Due to the overwhelming "popularity" of my last list, I have decided to do the same thing in 2012…

1.Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

2.Baroness - Yellow & Green

3.Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4.Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

5.Royal Thunder - CVI

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Fuzz me up buttercup…

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

2.Clutch - Clutch

3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

4.Mastodon - Leviathan

5.Melvins - Lysol

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1.Enslaved - RIITIIR

2.Meshuggah - Koloss

3.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

4.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Nostalgic year for me. My all-time favorite album and many others I still listen to regularly came out this year. I also graduated high school. Fun stuff.

1.Anathema - Weather Systems

2.Celldweller - Wish Upon A Blackstar

3.Swans - The Seer

4.Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

5.Netra - Sørbyen

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1.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

2.Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

4.Baroness - Yellow & Green

5.Bring Me The Horizon - Amo

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1.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

2.Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

3.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

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1.Baroness - Yellow & Green

2.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3.3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

4.Eluveitie - Helvetios

5.Acyl - Algebra

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1.Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

2.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3.Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

4.Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

5.Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

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My personal top 20 albums of 2012 (in alphabetical order). I would have liked to add the debut album 'Lingua Franca' from T.R.A.M. but they are not on Metal Storm.

1.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

2.Aura Noir - Out To Die

3.Baroness - Yellow & Green

4.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

5.Deftones - Koi No Yokan

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As of 16 October 2012…

1.Anathema - Weather Systems

2.Devin Townsend - Epicloud

3.3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

4.Baroness - Yellow & Green

5.Napalm Death - Utilitarian

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Any albums that don't make it into my personal top twenty albums list (particularly those that were once on the list but were bumped off) should be mentioned too (unless they suck)! I will add any…

1.Three Hour Ceasefire - Cry Havoc EP

2.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3.Baroness - Yellow & Green

4.Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones

5.Overkill - The Electric Age

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1.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

2.Meshuggah - Koloss

3.Allegaeon - Formshifter

4.Wretched - Son Of Perdition

5.Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

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