FavoUrite albums of 2013

[Agalloch]

Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Inquisition - Obscure Verses
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Vhol - Vhol
Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods
Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults
A Storm of Light - Nations To Flames

 

[Reign in Acai]

Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods

Only 2013 albums I've spun atleast 10 times.

 

[dorian gray]

Germans are efficient about death. When they exact it, they make sure it's as fatal as possible.

I lol'd

 

[dorian gray]

The Aristocrats - Culture Clash

There is probably some good metal out there but I don't listen to metal anymore. It scares me.
I did buy Beyond Creation's - The Aura though. It's pretty good

 

[refraction]

AOTY (probably)

 

[Krilons Resa]

^ Hey, that sounds pretty damn rad.

 

[General Zod]

Here is a comprehensive list according to user ratings: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/best/albums/2013/metal

I'm typically a big fan of Sputnikmusic reviews.

I am as well. However, as I was perusing this list, I see that Deafheaven's Sunbather got 1,856 votes. That's more than any other band. That seems odd.

 

[Krilons Resa]

That album has been all the rave this year in every publication known to man. Personally, I don't see it.

 

[End of Glory]

Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness

Are probably my favorites but there was some more great albums.

 

[Agalloch]

Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle

This album is good approximately 0.5 times.

 

[NAD]

Deafheaven are fucking atrocious. I'm sure I'm not alone in this opinion round here. Happy black metal? Get fucked.

Not that I heard the entire album, but I'm more likely to make it through a song from Lulu before that tripe. Gross.

 

[Ellestin]

This album is good approximately 0.5 times.

true

Well, it was all right

then Old Mornings Dawn came and killed it forever

 

[General Zod]

It's really not a matter of good or bad, just the number of people who weighed in on it and rated it. Despite how many publications they may have been in, I would not have heard of them had they not opened for Alcest. And when I saw them, it was Alcest, Deafheaven and Vaura... in front of 300 people... on a Saturday night... in Brooklyn. How popular could they possibly be if them and two other solid artists, can only draw 300 people to a club in Brooklyn (the capital of Hipstervile) on a Saturday night? Soilwork, by themselves, drew 1,300 people on a Tuesday. Yet more people weighed in on Deafheaven than Soilwork? Odd.

 

[NAD]

Hipsters only go to concerts of bands they don't like.

 

[einride]

if they're not livevlogged on tumblr and released on limited edition splatter flexidisc, frankly i dont care much about these so called "concerts" good sir *adjusts glasses, tips fedora*

 

[NAD]

Ulver - Messe I.X - V.X
October Falls - The Plague of a Coming Age
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

Those are the 3 albums that blew me away in 2013. Granted, they might be the only 2013 albums I even heard, but all rule quite mightily indeed.

Probably the best Ulver release in a decade. That makes me .

 

[Ellestin]

Probably the best Ulver release in a decade. That makes me .

Shadow of the Sun was a-ight. Otherwise I never cared much for anything after William Peel's the marriage of petroleum and ale. Gotta pick that new one.

 

[NAD]

I haven't been highly impressed by them since A Quick Fix of Melancholy, but Messe is back to them being Ulver. Listen to it* loud!

*everything

 

[Kerlif]

http://ellende.bandcamp.com/album/ellende

 

[Krilons Resa]

I haven't been highly impressed by them since A Quick Fix of Melancholy, but Messe is back to them being Ulver. Listen to it* loud!

*everything

I enjoyed Shadows of The Sun but, yes, the new Ulver is great.