Everything in this post reeks of win.

NP: Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

Have I mentioned how much I fucking love this band?

Armagedda - Satan My Master (Bathory cover)

Animosity - Animal

Hour Of Penance - Sedition - Decimate The Ancestry Of The Only God

I forgot this album even came out this year. I had only listened to it once or twice then misplaced it. Found it today. Awesome 2012 release for sure. Sedition may of been over shadowed by some of the other heavy hitter acts this year but its another top notch release by Hour Of Penance.

Enslaved - Nordlys

Emperor - Curse You All Men

Why thank you, sir Also, Anacrusis are a seriously cool band, and horribly underrated to boot. Screams and Whispers in particular kicks metric tons of ass

Trail of Murder - Carnivore, off Shades of Art

It's official; I'm addicted to this song, period.

Stormlord - Under the Boards

"Freed of this Flesh" -
Trees

This shit rules. Crushing doesn't even begin to describe.

Dark Fortress - Ylem

Spinning Rumours by Fleetwood Mac on the turntable atm. Now playing: "Dreams"

Stevie Nicks <3

Melechesh - Grand Gathas of Baal Sin

Job For A Cowboy - Demonocracy - Fearmonger

I have been very impressed with Demonocracy. The musicianship has grown leaps and bounds. Crazy bass lines. Awesome guitar leads. I was always a fan but they really have grown better and better with each release. I guess the rotating line ups have been for the best. I hope this one is permanent.

Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Nocturnal March

That's the spirit, no bullshit whatsoever. Best enjoyed during sunrise... ah, who am I kidding here!

I know right? It's a beautiful track that pulls on the heartstrings. Definitely top 3 songs off that album for me.

Death Strike - Pay to Die

Sounds more thrashy than on the Master record; still, a really great song.

Great band, they were awesome live! I'm lucky I can say that I've seen their first North American show! Yvonne has golden satanic princess hair!

Lucky you are indeed!

I am now listening to something quite different, if distantly related.

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust - Death's Door

Orden Ogan - Land of the Dead. This is the power metal song of the year for me. Everything about it is perfect.

Anhedonist - Netherwards

Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - Into The Mystic

One of the big surprises in this year... I just wished the second disc had a better balance between calm and straightforward songs, it drags on a little bit too long in the first half.

Wintersun-Time I

Agony Lords - A Tomb for the Haunted

Hmmm, interesting

Entombed- Out of Heaven

Valborg - Sakrale Vernichtung

Once it finishes I just queue it up again. Absolutely mad.

Stellar band though...

Cannibal Corpse - Sentenced To Burn

Pile the bodies
Set them aflame
The human race
Sentenced to burn!!

Maaaan this album is brilliant, though this grinding, pounding monster is the winner for me with that chain-driven rhythm verse section, loaded with killer (hehe) hooks.

^ YESSSSSSSS. Soooo many awesome hooks on that damn album. Just riff after riff after riff.

Craft - Fuck the Universe

Terrible album title, terrible song titles. ASS KICKING-RIFFERY. "Demonspeed" will tear your head off.

Shining - V - Halmstad

Disaffected - Vast

Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments

Woods of Ypres - Lightning and Snow

Probably the album I've been most addicted to in a while - knew most of the songs within about a day of listening to it first.

Sabazius - Devotional Songs

Monolithic as fuck. It rarely feels draggy too, which is saying something for a 2.5 hour album.

Kalmah - The Black Waltz

Evoken - Promo 1996

It's not really playing anything right now, but yesterday I spent about 11 hours in the woods hunting. I spent about 7 hours sitting under a tree (for 3 1/2 hours in the morning and 3 1/2 hours in the evening). Perfect time for listening to music. Listened to mutiilation's black millennium (grimly reborn), which I figured was perfect for a dark cold morning sitting on the forest floor. From there on I figured I might as well try that darkspace band I've been putting off, now that I have nothing but time. It was forgettable for the most part as I figured it would be. Skagos and Alda were choice for being in the woods. Then I was hiking for the next 3 hours with no music so i'll only mention the morning stuff.

I figured I ought to make listening to black metal special, being in the woods and stuff.

Darkspace is hardly forest music dude. Try putting it on when you want to fill your head with a massive void that seems to suck reality into it with so much strength that it makes it disappear. True story!

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

You know, I've been listening to this for almost a decade and a half and I still can't get enough of it. Major album in my book, I get why people dislike it but I still think it's fucking awesome!

Cathedral - Reaching Happiness, Touching Pain

Murky doom with dancing, soaring flutes in the background... Sort of epitomizes what I think of when someone says doom era Cathedral to me. Hauntingly beautiful, and I've not really appreciated it enough until now.

Skagos - Smoldering embers

Hmm, the song is a bit boring, but as a result quite ok.
But the clean vocals are of the worst I have heard in recent times.
That sucks!

The Mist - The Hangman Tree

It's a lot better than Mechanical Animals at any rate. In fact I think AS is their best album.

Cool but can you REALLY hunt while listening to music?!?


What?!? Give more time to the (2010) Skagos & Panopticon Split. Belive me, you won't regret!

As Fire Swept Clean The Earth (from Below the Lights) by As Light Dies from (2012) Önd - A Tribute to Enslaved CD1.
I don't like this cover AT ALL but the tribute is not bad!