Of all of our Best of 2012 coverage, I look forward to the list created by you, the Metal Injection junkies the most. It is always eye-opening to see what music you, our loyal readers, have been moved by. A few weeks ago, we asked you to submit your top 10 albums of the year list, then we would tally the results with an inverse point system. Your first place would get 10 points, second place – 9 points and so on. Special thanks to longtime junkie and American Aftermath contributor Lane Oliver for tallying up the votes. Without further ado, here are the top albums of the year:
- Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity – 356 points
- Gojira L'Enfaunt Sauvage – 324 points
- Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II – 309 points
- Meshuggah Koloss – 309 points
- The Faceless Autotheism – 300 points
- Deftones Koi No Yokan – 241 points
- Lamb of God Resolution – 230 points
- Cannibal Corpse Torture – 223 points
- Converge All We Love We Leave Behind – 217 points
- Periphery Periphery II – 200 points
- Pig Destroyer Book Burner – 199 points
- Testament Dark Roots of Earth – 188 points
- Baroness Yellow and Green – 182 points
- Enslaved RIITIIR – 181 points
- Dying Fetus Reign Supreme – 170 points
- Revocation Teratogenesis – 120 points
- The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII – 119 points
- High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis – 114 points
- Devin Townshend Project Epicloud – 112 points
- Wintersun Time I – 111 points
- Whitechapel self titled – 109 points
- Sylosis Monolith – 99 points
- Nile At the Gate of Sethu – 95 points
- Spawn of Possession Incurso – 90 points
- Gorod A Perfect Absolution – 85 points
- Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I – 84 points
Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy – 84 points - The Haarp Machine Disclosure – 83 points
- Katatonia Dead End Kings – 82 points
Dethklok Dethalbum III – 82 points - Kreator Phantom Antichrist – 81 points
- Pallbearer Sorrow and Extinction – 80 points
- Neurosis Honor Found in Decay – 79 points
- Every Time I Die Ex Lives – 77 points
- Ihsahn Eremita – 75 points
- Down Down IV – 74 points
- Aborted Global Flatline – 73 points
- Veil of Maya Eclipse – 70 points
- Rush Clockwork Angels – 68 points
Woods of Ypress Woods 5 – 68 points - Cryptopsy self titled – 67 points
- Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas – 60 points
- Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering – 58 points
- The Contortionist Intrinsic – 56 points
- Overkill The Electric Age – 55 points
- Soulfly Enslaved – 51 points
- Psycroptic The Inherited Repression – 50 points
- The Acacia Strain Death is the Only Mortal – 48 points
Fear Factory The Industrialist – 48 points - As I Lay Dying Awakened – 47 points
- Black Breath Sentenced To Life – 46 points
- Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone – 45 points
- Anathema Weather Systems – 43 points
- Aeon Aeons Black – 42 points
Witchcraft Legend – 42 points - Thy Art is Murder Hate – 41 points
- Municipal Waste The Fatal Feast – 40 points
- Ensiferum Unsung Heroes – 38 points
Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever – 38 points
Hour of Penance Sedition – 38 points - Napalm Death Utilitarian – 37 points
- 3 Inches of Blood Long Live Heavy Metal – 36 points
- Royal Thunder CVI – 35 points
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming – 35 points
The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean – 35 points - Sigh In Somniphobia – 34 points
Beneath the Massacre Incongruous – 34 points - Vision of Disorder The Cursed Remain Cursed – 33 points
Murder Construct Results – 33 points - The Chariot One Wing – 32 points
- My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures – 29 points
- The Sword Apocryphon – 27 points
- Agalloch Faustian Echoes – 26 points
If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest – 26 points
Car Bomb w^w^^w^w – 26 points
Parkway Drive Atlas – 26 points - Alcest Les Voyages De L'Ame – 25 points
Lord Mantis Pervertor – 25 points
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise Illusion & Chaos – 25 points - Torche Harmonicraft – 24 points
Eluveitie Helvetios – 24 points
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol – 24 points - Architects Daybreaker – 23 points
Borknagar Urd – 23 points
Blut Aus Nord 777 Cosmosophy – 23 points
Allegaeon Formshifter – 23 points - Korpiklaani Manala – 22 points
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! – 21 points
Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and The Blackbird – 21 points
Soen Cognitive – 21 points - Goatwhore Blood for the Master – 20 points
Grave Endless Procession of Souls – 20 points
Grand Magus The Hunt – 20 points
Monuments Gnosis – 20 points - Enabler All Hail the Void – 19 points
The Ghost Inside You Get What You Give – 19 points
Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix – 19 points
Circus Maximus Nine – 19 points
Witch Mountain Cauldron of the Wild – 19 points - Nachtmystium Silencing Machine – 18 points
Wretched Son of Perdition – 18 points
A Life Once Lost Ecstatic Trance – 18 points
American Me III – 18 points
Epicardiectomy Abhorrent Stench of Posthumous Gastorectal Desecration – 18 points - Lunar Aurora Hoagascht – 17 points
Storm Corrosion Self titled – 17 points
Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata – 17 points
Trioscapes Separate Realities – 17 points - Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion – 16 points
Graveyard Lights Out – 16 points
Christian Mistress Possession – 16 points
Rise and Fall Faith – 16 points - Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension – 15 points
- Kamelot Silverthorn – 14 points
Krallice Years Past Matter – 14 points
Six Feet Under Undead – 14 points - Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour – 13 points
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine – 13 points
7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes of Absolution – 13 points
Make them Suffer Neverbloom – 13 points
Title Fight Floral Green – 13 points - Wildernessking The Writhing of the Gods in the Sand – 12 points
Desecravity Implicit Obedience – 12 points
Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns – 12 points
Orange Goblin A Eulogy for the Damned – 12 points
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues – 12 points
Asphyx Deathhammer – 12 points
Yakuza Beyul – 12 points - Caliban I Am Nemesis – 11 points
Deathspell Omega Drought – 11 points
Rings of Saturn Dingir – 11 points
Pseudogod Deathwomb Catechesis – 11 points
Evoken Atra Mors – 11 points
Dust Bolt Violent Demolition – 11 points
Beheaded Never to Dawn – 11 points
Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprocy of Pollution – 11 points - Dismemberment Denied Salvation – 10 points
Cognitive The Horrid Swarm – 10 points
Ill Nino Epidemia – 10 points
Stick to Your Guns Diamond – 10 points
Stolen Babies Naught – 10 points
Shadows Fall A Fire from the Sky – 10 points
Occultation Three and Seven – 10 points
Pharoah Bury the Light – 10 points
Glitter Dick Sparkling Richard – 10 points
Birds in Row You, Me & The Violence – 10 points
Satan's Wrath Galloping Blasphemy – 10 points
Art by Numbers Reticence: The Musical – 10 points
Bone Dance Self titled – 10 points
Prong Carved into Stone – 10 points
Stone Sour House of Gold & Bones Part 1 – 10 points
Tourniquet Antiseptic Bloodbath – 10 points
While She Sleeps This is the Six – 10 points
Dawnbringer Into the Lair of the Sun God – 10 points
Cytotoxin Radiophobia – 10 points
Anthropofagus Architecture of Lust – 10 points
Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads – 10 points
Krisiun The Great Execution – 10 points
Revel in Flesh Deathevokation – 10 points
Motionless In White Infamous – 10 points
Please note, any album that received less than 10 votes was ineligible for listing.
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