Best Metal Albums of 2012 - Rated by Users


Album ratings averaged across users. Ranking does not represent staff consensus.
 

01
Dysrhythmia
Test Of Submission

Rating: 4.26
17 votes
02
We Lost The Sea
The Quietest Place on Earth

Rating: 4.19
63 votes
03
Galneryus
Angel of Salvation

Rating: 4.1
31 votes
04
Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind

Rating: 4.09
1121 votes
05
Enslaved
RIITIIR

Rating: 4.08
347 votes
06
Ne Obliviscaris
Portal of I

Rating: 4.04
613 votes
07
Amenra
Mass V

Rating: 4.04
146 votes
08
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Pandora's Pinata

Rating: 4.04
183 votes
09
Carach Angren
Where The Corpses Sink Forever

Rating: 4.04
113 votes
10
Kalter
Ubuntu

Rating: 4.02
22 votes
11
Deftones
Koi No Yokan

Rating: 4.02
1438 votes
12
Between the Buried and Me
The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Rating: 4.01
857 votes
13
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo
Tree of Tongues

Rating: 4
171 votes
14
Words of Farewell
Immersion

Rating: 4
42 votes
15
Slice the Cake
Other Slices

Rating: 4
32 votes
16
Accept
Stalingrad

Rating: 4
109 votes
17
Obsidian Kingdom
Mantiis

Rating: 3.99
44 votes
18
Eths
III

Rating: 3.98
23 votes
19
Finsterforst
Rastlos

Rating: 3.98
43 votes
20
Daylight Dies
A Frail Becoming

Rating: 3.98
61 votes
21
Lich King
Born of the Bomb

Rating: 3.97
19 votes
22
Every Time I Die
Ex Lives

Rating: 3.97
772 votes
23
Kreator
Phantom Antichrist

Rating: 3.97
231 votes
24
Grand Magus
The Hunt

Rating: 3.97
33 votes
25
Soul Cycle
Soul Cycle II

Rating: 3.97
49 votes
26
Overkill
The Electric Age

Rating: 3.96
199 votes
27
Saturnus
Saturn in Ascension

Rating: 3.95
21 votes
28
Sithu Aye
Isles

Rating: 3.95
87 votes
29
Bereft
Leichenhaus

Rating: 3.94
18 votes
30
High on Fire
De Vermis Mysteriis

Rating: 3.94
331 votes
31
The Agonist
Prisoners

Rating: 3.94
64 votes
32
Pallbearer
Sorrow And Extinction

Rating: 3.93
149 votes
33
Bell Witch
Longing

Rating: 3.93
22 votes
34
Skyharbor
Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos

Rating: 3.93
117 votes
35
Dethklok
Dethalbum III

Rating: 3.93
150 votes
36
Intervals
In Time

Rating: 3.93
83 votes
37
Revocation
Teratogenesis

Rating: 3.92
108 votes
38
Bloodshot Dawn
Bloodshot Dawn

Rating: 3.92
19 votes
39
Ascariasis
Ocean Of Colour

Rating: 3.92
57 votes
40
Anaal Nathrakh
Vanitas

Rating: 3.92
120 votes
41
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
Exegesis

Rating: 3.92
68 votes
42
Irreversible
Ashes

Rating: 3.92
18 votes
43
Latitudes
Individuation

Rating: 3.91
35 votes
44
Oddland
The Treachery of Senses

Rating: 3.91
29 votes
45
Lord Mantis
Pervertor

Rating: 3.91
61 votes
46
God Seed
I Begin

Rating: 3.91
22 votes
47
The Foreshadowing
Second World

Rating: 3.91
22 votes
48
Hour of Penance
Sedition

Rating: 3.91
109 votes
49
Winterfylleth
The Threnody of Triumph

Rating: 3.91
38 votes
50
Sabaton
Carolus Rex

Rating: 3.91
70 votes
51
Cattle Decapitation
Monolith of Inhumanity

Rating: 3.91
247 votes
52
Dying Fetus
Reign Supreme

Rating: 3.9
172 votes
53
Headspace
I Am Anonymous

Rating: 3.9
25 votes
54
Woods of Ypres
Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

