Bands in my daily listening rotation. Albums chosen are my favorite by the respective band in most cases 🤘

1.200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel

2.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

3.Abbath - Abbath

4.Acid Witch - Rot Among Us

5.Æther Realm - Tarot

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I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith

2.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2013

1.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

2.Kauan - Pirut

3.Ghost - Infestissumam

4.Wolfheart - Winterborn

5.Amorphis - Circle

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1.Amorphis - Circle

2.Battle Beast - Battle Beast

3.Electronomicon - Unleashing The Shadows

4.Enforcer - Death By Fire

5.Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure

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2008 might've been my first proper taste of metal, with the acquisition of albums from the likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and that most grandiose of gateway bands, DragonForce. 2009 might've seen me expanding my palette, with Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, and more entering my world, and Guns N' Roses triumphantly re-entering it. But 2010 was when I delved into more 'intense' stuff with Machine Head, In Flames, and most notably of all, Sylosis, and saw my relationship with metal shift from ever-increasing interest into full-blown love affair. To commemorate this 5-year anniversary, and because I love making lists, I decided to do a retrospective of the best albums and songs that have been released during this time period, and give brief tributes to them. Yay music!

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Sylosis - Monolith

3.Protest The Hero - Volition

4.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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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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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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1.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

2.Carcass - Surgical Steel

3.Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood

4.Monster Magnet - Last Patrol

5.Autopsy - The Headless Ritual

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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.Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure

2.Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent

3.Device - Device

4.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

5.Pyrithion - The Burden Of Sorrow

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1.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

3.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth

4.Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

5.Ulcerate - Vermis

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Album Rating System
9-10 = A
8-9 = B
7-8 = C
6-7 = D
0-6 = F

1.Watain - The Wild Hunt

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3.The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth

5.Deafheaven - Sunbather

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Because I can't stop listening to music, but neither can I sacrifice my lovely descriptions, so same fare as before, but deleted descriptions for those covered in the first list.

1.Protest The Hero - Volition

2.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte

5.Monolithe - Monolithe IV

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1.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

2.In Vain - Ænigma

3.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

4.Heart Of A Coward - Severance

5.The Ocean - Pelagial

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My list of April

1.Amorphis - Circle

2.Arsis - Unwelcome

3.Within Temptation - The Q-Music Sessions

4.Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

5.Dreamtale - World Changed Forever

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