Top 20 Albums of 2013

Honorable Mentions:

KEN Mode - Entrench (Kill Everyone Now indeed)
Persekutor - Power Frost/The Twitching Hour (Only 2 songs but rules. Hard)

20.  Fister - Violence (This band wouldn't hesitate kicking your ass and stealing your girlfriend)

19.  Gorguts - Colored Sands (Crushing. Well worth the wait)

18.  Obliteration - Black Death Horizon (Norwegian Death! One of the best 'fast' albums I've heard           this year. Side B > Side A)

17.  Deafheaven - Sunbather (I'm a fan of bands taking something out of the norm. These guys have          caused quite an uproar)

16.  Phil Anselmo & The Illegals - Walk Through Exits Only (Why wouldn't he make my year end            list?)

15.  ASG - Blood Drive (Feel good hits of the summer)

14.  Man's Gin - Rebellion Hymns (Erik Wunder is a genius)

13. Inter Arma - Sky Burial (Derek said it best "black metal with Pink Floyd interludes" or something       like that)

12.  Trees - Sickness In (Aural equivalent to a tree growing, in the best way of course. A nasty, awful        tree that probably hates you)

11.  Lycus - The Tempest (And you thought their demo was good...)

10.  Lumbar - First And Last Days Of Unwelcome (Well worth the hype and then some)

  9.  The Body - Christs, Redeemers/Master, We Perish (Sick & disgusting)

  8.  Ash Borer - Bloodlands (Sit back and ponder some shit)

  7.  Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni (Now ponder the shit that you just pondered)

  6.  Tomahawk - Oddfellows (Better than most Faith No More albums)

  5.  Locrian - Return To Annihilation (Synthed out drone/doom/weirdness at its finest)

  4.  Merkstave - s/t (Best new band I've never heard of before. Blown away)

  3.  SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods (Elegant & crushing)

 2.  Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (A Josh Homme classic album. Some of the best           songs he's written)

  1.  True Widow - Circumambulation (I'll be listening to this band when I get old. Like, real old)

9/2 - 9/8

A.M.S.G. - Anti-Cosmic Tyranny
Ash Borer - Bloodlands
The Body - Master, We Perish
Clutch - s/t
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain
Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Lychgate - s/t
Orchid -  Capricorn
Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Vattnet Viskar - Sky Swallower
Wolves In The Throne Room - Live At Roadburn

12/10 - 12/16

haarp - Husks
Inverloch - Dusk/Subside
Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
Om - Advaitic Songs
Serpentine Path - s/t
Weekend Nachos/Lack Of Interest

12/3 - 12/9

Baroness - The Red Album
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Fo(u)r Burials - Otesanek, Loss, Orthodox, Mournful Congregation
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
Murmuüre - s/t
No Age - Nouns
NoFX - S&M Airlines
Stoneburner - Sickness Will Pass
Uncle Acid and the deadbeats - Blood Lust
Yoga - Megafauna

11/26 - 12/2

Baroness - Yellow & Green
Bongripper - The Great Barrier Reefer
Evoken - Atra Mors
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Alleluja! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Morgion - Among Majestic Ruin
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Samothrace - Life's Trade
Samothrace - Reverence To Stone

11/19 - 11/25

Bell Witch - Longing
Disrupt - Discography
Down - IV: The Purple EP
Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker
Earth - Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
Flourishing - Intersubjectivity
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Alleluja! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Samothrace - Reverence To Stone
Swans - The Seer
Unsane - Wreck
Whores - Ruiner
Wizard Rifle - Kitties and Pie!!!!!
Wizard Smoke - The Tickler

11/12 - 11/18

Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages 
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Clutch - Jam Room
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Alleluja! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Horseback - Half Blood
Knelt Rote - Trespass
Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore
Nirvana - Bleach
Orthodox - Amanecer en Puerta Oscura
Queens Of The Stone Age - s/t
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Tangorodrim - Justus Ex Fide Vivit