set loose

1. Lich King - Born Of The Bomb

2. Paradox - Tales Of The Weird

3. Savage Messiah - Plague Of Conscience

4. Necronomicon - Invictus

5. Vindicator - United We Fall

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This is my personal list of the best albums in 2012. Only full-length albums, no EPs or live albums.

1. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

2. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

3. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

4. Rush - Clockwork Angels

5. Overkill - The Electric Age

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1. Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

2. Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

3. Paradox - Tales Of The Weird

4. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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This is the final set of my most favourite albums in 2012

1. Fear Factory - The Industrialist

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Pastore - The End of Our Flames

4. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

5. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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I haven't been able to listen to all of this years top albums (As voted on by MS Users ) but, I tried dammit. This year was a bit disappointing as other years have had many more 9's and so on. Still a lot of great to really good releases either way.

1. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Agua De Annique - Everything Is Changing

4. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

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This is my list of my favourite albums of 2012. These albums are not necessarily "the best" of the year, just what I've heard listed by how much I've enjoyed them.

1. Wintersun - Time I

2. Enslaved - RIITIIR

3. Sigh - In Somniphobia

4. Accept - Stalingrad

5. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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1. Overkill - The Electric Age

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

4. Paradox - Tales Of The Weird

5. Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath

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1. Soulfly - Enslaved

2. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

3. Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

4. Pro-Pain - Straight To The Dome

5. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

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Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.

1. Sylosis - Monolith

2. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4. Abigail Williams - Becoming

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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1. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

3. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

4. Anathema - Weather Systems

5. Ihsahn - Eremita

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Any albums that don't make it into my personal top twenty albums list (particularly those that were once on the list but were bumped off) should be mentioned too (unless they suck)! I will add any albums that made an impression on me, but weren't enough for my top twenty or were originally top twenty contenders that were bumped off in room for better albums.

1. Three Hour Ceasefire - Cry Havoc EP

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. Baroness - Yellow & Green

4. Bilocate - Summoning the Bygones

5. Overkill - The Electric Age

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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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1. Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

2. Killing Joke - MMXII

3. Meshuggah - Koloss

4. Therapy? - A Brief Crack Of Light

5. Overkill - The Electric Age

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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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