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I... can't argue with this.

[JuZ]

It's an honest summary of my 2013.

I could pretend to have listened to all sorts of stuff that I would have enjoyed if I'd been able.

But instead it's all about B1 and B2.

Now that I have a newborn daughter I fully expect that 2014 will be all about black metal and Japanese noise.

A brilliant musical year. My favourites
Arcane roots - Blood & Chemistry
Buke and Gase - General Dome
The Dear Hunter - Migrant
East of the Wall - Redaction Artifacts
Ephel Duath - Hemmed By Light
Exivious - Liminal
Gorguts - Colored Sanda
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
Jaga Jazzist - Live with Britten Sinfonia
Jolly - Audio Guide to Happiness 2
Karnivool - Asymmetry
Leprous - Coal
The Ocean - Pelagial
Shining - One One One
Tesseract - Altered State

new Staofash (maybe?)

Excellent best-of list btw.

Heidi's been releasing songs on her site through the year and I believe releasing them all together next year. So not a new album as such.

new Staofash (maybe?)

Excellent best-of list btw.

Heidi's been releasing songs on her site through the year and I believe releasing them all together next year. So not a new album as such.

Thanks man! That's why I put a "maybe" there; didn't know if she was releasing all the new material together or not... and here's hoping she does; I'd love to see how she'd arrange it in the context of an album.

It's been a while since my first post here, so here are a few more 2013 releases I've heard since then and liked:

-Beastmilk - Climax
-Teeth of the Sea - Master
-An Autumn for Crippled Children - Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love
-Burial - Rival Dealer EP
-Soup - The Beauty of Our Youth

...and here are more 2014 releases I've also become aware of...

-Solefald - Kosmopolis (if they ever manage to finish it!)
-Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
-Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
-Zavalaz - All the Nights We Never Met
-Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri - Arc Light EP
-Alcest - Shelter
-Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 2
-Colin Edwin & Lorenzo Feliciati - Twinscapes
-New Metallic Taste of Blood!
-New Obake!
-New Naked Truth!
-New Bosnian Rainbows! (rumor is it'll be a double album)
-New Thank You Scientist!
-New Opeth! (maybe?)
-New Steven Wilson (maybe?)

Already made my first pre-order for the year, Cynic's "Kindly Bent to Free Us" on orange vinyl... and between that, Casualties of Cool and Sigh's Graveward, I think 2014 is already looking pretty awesome. (Speaking of Sigh, Dread Dreams is finally getting re-released next year too! Same 2CD treatment that Scenes from Hell / Ghastly Funeral Theatre / etc. have gotten)

[djskrimp]

In no order, but tops for 2013 for me:

Protest the Hero "Volition"
Hacride "Back To Where You've Never Been"!!
Clint Lowery "Choices"
Katatonia "Dethroned and Uncrowned" (gotta be in the mood, though)
Dire En Grey "The Unraveling"
Shining "One One One"
DEP "One of us is the Killer"
TesseracT "Altered State"
Extol "Extol"
Devin Townsend "The Retinal Circus"

I'm still trying to wrap my head around a few albums, like Karnivool's new one and Voivod's new one.

I need to add Hammock's Oblivion Hymns to my list. That album is pure beauty.

[swervedriver]

Final tally:

Karnivool - Asymmetry (my favorite of the year)
Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Ghost - Infestissumam
Jamie Lenman - Muscle Memory
Cloudkicker - Subsume (about 1:40 into the 2nd song.. I don't know why but I LOVE what happens there)
Simius - Paradigm Shift (although I'm utterly biased there )

Leprous : Coal
Soilwork : The living infinite
Devin Townsend Project : The retinal Circus

not in order!

My top albums in 2013:

STEVEN WILSON - THE RAVEN THAT REFUSED TO SING (AND OTHER STORIES)
CARCASS - SURGICAL STEEL
TESSERACT - ALTERED STATE
BLACK SABBATH - 13
SOILWORK - THE LIVING INFINITE
PROTEST THE HERO - VOLITION
MODDI - SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE
MODDI - KAEM VA DU?
LEPROUS - COAL
DISPERSE - LIVING MIRRORS
KARNIVOOL - ASYMMETRY
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS - THE CATALYST FIRE
DAVID MAXIM MICIC - BILO 3.0
CIRCLES - INFINITAS
HAKEN - THE MOUNTAIN
WITHERSCAPE - THE INHERITANCE
AMPLIFIER ECHO STREET
GREGOR MEYLE - MEILE F

[djskrimp]

My top albums in 2013:

STEVEN WILSON - THE RAVEN THAT REFUSED TO SING (AND OTHER STORIES)
CARCASS - SURGICAL STEEL
TESSERACT - ALTERED STATE
BLACK SABBATH - 13
SOILWORK - THE LIVING INFINITE
PROTEST THE HERO - VOLITION
MODDI - SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE
MODDI - KAEM VA DU?
LEPROUS - COAL
DISPERSE - LIVING MIRRORS
KARNIVOOL - ASYMMETRY
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS - THE CATALYST FIRE
DAVID MAXIM MICIC - BILO 3.0
CIRCLES - INFINITAS
WITHERSCAPE - THE INHERITANCE
AMPLIFIER ECHO STREET
GREGOR MEYLE - MEILE F

[EphelDuath666]

Live blu-ray 2013 :
ELBOW - LIVE AT JODRELL BANK

wish they had released that one on Blu-ray and not just on DVD. It was shot in HD so it's kind of puzzling. Great, great live DVD though.

My top albums in 2013:

STEVEN WILSON - THE RAVEN THAT REFUSED TO SING (AND OTHER STORIES)
CARCASS - SURGICAL STEEL
TESSERACT - ALTERED STATE
BLACK SABBATH - 13
SOILWORK - THE LIVING INFINITE
PROTEST THE HERO - VOLITION
MODDI - SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE
MODDI - KAEM VA DU?
LEPROUS - COAL
DISPERSE - LIVING MIRRORS
KARNIVOOL - ASYMMETRY
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS - THE CATALYST FIRE
DAVID MAXIM MICIC - BILO 3.0
CIRCLES - INFINITAS
WITHERSCAPE - THE INHERITANCE
AMPLIFIER ECHO STREET
GREGOR MEYLE - MEILE F

[djskrimp]

My top albums in 2013:

TWELVE FOOT NINJA - SILENT MACHINE

Um, didn't Silent Machine come out in 2012?

In Germany it got released last october. So for me it