Top 7 Voting Begins Now!

December 8th, 2012

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year. There’s a bitter chill in the air, darkness lasts longer than day, and the Locust Lecture assembles the Top 7 albums of the year.

Pick your favorite seven records from the list below, rank them, and send them to locustlecture@gmail.com by the end of December 18th. We’ll count them up and present the winners on December 29th, which will neatly be our 77th episode. There is nothing but black number-based sorcery around here.

The List (Artist – Album)

<1979> – FM Interface
100blumen – Distrust Authority
16Pad Noise Terrorist – Evilution
Aaron Novik – Secret of Secrets
Abraham – The Serpent, The Prophet & The Whore
Access To Arasaka – Geosynchron
Afgrund – The Age Of Dumb
Ahab – The Giant
Alamaailman Vasarat – Valta
Anklebiter – Raintree
Antigama/Psychofagist – 9 Psalms Of An Antimusic To Come
Arkaik – Metamorphignition
Ash Borer – Cold of Ages
Aussitôt mort – Nagykanizsa
Autoclav1.1 – Embark On Departure
Axiome – Ten Hymns For Sorbetière Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Freezer
Barghast/False – Barghest/False
Beheaded – Never to Dawn
Behold The Arctopus – Horrorscension
Belie My Burial – Pale Beyond
Below – St. Anthony’s Fire
Ben Lukas Boysen – Restive
Beneath – Enslaved By Fear
Black Shape Of Nexus – Negative Black
Black Sheep Wall – No Matter Where it Ends
Bloodshot Dawn – Bloodshot Dawn
Bologna Violenta – Utopie e piccole soddisfazioni
Bong-Ra – Monolith
Botanist – III: Doom In Bloom
Burning Love – Rotten Thing To Say
Cannibal Corpse – Torture
Car Bomb – w^w^^w^w
Cartel Carnage – Incorporated
Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
Cdatakill – Battleworn
Chaos Inception – The Abrogation
Cloudkicker – Fade
Comity – The Journey Is Over Now
Conan – Monnos
Control – The Resistance
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
Converge/Napalm Death – Converge / Napalm Death
Deathspell Omega – Drought
Delete – Predatory Things Of A Minute
Demonic Death Judge – Skygods
Dirk Geiger – Elf Morgen
Dirty K – Torrent of Fury
Displacer – foundation
DJ Freak Vs Freethinker – Death Dance
DJ Hidden & Broken Note/Niveau Zero & Balkansky – Existence / Obey
Dopethrone – Dark Foil
Dopethrone – III
Dr Doom – Everyone Is Guilty
Dyscarnate – And So It Came to Pass
Dysrhythmia – Test of Submission
Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Earthrise – Eras Lost
ELEH – Homage to the pointed waveforms
Empusae – Symbiosis
Enabler – All Hail The Void
End – The Sound of Disaster
Enduser/Needle Sharing/The Teknoist – Enduser Shares Needles With The Teknoist
ESA – Themes Of Carnal Empowerment Pt. 1: Lust
Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance
Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
Farmerboy Vs The DesastaMasta – Fall In Space
Frank Bretschneider – Kippschwingungen
Frank Riggio – Psychexcess I – Presentism
Fuck I’m Dead – Another Gory Mess
Fukpig – Batcave Full Of Bastards
Full of Hell – Full of Hell/Code Orange Kids
Gods Of Chaos – March Into Perdition
Gorod – A Perfect Absolution
Grave Disgrace – Grave Disgrace
Greyhound – Prototype
Grigio – Grey Matter
Grinding Halt – Grinding Halt/Suffering Quota
Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic – Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic
Hecq – Enceladus
Heimstatt Yipotash – H.Y.Breed
Hexis – XI
Hideous Divinity – Obeisance Rising
High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Horseback – Half Blood
Hour Of Penance – Sedition
Inanimate Existence – Liberation Through Hearing
Inferno Sci-Fi Grind’n’Roll – The Fall and Rise and Fall of Inferno Sci-Fi Grind’n’Roll
iVardensphere – Bloodwater
JK Flesh – Posthuman
Kamikabe – Aberration of Man
Known Rebel – Hollow
KPT – Aim
Krallice – Years Past Matter
Larvae – Exit Strategy
Lingouf – Terre de pierres
Lk-47 vs KCMA – We Are Not Fucking Interested
Lo! – Look and Behold
Loma Prieta – I.V.
Lord Mantis – Pervertor
Love Sex Machine – Love Sex Machine
Malignancy – Eugenics
Many Arms – Many Arms
Marduk – Serpent Sermon
Martyrdöd – Paranoia
Melvins – Freak Puke
Melvins – The Birds and The Bees
Meshuggah – Koloss
Miss VK – One Night In Mlynec
Monarch – Omens
Mono No Aware – Tatemae and Honne
Morality Crisis – North
Murder Construct – Results
Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine
Napalm Death – Utilitarian
Nebulo – Cardiac
Necro Deathmort – The Colonial Script
Needle Sharing – Gang Bangs
Niveau Zero – Jasmine
Noisia & Phace – Imperial
Odpörovät 1968 – Elend
Old Man Lizard – Old Man Lizard
Om – Advaitic Songs
Oyaarss – Bads
Panopticon – Kentucky
Philipp Münch – Mondo Obscura
Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
Pigs – You Ruin Everything
Pilgrim – Misery Wizard
Propagandhi – Failed States
Proyecto Mirage – Slaves Of Capital
Qebrus – Exophobia
Racebannon – Six Sik Sisters
Ruby My Dear – Remains Of Shapes To Come
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – Ghostmaker
S/M – The Doombringer
Sabes – Diesel Charm
SELENITES – Animaltar
Semiomime – Six Steps
Shadowcore – Industrial Outbreak
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – Book Of Angels Vol. 19: Abraxas
Somatic Responses – Viral Hybrid
Sonar – Cut Us Up
Sonic Area – Music for Ghosts
Sophicide – Perdition Of The Sublime
Spawn of Possession – Incurso
Squarepusher – Ufabulum
Suffering Quota – Demo
Sulaco – Sulaco Build and Burn
SVOBODA – Demo
Swans – The Seer
Sylvgheist Mäelström – Skaftafell
Syntech – P’som-Sett
Syntech – Trans-Neptunian Objects
T.R.A.M. – Lingua Franca
Tachycardie – be nice to music
Talvekoidik – Negotiate The Distance
Té – Therefore, The Illusion Of Density Breach, The Tottering World Forget Tomorrow
Terminal11 – Self Exorcism
The DesastaMasta Vs DarkKnight – The DesastaMasta Vs DarkKnight
The DJ Producer Vs Bong-Ra – The Abominable / Blood Clot Techno
The Hanged Man and The Moon – Just One Shot
The March – Crawl Space
The Outside Agency – The Dogs Are Listening
The Secret – Agnus Dei
Three Trapped Tigers – Numbers: 1-13
Tineidae – Lights
Tonikom – Found And Lost
Torche – Harmonicraft
Trenchfoot – Endless Disgust
Trioscapes – Separate
Unsane – Wreck
Usurpress – Trenches Of The Netherworld
V/A – Heresies: 2012
V/A – Maschinenfest 2012
V/A – Forms of Hands 12
Vagitarians – Wood
VALVE – VALVE
Venetian Snares – Affectionate
VNDL – Gahrena: Paysages Electriques
Vulgaari – Vulgaari
Vulture – Oblivious To Ruin
Wight – Through The Woods Into Deep Water
Worship – Terranean Wake
Xanopticon – Liminal Space
Zero Degree – Transit