The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part V
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 fifth group… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Dirk Verbeuren, Soilwork
1. Meshuggah — Koloss
2. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
3. Aborted — Global Flatline
4. Torture Division — Satan, Sprit Och Våld
5. Devin Townsend Project — Epicloud
6. Municipal Waste & Toxic Holocaust — Toxic Waste
7. Ihsahn — Eremita
8. Asphyx — Deathhammer
9. Usurpress — Trenches of the Netherworld
10. Converge/Naplam Death — Split 7″
Dave Davidson, Revocation
1. Spawn Of Possession — Incurso
2. Meshuggah —Koloss
3. Dysrthythmia — Test of Submission
4. Pig Destroyer — Book Burner
5. Dodecahedron — Dodecahedron
6. Murder Construct — Results
7. Deathspell Omega — Drought
8. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
9. Job For A Cowboy — Demonocracy
10. Squarepusher — Ufabulum
Dan Gargiulo, Revocation
1. Manowar — The Lord of Steel
2. Deathspell Omega — Drought
3. Abigor — Quintessence
4. Aura Noir — Out to Die
5. Dysrhythmia — Test of Submission
6. Dodecahedron — Dodecahedron
7. Spawn of Possession — Incurso
8. Mgła — With Hearts Toward None
9. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
10. Murder Construct — Results
Charles Elliott, Abysmal Dawn
1. Cannibal Corpse -– Torture
2. Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
3. Spawn of Possession — Incurso
4. Aborted – Global Flatline
5. Swallow the Sun – Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
6. Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
7. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
8. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
9. Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy
10. Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression
James Farwell, Bison B.C.
1. Pallbearer — Sorrow & Extinction
2. Rush — Clockwork Angels
3. Swans — The Seer
4. Biipiigwan — Nibaak
5. Erosion — Kill Us All
6. Deftones — Koi No Yokan
Dan And, Bison B.C.
1. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
2. Killing Joke — MMXII
3. Deftones — Koi No Yokan
4. Nachtmystium — Silencing Machine
5. Chrome Waves — S/T
6. Haggatha — IV
7. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
8. Knelt Rote — Trespass
9. High On Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
10. Heiress — Early Frost
Kevin Schwartz, Pathology
1. Black Breath — Sentenced To Life
2. Abominable Putridity — The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
3. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
4. Primal Fear – Unbreakable
5. Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy
6. Van Halen — A Different Kind of Truth
7. Jeff Loomis — Planes of Oblivion
8. Psycroptic — The Inherited Repression
9. Spawn of Possession – Incurso
10. Grave — Endless Procession of Souls
Jeremy Wagner, Broken Hope
1. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
2. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
3. Aborted — Global Flatline
4. Kataklysm — The Iron Will: 20 Years Determined
5. Cannibal Corpse — Torture
6. Fear Factory — The Industrialist
7. General Surgery — Like An Ever Flying Limb
8. Autopsy — All Tomorrow’s Funerals
9. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
10. Terrorizer — Hordes of Zombies
Timmy St. Amour, Howl
1. Witchcraft — Legend
2. High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
3. Enslaved — RIITIIR
4. Baroness — Yellow & Green
5. Nachtmystium — Silencing Machine
6. Marilyn Manson — Born Villain
7. Bison B.C. — Lovelessness
8. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
9. God Seed — I Begin
10. Goatwhore — Blood for the Master
Eric Rizk, Flourishing
1. Killing Joke — MMXII
2. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
3. Swans — Seer
4. Gaza — No Absolutes in Human Suffering
5.Dysrythmia — Test of Submission
6. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
8. Metz — S/T
9. Blut Aus Nord — 777 Cosmosophy
10. Krallice — Years Past Matter
Philip Cross, Continents
1. The Ghost Inside – Get What You Give
2. TRC – Bright Lights
3. While She Sleeps – This is the Six
4. Every Time I Die – Ex-Lives
5. Architects – Day Breaker
6. Knuckledust – Bluffs Lies and Alibis
7. Emmure – Slave to the Game
8. Lower than Atlantis – Changing Tune
9. Polar – Iron Lungs
10. Memphis May Fire – Challenger
Rafael Sellequaerts, Dehuman
1. Aborted — Global Flatline
2. Suicidal Angels — Bloodbath
3. Psycroptic — The Inherited Repression
4. Gorod — A Perfect Absolution
5. Cannibal Corpse – Torture
6. Jeff Loomis — Plains of Oblivion
7. Dying Fetus – Reign Supreme
8. Kreator — Phantom Antichrist
9. Insain — Spiritual Rebirth
10. Dehuman — Black Throne of All Creation
Mathias Boulougouris, Dehuman
1. Car Bomb — w^w^^w^w
2. Nile — At the Gate of Sethu
3. Meshuggah —Koloss
4. Amon Tobin — Isam
5. Cannibal Corpse — Torture
6. Die Antwoord — Tension
7. Jeff Loomis — Plains of Oblivion
8. Vildhjarta — Måsstaden
9. Suicide silence — “Slaves to Substance”
10. Emptiness — Error
Lay, Dehuman
1. Psycroptic — The Inherited Repression
2. Orange Goblin — A Eulogy for the Damned
3. Emptiness — Error
4. High on Fire — De Vermiis Mysteriis
5. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
6. Nile — At The Gates of Sethu
7. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
8. Insain — Spiritual Rebirth
9. DopeLord — Magick Rites
10. Fear and the Nervous System – S/T
Fack, Infected Society
1. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
2. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
3. Dew-Scented — Icarus
4. Anthrax — Worship Music
5. Enslaved — Riittiir
6. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
7. Ad Patres — Scorn Aesthetics
8. Insain — Spiritual Rebirth
9. Unsu — The Filthy
10. Decline of Humanity — Allegiance to Blastery
Gauth, Infected Society
1. Kreator — Phantom Antichrist
2. Decline of Humanity — Allegiance to Blastery
3. Infected Society — S/T
4. Altered Beast — Living for the Sin
5. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
