Agreed on all mentions of new Boris.
The latest Earth (The Bees Make Honey in the Lion's Skull) is a delicious slab of music, might I add. Cowboy movie drone with piano arouses me greatly.
Scott Kelly from Neurosis has a new solo album out this year (The Wake), and for one guy with an acoustic guitar, it's actually pretty fucking good.
Have a Nice Life's Deathconsciousness is all over the place, but all up, it's some pretty neat shoegaze.
Agalloch had a new EP out this year (The White), which is just half an hour of nice folk tunes, Agalloch dropped the metal for this one. Leaves me wanting another full-length something fierce.