Your Top 10 Albums of 2012

mc666 wrote:

ugh, this is by no means final...

1.) Begging For Incest - Orgasmic Self Mutilation
2.) Urogenital Macrophage - Vaginal Insertion of Surgical Abortive Method
3.) Torn The F*ck Apart - The Dissection of Christ
4.) Stoma - The Glorification of Sexual Deprivation
5.) Regurgitate Life - The Human Complex
6.) Pathology - The Time of Great Purification
7.) Razorrape - Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores
8.) Whoretopsy - They Did Unspeakable Things
9.) F*ck I'm Dead - Another Gory Mess
10.) Gutfed - The Reign of Pure Madness and Contagious Perversion


Honorable Mention...

7H. Target - Fast-Slow Demolition

Those bands and titles crack me up, especially Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores.

I don't know, the records from Tampon BBQ Slaughtertaint and Necropedoplushophile would have at least cracked my top 15.

Havent bought very many 2012 releases,heres my list.

Overkill-The Electric Age
Testament-Dark Roots of Earth
Possessor-City Built with Skulls
Orange Goblin-Eulogy for the Damned
Martyrd-The Mortal Coil
After All-Dawn of the Enforcer
Testament-Antiseptic Bloodbath
4Arm-Submission for Liberrty

So far, i can go for a top three:

1- Testament : The dark roots of earth

2- Overkill: The electric age

3- Kreator: Phantom anticrhist

A lot of people are putting "The Electric Age" in their top-10's. It is a good album, but when I want to Listen to Overkill, I personally reach for "Ironbound" every time. I think that is whats holding it back from my personal top-10.

I reach for Immortalis but this is about this year for me and it's a great release.

I've got a Top 5 so far....

1. Rush - Clockwork Angels (a CLEAR number 1 for me)

2. The Last Vegas - Bad Decisions (awesome sleeze from Chicago)

3. Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth (nice surprise to say the least)

4. Heart - Fanatic (Ann and Nancy STILL got it!)

5. Pretty Maids - It Comes Alive (CD/DVD combo from my favorite band)

labrekk wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

Biggest Disappointment : Running Wild - Shadowmaker (bland, lifeless crap)


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Well, Shadowmaker might not be the best album of 2012, but it's still a fine album overall, and the one I enjoyed the most from the band (if there's actually still a band and it's not Rolf solo) since The Rivalry.

i agree. I think it is a grower.

I have not gotten my list together. I still need to listen to all the releases from this year again before I do my list.

Keeping some slots open for the next few weeks, but here are my top five....

Kiss- Monster
L.A. Guns - Hollywood Forever
Casablanca - Apocalyptic Youth
Hexen - Fear And Nothingness
Rush - Clockwork Angels

also hard not to think the new Melvins (Lite) and Casualties won't be in the top ten.

Still need to listen to:

Rush (Clockwork Angels): I have it digitally but haven't gotten around to it (I keep forgeting)

Still need to get:

69 Eyes
Kamelot
Dokken
Black Country Communion
Sister Sin
Thrshold
Soundgarden

I want to get as many of those I can before the year ends (without losing control of my spending of course).

That new Dokken is really growing on me. Much like the latest Great White, I thought it was alright the first listen but then I found myself continuing to play it. I love those growers that sneak up on you like that.

Ideally, I'd like to pick up both the new Soundgarden and Black Country Communion before I attempt such a list, but I know Van Halen and LA Guns will be in there somewhere.

Unisonic - 'Unisonic'
Saint - 'Desperate Night'
Jorn - 'Bring Heavy Rock To The Land'
Accept - 'Stalingrad'
Heretic - 'A Time Of Crisis'
Driver - 'Countdown'
Primal Fear - 'Unbreakable'
Possessor - 'City Built With Skulls'
Vindicator - 'United We Fall'
Liberty N Justice - 'Hell Is Coming To Breakfast'
Oceans Of Time - 'Faces'
Cricus Maximus . 'Nine'
The Sacrificed - 'III'
Testament - 'Dark Roots Of Earth'
Tourniquet - 'Antiseptic Bloodbath'
Kiss - 'Monster'
Teramaze - 'Anhedonia'
Mortification - 'Scribe Of The Pentateuch'

Dissapointment:

Firewind - 'Few Against Many'

kmorg wrote:

