Obligatory album of the year thread

[lanky noob]

We're at the arse end of 2013... so what have your favourite albums this year been?

in no particular order, mine would have to be

1. Feared- Furor Incarnatus
2. Feared- Vinter
3. Alice In Chains- The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here


Honestly aside fomr those I haven't heard much this year that's blown me away

Although the possibility of new machine head, periphery and slipknot next year makes me happy happy happy

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

My favorite:

Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

Honorable Mentions:

Anciients - Heart of Oak
Ghost - Infestissumam
Mord'A'Stigmata - Ansia
Psychonaut - Shock em Dead!

 

[B36arin]

Extol, hands down.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Hatriot - Heroes of Origin
Soilwork - The Living Infinite
Darkane - The Sinister Supremacy
Leprous - Coal

 

[Terminus]

Carcass, Soilwork and Ghost for me.

 

[tempe]

Stray From The Path and Soilwork for me.

 

[ATLA]

extol-extol
Leprous-coal

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

Have to say, I just listened to Vinter and it completely blew me away. I always liked Feared, but there's something gleefully brutal about it that really caught me offguard. I haven't heard a metal album that made me go "WHOA. SHIT." in a long time, and it definitely did it for me.

Only other thing I've really enjoyed this year was One of Us is the Killer by Dillinger, and Habitual Levitations by Intronaut, which I thought was excellent but went a little too far into noodly territory at times. Most of the bands I really love either broke up recently or are in-between albums and member lineup changes (see: Isis; Opeth; Acacia Strain).

 

[Mago]

Amon Amarth-Deceiver of the Gods
Mercenary-Through our Darkest Days
Trivium-Vengeance Falls

 

[Mago]

My favorite:

Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

that was 2012.
Killer killer album.

 

[JeffTD]

The Story So Far - What You Don't See
The 1975 - The 1975
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Daughter - If You Leave
BMTH - Sempiternal
Fit For An Autopsy - Hellbound
letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
Misery Signals - Absent Light

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

that was 2012.
Killer killer album.

Oops. Time flies

Gonna have to say my favorite of this year then is Anciients - Heart of Oak

 

[Nuno Filipe]

BMTH - Sempiternal
Haken - The Mountain
Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light
Stormlord - Hesperia

 

[smy1]

Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent ... it's the only metal album I bought this year.

 

[Pman]

SUPER COLLIDER

...just kidding


Xanthochroid - Blessed He With Boils
Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
Thrawsunblat - Wanderer On The Continent Of Saplings
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Rivers Of Nihil - Concious Seed Of Light
Exist - Sunlight
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

Fit For An Autopsy - Hellbound

I kind of like this band, but they also make me frustrated because they remind me of the fact that Premonitions of War will never make another album.

 

[colonel_claypoo]

Definately James LaBrie's Impermanent Resonance and Extol - Extol which have become my benchmarks especially for the low-end.
Jens Bogren is the man!
KSE's Disarm the Decent comes in on third place.

Non-Metal: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

 

[AboutBlank]

Northlane - Singularity
Impending Doom - Death will reign
Balance and Compusure - The things we think we're missing

 

[Melb_shredder]

Amon Amarth-Deceiver of the Gods
Mercenary-Through our Darkest Days
Trivium-Vengeance Falls

Through our darkest days!!!! So good. In my top 3 for sure.

1. Carcass - surgical steel
2. Mercenary - through our darkest days
3. Naberus - reveries/ Harlott - origin

 

[Line666]

Arcane Roots - Blood and Chemistry
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
Letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - The Heist
Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

and not quite but still awesome - Stone Sour and Lorde.