The Best Metal Albums of 2013, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part III

Every year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year have been. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, grinders, and djenters alike graciously contributed lists to MS, and we’ll be running them in groups of four to five musicians at a time twice a day for the whole week.

Below, check out the third batch… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!

Howard Jones, Devil You Know

1. HIM – Tears on Tape
2. AFI – Burials
3. In Solitude – Sister
4. Drake –Nothing Was The SAme
5. Carcass – Surgical Steel
6. Black Sabbath – 13
7. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
8. Deafheaven – Sunbather
9. The Color Morale-  Know Hope
10. Dream Theater – Dream Theater

this is a combination from John Sherman (drummer) and Aaron Beam (vocals / guitar) as collectively they’ve only listened to about 4 albums each haha

Aaron Beam, Red Fang 

1. Gaytheist – Hold Me…B ut Not Too Tight
2. Federation X – We Do What We Must
3. Sandrider – Godhead
4. Lord Dying – Summon the Faithless

John Sherman, Red Fang 

1. Windhand – Soma
2. Voivod – Target Earth
3. Big Business – Battlefields Forever
4. Lord Dying – Summon the Faithless 

Steffen Kummerer, Obscura

1. Ihsahn – Das Seelenbrechen
2. Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam
3. The Ocean – Pelagial
4. The Moaning – Blood From Stone (Re-Release)
5. Sacramentum – Far Away from the Sun (Re-Release)
6. Gorguts – Colored Sands
7. Pestilence – Obsideo
8. Saeculum Obscurum – Apotheosis
9. Revocation – Revocation
10. Entrails – Raging Death