Top 20 of 2012

Its better late than never I suppose.  To any fellow bloggers reading this; I would like to know how you manage to listen to so much music?  Even now, mid February, there are dozens of albums on my radar from 2012 I have yet to hear.  Perhaps the trick is to listening to only new music. 

Without further ado, here it is......

p.s.  I've linked each album title to the appropriate bandcamp/record label/amazon web page. 


#20 Ice Dragon - Greyblackfalconhawk (Self-Released)

#19 Lumerians - Transmission from Telos Vol. IV (Permanent Records)

#18 Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory (Carpark Records)

#17 Christian Mistress - Possession (Relapse Records)

#16 John Talabot - ƒIN (Permanent Vacation Records)

#15 Swans - The Seer (Young God Records)

#14 Baby Woodrose - Third Eye Surgery (Bad Afro Records)

#13 From Beyond - One Year EP (Self-Released)

#12 Windhand - Windhand (Self-Released)

#11 Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third (Tee Pee Records)

#10 Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned (Candlelight Records)

#9  Jess & the Ancient Ones - S/T (Svart Records)

#8  White Lung - Sorry (Deranged Records)

#7  Goat - World Music (Rocket Recordings)

#6  Beak> - >> (Invada Records)

#5  Creature with the Atom Brain - Birds Fly Low (Sacred Love/Waste My Records)

#4  Royal Thunder - CVI (Relapse Records)

#3  Horseback - Half Blood (Relapse Records)

#2  Early Graves - Red Horse (No Sleep Records)

#1  High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (E1 Music)

         








Thoughts?  As I mentioned in the open, I still haven't had a chance to hear the new Converge, Neurosis, Ancestors, and a lot of other albums that received generally positive reviews.