Top Albums of 2013!

[Mprinsje]

R. Kelly - Black Panties
Weekend Nachos - Still
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Nails - Abandon All Life
Da Mafia 6ix - 6ix Commandments
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
The Ocean - Pelagial
Boris - Präparat

 

[JeffFromMtl]

Updated list (keeping it to heavier stuff) :

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
Windhand - Soma
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Baptists - Bushcraft
Oathbreaker - Eros|Anteros
Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation
Primitive Man - Scorn
Ulcerate - Vermis
Gorguts - Colored Sands

 

[JosephAOI]

In no order:

This was a good year.

 

[Polythoral]

David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0
The Ocean - Pelagial
Protest The Hero - Volition
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, the Thief, and River’s End
Last Chance To Reason - Level 3
Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech
Mandroid Echostar - Citadels

Daughter - If You Leave
Volcano Choir - Repave
Frank Turner - Tapedeck Heart

 

[Kiwimetal101]

These aren't in any particular order but my top two would be:

Protest The Hero - Volition
I've never been a massive protest fan but decided to sink some cash into the IGG campaign and was glad I did, I've never sat through a whole protest album before but really enjoyed this one (Think it may be down to my musical taste changing, I need to sit down with the older albums sometime). Drum head trial is one of favorite new songs this year.

Scale The Summit - The Migration
Been a fan boy for a few years now, best album to date, Mark really nailed his base parts and brought something new to the bands sound, still waiting to see them live someday. Favorite song would be The Olive Tree or Oracle.

The rest are lumped together:
KSE - Disarm The Decent
CloudKicker - Subsume
Pomegranate Tiger - Entities
Heavy Metal Ninjas - Interstellar Abduction (New Zealand instrumental band, check em out!!)
Northlane - Singularity (This was still hit and miss to me, enjoyed a few songs but havent really had any of them stuck on repeat or anything)

Still need to listen to the new August Burns Red album to put it in above

 

[wankerness]

Adding two more I've heard in the last week that are more than honorable mention material!

David Maxim Micic - 3.0: More of this type of music needs to follow this example, really gorgeous harmonic stuff and any technicality seems to be in service of the song. "Where is Now" and "Smile" are some of the best prog metal I've heard. They're the first things I've heard that could stand alongside Devin Townsend's stuff like "Deadhead" or "Bastard." "Daydreamers" is also spectacular. I don't much like the other three tracks but three songs as good as the ones I mentioned are more than enough to make this the second best metal album of the year after Means End. I probably like these three tracks more than anything on that album, but that entire album is awesome while this is sorta inconsistent. The long instrumental one has got some really good sections in it too.

Goldfrapp - Tales of Us: This seems to be the Yang to Head First's Yin, it's all quite low-key and often very dark. There's no boingy happy stuff on it at all (even though Head First was almost entirely that, and was awesome) It's really great stuff.

 

[Nick4764]

In no real order
Ulcerate - Vermis
Defeated Sanity - Passages into Deformity
Gorguts - Coloured Sands
Wormed - Exodromos
Bolzer - Auras
Zealotry - The Charnel Expanse
Ævangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
Mitochondrion - Antinumerology
Fallujah - Nomadic
Antediluvian - Logos
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for The Multiverse
Lantern - Below

 

[WaffleTheEpic]

Not in any order

-Not an album, but Plini/Sithu Aye's split album, "I"
-Modern Day Babylon; "Travelers"
-Little Tybee; "For Distant Viewing"
-Nine Inch Nails; "Hesitation Marks"
-Plini; "Sweet Nothings"
-Plini; "Other Things"
-The Safety Fire; "Mouth Of Swords"

I'll add more as I remember them.

