Brace Yourselves...

What's up dudes? Jamie from the Metal CATS bloggin' at ya. It's almost halfway through November, which means that a new year is approaching. This means that there's going to be stacks on stacks of top metal records of 2012 plaguing the internet. 

Brace yourselves for all of the different opinions and battles over who wrote the best album of 2012. I could have just totally made an offensive meme off a meme generator site with that picture, but I decided not to... so yeah.

I'm writing this blog to roughly estimate who is going to be on these lists and also who I think deserve to be on the lists.

First of all, one album that I think more than deserves to be on these lists, is Autotheism by The Faceless. It's possible that I think this is the best cd of 2012 thus far. The whole cd is just an absolute masterpiece in every metal aspect. ...just listen and see why.

Another band that will make these lists is Between the Buried and Me with their latest release, The Paralax II:Future Sequence. This cd, too should make these lists because of the musical ingenuity of the band. Now I only got the cd a week or two ago, but it has been one hell of a progressive death metal cd if you ask me.Take a listen.

Unfortunately, if you ask me, the new Pig Destroyer cd will most likely make these lists. The cd is called Book Burner and I've listened to a couple of the songs off of it and I was far from impressed. I feel like people will somehow enjoy weirdness of this whole cd. The record is pretty heavy and all and has some bang your head moments, but all it takes are some disgusting sounding, edited hardcore vocals absolutely to ruin the cd. Listen to the vocals at 1:21 in their official video to their song the diplomat and you will hear what I am talking about.

One band that I think 100% deserves to make all of these lists is Enslaved for their latest release, RIITIIR which is a progressive piece of art. Enslaved really outdid themselves with this cd. They added a lot of different aspects of both black metal and progressiveness. The clean vocals by Ivar Bjornson have improved a lot since Ruun and their past records. Now there is a lot of clean singing on this cd, but don't worry cause it all sounds rad. The clean vocals are complimented with eerie black metal growls.  I love this cd and listen on a regular basis, so you should too... I know what's best, guys.

Black metal kings, Cradle of Filth with their new cd, The Manticore and Other Horrors will almost positively make it on most official top metal cds lists. I'm not so sure that I would put them on any of my lists, but they are my boss's favorite band so it's okay. I feel like the cd is very melodic and Dani Filth's vocals sound very folk metal-ly (I just made 'metal' an adjective.) Here, take a listen for yourself.

It literally hurts my hands to type this.......but....... I think that copycat djent dudes, Periphery, will make these lists. Their new cd Periphery II has been getting a lot of praise lately, for only god knows why.. They sound like any awful djent band that tries to sound like Meshuggah. BUT, they try and compliment it with disgusting preteen high-pitched singing. This kind of stuff appeals to 13 year old scene girls, if you ask me. Listen at the risk of your own ears.

Well, that concludes my ranting or whatever. These are just some of the bands that I think will make top lists of metalheads around the world for their cd releases in 2012. I could be totally wrong but I don't have all day to think about this kind of stuff- I'm attempting to be a college student in the meantime. So, I'll let you guys and myself be. ALSO, ALL OF THIS IS MY OPINION AND IF I OFFENDED ANYONE, I AM SINCERELY SORRY.

Thanks for the read (if you actually read the whole thing) and good riddance!