2012
2012
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.
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A Forest Of Stars
- A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
Atmospheric Black Metal [9.0] Victorian black metal done with class and grandeur.
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Addaura
- Burning For The Ancient
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] Warm and welcoming, yet fast and relentless. Promising band.
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Agalloch
- Faustian Echoes
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.5] Features Agalloch becoming more black metal. With lyrics on Faust
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Anaal Nathrakh
- Vanitas
Industrial Blackgrind [9.0] Showcasing war in its aural form, this fantastic record redefines "brutal".
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Ash Borer
- Cold Of Ages
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] A harrowing, grim experience. Ash Borer have taken it to a new level.
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Blut Aus Nord
- What Once Was... Liber II
Industrial Black Metal [8.5] While retaining their sound, BaN played it faster this time.
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Blut Aus Nord
- 777 - Cosmosophy
Industrial Black Metal [9.0] With the grandeur cranked up to the max, this is my favorite 777 album.
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Crescent Moon
- The Wall Of Light
Death/Doom Metal [8.0] With this debut, I think they became the best Syrian band around.
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Deathspell Omega
- Drought
Avant-Garde Black Metal [5.0] A chaotic mess. I dunno why, but to me this was wankery.
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Dodecahedron
- Dodecahedron
Avant-Garde Black Metal [8.0] Interesting stuff. Black metal for fans of tech death.
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Dordeduh
- Dar De Duh
Atmospheric Black/Folk [9.0] So rich with wondrous textures. A magnificent experience of great music.
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Drudkh
- Вічний Оберт Колеса (Eternal Turn Of The Wheel)
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.0] Horrendous guitar tone notwithstanding, this is a fine effort.
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Esoterica
- Idololatriae
Atmospheric Black Metal [6.0] I didn't like the production on this one. At all.
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Faal
- The Clouds Are Burning
Blackened Doom Metal [9.0] Like Evoken, this is doomtastic, atmospheric and transcendental.
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20.
Gnaw Their Tongues
- Eschatological Scatology
Experimental Black Metal [6.5] The constant torrent of noise makes this stand out, but kills it at a lot of moments.
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21.
Gorod
- A Perfect Absolution
Technical Death Metal [8.5] Delicious. Tech death with soul and variety.
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John Haughm
- +46 17' 36.30", -124 4' 20.13"
Experimental [7.0] It's just a single, but it is incredibly promising.
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Khors
- Wisdom Of Centuries
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] A short, sweet treat of Ukrainian black metal.
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Lunar Aurora
- Hoagascht
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] The masters of the black art have finally returned.
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25.
Lustre
- They Awoke To The Scent Of Spring
Ambient Black Metal [7.0] Minimalist, monotonous, repetitive...
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26.
Nachtmystium
- Silencing Machine
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] The Lepers Of Destitution might just be my favorite song.
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Nontinuum
- The Stars You Gathered, The Stars I Destroyed
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] Similar to Woods Of Desolation and Austere. Legit.
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Oak Pantheon
- From A Whisper
Blackened Post-metal [8.0] Promising stuff. A fest of post-metal mastery.
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Reverence
- The Asthenic Ascension
Industrial Black Metal [8.0] Cold and sharp. Spot-on French black metal.
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34.
The Great Old Ones
- Al Azif
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Lovecraft+french+post+black metal=EPIC WIN.
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There Are No Words
- Pando
Post-Rock [8.0] The guy from Oak Pantheon's band. Decent record.
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36.
Verdunkeln
- Weder Licht Noch Schatten
Atmospheric/Psychedelic Black Metal [8.5] Black metal infused psychedelic with clean vocals. Fantastic.
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Verwüstung
- Soft Hands, Pale Moon
Ambient Black/Drone Doom Metal [6.5] Pretentious stuff that goes nowhere IMO.
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38.
Wilds Forlorn
- We, The Damned
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.5] Good stuff that offers nothing new to black metal.
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Wildernessking
- The Writing Of Gods In The Sand
Progressive Black Metal [6.5] Decent, but very derivative with bad vocals.
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40.
Winterfylleth
- The Threnody Of Triumph
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Marvelous guitar tone. An entrancing experience.
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Wodensthrone
- Curse
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Fast, relentless and dynamic. With an ode to the ancient gods of course.
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Posts: 1322 Written by [user id=109200] on 14.08.2012 at 22:39 Well, kind of, I'm not limiting the list to black metal, but it just happens that most of what I listen to is atmospheric black metal. Thanks for the thumbup 
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Check out Wildernessking, based on everything here i'd say they're a perfect fit
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Did you check out Hail Spirit Noir's Pneuma? I didn't like it at first, but it's shaping up to me one of my favorite black metal records of the year, alongside A Forest of Stars, Alkerdeel and Sigh (if that counts as BM).
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Posts: 18612 Written by IronAngel on 18.08.2012 at 01:15 Would call Alkerdeel Sludge... Just a blackened kind or like I said before in my review, played sludge with a blanket of black sound. Do't feel much BM on HSN let alone Sigh. I can call the latest AFOS black though.
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Posts: 1322 Written by Alex F on 17.08.2012 at 17:31 I listened to "Rubicon" a month ago, but the progressive elements put me off. I assure I'll pick it up again. Soon enough Written by IronAngel on 18.08.2012 at 01:15 I'm going to check it out soon enough
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Some albums with the same ratings have descriptions that would imply that they should have different ratings. An example would be Drapsnatt and Netherion.
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