This will the best place to jot down my favorite music for 2013...I'll follow IronAngel's rating system (3.5-5 and can change at anytime). Arrows indicate trending...

1.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

2.Everything In Slow Motion - Phoenix

3.Steak Number Eight - The Hutch

4.Fen - Dustwalker

5.Enshine - Origin

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These are the albums I've enjoyed so far this year to which I've given an approximate rating and organised in a rough order of preference. As the year progresses I'll add some descriptions to them as well. EP's are also included.

Recent additions: Armory, Russian Circles, Ulver, Tad Morose, SubRosa, Almah, Blood Bright Star, Autumnblaze, Ayreon, Chthonic, Darkestrah, God Is An Astronaut, Képzelt Város, Lodz, Månegarm, Obscure Sphinx, Caligula's Horse, Sky Architect, Keldian, Monster Magnet

1.Vulture Industries - The Tower

2.The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light

3.Walrus - Walrus

4.Clutch - Earth Rocker

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu

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All Studio releases including Full lengths, EPs, Collaborations and Splits.

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TOP ALBUM ARTWORKS OF 2013

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

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

3.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

4.Obliteration - Black Death Horizon

5.Dream Death - Somnium Excessum

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Track of the year: Prayer for Ascetic Misery- Ævangelist
Runners-up: Dyodyo Asema- Gnaw Their Tongues & Alkerdeel / Hereditaria- Lords of Bukkake /In Silence - The Prophecy/ Overcome- Hacride/ Atlas Stone- Haken/ s1- Blindead
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1.Ævangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra

2.Cult Of Occult - Hic Est Domus Diaboli

3.Lords of Bukkake - Desagravio

4.Eloa Vadaath - Dead End Proclama

5.Haken - The Mountain

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1.Deafheaven - Sunbather

2.Protest The Hero - Volition

3.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

4.The Ocean - Pelagial

5.Haken - The Mountain

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As usual, interesting albums of the year to be ranked and reviewed.

This time I'll make it easier for myself, and group weaker releases by genre as soon as I rate them. Expect only 5-3,5/5 to be ranked in order of preference, and possibly a 3,25 category if it's needed.

1.Torres - Torres

2.SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods

3.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

4.Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart

5.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother

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

2.Monolithe - Monolithe IV

3.Nails - Abandon All Life

4.Totem Skin - Still Waters Run Deep

5.Ataraxie - L'Être Et La Nausée

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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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That's the 2013 gnirpz's essentials in order, following the releases along the year. Every ranking should be based on production quality, originality, musical technicality and specs like that.

Unfortunatelly, mine is based on headbanging, taste of beer, air guitar and air drum solos.

2013 feelings, form best to worst

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

2.Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

3.Deafheaven - Sunbather

4.ASG - Blood Drive

5.Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed

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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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I rate albums with rating not less than 8

1.Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni

2.Deafheaven - Sunbather

3.Narjahanam - Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham

4.Year Of No Light - Tocsin

5.An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love

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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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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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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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