The only Top Whatever Metal Album list you need. Even better than your own.

1. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
3. Pathology - The Time of Great Purification
4. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
5. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
6. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
7. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
8. Enslaved - RIITIIR
9. Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone
10. Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
11. Ne Oblivascarus - Portal of I
12. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
13. Meshuggah - Koloss
14. Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
15. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
16. The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
17. Unsane - Wreck
18. Job For a Cowboy - Demonocracy
19. Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast
20. Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For the Damned

Not a very imaginative list, in my opinion. I am suspicious about lists that feature only big names. It makes me think the list maker didn't actually listen to that much stuff, since there's no reason an unsigned debut band couldn't make something as solid as a 20-year old vets. But then again, it's quite possible that the person really did enjoy those albums the most. There would probably be complaints that you list albums nobody's heard about just to be special, if you featured many underground gems.

Kreator and Gojira are way too high.

Lit - no, you're too high.

Godless

Written by [user id=101272] on 18.12.2012 at 03:54

Kreator and Gojira are way too high.

that. Both were below the bands' standards...

Anyway, not bad, mostly thrash/hardcore/stuff, but good choices nonetheless (Converge, Enslaved, Unsane...)

Where's Dordeduh? Dar De Duh was fantastic.

What's the point of this topic?

Written by Oaken on 18.12.2012 at 23:20

Where's Dordeduh? Dar De Duh was fantastic.

Listening to it now... not top 20 but I'll be talking about this album on our Best of 2012 You Probably Didn't Hear About show the week after next. I'll start a new topic but... what other great albums probably passed most metal folk by?

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Written by Godless Visions on 19.12.2012 at 18:15

Written by Oaken on 18.12.2012 at 23:20

Where's Dordeduh? Dar De Duh was fantastic.

Listening to it now... not top 20 but I'll be talking about this album on our Best of 2012 You Probably Didn't Hear About show the week after next. I'll start a new topic but... what other great albums probably passed most metal folk by?

Godless
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The greatest extreme metal talk show ever.
https://soundcloud.com/nocontrolradio/

Dordeduh in "You Probably Didn't Hear About" show? It's very well known and not that underground to be put in that category. It's got two reviews on MS, besides the many comments. In the "You Probably Didn't Hear About" show, you should include stuff such as Agruss, Alkerdeel and Verdunkeln. Now that's some obscure material, not Dordeduh.

Eh, it's all pretty relative. MS is its own microcosm, and folky black metal as a rule is fairly marginal. Though it's true Dordeduh was probably the biggest thing in black metal this year.

Written by IronAngel on 19.12.2012 at 19:08

Eh, it's all pretty relative. MS is its own microcosm, and folky black metal as a rule is fairly marginal. Though it's true Dordeduh was probably the biggest thing in black metal this year.

^^ This.