2012

Legend

Witchcraft

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 21 September 2012

• Occult rock
• Hard rock

1. Deconstruction
2. Flag of Fate
3. It's Not Because of You
4. An Alternative to Freedom
5. Ghosts House
6. White Light Suicide
7. Democracy
8. Dystopia
9. Dead End

Kentucky

Panopticon

• Label: Handmade Birds
• Released: June 2012

• Black metal
• Bluegrass

1. Bernheim Forest in Spring
2. Bodies Under the Falls
3. Come All Ye Coal Miners
4. Black Soot and Red Blood
5. Which Side Are You on?
6. Killing the Giants as They Sleep
7. Black Waters
8. Kentucky

Honor Found in Decay

Neurosis

• Label: Neurot Recordings
• Released: 30 October 2012

• Post-metal
• Sludge metal

1. We All Rage in Gold
2. At the Well
3. My Heart for Deliverance
4. Bleeding the Pigs
5. Casting of the Ages
6. All Is Found ... in Time
7. Raise the Dawn

I Bet on Sky

Dinosaur Jr.

• Label: Jagjaguwar
• Released: 18 September 2012

• Alternative rock
• Noise rock

1. Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
2. Watch the Corners
3. Almost Fare
4. Stick a Toe in
5. Rude
6. I Know It Oh So Well
7. Pierce the Morning Rain
8. What Was That
9. Recognition
10. See It on Your Side

Of Breath and Bone

Be'lakor

• Label: Kolony
• Released: 4 June 2012

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Abeyance
2. Remnants
3. Fraught
4. Absit Omen
5. To Stir the Sea
6. In Parting
7. The Dream and the Waking
8. By Moon and Star

Koloss

Meshuggah

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 23 March 2012

• Progressive metal
• Groove metal

1. I Am Colossus
2. The Demon's Name Is Surveillance
3. Do Not Look Down
4. Behind the Sun
5. The Hurt That Finds You First
6. Marrow
7. Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion
8. Swarm
9. Demiurge
10. The Last Vigil

The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit

• Label: Wichita
• Released: 18 January 2012

• Indie folk
• Americana

1. The Lion's Roar
2. Emmylou
3. In the Hearts of Men
4. Blue
5. This Old Routine
6. To a Poet
7. I Found a Way
8. Dance to Another Tune
9. New Year's Eve
10. King of the World

Years Past Matter

Krallice

• Label: Gilead
• Released: 25 August 2012

• Black metal
• Progressive metal

1. IIIIIII
2. IIIIIIII
3. IIIIIIIII
4. IIIIIIIIII
5. IIIIIIIIIII
6. IIIIIIIIIIII

The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Between the Buried and Me

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 9 October 2012

• Progressive metal
• Technical death metal

1. Goodbye to Everything
2. Astral Body
3. Lay Your Ghosts to Rest
4. Autumn
5. Extremophile ELite
6. Parallax
7. The Black Box
8. Telos
9. Bloom
10. Melting City
11. Silent Flight Parliament
12. Goodbye to Everything Reprise

Transfigured in a Thousand Solutions

Inanna

• Label: Australis
• Released: 29 December 2012

• Progressive death metal
• Technical death metal

1. Ancestral Raging Tides
2. Temporal Beings
3. I Am Become Death
4. Age of Decline
5. Everlasting Suffering
6. The Crescent Portal of Insanity
7. Redeeming Chaos
8. Ascend from the Underworld

Kadavar

Kadavar

• Label: Tee Pee
• Released: 10 July 2012

• Psychedelic rock
• Hard rock

1. All Our Thoughts
2. Black Sun
3. Fogotten Past
4. Goddess of Dawn
5. Creature of the Demon
6. Purple Sage

Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes

Downfall of Gaia

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 5 October 2012

• Atmospheric sludge metal
• Atmospheric black metal

1. [vulnus]
2. Drowning by Wing Beats
3. In the Rivers Bleak
4. I Fade Away
5. Beneath the Crown of Cranes
6. Giving Their Heir to the Masses
7. [asphyxia]

Good Morning Harakiri

Dwellers

• Label: Small Stone
• Released: 17 January 2012

• Stoner rock

1. Secret Revival
2. Black Bird
3. Vultures
4. Ode to Inversion Layer
5. Lightening Ritual
6. Old Honey

Blues Funeral

Mark Lanegan Band

• Label: 4AD
• Released: 6 February 2012

• Alternative rock
• Blues rock

1. The Gravedigger's Song
2. Bleeding Muddy Water
3. Gray Goes Black
4. St. Louis Elegy
5. Riot in My House
6. Ode to Sad Disco
7. Phantasmagoria Blues
8. Quiver Syndrome
9. Harborview Hospital
10. Leviathan
11. Deep Black Vanishing Train
12. Tiny Grain of Truth

