2012 is looking pretty sweet!

[kári]

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed

So many bands I love are going to release an album in 2012! Sigur Rós, Air, The xx, Mumford & Sons, Muse, The Beach Boys, ...

And probably a lot more not on that list!

[RoeDent]

Storm Corrosion, Flying Colors and Spock's Beard, to name three.

[Zantera]

The one's I'm excited about: (Not all these have confirmed dates and such, but will most likely come out)

Storm Corrosion, Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Pendulum (?), Sigur Rós, Tool, The Pineapple Thief, The Tallest Man on Earth, The River Empires, Between the Buried and Me and Alcest. (might forget some)

[Cordez]

New OSI!

[Heretic]

Yeah it looks like it's shaping up to be pretty good. I don't know if it will beat this year, though. Looking forward to stuff by Between the Buried and Me, Mumford & Sons, Porcupine Tree, Coheed and Cambria, The Tallest Man on Earth, Sigur Ros, Anathema, Storm Corrosion, The Mars Volta, Soundgarden, and maybe even Avenged Sevenfold.

[BlobVanDam]

KISS, Van Halen, Crazy Lixx. Can't think of any others yet that I'm anticipating, but it's not even 2012 yet, so I'm sure there will be more to come.

[Sigz]

I'm excited for Circle Takes the Square above all else.

[Index]

New Deftones, Minus the Bear, Baroness, Porcupine Tree, Storm Corrosion, BTBAM, TOOL are what I am looking most forward to in 2012

[pogoowner]

New OSI!

That's the big one for me.

[Gadough]

So freaking excited for the new BTBAM. The Parallax EP was a fantastic taste of what they have in store for the future. Can't wait.

[AcidLameLTE]

New Susanne Sundfør. That is all.

[Nic35]

Can't wait to hear the new Gojira.

[MetalManiac666]

How to Destroy Angels.  Fuck yeah.

[Gorille85]

A lot of great releases in 2012. The ones I'm more excited for you ask? Storm Corrosion, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Gojira, The Tallest Man on Earth, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Massive Attack and Stolen Babies.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Psychotic Waltz!

[Mladen]

Rush, Spock's beard, Flying colors, Blaze Bayley, and we'll see what else. It's not gonna be as good as 2011, obviously.

[Lowdz]

KISS, Van Halen, Crazy Lixx. Can't think of any others yet that I'm anticipating, but it's not even 2012 yet, so I'm sure there will be more to come.

I was just about to post how I wasn't looking forward to any of the albums on the list so far and I came to Blob's post.
I'll second those two choices and add Rush (hey, I can hope I guess but recent output does not give me great pause for optimism), a new Hardline and Jeff Scott Soto.

[Dark Castle]

Still waiting for a Baroness announcement, but new Lamb of God on my birthday will definitely rule.

[antigoon]

I really REALLY hope the new Mumford & Sons doesn't disappoint. I don't even know why I think it will.

[lateralus88]

Possible new Coheed as well!

[True Death of Life]

Can't wait to hear the new Gojira.

And Alice in Chains, Fear Factory, Metallica (say nothing), Rancid, Soundgarden, the Offspring, Slayer, Tool...

[jjrock88]

Judas Priest
Rush
Van Halen
Black Sabbath
Accept
Primal Fear
Tooth and Nail
Adreneline Mob
Crimson Glory
Kiss

Wow, 2012 will be an awesome year.

[dethklok09]

I can't wait for Justin Bieber's new album. This year looks like it's going to be quite good 

[PuffyPat]

Gnarls Barkley, A Great Big Pile of Leaves (most likely).

I really REALLY hope the new Mumford & Sons doesn't disappoint. I don't even know why I think it will.

I get what you're saying though. Their first album had so much success that it's very easy to think that their next album won't be as good.

[Jamesman42]

sure there are new releases coming but we still haveA Dramatic Turn of Events to listen to guys

[dethklok09]

sure there are new releases coming but we still haveA Dramatic Turn of Events to listen to guys

yeah guys a dramatic turn of events was a good record because they made it well written and stuff

[adace]

Confirmed/most likely coming out in 2012:
Abigail Williams
Ahab
Alcest
Alice in Chains
Avenged Sevenfold
Baroness
Behemoth
Black Sabbath
Bloc Party
Blut aus Nord
Candlemass
Caspian
Chimp Spanner
Coheed and Cambria
Corrosion of Conformity
Daylight Dies
Deftones
Devin Townsend
Dying Fetus
Eluveitie
Epica
The Faceless
Gojira
High on Fire
If These Trees Could Talk
Kamelot
Karnivool
Katatonia
Kyuss
Lamb of God
The Mars Volta
Meshuggah
Metallica
Muse
Nile
Orange Goblin
OSI
Pelican
Periphery
Porcupine Tree
Priestess
QOTSA
Riverside
Rush
Sigur Ros
Storm Corrosion
Tesseract
Testament
Threshold
U2
Wolfmother
Woods of Ypres

[Jamesman42]

thanks for the list, i wish the op had a list we could look at

[adace]

Hoping for:

Agalloch
Animal Collective
Aphex Twin
Beck
Boards of Canada
David Gilmour
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Ensiferum
Flaming Lips
GYBE
Immortal
Massive Attack
Mono
Nine Inch Nails
Novembre
Portishead
Rammstein
Red Sparowes
Slayer
SOAD
Scale the Summit
Tool

[The Letter M]

Also, possibly new work from The Flower Kings, as well as Hasse Froberg's Musical Companion is working on their 2nd album, and while there hasn't been much news from him, Tomas Bodin/Eggs & Dogs will eventually release the third part in Tomas' trilogy of I AM/YOU ARE/HE SHE IT IS.

Also, there will likely be a new Frost* album at some point, now that Jem has changed his mind!

On my list:
RUSH's Clockwork Angels
Storm Corrosion's debut album
OSI's 4th studio album
Flying Colors (Morse/Morse/Portnoy/LaRue/McPherson)
Spock's Beard's X Tour Live (At Downey, CA)
Spock's Beard's 11th studio album
The Flower Kings' 11th studio album
Marillion's 17th studio album
Tool's 5th studio album
Muse's 6th studio album

Didn't know about Porcupine Tree, Coheed & Cambria, or The Mars Volta, but it seems like they're due for new albums as well, so I'll probably check out the latter two, and DEFINITELY get new PT. That'll be right up there with Rush and SB.

I can also hope that Neal, Mike, Roine and Pete make time for the fourth Transatlantic album at some point in the coming months so we can get it by the fall of 2012!

-Marc.

[Nel]

The Fray... Snow Patrol... just to add a few that I care about. 

[Fluffy Lothario]

Gnarls Barkley,

Wow, really? That could be interesting. I thought their second album was a dud though.

[Nel]

Gnarls Barkley,

Wow, really? That could be interesting. I thought their second album was a dud though.

Yeah, the first one is fantastic, but the second one was awful. So a third one could go either way, I guess.

(I honestly thought they were done with the project after that.)

[Pols Voice]

The Hobbit Part 1 soundtrack will probably be the musical highlight of the year for me. Howard Shore is a genius.

[Fluffy Lothario]

Gnarls Barkley,

Wow, really? That could be interesting. I thought their second album was a dud though.

Yeah, the first one is fantastic, but the second one was awful. So a third one could go either way, I guess.

(I honestly thought they were done with the project after that.)

Yeah, St Elsewhere is great, really unique. Fun, great beats, bizarre, creepy, kind of depressing, all at the same time.

The Odd Couple tried to be all of that again, and ended up being pretty much none of it. Neighbors was the best song by a mile.