Honorable Mentions:
1. Kreator- Phantom Antichrist- Civilization Collapse
2. God Seed- I Begin- From The Running Of Blood
3. Grave- Endless Procession Of Souls- Passion Of The Weak
4. Dark Tranquillity- Zero Distance EP- Out Of Gravity
5. As I Lay Dying- Awakened- Whispering Silence
6. Hour Of Penance- Sedition- Enlightened Submission
7. Blut Aus Nord- 777: Cosmosophy- Epitome XIV
8. Cradle of Filth- The Manticore and Other Horrors- Frost On Her Pillow
9. Putrid Pile- Blood Fetish- Pottymouth
10. Nachtmystium- Silencing Machine- Borrowed Hope and Broken Dreams
11. Napalm Death- Utilitarian- Quarantined
12. Spawn Of Possession- Incurso- Where Angels Go, Demons Follow
13. Swallow The Sun- Emerald Forest And The Blackbird- Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
14. Converge- All We Love, We Leave Behind- All We Love, We Leave Behiind
The Top 20 Best Metal Albums of 2012:
15. Forgotten Tomb- ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil- Deprived
16. Sear Bliss- Eternal Recurrence- There Is No Shadow Without Light
17. Shining- Redefining Darkness- The Ghastly Silience
18. Nile- At The Gate Of Sethu- The Inevitable Degredation Of Flesh
19. Nile- At The Gate Of Sethu- Supreme Humanism Of Megalomania
20. Anaal Nathrakh- Vanitas- Forging Toward The Sunset
21. My Dying Bride- A Map Of All Our Failures- The Poorest Waltz
22. Dying Fetus- Reign Supreme- The Blood Of Power
23. Cannibal Corpse- Torture- Rabid
24. Cannibal Corpse- Torture- Torn Through
25. Meshuggah- Koloss- The Demon's Name Is Surveillance
26. Beheaded- Never To Dawn- Dead Silence
27. Drudkh- Eternal Turn Of The Wheel- When Gods Leave Their Emerald Halls
28. A Life Once Lost- Ecstatic Trance- Madness Is God
29. Sigh- In Somniphobia- Lucid Nightmares IV) Amnesia
30. Cryptopsy- Cryptopsy- Cleansing The Hosts
31. Vesperian Sorrow- Stormwinds Of Ages- An Empire To Mourn
32. Woods Of Ypres- Woods V: Grey Skies And Electric Light- Kiss My Ashes (Goodbye)
33. Woods Of Ypres- Woods V: Grey Skies And Electric Light- Finality
34. Carach Angren- Where The Corpses Sink Forever- The Funerary Dirge Of The Violinist
35. Deftones- Koi No Yokan- Rosemary
36. Wintersun- Time I- Time Fades Away
37. Wintersun- Time I- Sons Of Winter And Stars
38. Borknagar- Urd- Frostrite
39. Borknagar- Urd- In A Deeper World
40. Borknagar- Urd- The Winter Eclipse
New Albums Coming Out In 2013:
41. Helloween- Straight Out Of Hell- Nabataea (Jan. 18th)
42. Devourment- Conceived In Sewage- Fifty Ton War Machine (Feb. 19th)
43. Soilwork- The Living Infinite- Spectrum Of Eternity (Feb. 27th)
44. Suffocation- Pinnacle Of Bedlam- Cycles Of Suffering (Feb. 15th)
45. Defeated Sanity- Passages Into Deformity- Verblendung (Feb. 5th)
46. Darkthrone- The Underground Resistance- Leave No Cross Unturned (Feb. 25th)
