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