Welcome to 2013. It is time again for top album lists for 2012. We will be posting these in several parts and you are welcome to send in your own and we will publish them om the site. Stay tuned for lists from more writers, readers and forum members. Here is part three...
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Ed Barnard & Sally Bethhall - Admin
* In no particular order *
Herem - Herem II
Temples - Periplaneta Nova
Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Conan - Monnos
Uzala - S/T
The Isosceles Project - Bridges
In the Company of Serpents - S/T
The Moon Mistress - Silent Voice Inside
Ghost Tower - Head of Night
Inverloch - Dusk....Subside
Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Snail - Terminus
Faal - The Clouds are Burning
Arc Of Ascent - The Higher Key
Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead
Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
Project Armageddon– Tides of Doom
Horseback - Half Blood
Bretus – In Onirica
Undersmile - Narwhal
Alunah - White Hoarhound
Iron Man – Att Halla Dig Over EP
Tempestuous Fall – The Stars Would Not Awake You
Wheelfall - Interzone
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Don’t Hear It…Fear It
Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
* This list started out as a top 100 so a lot of very good albums didn't make the list *
Mysticism - Forum Member
1. Towards Darkness – Barren
2. My Dying Bride – A Map of all Our Failures
3. Evoken – Atra Mors
4. Frailty – Melpomene
5. Indesinence – Vessels of Light & Decay
6. Ea – S/T
7. Monarch – Omens
8. The Slow Death – II
9. Swallow the Sun – Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
10. Anhedonist – Netherwards
11. Witch Mountain – Cauldron of the Wild
12. Inborn Suffering – Regression to Nothingness
13. Tempestuous Fall – The Stars Would not Awake You
14. Futility – The View from Here
15. Myraeth – In Glorious Death
Sister Doom - Forum Member
Saint Vitus - Lillie F-65
Pressor - Grave Full of Weed
Curse - S/T
Conan - Monnos
Hooded Menace - Effegies of Evil
Demonic Death Judge - Skygods
The Moon Mistress - Silent Voice Inside
Evoken - Atra Mors
Slomatics - A Hocht
Windhand - S/T
Marilena Moroni (Doommantia writer)
SOME OF MY ALBUMS of 2012
(not all of them and not in a particular order except for the first two)
1) Vassafor - Obsidian Codex
2) Om - Advaitic Songs
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Ahab - The Giant
At Devil Dirt - Chapter II "Vulgo gratissimus auctor"
Witchcraft - Legend
Kadavar - Kadavar
War Iron - The Fifth and Final Sun
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Alcest - La Voyages de L’Ame
Slomatics - A Hocht
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Don't Hear It...Fear It!
Lugnoro - Annorstädes
Black Bombaim - Titans
Evoken - Atra Mors
Satan's Satyrs - Wild Beyond Belief!
Seamount - IV: Earthmother
Ishmael - Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
Horse Latitudes – Awakening
Insider - Vibrations from the Tapes
Necronomicon / The Queen of Death
Golden Void - st
witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Fistula - Northern Aggression + Loser
Morbid Wizard - Necrosis of the Eyeball
The Disease Concept - Liquor Bottles and Broken Steel
Unsane – Wreck
Windhand - Windhand
Heat - Heat
Stuff by Ice Dragon and related projects
Stuff by Adamennon
Hell - II
V.A. - Önd: A Tribute To Enslaved
V.A. - Hoffman's Kaleidoscope
The Wandering Midget - From the Meadows of Opium Dreams
Ihsahn - Eremita
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third & split with Kadavar
Black Magician - Nature Is The Devil's Church
Obelyskkh - White Lightnin’
Pilgrim - Misery Wizard
Captain Crimson - Dancing Madly Backwards
Colour Haze - She Said
Bretus - In Onirica
Abysmal Grief - Celebrate What They Fear
Witchsorrow - God Curse Us
Meth Drinker - Open Tomb - split
Midnight - Complete and Total Hell
Derketa - In Death We Meet
Bode Preto - Inverted Blood
Occultation - Three and Seven
Dragged into Sunlight – Widowmaker
Okkultokrati – Snakereigns
Ravens Creed - The Power
Alkerdeel – Morinde
Furze – Psych Minus Space Control
Hypnosia - Horror Infernal
Antediluvian - The two 2012 splits
Muknal - Muknal
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
Urfaust - Ritual Music for the True Clochard
Revenge – Scum.Collapse.Eradication
Atriarch – Ritual of Passing
Paroxsihzem - Paroxsihzem
Begrime Exemious - Visions of the Scourge
Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography Compilation
Sonne Adam - Messengers of Desolate Ways
Weapon - Embers and Revelations
Wrathprayer - The Sun of Moloch: The Sublimation of Sulphur's Essence Which Spawned Death and Life
Much of the roster in Nuclear War Now! Productions, Dark Descent Records, etc.