 

[SoItGoesRVA]

In no particular order-

Gorguts- Colored Sands
Carcass- Surgical Steel
August Burns Red- Rescue And Restore
Dillinger Escape Plan- One Of Us Is The Killer
Nails- Abandon All Life
All Pigs Must Die- Nothing Violates This Nature
After The Burial- Wolves Within
Conducting From The Grave- Self Titled
Death Ray Vision- We Ain't Leavin' Till You're Bleedin'
Occultist- Death Sigils
Revocation- Self Titled

And if EP's count:

Rotten Sound: Species at War
Enabler: Flies

 

[isispelican]

Deafheaven - Sunbather

 

[kamello]

After many listens I think I don't have any problem in saying that Bilo is becoming one, if not my favourite album ever
it has a few faults, like the inconsistency that wankerness mentioned (which is IMO more of David's attempt to show all his influences in 40 minutes)
but everything here is just top-top-top-notch, from production, to lyrics, to artwork, to the performance of the numerous artists that were featured and damn!, it just moves me to see and hear such a complete experience

sorry for the little thread hijack
a bit more on topic though. Gotta listen to DEP's album, I've only read postive things about it

 

[gunshow86de]

Agrimonia - Rites of Separation
All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates this Nature
Batillus - Concrete Sustain
Beyond Creation - The Aura (not sure if a re-release counts, but this is the first year I heard it )
East of the Wall - Redaction Artifacts
Gorguts - Coloured Sands
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
Lord Dying - Summon the Faithless
The Ocean - Pelagial
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Diamona Eaytoy
Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond the Sun
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed

Non-metal:
Avicii - True (I know him and EDM are trendy as all hell right now, but it's seriously a good album from front to back, "actual songs" in EDM are rare)
Da Mafia 6ix - 6ix Commandments (old school Three Six fan, awesome to hear the old crew and beats back together)

Go ahead and add Nero di Marte's self-titled to this list, because, HOLY SHIT, is it a good album.

 

[FarBeyondDriven16]

Disperse - Living Mirrors (Amazing guitar work, great production, interesting riffs/melodies)

David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3.0 (Very avante-garde, great guests featured, orchestral parts, excellent guitar work)

Andrew Bayer - If It Were You We'd Never Leave (best production work of 2013, ambience of the album gives me goosebumps, very genuine)

Misery Signals - Absent Light (Lyrics are great, songs have great orchestral parts, great riffs)

Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter (Very interesting blend of piano and glitch percussion, production here is great as well and songs are all simply beautiful)

 

[MikeyLHolm]

Gotta say that this was pretty garbage year of records ( Except re-issues on which this year really shone ). There was bunch of interesting releases but hardly any of them lived up to expectations. Tho i guess 1 superb record per year at modern age is all you can expect.

The top spot goes easily to Warlord - The Holy Empire

and perhaps other podium spots to:
HELL - Curse and Chapter
Ghost - Infestissumam

Letdowns of the year ( each and every of these aren't BAD but way too far from what they could have been ):

Queensryche
Fates Warning
W.E.T
Powerwolf
Saxon
Enforcer

Then there was bunch of decent ones including DGM, Royal HUnt, Ayreon etc but not reached top3.

 

[narad]

Having stepped through almost everything mentioned in this thread, most of it all new to me, I have to say that Bilo 3.0 really stands out. If that's the future of djent, I welcome it!

 

[vilk]

Any of you guys who have listed Ghost should check out Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats new album Mind Control, which after listening to a few times since yesterday I think is definitely one of the cooler albums from 2013.

 

[Svava]

Dream Theater - Self Titled
The 13 consecutive times I listened to the DT Album
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King

 

[Sofos]

Full write-up here.

10: The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
9: Leprous - Coal
8: Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
7: Children of Bodom - Halo of Blood
6: Clutch - Earth Rocker
5: Satyricon - Satyricon
4: Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
3: Watain - The Wild Hunt
2: Hate - Solarflesh
1: Hell - Curse and Chapter

EP of the Year: Nott - Obsidian Depths

Single of the Year: Behemoth - "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel"

 

[DVRP]

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[tm20]

i didn't buy or listen to many albums this year but here are the standout albums for me

After The Burial -Wolves Within
Modern Day Babylon -Travelers
Within The Ruins -Elite
Justin Timberlake -The 20/20 Expirience