2012 Metal Album Releases

2012

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Nov 13

Deftones - Koi No Yokan

80

critic score

(21)

83

user score

(505)

Oct 9

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

All We Love We Leave Behind

85

critic score

(17)

83

user score

(313)

Jun 26

Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

L'Enfant Sauvage

83

critic score

(9)

82

user score

(201)

Oct 9

Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Between the Buried and Me

The Parallax II: Future Sequence

72

critic score

(7)

77

user score

(64)

Mar 23

Meshuggah - Koloss

79

critic score

(11)

76

user score

(64)

Jan 6

Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme

Les Voyages de l'Âme

70

critic score

(7)

78

user score

(95)

May 8

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity

Cattle Decapitation

Monolith of Inhumanity

76

critic score

(5)

85

user score

(48)

Jul 17

Baroness - Yellow & Green

79

critic score

(17)

78

user score

(148)

May 8

Sleep - Dopesmoker

89

critic score

(5)

81

user score

(174)

May 7

Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I

Ne Obliviscaris

93

critic score

(2)

88

user score

(58)

Apr 15

Urfaust - Ritual Music for the True Clochard

Ritual Music for the True Clochard

85

user score

(28)

Jul 24

OM - Advaitic Songs

72

critic score

(16)

77

user score

(70)

Aug 28

The Chariot - One Wing

80

critic score

(5)

83

user score

(36)

Feb 21

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction

Sorrow and Extinction

81

critic score

(7)

78

user score

(73)

Apr 3

High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

De Vermis Mysteriis

82

critic score

(11)

76

user score

(37)

Oct 9

Blut aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy

777: Cosmosophy

85

critic score

(3)

81

user score

(30)

Mar 6

Every Time I Die - Ex Lives

Every Time I Die

67

critic score

(7)

78

user score

(33)

Nov 27

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against the Machine: XX

Rage Against The Machine

Rage Against the Machine: XX

85

critic score

(6)

90

user score

(18)

Jul 10

Serj Tankian - Harakiri

61

critic score

(7)

73

user score

(35)

May 23

Sabaton - Carolus Rex

70

critic score

(1)

62

user score

(26)

Sep 19

Deftones - Leathers

88

user score

(9)

Mar 5

Caretaker - Providence

80

user score

(5)

Jan 24

Lamb of God - Resolution

69

critic score

(16)

58

user score

(34)

Aug 25

Krallice - Years Past Matter

Years Past Matter

75

critic score

(6)

81

user score

(43)

Oct 19

Thy Art Is Murder - Hate

Thy Art Is Murder

70

critic score

(3)

79

user score

(36)

Apr 23

Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

73

critic score

(3)

78

user score

(17)

Jul 27

Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

Dark Roots of Earth

85

critic score

(3)

79

user score

(29)

May 28

Architects - Daybreaker

70

critic score

(1)

73

user score

(54)

Apr 10

Demon Hunter - True Defiance

63

critic score

(3)

72

user score

(8)

Jul 3

Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

73

critic score

(3)

77

user score

(57)

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Sep 28

Enslaved - RIITIIR

77

critic score

(2)

81

user score

(12)

Oct 26

Parkway Drive - Atlas

80

critic score

(4)

78

user score

(36)

Aug 13

While She Sleeps - This Is the Six

While She Sleeps

This Is the Six

65

critic score

(7)

78

user score

(17)

Mar 13

Cannibal Corpse - Torture

Cannibal Corpse

77

critic score

(8)

78

user score

(20)

Feb 1

Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird

Swallow The Sun

Emerald Forest and the Blackbird

60

critic score

(2)

83

user score

(11)

Jun 4

Panopticon - Kentucky

75

critic score

(2)

77

user score

(28)

Apr 17

DragonForce - The Power Within

The Power Within

67

critic score

(6)

80

user score

(9)

Jun 18

Whitechapel - Whitechapel

74

critic score

(3)

81

user score

(23)

Dec 12

Infant Annihilator - The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution

Infant Annihilator

The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution

40

critic score

(1)

59

user score

(18)

Aug 14

The Faceless - Autotheism

72

critic score

(8)

78

user score

(17)

Nov 13

Bell Witch - Longing

73

critic score

(3)

79

user score

(31)

Jan 31

Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

82

critic score

(2)

84

user score

(18)

May 22

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

Diablo Swing Orchestra

Pandora's Piñata

71

user score

(21)

Oct 5

Sylosis - Monolith

83

critic score

(4)

74

user score

(7)

Oct 9

Deftones - Tempest

93

user score

(12)

Jul 31

Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine

Silencing Machine

80

critic score

(7)

76

user score

(15)

Oct 22

Pig Destroyer - Book Burner

83

critic score

(10)

71

user score

(34)

Oct 22

The Sword - Apocryphon

77

critic score

(5)

77

user score

(14)

Mar 26

Black Breath - Sentenced to Life

Sentenced to Life

80

critic score

(9)

76

user score

(30)

Nov 19

Code Orange - Love Is Love // Return To Dust

Code Orange Kids

Love Is Love // Return To Dust

73

critic score

(3)

71

user score

(25)

Apr 17

UFOmammut - ORO: Opus Primum

ORO: Opus Primum

78

critic score

(5)

82

user score

(4)

Nov 6

Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker

Dragged Into Sunlight

76

critic score

(7)

74

user score

(6)

Nov 6

Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

75

critic score

(8)

78

user score

(19)

Jan 30

Metallica - Beyond Magnetic

Beyond Magnetic

69

critic score

(5)

64

user score

(37)

Oct 29

Shining - Redefining Darkness

Redefining Darkness

80

critic score

(1)

84

user score

(4)

Jun 4

In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

A Fair Dream Gone Mad

81

user score

(6)

Sep 28

An Autumn for Crippled Children - Only the Ocean Knows

An Autumn for Crippled Children

Only the Ocean Knows

74

user score

(4)

Oct 2

Papa Roach - The Connection

55

critic score

(4)

53

user score

(26)

Feb 13

Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned

A Eulogy for the Damned

75

critic score

(5)

65

user score

(1)

Jun 20

Spectral Lore - Sentinel

77

user score

(4)

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