Your favorite albums of 2013

[matt schrauben]

Oh yeah, I've noticed that too. They rated just about every Dio album horribly when they came out.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

AEvangelist – Omen Ex Simulacra
Aosoth – IV: An Arrow In Heart
Woe – Withdrawal
Mourning Beloveth - Formless
Anciients - Heart of Oak
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Nails - Abandon All Life
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Baptists - Bushcraft
Malthusian - MMXIII
Condor - s/t
The Body - Christ, Redeemers...
Seven Sisters of Sleep - Opium Morals
Altars – Paramnesia
Portal - Vexovoid
Deafheaven - Sunbather

Non-metal
Lakes - Blood on the Grove

 

[Krow]

Thought you didn't like that anciients album, derp. I thought I liked it but haven't wanted to listen to it for months.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

I actually saw them live and it clicked for me. Been really into it for a month or so now. Glad I gave it a second chance.

 

[thegreatdane]

Not finished sorting out the albums yet, but these are the best of the year:

8 Foot Sativa - The Shadow Master
Ad Intra - Inside Us All
Aether Realm - One Chosen By The Gods
Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods
Asgard - Outworld
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
Avulsed - Ritual Zombi
Beneath The Storm - Temples Of Doom
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Borrowed Time - Borrowed Time
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Chthonic - Bu-Tik
Cromlech – Ave Mortis
Doomriders - Grand Blood
Dreariness - My Mind Is Too Weak To Forget
Egypt - Become The Sun
Enforcer - Death By Fire
Fading Bliss - From Illusion To Despair
Falkenbach - Asa
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth
Gyze - Fascinating Violence
Hatriot - Heroes Of Origin
Illnath - 4 Shades Of Me
Impalers - Power Behind The Throne
Iron Heel - Book Of Grief
Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
Joel Grind - The Yellowgoat Sessions
Jungle Rot - Terror Regime
Light Bearer - Silver Tongue
Lustre - Wonder
Mental Torment - On The Verge
Monarque - Lys Noir
Monolithe - Monolithe IV
Morrigan - Diananns Whisper
Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus - Synkkä Tuuli
No Regrets - Where The Sky And Sea Collides
Officium Triste - Mors Viri
Paganland - Wind Of Freedom
Sacred Gate - Tides Of War
Slaughtbbath - Hail To Fire
Sonic Reign - Monument In Black
Sorcery - Arrival At Six
Stomach Earth - Stomach Earth
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Syn: drom - Iconoclasm
Talbot - Scaled
Tengger Cavalry - Black Steed
Tentacle - Ingot Eye
The Fall Of Every Season - Amends
The Fateful Hour - An Everlasting Silence
The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults-The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer
Thrawsunblat - Wanderer Of The Continent Of Saplings
Thy Light - No Morrow Shall Dawn
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain
Vreid - Welcome Farewell
When Nothing Remains - Thy Dark Serenity
Wine From Tears - Glad To Be Dead

 

[CrueFan]

None liked - The Savage Playground - from Crashdiet?

 

[TYR66]

Avatarium - Avatarium
Motörhead - Aftershock
Black Sabbath - 13
Mutiny Within - Synchronicity
Anathema - Universal
Volbeat - Outlaw gentlemen and shady ladies
Tesseract - Altered State
Tarja - Colours in the Dark
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth

 

[The_Fatalist]

Dark Tranquilliuty - Construct
Witherscape - The Inheritance
Vali - Skogslandskap
Winterborn - Wolfheart
Nachtreich - Trugbilder
October Falls - Plague of a Coming Age

 

[AlienZombie]

In no particular order:
Tyr - Valkyrja
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony
Chthonic - Bu Tik
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Finntroll - Blodsvept
Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Defeated Sanity - Passages into Deformity
Hail of Bullets - III: the Rommel Chronicles
Equilibrium - Waldschrein
Endstille - Kapitulation 2013