Decibel Magazine's top 40 Extreme Albums of 2012

[Balls McHoolihan]

What are your takes on this list? Agree? Disagree? Fuckin' bullshit? Discuss...

#40 Gojira- L'Enfant Savage
#39 Meshuggah- Koloss
#38 Agalloch- Faustian Echoes EP
#37 The Shrine- Primitive Blast
#36 Incantation- Vanquish in Vengeance
#35 Samothrace- Reverence to Stone
#34 Devin Townsend Project- Epicloud
#33 Panopticon- Kentucky
#32 Saint Vitus- Lillie: F-65
#31 Mutilation Rites- Empyrean
#30 Author & Punisher- Ursus Americanus
#29 A Life Once Lost- Ecstatic Trance
#28 Asphyx- Deathhammer
#27 Farso- Insects
#26 Gaza- No Absolutes in Human Suffering
#25 Inverloch- Dusk|Subside
#24 Swans- The Seer
#23 Horrendous- The Chills
#22 Killing Joke- MMXII
#21 Early Graves- Red Horse
#20 Liberteer- Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees
#19 High on Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis
#18 Napalm Death- Utilitarian
#17 Torch- Harmonicraft
#16 Grave- Endless Procession of Souls
#15 Satan's Wrath- Galloping Blasphemy
#14 Testament- Dark Roots of Earth
#13 Cattle Decapitation- Monolith of Inhumanity
#12 Blut Aus Nord- 777: Cosmosophy
#11 Municipal Waste- The Fatal Feast
#10 Pig Destroyer- Book Burner
#9 Paradise Lost- Tragic Idol
#8 Royal Thunder- CVI
#7 Enslaved- Riitiir
#6 Neurosis- Honor Found in Decay
#5 Pallbearer- Sorrow and Extinction
#4 Witchcraft- Legend
#3 Evoken- Atra Mors
#2 Baroness- Yellow & Green
#1 Converge- All We Love We Leave Behind

 

[SomeGuyDude]

No list is ever gonna be perfect. I don't agree with a lot of it, but... it's really not a bad list. I see Gaza got some love, so I got no complaints.

 

[Krow]

2 and 4 arent metal at all and Panopticon is one of the worst things Ive ever heard... but other than that... for a magazine list, it could be a lot worse.

Although it bugs me Torture wasnt included... feel like it was better than a minimum of 30 of those albums.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I expected gay, got gay. Only about 5 bands on that list I give a shit about. And Deathhammer is not better than Lillie F:65.

 

[Avigrus]

Average list.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Decibel is actually a pretty fucking solid metal mag ... but they somehow find a way to fuck up almost every list they've ever made.

... i do love their flexi discs though.

edit: i can nitpick on a bunch of shit on this list, but Municipal Waste at fuckin 10? wow.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

needs more Nile...

 

[Balls McHoolihan]

2 and 4 arent metal at all and Panopticon is one of the worst things Ive ever heard... but other than that... for a magazine list, it could be a lot worse.

Although it bugs me Torture wasnt included... feel like it was better than a minimum of 30 of those albums.

Well, it's more of an "extreme music" list. They even mention that they are aware that all bands listed aren't metal. I know of a few albums that could go on the list, but aren't there.

Decibel is actually a pretty fucking solid metal mag ... but they somehow find a way to fuck up almost every list they've ever made.

... i do love their flexi discs though.

edit: i can nitpick on a bunch of shit on this list, but Municipal Waste at fuckin 10? wow.

It's really the only one I'll get. I remember the days of getting Revolver......holy fuck, that magazine went to shit. All they ever cover now is pussy shit.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

You can't expect the entire list to be "trve", guys. Simple reason is... not everyone thinks that shit is the best. And it's not just a matter of "they haven't heard real metal yet". A significant number of people, if you played them Opeth and then played Dordeduh they'd tell you the former is the shit and the latter should go in the garbage.

So a list like this just plain ain't gonna make the "extreme" dudes happy because the majority of people don't like that the best. If anything, for a list being put out by an actual cot-damn magazine, this has some damn good picks on it. Yeah, I think Baroness is the most overrated band of the post-Mastodon era and I really wish I understood why everyone is sucking Pallbearer's dick, but c'mon. Did you really expect everything to be Dodecahedron and Satanic Bloodspraying?

 

[skeptik]

The term "trve" needs to die a gruesome death.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

I don't agree with the majority of it, but how often does anyone with an actual opinion agree fully with any top 'x' lists? It's hardly a bad list.

 

[EffigyForgotten]

The term "trve" should never of existed.

 

[Avigrus]

I like that they have Horrendous on there... that's a great album.

I should work out my own list.. nearly that time.

 

[Bitencourt29]

Good magazine, average list. At least Pallbearer made the list and got a decent place.