Top Albums of 2013!

[Leuka]

Run the Jewels - s/t
Dillinger Escape Plan - One of us is the killer
Danny Brown - Old
And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
Äänipää - Through a Pre-Memory
Protest the Hero - Volition
Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils
clipping. - midcity
Deafheaven - Sunbather

Then a bunch of finnish hip hop and such records. Suicidal Tendencies' 13 was a fun album too.

There's so much awesome stuff that came out this year, can't even remember everything and haven't listened to all that I wan't to check out, but I guess I have listened to Run the Jewels the most so maybe that's my number one?

 

[toothbrush]

Karnivool's "Asymmetry" would have to be #1 for me.

I'd honestly put The Gabriel Construct's "Interior City" at #2. That is without a doubt one of the most unique discs that I've listened to in a long time. Really well done music. Evan Brewer's "Your Itinerary" would be in there somewhere. I do enjoy Dream Theater's self-titled...it's their best effort since Six Degrees, in my opinion.

 

[oompa]

you're not missing much with that new ephel duath imo. PP is definitely their creative peak.

That was one hell of an album.

I kinda realised that this year has been horrible for my taste. Then I realised that there were plenty of suggestions in this thread I'll have to check out eventually. I have been so busy the past 6 months I haven't even noticed that bands I dig have released albums That's a first for me

So far Exivious and Gorguts are the ones that spring to mind. I need to listen more to Ephel Duath, I adored them back around PP, I owe them to spend more time with their newest before I draw any conclusions.

Polkadot Cadaver's was ok as well, they're not the best band I know but they're ok in their own way.

Some decent electronic chill music has been released this year too, but as far as guitar-based music goes, it hasn't been a particularly good year (for me, to my taste). Gonna check out some more of the suggestions in this thread though!

 

[Ralyks]

I've had to put so much thought into this, and its So. Damn. Hard.

All I know is, my number one goes to Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light.

 

[Decapitated666]

Top 15 Albums of 2013

15. Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
14. Kayo Dot - Hubardo
13. Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni
12. Oathbreaker - Eros|Anteros
11. Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty
10. Carcass - Surgical Steel
9. The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults
8. Ulcerate - Vermis
7. Gorguts - Colored Sands
6. Wormed - Exodromos
5. Ulver - Messe I.X.-VI.X
4. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
3. Nails - Abandon All Life
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is The Killer
1. Deafheaven - Sunbather

Top 15 EPs/Splits of 2013

15. Cowards - Hoarder
14. Power - Nekrogoblikon
13. Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils
12. Underling - Breathe Deeply
11. Hate Forest/Ildjarn - Those Once Mighty Fallen
10. King Dude - Holy Trinity
9. Planning For Burial/Lonesummer - Split II
8. Fallujah - Nomadic
7. ██████ - Demo
6. Wreck & Reference - No Content
5. Pig Destroyer - Mass & Volume
4. Panopticon/Vestiges - Split
3. Loss of Self - Twelve Minutes
2. The Zenith Passage - Cosmic Dissonance
1. Sectioned - Outlier

Honorable Mentions:

Cage Grind Noir - Pilots
Gris - À l'Âme Enflammée, l'Äme Constellée…
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Vaura - The Missing
Locrian - Return To Annihilation
Portal - Vexovoid
Witherscape - The Inheritance
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
Celeste - Animale(s)
Guttural Secrete - Nourishing The Spoil
Hybrid - Angst
Melt Banana - Fetch
Touché Amoré - Is Survived By
Russian Circles - Memorial
Protest The Hero - Volition
The Ocean - Pelagial

 

[wankerness]

7. ██████ - Demo

???

 

[infreaks]

listening all albums listed here...
my favourite :
1. Feared - Vinter
2. Dream Theater - Self Titled
3. KSE - Disarm the descent

 

[gunch]

TTNG - 13.0.0.0
Defeated Sanity - Passages into Deformity
Wormed - Exodromos
Gorguts - Coloured Sands
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond the Sun
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Ulcerate – Vermis
Protest the Hero – Volition
Exivious – Liminal
Misery Signals - Absent Light
Fallujah - Nomadic
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

 

[Decapitated666]

@wankerness - The name of the band is actually "██████". They just don't have a name. They go by "Black Strip" or "Nic" though. "Nic" is supposed to mean "Nothing" in I think Russian. Not sure though. But their demo was freaking great.

