My favourite albums from 2013

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Life Sentence

Satan
1. Time to Die
2. Twenty Twenty Five
3. Cenotaph ●
4. Siege Mentality
5. Incantations
6. Testimony
7. Tears of Blood
8. Life Sentence
9. Personal Demons
10. Another Universe
- Heavy metal
- Speed metal
49

Savages

Soulfly
1. Bloodshed
2. Cannibal Holocaust
3. Fallen
4. Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla ●
5. Master of Savagery
6. Spiral
7. This Is Violence
8. K.C.S.
9. El Comegente
10. Soulfliktion
- Thrash metal
- Groove metal
48

Sister

In Solitude
1. He Comes ●
2. Death Knows Where
3. A Buried Son
4. Pallid Hands
5. Lavender
6. Sister
7. Horses in the Ground
8. Inmost nigredo
- Gothic rock
- Heavy metal
47

Hubardo

Kayo Dot
1. The Black Stone
2. Crown-in-the-Muck ●
3. Thief
4. Vision Adjustment to Another Wavelength
5. Zlida Caosgi (To Water the Earth)
6. The First Matter (Saturn in the Guise of Sadness)
7. The Second Operation (Lunar Water)
8. Floodgate
9. And He Built Him a Boat
10. Passing the River
11. The Wait of the World
- Avant-garde metal
- Post-metal
46

Lightning Bolt

Pearl Jam
1. Getaway
2. Mind Your Manners ●
3. My Father's Son
4. Sirens
5. Lightning Bolt
6. Infallible
7. Pendulum
8. Swallowed Whole
9. Let the Records Play
10. Sleeping by Myself
11. Yellow Moon
12. Future Days
- Alternative rock
45

Rumours of a Presence

Spirits of the Dead
1. Wheels of the World
2. Song of Many Reefs ●
3. Golden Sun
4. Dance of the Dead
5. Rumours of a New Presence
6. Red Death.
7. Seaweed
8. Oceanus
- Psychedelic rock
- Stoner rock
44

Horns and Halos

Michael Monroe
1. TNT Diet
2. Ballad of the Lower East Side ●
3. Eighteen Angels
4. Saturday Night Special
5. Stained Glass Heart
6. Horns and Halos
7. Child of the Revolution
8. Soul Surrender
9. Half the Way
10. Ritual
11. Hands Are Tied
- Hard rock
- Glam punk
43

Meir

Kevelertak
1. Åpenbaring
2. Spring fra livet
3. Trepan ●
4. Bruane brenn
5. Evig vandrar
6. Snilepisk
7. Månelyst
8. Nekrokosmos
9. Undertro
10. Tordenbrak
11. Kvelertak
- Black 'n' roll
- Hardcore punk
42

Whales and Leeches

Red Fang
1. Doen
2. Blood Like Cream ●
3. No Hope
4. Crows in Swine
5. Voices of the Dead
6. Behind the Light
7. Dawn Rising
8. Failure
9. 1516
10. This Animal
11. Every Little Twist
- Stoner rock
- Sludge metal
41

Surgical Steel

Carcass
1. 1985
2. Thrasher's Abbatoir
3. Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System
4. A Congealed Clot of Blood
5. The Master Butcher's Apron
6. Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard
7. The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills
8. Unfit for Human Consumption ●
9. 316L Grade Surgical Steel
10. Captive Bolt Pistol
11. Mount of Execution
- Melodic death metal
- Death metal
40

Now What?!

Deep Purple
1. A Simple Song
2. Weirdistan
3. Out of Hand
4. Hell to Pay
5. Body Line
6. Above and Beyond
7. Blood from a Stone
8. Uncommon Man
9. Après vous
10. All the Time in the World
11. Vincent Price ●
- Hard rock
- Progressive rock
39

Memorial

Russian Circles
1. Memoriam
2. Deficit ●
3. 1777
4. Cheyenne
5. Burial
6. Ethel
7. Lebaron
8. Memorial
- Ppst-rock
- Post-metal
38

Fortress

Alter Bridge
1. Cry of Achilles
2. Addicted to Pain ●
3. Bleed It Dry
4. Lover
5. The Uninvited
6. Peace Is Broken
7. Calm the Fire
8. Waters Rising
9. Farther Than the Sun
10. Cry a River
11. All Ends Well
12. Fortress
- Alternative metal
- Hard rock
37

