My annual top 10 list, for the year of 2013.

In addition to the 10 albums on the list, I would mention:
Biggest Surprise:
Children of Bodom - Halo of Blood

Biggest letdown:
Turisas - Turisas 2013

Honorable mentions:

Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
Damnation Plan - The Wakening
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony
Finntroll - Bloodsvept
Orphaned Land - All is One
Trail of Tears - Oscilation
Stratovarius - Nemesis
Tesseract - Altered State
MyGRAIN - Planetary Breathing
Sirenia - Perils of the Deep Blue
Suidakra - Eternal Defiance
Helloween - Straight Out of Hell
Persefone - Spiritual Migration
Serenity - War of Ages
Carcass - Surgical Steel

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RhaegarTargaryen | 05.01.2014

	1.	Leprous - Coal
	2.	Dark Tranquillity - Construct
	3.	Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
	4.	Heaven Shall Burn - Veto
	5.	Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
	6.	Amorphis - Circle
	7.	Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
	8.	Soilwork - The Living Infinite
	9.	Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
	10.	Amaranthe - The Nexus