Rating: 3.89
84 votes
55
Mors Principium Est
...And Death Said Live

Rating: 3.89
56 votes
56
Evoken
Atra Mors

Rating: 3.89
42 votes
57
Ex Deo
Caligvla

Rating: 3.89
22 votes
58
Aeon
Aeons Black

Rating: 3.89
22 votes
59
Gatling
Beforemath

Rating: 3.88
42 votes
60
Aeternam
Moongod

Rating: 3.88
21 votes
61
Cannibal Corpse
Torture

Rating: 3.88
326 votes
62
Testament
Dark Roots Of Earth

Rating: 3.88
282 votes
63
Stoned Jesus
Seven Thunders Roar

Rating: 3.88
16 votes
64
An Autumn For Crippled Children
Only the Ocean Knows

Rating: 3.88
40 votes
65
Rhinocervs
RH-12

Rating: 3.87
23 votes
66
Follow The White Rabbit
Endorphinia

Rating: 3.87
19 votes
67
Wo Fat
The Black Code

Rating: 3.87
30 votes
68
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody
Ascending To Infinity

Rating: 3.87
26 votes
69
Gojira
L'Enfant Sauvage

Rating: 3.86
640 votes
70
In Mourning
The Weight of Oceans

Rating: 3.86
239 votes
71
Secrets of the Moon
Seven Bells

Rating: 3.86
18 votes
72
Elysian
Wires of Creation

Rating: 3.86
21 votes
73
Solace (CAN)
Call & Response

Rating: 3.86
73 votes
74
Be'lakor
Of Breath And Bone

Rating: 3.85
190 votes
75
Sunpocrisy
Samaroid Dioramas

Rating: 3.85
33 votes
76
Hail Spirit Noir
Pneuma

Rating: 3.85
42 votes
77
Witch Mountain
Cauldron Of The Wild

Rating: 3.85
42 votes
78
Abnormality
Contaminating the Hive Mind

Rating: 3.84
29 votes
79
YGATM
YGATM

Rating: 3.84
32 votes
80
This or the Apocalypse
Dead Years

Rating: 3.84
167 votes
81
Paradise Lost
Tragic Idol

Rating: 3.84
173 votes
82
Fozzy
Sin and Bones

Rating: 3.83
27 votes
83
Hypno5e
Acid Mist Tomorrow

Rating: 3.83
30 votes
84
Sithu Aye
Invent the Universe

Rating: 3.83
51 votes
85
Rage
21

Rating: 3.83
26 votes
86
Xanthochroid
Blessed He With Boils

Rating: 3.82
85 votes
87
Make Them Suffer
Neverbloom

Rating: 3.82
116 votes
88
Wodensthrone
Curse

Rating: 3.82
45 votes
89
Allegaeon
Formshifter

Rating: 3.82
98 votes
90
Atoma
Skylight

Rating: 3.82
157 votes
91
Gorod
A Perfect Absolution

Rating: 3.82
144 votes
92
Aborted
Global Flatline

Rating: 3.82
132 votes
93
Dephosphorus
Night Sky Transform

Rating: 3.81
16 votes
94
John 5
God Told Me To

Rating: 3.81
24 votes
95
Om
Advaitic Songs

Rating: 3.81
232 votes
96
Torche
Harmonicraft

Rating: 3.81
245 votes
97
Car Bomb
w^w^^w^w

Rating: 3.81
54 votes
98
mind.in.a.box
Revelations

Rating: 3.81
18 votes
99
A Forest of Stars
A Shadowplay for Yesterdays

Rating: 3.8
41 votes
100
Ovid's Withering
The Cloud Gatherer

Rating: 3.8
33 votes
101
Meshuggah
Koloss

Rating: 3.8
934 votes
102
Spawn of Possession
Incurso

Rating: 3.8
212 votes
103
Kamelot
Silverthorn

Rating: 3.8
122 votes
104
Cloudkicker
Fade

Rating: 3.8
231 votes
105
Never See Tomorrow
nst.

