米サイトStereogumが「2012年のベスト・メタルアルバム TOP40」を発表

40 Witch In Her Tomb - Witch In Her Tomb (Crippled Sound Records)
39 Horseback - Half Blood (Relapse)
38 Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships (Brutal Panda)
37 Cannibal Corpse - Torture (Metal Blade)
36 Kreator - Phantom Antichrist (Nuclear Blast)
35 Horrendous - The Chills (Dark Descent)
34 Wylve - Wylve (Fallen Empire)
33 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP (Dammerung Arts)
32 Lord Mantis - Pervertor (Candlelight)
31 Rhinocervs - RH 12 (Rhinocervs)
30 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay (Neurot)
29 Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil (Relapse)
28 A Pregnant Light - Live To Tell; APL/OLQ Split (Colloquial Sound Recordings)
27 Vattnet Viskar - Vattnet Viskar EP (Broken Limbs)
26 Secrets Of The Moon - Seven Bells (Prophecy Productions)
25 Incantation - Vanquish In Vengeance (Listenable Records)
24 Circle Of Ouroborus - The Lost Entrance Of The Just (Handmade Birds)
23 Deathspell Omega - Drought EP (Season Of Mist)
22 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner (Relapse)
21 Mutilation Rites - Empyrean (Prosthetic)
20 Bosse-de-Nage - III (Profound Lore)
19 Unsane - Wreck (Alternative Tentacles)
18 Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
17 Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black (Handmade Birds)
16 Grave - Endless Procession Of Souls (Century Media)
15 Krallice - Years Past Matter (self-released)
14 Meshuggah - Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
13 Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay (Profound Lore)
12 Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing (Profound Lore)
11 Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron (Season Of Mist)
10 Evoken - Atra Mors (Profound Lore)
9 Blut Aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy (Debemur Morti)
8 Martyrdod - Paranoia (Southern Lord)
7 Asphyx - Deathhammer (Century Media)
6 Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages (Profound Lore)
5 Samothrace - Reverence To Stone (20 Buck Spin)
4 Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph (Candlelight)
3 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (E1 Music)
2 Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God (Profound Lore)
1 Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)