The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part IV
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 fourth group… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Alex Webster, Cannibal Corpse
1. Overkill — The Electric Age
2. Aeon — Aeons Black
3. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
4. Meshuggah — Koloss
5. Spawn of Possession — Incurso
6. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
7. Accept — Stalingrad
8. Jeff Loomis — Plains of Oblivion
9. Nile — At The Gate of Sethu
10. Rush — Clockwork Angels
Mark Hunter, Chimaira
1. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
2. Trent Reznor + Atticus Ross — The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3. Hans Zimmer — The Dark Knight Rises (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
4. Ohio Sky — This House is Old and Filled With Ghosts
5. WhiteChapel — S/T
6. Lamb Of God — Resolution
7. Six Feet Under — Undead
8. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
9. Down — Down IV Part I – The Purple EP
10. Fear Factory — The Industrialist
Laura Pleasants, Kylesa
1. Pallbearer — Sorrow and Extinction
2. Torche — Harmonicraft
3. Witchcraft — Legend
4. Orange Goblin — A Eulogy for the Damned
5. Killing Joke — MMXII
6. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Krakow — Diin
8. Unsane — Wreck
9. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
10. Baroness — Yellow (only, not Green)
Otep Shamaya, Otep
1. Joey Bad A$$ — 1999
2. Deftones — Diamond Eyes
3. Harlan Ellison — Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral
4. Emilie Autumn — FLAG
5. Stolen Babies — Naught
6. Collyn McCoy — Ultra Electric Mega Galactic
7. Coco Rosie — The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
8. Adele — 21
9. Birdy — Birdy
10. Kanye West and Jay Z — Watch the Throne
Mike Hill, Tombs
1. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
2. Swans — The Seer
3. Hans Zimmer — The Dark Knight Rises (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
4. Alaric / Atriarch Split
5. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
6. Van Halen — A Different Kind of Truth
7. Serpentine Path — Crotalus Horridus Horridus
8. Evoken — Atra Mors
9. Bastard Sapling — Dragged from Our Restless Trance
10. Blut Aus Nord — 777 Cosmosophy
Liv Jagrell, Sister Sin
1. Sister Sin — Now and Forever (duh!)
2. Kreator — Phantom Antichrist
3. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
4. Accept — Stalingrad
5. Huntress — Spell Eater
6. Ram —Death
7. Marduk — Serpent Sermon
8. ZZ Top — La Future
9. Overkill — The Electric Age
10. Kiss — Monster
Jimmy Hiltula, Sister Sin
1. Sister Sin — Now and Forever
2. Kreator — Phantom Antichrist
3. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
4. Huntress — Spell Eater
5. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
6. Accept — Stalingrad
7. ZZ Top — La Futura
8. Rezet — Civic Nightmares
9. Down — Down IV Part I – The Purple EP
10. Katatonia — Dead End Kings
Dave Sundberg, Sister Sin
1. Sister Sin — Now and Forever
2. RAM — Death
3. Kreator — Phantom Antichrist
4. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
5. Accept — Stalingrad
6. The Casualties — Resistance
7. Overkill — The Electric Age
8. Doro — Raise Your Fist
9. Kill Devil Hill –S/T
10. 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal
Richie Cavalera, Incite
1. Deftones — Koi No Yokan
2. Sylosis — Monolith
3. Lamb of God — Resolution
4. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
5. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
6. Cattle decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
7. Soulfly — Enslaved
8. Black Breathe — Sentenced to Life
9. Cancer Bats — Dead Set on Living
10. Muse — The 2nd law
David Micic, Destiny Potato
1. Devin Townsend – Epicloud
2. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal
3. Muse – The 2nd Law
4. Deftones – Koi No Yokan
5. Trifonic – Ninth Wave
6. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
7. Iiris – The Magic Gift Box
8. Circa Survive – Violent Waves
9. Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
10. Linkin Park – Living Things
Jason Lekberg, IKILLYA
1. Lamb of God — Resolution
2. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
3. Pro-Pain — Straight to the Dome
4. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
5. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal
6. Cloudkicker — Fade
7. Paradise Lost — Tragic Idol
8. Hung — S/T
9. Katatonia — Dead End Kings
10. God Forbid — Equilibrium
Eddie Gobbo, Jar’d Loose
1. Down — Down IV Part I – The Purple EP
2. Black God — II
3. Encrust — From Birth to Soil
4. Fight Amp — Birth Control
5. Fear Factory — The Industrialist
6. 16 — Deep Cuts from Dark Clouds
7. Vision of Disorder — The Curse Remain Cursed
8. Chrome Waves — S/T
9. Primate — Draw Back a Stump
10. A Life Once Lost — Ecstatic Trance
Mike Abominator, Gravehill/Metal Maniacs
1. Cardiac Arrest — Vortex of Violence
2. Bombs of Hades — The Serpent’s Redemption
3. Angel Witch — As Above, So Below
4. Cianide — The Dying Truth re-issue
5. Accept — Stalingrad
6. Undergang — Till Doden Os Skiller
7. Chapel — Satan’s Rock n’ Roll
8. Stench Of Decay — Stench of Decay
9. Desaster — The Arts of Destruction
10. Asphyx — Deathhammer
JR Gurrieri, Slam One Down
1. Slam One Down — Who Really Wants To Live Forever
2. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
3. Lamb Of God — Resolution
4. Undivided — No One’s Safe
5. Meshuggah — Koloss
6. Katatonia — Dead End Kings
7. Prong — Carved Into Stone
8. Philm — Harmonic
9. Down — Down IV Part 1
10. Vision of Disorder — The Cursed Remain Cursed
