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Industry Top 10 Albums of 2012

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Following on from last week’s release of both the user voted results from the Killyourstereo.com 2012 Album of the Year poll and the staff picks, we’ve compiled a small cross-section of what some of the bands have dug this year. Here’s what some of the local and international musicians have considered worthy in 2012. (Click heading to see 'Top 10 Lists').

Following on from last week’s release of both the user voted results from the Killyourstereo.com 2012 Album of the Year poll and the staff picks, we’ve compiled a small cross-section of what some of the bands have dug this year.

Here’s what some of the local and international musicians have considered worthy in 2012.

Dawson/Josh (Hand of Mercy) –

1. The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
2. Parkway Drive - Atlas
3. Basement - Colourmekindness
4. Title Fight - Floral Green
5. Brutality Will Prevail - Scatter The Ashes
6. Stick To Your Guns - Diamond
7. While She Sleeps - This Is The Six
8. Make Do And Mend - Everything You Ever Loved
9. Legions - The Gravestone Path
10. Toy Boats - Diamond Teeth

JT Woodruff (Hawthorne Heights) –

1. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
2. Mumford and Sons – Babel
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. The Killers – Battle Born
5. Fun. – Some Nights
6. Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
7. Forever Came Calling – Contender
8. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
9. I Am Avalanche – Avalanche United
10. Handguns - Angst

Sam Crocker (Antagonist A.D) –

1. Architects - Daybreaker
2. Lower Than Atlantis - Changing Tune
3. Brutality Will Prevail - Scatter The Ashes
4. The Broderick - Free to Rot, Free of Sin
5. The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
6. The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
7. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
8. Plan B - Ill Manors
9. Survival – Survival
10. Outsiders Code – demo

Tim Charles (Ne Obliviscaris) –

1. Periphery - Periphery II
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3. The Faceless - Autotheism
4. Sigur Ros - Valtari
5. Enslaved - Riitiir
6. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
7. Yellowcard - Souther Air
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
9. A Million Dead Birds Laughing - Xen
10. Between The Buried & Me - The Parallel 2: Future Sequence

Andrew Haug (Andrewhaug.com Radio/Contrive) –

1. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
2. Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones Part 1
3. Klone – A Dreamer’s Highway
4. Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
5. Grand Magus – The Hunt
6. Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol
7. Soulfly – Enslaved
8. Anathema – Weather Systems
9. The Levitation Hex – The Levitation Hex
10. OSI – Fire Make Thunder