Got a top 20. End of the year list will probably look completely different.
1 Hobo Rocket - Pond 2. Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man 3. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic - Foxygen 4. Pelagial - The Ocean 5. Pure Heroine - Lorde 6. Serpents Unleashed - Skeletonwitch 7. II - Unknown Mortal Orchestra 8. Corsicana Lemonade - White Deminm 9. Hummingbird - Local Natives 10. Comedown Machine - The Strokes 11. Volume 3 - She & Him 12. The Marshal Mathers LP 2 - Emimen 13. Washed Out - Paracosm 14. Matangi - MIA 15. S/T - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros 16. The Hurry and the Harm - City and Colour 17. When It Was Now - Atlas Genius 18. A Color Map of the Sun - Pretty Lights 19. Our Own Masters - Valient Thorr 20. Last Call In Jonestown - Polkadot Cadaver
1. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury 2. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork 3. Locrian - Return To Annihilation 4. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods 5. Dead In The Dirt - The Blind Hole 6. Local Natives - Hummingbird 7. Nails - Abandon All Life 8. Wolvserpent - Perigea Antahkarana 9. Vista Chino - Peace 10. Palms - Palms 11. Gorguts - Colored Sands 12. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control 13. All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature 14. Deafheaven - Sunbather 15. Primitive Man - Scorn 16. Scale The Summit - The Migration 17. Light Bearer - Silver Tongue 18. Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds 19. Carcass - Surgical Steel 20. Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones) 21. Inter Arma - Sky Burial 22. Winds of Plague - Resistance 23. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz 24. Noisem - Agony Defined 25. Coffins - The Fleshland 26. Kylesa - Ultraviolet 27. Black Sabbath - 13 28. Mouth of the Architect - Dawning 29. Clutch - Earth Rocker 30. Cult of Luna - Vertikal 31. Fen - Dustwalker 32. Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam 33. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
EPs 1. The Body - Master, We Perish 2. Insomnium - Ephemeral 2. Rotten Sound - Species At War
I actually ended up listening to Lorde after downloading random 2013 albums from kickass torrents. I had no idea how big she was. Few listens and then I started hearing Royals everywhere.
1. Àrsaidh – Roots 2. Gorguts – Colored Sands 3. VHÖL – VHÖL 4. Usnea – Usnea 5. Metalocalypse – The Doomstar Requiem A Klok Opera 6. Kauan – Pirut 7. Red Fang – Whales and Leeches 8. Carcass – Surgical Steel 9. Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods 10. De Arma – Lost, Alien, and Forlorn 11. Portal – Vexovoid 12. Fen – Dustwalker 13. Black Mare – Field of the Host 14. Anna Murphy – Cellar Darling 15. Anneke Van Giersbergen – Drive 16. Protest The Hero – Volition 17. Deafheaven – Sunbather 18. Blood Ceremony – The Eldritch Dark 19. A Pale Horse Named Death – Lay My Soul To Waste 20. Abyssal – Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
--the rest (unordered)-- Wormlust – The Feral Wisdom Elesh Norn – All The Pain I Built Up Act of Impalement – Necromancer's Theme Fallujah – Nomadic Mist – Demo 2013 Njiqahdda – False Legends Njiqahdda – Around the Covers Primitive Prison – Vacant Future Demo In Fidelity – Demo 2013 Pissbath – Demo II Deaf Kid – 2013 Demo Kvelertak – Meir Fleshgod Apocalypse – Labyrinth Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed Warbringer – IV: Empires Collapse Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness Joel Grind’s Yellowgoat – The Yellowgoat Sessions Warbeast – Destroy Diamond Plate – Pulse Evile – Skull Voivod – Target Earth Smash Potater – In Buffet There Is No Law! Battlecross – War of Will Nekrogoblikon – Power Bumilingus – Fifty Shades of Poo Gloryhammer – Tales From The Kingdom of Fife Alestorm – In The Navy (single) Týr – Valkyrja Turisas – Turisas2013 Rainbowdragoneyes – Uentitled Queensrÿche – Queensrÿche (2013) Queensrÿche – Frequency Unknown Black Sabbath – 13 The Gates of Slumber – Stormcrow Across Tundras – Electric Relics War Bong – World War Weed Locrian – Return to Annihilation Hazel and the Instruments – The Clouds Going By Val Dorr – dead reed