1. The Ocean - Pelagial

2. Persefone - Spiritual Migration

3. Avatarium - Avatarium

4. Witherscape - The Inheritance

5. The Dillinger Escape plan - One of us Is the Killer

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1. Deafheaven - Sunbather

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Gorguts - Colored Sands

4. Ulcerate - Vermis

5. Carcass - Surgical Steel

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My favorite albums of 2013. A year with a lot of great releases for prog fans!

1. Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2)

2. Dream Theater - Dream Theater

3. Haken - The Mountain

4. Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

5. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

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This list is pretty diverse with the most Progressive Metal I think I've ever had on a year end list. This was also the toughest year end list to compile with the ridiculous amount of great music 2013 had.

1. Hell - Curse & Chapter

2. A Sound Of Thunder - Time's Arrow

3. Fates Warning - Darkness In A Different Light

4. Black Star Riders- All Hell Breaks Loose

5. Epysode - Fantasmagoria

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Progressive rock / metal and some avantgarde - what I have in my collection. Would love suggestions to add to it.

1. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

2. Animals As Leaders - Weightless

3. Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

4. Ayreon - The Human Equation

5. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

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1. Witherscape - The Inheritance

2. Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues

3. Soilwork - The Living Infinite

4. Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

5. Tristania - Darkest White

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This is pretty much a carbon copy of a list I posted on deviantART. If you want to see me go into a little more detail on why I picked these albums (I find it hard to do that with MetalStorm's listing system) then check out the original list here: http://shuriken95.deviantart.com/journal/Top-35-Albums-of-2013-35-21-423820869

1. Leprous - Coal

2. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

3. Future Of The Left - How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident

4. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

5. Haken - The Mountain

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A list of albums I've enjoyed this year, all music genres I usually listen to.
Not a best to worst list.

1. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories)

2. Fates Warning - Darkness In A Different Light

3. Riverside - Shrine Of The New Generation Slaves

4. Subsignal - Paraiso

5. Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep

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1. Tesseract - Altered State

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Black Sabbath - 13

4. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance

5. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen

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1. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

2. Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

3. Soilwork - The Living Infinite

4. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

5. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

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1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Dream Theater - Octavarium

4. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

5. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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1. Orphaned Land - All Is One

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

4. Trivium - Vengeance Falls

5. Avenged Sevenfold - Hail To The King

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1. Stratovarius - Nemesis

2. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

3. Heaven Shall Burn - Veto

4. Black Sabbath - 13

5. Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

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My favourite albums of 2013. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).

1. Deafheaven - Sunbather

2. Protest The Hero - Volition

3. TesseracT - Altered State

4. Ovid's Withering - Scryers of the Ibis

5. Means End - The Didact

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There is no real arrangement here, apart for the top 3.

1. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

2. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

3. The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour

4. Avatarium - Avatarium

5. Black Sabbath - 13

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