TOO SOON? AXL’S BEST OF 2012… SO FAR

Hard to believe, but 2012 is nearly half over. Even harder to believe: We need to start thinking about year-end best album lists. FML!

Though perpetually behind on new shit (uptown problem!), I will now list the albums that have been tickling my pickle so far in 2012. It’s in alphabetical order because June is way too early to start deciding what I like best.

Drumroll please!

• Baroness Yellow & Green (Relapse)
• Bereft Leichenhaus (The End)
• Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends  (Season of Mist)
• Call Me No One Last Parade (7 Bros.)
• Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity (Metal Blade)
• Dodecahedron Dodecahedron (Season of Mist)
• Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering (Black Market Activities)
• Gojira L’Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
• Graf Orlock Los Angeles 7″ (Vitriol)
• Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy (Metal Blade)
• Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion (Century)
• Meshuggah Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
• Old Man Gloom No (Hydra Head)
• Primitive Weapons The Shadow Gallery (Prosethetic)
• Torche Harmonicraft (Volcom)

-AR