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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2012)

Cheryl Prime's list

1. Rome - Hell Money (Trisol)
2. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
3. Bell Witch - Longing (Profound Lore Records)
4. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None (Northern Heritage Records)
5. Anathema - Weather Systems (Kscope)
6. Kaevum - Natur (Darker Than Black Records)
7. Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht (Cold Dimensions)
8. Evoken - Atra Mors (Profound Lore)
9. The Great Old Ones - Al Azif (Antithetic \ LADLO)
10. Amenra - Mass V (Neurot Recordings)
11. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy (Debemur Morti Productions)
12. Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
13. Wreck & Reference - No Youth (Independent / Flenser Records)
14. Jessie Ware - Devotion (PMR Records)
15. Panopticon - Kentucky (Handmade Birds)
16. Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph (Candlelight Records)
17. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
18. Pinkish Black - Self Titled (Handmade Birds)
19. Ahab - The Giant (Napalm)
20. Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (Prophecy Productions)
21. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas (Candlelight)
22. Katatonia - Dead End Kings (Peaceville)
23. Bosse-de-Nage - iii (Profound Lore)
24. Swans - The Seer (Young God)
25. Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse)

Jon E.'s list

1. Evoken - Atra Mors (Profound Lore)
2. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner (Relapse)
3. Swans - The Seer (Young God)
4. Samothrace - Reverence To Stone (20 Buck Spin)
5. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
6. Sean Price - Mic Tyson (Duck Down)
7. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (Williams Street Records)
8. Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte (Southern Lord)
9. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope/Top Dawg/Aftermath)
10. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
11. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay (Neurot Recordings)
12. Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media)
13. The Love Below - Every Tongue Shall Caress (A389)
14. Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
15. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum)
16. Homewrecker - Worms & Dirt (A389)
17. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
18. Panopticon - Kentucky (Handmade Birds)
19. Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering (Black Market Activities)
20. Bell Witch - Longing (Profound Lore Records)
21. Jessie Ware - Devotion (PMR Records)
22. Sutekh Hexen - Larvae (Handmade Birds)
23. Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph (Candlelight Records)
24. Horseback - Half Blood (Relapse)
25. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)

Loren's list

1. Toys That Kill - Fambly 42 (Recess)
2. Classics Of Love - Self Titled (Asian Man)
3. Audacity - Mellow Cruisers (Recess)
4. Grabass Charlestons - Dale & the Careeners (No Idea)
5. Arms Aloft - Sawdust City (Kiss of Death)
6. Off! - Self Titled (Vice)
7. Dan Padilla - Sports Fans (Dirt Cult)
8. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum)
9. Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds - I'd Rather Die Than Live Forever (Red Scare Industries)
10. The Hussy - Weed Seizure (Tic Tac Totally)
11. Aesop Rock - Skelethon (Rhymesayers)
12. La Coka Nostra - Masters of the Dark Arts (Fat Beats)
13. Royal Headache - Self Titled (Whats Your Rupture?)
14. New Bruises - Chock Full of Misery (Kiss of Death)
15. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
16. Plastic Cross - Grayscale Rainbows (Don Giovanni)
17. Mind Spiders - Meltdown (Dirtnap)
18. God Equals Genocide - Rattled Minds (Razorcake\Dirt Cult)
19. Pujol - United States Of Being (Saddle Creek)
20. Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth (Universal)
21. The Magnificent - Bad Lucky (Dirt Cult)
22. White Lung - Sorry (Deranged)
23. Shell Shag - Fuck Society (Mauled by Tigers)
24. Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
25. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)

Matt's list

1. The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
2. Propagandhi - Failed States (Epitaph)
3. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
4. Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)
5. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past (Epitaph)

Nathan's list

1. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum)
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)
3. Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead (Tragedy)
4. Crystal Castles - III (Fiction)
5. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth (Nuclear Blast)
6. Off! - Self Titled (Vice)
7. Nü Sensae - Sundowning (Suicide Squeeze)
8. White Lung - Sorry (Deranged)
9. Apollo Brown - Trophies (Mello Music Group)
10. Guilty Simpson - Dice Game (Mello Music Group)
11. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (Williams Street Records)
12. Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
13. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope/Top Dawg/Aftermath)
14. Martyrdöd - Paranoia (Southern Lord)
15. Wolfbrigade - Damned (Southern Lord)
16. I Self Devine - The Sound of Low Class Amerika (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
17. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
18. Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal)
19. Mean Jeans - On Mars (Dirtnap)
20. WAR//PLAGUE - On A Darker Dawn (Profane Existence)
21. SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp (4AD)
22. Lil Fame & Termanology - Fizzyology (Brick)
23. Meek Mill - Dreams and Nightmares (Maybcach Music Group/Warner Bros. )
24. Crocodiles - Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss Records )
25. Public Image Ltd. - This is PiL (PiL Official)

