2012 Year end list...

This year has supplied many excellent releases. The following are The Cracked Skull's top picks of 2012 in no particular order.

Velnias--RuneEater
Horseback--Half Blood
Swans--The Seer
Blut Aus Nord--777 Cosmosophy
Om--Advaitic Songs
Ash Borer--Cold of Ages
Neurosis--Honor Found in Decay
Wreathes--Wreathes
Kinit Her--Storm of Radiance
Earth--Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Pyramids/Mamiffer--Bless Them That Cusre You
Mutilation Rites--Empyrean
Barghest/False--Split
Bosse-De-Nage--III
Worm Ouroboros--Comes the Thaw
Samonthrace--Reverence in Stone
Nate Hall--A Great River
Scott Kelly & The Road Home--The Forgiven Ghost in Me
Alcest--Les Voyages De L'ame
Hell--Hell III
Acephalix--Deathless Master
Lord Mantis--Pervertor
Anhedonist--Netherwards
Black Goat of the Woods--Black Goat of the Woods
Kata Sarka/Boddicker--Split
Kata Sarka--Existential Oblivion
Kata Sarka--Crucible of Misanthropy
Chelsea Wolfe-- Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
Killing Joke--MMXII
Flourishing--Intersubjectivity
Atriarch--Ritual of Passing
Grails--Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 5
Circulation of Light--Acheiropoeita
Wreck and Reference--No Youth
Knelt Rote--Trespass
Panopticon--Kentucky
Aluk Todolo--Occult Rock
Rhinocervs--RH-12
Ahab--The Giant
Drudkh--Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Mgla--With Hearts Toward None
Wodensthrone--Curse
Agalloch--Faustian Echoes
Circle of Ouroborus--The Lost Entrance of the Just


Indiana bands that ruled either live, recorded, or both.

Kata Sarka... katasarka.bandcamp.com
Thenn... thenn.bandcamp.com
Casque... casqueindy.bandcamp.com
Torturess... torturess.bandcamp.com
Black Goat of the Woods... blackgoatofthewoods.bandcamp.com
Boddicker... boddicker13.bandcamp.com
Chaotic Neutral... chaoticneutral.bandcamp.com
Chinaski... chinaski317.bandcamp.com
Overpower... overpowerxxx.bandcamp.com/album/overpower-7
Coffinworm... coffinworm.bandcamp.com
Giraffes Eating Lions... giraffeseatinglions.bandcamp.com
Nak'ay... http://nakay.bandcamp.com/