In Which We Celebrated the Best of 2013

Worst Week Play List, Week of December 2 – December 6, 2013

This week’s playlist contains over FORTY HOURS of music, culled from the staff’s year-end lists. I started putting it alphabetical order so as not to show preferential treatment, but then I got bored and stopped. I suggest you just put it on “shuffle” and let the good times roll.

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And now, this week’s top stories:

• Both the staff of MetalSucks and a whole lotta cool musicians unveiled our lists of the best (mostly) metal albums of 2013.
• We debuted new music from Exhumed, Batillus, and Artificial Brain.
• We pondered the controversy surrounding Mastodon’s recent Thanksgiving-themed t-shirt.
• We wondered: Why are metal fans  hopelessly stuck in the past?
• We watched Ron Burgundy impersonate Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed.
• We enjoyed a delicious meal of Fleshgod Apastalypse.
• We learned that we’re getting closer to a new Slipknot album.
• We were sad happy completely indifferent about the news that the Black Label Society guitarist who isn’t Zakk Wylde has left the band.
• We were stirred by Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe’s tribute to Nelson Mandela.
• We were surprised to hear that Mark Lewis, and not Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan, will produce the new Cannibal Corpse album.

Alrighty, then! A week from tomorrow, we shutter the MetalSucks Mansion for the remainder of 2013. But we’re gonna send out the year by having a major blast next week! See ya then.