Nick M.'s list

1. Cheap Girls - Giant Orange (Rise)
2. Propagandhi - Failed States (Epitaph)
3. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten (Mercury)
4. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past (Epitaph)
5. Ceremony - Zoo (Matador)
6. Title Fight - Floral Green (Side One Dummy)
7. Masked Intruder - Self Titled (Red Scare)
8. Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm (Run For Cover Records)
9. The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
10. Cory Branan - Mutt (Bloodshot Records)
11. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
12. Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (Asian Man)
13. The Men - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
14. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
15. Titan - Burn (Hypaethral )
16. The Dopamines - Vices (It's Alive)
17. The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds (Red Scare Industries)
18. John K. Samson - Provincial (Anti)
19. Hop Along - Get Disowned (Hot Green)
20. Crystal Castles - III (Fiction)
21. Tim Barry - 40 Miler (Chunksaah)
22. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
23. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
24. The Smith Street Band - Sunshine (Poison City)
25. Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds - I'd Rather Die Than Live Forever (Red Scare Industries)

Sarah's list

1. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata (Sensory)
2. Anathema - Weather Systems (Kscope)
3. The Eye Of Time - Self Titled (Denovali)
4. Rush - Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
5. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (Metal Blade)
6. Wintersun - Time I (Nuclear Blast)
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
8. Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2 (EMI)
9. Battlestations - In a Cold Embrace (Independent)
10. Sigh - In Somniphobia (Candlelight)
11. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
12. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 (ATO)
13. Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (HevyDevy)
14. Kronos Quartet - Music of Vladimir Martynov (Nonesuch)
15. Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun (Drag City)
16. Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (Prophecy Productions)
17. Storm Corrosion - Self Titled (Roadrunner)
18. Om - Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
19. Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse)
20. Meshuggah - Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
21. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real (Inside Out)
22. The Korea - Колесницы Богов (Independent)
23. Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos (Basick)
24. Cloudkicker - Fade (Independent)
25. OSI - Fire Make Thunder (Metal Blade)

Scott W.'s list

1. Mission Of Burma - Unsound (Fire)
2. fun. - Some Nights (Fueled By Ramen)
3. The English Beat - The Complete Beat (Shout Factory)
4. Muse - The 2nd Law (Warner\Helium 3)
5. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
6. Red Hot Rebellion - Self Titled (Independent)
7. Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2 (EMI)
8. Dr. Dog - Be The Void (Anti)
9. Flobots - The Circle In The Square (Shanachie Entertainment)
10. Drivin' N Cryin' - Songs From The Laundromat (New!)
11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
12. Joe Jackson - The Duke (Razor & Tie)
13. The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
14. Jack White - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
15. Hot Water Music - Exister (Rise)
16. Hidden Hospitals - EP 02 (Independent)
17. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata (Sensory)
18. Pink Floyd - The Wall (Experience Edition) (Capitol)
19. Dinosaur Jr. - Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of the Fans (MVD Visual)
20. Craig Finn - Clear Heart/Full Eyes (Vagrant)
21. Rush - Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
22. 8MM - Between The Devil and Two Black Hearts (ChelseaGirl )
23. Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal)
24. Young And In The Way - Amen / I Am Not What I Am (A389)
25. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (Polydor)

Steven Ivy's list

1. Bison B.C. - Lovelessness (Metal Blade)
2. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
3. Cannibal Corpse - Torture (Metal Blade)
4. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
5. Kylesa - From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (Season of Mist)
6. Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal)
7. Rising - To Solemn Ash (Exile on Mainstream)
8. Graveyard - Lights Out (Nuclear Blast)
9. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
10. The Shrine - Primitive Blast (Tee Pee)
11. Torche - Harmonicraft (Volcom)
12. Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse)
13. Soulfly - Enslaved (Roadrunner)
14. Fight Amp - Birth Control (Translation Loss)
15. The Melvins - Freak Puke (Ipecac)
16. Kiss - Monster (Universal)
17. Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media)
18. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
19. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (E1)
20. Enabler - All Hail The Void (Southern Lord)