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2012 - From the Awesome to the Awful
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Once again I have put together a top list of albums released during the year from best to worst. However, this time around I have also written a short personal opinion/mini review for most of the albums in their respective comment sections.

Created by: Draugen | 25.05.2012


1. Agruss - Morok
(9.5) Atmospheric Black/Death
2. Royal Thunder - CVI
(9.0) Stoner/Heavy
3. Lycanthia - Oligarchy
(9.0) Gothic/Doom
4. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
(9.0) Traditional Doom
5. Dråpsnatt - Skelepht
(9.0) Atmospheric Black
6. Alunah - White Hoarhound
(9.0) Stoner/Doom
7. Anhedonist - Netherwards
(9.0) Death/Doom
8. Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes
(9.0) Drone/Neofolk
9. Monolithe - Monolithe III
(9.0) Death/Doom
10. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
(9.0) Avantgarde/Black
11. Year Of The Goat - Angels' Necropolis
(9.0) Psychedelic Rock
12. Witch Mountain - Cauldron Of The Wild
(9.0) Stoner/Doom
13. Sigh - In Somniphobia
(9.0) Black/Avantgarde
14. Monarch - Omens
(8.5) Sludge/Drone/Doom
15. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay
(8.5) Death/Doom
16. Mono - For My Parents
(8.5) Post-Rock
17. Lethian Dreams - Season Of Raven Words
(8.5) Atmospheric Doom
18. The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
(8.5) Atmospheric Black/Post
19. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
(8.5) Black/Doom
20. Wilds Forlorn - We, The Damned
(8.5) Atmospheric Black
21. The Slow Death - II
(8.5) Death/Doom
22. Wodensthrone - Curse
(8.5) Atmospheric Black
23. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine
(8.5) Power
24. Lurk - Lurk
(8.5) Sludge/Doom
25. Christian Mistress - Possession
(8.5) Heavy
26. Windhand - Windhand
(8.5) Stoner/Doom
27. Frequency Drift - ... Laid To Rest
(8.5) Progressive
28. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry
(8.0) Funeral Doom/Black
29. Oak Pantheon - From A Whisper
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
30. Reino Ermitaño - Veneración del Fuego
(8.0) Traditional Doom
31. Abigail Williams - Becoming
(8.0) Atmospheric Black
32. Faustcoven - Hellfire And Funeral Bells
(8.0) Black/Doom
33. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Only The Ocean Knows
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
34. Evoken - Atra Mors
(8.0) Funeral Doom/Death
35. Xandria - Neverworld's End
(8.0) Symphonic
36. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
(8.0) Blackened Progressive
37. Jess And The Ancient Ones - Jess And The Ancient Ones
(8.0) Psychedelic Rock
38. Officium Triste - Immersed [Split]
(8.0) Death/Doom
39. The Eden House - Timeflows
(8.0) Gothic
40. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
(8.0) Post/Shoegaze
41. Castle - Blacklands
(8.0) Heavy/Doom
42. Psychonaut 4 - Have A Nice Trip
(8.0) Depressive Black
43. Blues Pills - Bliss
(8.0) Psychedelic Rock
44. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
(8.0) Melodic Death/Doom
45. Dissona - Dissona
(8.0) Progressive
46. Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
(8.0) Black/Folk
47. Undersmile - Narwhal
(8.0) Sludge/Doom
48. Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil
(8.0) Death/Doom
49. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
(7.5) Atmospheric Black/Post
50. Bell Witch - Longing
(7.5) Funeral Doom
51. Black Moth - The Killing Jar
(7.5) Stoner/Doom
52. Skogen - Eld
(7.5) Black/Folk
53. Graveyard - Lights Out
(7.5) Hard Rock/Blues
54. Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
55. Ides Of Gemini - Constantinopole
(7.5) Psychedelic Post
56. Abske Fides - Abske Fides
(7.5) Death/Doom
57. Narrow House - A Key To Panngrieb
(7.5) Funeral Doom
58. Verdunkeln - Weder Licht Noch Schatten
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
59. Anguish - Through The Archdemon's Head
(7.5) Traditional Doom
60. Frailty - Melpomene
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
61. Ahab - The Giant
(7.0) Funeral Doom/Post
62. Angellore - Errances
(7.0) Atmospheric Doom
63. Ereb Altor - Gastrike
(7.0) Black/Folk
64. Pandemonium - Misanthropy
(7.0) Blackened Death
65. Vintersorg - Orkan
(7.0) Melodic Black/Progressive
66. The 11th Hour - Lacrima Mortis
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
67. Árstíðir Lífsins - Vápna Lækjar Eldr
(7.0) Black/Folk
68. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
(7.0) Symphonic/Avantgarde
69. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
(7.0) Blackened Death
70. The Howling Void - The Womb Beyond The World
(7.0) Funeral Doom
71. Dämmerfarben - Herbstpfad
(7.0) Black/Folk
72. Funeral - Oratorium
(7.0) Gothic/Doom
73. Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
(7.0) Atmospheric Black
74. Derkéta - In Death We Meet
(7.0) Death/Doom
75. In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans
(7.0) Melodic Death/Progressive
76. To-Mera - Exile
(7.0) Progressive
77. Occultation - Three & Seven
(6.5) Psychedelic Doom
78. Vagrant God - Vagrant God
(6.5) Gothic
79. Worship - Terranean Wake
(6.5) Funeral Doom
80. Porta Nigra - Fin De Siècle
(6.5) Black/Avantgarde
81. Worm Ouroboros - Come The Thaw
(6.5) Post/Ambient
82. Ishmael - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
(6.0) Sludge/Doom
83. Nadja - The Primitive World [Collaboration]
(6.0) Ambient/Drone
84. When Nothing Remains - As All Torn Asunder
(6.0) Melodic Death/Doom
85. Placid Art - Rainbow Destruction Process
(6.0) Gothic/Doom
86. Soulfallen - The Promise Of Hell
(6.0) Melodic Death/Black
87. Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
(6.0) Melodic Death/Doom
88. Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme
(6.0) Atmospheric Black/Shoegaze
89. Demon Lung - Pareidolia
(6.0) Traditional Doom
90. Borknagar - Urd
(6.0) Melodic Black/Progressive
91. Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing
(5.5) Black/Doom
92. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
(5.5) Melodic Death/Progressive
93. Cult Of Herodias - Dance Of The Seven Veils
(5.0) Atmospheric Doom
94. Seremonia - Seremonia
(5.0) Psychedelic Rock
95. Uzala - Uzala
(5.0) Stoner/Doom
96. Process Of Guilt - Fæmin
(5.0) Atmospheric Sludge/Doom
97. Sabbath Assembly - Ye Are Gods
(4.0) Psychedelic Rock


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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