Unisonic - 'Unisonic'
Saint - 'Desperate Night'
Jorn - 'Bring Heavy Rock To The Land'
Accept - 'Stalingrad'
Heretic - 'A Time Of Crisis'
Driver - 'Countdown'
Primal Fear - 'Unbreakable'
Possessor - 'City Built With Skulls'
Vindicator - 'United We Fall'
Liberty N Justice - 'Hell Is Coming To Breakfast'
Oceans Of Time - 'Faces'
Cricus Maximus . 'Nine'
The Sacrificed - 'III'
Testament - 'Dark Roots Of Earth'
Tourniquet - 'Antiseptic Bloodbath'
Kiss - 'Monster'
Teramaze - 'Anhedonia'
Mortification - 'Scribe Of The Pentateuch'

Dissapointment:

Firewind - 'Few Against Many'

The Sacrificed - 'III' was one of my biggest disappointments. I really was looking forward to this one, but the production really doesn't work for me. The vocals in particular are recorded or mixed or something terribly wrong.

ultmetal wrote:

kmorg wrote:

Unisonic - 'Unisonic'
Saint - 'Desperate Night'
Jorn - 'Bring Heavy Rock To The Land'
Accept - 'Stalingrad'
Heretic - 'A Time Of Crisis'
Driver - 'Countdown'
Primal Fear - 'Unbreakable'
Possessor - 'City Built With Skulls'
Vindicator - 'United We Fall'
Liberty N Justice - 'Hell Is Coming To Breakfast'
Oceans Of Time - 'Faces'
Cricus Maximus . 'Nine'
The Sacrificed - 'III'
Testament - 'Dark Roots Of Earth'
Tourniquet - 'Antiseptic Bloodbath'
Kiss - 'Monster'
Teramaze - 'Anhedonia'
Mortification - 'Scribe Of The Pentateuch'

Dissapointment:

Firewind - 'Few Against Many'

The Sacrificed - 'III' was one of my biggest disappointments. I really was looking forward to this one, but the production really doesn't work for me. The vocals in particular are recorded or mixed or something terribly wrong.

I really like the Sacrificed - III, the production is rough, sure, but for me that adds to the appeal. I actually like the fact that it is not all glossy and polished. The one downside is Eli's voice, there is some sort of effect or compression or something that was used and it is detrimental to the whole product. My big disappointment this year is the Teramaze album. I just can't seem to get in to it, and I have really tried to like it.

kmorg wrote:

Unisonic - 'Unisonic'
Saint - 'Desperate Night'
Jorn - 'Bring Heavy Rock To The Land'
Accept - 'Stalingrad'
Heretic - 'A Time Of Crisis'
Driver - 'Countdown'
Primal Fear - 'Unbreakable'
Possessor - 'City Built With Skulls'
Vindicator - 'United We Fall'
Liberty N Justice - 'Hell Is Coming To Breakfast'
Oceans Of Time - 'Faces'
Cricus Maximus . 'Nine'
The Sacrificed - 'III'
Testament - 'Dark Roots Of Earth'
Tourniquet - 'Antiseptic Bloodbath'
Kiss - 'Monster'
Teramaze - 'Anhedonia'
Mortification - 'Scribe Of The Pentateuch'

Dissapointment:

Firewind - 'Few Against Many'

I forgot all about that Primal Fear album! Add that to my list of needed 2012 albums.

jettafiend wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

kmorg wrote:

Unisonic - 'Unisonic'
Saint - 'Desperate Night'
Jorn - 'Bring Heavy Rock To The Land'
Accept - 'Stalingrad'
Heretic - 'A Time Of Crisis'
Driver - 'Countdown'
Primal Fear - 'Unbreakable'
Possessor - 'City Built With Skulls'
Vindicator - 'United We Fall'
Liberty N Justice - 'Hell Is Coming To Breakfast'
Oceans Of Time - 'Faces'
Cricus Maximus . 'Nine'
The Sacrificed - 'III'
Testament - 'Dark Roots Of Earth'
Tourniquet - 'Antiseptic Bloodbath'
Kiss - 'Monster'
Teramaze - 'Anhedonia'
Mortification - 'Scribe Of The Pentateuch'

Dissapointment:

Firewind - 'Few Against Many'

The Sacrificed - 'III' was one of my biggest disappointments. I really was looking forward to this one, but the production really doesn't work for me. The vocals in particular are recorded or mixed or something terribly wrong.

I really like the Sacrificed - III, the production is rough, sure, but for me that adds to the appeal. I actually like the fact that it is not all glossy and polished. The one downside is Eli's voice, there is some sort of effect or compression or something that was used and it is detrimental to the whole product. My big disappointment this year is the Teramaze album. I just can't seem to get in to it, and I have really tried to like it.

That's the production issue I was talking about. The vocals are just all mashed together and you can't understand a word he says. With soaring power metal vocals like that, you really want to be singing along, but it all sounds mumbled. Obviously it's not, it's a recording flaw, or mixing issue or something.

tohostudios wrote:

mc666 wrote:

ugh, this is by no means final...

