| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 5.0 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 4.5 |
| Whirr/Anne Split | 4.0 |
| Redwood Hill Descender | 4.0 |
| One of the best releases of the year imo. |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica | 4.0 |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.5 |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick | 4.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Cerce Cerce | 3.5 |
| Black Flag The First Four Years | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion True North | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light | 4.5 |
| Baptists Bushcraft | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.0 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Broken Prayer Broken Prayer | 3.5 |
| Adversarial/Antediluvian Initiated in Impiety as Mysteries | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 4.0 |
| Rotten Sound Species At War | 3.5 |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Opium Morals | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms | 4.0 |
| Quite simply excellent, second track gives me goosebumps. |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 4.0 |
| Blut Der Nacht Sargnagel | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.5 |
| Curl Up and Die We May Be Through With The Past... | 4.0 |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows | 4.0 |
| Embrional Absolutely Anti-Human Behaviors | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 4.5 |
| I'd say this is better than Opus Primum and in my top 5 for the year so far, absolutely incredible record! Deityrant is just such a kick to the face. |
| Dephosphorus Night Sky Transform | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Witchrist The Grand Tormentor | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 4.0 |
| Saltillo Monocyte | 4.0 |
| Horrendous The Chills | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 4.0 |
| Undergang Til Doden Os Skiller | 3.5 |
| Orbital Wonky | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.5 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 3.5 |
| Mamaleek Mamaleek | 3.5 |
| Cerebrate Soul's Abyss | 3.5 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Transformer | 4.5 |
| Sigh In Somniphobia | 3.5 |
| Lo-Pan Sasquanaut | 3.5 |
| Charon [GER] Sulphur Seraph | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| Ignivomous Contragenesis | 3.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 3.5 |
| Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.0 |
| Definitely the first landmine-core album of 2012, will we see another? |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.5 |
| Sutekh Hexen Larvae | 3.0 |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht | 4.0 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 4.0 |
| Gryphon Red Queen To Gryphon Three | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Beat | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 4.0 |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.5 |
| Integrity To Die For | 3.5 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 4.0 |
| Nails/Skin Like Iron Split | 3.5 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 3.5 |
| Ocoai The Electric Hand | 3.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.5 |
| Witch In Her Tomb Witch In Her Tomb | 3.5 |
| Circle of Ouroborus Eleven Fingers | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.5 |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot | 4.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement | 4.0 |
| Mind Eraser Cave | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Baptists Baptists | 3.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.0 |
| Spite Extreme Wing Non dvcor, dvco | 4.0 |
| Bayonet Bayonet | 3.5 |
| This is absolutely fantastic. Heavy and fast. Short and sweet. |
| Black Monolith Demo EP | 3.5 |
| Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Ufomammut Eve | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 2.0 |
| Masakari The Prophet Feeds | 3.5 |
| Mind Eraser Glacial Reign | 4.0 |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Split w/Children Of God | 3.5 |
| Mouse On The Keys Sezession | 4.0 |
| Nails Obscene Humanity | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| Alda Tahoma | 3.5 |
| Alpinist/Masakari Split | 4.0 |
| Alpinist LICHTLAERM | 4.0 |
| Alpinist Minus.Mensch | 4.0 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing | 4.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
| Social Distortion Mommy's Little Monster | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Islands | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.5 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 4.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Snailking | 4.5 |
| Spire Metamorph | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.5 |
| The Clash The Clash | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 3.5 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 5.0 |
| Courtships The Feral Sound | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Idolum | 4.0 |
| Wire 154 | 4.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice | 4.5 |
| Spite Extreme Wing Vltra | 4.5 |
| Probably my favourite black-metal album of all time, as said before me, SO many great riffs. |
| TotorRo All Glory to John Baltor | 4.0 |
| Amnis Nihili Christological Escalation | 3.5 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 4.0 |
| Absolutely stunning album and will probably finish somewhere in my top 10 for the year. |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Aspid Extravasation | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.5 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope | 4.0 |
| Alamaailman Vasarat Huuro Kolkko | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Themata | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
