For the rest of the year, we’ll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown, as voted on by our listeners! Voting ends on Friday, December 21st, so let us know your favorites now, and tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list!
Wintersun // photo courtesy of the artist
Tanner Ellison’s 2012 Top Ten Albums
| rank | artist | album | label |
| 10 | Cattle Decapitation | Monolith of Inhumanity | Metal Blade Records |
| 9 | Shining | Redefining Darkness | Spinefarm Records |
| 8 | Drudkh | Вічний Оберт Колеса (Eternal Turn of the Wheel) | Season of Mist |
| 7 | Naglfar | Téras | Century Media Records |
| 6 | Before The Dawn | Rise Of The Phoenix | Nuclear Blast |
| 5 | Deathspell Omega | Drought | Norma Evangelium Diaboli |
| 4 | Pig Destroyer | Bookburner | Relapse Records |
| 3 | Anaal Nathrakh | Vanitas | Candlelight Records |
| 2 | Be’lakor | Of Breath And Bone | Rockstar Records |
| 1 | Wintersun | Time I | Nuclear Blast |
Tanner Ellison is one of the hosts of Seek & Destroy, on the air Saturday nights from midnight-2AM.
