Best of 2012 Releases

[mAx]

It's December..again the time to start the count for the year over for the year's best record contenders. What have you thought was the best?

As for me,

Converge- All We Love We Leave Behind
Baroness- Yellow and Green
Basement- Colourmeinkindness
Birds In Row- You, Me, & The Violence
Black Breath- Sentenced To Life
Cancer Bats- Dead Set on Living
The Casket Lottery- Real Fear
Code Orange Kids/Full of Hell split EP
Cold World/ Extortion split EP
Early Graves- Red Horse
The Gaslight Anthem- Handwritten
Ghostlimb- Confluence
High On Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis
Joyce Manor- Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid MAAD City
Loma Prieta- IV
Mountain Man- Two
Narrows- Painted
Old Man Gloom - NO
Old Rules- Sad Songs EP
Suis La Lune- Riala
Verse- Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Sky Burial - There I Saw The Grey Wolf Gaping
Nothing - Downward Years to Come
Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes

[bobby]

maybe i'm biased because i think (well, know) my friends' bands rule, but this is what i've listened to the most (no particular order):

Whatever Brains - S/T LP2
Criaturas - Oscuridad Eterna
Hank Wood & the Hammerheads - Go Home
Wild Child 7"
UV Race - Racism
Sickoids - S/T LP
Joint D≠ - Strike Gently
Potty Mouth - Sun Damage
Shoxx - Demo CS
Wymyns Prysyn - Booze Void CS
Jeff the Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights
Bukkake Boys - S/T LP
Nu Sensae - Sundowning

i'm sure there are more i forgot. whatever.
a couple predictions for next years top 10:

new Joint D≠ LP
new No Power LP

NC had a good year, next will be even better.

[zaneh]

No Tolerance - No Remorse, No Tolerance
World War 4 - demo
Rival Mob - Mob Justice

[hellhammermario]

High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
The Rival Mob - Mob Justice
Burning Love - Rotten Thing To Say
Torche - Harmonicraft

And some other stuff.

[jason]

Converge
Burning Love
WW4 demo
Boston Strangler
Shoxx demo
Hank Wood
Whatever Brains
Propaghandi
Condition demo

Did Vaginors put something out this year? If so, then that too.

[iishxc]

NC favz:

Autarch EP
Gut Feeling EP
Old Flings- Spite
Votnut EP

Everything else:

Torche- Harmonicraft
Rival Mob- Mob Justice
Death Grips- NO LOVE DEEP WEB
Serpentine Path s/t
World War 4 demo
Code Orange Kids/Full of Hell split
Swearin' s/t
Night Moves- Colored Emotion
The Soft Moon s/t
Grimes- Visions
Whirr-Pipe Dreams
Xibalba/Incendiary split
Xibalba s/t
The Casket Girls - Sleepwalking
Birds In A Row- You Me and The Violence
Dreamend- And The Tears Washed Me Wave After Cowardly Wave

the Powertrip 7" makes the cut even though it was technically released at the end of December in 2011.

Seeing Death Grips at moog fest was one of the best rap shows I've seen.

[seraphimfall]

Vassafor-"Obsidian Codex"
Dodecahedron-"s/t"
Junior Bruce-"The Headless King"
Burning Love-"Rotten Thing to Say"
Down-"Down IV Part I - The Purple EP"
Blut Aus Nord-"777 - Cosmosophy"
Converge -"All We Love We Leave Behind"
The Secret-"Angus Dei"
Torch Runner-"Committed To The Ground"
Cynarae-12"
Pick Your Side-"Let me Show You How Democracy Works"
Ævangelist- "De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis"

7"
Seven Sisters of Sleep-"s/t"
Pharoah-"'This House Is Doomed"
Integrity/Gehenna- split
Parasitic Skies/Losing Skin-split
Xibalba/Incendiary-split
Discourse-s/t

[mAx]

Dude that Seven Sisters of Sleep EP slays!!!

[Jordan]

Stripmines - Crimes of Dispassion
Gets Worse - S/T
Violent Restitution - S/T
Sixbrewbantha - S/T
The Communion - A Desirable Level of Unease
Mother Brain - Straight To Business
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Dephosphorus - Night Sky Transform
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Absvrdist - Illusory
Dr Doom - Everyone is Guilty

[seraphimfall]

Dec 10, 2012 17:05:51 GMT -5 mAx said:

Dude that Seven Sisters of Sleep EP slays!!!

Hell yes it does! Soooo heavy

[connor]

LPs:
Merchandise- Children of Desire
The Boston Strangler- Primitive
Mauser- Isolation
Stripmines- Crimes Of Dispassion
Tallest Man On Earth- There's No Leaving Now
Sickoids- Sickoids
The Men- Open Your Heart
Prisoner Abuse- Prisoner Abuse
Sick Fix- Vexed
D-Clone- Creation and Destroy
Creem- Creem
Slang- Glory Outshines Doom
No Tomorrow/Oiltanker- Split LP
Green Beret- Violence Is Their Currency
Death Grips- The Money Store
The Mars Volta- Noctourniquet

7"s:
No Tomorrow- Nuclear Exposure 7"
Impalers- Impalers 7"
Coke Bust/Vaccine- Split 7"
Backslider- Maladjusted 7"
Big Eyes- Back From The Moon 7"

Tapes:
Shoxx- Demo
Barge- Demo
Infeccion- Tanto Sexo, Tanta Gonorrea
Sidetracked- Wrench
Violent Outburst- Demo

2012 was awesome as fuck. **fingers crossed for a NO TOLERANCE LP in 2013**.

**edit and I know I'm forgetting some great releases too. Still need to check that new Napalm Death LP out.

[zaneh]

Speaking of A389 bands check out Homewrecker - Worms and Dirt. I forgot this was released in 2012 and it's riff madness.

[DustinCarpenter]

Never done one of these before.

Full of Hell/Calm the Fire split
Homewrecker - Worms & Dirt
Fever Dreams - As Above, So Below
Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker
Dredd - Recurring Nightmare
Empire of Rats - No Peace (Might be '11, not sure)
The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past.
Tom Waits - Bad As Me

[seraphimfall]

Dec 13, 2012 20:32:39 GMT -5 zaneh said:

Speaking of A389 bands check out Homewrecker - Worms and Dirt. I forgot this was released in 2012 and it's riff madness.

Yea dude, I thought that record was awesome myself, also Ilsa's Intoxicantations should be up there on the list of awesome

[mattevans]

In no order:

Pallbearer
Dino Jr.
Fake Boys
Rise and Fall
Merchandise (even though only 2 songs are jammers)
Sickoids LP was sick, was it this year?
Teenage Bottlerocket
Alcest was mellow and good

[chrischarge]

Sickoids lp
herpes ep
Brain Killer ep
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads "Go Home" lp
Kalte Lust lp
Boston Strangler lp
Vaarallinen - Flexi
Culo lp (that was just leaked)
Confront "Curtain of an Intense Attack" ep
Pure Scum Demo
Stripmines lp
Itansha demo

There's still a ton of stuff I wanna hear but I can edit shit on here so there we go

[ian geiger]

world war 4 demo tape
boston stranger lp
rival mob lp
riptide demo
gut feeling demo
drag your chains demo
another mistakes side of both splits they were on
bent life ep

[gnate]

title fight - floral green
certain people i know - s/t
the menzingers - on the impossible past
baroness - yellow and green
gaslight anthem - hand written
triple b comp
mindset - leave no doubt
beware - wont get the best of me
whirr - distressor
blacklisted - so, you are a magician

i cant think of any more of the top of the dome piece