RIITIIR

Enslaved

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 28 September 2012

• Progressive black metal
• Viking metal

1. Thoughts Like Hammers
2. Death in the Eyes of Dawn
3. Veilburner
4. Roots of the Mountain
5. RIITIIR
6. Materal
7. Storm of Memories
8. Forsaken

All I Was

Tremonti

• Label: FRËT12
• Released: 10 July 2012

• Alternative metal
• Thrash metal

1. Leave It Alone
2. So You're Afraid
3. Wish You Well
4. Brains
5. The Things I've Seen
6. You Waste Your Time
7. New Way out
8. Giving up
9. Proof
10. All I Was
11. Doesn't Matter
12. Decay

Les Voyages de l'âme

Alcest

• Label: Prophecy Productions
• Released: 6 January 2012

• Blackgaze
• Post-metal

1. Autre Temps
2. Là où naissent les couleurs nouvelles
3. Les Voyages de l'âme
4. Nous sommes l'émeraude
5. Beings of Light
6. Faiseurs de mondes
7. Havens
8. Summer's Glory

All We Love We Leave Behind

Converge

• Label: Epitaph
• Released: 9 October 2012

• Metalcore
• Post-hardcore

1. Aimless Arrow
2. Trespasses
3. Tender Abuse
4. Sadness Comes Home
5. Empty on the Inside
6. Sparrow's Fall
7. Glacial Pace
8. Vicious Muse
9. Veins and Veils
10. Coral Blue
11. Shame in the Way
12. Precipice
13. All We Love We Leave Behind
14. Predatory Glow

In Somniphobia

Sigh

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 12 March 2012

• Symphonic metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Purgatorium
2. The Transfiguration Dream
3. Opening Theme: Lucid Nightmare
4. Somniphpbia
5. L'excommunication à minuit
6. Amnesia
7. Far Beneath the In-Between
8. Amongst the Phantoms of Abandoned Tumbrils
9. Ending Theme: Continuum
10. Fall to the Thrall
11. Equale

Phantom Antichrist

Kreator

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 5 June 2012

• Thrash metal

1. Mars Mantra
2. Phantom Antichrist
3. Death to the World
4. From Flood into Fire
5. Civilization Collapse
6. United in Hate
7. The Few, the Proud, the Broken
8. Your Heaven My Hell
9. Victory Will Come
10. Until Our Paths Cross Again

Dark Roots of Earth

Testament

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 27 July 2012

• Thrash metal

1. Rise up
2. Natove Blood
3. Dark Roots of Earth
4. True American Hate
5. A Day in the Death
6. Cold Embrace
7. Man KIlls Mankind
8. Throne of Thorns
9. Last Stand for Independence

The 2 Mousquetaires

The Inspector Cluzo

• Label: Fuck the Bass Player
• Released: 20 February 2012

• Garage rock
• Funk rock

1. The 2 Mousquetaires of Gasconha
2. Wild and Free: The Indignés Song
3. Move on up
4. Téléfoot
5. Why a Vulgar French Band Cannot Play Shitty English Pop Music?
6. I Want to Mmm the Wife of the French President
7. Fuck the Bobos
8. Put Your Hands up
9. Power to the People
10. Fuck Free Hugs
11. Adishatz
12. Que Som Cabelhs

Eremita

Ihsahn

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 20 June 2012

• Progressive metal

1. Arrival
2. The Paranoid
3. Introspection
4. The Eagle and the Snake
5. Catharsis
6. Something out There
7. Grief
8. The Grave
9. Departure

Carry the Fire

Delta Rae

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 19 June 2012

• Folk rock
• Gothic folk
• Indie pop

1. Holding on to Good
2. Is There Anyone out There
3. Morning Comes
4. If I Loved You
5. Bottom of the River
6. Country House
7. Surrounded
8. Dance in the Graveyards
9. Fire
10. Forgive the Children We Once Were
11. Unlike Any Other
12. Hey, Hey, Hey

De Vermis Mysteriis

High on Fire

• Label: E1 Music
• Released: 3 April 2012

• Stoner metal
• Sludge metal

1. Serums of Liao
2. Bloody Knuckles
3. Fertile Green
4. Madness of an Architect
5. Samsara
6. Spiritual Rites
7. King of Days
8. De Vermis Mysteriis
9. Romulus and Remus
10. Warhorn

