Top Albums of 2013!

[Cnev]

Death Grips- Government Plates
Dance With the Dead- Out of Body
The Haxan Cloak- Excavation
Dawn of Midi- Dysomnia
Exivious- Liminal
Tim Hecker- Virgins
Sigur Ros- Kviekur
Hammock- Oblivion Hymns
William Basinski- Nocturnes
Tigran Hamasyan- Shadow Theatre
The Reign of Kindo- Play With Fire

 

[Fiction]

Protest The Hero - Volition
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Failed by Man & Machine
The Ocean - Pelagial
Last Chance to Reason - Level 3
Exivious - Liminal
Evan Brewer - Your Itinerary
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

 

[BlackMastodon]

1. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
2. The Ocean - Pelagial
3. Russian Circles - Memorial
4. Black Crown Initiate - Song of the Crippled Bull
5. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Haven't stopped listening to ...Like Clockwork since I got it. At least once a week for the past few months. I gotta actually buy the new Cloudkicker one and give it more of a chance; the music sounded great but the strong structures and titles kind of annoyed me. /nitpicking

6. Intronaut - Habitual Levitations: Instilling Words with Tones
7. Fallujah - Nomadic
8. Cloudkicker - Subsume

 

[Deathspell Omega]

Lucas Mann (solo album).....just kidding,

now seriously :

Immolation - Kingdom of conspiracy
Portal - Vexovoid
Wormed - Exodromos
Autechre - L-event

 

[loqtrall]

(In no particular order)

Tesseract - Altered State
Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Descension
Clutch - Earth Rocker
After The Burial - Wolves Within
Protest The Hero - Volition
The Safety Fire - Mouth Of Swords
Plini - Sweet Nothings / Other Things
Fallujah - Nomadic
Persefone - Spiritual Meditation
Erra - Augment
Chon - Newborn Sun
Scale The Summit - The Migration
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
Russian Circles - Memorial
The Ocean - Pelagial
Haken - The Mountain
Reflections - Exi(s)t
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
Leprous - Coal
Within The Ruins - Elite

 

[kevdes93]

EDIT: double post

 

[kevdes93]

in no particular order

cloudkicker - subsume
scale the summit - the migration
chelsea wolfe - pain is beauty
counterparts - the difference between hell and home
the world is a beautiful place... - whenever, if ever
have mercy - the earth pushed back
defeater - letters home
deafheaven - sunbather
the wonder years - the greatest generation
church of misery - thy kingdom scum
palms - self titled
norma jean - wrongdoers

disappointments of 2013

after the burial - wolves within
within the ruins - invade part 2, err i mean elite

 

[AdamMaz]

Daniel Avery - Drone Logic

Deep/Tech House

 

[Polythoral]

I would like to add the new Being album to my list. Fantastic album.

 

[TauSigmaNova]

Greatest Dissapointment [Which is also my Greatest UN-Dissapointment]
Queensryche- Queensryche. An AMAZING return to form by my favorite band and it's my favorite album by them since Empire but I don't find it having any replay value. While after it came out I was excited and spun it endlessly but now I feel nothing from it. It's a great album, but it's not amazing and it still lacks that Queensryche-feel and it could be better. I find myself not coming back to it and skipping most of the songs aside from Spore/Fallout when they come out. Still one of my favorites and was super glad this album came out and most of all, I hope it leads to greater things.

Honorable Mentions: Random Access Memories, Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies, Dream Theater, Lightning Bolt

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

^^^ All those albums are/were disappointments. (Hello mainstream trash and bullshit.)

#norespect

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

So, can we start talking a bit about that Sir Christopher Lee album that came out this year?

 

[TauSigmaNova]

^^^ All those albums are/were disappointments. (Hello mainstream trash and bullshit.)

#norespect

I disagree. Fortress is an amazing album and at this point ranks on top of their catalog and exceeded my expectations. Hail to the King is an album that I know most people dislike but I personally love aside from the blatant Sad But True rip off. As a big Queensryche fan, the new album was by far the best since their 90's works although admittedly it was slightly dissapointing. The Newsted record was fairly good too although a bit boring at times and the Halestorm album was decent but there's not much else that came out this year that I'd rather put on the list.

 

[aeonrevolution]

I'm basing my best of the year entirely off my Last.FM most played. I had to adjust and skip stuff to keep within albums of 2013 though...

Arctic Monkeys new one
New QOTSA
New NIN - which....I don't think was entirely that remarkable, but I did play it a lot
New Red Fang
Kvelertak
The Safety Fire
The Lion's Daugher and Indian Blanket split. These guys are local, but if anyone reads this give it a listen. Pretty good feeling they're about to get signed to Southern Lord from the rumor mill.

 

[Alphanumeric]

Polyphia - Inspire EP
Elitist - Between The Balance EP
ERRA - Augment

Eric Johnson - Up Close: Another Look

 

[Richie666]

1. Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing: brilliant prog, vintage yet mordern, amazing musicianship throughout. Saw these guys live and was amazed. Maybe the best thing Steven Wilson has done.

2. Haken - The Mountain: somehow original while being a bit derivative. Regardless the execution is excellent. Near perfect prog metal songwriting.

Can't really number after those two. So...

Bonobo - The North Borders: very downtempo, nothing sticks out but a pleasant listen. Disappointing after Black Sands

Deafheaven - Sunbather: post-rock in black metal aesthetic. Some great songs but the novelty wore off pretty quickly

Revocation - Revocation: great thrash album but didn't strike me as anything brilliant

 

[Dethyr]

I listened to somewhere around 400 albums and demos in 2013, my top ten list was HARD to narrow down... here it is.

1. Russkaja - Energia
2. HateSphere - Murderlust
3. Carcass - Surgical steel
4. Konkeror - The abysmal horizons
5. HAVOK - Unnatural selection
6. Revocation - Revocation
7. TRAUMA - Karma obscura
8. FETO IN FETUS - Condemned to the torture
9. MURDER MADE GOD - Irreverence
10. Iron Reagan - Worse than dead

 

[ducer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Us_Is_the_Killer

 

[shpence]

The Safety Fire - Mouth of Swords
DEP - One of Us Is The Killer
Glass Cloud - Perfect War Forever
Trifonic - Ninth Wave

 

[wankerness]

Only sort of a 2013 album, but this remix/remaster of Katatonia's Viva Emptiness with keyboards added sounds great!