My favourite albums from 2013

1. 50

   Life Sentence

   Satan

   

   

   Heavy metal | Speed metal

   Tracks:

   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

2. 49

   Savages

   Soulfly

   

   

   Thrash metal | Groove metal

   Tracks:

   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

3. 48

   Sister

   In Solitude

   

   

   Gothic rock | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   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

4. 47

   Hubardo

   Kayo Dot

   

   

   Avant-garde metal | Post-metal

   Tracks:

   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

5. 46

   Lightning Bolt

   Pearl Jam

   

   

   Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   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

6. 45

   Rumours of a Presence

   Spirits of the Dead

   

   

   Psychedelic rock | Stoner rock

   Tracks:

   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

7. 44

   Horns and Halos

   Michael Monroe

   

   

   Hard rock | Glam punk

   Tracks:

   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

8. 43

   Meir

   Kevelertak

   

   

   Black 'n' roll | Hardcore punk

   Tracks:

   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

9. 42

   Whales and Leeches

   Red Fang

   

   

   Stoner rock | Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   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

10. 41

    Surgical Steel

    Carcass

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Death metal

    Tracks:

    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

11. 40

    Now What?!

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    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 ●

12. 39

    Memorial

    Russian Circles

    

    

    Ppst-rock | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Memoriam
    2. Deficit ●
    3. 1777
    4. Cheyenne
    5. Burial
    6. Ethel
    7. Lebaron
    8. Memorial

13. 38

    Fortress

    Alter Bridge

    

    

    Alternative metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    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

14. 37

    Nine Lives

    Von Hertzen Brothers

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    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

15. 36

    The Tower

    Vulture Industries

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    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

16. 35

    ... Like Clockwork

    Queens of the Stone Age

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    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

17. 34

    Colored Sands

    Gorguts

    

    

    Technical death metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    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

18. 33

    Seventh Swamphony

    Kalmah

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    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

19. 32

    Indigo Meadow

    The Black Angels

    

    

    Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    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

20. 31

    Signed and Sealed in Blood

    Dropkick Murphys

    

    

    Celtic punk | Folk punk

    Tracks:

    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

21. 30

    Miracle Temple

    Mount Moriah

    

    

    Secular gospel | Folk

    Tracks:

    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

22. 29

    We Need Medicine

    The Fratellis

    

    

    Garage rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    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

23. 28

    Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

    Volbeat

    

    

    Heavy metal | Rockabilly

    Tracks:

    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

24. 27

    Sunbather

    Deafheaven

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-metal | Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dream House
    2. Irresistible
    3. Sunbather
    4. Please Remember
    5. Vertigo
    6. Windows
    7. The Pecan Tree ●

25. 26

    The Migration

    Scale the Summit

    

    

    Progressive metal | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    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

26. 25

    Serpents Unleashed

    Skeletonwitch

    

    

    Blackened thrash metal

    Tracks:

    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

27. 24

    Push the Sky Away

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Art rock | Ambient pop

    Tracks:

    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

28. 23

    The Greatest Show on Earth

    Airbag

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

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

29. 22

    Altered State

    TesseracT

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    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

30. 21

    The Mountain

    Haken

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    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

31. 20

    Circle

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | Folk metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    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

32. 19

    Nations to Flames

    A Storm of Light

    

    

    Doom metal | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    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

33. 18

    The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart

    Sepultura

    

    

    Thrash metal | Death metal

    Tracks:

    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

34. 17

    Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)

    Intronaut

    

    

    Progressive metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    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

35. 16

    Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού

    Rotting Christ

    

    

    Melodic black metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    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

36. 15

    Furiosity

    Monster Truck

    

    

    Blues rock | Hard rock | Southern rock

    Tracks:

    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

37. 14

    The Dream Calls for Blood

    Death Angel

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    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

38. 13

    Darkness in a Different Light

    Fates Warning

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    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

39. 12

    Mind Control

    Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

    

    

    Occult rock | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    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

40. 11

    Asymmetry

    Karnivool

    

    

    Progressive rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    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

41. 10

    Trouble Will Find Me

    The National

    

    

    Post-punk | Art rock

    Tracks:

    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

42. 9

    Pelagial

    The Ocean

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    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

43. 8

    The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)

    Steven Wilson

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Luminol ●
    2. Drive Home
    3. The Holy Drinker
    4. The Pin Drop
    5. The Watchmaker
    6. The Raven That Refused to Sing

44. 7

    Earth Blues

    Spiritual Beggars

    

    

    Stoner metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    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

45. 6

    Heart of Oak

    Anciients

    

    

    Sludge metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    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

46. 5

    The Eldritch Dark

    Blood Ceremony

    

    

    Occult rock

    Tracks:

    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

47. 4

    Last Patrol

    Monster Magnet

    

    

    Stoner rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    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

48. 3

    Vertikal

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Post-metal

    Tracks:

    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

49. 2

    Infestissumam

    Ghost

    

    

    Occult rock | doom metal

    Tracks:

    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

50. 1

    Earth Rocker

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | stoner rock

    Tracks:

    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 ...