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. Black Fast - Starving Out The Light

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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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Recently, instead of scouring too much the albums of the year I'm in, I decided to take a deeper journey and appreciate progressive music (prog metal/rock). While I'm still in the early beginnings of my journey, I decided to make a list to the albums I fully listen to so that I can keep charting my voyage in these vast seas. Some albums are not yet added because I need to listen them well and grab my favorites out, and some bands are on queue. I'm also eager to hear some recommendations, so thanks in advance for them!

1. Ayreon - The Human Equation

2. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

3. Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia

4. Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence

5. Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons [EP]

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My favorites of 2013..

Oh, and it's a WIP btw.. I have a lot of catching up to do.. Been sleeping for six months I guess.

1. Persefone - Spiritual Migration

2. Haken - The Mountain

3. Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

4. Leprous - Coal

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

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TOP ALBUM ARTWORKS OF 2013

1. Inquisition - Obscure Verses For The Multiverse - Paolo Gidardi
2. Prosanctus Inferi - Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night - Paolo Gidardi

1. Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)

2. Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

3. Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

4. Dream Death - Somnium Excessum

5. Feared - Furor Incarnatus

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