Stereogum separated out their lists. Hm. Anyway, on top of their general Top 50 of 2012 that made it online last week, you can now see Stereogum’s Top 40 metal LPs of the year below or click here for sound samples and blurbs.
40. Witch In Her Tomb: S/T
39. Horseback: Half Blood
38. Kowloon Walled City: Container Ships
37. Cannibal Corpse: Torture
36. Kreator: Phantom Antichrist
35. Horrendous: The Chills
34. Wylve: S/T
33. Agalloch: Faustian Echoes
32. Lord Mantis: Pervertor
31. Rhinocervs: RH 12
30. Neurosis: Honor Found In Decay
29. Hooded Menace: Effigies of Evil
28. A Pregnant Light: Live To Tell (split)
27. Vattnet Viskar: S/T EP
26. Secrets of the Moon: Seven Bells
25. Incantation: Vanquish In Vengeance
24. Circle of Ouroboros: The Lost Entrance of the Just
23. Deathspell Omega: Drought EP
22. Pig Destroyer: Book Burner
21. Mutilation Rites: Empyrean
20. Bosse-de-Nage: III
19. Unsane: Wreck
18. Black Breath: Sentenced To Life
17. Pinkish Black: Pinkish Black
16. Grave: Endless Procession of Souls
15. Krallice: Years Past Matter
14. Meshuggah: Koloss
13. Indesinence: Vessels of Light and Decay
12. Atriarch: Ritual of Passing
11. Dodecahedron: S/T
10. Evoken: Atra Mors
09. Blut Aus Nord: 777-Cosmosophy
08. Martyrdod: Paranoia
07. Asphyx: Deathhammer
06. Ash Borer: Cold of Ages
05. Samothrace: Reverence To Stone
04. Winterfylleth: The Threnody of Triumph
03. High On Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
02. Dawnbringer: Into the Lair of the Sun God
01. Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction