‘Sup dudes? Nick here. With the busy Holiday Season and all I kinda forgot that we set precedent last year and posted our full lists after the final show of the year went up. (Thanks for posting earlier today Brian.)
So, Here are my top 25 for the year:
1 Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
2 Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
3 Sylosis– Monolith
4 Periphery – II
5 Katatonia – Dead End Kings
6 Skyharbor – Blinding White Noise
7 Enter Shikari – Flash Flood Of Color
8 By Night – Sympathy For Tomorrow
9 Stolen Babies – Naught
10 Exotic Animal Petting Zoo – Tree Of Tongues
11 Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I
12 Spawn Of Possession – Incurso
13 The Faceless – Autotheism
14 Torche – Harmonicraft
15 Vision of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed
16 Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine
17 Meshuggah – Koloss
18 Mencea – Pyrophoric
19 Dawnbringer – Dawnbringer
20 The Chariot – One Wing
21 Narrows – Painted
22 Baroness – Yellow & Green
23 Safety Fire – Grind The Ocean
24 Gorod – A Perfect Absolution
25 Grand Magus – The Hunt
Looking over your list, I realized that I didn’t even listen to the majority of the stuff on it. One that I missed at the time but am listening to now is Gorod. I got it based on it making your list and the fact that it is only $5 from Amazon. I am enjoying A Perfect Absolution but I sort of wish that had more guitar solos, even if the ones that are there are pretty decent. If I were to rank it for 2012 I’d put it about where you put it, as it certainly wouldn’t crack my top 20 but I really didn’t rank anything beyond that.