TOO SOON? VINCE’S BEST OF 2012… SO FAR

This year I’ve been keeping a running list of my favorite albums since January 1st in a handy yellow “note” on my iPhone, ensuring I won’t forget any that came out a whole five months ago (an eternity in album release time in 2012). Some will end up getting bumped by Fall releases, but so it goes. In alphabetical order:

• 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes of Absolution (Century Media)
• Baroness Yellow & Green (Relapse)
• Bereft Leichenhaus (The End)
• Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends (Season Of Mist)
• Dodecahedron Dodecahedron (Season Of Mist)
• Gojira L’Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
• Ihsahn Eremita (Candlelight)
• Meshuggah Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
• Night Flight Orchestra Internal Affairs (Coroner)
• Primitive Weapons The Shadow Gallery (Prosthetic)
• T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca (Sumerian)
• Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth (Interscope)

-VN