The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part VIII
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 final group… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Curran Reynolds, Today is the Day
1. Anasazi — S/T 7″
2. TV Baby — Wild Joy 7″
3. Abominable Putridity — The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
4. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
5. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
6. Swans — The Seer
7. School of Seven Bells — Ghostory
8. Violens — True
9. Lord Mantis — Pervertor
10. Pyrrhon — 2012 Demo
Matt Sorg, Ringworm
1. Van Halen — A Different Kind of Truth
2. Accept — Stalingrad
3. Autopsy- All Tomorrow’s Funerals EP
4. OFF! — S/T
5. Angel Witch — As Above, So Below
6. Asphyx — Deathhammer
Don Jamieson, That Metal Show
1. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
2. Stone Sour — House Of Gold & Bones
3. Machine Head — Machine Fucking Head Live
4. Danko Jones — Rock n’ Roll Is Black n’ Blue
5. Down I — Down IV The Purple EP
6. Black Country Communion — Afterglow
7. Derketa — In Death We Meet
8. Points North — Road Less Traveled
9. Icarus Witch — Rise
10. Shadows Fall — Fire from the Sky
Jim Florentine, That Metal Show
1. Rebel Inc — Soundtrack to the Revolution
2. Danko Jones — Rock n’ Roll Is Black n’ Blue
3. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
4. Blackberry Smoke — The Whippoorwill
5. Accept — Stalingrad
6. Million Dollar Reload — A Sinners Saint
7. Stone Sour — House Of Gold & Bones
8. Six Feet Under — Undead
9. Fear Factory — The Industrialist
10. ZZ Top — La Futura
Leon Del Muerte, Murder Construct
1. Martyrdöd — Paranoia
2. Souljazz Orchestra — Solidarity
3. Black Breath — Sentenced to Life
4. Antibalas– Antibalas
5. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
6. Menahan Street Band — The Crossing
7. Enslaved — Riitiir
8. General Surgery — Like An Ever Flying Limb
9. Neil Cowley Trio — The Face Of Mount Molehill
10. London Philharmonic Orchestra — The Greatest Video Game Music 2
Katon W. De Pena, Hirax
1. Aria/Ария (Russia) — Phoenix/Феникс
2. Iron Maiden — En Vivo DVD
3. Kreator — Phantom Antichrist
4. Moonspell — Alpha Noir/Omega White
5. U.D.O. — Celebrator
6. Firewind — Few Against Many
7. Sodom — 30 Years Sodomized – 1982 – 2012
8. Manowar — Lord of Steel
9. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
10.Tankard — A Girl Called Cerveza
Juan Montoya, Stallone
1. Graveyard — Lights Out
2. Order of the Owl — In the Noon of the After Day
3. Manray — Tournament
4. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
5. Biters — It’s All Chewed Up Ok?
6. Beach House — Bloom
7. If These Trees Could Talk — Red Forest
8. Moon Duo — Circles
9. Whores — Ruiner
10. Royal Thunder — CVI
Greg Burgess, Allegaeon
1. The Faceless — Autotheism
2. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
3. Overkill — The Electric Age
4. Testament — Dark Roots of the Earth
5. Ihsahn — Eremita
6. Gorjira — L’ nfant Sausage or whatever
7. Goatwhore — Blood for the Master
8. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
Jesse McKinnon, Stoneburner
1. Ufomammut — Oro-Opus Primum
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
3. Unsane — Wreck
4. Mark Lanegan Band — Blues Funeral
5. Alaric/Atriarch — Split LP
6. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
7. Kicker — Not You
8. Tragedy — Darker Days Ahead
9. Lord Mantis — Pervertor
10. ZZ Top — La Futura
Chris Alfieri, Vattnet Viskar
1. Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
2. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
3. Birds In Row – You, Me, & The Violence
4. Yellow Eyes/Monument – Split Cassette
5. Code Orange Kids – Love is Love//Return to Dust
6. Rhinocervs – RH12
7. Bell Witch – Longing
8. Mark McGuire – Nightshade
9. Worm Ouroboros – Come the Thaw
10.Svartidaudi – Flesh Cathedral
Jose Ospina, Nepente
1. Overkill — The Electric Age
2. Marduk — Serpent Sermon
3. Accept — Stalingrad
4. M-Pire of Evil — Hell to the Holy
5. Aborted — Global Flatline
6. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
7. Deathspell Omega — Drought
8. Unleashed — Odalheim
9. Denial of God — Death and the Beyond
10. Nominon– The Cleansing
Patrick Alberts, Call of the Void (formerly known as Ironhorse)
1. Father John Misty — Fear Fun
2. High On Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
3. Torche — Harmonicraft
4. Gaza — No Absolutes In Human Suffering
5. Burning Love — Rotten Thing To Say
6. Homewrecker —Worms & Dirt
7. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
8. Mutilation Rites — Empyrean
9. The Men — Open Your Heart
10. Eagle Twin — The Feather Tipped the Serpents Scale
Mr. Hitchcock, Zombiefication
1. Necrovation — S/T
2. Karnarium — Otapamo Pralaja
3. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
4. Pyre — Ravenous Decease
5. Tulus — Olm of Bitter
6. Katatonia — Dead End Kings
7. Sonne Adam — Doctrines of Dark Devotion
8. Die Hard — Conjure The Legions
9. Blood Mortized — The Key to a Black Heart
10. Decline of the I — Inhibition
Drew Juergens, Translation Loss Records
1. Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
2. Jodis — Black Curtain
3. Katatonia — Dead End Kings
4. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
5. Vision of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed
6. Pallbearer — Sorrow And Extinction
7. The Unwinding Hours — Afterlives
8. Dehumanized — Controlled Elite
9. Merrimack — The Acausal Mass
10. Latitudes — Individuation
Nico, Kaotoxin Records
1. Ad Patres — Scorn Aesthetics
2. Savage Annihilation — Cannibalisme, hérésie et autres sauvageries
3. Eye Of Solitude — Sui Caedere
4. Eye Of Solitude — Awoken by Crows
5. Infected Society — Get Infected
6. Dehuman — Black Throne of all Creation
7. VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC — In Involuntary Abortion We Trust
8. Insain — Spiritual Rebirth
9. Unsu — The Filthy
10. Gronibard — Satanic Tuning Club Turbo!
Pete Ponitkoff, Agenda of Swine
[Editor’s note: While we appreciate Mr. Ponitkoff’s contribution to these list, we couldn’t really make heads or tails of what the what he sent us. Instead of album titles, he generally included URLs for Facebook pages. He chose a lot of ties, despite our request that the lists contain no ties. And in some case, he seems to have chosen bands’ entire discographies, despite when any of their albums were actually released. We don’t want to short change Mr. Pontikoff, but we also aren’t going to wade through all this. So here it is, unedited. Our apologies.]
1. Early Graves “all”
2. Viral “all” www.facebook.com/viralband /”Deadly remains”www.facebook.com/deadlyremainsofficial.
3. Warscythe wwwFacebook.com/ Warscytheband
4 .Burning Monk Www.facebook.com/burningmonk
5. Connoisseur ” all” [email protected] / Standing on a floor of bodies ” all” www.standingonafloorofbodies.com
6. Murder Construct “All” / Man among wolves “All” www.facebook.com/manamongwolves
7. Cattle Decapitation ” Monolith….
8. Ominous Ruin ” Demo tracks” www.facebook.com/ominousruin
9. Fulgora ” Everything” www.facebook.com/Fulgora / Bedrucken www.facebook.com/bedrucken
10. Pathology ” every single freakin thing”/ Pig Destroyer ” Book Burner”
