ambient
117.
104.
Ishmael - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
(6.0) Sludge/Doom
117.
105.
When Nothing Remains - As All Torn Asunder
(6.0) Melodic Death/Doom
117.
106.
Soulfallen - The Promise Of Hell
(6.0) Melodic Death/Black
117.
107.
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
(6.0) Melodic Death/Doom
117.
108.
Borknagar - Urd
(6.0) Melodic Black/Progressive
117.
109.
Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing
(5.5) Black/Doom
117.
110.
Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
(5.5) Melodic Death/Progressive
117.
111.
Demon Lung - Pareidolia
(5.0) Traditional Doom
117.
112.
Cult Of Herodias - Dance Of The Seven Veils
(5.0) Atmospheric Doom
117.
113.
Seremonia - Seremonia
(5.0) Psychedelic Rock
117.
114.
Uzala - Uzala
(5.0) Stoner/Doom
117.
115.
Process Of Guilt - Fæmin
(5.0) Atmospheric Sludge/Doom
117.
116.
Placid Art - Rainbow Destruction Process
(4.5) Gothic/Doom
117.
117.
Sabbath Assembly - Ye Are Gods
(4.0) Psychedelic Rock
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