Year-End Lists

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2012

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1. Converge
   All We Love We Leave Behind
2. Baroness
   Yellow & Green
3. Evoken
   Altra Mors
4. Witchcraft
   Legend
5. Pallbearer
   Sorrow and Extinction
6. Neurosis
   Honor Found In Decay
7. Enslaved
   Riitiir
8. Royal Thunder
   CVI
9. Paradise Lost
   Tragic Idol
10. Pig Destroyer
    Book Burner
11. Municipal Waste
    The Fatal Feast
12. Blut Aus Nord
    777 - Cosmosophy
13. Cattle Decapitation
    Monolith Of Inhumanity
14. Testament
    Dark Roots Of Earth
15. Satan’s Wrath
    Galloping Blasphemy
16. Grave
    Endless Procession Of Souls
17. Torche
    Harmonicraft
18. Napalm Death
    Utiltarian
19. High on Fire
    De Vermis Mysteriis
20. Liberteer
    Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
21. Early Graves
    Red Horse
22. Killing Joke
    MMXII
23. Horrendous
    The Chills
24. Swans
    The Seer
25. Inverloch
    Dark/Subside
26. Gaza
    No Absolute For Human Suffering
27. Farsot
    Insects
28. Asphyx
    Deathhammer
29. A Life Once Lost
    Ecstatic Trance
30. Author & Punisher
    Urus Americanus
31. Mutilation Rites
    Empyrean
32. Saint Vitus
    LILLIE: F-65
33. Panopticon
    Kentucky
34. Devin Townsend Project
    Epicloud
35. Samothrace
    Reverence To Stone
36. Incantation
    Vanquish In Vengeance
37. The Shrine
    Primitive Blast
38. Agalloch
    Faustian Echoes EP
39. Meshuggah
    Koloss
40. Gojira
    L’Enfant Sauvage