1.) Begging For Incest - Orgasmic Self Mutilation
2.) Urogenital Macrophage - Vaginal Insertion of Surgical Abortive Method
3.) Torn The F*ck Apart - The Dissection of Christ
4.) Stoma - The Glorification of Sexual Deprivation
5.) Regurgitate Life - The Human Complex
6.) Pathology - The Time of Great Purification
7.) Razorrape - Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores
8.) Whoretopsy - They Did Unspeakable Things
9.) F*ck I'm Dead - Another Gory Mess
10.) Gutfed - The Reign of Pure Madness and Contagious Perversion


Honorable Mention...

7H. Target - Fast-Slow Demolition

Those bands and titles crack me up, especially Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores.

I actually googled some of the bands because I was positive they were made up.

kethdredd wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

mc666 wrote:

ugh, this is by no means final...

1.) Begging For Incest - Orgasmic Self Mutilation
2.) Urogenital Macrophage - Vaginal Insertion of Surgical Abortive Method
3.) Torn The F*ck Apart - The Dissection of Christ
4.) Stoma - The Glorification of Sexual Deprivation
5.) Regurgitate Life - The Human Complex
6.) Pathology - The Time of Great Purification
7.) Razorrape - Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores
8.) Whoretopsy - They Did Unspeakable Things
9.) F*ck I'm Dead - Another Gory Mess
10.) Gutfed - The Reign of Pure Madness and Contagious Perversion


Honorable Mention...

7H. Target - Fast-Slow Demolition

Those bands and titles crack me up, especially Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores.

I actually googled some of the bands because I was positive they were made up.

It's when you don't see titles like that , that you question the validity of mc666's lists.

DallasBlack wrote:

Still need to listen to:

Rush (Clockwork Angels): I have it digitally but haven't gotten around to it (I keep forgeting)

Still need to get:

69 Eyes
Kamelot
Dokken
Black Country Communion
Sister Sin
Thrshold
Soundgarden

I want to get as many of those I can before the year ends (without losing control of my spending of course).

I might be able to help you out with that 69 Eyes. $7 ppd.

tohostudios wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Still need to listen to:

Rush (Clockwork Angels): I have it digitally but haven't gotten around to it (I keep forgeting)

Still need to get:

69 Eyes
Kamelot
Dokken
Black Country Communion
Sister Sin
Thrshold
Soundgarden

I want to get as many of those I can before the year ends (without losing control of my spending of course).

I might be able to help you out with that 69 Eyes. $7 ppd.

I think I will take you up on that offer!

DallasBlack wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Still need to listen to:

Rush (Clockwork Angels): I have it digitally but haven't gotten around to it (I keep forgeting)

Still need to get:

69 Eyes
Kamelot
Dokken
Black Country Communion
Sister Sin
Thrshold
Soundgarden

I want to get as many of those I can before the year ends (without losing control of my spending of course).

I might be able to help you out with that 69 Eyes. $7 ppd.

I think I will take you up on that offer!

PM me your info and I'll get it out to you.

I have to narrow it down to 5, sorry.
5. Testament-Dark Roots of The Earth
4.Dethklok-The Dethalbum III
3.Naglfar-Teras
2.Rings of Saturn-Dingir
1.Six Feet Under-Undead

Mine's a bit ecletic, this year.

Overkill - The Electric Age
Testament - The Dark Roots of Earth
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Enslaved - Riitiir
Cannibal Corpse - Tormented (don't know why, but I actually like it).
Bonded by Blood - Tlhe Aftermath.
Mortification - Scribe of the Pentateuch
Napalm Death -Utilitarian
Autopsy - All Tomorrow's Funerals
Terrorizer - Hordes of Zombies

Honorable Mentions:

Cradle of Filth - The Manticore and Other Horrors
Tourniquet - Antiseptic Bloodbath
Tankard - A Cow Called Berta
Six Feet Under - Undead

A lot of people have mentioned the great thrash releases. While they aren't in my top 10, that in no means indicates dissatisfaction with them. I love those and in order I rank them:

Kreator-Phantom Antichrist
Testament-Dark Roots Of The Earth
Overkill-The Electric Age
Bonded By Blood-The Aftermath

Haven't got the new Tourniquet, despite loving the band, I just haven't been compelled to get it. Testament is my overall favorite thrash band and Dark Roots is the best since Low (my #3 album), however, Phantom Antichrist is the most melodic, catchy of the those four 2012 thrash releases. Coma Of Souls is one of my top thrash albums, but PA gets very close.