A Eulogy for the Damned

Orange Goblin

• Label: Candelight
• Released: 13 January 2012

• Stoner metal

1. Red Tide Rising
2. Stand for Something
3. Acid Trial
4. The Filthy & the Few
5. Save Me from Myself
6. The Fog
7. Return to Mars
8. Death of aquarius
9. The Bishops Wolf
10. A Eulogy for the Damned

A Joyful Noise

Gossip

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 11 May 2012

• Synth pop
• Dance-punk

1. Melody Emergency
2. Perfect World
3. Get a Job
4. Move in the Right Direction
5. Casualties of War
6. Into the Wild
7. Get Lost
8. Involved
9. Horns
10. I Won't Play
11. Love in a Foreign Place

Mantiis

Obsidian Kingdom

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 16 November 2012

• Post-metal
• Progressive metal

1. Not Yet Five
2. Oncoming Dark
3. Through the Glass
4. Cinnamon Balls
5. The Nurse
6. Answers Revealing
7. Last of the Light
8. Genteel to Mention
9. Awake Until Dawn
10. Haunts of the Underworld
11. Endless Wall
12. Fingers in Anguish
13. Ball-Room
14. And Then It Was

Head Down

Rival Sons

• Label: Earache
• Released: 17 September 2012

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. Keep on Swinging
2. Wild Animal
3. You Want to
4. Until the Sun Comes
5. Run from Revelation
6. Jordan
7. ALl the Way
8. The Heist
9. Three Fingers
10. Nava
11. Manifest Destiny Pt. 1
12. Manifest Destiny Pt. 2
13. True

The Electric Age

Overkill

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 27 March 2012

• Thrash metal

1. Come and Get It
2. Electric Rattlesnake
3. Wish You Were Dead
4. Black Daze
5. Save Yourself
6. Drop the Hammer Down
7. 21st Century Man
8. Old Wounds, New Scars
9. All Over but the Shouting
10. Good Night

Vibrato

Paul Gilbert

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 19 September 2012

• Jazz fusion
• Funk rock

1. Enemies (in Jail)
2. Rain and Thunder and Lightning
3. Vibrato
4. Put It on the Char
5. Bivalve Blues
6. Blue Rondo à la Turk
7. Atmosphere on the Moon
8. The Pronghorn
9. Roundabout
10. I Want to Be Loved
11. Go Down

Oceania

The Smashing Pumpkins

• Label: Martha's Music
• Released: 19 June 2012

• Alternative rock
• Art rock

1. Quasar
2. Panopticon
3. The Celestials
4. Violet Rays
5. My Love Is Winter
6. One Diamond, One Heart
7. Pinwheels
8. Oceania
9. Pale Horse
10. The Chimera
11. Glissandra
12. Inkless
13. Wildflower

Moongod

Aeternam

• Label: Galy
• Released: 13 October 2012

• Melodic death metal
• Folk metal

1. Moongod
2. Invading Jerusalem
3. Cosmogony
4. Iram of the Pillars
5. Rise of Arabia
6. Xibalba
7. Descent of Gods
8. Idol of the Sun
9. Hubal, Profaner of God

The Thousandfold Epicentre

The Devil's Blood

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 11 November 2012

• Occult rock
• Psychedelic rock

1. Unending Singularity
2. On the Wings of Gloria
3. Die the Death
4. Within the Charnel House of Love
5. Cruel lover
6. She
7. The Thousandfold Epicentre
8. Fire Burning
9. Everlasting Saturnalia
10. The Madness of Serpents
11. Feverdance

The Magic Door

Chris Robinson Brotherhood

• Label: Silver Arrow
• Released: 11 September 2012

• Blues rock
• Southern rock

1. Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
2. Someday Past the Sunset
3. Appaloosa
4. Vibration & Light Suite
5. Little Lizzie Mae
6. Sorrows of a Blue-Eyed Liar
7. Wheel Don't Roll

Cabin by the Sea

The Dirty Heads

• Label: Five Seven Music
• Released: 19 June 2012

• Reggae rock
• Jam rock

1. Arrival
2. Cabin by the Sea
3. Disguise
4. Spread Too Thin
5. Your Love
6. Mongo Push
7. Dance All Night
8. Hipster
9. Notice
10. Day by Day
11. Smoke Rings
12. Burn My Myself
13. We Will Rise
14. Best of Us
15. Love Letters
16. Farewell

Red Forest

If These Trees Could Talk

• Label: Science of Silence
• Released: 20 March 2012

• Post-rock
• Post-metal

1. Breath of Life
2. The First Fire
3. Barren Lands of the Modern Dinosaur
4. They Speak with Knives
5. The Gift of Two Rivers
6. Red Forest
7. The Aleutian Clouds
8. Left to Rust and Rot
9. When the Big Hand Buries the Twelve

Advaitic Songs

Om

• Label: Drag City
• Released: 24 July 2012

• Stoner metal
• Maqam

1. Addis
2. State of Non-Return
3. Gethsemane
4. Sinai
5. Haqq al-Yaqin

Dead End Kings

Katatonia

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 27 August 2012

• Progressive metal
• Gothic metal

1. The Parting
2. The One You Are Looking for Is Not Here
3. Hypnone
4. The Racing Heart
5. Buildings
6. Leech
7. Ambitions
8. Undo You
9. Lethean
10. First Prayer
11. Dead Letters

The Black Chord

Astra

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 27 March 2012

• Space rock
• Progressive rock

1. Cocoon
2. The Black Chord
3. Quake Meat
4. Drift
5. Bull Torpis
6. Barefoot in the Head

King Animal

Soundgarden

• Label: Loma Vista
• Released: 13 November 2012

• Alternative metal
• Blues rock

1. Been Away Too Long
2. Non-State Actor
3. By Crooked Steps
4. A Thousand Days Before
5. Blood on the Valley Floor
6. Bones of Birds
7. Taree
8. Attrition
9. Black Saturday
10. Halfway There
11. Worse Dreams
12. Eyelids Mouth
13. Rowing

Yellow & Green

Baroness

• Label: Relapse Records
• Released: 17 July 2012

• Sludge metal
• Progressive metal

1. Yellow Theme
2. Take My Bones Away
3. March to the Sea
4. Little Things
5. Twinkler
6. Cocainium
7. Back Where I Belong
8. Sea Lungs
9. Eula
10. Green Theme
11. Board up the House
12. Mtns. (the Crown & Anchor)
13. Foolsong
14. Collapse
15. Psalms Alive
16. Stretchmarker
17. The Line Between
18. If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry

The Seer

Swans

• Label: Young God
• Released: 28 August 2012

• Avant-garde rock
• Post-rock

1. Lunacy
2. Mother of the World
3. The Wolf
4. The Seer
5. The Seer Returns
6. 93 Ave. B Blues
7. The Daughter Brings the Water
8. Song for a Warrior
9. Avatar
10. A Piece of the Sky
11. The Apostate

Tragic Idol

Paradise Lost

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 23 April 2012

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

1. Solitary One
2. Crucify
3. Fear of Impending Hell
4. Honesty in Death
5. Theories from Another World
6. In This We Dwell
7. To the Darkness
8. Tragic Idol
9. Worth Fighting for
10. The Glorious End

Storm Corrosion

Storm Corrosion

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 7 May 2012

• Progressive rock
• Ambient

1. Drag Ropes
2. Storm Corrosion
3. Hag
4. Happy
5. Lock Howl
6. Ljudet Innan

Sorrow and Extinction

Pallbearer

• Label: Profound Lore
• Released: 21 February 2012

• Doom metal

1. Foreginer
2. Devoid of Redemption
3. The Legend
4. An Offering of Grief
5. Given to the Grave

L'Enfant Sauvage

Gojira

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 26 June 2012

• Progressive metal
• Technical death metal

1. Explosia
2. L'Enfant Sauvage
3. The Axe
4. Liquid Fire
5. The Wild Healer
6. Planned Obsolescence
7. Mouth of Kala
8. The Gift of Guilt
9. Pain Is a Master
10. Born in Winter
11. The Fall

Manzanita

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

• Label: Tee Pee Records
• Released: 19 June 2012

• Psychedelic rock

1. L.A. Sacrifice
2. (Gone) 'Round the Corner
3. Blue Wire
4. Sunshine
5. Ghost String
6. Slithery Thing
7. Green Meadow Slowdown
8. The Flume
9. Low Island Blues

The Weight of Oceans

In Mourning

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 18 April 2012

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Colossus
2. A Vow to Conquer the Ocean
3. From a Tidal Sleep
4. Celestial Tear
5. Convergence
6. Sirens
7. Isle of Solace
8. The Drowning Sun
9. Voyage of a Wavering Mind

Ten Stories

mewithoutYou

• Label: Pine Street
• Released: 15 May 2012

• Art rock
• Post-hardcore

1. February, 1878
2. Grist for the Malady Mill
3. East Enders Wives
4. Cardiff Giant
5. Elephant in the Dock
6. Aubergine
7. Fox's Dream of the Log Flume
8. Nine Stories
9. Fiji Mermaid
10. Bear's Vision of St. Agnes
11. All Circles