 

[StevenC]

I'd also like to add The Mountain by Haken to my list and preemptively Because the Internet by Childish Gambino sounds great from what I've heard so far. I can't listen to the iTunes prerelease.

 

[gorthul]

???

Here's their Bandcamp page:
██████

My list:

1. Shaded Enmity - Forsaken And Forgotten
2. Deafheaven - Sunbather
3. Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond The Sun
4. The Ocean - Pelagial
5. Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory And Injury
6. White Moth Black Butterfly - One Thousand Wings
7. TesseracT - Altered State
8. Gorguts - Colored Sands
9. Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
10. Nails - Abandon All Life
11. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
12. Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell And Home
13. Dark Tranquillity - Construct
14. Norma Jean - Wrongdoers
15. Light Bearer - Silver Tongue

EPs:
1. Fallujah - Nomadic
2. Vildhjarta - Thousands Of Evils
3. Plini - Sweet Nothings

I have to say that 2013 offered lots of high quality releases, yet the only albums that were really outstanding to me are number 1 and 2. The others are really good, but they don't impress me that much.

 

[guitareben]

Savant - Cult
Queens Of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
The Ocean Collective - Pelagial

I literally haven't listened to any other new albums this year (I've been exploring the past ! All genres!!!)

Also, as a huge Savant fanboy I feel obliged to say that his next album, Orakel (out next wednesday) will top this list for me. I just know it.

 

[kamello]

for me...

David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0
TesseracT - Altered State
Protest The Hero - Volition

still gotta listen to a bunh of stuff with more attention though

STS - The Migration
This Town Needs Guns - 13.0.0.0.0
Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing
Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
The Ocean - Pelagial
Coheed And Cambria - Ascension & Descension
Dance Gavin Dance - Aceptance Speech
Steve Vai - The Story Of Light

add
Stolas - Living Creatures
Disperse - Living Mirrors

in there too

 

[vilk]

dude ██████ is awesome. Exactly what I wanted to listen to thanks for you guys who brought them up.

 

[Nlelith]

I didn't listen much of 2013 albums yet actually, so I barely scraped this top20.
From "awesome" albums to "just good"
1. The Limousines - Hush
2. Born of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die ∆live
3. Dreamshade - The Gift of Life
4. The Bunny The Bear - Stories
5. Placebo - Loud Like Love
6. Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
7. Love And Death - Between Here & Lost
8. ForTiorI - Chronicles
9. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Pardon My French
10. A Silent Escape - Black Heart
From "ok" albums to "almost complete disappointment"
11. Vampires On Tomato Juice - Fairytales
12. Dead Silence Hides My Cries - The Symphony Of Hope
13. Feed Her To The Sharks - Savage Seas
14. Within the Ruins - Elite
15. Mindless Self Indulgence - How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence
16. The Color Morale - Know Hope
17. Serj Tankian - Jazz-Iz-Christ
18. Dream On, Dreamer - Loveless
19. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
20. TesseracT - Altered State

 

[Decapitated666]

Glad you're digging them man! Sick black metal band, for sure.

 

[Alpenglow]

Protest the Hero - Volition
The Safety Fire - Mouth of Swords
Erra - Augment
Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech
A Lot Like Birds - No Place
Stolas - Living Creatures
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils
This Town Needs Guns - 13.0.0.0.0
Coheed and Cambria - Descension
Scale the Summit - The Migration
Tesseract - Altered State
Cloudkicker - Subsume
Reign of Kindo - Play With Fire

It's really hard for me to choose. Tons of great music came out this year and I probably still forgot some!

 

[Leveebreaks]

deftones - Koi No Yokan
Carcass - Surgical Steel
The Hell - You're Listening To The Hell

Only 3 albums I have bought this year :S

 

[Doug N]

deftones - Koi No Yokan

Koi No Yokan was 2012

 

[Leveebreaks]

Koi No Yokan was 2012

Shows how much I have been paying attention \m/