TOO SOON? SHANBOMB’S BEST OF 2012… SO FAR

So much br00tuls, so many epic: 2012 is rocking my socks. Looking over my half-year’s best list, I see many gems but something gives me pause: I listed Wilton and Akerstache’s “Storm Corrosion (Of Love and Emotion),” not Wilson and Akerfeldt’s Storm Corrosion. What’s wrong with me?

• Call Me No One Last Parade (7 Brothers)
• Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity (Metal Blade)
• Gojira L’Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
• Ihsahn Eremita (Candlelight)
• In Mourning The Weight of Oceans (Spinefarm)
• Meshuggah Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
• Mnemic Mnemesis (Nuclear Blast)
• The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean (Inside Out)
• Soen Cognitive (Spinefarm)
• Wilton & Akerstache Storm Corrosion (Of Love and Emotion)

-BS