Well, it's June. How about some Best of 2013 (So far) lists?

[Ralyks]

Standard procedure. We're halfway through the year. Name some albums you that have been dominating your eardrums over the past half year, and while we're at it, try to name one album you could see possibly being at the top of that list come December 31st. And maybe what you're anticipating in the 2nd half of 2013.

So without further ado....

Tesseract - Altered State
Leprous - Coal
Shining - One One One
Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones, Part 2
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
Voivod - Target Earth
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
Arsis - Unwelcome
Anciients - Heart of Oak
Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
Jolly - The Audio Guide to Happiness, Part 2
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing

Current Album of the Year: Tesseract - Altered State

Most anticipated albums: new records from Fates Warning and Toxik.
Edit: Crap, forgot Cynic is due this year too.

I will admit now, I've been lacking on the non-Metal genres (namely Jazz and Hip Hop) so hopefully some people have caught some records that have come in 2013 for me to check out. The quality and quantity of Metal has just been astounding so far this year, so I need to catch up outside of that.

 

[Metaguitarist]

+1 for Leprous - Coal.

 

[AdamMaz]

I haven't heard anything exceptional yet, but this would be my favorite so far.

Can't find the full version of 3 minutes.

 

[ZachK]

House of Gold and Bones Pt. 2 is the best release I've heard this year

 

[kung_fu]

Atoms for Peace - Amok
David Bowie - The Next Day

 

[DeadWeight]

Northlane's Singularity and Killswitch's Disarm the Descent are definitely up there for me. Altered State grows on me more and more every listen too...

 

[TIMEwaveXERO]

Pomegranate Tiger??

 

[vilk]

TesseracT -Altered State
Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
Wormed - Exodromos
Save Us From The Archon - Some Things We Carry, Always
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Anacondas - Sub Contra Blues

in that order

 

[bhakan]

So far...

Tesseract- Altered State
The Ocean- Pelagial
Leprous- Coal
Anciients- Heart of Oak
Steven Wilson- The Raven That Refused to Sing
Plini-Other Things

Looking Forward to Karnivool's new record and Cynic's new record.

 

[abandonist]

Deafheaven - Sunbather

Spektr - Cypher

Iron Lung - White Glove Test

Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob

 

[Joose]

Soilwork - The Living Infinite
Sevendust - Black Out The Sun
Tesseract - Altered State
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack (No, I haven't heard but 3 tracks, but it's out this month and it's a guaranteed win)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is The Killer

 

[Watty]

Tesseract - Altered State
Leprous - Coal
Shining - One One One
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing

I liked your list insofar as these are concerned....




But I find it to be lacking in the Pelagial department.

Edit: Plini. Didn't know he'd released his EP yet. Selenium Forest is.....damn.

 

[MythicSquirrel]

Whenever, If Ever - The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die
What You Don't See - The Story So Far
Pardon My French - Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!

 

[decypher]

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Ghost - Infestissumam

 

[Ralyks]

But I find it to be lacking in the Pelagial department.

Yeah, I've been wanting to give the new Ocean record a listen, but it isn't on Spotify and I just started working again recently. I have a few records I plan on purchasing when I get paid this week, and that one is near the top.

Also, the new Deafheaven record is pretty dope.

 

[elnyrb10]

TesseracT - Altered State
Means End - The Didact
Nails - Abandon All Life
Within the Ruins - Elite
Dillinger - One of us is the killer
BLACK TONGUE - FALSIFIER EP*

Honorable mention:
Anup Sastry - Ghost

 

[JosephAOI]

Comes out in 9 days but I know it'll be the best album (EP really) of 2013:

 

[simonXsludge]

Voices - From the Human Forest...
Svart Crown - Profane
Portal - Vexovoid

 

[nsimonsen]

Coheed and Cambria - Decension
Northlane - Singularity
Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

Eagerly awaiting:

Misery Signals - Absent Light
Defeater - Letters Home

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

Coheed and Cambria and Intronaut take the cake for me.