Too Soon? Emperor Rhombus’ Best of 2013… So Far

Talk about a great way to get another list out of us–Here we are, the year barely half-over, listing what albums have thus far amused us, because let’s be honest, readers love a post with bullet points in it. However, while this is a cheap excuse to squeeze a second Best Of list into the MetalSucks year, it’s also a good way to catalog those releases that you might otherwise forget as the year ends and you’re focused on the big musical hauls of October and November.

Anyway:

• My current album of the year is Aosoth’s Arrow in Heart.
• My close second is Clutch’s Earth Rocker.
• The new Altar of Plagues albums is pretty sick, but weird as Hell.
• The new Immolation is solid, if you like that sort of thing.
• This new EP from The Body, called Master, We Perish is just disgusting.
• Known Flood by Sannhet is pretty awesome, too. Better live, though.
• You got that new Lightning Swords of Death joint yet, man? Super agro black metal. Get on it.
• Unlike a lot of people, I quite like the new Kvelertak. It’s necro and weird.
• You gotta check out The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown by Iron Tongue, dude. It’s breathtaking.
• And of course, the new Black Dahlia Murder album is fucking awesome. There’s this song on there called “Blood Mine” that shreds like a motherfucker.

That’s all I got for now. See you guys in the funny pages.