BEST OF 2012 – THE BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR
Here’s this year’s result of our BEST OF 2012 readers poll (thanks again to all those of you who sent in their lists)
01. INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance
02. ASPHYX – Deathhammer
03. COFFIN TEXTS – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
04. DEGIAL – Death’s Striking Wings
05. GRAVE – Endless Procession Of Souls
06. DRAWN AND QUARTERED – Feeding Hell’s Furnace
07. HORRENDOUS – The Chills
08. NECROVATION – Necrovation
09. MARDUK – Serpent Sermon
10. OVERKILL – The Electric Age
…and in case you’re curious to find out what the VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE staff enjoyed the most this year, here’s some of our favorites in alphabetical order…
Alfonso Perez
ANATOMIA – Decaying In Obscurity
DEVIN TOWNSEND – Epicloud
GOJIRA – L’Enfant Sauvage
GRAVE – Endless Procession Of Souls
INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance
MESHUGGAH – Koloss
MY DYING BRIDE – A Map Of All Our Failures
NAPALM DEATH – Utilitaran
OVERKILL – The Electric Age
WORSHIP – Terranean Wake
Frank Stöver
COFFIN TEXTS – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
DEGIAL – Death’s Striking Wings
DERKETA – In Death We Meet
DRAWN AND QUARTERED – Feeding Hell’s Furnace
ENGULFED – Through The Eternal Damnation
HEADHUNTER D.C. – …In Unholy Mourning…
IGNIVOMOUS – Contragenesis
INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance
NOCTURNAL VOMIT – Cursed Relics
SINISTER – The Carnage Ending
UNCONSECRATED – Awakening In The Cemetery Grave
Hacker
ATARAXY – Revelations Of The Ethereal
BINAH – Hallucinating In Resurrecture
COFFIN TEXTS – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
DEGIAL – Death’s Striking Wings
DRAWN AND QUARTERED – Feeding Hell’s Furnace
ESCARNIUM – Excruciating Existence
INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance
SULPHUR AEON – Deep, Deep Down They Sleep
TZUN TZU – Tzun Tzu
WOUND – Demo 2012
Jaime Pérez
BANE – The Accusal Fire
DYING FETUS – Reign Supreme
GOATWHORE – Blood For The Master
KREATOR – Phantom Antichrist
MUNICIPAL WASTE – Fatal Feast
NAPALM DEATH – Utilitarian
OVERKILL – The Electric Age
SCYTHE – Beware The Scythe
ST. VITUS – Lillie: F-65
TESTAMENT – Dark Roots Of Earth
Julian Nuñez
AGONY LORDS – A Tomb For The Haunted
DEATHHAMMER – Onward To The Pits
DENIAL OF GOD – Death And The Beyond
DODSENGEL – Imperator
KETZER – Endzeit Metropolis
MAVETH – Coils Of The Black Earth
NECROVATION – Necrovation
PSEUDOGOD – Deathwomb Catechesis
PUTERAEON – Cult Cthulu
VRPI – Vexilla Regís Profound Infernus
László Dávid
ASPHYX – Deathhammer
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – Afterglow
CANDLEMASS – Psalms For The Dead
CANNIBAL CORPSE – Torture
GRAND SUPREME BLOOD COURT – Bow Down Before The Blood Court
HOODED MENACE – Effigies Of Evil
KILL DEVIL HILL – Kill Devil Hill
KILL WITH HATE – Voices Of Obliteration
SYMPHONY OF SYMBOLS – Stupefying Beliefs
TESTAMENT – Dark Roots Of Evil
Luis M. L. Sallard
DEIPHAGO – Satan Alpha Omega
DEIPHAGO / RITUAL COMBAT – Accept The Mark
DIOCLETIAN / WEREGOAT – Disciples Of War
GOATPENIS / NYOGTHAEBLISZ – Terroristic Onslaught Of Humanicidal Chaos
INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance
PROCLAMATION – Nether Tombs Of Abaddon
PSEUDOGOD – Deathwomb Catechesis
REVENGE – Scum.Collapse.Eradication
VOMITOR – The Escalation
WRATHPRAYER – The Sun Of Moloch…
Luxi Lahtinen
ANGELUS APATRIDA – The Call
IMBALANCE – Period Three Implies Chaos
KREATOR – Phantom Antichrist
KRYPTOS – The Coils Of The Apollyon
NEKROMANTHEON – Rise, Vulcan Spectre
OVERKILL – The Electric Age
RATTENFÄNGER – Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
SCYTHE – Beware The Scythe
TANTARA – Based On Evil
WYRUZ – Fire At Will
Manolis A.
