Tuesday, December 3, 2013

LIST: TOP 50 METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR


It’s that time of year, where I face a legitimate heavy metal Sophie’s Choice and somehow narrow all of the releases I’ve enjoyed this year down to 50. A lot of truly solid albums are not listed here, and honestly, my rankings have fluctuated nearly every day for the past two months, when I handed in my initial Top 40 list to the editors at Decibel Magazine. I have no doubt that if I look at this list in another year or decade, hell, even another week, the rankings could shift and shuffle depending on my mood, the cereal I eat, how crowded the subway is that morning, etc. Feel free to inform me of how lousy my selections are, how overrated band A is, how album B is obviously the top selection of the year, and how I’ve terribly under-represented genre C.

2013 Top 50 Metal Albums of the Year

1.       Church of Misery – Thy Kingdom Scum
2.       Carcass – Surgical Steel
3.       Gorguts – Colored Sands
4.       Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
5.       Ramming Speed – Doomed to Destroy, Destined to Die
6.       Anciients – Heart of Oak
7.       Nails – Abandon All Life
8.       Baptists – Bushcraft
9.       Shroud Eater – Dead Ends
10.   Lesbian – ForesTeleVision
11.   Serpent Eater – Hyena
12.   Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
13.   Obelyskkh - Hymn to Pan
14.   I Exist – From Darkness
15.   Noisem – Agony Defined
16.   KEN Mode – Entrench
17.   Usnea – Usnea
18.   Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed
19.   Naam – Vow
20.   Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control  
21.   Deafheaven – Sunbather
22.   Olde Growth – Owl EP
23.   Mammoth Grinder – Underworlds
24.   Exhumed – Necrocracy
25.   Koresh – Chump
26.   Serpent Throne – Brother Lucifer
27.   No Fealty – In the Shadow of the Monolith
28.   Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness
29.   Full of Hell – Rudiments of Mutilation
30.   Lycus - Tempest
31.   In Solitude – Sister
32.   Mount Salem – Endless
33.   Bone Sickness – Alone in the Grave
34.   Noctum – Final Sacrifice
35.   Weekend Nachos - Still
36.   Blood Red Throne - Blood Red Throne
37.   Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
38.   King of Pigs - Drown Out the Sound of Widows Grief
39.   Cokegoat – Vessel
40.   Obliteration – Black Death Horizon
41.   Revocation – Revocation
42.   Lumbar – The First and Last Days of Unwelcome
43.   Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
44.   Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
45.   Watain - The Wild Hunt
46.   Pyrexia - Feast of Iniquity
47.   Deeds of Flesh - Portals to Canaan
48.   Occultist – Death Sigils
49.   Great Falls – Accidents Grotesque
50.   Deuil – Acceptance/Rebuild

If you haven’t checked it out yet, go buy the new issue of Decibel Magazine, where the whole staff helps to select the Top 40 Extreme Albums of the Year. Check out all the other lists popping up around this time also and feel free to send Tweets about my questionable metal taste over to @MisterGrowl.

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