A really good year, full of surprises. Never been much of a Sabaton fan and especially not a fan of Lamb of God. Both bands released kick ass albums. Avatar keep on getting better and better. Rush released their best album in 25 years. Kreator gave me one of the best thrash albums I've ever heard.

1. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Only The Ocean Knows

5. Darkend - Grand Guignol - Book I

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There have been a lot more quality releases within the brutal genre in the past year or so. Maybe not as many as other genres but a lot when you consider the relatively small number of brutal bands there are. So, being that it's my favorite region of metal, and that the fanbase has expanded exponentially, I'd like to make a short list of the better releases (and a few soon to be released) to highlight some of the golden moments within a somewhat unappreciated genre.
Also note that; these are in no particular "best to worst" order. Just listed at random for anyone who may have missed a new release or someone who wants to get into the genre by beginning with some of the recent best.
Oh, and... My spelling for some of these releases might not be right so, if you would like to point out where please do.

1. Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin

2. Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind

3. Katalepsy - Autopsychosis

4. Beheaded - Never To Dawn

5. Portal - Vexovoid (I wouldn't necessarily consider this "brutal death metal" but they certainly deliver a fashion of brutality in their own way)

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2012 has been such a great year for metal releases. So in honor of that, here is my personal favourite Albums of 2012.

1. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

2. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

3. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4. Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails

5. Eternal Deformity - The Beauty Of Chaos

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my favourites of 2012 from an extreme metal point of view

1. Abyssal - Denouement

2. Anhedonist - Netherwards

3. Ignivomous - Contragenesis

4. Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron

5. Azoic - Gateways

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This is a list of almost every album/EP/demo I listened to from 2012. It is primarily composed of the better albums I listened to as I tend to forget about bad albums (and rightfully so).

NOTE: Most of these ratings don't stand anymore.

1. Igorrr - Hallelujah

2. Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber II

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

4. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

5. Elderwind - Волшебство живой природы

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My evolving list of 2012

1. The Faceless - Autotheism

2. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

3. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4. Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn

5. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

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So the my main list is here for personal use when looking over stuff I've jammed this year, and here I'll be putting stuff that's really good.

1. 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution

2. Aborted - Global Flatline

3. Accept - Stalingrad

4. Allegaeon - Formshifter

5. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

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Pretty much a ranking of everything I heard this year

I'll add some comments for albums I feel the need to say something about.

A lot of things on this list are subject to change

1. Be'Lakor - Of Breath and Bone

2. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3. The Faceless - Autotheism

4. Circus Maximus - Nine

5. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

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Note; Anything I rate lower than 8 I deem underwhelming. Sure, I might even acknowledge some of them as being rather enjoyble, but considering the "bigger picture of things", I find them unsatisfactory (in varying degrees, depending on their rating).

Partially ordered (the ones with descriptions). The rest are arranged alphabetically.

1. Sybreed - God Is An Automaton

2. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

3. The Faceless - Autotheism

4. Ihsahn - Eremita

5. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

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Too many 2012 lists around, you complain? You don't have to complain about this, though, it is NOT a 2012 list!

Previously, this list contained long-ass reviews, and distorted orders. But then this made people lose order and no one really reads what I write except about a handful of albums, so I decided to remove the X/10 rating system and use an "A-F" kinda stuff.

1. Rush - Clockwork Angels

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

5. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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1. Naglfar - Téras

2. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

3. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4. Meshuggah - Koloss

5. Spawn Of Possession - Incurso

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Due to the overwhelming "popularity" of my last list, I have decided to do the same thing in 2012

1. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

2. Baroness - Yellow & Green

3. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

5. Royal Thunder - CVI

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All released albums will be sorted.Unreleased are unsorted.

PS: As a honorable mention,the Title of the list is taken from the song titles of the best Death metal record from the previous year.

1. Aborted - Global Flatline

2. Asphyx - Deathhammer

3. Desecravity - Implicit Obedience

4. Spawn Of Possession - Incurso

5. Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

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Well another year went by so it is time for me to make a list of ALL my favorite releases this year. I didn't exactly keep up with every underground or main stream release for that matter. I didn't even hear all that many new albums this year. Pretty much, What you see is what I bought. However I had just enough to make an adequate list. I think I at least nailed all the heavy hitters anyway. Feel free to message me about the things I missed that I NEED to hear. Enjoy!

1. Napalm Death - Utilitarian

2. Cannibal Corpse - Torture

3. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

4. Aborted - Global Flatline

5. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner

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I'm (sorta) back. *The Finishing Touches* OKAY, so obviously not as much stuff from the last half of the year as the first. Sorry guys, but that first six months nearly killed me. Some stuff as a result will be missing, but major stuff not present is stuff I probably didn't care for. Alrighty then, enough with the "stuff"...

1. Bound by Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy of Nerak

4. Dissona - Dissona

5. Anhedonist - Netherwards

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