Wizard
01.01.13 | Honourable Mentions
1. Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
2. Horseback – Halfblood
3. Wodensthrone – Curse
4. Vaura – Selenelion
5. Addaura – Burning for the Ancient
6. Abyssal – Denouement
7. Gaza – No Absolutes in Human Suffering
8. JK Flesh – Posthuman
9. Katatonia – Dead End Kings
10. Lord Mantis – Pervertor
11. Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine
12. Krallice – Years Past Matter
13. Ignivomous – Contragenesis
14. Author & Punisher – Ursus Americanus
15. Lurk – Lurk
16. Samothrace – Reverance to Stone
17. Wintersun – Time 1
18. Menace Ruine – Alight in Ashes
19. Torture Chain – Time is But a Doorway to the Incinerator
20. Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
21. Cornigr – Relics of Inner War
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KILL
01.01.13 | and they said metal was dead |
Evreaia
01.01.13 | You heard Monolithe III yet wizard? |
RiffOClock
01.01.13 | kill how long do u plan on shielding ur heart from the truth |
Wizard
01.01.13 | I have heard it Evreaia but I found it kind of boring. Might give it another chance when I get some time. |
DeafMetal
01.01.13 | list is metallic |
Evreaia
01.01.13 | Sure do bro, wasn't convinced too at first listen, but it quickly became my AOTY after the second listen and onwards |
Relinquished
01.01.13 | earth? |
Athom
01.01.13 | not a good year for doom my ass!
Anhedonist - Netherwards
Black Shape of Nexus -Negative Black
Indesinence - Vessels of Light and Decay
Profetus - ...To Open The Passages in Dusk
Conan - Mannos
Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai
Ankhagram -Thoughts
Faustcoven - Hellfire & Funeral Bells
Huata - Atavist of Man |
RiffOClock
01.01.13 | can always count on redsky to save the day
hows ur melodic project goin |
Athom
01.01.13 | pretty good, pretty gay. ya know, the norms. |
RiffOClock
01.01.13 | meloDICK |
Athom
01.01.13 | it basically sounds like coldworld, so that kinda douche shit. |
halloway
01.01.13 | Props for 2, 3, 13, & 15. Good list. |
Wizard
01.02.13 | Redsky, I meant death doom and those Anhedonist and Indesinence albums are super overrated.
Relinquished, as much as I love Earth, they're so far from what I would consider metal. |
Athom
01.02.13 | I love that Anhedonist record. Agree with you on Indesinence but it's still good. |
Inveigh
01.02.13 | Awesome list, I still need to hear a number of these
Have you checked out the new Desolate Shrine? |
Wizard
01.02.13 | I have Inveigh and it's more or less the same as their debut. My biggest problem with these lists is that I will go back to them a year later and wished I'd given some more attention to some of these albums people are coming at me with. Probably gonna give that Anhedonist and Desolate Shrine album another listen today. |
Tyrael
01.02.13 | 'It goes without saying that if this album doesnt land on your best of metal list, you need to re-evaluate your mentality.'
Hahahahahahahaha
Anyway, no Dodecahedron or Anaal Nathrakh? I'm disappointed in you man... |
stabbler
01.02.13 | might check the dysrhythmia album out. i'd kinda given up on them |
Wizard
01.02.13 | That Dysrhythmia album rules hard, easily their best.
Ty, Dodecahedron is the worst (they get lost in their own song structures) and Anaal haven't written a solid album since Hell is Empty. I put Gojira on here to appease your neutral tastes in metal, isn't that enough? hahahaha |
Wizard
01.02.13 | Sorry Ty, I should say that Dodecahedron is not worst thing out there but I would expect them to tighten up on their next release. I will give them this, they're great musicians who need to refine their ideas more. And check out that Wizard Rifle album Ty, I know you would fall in love with them. |
Tyrael
01.02.13 | Yea I heard it
pretty cool
2012 was a pretty sucky year for straight up metal but for symphonic and progressive stuff it was badass |
Wizard
01.02.13 | Agreed. Needs more Slough Feg. Speaking of SF they have a boxset coming out in February. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM |
Relinquished
01.02.13 | forgot that this was only 2012 metal that's why I mentioned earth
gotta say I fell in love with JK Flesh, Earthmover is such a great song |
Inveigh
01.02.13 | yea I could use some new Slough Feg in my life
I liked Dawnbringer's last record, but the new one did nothing for me. Sounded just like High Spirits, only somehow not as good. I'm not sure why I feel that way though... |
Wizard
01.03.13 | Maybe it needs another listen Inveigh?
