All release dates subject to being moved around. Italicized albums means they were released and I found proof of such online. Question marks indicate rumors and poor factual data.

January
1/17 || Dwellers - Good Morning Harakiri
1/17 || Buck Satan (Al Jourgensen) - Hell Paso
1/30 || Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
1/31 || Riotgod - Invisible Empire

February
2/06 || Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
2/06 || Crown - The One
2/14 || Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned (Candlelight Records)
2/28 || Christian Mistress - Possession
2/28 || Corrosion of Conformity - Corrosion of Conformity
2/28 || The Entrance Band - Untitled (Latitudes)
? Earthless, Radio Moscow, Premonition 13 split

March
3/13 || Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud Say Nothing
3/13 || Melvins - The Bulls & The Bees (Scion A/V)
3/20 || White Hills - Frying on This Rock
3/26 || Madonna - MDNA
3/27 || Meshuggah - Koloss
3/27 || Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
3/30 || Ministry - Relapse
3/31 || Electric Wizard - Legalize Drugs and Murder / Murder and Madness 7"

April
4/03 || High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
4/09 || Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum (April 17th in N.A)
4/10 || Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
4/17 || Alaric & Atriarch split (20 Buck Spin)
4/20 || Nether Regions - Into The Breach LP
4/24 || 16 - Deep Cuts From Dark Clouds
4/24 || Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus
4/24 || Torche - Harmonicraft
4/27 || Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65 (5/22 in N.A.)
4/28 || Castle - Blacklands
4/30 || Marilyn Manson - Born Villain

May
5/01 || Whitey - Bostonia EP
5/08 || Storm Corrosion a.k.a. Mikael Akerfeldt/Steven Wilson (Roadrunner)
5/08 || Naam - The Ballad of the Starchild, Movements I-V
5/22 || Stoneburner - Sickness Will Pass
5/22 || Early Man/It's Casual split
Earthless?
Lecherous Gaze?
Burzum - Umskiptar

June
6/05 || Melvins (lite) - Freak Puke
6/11 || Hot Chip - In Our Heads
6/12 || Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
6/12 || Mike Scheidt - Stay Awake
6/12 || Rush - Clockwork Angels
6/19 || Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
6/25 || Gojira - L’Enfant Sauvage
6/26 || Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

Spring/Summer
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (late spring)
Baroness (early summer)
Atriarch (summer)
Portal (summer)
Coffins (summer)
Graveyard (summer)

July
7/24 || OM - Advaitic Songs

August
Intronaut

September
Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Alter
Diesto - For Water or Blood
Howl

October
Cough
Muse

November
1349

December

Expected Eventually / Rumors and Theories
Eggnogg
Gojira - Sea Shepard
Black Pyramid/Tenspeed Warlock split
Salvador
Amenra - Mass V (Neurot)
Black Sabbath
Bison B.C.
Black Math Horseman
Church of Misery
Kylesa
Rabbits
Primate
Unsane
Rebreather
Neurosis
Witchcraft
Tomahawk
Gravity Kills?
Tweak Bird?
Ancient Age?
Tool?
Big Business
The Prodigy
The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic
The Sword (fall?)
Sleep?
Wight - Through The Woods Into Deep Water (late May?)

Updated: 5/16/12