Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:44 am
The poll for the best album of 2012 is looking good, but there's still another week to get your votes in. Here's a couple of albums I've checked out in the last week that I think are quite good:
Early Graves - Red Horse (Crust Punk)
7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes of Absolution (Slightly Prog Metal - think Opeth and such)
Crystal Castles - III (Electronic)
Dysrhythmia - Test of Submission (Instrumental Metal - similar to Animals As Leaders)
Enabler - All Hail The Void (Punk/Thrash)
Royal Thunder - CVI (Stoner Rock)
Sylosis - Monolith (Thrash Metal)
Primitive Weapons - The Shadow Gallery (Metal)
Here's the full shortlist as submitted by readers so far:Â
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10 Years Minus The Machine
A Place to Bury Strangers Worship
Aborted Global Flatline
Aesop Rock Skelethon
Agent Fresco A Long Time Listening
Alcest Les Voyages de l'Âme
Allagoch Faustian Echoes
Almeeva EP #2
Anathema Weather Systems
Andy Stott Luxury Problems
Anhedonist Netherwards
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Antimatter Fear of a Unique Identity
Ash Borer Cold of Ages
Asia XXX
Atoma Skylight
Band of Skulls Sweet Sour
Baroness Yellow & Green
Behexen Nightside Emanations
Ben Folds Five The Sound of the Life of the Mind
Between the Buried and Me Parallax 2: The Future Sequence
Big Wreck Albatross
Bird In A Row You, Me, The Violence
Bison BC Lovelessness
Black Keys El Camino
Blacklevel Embassy New Veteran
Blink 182 Dogs Eating Dogs
Blizzard At Sea Individuation
Bob Dylan Tempest
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
Carina Round Tigermending
Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi RabbitRabbitRadio vol 1
Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity
Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Big Moon Ritual
Chris Robinson Brotherhood The Magic Door
Circa Survive Violent Waves
Clark Iradelphic
Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory
Cloudkicker Fade
Coheed And Cambria The Afterman
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Crystal Castles III
Cursive I Am Gemini
Daniel Rossen Silent Hour/Golden Mile
Danko Jones Rock And Roll Is Black And White
Daphni Jialong
Dave Matthews Band Away From The World
David Byrne & St. Vincent Love This Giant
Death Grips No Love Deep Web
Death Grips The Money Store
Deathbed Reunion Obviously Late
Deathspell Omega Drought
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deichkind Befehl Von Canz Unten
Dethklok Dethalbum III
Devin Townsend Epicloud
Die Antwoord Ten$ion
Dopethrone III
Down IV
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme
Dysrhythmia Test of Submission
Echolyn Echolyn
El-P Cancer for Cure
Elder Spires Burn / Release
Enslaved RIITIIR
Enter Shikari Flash Flood of Colour
Evans Blue Graveyard of Empires
Eve 6 Speak In Code
Every Time I Die Ex Lives
Fiona Apple Idler Wheel
Flaming Lips Flaming Lips + Heady Fwends
Frames IN VIA
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Gazpacho March Of Ghosts
Goat World Music
Goatwhore Blood For the Master
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend
Gojira L'Enfant Savage
Greenleaf Nest Of Vipers
Grimes Visions
Grizzly Bear Shields
Hammock Departure Songs
Helios Moiety
Hellyeah Band of Brothers
High On Fire De Vermis Mysteriis
Holyother Held
Horla Tentacles
Hot Chip In Our Heads
How To Destroy Angels An Omen
How To Dress Well Total Loss
Hurt The Crux
iamamiwhoami Kin
If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest
Isis Temporal
Jack White Blunderbuss
Japandroids Celebration Rock
JK Flesh Posthuman
JK Flesh / Purient Worship Is The Cleansing Of The Imagination
Jodis Black Curtain
Joe Bonamassa Driving Towards the Daylight
John 5 God Told Me To
John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone
John Zorn Nosferatu
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Meat And Bones
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kevin Drumm Relief
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
King Giant Dismal Hollow
Kishi Bashi 151a
Klone The Dreamer's Hideaway
