Top Albums of 2013!

[MFB]

John Mayer - Paradise Valley
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Protest the Hero - Volition

...I think those are all the ones I picked up this year, I've been slow with new music

 

[ghost2II2]

Steve Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
NIN - Hesitation Marks
Sigur Ros - Kveikur

 

[SeaBeast]

1. Volition
2. Mouth of Swords
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Everything else.

 

[BrailleDecibel]

In no particular order, just kinda thinking of these off the top of my head:

Chimaira - "Crown of Phantoms"
SOiL - "Whole"
Killswitch Engage - "Disarm the Descent"
KoRn - "The Paradigm Shift"

...and that's about all I can think of at the moment, I'll have to come back later and do some editing if I think of more.

 

[AmanitaMI]

Cloudkicker - Subsume

 

[Randyrhoads123]

1. Soilwork - The Living Infinite
2. The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
3. Tesseract - Altered State
4. Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
5. The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
edit: 6. Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, forgot about this one!
7. Alter Bridge - Fortress
8. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer

 

[TasmanSam]

My top 10 albums for 2013:
10. Misery Signals - Absent Light
9. Dream Theater - Self Titled
8. Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
7. Karnivool - Asymmetry
6. James Labrie - Impermanent Resonance
5. Tesseract - Altered State
4. Coheed and Cambira - The Afterman Descension
3. Funeral for a Friend - Conduit
2. Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
1. Erra - Augment

Hon. mentions to Protest the Hero, The Safety Fire and Cloudkicker

My top 3 EP's for 2013:
3. Sentinel - The History Weave
2. Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils
1. Black Crown Initiate - Song of the Crippled Bull

Biggest disappointment for 2013:
Born of Osiris - Tomorrow we Die Alive

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

The Ocean- Pelagial
The Black Dahlia Murder- Into The Everblack
Intronaut- Habitual Levitations
Nails-Abandon All Life
Tesseract- Altered State
Cloudkicker- Subsume
Ulcerate-Vermis

 

[davemeistro]

No mention of Exivious? For shame.

 

[wankerness]

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.

 

[blaaargh]

Hmmmmmm
as far as heavy goes, I really dug Nails and Wormed's albums at the beginning of the year, didn't really pay attention to much else though. New Ataraxie and Weekend Nachos were pretty sweet but I still haven't dug into them as much as I'd like to. Same goes with Death Grips and Run the Jewels in hip hop. Other than that, Touche Amore and Daft Punk were pretty solid, and if anything else came out this year that I liked I can't think of it right now. Still need to check out Low's newest album.

 

[Randyrhoads123]

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.

Checked out those two, and they sound super cool! Had never heard of them before!

 

[beneharris]

By far my favorite was "The Theory of Everything" "Raven that Refused to Sing" was a close second.

 

[JD27]

So many that I enjoyed this year.

Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Ghost - Infestissumam
Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
Arsis - Unwelcome
Agrimonia - Rights of Separation
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
Byzantine- Byzantine
Czar - No One Is Alone If No One Is Alive
Katatonia - Dethroned and Uncrowned
Queens of the Stoneage - Like Clockwork
Revocation - Revocation
Rivers of Nihil - The Conscious Seed of Light
Rising - Abominor
Russian Circle - Memorial

Plus others I am forgetting.

EDIT - A late entry for me, "Beastmilk - Climax" . Like The Doors and Killing Joke had a baby.

 

[fwd0120]

Simon Phillips Protocol II!!!!!
Also the American release of Julian Lennon's "Everything Changes" and the Ringo Starr Live at the Ryman Theater!

 

[AugmentedFourth]

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

 

[MatthewK]

I'm terrible at keeping up with new music. I like the latest Leprous album, but only 2 or 3 tracks stood out to me. The Haken album is really good and only seems to get better each time I hear it. I need to check out the Dillinger album, I've only heard the single. I stopped keeping up with them after Ire Works. The new Ghost was OK, but their schtick is getting old. I really like Nanda Collection by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, it's really fun and catchy. I dug Kelli Ali's last album as well, but I just dig what she does in general.

So, something like this...

1. Haken - The Mountain
2. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Nanda Collection
3. Guy that made The Last of Us soundtrack - The Last of Us Soundtrack

Nothing has really wowed me so far from this year, but I'm sure there is something lurking out there.

 

[Metal_Webb]

Love this time of year. A chance to listen to the excellent tunes that have come out and realised what you've missed.

Here's my list:

1 Coal - Leprous
2 Through our Darkest Days - Mercenary
3 Circle - Amorphis
4 Bilo 3.0 - David Maxim Micic
5 Cellar Darling - Anna Murphy
6 War of Ages - Serenity
7 Construct - Dark Tranquillity
8 Death, My Love - Nemertines
9 Altered State - TesseracT
10 Sempiternal - Bring Me the Horizon
11 Infetissumam - Ghost
12 Feel the Waves - Ramage Inc.
13 Impermanent Resonance - James LaBrie
14 Mechta O Mechte - Nemertines
15 Antiadore - Lacrimas Profundere
16 Scryers of the Ibis - Ovid's Withering
17 Bu-Tik - ChthoniC
18 The Mountain - Haken
19 Beyond - Omnium Gatherum
20 The Gift of Life - Dreamshade

aaaaaand

Best EP: Thousands of Evils - Vildhjarta

 

[Chuck]

For a very impromptu list off the top of my head:

Erra - Augment
August Burns Red - Rescue and Restore
Means End - The Didact
Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing
EL-P and Killer Mike - Run the Jewels
Fallujah - Nomadic
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
Misery Signals - Absent Light
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
Gorguts - Colored Sands

In no particular order. I also haven't heard everything I have wanted to yet.

 

[StevenC]

Scale the Summit - The Migration
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

And an EP, but an honourable mention to
Rook - Unfinity