The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part VI
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 sixth group… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Steffen Kummerer — Obscura
1. Ihsahn – Eremita
2. Revocation – Teratogenesis
3. Evocation – Illusions of Grandeur
4. Sacramentum – Far away from the Sun (re-release)
5. Dark Tranquillity – The Mind’s I (re-release)
6. Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery (re-release)
7. Aeon – Aeon’s Black
8. Katatonia – Dead End Kings
9. Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day
10. Shining – Redefining Darkness
Martin Van Drunen — Asphyx
1. Blizzard – Fuck The Universe
2. Coffins – March of Despair
3. Funeral Whore – Step Into Damnation
4. Suicidal Angels – Bloodbath
5. Bodyfarm – Malevolence
Dave Chavarri, Ill Niño
1. Metallica — Master of Puppets
2. Iron Maiden — Number of the Beast
3. Judas Priest — Screaming for Vengeance
4. Accept — Restless and Wild
5. Seal — II
6. Rushing — Moving Pictures
7. Exodus — Bonded by Blood
8. TESTAMENT — The New Order
9. Queen — News of the World
10. AC/DC — Back in Black
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Matt Harvey — Exhumed
1. Hammock — Departure Songs
2. Murder Construct — Results
3. Beach House — Bloom
4. Municipal Waste — The Fatal Feast
5. Hooded Menace — Effigies of Evil
6. The XX — Coexist
7. Royal Thunder — CVI
8. Liberteer — Better To Die On Your Feet, Than Live On Your Knees
9. Cardiac Arrest — Vortex of Violence
10. Stars — The North
1. Rainbow – On Stage (Deluxe Edition)
2. Rainbow – Rising (Deluxe Edition)
3. Deep Purple – Live in Paris 1975
4. Deep Purple – Machine Head (40th Anniversary Box)
5. Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day
6. Michael Schenker – Temple Of Rock – Live In Europe
7. Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension
8 Various. – The Avengers Soundtrack
9. Rolling Stones – Grrr
10. Jon Lord – Concerto For Group and Orchestra
Rich Hoak, Brutal Truth
1. Winters in Osaka — Clandestine LP
2. Old Head — Maximum Rock LP
3. Bastard Noise — The Progression of Sickness 10″ EP
4. Tussock — Devastation of Nuclear Proliferation cassette
5. FU — On the Earth CD
6. Chimpgrinder — Oliver CD-R demo
7. G.O.D.A — Pure Hate & Anger CD
8. Rumplestiltskingrinder — Ghostmaker LP
9. Carcass — Excreted Live at the BBC Picture LP
10. Chicago Thrash Ensemble — Monsters Of The Midwest 12″ EP
Mark Zavon, Kill Devil Hill
1. Foo Fighters — Wasting Light
2. Slash — Apocalyptic Love
3. Lamb of God — Resolution
4. Meshuggah — Koloss
5. Soundgarden — King Animal
6. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
7. Van Halen — A Different Kind of Truth
8. Aerosmith — Music From Another Dimension
9. Tommy Bolin and Friends — Great Gypsy Soul
10. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
Jeff Paulick, Lazarus A.D.
1. Baroness — Yellow and Green
2. Periphery — Periphery II
3. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
4. John Mayer — Born and Raised
5. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
6. Deftones — Koi No Yokan
7. The Night Flight Orchestra — Internal Affairs
8. Whitechapel — Whitechapel
9. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II: Future Sequence
10. Allegaeon — Formshifter
Justin Smith, Graf Orlock
1. John K. Samson — Provincial
2. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
3. Birds In Row — You, Me, and the Violence
4. Tragedy — Darker Days Ahead
5. Propagandhi — Failed States
6. Tempest — Solace
7. Earth — Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
8. Graveyard — Lights Out
9. Hannah Hirsch — Ge Hem Over Himlen
10. Mean Jeans — On Mars
Dan Forbrich, Stealing Axion
1. Car Bomb – w^w^^w^w
2. The Flower Kings – Banks of Eden
3. Meshuggah – Koloss
4. Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
5. Katatonia – Dead End Kings
6. The Omega Experiment – The Omega Experiment
7. The Safety Fire – Grind the Ocean
8. Monuments – Gnosis
9. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
10. Periphery – Periphery II
Chad Davis, Hour of 13
1. Windhand — S/T
2. Electric Wizard — Legalize Drugs and Murder TAPE EP
3. Jess and The Ancient Ones — S/T
4. Pilgrim — Misery Wizard
5. Bedemon — Symphony Of Shadows
6. OFF! — S/T
7. Admiral Sir Cloudesely Shovell — Don’t Hear It… Fear it
8. Kadavar — S/T
9. Pallbearer — Sorrow and Extinction
10. Ilsa — Intoxincantations
Marc Grewe, Morgoth
1. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
2. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
3. Skeletal Remains – Beyond the Flesh
4. Secrets of the Moon – Seven Bells
5. Dead Can Dance – Anastasis
6. Killing Joke – MMXI
7. Katatonia – Dead End Kings
8. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
9. Enslaved – RIITIIR
10. Prong – Carved in Stone
Eric Baule, Moonloop
1. Moonloop — Deeply from the Earth
2. Meshuggah — Koloss
3. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
4. The Faceless — Autotheism
5. Enslaved — Riitiir
6. Storm Corrosion — S/T
7. Steven Wilson — Get All That You Deserve
8. Steve Vai — The Story of Light
9.Hammock — Departure Songs
10. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
Juanjo Martín, Moonloop
1. Meshuggah — Koloss
2. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
3. Moonloop — Deeply from the Earth
4. The Faceless — Autotheism
5. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
6. Steve Vai — The Story of Light
Raúl Payán, Moonloop
1. The Faceless — Autotheism
2. Ihsahn — Eremita
3. Meshuggah — Koloss
4. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
5. Moonloop — Deeply from the Earth
6. Steve Vai — The Story of Light
7. Enslaved — Riitiir
Vic Granell, Moonloop
1. The Faceless — Autotheism
2. Meshuggah — Koloss
3. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
4. The Contorsionist — Intrinsic
5. Enslaved — Riitiir
6. Moonloop — Deeply from the Earth
7. Hammock — Departure Songs
8.Toundra — III