KMFDM Amnesia
Kreator Phantom Antichrist
KTL V
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline
Lamb of God Resolution
Laural Halo Quarantine
Lettuce Fly
Liars WIXIW
Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil
Little Barrie King of the Waves
Locrian The Clearing
Magma Felicite Thosz
Mamiffer / Pyramids Mamiffer / Pyramids
Marillion Sounds That Can't Be Made
Marilyn Manson Born Villain
Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral
Max Ricther The Four Seasons by Antonia Vivaldi Recomposed
Mediafired The Pathway Through Whatever
Menomena Moms
Meshuggah Koloss
Mestis Basal Ganglia
Metric Synthetica
Mickey Hart Band Mysterium Tremendum
Mimi Page Breath Me In
Ministry Relapse
Minus The Bear Infinity Overheard
Mono For My Parents
Mumford & Sons Babel
Murder By Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
Muse The 2nd Law
My Dying Bride Map of All Failures
Napalm Death Utilitarian
Nas Life Is Good
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I
Neil Young Psychedelic Pill
Neurosis Honor Found In Decay
o'brother Garden Window
Of Monsters And Men Of Monsters And Men
Old Man Gloom NOÂ
Om Advaitic Songs
Opossum Electric Hawaii
Orange Goblin A Eulogy For The Damned
Oregon Family Tree
OSI Fire Make Thunder
Pallbearer Sorrow and Extinction
Papadosio To End the Illusion of Separation
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Parkway Drive Atlas
Patrick Watson Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Patti Smith Banga
Pelican Ataraxia / Taraxis
Periphery Periphery 2: This Time It's Personal
Pig Destroyer Book Burner
Placebo B3
Propagandhi Failed States
PS I Love You Death Dreams
Regular John Strange Flowers
Rival Sons Head Down
RNDM Acts
Rodrigo Y Gabriela Area 52
Rush Clockwork Angels
Saltillo Motocyte
Scott Kelly The Forgiven Ghost in Me
Scott Walker Bish Bosch
Serj Tankian Harikari
Sigh Insomniphobia
Sigur Ros Valtari
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods
Sky Ferreria Ghost
Slash Apocalyptic Love
Slightly Stoopid Top of the World
Smashing Pumpkins Oceania
Smoke Fairies Blood Speaks
Soen Cognitive
Soulsavers The Light The Dead See
Soundgarden King Animal
Spectrum Road Spectrum Road
Squarepusher Ufabulum
Stars The North
Steven Wilson Grace For Drowning
Stickmen Deep
Stickmen Open
Stone Sour House of Gold & Bones, Pt. 1
Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion
Summoner Phoenix
Swallow The Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Swans The Seer
Sydonia Waiting For Words That Don't Exist
T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca
Tame Impala Lonerism
Teitanblood Woven Black Arteries
Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix
Tesseeract Perspective
Testament Dark Roots of Earth
The Avett Brothers The Carpenter
The Brain Jonestown Massacre Aufheben
The Chariot One Wing
The Contortionist Intrinsic
The Cult Choice of Weapon
The Dirty Heads Cabin By The Sea
The Early November In Currents
The Killers Battleborn
The Last Bison Inheiritance
The Mark of Cain Songs of the Third and Fifth
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
The Melvins The Bull & The Bees
The Melvins 1983
The Melvins Lite Freak Puke
The Psychologist & His Medicine Band The Medicine Clown Came Back To Town
The Safety Fire Grind The Ocean
The Shins Port of Morrow
The Sword Apocryphon
The Tragically Hip Now For Plan A
The White Buffalo Once Upon A Time In The West
The XX Coexist
Thee Oh Sees Putrifiers II
Thinking Plague Decline And Fall
Title Fight Floral Green
Todd Snider Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
Torche Harmonicraft
Toundra III
Tremonti All I Was
Trioscapes Seperate Realities
Tristan Prettyman Cedar & Gold
Tweak Bird Under Cover Cops
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine
Two Door Cinema Beacon
Ty Segall Twins
UFOMammut ORO Opus Primum
UFOMammut ORO Opus Alter
Ultraista UltraistaÂ
Unsane Wreck
Useless Children Post Ending // Pre Completion
Viking Skull Cursed By The Sword
Weapon Embers and Revelation
White Suns Sinews
Wild Nothing Nocture
Wo Fat The Black Code
Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