Nine Lives

Von Hertzen Brothers
1. Insomniac
2. Flowers and Rust
3. Coming Home
4. Lost in Time
5. Separate Forevers
6. One May Never Know ●
7. World Without
8. Black Heart's Sky
9. Prospect for Escape
- Progressive rock
36

The Tower

Vulture Industries
1. The Tower
2. Divine - Appalling
3. The Hound ●
4. Blood on the Trail
5. The Dead Won't Mind
6. A Knife Between Us
7. The Pulse of Bliss
8. Sleepwalkers
9. Lost Among Liars
- Progressive metal
- Avant-garde metal
35

... Like Clockwork

Queens of the Stone Age
1. Keep Your Eyes Peeled
2. I Sat by the Ocean
3. The Vampyre of Time and Memory
4. If I Had a Tail
5. My God Is the Sun
6. Kalopsia ●
7. Fairweather Friends
8. Smooth Sailing
9. I Appear Missing
10. ... Like Clockwork
- Alternative rock
- Art rock
34

Colored Sands

Gorguts
1. Le Toit du Monde ●
2. An Ocean of Wisdom
3. Forgotten Arrows
4. Colored Sands
5. The Battle of Chambo
6. Enemies of Compassion
7. Ember's Voice
8. Absconders
9. Reduced to Silence
- Technical death metal
- Avant-garde metal
33

Seventh Swamphony

Kalmah
1. Seventh Swamphony ●
2. Deadfall
3. Pikemaster
4. Hollo
5. Windlake Tale
6. Wolves on a Throne
7. Black Marten's Trance
8. The Trapper
- Melodic death metal
- Symphonic metal
32

Indigo Meadow

The Black Angels
1. Indigo Meadow
2. Evil Things
3. Don't Play with Guns
4. Holland ●
5. The Day
6. Love Me Forever
7. Always Maybe
8. War on Holiday
9. Broken Soldier
10. I Hear Colors (Chromaesthesia)
11. Twisted Light
12. You're Mine
13. Black Isn't Black
- Psychedelic rock
31

Signed and Sealed in Blood

Dropkick Murphys
1. The Boys Are Back
2. Prisoner's Song
3. Rose Tattoo ●
4. Burn
5. Jimmy Collins
6. The Season's Upon Us
7. The Battle Rages on
8. My Hero
9. Out on the Town
10. Out of Our Heads
11. End of the Night
- Celtic punk
- Folk punk
30

Miracle Temple

Mount Moriah
1. Younger Days
2. Bright Light
3. Eureka Springs
4. I Built a Town
5. White Sands
6. Connecticut to Carolina
7. Rosemary
8. Swannanoa
9. Miracle Temple Holiness ●
10. Union Street Bridge
11. Those Girls
12. Telling the Hour
- Secular gospel
- Folk
29

We Need Medicine

The Fratellis
1. Halloween Blues
2. This Old Ghost Town ●
3. She's Not Gone Yet But She's Leaving
4. Seven Nights Seven Days
5. Shotgun Shoes
6. Whisky Saga
7. This Is Not the End of the World
8. Jeannie Nitro
9. We Need Medicine
10. Rock N Roll Will Break Your Heart
11. Until She Leaves My Soul
- Garage rock
- blues rock
28

Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

Volbeat
1. Let's Shake Some Dust
2. Pearl Hart
3. The Nameless One
4. Dead but Rising
5. Cape of Our Hero
6. Room 24
7. The Hangman's Body
8. My Body
9. Lola Montez ●
10. Black Bart
11. Lonesome Rider
12. The Sinner Is You
13. Doc Holliday
14. Our Loved Ones
- Heavy metal
- Rockabilly
27

Sunbather

Deafheaven
1. Dream House
2. Irresistible
3. Sunbather
4. Please Remember
5. Vertigo
6. Windows
7. The Pecan Tree ●
- Blackgaze
- Post-metal
- Atmospheric black metal
26

The Migration

Scale the Summit
1. Odyssey
2. Atlas Novus ●
3. The Olive Tree
4. Narrow Silent
5. Oracle
6. Evergreen
7. The Dark Horse
8. Willow
9. Sabrosa
10. The Traveler
- Progressive metal
- Jazz fusion
25

Serpents Unleashed

Skeletonwitch
1. Serpents Unleashed
2. Beneath Dead Leaves
3. I Am of Death (Hell Has Arrived)
4. From a Cloudless Sky
5. Burned from Bone ●
6. Unending, Everliving
7. Blade on the Flesh, Blood on My Hands
8. This Evil Embrace
9. Unwept
10. Born of the Light That Does Not Shine
11. More Cruel Than Weak
- Blackened thrash metal
24

