חברי להקות בוחרים את אלבומי השנה

מגזין המטאל האמריקאי Metal Sucks העלה את החלק הרביעי בסדרת סיכומי שנה בהם בוחרים מספר מוזיקאים בולטים מלהקות מטאל מוכרות את אלבומי המטאל הטובים של 2012.
בין המוזיקאים שהציגו את הבחירות שלהם נמנים חברים בלהקות Aborted, Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Periphery, Exumer ואחרות.
אלו חלק מהבחירות שהוצגו בכתבה:

Sven De Caluwe, Aborted

1. Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression
2. Bear – Doradus
3. Katatonia – Dead End Kings
4. Cannibal Corpse – Torture
5. Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
6. The Ghost Inside – Get What You Give
7. Entrails – The Tomb Awaits
8. Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy
9. Periphery – Periphery II
10. Lacuna Coil – Dark Adrenaline

Rikard Olsson, Gadget

1. Deathspell Omega — Drought
2. Graveyard — Lights Out
3. Switchblade — S/T 2012
4. Swans — The Seer
5. Switch Opens — Joint Clash
6. Pig Eyes — Total Destruction of the Present Moment
7. Lee Ranaldo — Between the Times & the Tides
8. Astra — The Black Chord
9. Neurosis — Honor Found in Decay
10. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind

Alex Webster, Cannibal Corpse


1. Overkill — The Electric Age
2. Aeon — Aeons Black
3. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
4. Meshuggah — Koloss
5. Spawn of Possession — Incurso
6. Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
7. Accept — Stalingrad
8. Jeff Loomis — Plains of Oblivion
9. Nile — At The Gate of Sethu
10. Rush — Clockwork Angels

Mark Hunter, Chimaira

1. Testament — Dark Roots of Earth
2. Trent Reznor + Atticus Ross — The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3. Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight Rises
4. Ohio Sky — This House is Old and Filled With Ghosts
5. WhiteChapel — S/T
6. Lamb Of God — Resolution
7. Six Feet Under — Undead
8. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
9. Down — Down IV Part I – The Purple EP
10. Fear Factory — The Industrialist

Otep Shamaya, Otep

1. Joey Bad Ass — 1999
2. Deftones — Diamond Eyes
3. Harlan Ellison — Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral
4. Emilie Autumn — FLAG
5. Stolen Babies — Naught
6. Collyn McCoy — Ultra Electric Mega Galactic
7. Coco Rosie — The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
8. Adele — 21
9. Birdy — Birdy
10. Kanye West and Jay Z — Watch the Throne

Trevor Strnad, The Black Dahlia Murder


1. Chaos Inception — The Abrogation
2. Malignancy — Eugenics
3. Resurgency — False Enlightenment
4. Spawn Of Possession — Incurso
5. Cryptopsy — S/T
6. Abominable Putridity — The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
7. Dodsengel — Imperator
8. Absvrdist — Illusory
9. Desecravity — Implicit Obedience
10. Beneath — Enslaved by Fear

Mark Holcomb, Periphery

1. The Faceless — Autotheism
2. Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II: Future Sequence
3. Wintersun — Time I
4. The Contortionist — Intrinsic
5. Devin Townsend — Epicloud
6. Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
7. Sigur Ros — Valtari
8. Twelve Foot Ninja — Silent Machine
9. Veil of Maya — Eclipse
10. Ulver — Childhood’s End

Mem V. Stein, Exumer


1. Ghost — Opus Eponymous
2. High on Fire — De Vermis Mysteriis
3. Onslaught — Sound of Violence
4. Gojira — L’ Enfant Sauvage
5. Venom — Fallen Angels
6. Morbid Angel– IIlud Divinum Insanus
7. Cannibal Corpse — Torture
8. Overkill — The Electric Age
9. ZZ Top — La Futura
10. Cavalera Conspiracy — Blunt Force Trauma

Mikael Stanne, Dark Tranquillity

1. Rush – Clockwork Angels
2. Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
3. Astra – The Black Chord
4. Anathema – Weather Systems
5. My Sleeping Karma – Soma
6. Rival Sons – Head Down
7. Ihsahn – Eremita
8. Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made
9. Baroness – Yellow & Green
10. Katatonia – Dead End Kings

Tommy Victor, Prong

1. Killing Joke – MMXII
2. Prong – Carved Into Stone
3. Grand Magus – The Hunt
4. 3 Inches Of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal
5. Fear Factory “The Industrialist
6. Meshuggah – Koloss
7. Lamb Of God – Resolution
8. Shadows Fall – Fire From The Sky
9. Soulfly – Enslaved
10. Overkill – The Electric Age