Too Soon? Andy O’Connor’s Best of 2013… So Far

One Bad Ass Fest down, one MDF down, one Chaos down, a Sunday of 35 Denton and half a SXSW down. Pitchfork and Fun Fun Fun Fest coming up. Somebody whisk me on a trip to another festival. I clearly don’t hate myself enough. Wonder what’s more brutal – Revenge at MDF or camping at Bonnaroo?

Here’s an alphabetical list of metal and not metal (but still heavy) records, cassettes, 7″s, et cetera that I’ve really dug so far this year.

Airs – Adore LP (Self-released)
Birth A.D. – I Blame You LP (Unspeakable Axe)
Bone Sickness – Alone in the Grave 12″ (20 Buck Spin)
Call of the Void – Dragged Down a Dead End Path LP (Relapse)
Cold Cave – Oceans With No End 7″ (Deathwish)
Deafheaven – Sunbather LP (Deathwish)
Defeated Sanity – Passages Into Deformity LP (Willowtip)
Dethroned Emperor – Moral Nihility (Self-released)
Hatred Surge – Human Overdose LP (Iron Lung)
Liar in Wait – Translations of the Lost EP (Profound Lore)
Makthaverskan – Makthaverskan II LP (Luxury)
Nails – Abandon All Life LP (Southern Lord)
No Gang Colors – Def America Mixtape (Self-released)
Pharmakon – Abandon LP (Sacred Bones)
Planning For Burial – Glowing Windows, Walk Alone MCD (Music Ruins Lives)
Planning For Burial/Lonesummer Split EP (Music Ruins Lives)
Power Trip – Manifest Decimation LP (Southern Lord)
Primitive Man – S/T LP (Self-released)
Prurient – Through The Window LP (Blackest Ever Black)
The Body – Master, We Perish EP (At A Loss)
Vhol – S/T LP (Profound Lore)
Vulgar Fashion – S/T EP (Handmade Birds)