Top Albums of 2013!

[ilyti]

I can only do 5 now:

1) Ayreon - Theory of Everything
2) Dream Theater
3) Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
4) The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
5) Katatonia - Dethroned and Uncrowned

I have also heard (and disliked) the new James LaBrie and Turisas albums.

 

[AdamMaz]

What I listened to the most.


Because walls of text suck:

 

[wankerness]

Tigran Hamasyan - Shadow Theatre
Postmadonna - Postmadonna
Cloudkicker - Subsume
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
TTNG - 13.0.0.0.0
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Failed By Man and Machine
an0va - Ego Depletion
Alarmist - Pal Magnet EP
100 Onces - 100 One Says
An Anderson - Parts
Little Tybee - For Distant Viewing
Giraffe Massacre - Failed Attempts

Somehow I missed this being released, time to right that wrong. Based on the last album this will definitely be a candidate for the top 10!

 

[guitarfan85]

Soilwork - the living infinite

Darkane - the slaughterhouse supremecy

Steam powered giraffe - MK3!!!

 

[MFB]

Somehow I missed this being released, time to right that wrong. Based on the last album this will definitely be a candidate for the top 10!

Same here, I totally forgot despite the fact that it's in my top 5 in iTunes

 

[JeffFromMtl]

I can never keep track of what was released when, but from what I'm positive was this year:

Nails - Abandon all Life
Russian Circles - Memorial
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Rorcal - Világvége
Rosetta - The Anaesthete
Lumbar - The First and Last Days of Unwelcome
All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates this Nature

 

[Datura]

Paysage d'Hiver - Das tor. Now one of my favourite albums of all time.

 

[Bennykins]

Soilwork - The Living Infinite
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0

 

[XeoFLCL]

Wow, is 2013 almost over already? Where did the days go

Anyways time to get bashed for my tastes in music

My favorite releases of 2013 would have to have been...
1. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
2. Black Sun Empire - Variations on Black
3. Alstroemeria Records - Pop | Culture (This one makes it on just for one of the best ....ing songs alstroemeria records has made since ancient being on it)
4. How to Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion
5. Korn - The Paradigm Shift
6. Love and Death - Between Here and Lost
7. Noisia - DmC OST

... And that's almost everything I bought this year. I also bought Karnivool's new album, but I hate to say it but for me, it's totally lackluster vs all their other albums outside of a few songs.. Which is a shame after their amazing track record

Most of this year I spent rediscovering old bands from CDs I've had in my collection since the early 00s, since there was nothing that really interested me coming out this year besides the obviously long anticipated new NIN album (whom I also saw live november 8th.. ....ing amazing show, dem 3d visuals)

Oh, I also bought the new Dir en grey EP The Unraveling.. but I can't really include that because the song the album is named after I actually didn't care for, at all LOL. The new versions of Kasumi, Bottom of the Death Valley, and The Final were ....ING AMAZING, though. Oh, and while I didn't get the Deluxe version, youtube gave me the opportunity to listen to the new version of Macabre, and that was better than the previous 3 mentioned, combined.

EDIT: I actually didn't know there was a new AIC album until this thread, so there's a high chance that it'll make the list since I adored black gives way to blue. Also, I forgot HTDA's new album.

 

[vilk]

I really like the new Means End album... but AOTY has got to be Gorguts. It's like the best death metal album I've heard in forever.

Honorable mentions:
Dillinger Escape Plan
Save Us From The Archon
Tesseract
Vildhjarta
Wormed
Protest The Hero
Oranssi Pazuzu
Inter Arma
Leprous
Ephel Duath
Chon
Anacondas
Ghost (even though I hated it at first.)


You know, I was told Arcturus would be releasing something this year. Where is that shit?

 

[avinu]

1. Tigran Hamasyan - Shadow Theater (this is more like, best album since about 2004)
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2. Means End - The Didact
(Phantom Entry: Anathema's Universal, which is a live video with no new material but holy shit is it awesome, I've watched it several times now).
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3. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
4. Gorguts - Colored Sands
5. Maria Schneider & Dawn Upshaw - Winter Morning Walks
6. Soilwork - The Living Infinite
7. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
8. Kayo Dot - Hubardo
9. Pat Metheny - Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels
10. Ghost - Infestissumam

These were entertaining enough but I might not ever listen to them again:

Dream Theater
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
Tesseract - Altered State
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

So yeah, all-in-all a pretty average year in terms of quantity, but man oh man, those first two albums are easily two of the best I've heard in a lot more than a year.

Mah gawd... Tigran Hamasyan.
Thanks for my new background music for the rest of my life bro

 

[FrancescoFiligoi]

1) Carcass - Surgical Steel
2) Gorguts - Colored Sands
3) Deafheaven - Sunbather
4) Rivers Of Nihil - The Conscious Seed Of Light
5) Deeds Of Flesh - Portals To Canaan
6) Plini - Other Things
7) Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth
8) Leprous - Coal
9) Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure
10) Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte

Still have to listen to Exivious, Protest The Hero, Cult Of Luna, Haken, Ihsahn, Ovid's Withering, Steven Wilson, Vulture Industries.

 

[Leuchty]

Sphere - Primordial

 

[Dog Bitten]

Excellent year for Death Metal. Reminds me of 1993, when I was 19.

My faves for the year, in no particular order:

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labrinth
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Deeds of Flesh - Portals to Canaan
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Pestilence - Obsideo
The Monolith Deathcult - Tetragrammaton
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Wormed - Exodromos
Broken Hope - Omen of Disease
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy

 

[beneharris]

Excellent year for Death Metal. Reminds me of 1993, when I was 19.

My faves for the year, in no particular order:

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labrinth
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Deeds of Flesh - Portals to Canaan
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Pestilence - Obsideo
The Monolith Deathcult - Tetragrammaton
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Wormed - Exodromos
Broken Hope - Omen of Disease
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy

Ah, how did I manage to forget Fleshgod Apocalypse. That cd was incredible.

 

[DLG]

stuff I loved/liked very much/liked this year

LOVED

Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Leprous - Coal
Cult of Luna – Vertikal
Gorguts – Colored Sands
Witherscape – The Inheritance
Ulcerate – Vermis
Carcass – Surgical Steel
Satan - Life Sentence
Tribulation – The Formulas of Death
Oranssi Pazuzu – Valonielu

LIKED VERY MUCH

The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
Memory Garden - Doomain
Protest the Hero – Volition
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Exivious – Liminal
Portal – Vexovoid
Memento Waltz – Division by Zero
Hell – Curse and Chapter
Vaura – The Missing
Extol – s/t

LIKED

Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief, and River’s End
Darkane - Sinister Supremacy
Shining - One One One
Atlantean Codex – The White Goddess
Wormed – Exodromos
Nero di Marte – s/t
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Revocation – s/t
Kvelertak – Meir
Cathedral - The Last Spire

 

[Don Vito]

Satan - Life Sentence

I keep forgetting about this album for some reason.

 

[wankerness]

Vildhjarta
Ephel Duath

I forgot to ever listen to that Vildhjarta EP, and was unaware of Ephel Duath putting out a new one. I sorta forgot about them, I was a big fan of Painter's Palette back in the day. This is a great thread for "stuff you might have missed!"

 

[Thep]

Profane by Svart Crown blows everything in this thread away. Ya'll mofos need to listen to it and tell me this isn't the best album of 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMleVS4NwU

 

[cwhitey2]

1)Deafheaven
2)TBDM
3)Killswitch Engage
4)Pelican
5)Omnium Gatherum


Can't remember CD titles off hand, but those are my top 5