Wrathprayer Son of Moloch
X TG Desertshore / The Final Report
Xavier Rudd Spiriit Bird
Yeasayer Fragrant World
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Early Graves - Red Horse (Crust Punk)
7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes of Absolution (Slightly Prog Metal - think Opeth and such)
Crystal Castles - III (Electronic)
Dysrhythmia - Test of Submission (Instrumental Metal - similar to Animals As Leaders)
Enabler - All Hail The Void (Punk/Thrash)
Royal Thunder - CVI (Stoner Rock)
Sylosis - Monolith (Thrash Metal)
Primitive Weapons - The Shadow Gallery (Metal)
Here's the full shortlist as submitted by readers so far:Â
††††â€
10 Years Minus The Machine
A Place to Bury Strangers Worship
Aborted Global Flatline
Aesop Rock Skelethon
Agent Fresco A Long Time Listening
Alcest Les Voyages de l'Âme
Allagoch Faustian Echoes
Almeeva EP #2
Anathema Weather Systems
Andy Stott Luxury Problems
Anhedonist Netherwards
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Antimatter Fear of a Unique Identity
Ash Borer Cold of Ages
Asia XXX
Atoma Skylight
Band of Skulls Sweet Sour
Baroness Yellow & Green
Behexen Nightside Emanations
Ben Folds Five The Sound of the Life of the Mind
Between the Buried and Me Parallax 2: The Future Sequence
Big Wreck Albatross
Bird In A Row You, Me, The Violence
Bison BC Lovelessness
Black Keys El Camino
Blacklevel Embassy New Veteran
Blink 182 Dogs Eating Dogs
Blizzard At Sea Individuation
Bob Dylan Tempest
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
Carina Round Tigermending
Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi RabbitRabbitRadio vol 1
Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity
Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Big Moon Ritual
Chris Robinson Brotherhood The Magic Door
Circa Survive Violent Waves
Clark Iradelphic
Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory
Cloudkicker Fade
Coheed And Cambria The Afterman
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Crystal Castles III
Cursive I Am Gemini
Daniel Rossen Silent Hour/Golden Mile
Danko Jones Rock And Roll Is Black And White
Daphni Jialong
Dave Matthews Band Away From The World
David Byrne & St. Vincent Love This Giant
Death Grips No Love Deep Web
Death Grips The Money Store
Deathbed Reunion Obviously Late
Deathspell Omega Drought
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deichkind Befehl Von Canz Unten
Dethklok Dethalbum III
Devin Townsend Epicloud
Die Antwoord Ten$ion
Dopethrone III
Down IV
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme
Dysrhythmia Test of Submission
Echolyn Echolyn
El-P Cancer for Cure
Elder Spires Burn / Release
Enslaved RIITIIR
Enter Shikari Flash Flood of Colour
Evans Blue Graveyard of Empires
Eve 6 Speak In Code
Every Time I Die Ex Lives
Fiona Apple Idler Wheel
Flaming Lips Flaming Lips + Heady Fwends
Frames IN VIA
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Gazpacho March Of Ghosts
Goat World Music
Goatwhore Blood For the Master
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend
Gojira L'Enfant Savage
Greenleaf Nest Of Vipers
Grimes Visions
Grizzly Bear Shields
Hammock Departure Songs
Helios Moiety
Hellyeah Band of Brothers
High On Fire De Vermis Mysteriis
Holyother Held
Horla Tentacles
Hot Chip In Our Heads
How To Destroy Angels An Omen
How To Dress Well Total Loss
Hurt The Crux
iamamiwhoami Kin
If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest
Isis Temporal
Jack White Blunderbuss
Japandroids Celebration Rock
JK Flesh Posthuman
JK Flesh / Purient Worship Is The Cleansing Of The Imagination
Jodis Black Curtain
Joe Bonamassa Driving Towards the Daylight
John 5 God Told Me To
John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone
John Zorn Nosferatu
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Meat And Bones
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kevin Drumm Relief
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
King Giant Dismal Hollow
Kishi Bashi 151a
Klone The Dreamer's Hideaway
KMFDM Amnesia
Kreator Phantom Antichrist
KTL V
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline
Lamb of God Resolution
