TOO SOON? DAVE MUSTEIN’S BEST OF 2012 … SO FAR!

It’s time again for the listing of the listening! It would be unsurprising if some of 2012’s first-half favorites didn’t end up among my best of the year — so many exciting new releases loom on the event horizon. But I’m ready! Are you? Take a peek at my best of 2012 so far (in no order):

• Sigh In Somniphobia (Candlelight)
• Meshuggah Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
• Job For a Cowboy Demonocracy (Metal Blade)
• Buckethead Balloon Cement (Hatboxghost)
• Spawn of Possession Incurso (Relapse)
• Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord)
• Hypno5e Acid Mist Tomorrow (Season Of Mist)
• Ihsahn Eremita (Candlelight)
• Deathspell Omega Drought (Season Of Mist)
• Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis (Southern Lord)

-DM