Forever Deaf, 93.3 CFRU FM (GUELPH, ON) – top metal albums of 2012 as voted on by THEIR listeners.
Artist – Album – Label
1. Between the Buried And Me – The Parallax II: the Future Sequence – Metal Blade
2. Testament – Dark Roots Of Earth – Nuclear Blast
3. Cannibal Corpse – Torture – Metal Blade
4. Faceless – Autotheism – Sumerian
5. Cattle Decapitation – Monolith Of Inhumanity – Metal Blade
6. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage – Roadrunner
7. Devin Townsend – Epicloud – Hevy Devy/Sony/InsideOut
8. Sigh – In Somniphobia – Candlelight
9. Baroness – Yellow And Green – Relapse
10. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal – Sumerian
11. Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Pinata – Sensory
12. Napalm Death – Utilitarian – Century Media
13. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist – Nuclear Blast
14. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind – Epitaph
15. Overkill – The electric Age – E1
16. Lamb Of God – Resolution – Epic
17. Odium – Burning Bridges To Nowhere – Year Of the Sun
18. Pig Destroyer – Book Burner – Relapse
19. Dawn Bringer – Into the Lair Of the Sun god – Profound Lore
20. Woods Of Ypres – Woods 5-Grey Skies and Electric Light – Earache
21. Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas – Candlelight
22. Wretched – Son Of Perdition – Victory
23. Sylosis – Monolith – Nuclear Blast
24. Before the Dawn – Rise Of The Phoenix – Nuclear Blast
25. Enslaved – Riitiir – Nuclear Blast
26. Aborted – Global Flatline – Century Media
27. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Danza IIII: the Alpha/The Omega – Black Market
28. Amoral – Beneath – The End
29. As I Lay Dying – Awakened – Metal Blade
30. Goatwhore – Blood For The Master – Metal Blade
31. Ihsahn – Eremita – Candlelight
32. Striker – Armed to the Teeth – Napalm
33. Torche – Harmonicraft – Volcom
34. White Chapel – s/t – Metal Blade
35. 3 Inches Of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal – Century Media
36. Architects – Daybreaker – Century Media
37. Crystal Mess – Unholy Neckbreaker – s/r
38. Veil Of Maya – Eclipse – Sumerian
39. Blinded By Faith – Chernobyl Survivor – Galy
40. Marduk – Serpent Sermon – Century Media
41. Gallows – s/t – Venn Records
42. Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol – Century Media
43. Avatar – Black Waltz – E1
44. Municipal Waste – Fatal Feast/Waste In Space – Nuclear Blast
45. Grave – Endless Procession Of Souls – Century Media
46. Job For A Cowboy – Demonocracy – Metal Blade
47. Moonspell – Alpha Noir/Omega White – Napalm
48. High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis – E1
49. Dying Fetus – Reign Supreme – Relapse
50. Rush – Clockwork Angels – Anthem
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