The Best Metal Albums of 2013, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part V
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 fifth batch… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
1. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
2. Mutation – Error 500
3. Moderat – II
4. Shining – One One One
5. Morgan Agren – Batterie Deluxe
Luc Lemay, Gorguts
1. Ulcerate – Vermis
2. Nero di Marte – Nero De Marte
3. Katatonia – Dethroned & Uncrowned
4. Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer
6. Carcass – Surgical Steel
7. The Ocean – Pelagial
8. The Black Dahlia Murder – Everblack
9. Voivod – Target Earth
10. Hail of Bullets – III The Rommel Chronicles
Dirk Verbeuren, Soilwork, Bent Sea, Scarve, Anatomy of I, etc.
1. F.K.Ü. – IV: Rise Of The Mosh Mongers
2. Portal – Vexovoid
3. Gorguts – Colored Sands
4. Torture Division – The Worship
4. Cathedral – The Last Spire
5. Carcass – Surgical Steel
6. Darkane – The Sinister Supremacy
7. Feastem – Avaritia Humanae
8. Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy
9. Usurpress – split w/Bent Sea
10. Autechre – Exai
Johnny Kelly, A Pale Horse Named Death
1. Ghost – Infestissumam
2. Doyle – Abominator
3. Kill Devil Hill – Revolution Rising
4. Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Mike “Gunface” McKenzie, The Red Chord, Stomach Earth, Nightkin
1. Abyssal – Novit enum Dominus qui sunt eius
2. Carcass – Surgical Steel
3. Defeated Sanity – Passages Into Deformity
4. Gorguts – Colored Sands
5. Autopsy – The Headless Ritual
6. How To Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion
7. Kavinsky – OutRun
8. Polica – Shulamith
9. Portal – Vexovoid
10. Witherscape – The Inheritance