Yes muthafuckas, yet again, I'm making a list of my favourite albums. Who'd have thought?

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

2.Haken - The Mountain

3.The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

4.Clutch - Earth Rocker

5.Scale The Summit - The Migration

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Hello and welcome to my first ever top albums list. While I've been listening to metal for over 15 years I've never compiled an actual year end list. The reason for this is because I feel my current favorites to be ever changing dependent on mood, season and situational. But the reason I feel it's necessary is because I want to spread the joy of music. I see many people jaded on music, well if this list is any indication music is alive and doing some amazing things. I've encountered so many lists this year and honestly can't say there's anything close to my list. Whole brilliant albums left off of list after list, but it is all opinion. Other albums held up in high regard that just made me shake my head or perplex me. Even reading many lists gets annoying do to slideshows or advertisement overload or no explanations, I've made this as easy to browse as I could. This is a celebration of the music of 2013. Doing this list was fun yet stressful for me. To me a list isn't a versus or better than. It's just a personal list, still I want to make the numbers carry weight and importance.
Enjoy, comment below and spread the word

1.In Vain - Ænigma

2.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother

5.Haken - The Mountain

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Construct

2.Wolfheart - Winterborn

3.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

4.Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen

5.October Tide - Tunnel Of No Light

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1.Carcass - Surgical Steel

2.Sodom - Epitome Of Torture

3.Gorguts - Colored Sands

4.Hail Of Bullets - III The Rommel Chronicles

5.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

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

2.Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves

3.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

4.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

5.Haken - The Mountain

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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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List of my Favourite Metal albums of 2013

I have definitely found myself straying away from "classic metal" albums and have rather been drawn to albums which are more experimental.

1.Deafheaven - Sunbather

2.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

3.Touche Amore - Is Survived By

4.Oathbreaker - Eros-Anteros

5.Locrian - Return To Annihilation

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1.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

2.The Ocean - Pelagial

3.The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

4.Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent

5.In Vain - Ænigma

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1.Finntroll - Blodsvept

2.Lunarsea - Hundred Light Years

3.In Vain - Ænigma

4.Pessimist - Death from Above

5.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

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1.The Ocean - Pelagial

2.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

3.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

4.Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth

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Personal best picks...

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

2.TesseracT - Altered State

3.Alter Bridge - Fortress

4.The Ocean - Pelagial

5.Haken - The Mountain

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1.Leprous - Coal

2.Lingua Mortis Orchestra - LMO

3.Orphaned Land - All Is One

4.Stratovarius - Nemesis

5.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

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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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Progressive metal and post metal might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for us highly intellectual listeners, it can really tickle our twigs and berries…

1.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

2.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Tool - Lateralus

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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