TOO SOON? GRIM KIM’S BEST OF 2012 … SO FAR!

This year we’ve heard a staggering number of decent metal releases, a handful of really good ones, and a few that have the potential to be incredible. Time will tell, and 2012’s still got a lot of life left in ‘er. For now, I know I’m forgetting a million things, but here’s a handful of the records that have won my heart in 2012:

• Revenge Scum.Collapse.Eradication (Nuclear War Now!)
• Faustcoven Hellfire And Funeral Bells (Nuclear War Now!)
• Derketa In Death We Meet (Necroharmonic)
• Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
• Anhedonist Netherwards (Dark Descent)
• The Great Old Ones Al-Azif (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre)
• Ride For Revenge Under the Eye (KVLT/Bestial Burst)
• Saint Vitus Lillie: F:65 (Season Of Mist)
• Panopticon Kentucky (Handmade Birds/Pagan Flames)
• Bosse De Nage III (Profound Lore)
• Binah Hallucinating In Resurrecture (Dark Descent)
• Horseback Half Blood (Relapse)
• Bestial Holocaust Into the Goat Vulva (MetalHit.com/Iron Bonehead)
• Salö Mangia Merde e Morte! EP
• Black Goat Of The Woods EP
• Infiltrator demo
• Trenchgrinder demo

-GKK