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River Lethe's Best Music of 2012
I will write up short reviews/thoughts on each of these albums as time permits. For now, here is a peek at my favorite albums of 2012. First list is metal, because it was a great year for metal. Second list is for other genres.
METAL:
1. Allegaeon - Formshifter
2. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
3. Brendon Small's Galaktikon
4. Meshuggah - Koloss
5. Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living
6. Pigs - You Ruin Everything
7. Narrows - Painted
8. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
9. Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w
10. Chrome Waves - Chrome Waves
11. Deathspell Omega - Drought
12. Primitive Weapons - Shadow Gallery
13. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
14. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
15. Faceless - Autotheism
honorable mentions:
16. Obsidian Kingdom - Mantiis
17. Ihsahn - Eremita
18. Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS
19. Enslaved - RITTIIR
20. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
21. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
22. Thrice - Anthology
23. Fight Amp - Birth Control
24. The Chariot - One Wing
25. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
26. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
27. Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
28. Neurosis - Honer Found In Decay
29. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
30. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
NON-METAL:
1. Baroness - Yellow & Green
2. Mumford & Sons - Babel
3. Carina Round - Tigermending
4. Anoice - The Black Rain
5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
6. Grizzly Bear - Shields
7. Yeasayer - Fragrant World
8. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
9. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
10. Royal Thunder - CVI
11. Cat Power - Sun
12. River Whyless - A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door
13. Josh Ritter - 5 Angels
14. If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
15. Matt Elliott - Broken Man
honorable mentions:
16. Bloc Party - 4
17. Crippled Black Phoenix - Mankind, the Crafty Ape
18. Elsiane - Mechanics of Emotion
19. Menomena - Moms
20. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel. . .
21. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
22. Foreign Fields - Anywhere But Where I Am
23. Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
24. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
25. El-P - Cancer For Cure
26. Heartless Bastards - Arrow
27. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago
28. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
29. Nocow & Hmot - Lost In Taiga
30. Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World
METAL:
1. Allegaeon - Formshifter
2. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
3. Brendon Small's Galaktikon
4. Meshuggah - Koloss
5. Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living
6. Pigs - You Ruin Everything
7. Narrows - Painted
8. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
9. Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w
10. Chrome Waves - Chrome Waves
11. Deathspell Omega - Drought
12. Primitive Weapons - Shadow Gallery
13. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
14. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
15. Faceless - Autotheism
honorable mentions:
16. Obsidian Kingdom - Mantiis
17. Ihsahn - Eremita
18. Blacklisters - BLKLSTRS
19. Enslaved - RITTIIR
20. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
21. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
22. Thrice - Anthology
23. Fight Amp - Birth Control
24. The Chariot - One Wing
25. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
26. Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
27. Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
28. Neurosis - Honer Found In Decay
29. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
30. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
NON-METAL:
1. Baroness - Yellow & Green
2. Mumford & Sons - Babel
3. Carina Round - Tigermending
4. Anoice - The Black Rain
5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
6. Grizzly Bear - Shields
7. Yeasayer - Fragrant World
8. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
9. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
10. Royal Thunder - CVI
11. Cat Power - Sun
12. River Whyless - A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door
13. Josh Ritter - 5 Angels
14. If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
15. Matt Elliott - Broken Man
honorable mentions:
16. Bloc Party - 4
17. Crippled Black Phoenix - Mankind, the Crafty Ape
18. Elsiane - Mechanics of Emotion
19. Menomena - Moms
20. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel. . .
21. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
22. Foreign Fields - Anywhere But Where I Am
23. Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
24. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
25. El-P - Cancer For Cure
26. Heartless Bastards - Arrow
27. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago
28. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
29. Nocow & Hmot - Lost In Taiga
30. Dave Matthews Band - Away From The World
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