Laural Halo Quarantine
Lettuce Fly
Liars WIXIW
Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil
Little Barrie King of the Waves
Locrian The Clearing
Magma Felicite Thosz
Mamiffer / Pyramids Mamiffer / Pyramids
Marillion Sounds That Can't Be Made
Marilyn Manson Born Villain
Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral
Max Ricther The Four Seasons by Antonia Vivaldi Recomposed
Mediafired The Pathway Through Whatever
Menomena Moms
Meshuggah Koloss
Mestis Basal Ganglia
Metric Synthetica
Mickey Hart Band Mysterium Tremendum
Mimi Page Breath Me In
Ministry Relapse
Minus The Bear Infinity Overheard
Mono For My Parents
Mumford & Sons Babel
Murder By Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
Muse The 2nd Law
My Dying Bride Map of All Failures
Napalm Death Utilitarian
Nas Life Is Good
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I
Neil Young Psychedelic Pill
Neurosis Honor Found In Decay
o'brother Garden Window
Of Monsters And Men Of Monsters And Men
Old Man Gloom NOÂ
Om Advaitic Songs
Opossum Electric Hawaii
Orange Goblin A Eulogy For The Damned
Oregon Family Tree
OSI Fire Make Thunder
Pallbearer Sorrow and Extinction
Papadosio To End the Illusion of Separation
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Parkway Drive Atlas
Patrick Watson Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Patti Smith Banga
Pelican Ataraxia / Taraxis
Periphery Periphery 2: This Time It's Personal
Pig Destroyer Book Burner
Placebo B3
Propagandhi Failed States
PS I Love You Death Dreams
Regular John Strange Flowers
Rival Sons Head Down
RNDM Acts
Rodrigo Y Gabriela Area 52
Rush Clockwork Angels
Saltillo Motocyte
Scott Kelly The Forgiven Ghost in Me
Scott Walker Bish Bosch
Serj Tankian Harikari
Sigh Insomniphobia
Sigur Ros Valtari
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods
Sky Ferreria Ghost
Slash Apocalyptic Love
Slightly Stoopid Top of the World
Smashing Pumpkins Oceania
Smoke Fairies Blood Speaks
Soen Cognitive
Soulsavers The Light The Dead See
Soundgarden King Animal
Spectrum Road Spectrum Road
Squarepusher Ufabulum
Stars The North
Steven Wilson Grace For Drowning
Stickmen Deep
Stickmen Open
Stone Sour House of Gold & Bones, Pt. 1
Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion
Summoner Phoenix
Swallow The Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Swans The Seer
Sydonia Waiting For Words That Don't Exist
T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca
Tame Impala Lonerism
Teitanblood Woven Black Arteries
Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix
Tesseeract Perspective
Testament Dark Roots of Earth
The Avett Brothers The Carpenter
The Brain Jonestown Massacre Aufheben
The Chariot One Wing
The Contortionist Intrinsic
The Cult Choice of Weapon
The Dirty Heads Cabin By The Sea
The Early November In Currents
The Killers Battleborn
The Last Bison Inheiritance
The Mark of Cain Songs of the Third and Fifth
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
The Melvins The Bull & The Bees
The Melvins 1983
The Melvins Lite Freak Puke
The Psychologist & His Medicine Band The Medicine Clown Came Back To Town
The Safety Fire Grind The Ocean
The Shins Port of Morrow
The Sword Apocryphon
The Tragically Hip Now For Plan A
The White Buffalo Once Upon A Time In The West
The XX Coexist
Thee Oh Sees Putrifiers II
Thinking Plague Decline And Fall
Title Fight Floral Green
Todd Snider Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
Torche Harmonicraft
Toundra III
Tremonti All I Was
Trioscapes Seperate Realities
Tristan Prettyman Cedar & Gold
Tweak Bird Under Cover Cops
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine
Two Door Cinema Beacon
Ty Segall Twins
UFOMammut ORO Opus Primum
UFOMammut ORO Opus Alter
Ultraista UltraistaÂ
Unsane Wreck
Useless Children Post Ending // Pre Completion
Viking Skull Cursed By The Sword
Weapon Embers and Revelation
White Suns Sinews
Wild Nothing Nocture
Wo Fat The Black Code
Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
Wrathprayer Son of Moloch
X TG Desertshore / The Final Report
Xavier Rudd Spiriit Bird
Yeasayer Fragrant World
YYU TIMETIMETIME&TIME
Затухание Затухание