Long time, no post...

Well, it's been a busy year cracking skulls and for music. Regular posting has been few and far between due to life raining down what it will both good and bad. With that said, The Cracked Skull has found many releases this year to yield quite the sonic load. No top ten or twenty list will be presented here, but rather a collection of releases that seem to find their way into constant rotation whilst bashing skulls. 2012 is looking up if for no other reason than Neurosis is recording a new album. In no particular order:

Oranssi Pazuzu--Kosmonument
Aelter II--Follow You Beloved
The Tropic of Cancer--The Sorrow of the Blooms
The Haxan Cloak--The Haxan Cloak
Ga'an--Black Equus
Mournful Congregation--The Book of Kings
Chelsea Wolfe--Apokalypsis
Barghest--Barghest
False--untitled
Bosse de Nage--II
Flourishing--The Sum of All Fossils
Craft--Void
Implodes--Black Earth
Atriarch--Forever the End
The Body & Braveyoung--Nothing Passes
Hell--II
Blut Aus Nord--777 Sects
Blut Aus Nord--Desanctification
Wolves in the Throne Room--Celestial Lineage
Cianide--Gods of Death
Disma--Towards the Megalith
Ash Borer--Ash Borer
L'Acephale--Stalhartes Gehause
Northless--Clandestine Abuse
Krallice--Diotima
Altar of Plagues--Mammal
Yob--Atma
Tombs--Path of Totality
Loss--Despond
Batillus--Furnace
Alaric--Alaric
The Men--Leave Home
Earth--Angels of Darkness Demons of Light
Wolvhammer--The Obsidian Plains
Rwake--Rest
Horseback--The Gorgon Tongue
Grails--Deep Politics
Morne--Asylum
Dark Castle--Surrender to All Life Beyond Form
Indian--Guiltless
Pyramids/Horesback--A Throne Without a King
Sortilegia--Pestilent Black Sorcery
Young Widows--In and Out of Lightness
Clinging To the Trees of Forest Fire/Nesseria--split release
Alpinist/Masakari--split release
Leviathan--True Traitor, True Whore
Crooked Necks--Alright Is Exactly What It Isn't
Young and In the Way--V Eternal Depression
Burial Hex--In Psychic Defense
Na'kay/Kata Sarka--split release