Rating: 3.8
22 votes
106
My Dying Bride
A Map Of All Our Failures

Rating: 3.8
61 votes
107
Ill Nino
Epidemia

Rating: 3.79
39 votes
108
Bury Tomorrow
The Union Of Crowns

Rating: 3.79
113 votes
109
Xandria
Neverworld's End

Rating: 3.79
28 votes
110
Melvins
The Bulls and the Bees

Rating: 3.78
37 votes
111
The Burial
Lights and Perfections

Rating: 3.78
18 votes
112
Katatonia
Dead End Kings

Rating: 3.78
447 votes
113
The Birthday Massacre
Hide and Seek

Rating: 3.78
58 votes
114
Arkaik
Metamorphignition

Rating: 3.78
20 votes
115
Deathspell Omega
Drought

Rating: 3.77
132 votes
116
The Human Abstract
Moonlight Sonata

Rating: 3.77
46 votes
117
Abominable Putridity
The Anomalies of Artificial Origin

Rating: 3.77
87 votes
118
APOSTATE
Λ ♦ Λ ♦ Ø

Rating: 3.77
41 votes
119
Pathology
The Time of Great Purification

Rating: 3.76
36 votes
120
I Built The Cross
Banish the Disconnect

Rating: 3.76
21 votes
121
Kowloon Walled City
Container Ships

Rating: 3.76
59 votes
122
Havok
Point of No Return

Rating: 3.76
23 votes
123
Wintersun
Time I

Rating: 3.76
339 votes
124
Woman is the Earth
This Place That Contains My Spirit

Rating: 3.75
16 votes
125
Entities
Luminosity

Rating: 3.75
22 votes
126
Pseudogod
Deathwomb Catechesis

Rating: 3.75
24 votes
127
Dawnbringer
Into the Lair of the Sun God

Rating: 3.75
24 votes
128
In Dying Arms
Boundaries

Rating: 3.75
32 votes
129
Moonspell
Omega White

Rating: 3.75
40 votes
130
The Sword
Apocryphon

Rating: 3.75
101 votes
131
Abiotic
Symbiosis

Rating: 3.74
29 votes
132
Slice the Cake
The Man With No Face

Rating: 3.74
54 votes
133
Borknagar
Urd

Rating: 3.74
71 votes
134
The Odious
Joint Ventures

Rating: 3.74
21 votes
135
Inverloch
Dusk|Subside

Rating: 3.73
32 votes
136
Sybreed
God Is an Automaton

Rating: 3.73
54 votes
137
The Great Old Ones
Al Azif

Rating: 3.73
22 votes
138
Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy

Rating: 3.73
197 votes
139
7 Horns 7 Eyes
Throes Of Absolution

Rating: 3.73
60 votes
140
Dyscarnate
And So It Came To Pass

Rating: 3.72
29 votes
141
Circle Of Contempt
Entwine The Threads

Rating: 3.72
105 votes
142
Torture Chain
Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator

Rating: 3.72
27 votes
143
The Safety Fire
Grind The Ocean

Rating: 3.72
117 votes
144
Black Light Burns
The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall

Rating: 3.72
45 votes
145
Krallice
Years Past Matter

Rating: 3.72
72 votes
146
Blut Aus Nord
777 - Cosmosophy

Rating: 3.71
94 votes
147
Soulfly
Enslaved

Rating: 3.71
92 votes
148
For All Eternity
Beyond The Gates

Rating: 3.71
26 votes
149
Arsis
Lepers Caress

Rating: 3.71
71 votes
150
Abyssal
Denouement

Rating: 3.71
50 votes
151
The Omega Experiment
The Omega Experiment

Rating: 3.71
58 votes
152
Ash Borer
Cold of Ages

Rating: 3.71
102 votes
153
Ahab
The Giant

Rating: 3.7
48 votes
154
Old Man Gloom
NO

Rating: 3.7
79 votes
155
Before The Dawn
Rise of the Phoenix

Rating: 3.69
50 votes
156
Firewind
Few Against Many

Rating: 3.69
37 votes
157
To Speak Of Wolves
Find Your Worth, Come Home

Rating: 3.69
53 votes
158
Witch In Her Tomb
Witch In Her Tomb

Rating: 3.69
16 votes
159
Elitist
Reshape Reason

Rating: 3.68
76 votes
160
Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron

Rating: 3.68
93 votes
161
Affiance
The Campaign

Rating: 3.68
47 votes
162
Demon Hunter
True Defiance

Rating: 3.68
118 votes
163
Author and Punisher
Ursus Americanus

Rating: 3.68
31 votes
164
Heartist
Nothing You Didn't Deserve

Rating: 3.68
17 votes
165
Ufomammut
Opus Alter

Rating: 3.68
20 votes
166
Barren Earth
The Devil's Resolve

Rating: 3.67
46 votes
167
Agalloch
Faustian Echoes

Rating: 3.67
218 votes
168
The Sorrow
Misery Escape

Rating: 3.67
32 votes
169
Jeff Loomis
Plains of Oblivion

Rating: 3.67
53 votes
170
Wildernessking
The Writing of Gods in the Sand

Rating: 3.67
24 votes
171
Devil Sold His Soul
Empire Of Light

Rating: 3.66
97 votes
172
Thy Art Is Murder
Hate

Rating: 3.66
126 votes
173
Wizard Rifle
Speak Loud Say Nothing

Rating: 3.66
16 votes
174
Neurosis
Honor Found in Decay

Rating: 3.65
297 votes
175
DorDeDuh
Dar De Duh

Rating: 3.65
26 votes
176
Bosse-de-Nage
III

Rating: 3.65
39 votes
177
Axis of Light
By the Hands of the Consuming Fire

Rating: 3.65
23 votes
178
Make A Change...Kill Yourself
Fri

Rating: 3.65
33 votes
179
Float Face Down
Exitium Verum

Rating: 3.65
20 votes
180
Savage Messiah
Plague of Conscience

Rating: 3.65
20 votes
181
Addaura
Burning for the Ancient

Rating: 3.65
44 votes
182
Primal Fear
Unbreakable

Rating: 3.65
34 votes
183
Epica
Requiem For The Indifferent

Rating: 3.65
96 votes
184
Down
Down IV Part I - Purple

Rating: 3.64
69 votes
185
Celldweller
Wish Upon A Blackstar

Rating: 3.64
90 votes
186
Christian Mistress
Possession

Rating: 3.64
66 votes
187
Sigh
In Somniphobia

Rating: 3.64
106 votes
188
Chimp Spanner
All Roads Lead Here

Rating: 3.64
85 votes
189
Rahu
The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows

Rating: 3.64
18 votes
190
Desecravity
Implicit Obedience

Rating: 3.63
19 votes
191
Stealing Axion
Moments

Rating: 3.63
23 votes
192
Eluveitie
Helvetios

Rating: 3.63
128 votes
193
Shadows Fall
Fire From the Sky

Rating: 3.63
117 votes
194
Fire In The Cave
Fire In the Cave

Rating: 3.63
28 votes
195
Psycroptic
The Inherited Repression

Rating: 3.62
109 votes
196
Baroness
Yellow and Green

Rating: 3.62
522 votes
197
Your Memorial
Redirect

Rating: 3.62
29 votes
198
Monuments
Gnosis

Rating: 3.62
158 votes
199
Horseback
Half Blood

Rating: 3.62
25 votes
200
War From A Harlots Mouth
Voyeur

Rating: 3.62
64 votes



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