My top 50 of 2013. Rated 8 and above.

The year we said hello again to Carcass and farewell to Jeff Hanneman

Album count: 150
Average rating: 6.97

1.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

2.Carcass - Surgical Steel

3.Leprous - Coal

4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu

5.Arx Atrata - Oblivion

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Must Listen: The First 4

1.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

2.Civil War - The Killer Angels

3.Trivium - Vengeance Falls

4.James LaBrie - Impermanent Resonance

5.Pretty Maids - Motherland

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1.Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

2.Alter Bridge - Fortress

3.Stone Sour - House Of Gold & Bones - Part 1

4.Slash - World On Fire

5.The Black Keys - El Camino

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Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

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

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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Will be updated constantly as I remember albums/have time to add them! if more than one album per year- runner up. If none, then i picked none for that year.

1.The Agonist - The Eye of Providence

2.Queensrÿche - Condition Hüman

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Marty Friedman - Inferno

5.Conquering Dystopia - Conquering Dystopia

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Didn't explore so much as I wanted in 2013, but these ones caught my attention.
Order from the most to the rarely listened.

1.Orphaned Land - All Is One

2.Falkenbach - Asa

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Equilibrium - Waldschrein

5.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

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1.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

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

3.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

4.Leprous - Coal

5.The Ocean - Pelagial

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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

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5.Epysode - Fantasmagoria

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1.Letlive. - The Blackest Beatiful

2.Clutch - Earth Rocker

3.Protest The Hero - Volition

4.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

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1.Haken - The Mountain

2.The Ocean - Pelagial

3.New Keepers Of The Water Towers - The Cosmic Child

4.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

5.Leprous - Coal

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1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Damnation Angels - Bringer Of Light

4.Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

5.Vallendusk - Black Clouds Gathering

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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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1.Orphaned Land - All Is One

2.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

3.Tarja - Colours In The Dark

4.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

5.Avatarium - Avatarium

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1.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

2.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

3.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

4.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

5.Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

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Uldreth is good at deciding what he likes and what he does not, but is terrible at setting a definitive order at them. So all albums in this list are ordered alphabetically. All albums included are positives and the degree of their positivity is measured by stars.

1.65daysofstatic - Wild Light

2.After The Burial - Wolves Within

3.August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore

4.Bad Religion - True North

5.Barrow - Though I'm Alone

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