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

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 sixth batch… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!

Greg Puciato, The Dillinger Escape Plan

1. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
2. Deafheaven – Sunbather
3. Nails – Abandon All Life
4. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
5. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
6. Tim Hecker – Virgins
7. Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
8. Mazzy Star – Seasons of yout Day
9. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
10. Kelela – Cut 4 Me

Doc Coyle, ex-God Forbid

1. Carcass – Surgical Steel
2. Twelve Foot Ninja – Silent Machine
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
4. Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King
5. Black Sabbath – 13
6. Ghost – Infestissumam
7. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
8. Alter Bridge – Fortress
9. Kanye West – Yeezus
10. Killswitch Engage – Disarm the Descent

Charles Elliott, Abysmal Dawn, Bereft

1. Carcass – Surgical Steel
2. Death Angel – The Dream Calls for Blood
3. Inquisition – Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
4. Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy
5. Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam
6. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
7. Amorphis – Circle
8. Arsis – Unwelcome
9. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Labyrinth
10. Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing

Ben Orum, Oblivion, ex-All Shall Perish

1. Intronaut – Habitual Levitations
2.. GorGuts – Colored Sands
3. Deicide – In The Minds of Evil
4. Fallujah – Nomadic
5. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
6. Russian Circles – Memorial
7. Broken Hope – Omen of Disease
8. Empire of the Sun – Ice on The Dune
9. Ulcerate – Vermis
10. Inter Arma – Sky Burial

Jon Kunz, Rivers of Nihil

1. Deafheaven – Sunbather
2. Revocation – Revocation
3. Fallujah – Nomadic
4. Sigur Rós – Kveikur
5. Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory & Injury
6. Gorguts – Colored Sands
7. Weekend – Jinx
8. Panopticon- Split with Vestiges
9. Carcass – Surgical Steel
10. Lycus – Tempest