Push the Sky Away

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1. We No Who U R
2. Wide Lovely Eyes
3. Water's Edge
4. Jubilee Street
5. Mermaids
6. We Real Cool
7. Finishing Jubilee Street
8. Higgs Boson Blues ●
9. Push the Sky Away
- Art rock
- Ambient pop
23

The Greatest Show on Earth

Airbag
1. Surveillance (Part 1)
2. Redemption
3. Silence Grows ●
4. Call Me Back
5. The Greatest Show on Earth
6. Surveillance (Part 2-3)
- Progressive rock
- Art rock
22

Altered State

TesseracT
1. Of Matter — Proxy ●
2. Of Matter — Retrospect
3. Of Matter — Resist
4. Of Mind — Nocturne
5. Of Mind — Exile
6. Of Reality — Eclipse
7. Of Reality — Palingenesis
8. Of Reality — Calabi-Yau
9. Of Energy — Singularity
10. Of Energy — Embers
- Progressive metal
- Progressive rock
21

The Mountain

Haken
1. The Path
2. Atlas Stone
3. Cockroach King ●
4. In Memoriam
5. Because It's There
6. Falling Back to Earth
7. As Death Embraces
8. Pareidolia
9. Somebody
- Progressive rock
- Progressive metal
20

Circle

Amorphis
1. Shades of Grey
2. Mission
3. The Wanderer ●
4. Narrow Path
5. Hopeless Days
6. Nightbird's Song
7. Into the Abyss
8. Enchanted by the Moon
9. A New Day
- Progressive metal
- Folk metal
- Melodic death metal
19

Nations to Flames

A Storm of Light
1. Fall
2. Apostles of Hatred
3. The Fire Sermon
4. Omen
5. Dead Flags
6. All the Shining Lies
7. Disintegrate ●
8. Lifeless
9. Soothsayer
10. You Are the Hunted
11. The Year Is One
- Doom metal
- Industrial metal
18

The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart

Sepultura
1. Trauma of War
2. The Vatican ●
3. Impending Doom
4. Manipulation of Tragedy
5. Tsunami
6. The Bliss of Ignorants
7. Grief
8. The Age of the Atheist
9. Obsessed
10. Da Lama ao Caos
- Thrash metal
- Death metal
17

Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)

Intronaut
1. Killing Birds with Stones ●
2. The Welding
3. Steps
4. A Sore Sight for Eyes
5. Milk Leg
6. Harmonomicon
7. Eventual
8. Blood from a Stone
9. The Way Down
- Progressive metal
- Post-metal
16

Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού

Rotting Christ
1. In Yumen-Xibalba ●
2. P'unchaw kachun-Tuta kachun
3. Grandis Spiritus Diavolos
4. Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού
5. Cine iubește și lasă
6. Iwa Voodoo
7. Gilgameš
8. Русалка
9. Ahura Mazdā-Aŋra Mainiuu
10. χξϛʹ
- Melodic black metal
- Avant-garde metal
15

Furiosity

Monster Truck
1. Old Train
2. The Lion
3. Power of the People
4. Sweet Mountain River ●
5. Psychics
6. Oh Lord
7. For the Sun
8. Boogie
9. Undercover Love
10. The Giant
11. Call It a Spade
12. My Love Is True
- Blues rock
- Hard rock
- Southern rock
14

The Dream Calls for Blood

Death Angel
1. Left for Dead
2. Son of the Morning
3. Fallen
4. The Dream Calls for Blood ●
5. Succubus
6. Execution / Don't Save Me
7. Caster of Shame
8. Detonate
9. Empty
10. Territorial Instinct / Bloodlust
- Thrash metal
13

Darkness in a Different Light

Fates Warning
1. One Thousand Fires
2. Firefly ●
3. Desire
4. Falling
5. I Am
6. Lighthouse
7. Into the Black
8. Kneel and Obey
9. O Chloroform
10. And Yet It Moves
- Progressive metal
12

Mind Control

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
1. Mt. Abraxas
2. Mind Crawler ●
3. Poison Apple
4. Desert Ceremony
5. Evil Love
6. Death Valley Blues
7. Follow the Leader
8. Valley of the Dolls
9. Devik's Work
- Occult rock
- Doom metal
11