Filthy stuff by Elektrocutioner and the Razorback Records bunch
...
SOME REVELATION OF 2012 (for me, at least)
Karcavul
Cult of Occult
Saturnine
Fuoco Fatuo
Black Temple Below
Blood Red Water
TONS
Harsh Toke
Necronomicon
Ishmael
Kadavar
Mamont
Black Magician
Peacemaker
Druganaut (well, I discovered them just this year ...)
Open Tomb
Bottom Feeder (Denmark)
Muknal
Ghoulgotha
Electric Taurus
Elevators to the Grateful Sky
Hibagon
ZOM
The awesome heavy (doom-stoner & black-death) scene in Chile (well, not right a new discover but a continuous surprise)
...
TOP LIVE PERFORMANCES OF 2012
- Roadburn 2012 (my highlights: Oranssi Pazuzu, Valient Thorr, Necros Christos, Jucifer, Black Cobra, The Obsessed, Voivod, Virus, ...)
- Nuclear War Now! festival
- Dublin Doom Days-Chapter IV Festival
- Sleep
- Nasum
- Baby Woodrose
- Kadavar
- Aura Noir
...
MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2013
Portal
Unida
Clutch
Windhand
Peacemaker
Destino/Entierro
plus all the many other big and small surprises to come ...
* In no particular order *
Herem - Herem II
Temples - Periplaneta Nova
Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Conan - Monnos
Uzala - S/T
The Isosceles Project - Bridges
In the Company of Serpents - S/T
The Moon Mistress - Silent Voice Inside
Ghost Tower - Head of Night
Inverloch - Dusk....Subside
Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Snail - Terminus
Faal - The Clouds are Burning
Arc Of Ascent - The Higher Key
Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead
Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
Project Armageddon– Tides of Doom
Horseback - Half Blood
Bretus – In Onirica
Undersmile - Narwhal
Alunah - White Hoarhound
Iron Man – Att Halla Dig Over EP
Tempestuous Fall – The Stars Would Not Awake You
Wheelfall - Interzone
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Don’t Hear It…Fear It
Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
* This list started out as a top 100 so a lot of very good albums didn't make the list *
Mysticism - Forum Member
1. Towards Darkness – Barren
2. My Dying Bride – A Map of all Our Failures
3. Evoken – Atra Mors
4. Frailty – Melpomene
5. Indesinence – Vessels of Light & Decay
6. Ea – S/T
7. Monarch – Omens
8. The Slow Death – II
9. Swallow the Sun – Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
10. Anhedonist – Netherwards
11. Witch Mountain – Cauldron of the Wild
12. Inborn Suffering – Regression to Nothingness
13. Tempestuous Fall – The Stars Would not Awake You
14. Futility – The View from Here
15. Myraeth – In Glorious Death
Sister Doom - Forum Member
Saint Vitus - Lillie F-65
Pressor - Grave Full of Weed
Curse - S/T
Conan - Monnos
Hooded Menace - Effegies of Evil
Demonic Death Judge - Skygods
The Moon Mistress - Silent Voice Inside
Evoken - Atra Mors
Slomatics - A Hocht
Windhand - S/T
Marilena Moroni (Doommantia writer)
SOME OF MY ALBUMS of 2012
(not all of them and not in a particular order except for the first two)
1) Vassafor - Obsidian Codex
2) Om - Advaitic Songs
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Ahab - The Giant
At Devil Dirt - Chapter II "Vulgo gratissimus auctor"
Witchcraft - Legend
Kadavar - Kadavar
War Iron - The Fifth and Final Sun
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Alcest - La Voyages de L’Ame
Slomatics - A Hocht
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Don't Hear It...Fear It!
