MetalDisciple.com - Best 100 Metal Releases of 2012
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- Published on Friday, 28 December 2012 11:47
- Written by George Washburn
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Hey everyone. 2012 has been an amazing year for metal. I hope 2013 will prove to be equally impressive. Here’s the list of my favorite albums from this year. I tried to put them in some kind of order, but to be honest it was like choosing which of your children you like most. So this list is in no particular order beyond alphabetical. As far as I am concerned these albums are all winners and they all deserve your attention.
The one album I feel the need to highlight above the others, my Album of the Year if you will, is the one I have been championing all year long – “Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light” by Woods of Ypres. Hands down this has been my favorite album this year, without exception. No other album has received half as much playtime on my MP3 player, CD player and turntable, and I expect that to continue on into next year and beyond. It was with a very heavy heart last week that I observed the one-year anniversary of the passing of David Gold. His passing was a terrible loss to the metal community and one that I mourn every single time I spin one of his amazing albums. If you have not yet taken the time to listen to this album, please, do yourself a favor and sit down and REALLY listen to it. It is both beautiful and tragic.
Take your pick; you can read the list below (with links to reviews where they exist) or watch this video intro and playlist and listen to them all in a row.
Aborted – Global Flatline - Read the Review
Abstracter – Tomb of Feathers - Read the Review
Adeia – Hourglass - Read the Review
Adorned Brood – Kuningaz - Read the Review
Adrenechrome – Hideous Appetites - Read the Review
Agalloch – Faustian Echoes
Agony Lords – A Tomb for the Haunted - Read the Review
Ahab – The Giant - Read the Review
All Hail the Yeti – S/T - Read the Review
Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas - Read the Review
Ancient Ascendant – Into the Dark
Arctic Sleep – Arbors
Aura Noir – Out to Die - Read the Review
A Band of Orcs – Adding Heads to the Pile
Bejelit – Emerge - Read the Review
Between the Buried and Me – Parallax II - Read the Review
Bilocate – Summoning the Bygones
Black Breath – Sentenced to Life - Read the Review
Bloodred Hourglass – Lifebound - Read the Review
Borgne – Royaume de Ombres - Read the Review
Brendon Small – Brendan Small’s Galaktikon
Candlemass – Psalms for the Dead - Read the Review
Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever
Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity - Read the Review
Chaosweaver – Enter the Realm of the Doppelganger - Read the Review
Cultura Tres - El Mal del Bien - Read the Review
Dante – The Rorschach Manifesto - Read the Review
Dawnbringer – Into the Lair of the Sun God
Daylight Dies – A Frail Becoming - Read the Review
Derelict – Perpetuation - Read the Review
Dordeduh – Dar de Duh
Down – Down IV The Purple EP - Read the Review
Dragged Into Sunlight – Widowmaker - Read the Review
Dust Bolt – Violent Demolition - Read the Review
Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale
Earthen Grave – Earthen Grave
Eluveitie – Helvetios - Read the Review
Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes
Entropy - E3 - Read the Review
Evadne – The Shortest Way
Evoken – Atra Mors
Ex Deo – Caligvla - Read the Review
Eye of Solitude – Sui Caedere - Read the Review
Forgotten Tomb - …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil
Funeral – Oratorium - Read the Review
The Gardnerz – It All Fades - Read the Review
Hail Spirit Noir – Pneuma
Hooded Menace – Effigies of Evil - Read the Review
Huntress – Spell Eater - Read the Review
I Saw the Deep – Astronavigation - Read the Review
Ihsahn – Eremita - Read the Review
Job for a Cowboy – Demonocracy - Read the Review
Katatonia – Dead End Kings
Khors – The Wisdom of Centuries
King Giant – Dismal Hollow - Read the Review
King of Asgard – To North - Read the Review
Lamb of God – Resolution - Read the Review
Lykaion – Nothin’ But Death - Read the Review
Machine Head – Machine Head F**king Live - Read the Review
Maiden United – Across the Seventh Sea
My Dying Bride – A Map of All Our Failures - Read the Review
Natur – Head of Death
Necrovation – Necrovation
Okera – A Beautiful Dystopia
Old Man Gloom – No
Orden Ogan – To the End
Pain Confessor – Incarcerated
Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol - Read the Review
Pig Destroyer – Book Burner - Read the Review
Pilgrim – Misery Wizard
Pry – Transcendent Iridescence - Read the Review
Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression - Read the Review
Sabaton – Carolus Rex - Read the Review
Satan’s Wrath – Galloping Blasphemy - Read the Review
Saturnus – Saturn in Ascension
A Sound of Thunder – Out of Darkness - Read the Review
Stalwart – Manifest of Refusal - Read the Review
Sterbhaus – Angels for Breakfast and God for Lunch - Read the Review
The Sword – Apocryphon - Read the Review
Sylosis – Monolith - Read the Review
Taranis – Kingdom - Read the Review
Testament – Dark Roots of Earth - Read the Review
Texas Hippie Coalition – Peacemaker - Read the Review
Titan’s Eve – Life Apocalypse - Read the Review
Turbonegro – Sexual Harassment
Venomous Maximus – Beg Upon the Light - Read the Review
The Very End – Turn off the World
Vesperian Sorrow – Stormwinds of Ages - Read the Review
Void Moon – On the Blackest of Nights - Read the Review
The Wandering Midget – From the Meadows of Opium Dreams - Read the Review
Weapon – Embers and Revelations
Wedding In Hades – Misbehaviour
Wintersun – Time I - Read the Review
Witchcraft – Legend - Read the Review
Witchsorrow – God Curse Us - Read the Review
Woods of Ypres – Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light - Read the Review
Wretched End – Inroads - Read the Review
3 Inches of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal - Read the Review
4 Arm – Submission for Liberty - Read the Review