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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.

Top 10 Bandcamp links:

Agruss - Morok
Summer Fades Away - We Meet the Last Time, Then Departure
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Wildernessking - The Writing of Gods in the Sand
Alunah - White Hoarhound
Lycanthia - Oligarchy
Anhedonist - Netherwards
Royal Thunder - CVI
Menace Ruine - Alight in Ashes

Created by: Draugen | 25.05.2012


1. Agruss - Morok
(9.5) Atmospheric Black/Death
2. Summer Fades Away - We Meet The Last Time, Then Departure
(9.5) Post-Rock
3. Monarch - Omens
(9.0) Sludge/Drone/Doom
4. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...
(9.0) Post/Shoegaze
5. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
(9.0) Traditional Doom
6. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
(9.0) Avantgarde/Black
7. Dråpsnatt - Skelepht
(9.0) Atmospheric Black
8. Wildernessking - The Writing Of Gods In The Sand
(9.0) Progressive/Black
9. Alunah - White Hoarhound
(9.0) Stoner/Doom
10. Lycanthia - Oligarchy
(9.0) Gothic/Doom
11. Anhedonist - Netherwards
(9.0) Death/Doom
12. Royal Thunder - CVI
(9.0) Stoner/Heavy
13. Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes
(9.0) Drone/Neofolk
14. Sigh - In Somniphobia
(9.0) Avantgarde
15. Monolithe - Monolithe III
(9.0) Death/Doom
16. Witch Mountain - Cauldron Of The Wild
(9.0) Stoner/Doom
17. Mono - For My Parents
(8.5) Post-Rock
18. Lethian Dreams - Season Of Raven Words
(8.5) Atmospheric Doom
19. Year Of The Goat - Angels' Necropolis
(8.5) Hard Rock
20. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
(8.5) Black/Doom
21. Reino Ermitaño - Veneración del Fuego
(8.5) Traditional Doom
22. The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
(8.5) Atmospheric Black/Post
23. The Slow Death - II
(8.5) Death/Doom
24. Riti Occulti - Riti Occulti
(8.5) Blackened Sludge/Doom
25. Wodensthrone - Curse
(8.5) Atmospheric Black
26. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay
(8.5) Death/Doom
27. Lurk - Lurk
(8.5) Sludge/Doom
28. Windhand - Windhand
(8.5) Stoner/Doom
29. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine
(8.5) Power
30. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry
(8.0) Funeral Doom/Black
31. Oak Pantheon - From A Whisper
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
32. Abigail Williams - Becoming
(8.0) Atmospheric Black
33. Faustcoven - Hellfire And Funeral Bells
(8.0) Black/Doom
34. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Only The Ocean Knows
(8.0) Atmospheric Black/Post
35. Evoken - Atra Mors
(8.0) Funeral Doom/Death
36. Xandria - Neverworld's End
(8.0) Symphonic
37. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma
(8.0) Blackened Progressive
38. Jess And The Ancient Ones - Jess And The Ancient Ones
(8.0) Psychedelic Rock
39. Officium Triste - Immersed [Split]
(8.0) Death/Doom
40. Mud Walk - The Drifters Forgotten Lore
(8.0) Hard Rock/Blues
41. The Eden House - Timeflows
(8.0) Gothic
42. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs
(8.0) Acoustic
43. Frequency Drift - ... Laid To Rest
(8.0) Progressive
44. Castle - Blacklands
(8.0) Heavy/Doom
45. Psychonaut 4 - Have A Nice Trip
(8.0) Depressive Black
46. Wilds Forlorn - We, The Damned
(8.0) Atmospheric Black
47. Christian Mistress - Possession
(8.0) Heavy
48. Blues Pills - Bliss
(8.0) Psychedelic Rock
49. Dissona - Dissona
(7.5) Progressive
50. Bell Witch - Longing
(7.5) Funeral Doom
51. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
(7.5) Atmospheric Black/Post
52. Black Moth - The Killing Jar
(7.5) Stoner/Doom
53. Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
(7.5) Black/Folk
54. Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil
(7.5) Death/Doom
55. Skogen - Eld
(7.5) Black/Folk
56. Undersmile - Narwhal
(7.5) Sludge/Doom
57. Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
58. Ides Of Gemini - Constantinopole
(7.5) Psychedelic Post
59. Abske Fides - Abske Fides
(7.5) Death/Doom
60. Narrow House - A Key To Panngrieb
(7.5) Funeral Doom
61. Verdunkeln - Weder Licht Noch Schatten
(7.5) Atmospheric Black
62. Anguish - Through The Archdemon's Head
(7.0) Traditional Doom
63. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
64. Frailty - Melpomene
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
65. Ahab - The Giant
(7.0) Funeral Doom/Post
66. Havnatt - Havdøgn
(7.0) Neofolk
67. Graveyard - Lights Out
(7.0) Hard Rock/Blues
68. Angellore - Errances
(7.0) Atmospheric Doom
69. Ereb Altor - Gastrike
(7.0) Black/Folk
70. Pandemonium - Misanthropy
(7.0) Blackened Death
71. Vintersorg - Orkan
(7.0) Melodic Black/Progressive
72. The 11th Hour - Lacrima Mortis
(7.0) Melodic Death/Doom
73. Árstíðir Lífsins - Vápna Lækjar Eldr
(7.0) Black/Folk
74. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
(7.0) Symphonic/Avantgarde
75. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
(7.0) Blackened Death
76. The Howling Void - The Womb Beyond The World
(7.0) Funeral Doom
77. Dämmerfarben - Herbstpfad
(7.0) Black/Folk
78. Funeral - Oratorium
(7.0) Gothic/Doom
79. Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
(7.0) Atmospheric Black
80. Derkéta - In Death We Meet
(7.0) Death/Doom
81. In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans
(7.0) Melodic Death/Progressive
82. To-Mera - Exile
(7.0) Progressive
83. Occultation - Three & Seven
(6.5) Psychedelic Doom
84. Vagrant God - Vagrant God
(6.5) Gothic
85. Worship - Terranean Wake
(6.5) Funeral Doom
86. Porta Nigra - Fin De Siècle
(6.5) Black/Avantgarde
87. Worm Ouroboros - Come The Thaw
(6.5) Post/Ambient
88. Ishmael - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
(6.0) Sludge/Doom
89. Nadja - The Primitive World [Collaboration]
(6.0) Ambient/Drone
90. When Nothing Remains - As All Torn Asunder
(6.0) Melodic Death/Doom
91. Placid Art - Rainbow Destruction Process
(6.0) Gothic/Doom
92. Soulfallen - The Promise Of Hell
(6.0) Melodic Death/Black
93. Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
(6.0) Melodic Death/Doom
94. Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme
(6.0) Atmospheric Black/Shoegaze
95. Demon Lung - Pareidolia
(6.0) Traditional Doom
96. Borknagar - Urd
(6.0) Melodic Black/Progressive
97. Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing
(5.5) Black/Doom
98. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
(5.5) Melodic Death/Progressive
99. Cult Of Herodias - Dance Of The Seven Veils
(5.0) Atmospheric Doom
100. Seremonia - Seremonia
(5.0) Psychedelic Rock
101. Uzala - Uzala
(5.0) Stoner/Doom
102. Process Of Guilt - Fæmin
(5.0) Atmospheric Sludge/Doom
103. 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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