Lugnoro - Annorstädes
Black Bombaim - Titans
Evoken - Atra Mors
Satan's Satyrs - Wild Beyond Belief!
Seamount - IV: Earthmother
Ishmael - Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
Horse Latitudes – Awakening
Insider - Vibrations from the Tapes
Necronomicon / The Queen of Death
Golden Void - st
witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Fistula - Northern Aggression + Loser
Morbid Wizard - Necrosis of the Eyeball
The Disease Concept - Liquor Bottles and Broken Steel
Unsane – Wreck
Windhand - Windhand
Heat - Heat
Stuff by Ice Dragon and related projects
Stuff by Adamennon
Hell - II
V.A. - Önd: A Tribute To Enslaved
V.A. - Hoffman's Kaleidoscope
The Wandering Midget - From the Meadows of Opium Dreams
Ihsahn - Eremita
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third & split with Kadavar
Black Magician - Nature Is The Devil's Church
Obelyskkh - White Lightnin’
Pilgrim - Misery Wizard
Captain Crimson - Dancing Madly Backwards
Colour Haze - She Said
Bretus - In Onirica
Abysmal Grief - Celebrate What They Fear
Witchsorrow - God Curse Us
Meth Drinker - Open Tomb - split
Midnight - Complete and Total Hell
Derketa - In Death We Meet
Bode Preto - Inverted Blood
Occultation - Three and Seven
Dragged into Sunlight – Widowmaker
Okkultokrati – Snakereigns
Ravens Creed - The Power
Alkerdeel – Morinde
Furze – Psych Minus Space Control
Hypnosia - Horror Infernal
Antediluvian - The two 2012 splits
Muknal - Muknal
Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
Urfaust - Ritual Music for the True Clochard
Revenge – Scum.Collapse.Eradication
Atriarch – Ritual of Passing
Paroxsihzem - Paroxsihzem
Begrime Exemious - Visions of the Scourge
Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography Compilation
Sonne Adam - Messengers of Desolate Ways
Weapon - Embers and Revelations
Wrathprayer - The Sun of Moloch: The Sublimation of Sulphur's Essence Which Spawned Death and Life
Much of the roster in Nuclear War Now! Productions, Dark Descent Records, etc.
Filthy stuff by Elektrocutioner and the Razorback Records bunch
...
SOME REVELATION OF 2012 (for me, at least)
Karcavul
Cult of Occult
Saturnine
Fuoco Fatuo
Black Temple Below
Blood Red Water
TONS
Harsh Toke
Necronomicon
Ishmael
Kadavar
Mamont
Black Magician
Peacemaker
Druganaut (well, I discovered them just this year ...)
Open Tomb
Bottom Feeder (Denmark)
Muknal
Ghoulgotha
Electric Taurus
Elevators to the Grateful Sky
Hibagon
ZOM
The awesome heavy (doom-stoner & black-death) scene in Chile (well, not right a new discover but a continuous surprise)
...
TOP LIVE PERFORMANCES OF 2012
- Roadburn 2012 (my highlights: Oranssi Pazuzu, Valient Thorr, Necros Christos, Jucifer, Black Cobra, The Obsessed, Voivod, Virus, ...)
- Nuclear War Now! festival
- Dublin Doom Days-Chapter IV Festival
- Sleep
- Nasum
- Baby Woodrose
- Kadavar
- Aura Noir
...
MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2013
Portal
Unida
Clutch
Windhand
Peacemaker
Destino/Entierro
plus all the many other big and small surprises to come ...