Chad Bowar
Chad's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Meshuggah - Koloss
2. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
3. Enslaved - RIITIIR
4. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
5. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
- Best Heavy Metal DVD: Iron Maiden - En Vivo!
- Best Heavy Metal Book: Black Metal: Beyond The Darkness
- Most Overrated CD: Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
- Most Underrated CD: Ides Of Gemini - Constantinople
- Favorite Interviews Conducted In 2012: Lita Ford and Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
- Best Newcomer: Pallbearer
Edward Banchs
Edward's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
2. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
3. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
4. God Forbid - Equilibrium
5. Torche - Harmonicraft
- Most Underrated CD: The Agonist - Prisoners
- Most Overrated CD: Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
- Most Surprising CD: Lamb of God - Resolution
- Best Album from an Unsigned Act: Juggernaught - Bring The Meat Back
- Biggest Disappointment: No New Sabbath Record
Tom Campagna
Tom's Top 5 Metal Albums Of 2012:1. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
2. Baroness - Yellow & Green
3. Panopticon - Kentucky
4. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
5. Admiral Sir Cloudlesley Shovell - Don't Hear It... Fear It
- Biggest Disappointment: Graveyard - Lights Out
- Most Overrated Album: BTBAM - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
- Best Concert: Maryland Deathfest X
- Label Of The Year: Metal Blade
- Best Comeback: Grave - Endless Procession Of Souls and Rush - Clockwork Angels
- Best Live Band: Brujeria
- Most Evil Album : Satan's Wrath - Galloping Blasphemy
Craig Hayes
Craig's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Panopticon - Kentucky
2. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
3. Atriarch - Ritual of Passing
4. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
5. Sutekh Hexen - Larvae
- Best Reissue: Locrian - The Clearing/The Final Epoch
- Best Heavy Metal Book: Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness
- Best Concert: Earth
- Label of the Year: Dark Descent
- Best Comeback: Killing Joke
- Best Newcomer: Vattnet Viskar (plus a raft of Dark Descent releases)
- Worst Album: Clear tie between Geoff Tate - Kings and Thieves and Adrenaline Mob - Omerta
- Most Overrated CD: Deftones - Koi No Yokan
- Most Underrated CD: Ulver - Childhood's End
- Best DVD: Last Days Here
- Comedy Saga of the Year: Queensryche
Marcus Jervis
Marcus' Top 5 CDs of 2012:1. Halestorm - The Strange Case Of...
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last Of A Dyin' Breed
3. Threshold - March Of Progress
4. Kaipa - Vittjar
5. Teodor Tuff - Soliloquy
Andrew Kapper
Andrew's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Sylosis - Monolith
2. Thy Art Is Murder - Hate
3. Faceless - Autotheism
4. Make Them Suffer - Neverbloom
5. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
- Best Live Show: Kiss at The London Forum/Faith No More at The Brixton Academy
- Worst Live Show: The Mars Volta at The London Forum
- Biggest Disappointment: As I Lay Dying - Awakened
- Best DVD: Parkway Drive - Home Is For The Heartless
- Best Comeback: Soundgarden
- Best Australian Band: Thy Art Is Murder
- Best Music Video: Job For A Cowboy - "Tarnished Gluttony"
Todd Lyons
Todd's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
3. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
4. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
5. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
- Best Interview: Eddie Trunk leading Geoff Tate through a stammering explanation of his moronic behavior during his last show with Queensryche in Rio.
- Biggest Disappointment: Katatonia - Dead End Kings and Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
- Best Concert: Orion Music + More
- Best Newcomer : The Resistance
- Best "Old" Metal Band : Testament
Dan Marsicano
Dan's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
2. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
3. Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker
4. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
5. Murder Construct - Results
- Best Heavy Metal DVD: Devin Townsend Project - By A Thread Box Set
- Most Overrated CD: Lamb Of God - Resolution
- Most Underrated CD: Wretched - Son Of Perdition
- Best Debut CD: Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
- Best Live Show: Tie between Jucifer and Cattle Decapitation
- Best Newcomer: Bastard Sapling
- Best Album About the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Sabbath Assembly- Ye Are Gods
Dave Schalek
Dave's Top 5 Metal Albums Of 2012:1. Evoken - Atra Mors
2. Grave - Endless Procession Of Souls
3. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
4. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
5. Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum
- Best EP: Deathspell Omega - Drought and Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
- Labels of The Year: Profound Lore Records and Hells Headbangers Records
- Best Heavy Metal Books: Harold Oimoen - Murder In The Front Row and Black Metal: Beyond The Darkness
- Best DVDs: God Seed - Live At Wacken and Watain - Opus Diaboli
- Best Concerts: The Decibel Magazine Tour at the House of Blues, Sunset Strip and The Gathering of the Bestial Legion V at the Echoplex, Los Angeles
- Best Newcomers: Anhedonist, Sophicide
- Best Comeback: Von
- Best Reissue: Sleep - Dopesmoker
- Most Overrated Album: God Seed - I Begin
- Most Underrated Album: Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
- Biggest Disappointments: Grand Magus - The Hunt and Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes
- Album From Late Last Year That Deserves A Mention: Sanguis Imperem -In Glory We March Towards Our Doom
- Man of the Year: Albert Mudrian
- In Memoriam: Jon Lord
Raymond Westland
Raymond's Top 5 Metal Albums Of 2012:1. Killing Joke - MMXII
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
3. Enslaved - RIITIIR
4. Incoming Celebral Overdrive - Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift
5. Metallic Taste Of Blood - Metallic Taste Of Blood
- Label Of The Year: Candlelight Records
- Biggest Disappointment: Soundgarden - King Animal
- Most Overrated CD: Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
- Most Underrated CD: Metallic Taste Of Blood - Metallic Taste Of Blood
- Best Debut CD: Kuolemanlaakso - Uljas Uusi Maailma
- Most Improved Band: Enslaved
- Best Live Show: Enslaved at Into The Grave Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
- Favorite Interview Conducted in 2012: Vinnie Paul from Hellyeah
Natalie Zed
Natalie's Top 5 Metal CDs of 2012:1. Dragged into Sunlight - Widowmaker
2. Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
3. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
4. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
5. Enslaved - RIITIIR
- Best DVD: Devin Townsend - By A Thread: Live in London 2011
- Best Concerts: Witch Mountain/Blood Ceremony/Castle @ The Hard Luck Bar on Toronto, ON on July 20th 2012; Opeth/Mastodon/ Ghost at the Sony Centre on April 7th 2012 and Agalloch/Taurus/Musk Ox @ The Opera House on July 23rd 2012
- Best Book: Laina Dawes - What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
- Most Overrated CD: Baroness - Yellow & Green
- Most Underrated CD: Oak Pantheon - From A Whisper
