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2012 Music

Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2012

06 December 2012

All We Love We Leave Behind - Converge

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2012

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

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