The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part VII
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 seventh group… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Larry Herweg, Pelican
1. Deftones — Koi No Yokan
2. Death Grips — The Money Store
3. Band of Skulls — Sweet Sour
4. Liars — Wixiw
5. The Life and Times — No One Loves You Like I Do
6. Metz — S/T
7. Gaza — No Absolutes in Human Suffering
8. Unsane — Wreck
9. High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
10. Soundgarden — King Animal
Jussi Wickström, Turisas
1. Ulver – Childhood’s End
2. Enslaved – Riittiir
3. Burzum – Umskiptar
4. Crystal Castles – (III)
5. ∞ — Näyt Kauas
6. Lana Del Ray – Born to Die
7. Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect
Olli Vänskä, Turisas
1. Sabaton – Carolus Rex
2. Muse – The 2nd Law
3. Jack White – Blunderbuss
4. Kuolemanlaakso – Uljas Uusi Maailma
5. Wintersun – Time I
6. Slash – Apocalyptic Love
7. Mumford & Sons – Babel
8. Ihsahn – Eremita
9. Huoratron – Cryptocracy
10. Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Matt Fox, Shai Hulud
1: Propagandhi — Failed States
2: Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
3: Accept — Stalingrad
4: NOFX — Self Entitlement
5: Classics of Love — S/T
6: Van Halen — A Different Kind of Truth
7: Goatwhore — Blood for the Master
8: Napalm Death — Utilitarian
9: Tragedy — Darker Days Ahead
10: Further Seems Forever — Penny Black
Adam Cody, Wretched
1. Aesop Rock — Skelethon
2. Gojira– L’Enfant Sauvage
3. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
4. Jarren Benton — Freebasing with Kevin Bacon
5. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II : Future Sequence
6. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
7. The Faceless — Autotheism
8. Napalm Death — Utilitarian
9. El-p — Cancer For Cure
10. Job for a Cowboy — Demonocracy
John Vail, Wretched
1. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
2. Gaza — No Absolutes in Human Suffering
3. Agalloch — Faustian Echoes
4. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II : Future Sequence
5. The Faceless — Autotheism
6. 3 Inches of Blood — Long Live Heavy Metal
7. Job For A Cowboy — Demonocracy
8. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
9. Cattle Decapitation — Monolith of Inhumanity
10. Ihsahn — Eremita
Bobby Ferris, -(16)-
1. Fight Amp — Birth Control
2. -(16)- — Deep Cuts from Dark Clouds
3. Bison B.C. — Lovelessness
4. Struck By Lightning — True Predation
5. Dragged Into Sunlight — Widow Maker
6. The Secret — Angus Dei
7. High On Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
8. Saint Vitus — Lillie: F-65
9. Torche — Harmonicraft
10. Black Breath — Sentenced To Life
R. Loren, Pyramids
1. Locrian and Christoph Heemann — S/T
2. Pinkish Black — S/T
3. Fiona Apple — The Idler Wheel
4. Blut Aus Nord — 777 Cosmosophy
5. The XX — Coexist
6. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
7. King Dude — Burning Daylight
8. Theologian — Finding Comfort in Overwhelming Negativity
9. Horseback — Half Blood
10. Panopticon — Kentucky
Guillermo Izquierdo, Angelus Apatrida
1. Havok – Point of no Return
2. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
3. Goatwhore – Blood for the Master
4. Overkill – The Electric Age
5. Aborted – Global Flatline
6. Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast
7. 3 Inches Of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal
8. Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
9. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
10. Steve Harris – British Lion
Sébastian “Canard” Brouchican, Ad Patres
1. Napalm Death – Utilitarian
2. Dying Fetus – Reign Supreme
3. Ufomammut – Oro Opus Primum
4. Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast
5. Insain – Spiritual Rebirth
6. Various- Önd: A Tribute to Enslaved
7. Nile – At The Gate of Sethu
8. Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65
9. Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
10. Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
Nicolas Becuwe, Insain
1. Blut Aus Nord — 777 Cosmosophy
2. Nile – At The Gate of Sethu
3. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
4. Ihsahn — Eremita
5. Ad Patres — Scorn Aesthetics
6. The Wretched End — Inroads
7. The Faceless — Autotheism
8. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
9. Swallow the Sun — Emerald Forst and The Black Bird
10. Meshuggah — Koloss
Mattia Alagna Abstracter
1. Emptiness — Error
2. Tragedy — Darker Days Ahead
3. Dead Can Dance — Anastasis
4. Killing Joke — MMXII
5. Deathspell Omega — Drought
6. Vaura — Selenelion
7. Swans — The See
8. Wovenhand — The Laughing Stalk
9. Horseback — Half Blood
10. Evoken — Atra Mors
Peter Svensson, Void Moon
1. Candlemass — Psalms for the Dead
2. Master’s Hammer — Vracejte konve na místo
3. Manowar — The Lord of Steel
4. Overkill — The Electric Age
5. Grand Magus — The Hunt
6. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
7. Accept — Stalingrad
8. Saint Vitus — Lillie: F-65
9.Hellwell — Beyond the Boundaries of Sin
10. Wino — Heavy Kingdom
Erik Tordsson, End of September
1. Halestorm — The Strange Case of…
2. Katatonia — Dead End Kings
3. Straight Frank — Straight Frank
4. Shinedown — Amaryllis
5. The Burial — Light and perfections
6. Intohimo — Northern Lights
Max Svalgård, Fisthammer
1. Anaal Nathrakh — Vanitas
2. A Life Once Lost — Ecstatic Trance
3. Nile — At the Gates of Sethu
4. Legacy of Brutality — Ad Bellum
5. Pathology — The Time of Great Purification
6. Lamb of God — Resolution
7. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
8. Devin Townsend Project — Epicloud
9. Wretched — Son of Perdition
10. haarp — Husks
Tyler Konersman, Tear Out the Heart
1. Southern Air — Yellowcard
2. The Ghost Inside — You Get What You Give
3. As I Lay Dying — Awakened
4. Attack Attack! — This Means War
5. Slipknot — Antennas to Hell
6. MyChildren MyBride — S/T
7. Miss May I — At Heart
8. Emmure — Slave to the Game
9. Pierce The Veil — Collide with the Sky
10. Your Demise — The Golden Age
