My Favorite Albums 2012

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My Favorite Albums 2012

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October 22, 2024
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Nostalgic year for me. My all-time favorite album and many others I still listen to regularly came out this year. I also graduated high school. Fun stuff.
105.
1.
Anathema - Weather Systems
🇬🇧 11 (Atmospheric Rock, Progressive Pop)
105.
2.
Swans - The Seer
🇺🇸 9 (Post-Rock)
105.
3.
Celldweller - Wish Upon A Blackstar
🇺🇸 9 (Electronic Rock)
105.
4.
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
🇺🇸 9 (Americana Pop)
105.
5.
Netra - Sørbyen
🇳🇴 9 (Black Metal, Trip Hop)
105.
6.
Soen - Cognitive
🇸🇪 9 (Progressive, Alternative)
105.
7.
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
🇺🇸 9 (Rap, West Coast Hip Hop)
105.
8.
Iamthemorning - ~
🇷🇺 8.5 (Neofolk)
105.
9.
Deftones - Kai No Yokan
🇺🇸 8.5 (Alternative, Nu)
105.
10.
Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
🇮🇳 🇬🇧 8.5 (Djent, Progressive Math)
105.
11.
Purity Ring - Shrines
🇨🇦 8.5 (Electropop, Witch House)
105.
12.
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
🇺🇸 8.5 (Progressive Rock, Progressive Pop, Fusion)
105.
13.
Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
🇩🇰 8.5 (Death-Doom)
105.
14.
Horn Of The Rhino - Grengus
🇪🇸 8 (Sludge)
105.
15.
Gazpacho - March Of Ghosts
🇳🇴 8 (Atmoshperic Rock, Progressive Rock)
105.
16.
Jess And The Ancient Ones - Jess And The Ancient Ones
🇫🇮 8 (Psychedelic Rock)
105.
17.
Lebanon Hanover - Why Not Just Be Solo?
🇨🇭 🇬🇧 8 (Darkwave)
105.
18.
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
🇺🇸 8 (Deathgrind)
105.
19.
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
🇺🇸 8 (Sludge)
105.
20.
Muse - The 2nd Law
🇬🇧 8 (Alternative Rock, Electronic Rock)
105.
21.
Bad Powers - Bad Powers
🇺🇸 8 (Post-Metal, Alternative)
105.
22.
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
🇦🇺 8 (Extreme Progressive)
105.
23.
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
🇺🇸 8 (Djent, Progressive Math)
105.
24.
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
🇬🇷 8 (Blackened Progressive, Psychedelic Rock)
105.
25.
Downfall Of Gaia - Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes
🇩🇪 8 (Atmospheric Sludge, Post-Black)
105.
26.
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
🇬🇧 8 (Progressive Rock)
105.
27.
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
🇫🇷 7.5 (Groove)
105.
28.
Cult Of Fire - Triumvirát
🇨🇿 7.5 (Black)
105.
29.
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
🇫🇷 7.5 (Atmospheric Black, Shoegaze)
105.
30.
Sylosis - Monolith
🇬🇧 7.5 (Melodic Death, Progressive Thrash)
105.
31.
To-Mera - Exile
🇬🇧 7.5 (Symphonic Progressive)
105.
32.
Shiny Toy Guns - III
🇺🇸 7.5 (Synthpop)
105.
33.
Klone - The Dreamer's Hideaway
🇫🇷 7.5 (Alternative, Progressive)
105.
34.
Lorn - Subconscious Metamorphosis
🇮🇹 7.5 (Avant-Garde Black)
105.
35.
Xandria - Neverworld's End
🇩🇪 7.5 (Symphonic)
105.
36.
Slomatics - A Hocht
🇬🇧 7.5 (Sludge, Stoner)
105.
37.
Eluveitie - Helvetios
🇨🇭 7.5 (Celtic Folk, Gothenburg)
105.
38.
Baroness - Yellow & Green
🇺🇸 7.5 (Progressive Rock, Sludge)
105.
39.
An Autumn - Only The Ocean Knows
🇳🇱 7.5 (Atmospheric Black, Shoegaze)
105.
40.
Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Animal
🇮🇸 7.5 (Indie Folk)
105.
41.
Jenny Owen Youngs - An Unwavering Band of Light
🇺🇸 7.5 (Indie Pop)
105.
42.
Ahab - The Giant
🇩🇪 7.5 (Funeral Doom)
105.
43.
Abigail Williams - Becoming
🇺🇸 7.5 (Atmospheric Black)
105.
44.
Ulver - Childhood's End
🇳🇴 7.5 (Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop)
105.
45.
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From the Stairwell
🇳🇱 7.5 (Ambient, Drone, Doom, Jazz)
105.
46.
The Pineapple Thief - All the Wars
🇬🇧 7.5 (Progressive Rock)
105.
47.
Rolo Tomassi - Astraea
🇬🇧 7.5 (Mathcore, Progressive)
105.
48.
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs
🇺🇸 7 (Acoustic Rock)
105.
49.
Billy Talent - Dead Silence
🇺🇸 7 (Punk Rock, Alternative Rock)
105.
50.
Celldweller - Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol. 02
🇺🇸 7 (Dubstep, Electronic Rock)
105.
51.
Emptiness - Error
🇧🇪 7 (Blackened Death)
105.
52.
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
🇫🇷 7 (Krautrock, Black)
105.
