The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part II
Every year year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year have been. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, grinders, and djenters alike graciously contributed lists to MS, and we’ll be running them in groups of fourteen to seventeen musicians at a time twice a day for the whole week.
Below, check out the second group… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Trevor Strnad, The Black Dahlia Murder
1. Chaos Inception — The Abrogation
2. Malignancy — Eugenics
3. Resurgency — False Enlightenment
4. Spawn Of Possession — Incurso
5. Cryptopsy — S/T
6. Abominable Putridity — The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
7. Dodsengel — Imperator
8. Absvrdist — Illusory
9. Desecravity — Implicit Obedience
10. Beneath — Enslaved by Fear
Misha Mansoor, Periphery
1. Trifonic — Ninth Wave
2. The Contortionist — Intrinsic
3. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II: Future Sequence
4. The Faceless — Autotheism
5. Deftones — Koi No Yokan
6. Twelve Foot Ninja — Silent Machine
7. Veil of Maya — Eclipse
8. Meshuggah — Koloss
9. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
10. Zedd — Clarity
Mark Holcomb, Periphery
1. The Faceless — Autotheism
2. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II: Future Sequence
3. Wintersun — Time I
4. The Contortionist — Intrinsic
5. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
6. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
7. Sigur Ros — Valtari
8. Twelve Foot Ninja — Silent Machine
9. Veil of Maya — Eclipse
10. Ulver — Childhood’s End
Aaron Turner, Old Man Gloom
1. Swans — The Seer
2. Arkhamin Kirjasto — Torches Ablaze
3. Daniel Menche — Guts
4. Deep Listening Band — Needle Drop Jungle
5. MGLA — With Hearts Towards None
6. James Plotkin & Jon Mueller — Terminal Velocity
7. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
8. William Fowler Collins — Tenebroso
9. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
10. Wreck and Reference — No Youth
Justine Ethier, Blackguard
1. Lana Del Rey — Born to Die
2. Jeff Loomis — Plains of Oblivion
3. Tesseract — Perspective EP
4. Periphery — Periphery II
5. The Agonist — Prisoners
6. Meshuggah — Koloss
7. Adrenaline Mob — Omertà
8. Ensiferum — Unsung Heroes
9. Lacuna Coil — Dark Adrenaline
10. Sabaton — Carolux Rex
Markus Makkonen, Hooded Menace
1. Anaal Nathrakh — Vanitas
2. Kiss — Monster
3. Leonard Cohen — Old Ideas
4. Woods of Ypres — Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
5. Paradise Lost — Tragic Idol
6. Jess and the Ancient Ones — Jess and the Ancient Ones
7. Headspace — I Am Anonymous
8. Hexvessel — No Holier Temple
9. Terrorizer — Hordes of Zombies
10.Putrevore — Macabre Kingdom
Lasse Pyykko, Hooded Menace
1. Pallbearer — Sorrow and Extinction
2. Anhedonist — Netherwards
3. Anguish — Through the Archdemon’s Head
4. Horrendous — The Chills
5. Tragedy — Darker Days Ahead
6. Degial — Death’s Striking Wings
7. Indesinense — Vessels of Light and Decay
8. Evoken — Atra Mors
9. Derketa — In Death We Meet
10. OFF! – S/T
JJ “Shiv” Polachek IV, 7 Horns 7 Eyes
1. Woe Is Me – Genesi[s]
2. Spawn of Possession – Incurso
3. Emmure – Slave to the Game
4. Abominable Putridity – The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
5. Pighead – Rotten Body Reanimation
6. Pathology – The Time of Great Purification
7. Stealing Axion – Moments
8. Vomitous – Empires of Great Enslavement
9. Enpedestalment – Not All Guys Are Jerks
10. Cerebral Incubation – Gonorrhea Nodule Mastication
Mem V. Stein, Exumer
1. Ghost — Opus Eponymous
2. High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
3. Onslaught — Sound of Violence
4. Gojira — L’ Enfant Sauvage
5. Venom — Fallen Angels
6. Morbid Angel– IIlud Divinum Insanus
7. Cannibal Corpse — Torture
8. Overkill — The Electric Age
9. ZZ Top — La Futura
10. Cavalera Conspiracy — Blunt Force Trauma
Jeff Tandy, Birth A.D.
1. Aura Noir – Out to Die
2. Chthe’ilist – Amechth’ntaas’m’rriachth (demo)
3. Weapon – Embers and Revelations
4. Imprecation – Jehovah Denied
5. Marduk – Serpent Sermon
6. Torture Killer – I Chose Death
7. Watain – Opus Diaboli
8. Secrets of the Moon – Seven Bells
9. Pseudogod – Deathwomb Catechesis
10. Autopsy – All Tomorrow’s Funerals
1. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
2. Cannibal Corpse — Torture
3. Aborted — Global Flatline
4. Hour Of Penance — Sedition
5. Gojira — Elephant Sausage
6. Corrosive Carcass — Composition of Flesh
7. Unleashed — Odalheim
8. Goathwhore — Blood for the Master
9. Meshuggah — Koloss
10. Fetus Stench -– Stillbirth
Werner Kniesek, VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC
1. Begging for Incest — Orgasmic Selfmutilation
2. Savage Annihilation — Cannibalisme, hérésie et autres sauvageries
3. Whitchapel — S/T
4. Abominable Putridity — The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
5. Cumbeast — Recycled Nastiness
6. Beneath the Massacre — Incongruous
7. Pighead — Rotten Body Reanimation
8. The Faceless — Autotheism
9. Razorrape -– Revenge of the Hermaphrodite Whores
10. Malodorous — Augury of the Aborted
Wolfgang Ott, VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC
1. Obscura — Illegimitation
2. Go-Zen — Hitoshizuku
3. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II: Future Sequence
4. Disfiguring the Goddess – Sleeper
5. Nuclear Monstrosity — So Let’s Nuke’m First
6. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
7. Murder Construct — Results
8. Kraanium – Post Mortal Coital Fixation
9. Infected Society — Get Infected
10. Manowar — The Lord of Steel
Lukas, VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC
1. Stoma – The Glorification of Sexual Depravation
2. Forced Abortion — Trying Not to Puke
3. Die Twinnies — Wir rocken auf Rollen Directors Cut 2012)
4. Kraanium – Post Mortal Coital Fixation
5. Cumbeast — Recycled Nastiness
6. Razorrape – Revenge Of The Hermaphrodite Whores
7. Septicopyemia — Supreme Art of Genital Carnage
8. VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC — In Involuntary Abortion We Trust
9. Necrom of Hardcore — Winter 2012
10. Round Wave Crusher — Terrorcore Compilation
