The Best Metal Albums of 2012

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Rank	Artist	Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Ne Obliviscaris	Portal of I	May 7, 2012	90.9	121	9
2	Anathema	Weather Systems	Apr 16, 2012	92.7	60	2
3	Luca Turilli's Rhapsody	Ascending to Infinity	Jun 22, 2012	90.5	65	5
4	Circus Maximus	Nine	Jun 5, 2012	91.9	43	2
5	Wintersun	Time I	Oct 19, 2012	89.6	61	6
6	Cult of Fire	Triumvirát	Jul 13, 2012	95.5	13	1
7	Hail Spirit Noir	Pneuma	Mar 5, 2012	91.5	27	3
8	Anaal Nathrakh	Vanitas	Oct 15, 2012	91	30	1
9	Hour of Penance	Sedition	Apr 6, 2012	90.6	29	1
10	In Mourning	The Weight of Oceans	Apr 18, 2012	90	33	4
11	Diablo Swing Orchestra	Pandora's Piñata	Apr 2012	92.5	18	0
12	Testament	Dark Roots of Earth	Jul 27, 2012	88	48	0
13	Cannibal Corpse	Torture	Mar 13, 2012	88.9	36	0
14	Between the Buried and Me	The Parallax II: Future Sequence	Oct 9, 2012	89.8	29	1
15	Elderwind	Волшебство живой природы	Nov 25, 2012	91.3	20	1
16	Primal Fear	Unbreakable	Jan 20, 2012	91	21	2
17	Mors Principium Est	...and Death said live	Dec 14, 2012	88.3	39	3
18	Alcest	Les voyages de l'âme	Jan 6, 2012	86.8	52	4
19	Blessed by a Broken Heart	Feel the Power	Jan 25, 2012	89.3	29	0
20	Harakiri for The Sky	Harakiri for the Sky	Oct 23, 2012	93.8	10	2
21	Dragonforce	The Power Within	Apr 15, 2012	86.1	59	4
22	Galneryus	Angel of Salvation	Oct 10, 2012	86.5	52	4
23	Rush	Clockwork Angels	Jun 8, 2012	93.1	10	0
24	Cattle Decapitation	Monolith of Inhumanity	May 8, 2012	90.3	19	1
25	Nahu	Eternal Recurrence of Carnage	Dec 12, 2012	91.3	14	1
26	Periphery	Periphery II: This Time It's Personal	Jul 3, 2012	87.2	36	2
27	The Stranded	Survivalism Boulevard	Jul 2, 2012	90.7	16	0
28	Overkill	The Electric Age	Mar 27, 2012	88.6	25	0
29	Cryptopsy	Cryptopsy	Sep 11, 2012	90	18	0
30	Be'lakor	Of Breath and Bone	Jun 4, 2012	88.4	26	0
31	Mgła	With Hearts Toward None	Feb 28, 2012	93.1	8	0
32	Converge	All We Love We Leave Behind	Oct 9, 2012	91.7	11	0
33	Katatonia	Dead End Kings	Aug 27, 2012	88.4	23	2
34	Revenge	Scum.Collapse.Eradication	Feb 20, 2012	95	5	0
35	Tempel	On the Steps of the Temple	Aug 3, 2012	92.2	9	1
36	Havok	Point of No Return [EP]	May 22, 2012	93.3	6	0
37	Damnation Angels	Bringer of Light	Mar 7, 2012	93.3	6	0
38	Make Them Suffer	Neverbloom	May 25, 2012	87.5	22	1
39	As I Lay Dying	Awakened	Sep 25, 2012	85.8	31	1
40	Sigh	In Somniphobia	Mar 12, 2012	89.1	14	1
41	The Gathering	Disclosure	Sep 12, 2012	92.1	7	0
42	Eclipse	Bleed & Scream	Aug 24, 2012	90	11	0
43	Before the Dawn	Rise of the Phoenix	Apr 27, 2012	89.5	12	0
44	Xandria	Neverworld's End	Feb 22, 2012	85.8	28	0
45	High on Fire	De vermis mysteriis	Apr 3, 2012	92.3	6	0
46	Unisonic	Unisonic	Mar 30, 2012	83.1	49	2
47	Dark Tranquillity	Zero Distance [EP]	Mar 5, 2012	91.4	7	0
48	Accept	Stalingrad: Brothers in Death	Apr 6, 2012	89.4	11	0
49	Bloodshot Dawn	Bloodshot Dawn	Jan 26, 2012	89.4	11	0
50	Lamb of God	Resolution	Jan 24, 2012	86	24	3

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