Wow, 2012 has been an awesome year for metal and hardcore. So many great records have been released over the past months. However, out of all of them, I have chosen 20 of them as the best that this year has had to offer. The list is as follows:

20. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha, the Omega
Genre: Deathcore
Label: Black Market Activities/Metal Blade

19. The Faceless - Autotheism
Genre: Technical/Progressive Death Metal
Label: Sumerian

18. A Bullet For Pretty Boy - Symbiosis
Genre: Post-Hardcore/Metalcore
Label: Artery/Razor & Tie

17. Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Genre: Doom Metal
Label: Profound Lore

16. Wintersun - Time I
Genre: Melodic/Symphonic Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

15. Nile - At the Gate of Sethu
Genre: Brutal/Technical Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

14. The Howling Wind - Of Babalon
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Profound Lore

13. Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Label: Relapse

12. Veil Of Maya - Eclipse
Genre: Progressive Death Metal/Metalcore
Label: Sumerian

11. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Genre: Sludge Metal/Hardcore/Noise
Label: Black Market Activities/Metal Blade

10. Memphis May Fire - Challenger
Genre: Post-Hardcore/Metalcore
Label: Rise

9. Horseback - Half Blood
Genre: Drone
Label: Relapse

8. Meshuggah - Koloss
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

7. The Contortionist - Intrinsic
Genre: Progressive Death Metal/Metalcore
Label: eOne/Good Fight

6. Anathema - Weather Systems
Genre: Atmospheric/Symphonic Metal
Label: KScope

5. War From A Harlots Mouth - Voyeur
Genre: Experimental Death Metal/Deathcore
Label: Season Of Mist

4. The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
Genre: Progressive Metal/Metalcore
Label: Sumerian

3. Evoken - Atra Mors
Genre: Death/Doom Metal
Label: Profound Lore

2. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Roadrunner

1. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
Genre: Progressive Death Metal/Deathgrind
Label: Metal Blade


Honorable Mentions go to:

Fail Emotions - Speed of Light
Genre: Post-Hardcore/Progressive Metalcore
Label: Unsigned

Everything In Slow Motion - Red
Genre: Atmospheric Metal/Hardcore/Ambient
Label: Facedown

Raising The Veil - Yucatanimvs
Genre: Technical Death Metal/Metalcore
Label: Unsigned

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Click the link below for my list:

http://nylon-ice.blogspot.com/2012/12/crinns-top-30-albums-of-2012.html

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I guess I'm a little late to this thread, and I never came up with a definitive list this year, but as always, Anaal Nathrakh takes the number 1 spot. Vanitas was huge step up from Passion. A lot more melodic passages and more electronic stuff in between the walls noise and Blood curdling screams. Aborted's Global Flatline is still a favorite of mine along with Bloodshot Dawn's debut album and Dyscarnate's And so it came to pass

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did you hear of Bloodshot Dawn from Infidel Amsterdam by any chance?

Best album for me was probably Beheaded new album, Never to Dawn

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I usually don't keep up with music as it comes out so I've hardly heard anything from 2012. I can say that Mg?a’s album With Hearts Towards NoNe is a great album that came out this year, so there's that... Oh, and Burzum's Umskiptar. I think those are all the 2012 albums I've heard.

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actually, I think I heard of em through a BlogSpot called No Clean Singing. I've never paid much attention to the Amsterdam fella other than admiring that sweet beard he's got.Mgla's new album was pretty great, probably one of the best Black Metal releases this year. Pact's debut album The Dragon Lineage of Satan was pretty good too, kinda had a bit of a Von sound, at least to me... I've been told I'm wrong on this analysis.

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