53.
The Lion's Daughter - Shame On Us All
🇺🇸 7 (Blackened Sludge, Hardcore)
105.
54.
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
🇸🇪 7 (Alternative Rock)
105.
55.
Pigs - You Ruin Everything
🇺🇸 7 (Noise Rock, Sludge)
105.
56.
Ihsahn - Eremita
🇳🇴 7 (Extreme Progressive)
105.
57.
Borknagar - Urd
🇳🇴 7 (Progressive)
105.
58.
Wintersun - Time I
🇫🇮 7 (Extreme Power, Melodic Death)
105.
59.
The Lumineers - The Lumineers
🇺🇸 7 (Indie Folk)
105.
60.
As I Lay Dying - Awakened
🇺🇸 7 (Melodic Metalcore)
105.
61.
Fun. - Some Nights
🇺🇸 7 (Pop)
105.
62.
The Sword - Apocryphon
🇺🇸 7 (Doom, Stoner)
105.
63.
Elvenking - Era
🇮🇹 7 (Power, Folk)
105.
64.
Evenoire - Vitriol
🇮🇹 7 (Folk, Symphonic)
105.
65.
Mares Of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
🇨🇦 6.5 (Doom, Sludge, Hardcore)
105.
66.
Imperial Triumphant - Abominamentvm
🇺🇸 6.5 (Black, Technical Death)
105.
67.
ETHS - III
🇫🇷 6.5 (Nu, Metalcore)
105.
68.
Sidewalks and Skeletons - Volume 2: Planes of Existence
🇺🇸 6.5 (Witch House)
105.
69.
Troller - Troller
🇺🇸 6.5 (Darkwave)
105.
70.
The Birthday Massacre - Hide And Seek
🇨🇦 6.5 (Synth Rock)
105.
71.
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour
🇬🇧 6.5 (Electronic Rock, Metalcore)
105.
72.
Therion - Les Fleurs Du Mal
🇸🇪 6.5 (Symphonic)
105.
73.
Keane - Strangeland
🇬🇧 6.5 (Alternative Rock, Indie Pop)
105.
74.
Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
🇺🇸 6 (Alternative Rock)
105.
75.
Flëur - Пробуждение
🇺🇦 6 (Baroque Pop)
105.
76.
The Killers - Battle Born
🇺🇸 6 (Indie Rock)
105.
77.
Nightwish - Imaginaerum (The Score)
🇫🇮 5.5 (Symphonic)
105.
78.
In This Moment - Blood
🇺🇸 5 (Alternative, Metalcore)
105.
79.
All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win
🇺🇸 4 (Melodic Metalcore)
105.
80.
—— EPs and Splits ——
105.
81.
Crippled Black Phoenix - No Sadness Or Farewell
🇬🇧 9.5 (Post-Rock)
105.
82.
Lana Del Rey - Paradise
🇺🇸 9 (Pop)
105.
83.
Lorde - The Love Club
🇳🇿 8.5 (Electropop)
105.
84.
Silent Planet - Come Wind, Come Weather
🇺🇸 8.5 (Metalcore)
105.
85.
Kylesa - From The Vaults, Vol. 1
🇺🇸 8 (Sludge)
105.
86.
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 2​.​0
🇷🇸 8 (Progressive Rock)
105.
87.
The Ocean - The Grand Inquisitor
🇩🇪 8 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
105.
88.
The Human Abstract - Moonlight Sonata
🇺🇸 8 (Modern Classical, Metalcore)
105.
89.
Kowloon Walled City - Kowloon Walled City / Thou
🇺🇸 8 (Sludge)
105.
90.
Sleepmakeswaves - Sleepmakeswaves
🇦🇺 7.5 (Post-Rock)
105.
91.
Ragana - All's Lost
🇺🇸 7.5 (Atmospheric Sludge, Post-Black)
105.
92.
Blues Pills - Bliss
🇸🇪 7.5 (Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock)
105.
93.
TesseracT - Perspective
🇬🇧 7.5 (Djent, Progressive Math)
105.
94.
Sky Ferreira - Ghost
🇺🇸 7.5 (Synthpop)
105.
95.
Havnatt - Havdøgn
🇳🇴 7.5 (Neofolk)
105.
96.
Full Of Hell - Code Orange Kids / Full Of Hell
🇺🇸 7 (Hardcore Punk, Grindcore)
105.
97.
Wytch Hazel - The Truth
🇬🇧 7 (Heavy)
105.
98.
L’Impératrice - L’Impératrice
🇫🇷 7 (Funk, Hip Hop, Pop)
105.
99.
Svalbard - Svalbard
🇬🇧 6.5 (Post-Hardcore)
105.
100.
Kardashev - Progression
🇺🇸 6 (Deathgaze)
105.
101.
Grand Magus - The Hunt
🇸🇪 6 (Heavy)
105.
102.
Jess And The Ancient Ones - Deadmask / Jess And The Ancient Ones
🇫🇮 6 (Psychedelic Rock)
105.
103.
Full Of Hell - Full Of Hell / The Guilt Of...
🇺🇸 5.5 (Hardcore Punk, Grindcore)
105.
104.
Full Of Hell - Full Of Hell / Calm The Fire
🇺🇸 5.5 (Hardcore Punk, Grindcore)
105.
105.
Immortal Guardian - Super Metal
🇺🇸 5 (Progressive Power)
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