Monday, December 17, 2012

25 Favorite Splits/Demos/EPs/Etc. of 2012


I'm starting with splits, etc. so lets get to it....there is no real order because i find it impossible to weigh the merits of one album over another amongst different genres.....also there are no DL links cus a monkey can find them.....besides most of them are free downloads or name your price...yeah i extended the list....i rushed it and forgot some gems.....sue me...some honorable mentions are releases by.....Impious Baptism, Northern Torment, Tempest, Genocide Shrines(!) and Corpsessed...check em all out....this shits final...otherwise i'm gonna drive myself insane....i listened to waaaaay too much music this year.....

Adversarial/Antediluvian - Initiated in Impiety as Mysteries - Split/EP
Buy or Listen


Plague Widow - EP
Buy or Listen


Flourishing - Intersubjectivity/EP
Buy or Listen


Inverloch - Dusk/Subside/EP
Buy or Listen


Elder - Spires Burn/Release/12"
Buy or Listen


False/Barghest - Split/EP
Buy or Listen


Monomakh - MMXII/Demo
Buy or Listen


Inter Arma - Destroyer/EP
Buy or Listen


Pelican - Ataraxia/Taraxis/EP
Buy or Listen


Mutilation Rites - I Am Legion - EP
Buy or Listen


Vatnett Viskar - EP
Buy or Listen


Marriages - EP
Buy or Listen


Muknal - Demo
Buy or Listen


Deathspell Omega - Drought/EP
Buy or Listen


Gehenna/Integrity - Split - 7"
Buy or Listen


Forks of Ivory - The Isolator/EP
Buy or Listen


Obolus - Lament/EP
Buy or Listen


Torture Chain - Time is But a Doorway to the Incinerator/Demo
Buy or Listen


Northless - Valley of Lead - 10"
Buy or Listen


Sonne Adam - Doctrines of Dark Devotion - EP
Buy or Listen


Altar of Plagues/Year of No Light - Split/EP
Buy or Listen


Old Baby - Misunderstanding Human Behavior - EP
Buy or Listen


Agalloch - Faustian Echoes - EP
Buy or Listen


Little Sister - Self Titled - EP
Buy or Listen


Absum/Odz Manouk - Split - 7"
Buy or Listen




also go check out a similar list at SEVERED HEADS OPENED MINDS.....find all the stuff I missed out on....

4 comments:

Chris DAlessandro said...

Fuck yes, stoked to see Marriages on here! Unexpected. Good list dude, there seems to be a couple here I have missed. I'll up mine real soon, I'll link to your list.

Chris

VALIS said...

Thanks man. Cool, lookin forward. Lists are sooo fn hard, already realizing stuff I forgot about like Agalloch and Sonne Adam. Fuck it, looks like its gonna get longer. Haha. Could've done another list just for mellower stuff but I figure the few followers want extreme. But that marriages was just too awesome.

Chris DAlessandro said...

I agree but fuck it, we can't people please with these lists. There are still a bunch on this list I need to check out myself, but I definitely plan on including Encoffination, Sonne Adam and Agalloch! Thanks for the link to SHOM.

VALIS said...

I added sonne Adam and Agalloch but encoffination just don't do it for me. Somethin about em. Maybe the sloppiness. Dunno. Love father befouled though.