And that Jk Flesh album fucking rules, more people need to listen to Broadricks side projects. |
alachlahol
01.03.13 | your taste in metal is almost as bad as tyraels or noctus i really dont understand it consider its all you listen to |
alachlahol
01.03.13 | tempest isnt metal either |
Wizard
01.04.13 | Really alachlahol? And Tempest is metallic hardcore through and through. Fuck you're stupid dude. |
Wizard
01.04.13 | Thanks dude and my apologies for any run-ins I've had with you this year regarding my apathetic nature towards humanity ; ). |
Tyrael
01.04.13 | I can't believe Wizard took that troll bait
cmon man |
Tyrael
01.04.13 | alach
duh (yea my taste in metal sucks ha ha ha) |
GiaNXGX
01.04.13 | cool cool, wasn't this posted on ghostsofsaturn? |
alachlahol
01.04.13 | "I can't believe Wizard took that troll bait
cmon man"
wasnt trolling at all actually you naming yourself sputniks false metal authority is startlingly accurate |
alachlahol
01.04.13 | wizard tempest is one of the newer crust bands out there and while crust may incorporate slight metallic elements its something that could never be classified as metal i dont know why this is even an argument |
Minus.
01.04.13 | 6 is awesome |
Wizard
01.04.13 | Wow, the riffs are straight off a thrash album like most of these new age hardcore/ crust/ metallic hardcore bands. I argue because you're dumb and your lack of metal knowledge and where half of these bands come from makes you feel superior to all of us because you won't admit defeat. You're probably one of these retards (like Riff) who explored some ultra obscure blogs and overnight, you know everything about everything that's cool in the underground. And to further up your credentials, you pretend you've never listened to a single band that gets praise on any site because that would be so un-elitist. You kids are a dime a dozen and truthfully, you're a coward who hides behind these blogs and yet, you know nothing because you're a follower. I bet you haven't even heard 90% of this list yet you judge so quickly. |
alachlahol
01.05.13 | cowards hidin behind blogs |
alachlahol
01.05.13 | you claim i lack knowledge while making awful awful statements like this
"Wow, the riffs are straight off a thrash album like most of these new age hardcore/ crust/ metallic hardcore bands." |
alachlahol
01.05.13 | i mean honestly give me some thrash albums that sound remotely similar to tempest or these other
modern bands you speak of. tempest is a hardcore band through and through theres nothing thrash about
them and the fact you made that statement in the first place really puts into stark relief your own
knowledge (or lack thereof) regarding metal/hardcore |
RiffOClock
01.05.13 | best 2012 metal
hororable mention:
the seer |
Wizard
01.06.13 | I never said they sounded like thrash metal, at all. You can't sit here and tell me that you don't here thrash/ metal riffs in there? You think that hardcore appeared out of nowhere back in the early 80s without stealing a few riffs from metal? Fuck dude, you're just dumb. And if you want to continue sitting here telling me that they're just labelled hardcore, you must be fucking deaf because they indeed use metal riffs at warp speed. And also, you haven't really told me why I have piss poor taste in metal. What the fuck would you put on this list that I've so clearly missed this year? |
Wizard
01.06.13 | And sorry Riff, that album should be removed. |
alachlahol
01.06.13 | theres no discernible thrash riffing in their sound sorry. this just furthers the fact that you have no idea what youre talking about
and of course they have some metal riffing/leads going on, theyre a crust band, something i stated earlier. crust is a form of hardcore. having a metal tinge to their music has no bearing on the fact theyre still playing everything under a hardcore template |
DeafMetal
01.07.13 | "And if you want to continue sitting here telling me that they're just labelled hardcore, you must be fucking deaf"
SO WHAT IF HE IS ;;;;3 |
Wizard
01.07.13 | I haven't Troggy but I will get around to it, what kind of bm does it sound like?
alachlahol, so then I was still right in calling them metallic hardcore since you agreed to them have metal leads and such in their music? They have that urgent sound like Converge and you ask anyone if they consider Converge to be "just" a hardcore band. Whatever dude, you're just pulling hairs on this one and you can have the win if it makes you stop wetting the bed less at night. |
alachlahol
01.07.13 | theres a significant difference between metallic hardcore and crust |
RiffOClock
01.07.13 | bm dm crunkst whats the diff |
Nikkolae
01.07.13 | bummed to see pallbarer didnt make the cut, however i really agree with most of the stuff in here (xcept Bosse-de-nage, that one was alright at best), overall great list, keep it m/ wiz. |
Deathconscious
01.07.13 | good to see Dawnbringer here, and Faustian Echoes. |
Wizard
01.07.13 | Sure there's a difference but I can't justify calling something just crust and just hardcore when these days, both subgenres blur a line with metal and that you can't deny. Really and truly though, I couldn't give a shit about this anymore. If you say I'm wrong, I'm wrong and I'll leave it at that. I can only be an asshole for so long. |
Emim
01.07.13 | 2 is pretty sweet, yeah |