A list of Stubble’s picks for the best albums of 2012. Don’t like it? Make your own list. Presented to you in no particular order since every single one of these releases deserve your attention. Now!

Where does one go to find a Warbeast? Just follow the homeless guy to the giant dumpster in the back alley of San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom of course! Stubble caught up with Bobby Tillotson of Texas thrash metal band Warbeast while on tour with Down

Jesse & the Hogg Brothers are keeping old school, real country alive; think CB trucking songs, odes to America, mud wrestling, etc.; if you can’t get enough of the crude Southerner comedy meets 1968 Grand Ole Opry country music then check them out.

Stubble caught up with A Life Once Lost founding member Doug Sabolick at the Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia during their July residency consisting of four shows with special guest Jucifer. We talk about the new album “Ecstatic Trance”, working with a new label, and corpse paint.

Stubble sat down with Danny Worsnop, vocalist for Sumerian Records UK metalcore artists Asking Alexandria at the RockStar Mayhem Fest in Mountain View California. We discuss extremely talented porn stars, staying clean and sober, and a very “unique and different” new album due out in September along with a new single “Run Free” out on the Axe Body Spray app.

Stubble sat down with French Symphonic Deathcore band Betraying the Martyr. This is Betraying the Martyrs first Mayhem fest and will be playing on the Sumerian Records side stage.

Stubble caught up with Christian metal band I The Breather at the RockStar Mayhem Fest in Mountain View California. This is “I The Breather’s” first Mayhem Fest and they will be performing on the Sumerian side stage.

Stubble ran into Levi Benton vocalist for Ohio metalcore band Miss May I at the San Francisco stop of the Van’s Warped Tour. We discuss their new album “At Heart”, a day in the life at Warped, face eating bath salts, and debuting on the main stage.

Stubble caught up with Orion, bassist/guitarist for Behemoth before their sold out show at Slim’s in San Francisco. Headlining the Decibel Magazine Tour with Watain, the Devil’s Blood, and In Solitude, Behemoth returns to the U.S. with the most extreme line-up on the year.

Stubble sits down with the Dark Lord of Black Metal himself Erik Danielsson of Sweden’s Watain on the San Francisco stop of the Decibel Magazine Tour supporting Behemoth with The Devil’s Blood and In Solitude.