Asymmetry

Karnivool
1. Aum
2. Nachash
3. A.M.War
4. We Are
5. The Refusal
6. Aeons
7. Asymmetry
8. Eidolon ●
9. Sky Machine
10. Amusia
11. The Last Few
12. Float
13. Alpha Omega
14. Om
- Progressive rock
- Alternative metal
10

Trouble Will Find Me

The National
1. I Should Live in Salt
2. Demons
3. Don't Swallow the Cap
4. Fireproof ●
5. Sea of Love
6. Heavenfaced
7. This Is the Last Time
8. Graceless
9. Slipped
10. I Need My Girl
11. Humiliation
12. Pink Rabbits
13. Hard to Find
- Post-punk
- Art rock
9

Pelagial

The Ocean
1. Epipalegic
2. Mesopelagic: Into the Uncanny
3. Bathyapelagic I: Impasses
4. Bathyapelagic II: The Wish in Dreams
5. Bathyapelagic III: Disequilibriated
6. Abyssopelagic I: Boundless Vasts
7. Abyssopelagic II: Signals of Anxiety
8. Hadopelagic I: Omen of the Deep
9. Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe
10. Demersal: Cognitive Dissonance ●
11. Benthic: The Origin of Our Wishes
- Progressive metal
8

The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)

Steven Wilson
1. Luminol ●
2. Drive Home
3. The Holy Drinker
4. The Pin Drop
5. The Watchmaker
6. The Raven That Refused to Sing
- Progressive rock
7

Earth Blues

Spiritual Beggars
1. Wise as a Serpent
2. Turn the Tide
3. Sweet Magic Pain
4. Hello Sorrow ●
5. One Man's Curse
6. Dreamer
7. Too Old to Die Young
8. Kingmaker
9. Road to Madness
10. Dead End Town
11. Freedom Song
12. Legends Collapse
- Stoner metal
- hard rock
6

Heart of Oak

Anciients
1. Raise the Sun
2. Overthrone
3. Falling in Line
4. The Longest River
5. One Foot in the Light
6. Giants
7. Faith and Oath ●
8. Flood and Fire
9. For Lisa
- Sludge metal
- progressive metal
5

The Eldritch Dark

Blood Ceremony
1. Witchwood
2. Goodbye Gemini
3. Lord Summerisle ●
4. Ballad of the Weird Sisters
5. Eldritch Dark
6. Drawing down the Moon
7. Faunus
8. The Magician
- Occult rock
4

Last Patrol

Monster Magnet
1. I Live Behind the Clouds ●
2. Last Patrol
3. Three King Fishers
4. Paradise
5. Hallelujah
6. Mindless Ones
7. The Duke of Supernature
8. End of Time
9. Stay Tuned
- Stoner rock
- Heavy psych
3

Vertikal

Cult of Luna
1. The One
2. I: The Weapon ●
3. Vicarious Redemption
4. The Sweep
5. Synchronicity
6. Mute Departure
7. Disharomonia
8. In Awe of
9. Passing Through
- Post-metal
2

Infestissumam

Ghost
1. Infestissumam
2. Per Aspera Ad Inferi
3. Secular Haze
4. Jigolo Har Megiddo
5. Ghuleh / Zombie Queen
6. Year Zero
7. Body and Blood
8. Idolatrine
9. Depth of Satan's Eyes
10. Monstrance Clock ●
11. La Mantra Mori
12. I'm a Marionette
- Occult rock
- doom metal
1

Earth Rocker

Clutch
1. Earth Rocker
2. Crucial Velocity
3. Mr. Freedom ●
4. D.C. Sound Attack
5. Unto the Breach
6. Gone Cold
7. The Face
8. Book, Saddle & Go
9. Cyborg Battl
10. Oh, Isabella
11. The Wolf Man Kindly Requests ...
- Blues rock
- stoner rock

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Life Sentence

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Savages

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Sister

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Hubardo

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Lightning Bolt

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Rumours of a Presence

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Horns and Halos

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Meir

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Whales and Leeches

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Surgical Steel

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Now What?!

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Memorial

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Fortress

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Nine Lives

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The Tower

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... Like Clockwork

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Colored Sands

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Seventh Swamphony

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Indigo Meadow

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Signed and Sealed in Blood

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Miracle Temple

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We Need Medicine

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Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

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Sunbather

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The Migration

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Serpents Unleashed

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Push the Sky Away