ATARAXY – Revelations Of The Ethereal
COFFIN TEXTS – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
DRAWN AND QUARTERED – Feeding Hell’s Furnace
EVOKEN – Atra Mors
HADES ARCHER – The Curse Over Mankind
HEAD OF THE DEMON – Head Of The Demon
KARNARIUM – Otapamo Pralaja
SAINT VITUS – Lillie: F-65
TEMPLE BELOW – Dies Irae
THE HOUNDS OF HASSELVANDER – The Ninth Hour
Marc Lehmann
ATROCITY – Die Gottlosen Jahre
BOMBS OF HADES – The Serpents Redemption
DOWN – IV Part 1 – The Purple EP
ENTOMBED – When In Sodom Revisited
GRAVE – Endless Procession Of Souls
JOHN CORABI – Unplugged
KISS – Monster
SMASHING PUMPKINS – Oceania
TORMENTED – Graveyard Lust
VAN HALEN – A Different Kind Of Truth
Michael Oelschlegel
ARMOURED ANGEL – Hymns Of Hate
DESERTED FEAR – My Empire
DIRA MORTIS – Euphoric Convulsions
ENGULFED – Through The Eternal Damnation
ERODED – Engravings Of A Gruesome Epitaph
HEADHUNTER DC – In Unholy Mourning
INCANTATION – Vanquish In Vengeance
PYRE – Ravenous Deceased
RATTENFÄNGER – Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
SKELETAL REMAINS – Beyond The Flesh
Michael Tak
ALTARS / HEAVING EARTH – Engulfed
ANHEDONIST – Netherwards
COFFIN TEXTS – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
DEGIAL – Death’s Striking Winds
DESOLATE SHRINE – The Sanctum Of Human Darkness
GENOCIDE SHRINES – Devanation Monumentemples
HORRENDOUS – Ripped To Shreds
IGNIVOMOUS – Contragenesis
INCANTATION – Vanquish in Vengeance
WITCHRIST – The Grand Tormentor
Mindaugas “Plix” Lapinskas
GRAVEYARD – Lights Out
HIGH ON FIRE – De Vermis Mysteriis
MASSACRE – Condemned To The Shadows
MASTER – The New Elite
MY DYING BRIDE – A Map Of All Our Failures
OM – Advaitic Songs
OVERKILL – The Electric Age
SCYTHE – Beware The Scythe
SIX FEET UNDER – Undead
SNAIL – Terminus
Nicola Costantini
ABHORRENCE – Completely Vulgar
ASPHYX – Deathhammer
DAMIEN – Memorandum
DARK TRANQUILLITY – Yesterworlds
DEGIAL – Death’s Striking Wings
GOREMENT – Within The Shadows Of Darkness
NECROCURSE – Chaos Carnage Cataclysm
UNCANNY – Creation’s Tomb
WORMRIDDEN – Infesting The Grave
Ralf Hauber
ASPHYX – Deathhammer
COFFIN TEXTS – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual
DESERTED FEAR – My Empire
ENTRAPMENT – The Obscurity Within
HEADHUNTER D.C. – …In Unholy Mourning…
SULPHUR AEON – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide
VALLENFYRE – A Fragile King
WOLFBRIGADE – Damned
WOUND – Confess To Filth
ZOMBIEFICATION – Reaper’s Consecration
Richard Osmond
ALDEBARAN – Embracing The Lightless Depths
AVENGER – Bohemian Dark Metal
DEMONCY – Enthroned Is The Night
DYSRHYTHMIA – Test Of Submission
ESCARNIUM – Excruciating Existence
HOUR OF 13 – 333
MELEKTAUS – Nexus For Continual Genesis
NEKROMANTHEON – Rise, Vulcan Spectre
SVARTIDAUDI – Flesh Cathedral
THE FORESHADOWING – Second World
Stefan Franke
ANATOMIA – Decaying In Obscurity
ASPHYX – Deathhammer
CANNIBAL CORPSE – Torture
CHAPEL OF DISEASE – Summoning Black Gods
COFFIN TEXTS – Tomb Of The Infinite Ritual
DRAWN AND QUARTERED – Feeding Hell’s Furnace
LEGEND – Fearless
LURK – Lurk
NOCTURNAL VOMIT – Cursed Relics
PARADISE LOST – Tragic Idol
Steven Willems
BAT FOR LASHES – The Haunted Man
DEAD CAN DANCE – Anastasis
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM – Ceremonies
FIRST AID KIT – The Lion’s Roar
KATATONIA – Dead End Kings
KREATOR – Phantom Antichrist
MY DYING BRIDE – A Map Of All Our Failures
PARADISE LOST – Tragic Idol
THE GATHERING – Disclosure
WOODS OF YPRES – Woods 5: Grey Skies And Electric Light
Thomas Georg
DEGIAL – Death’s Striking Wings
DENIAL OF GOD – Death And The Beyond
HORRENDOUS – The Chills
KING OF ASGARD – …To North
MARTOLEA – Noaptea Dihaniilor
NECROVATION – Necrovation
OCCULTATION – Three And Seven
SONNE ADAM – Messengers Of Desolate Ways
TERRORIZER – Hordes Of Zombies
WEAPON – Embers And Revelations
Thomas Meyer
ASPHYX – Deathhammer
DESERTED FEAR – My Empire
GRAND SUPREME BLOOD COURT – Bow Down Before The Blood Court
IRON CURTAIN – Road To Hell
MORDBRAND – Kolumbarium
OFF! – Off!
REVEL IN FLESH – Deathevocation
REVEL IN FLESH / REVOLTING – Within The Morbid Ossuary
TRAGEDY – Darker Days Ahead
WOLFBRIGADE – Damned