E.P. Eitarnora – Tall Grasses and Black Ash Venowl & Morton Feldman – Patterns of Chromatic Failure (collaboration/ remix) Venowl & Auditor – Acid Revealing Open Wounds (collaboration) Venowl – Vacant Cellar Shavasana – Shavasana Planning For Burial – Quietly Planning For Burial – Glowing Windows, Walk Alone Planning For Burial – Dreamless Split Broken Hope – Omen of Disease Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam Autopsy – The Headless Ritual Exhumed – Necrocracy The Black Dahlia Murder – Everblack Katalepsy – Autopsychosis Amon Amarth – Under the Influence Hate – Solarflesh Blockheads – This World Is Dead Rotten Sound – Species At War Devourment – Conceived in Sewage Defeated Sanity – Passages Into Deformity Dementia 13 – Tales For The Carnivorous Deuil– Acceptance / Rebuild Erimha – Reign Through Immortality Hordes – I Hordes – II Autolatry – Native In Gowan Ring – The Glinting Spade 65daysofstatic – Wild Light God is an Astronaut – Origins Long Distance Calling – The Flood Inside Oak – Not Afraid Anymore Sigur Rós – Kveikur Low – The Invisible Way Light Bearer – Silver Tongue Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 1 Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 2 Killswitch Engage – Disarm The Descent Cult of Luna – Vertikal TesseracT – Altered State Arrowwood – Beautiful Grave Vuyvr – Eiskalt Vit – The Dry Season Cortez – Phœbus Vorum – Poisoned Void Common Eider, King Eider – Earth Liver The Phantom Carriage – Falls Newstead – Heavy Metal Music Newstead – Metal Anatomy of Habit – Anatomy of Habit No Omega – Shame BABYMETAL – Ijime, Dame, Zettai BABYMETAL – Megitsune Nails – Abandon All Life Shroud Eater – Dead Ends Lair of the Minotaur – Godslayer Indricothere – II Mandragora – IV Helloween – Straight Out of Hell Autarch – The Death of Actiacus Ice Dragon – The Soul’s Midnight Trist – Zrcadlení melancholie Tentacle – Ingot Eye Blut der Nacht – Sargnagel Grayceon – Pearl and the End of Days Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor Alice in Chains – The Devil Put The Dinosaurs Here
--Stuff I didn’t care for-- Megadeth – Super Collider Meshuggah – Pitch Black (single) Soilwork – The Living Infinite Thrown Into Exile – Thrown Into Exile Drowning Pool – Resilience Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Device – Device Hambeast – The Curse Of The Parfait Trivium – Vengeance Falls Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King
Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 1 Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 2
--Stuff I didn’t care for-- Megadeth – Super Collider Meshuggah – Pitch Black (single) Soilwork – The Living Infinite Thrown Into Exile – Thrown Into Exile Drowning Pool – Resilience Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Device – Device Hambeast – The Curse Of The Parfait Trivium – Vengeance Falls
Comments
1 Hobo Rocket - Pond
2. Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man
3. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic - Foxygen
4. Pelagial - The Ocean
5. Pure Heroine - Lorde
6. Serpents Unleashed - Skeletonwitch
7. II - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
8. Corsicana Lemonade - White Deminm
9. Hummingbird - Local Natives
10. Comedown Machine - The Strokes
11. Volume 3 - She & Him
12. The Marshal Mathers LP 2 - Emimen
13. Washed Out - Paracosm
14. Matangi - MIA
15. S/T - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
16. The Hurry and the Harm - City and Colour
17. When It Was Now - Atlas Genius
18. A Color Map of the Sun - Pretty Lights
19. Our Own Masters - Valient Thorr
20. Last Call In Jonestown - Polkadot Cadaver
2. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
3. Locrian - Return To Annihilation
4. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
5. Dead In The Dirt - The Blind Hole
6. Local Natives - Hummingbird
7. Nails - Abandon All Life
8. Wolvserpent - Perigea Antahkarana
9. Vista Chino - Peace
10. Palms - Palms
11. Gorguts - Colored Sands
12. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
13. All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature
14. Deafheaven - Sunbather
15. Primitive Man - Scorn
16. Scale The Summit - The Migration
17. Light Bearer - Silver Tongue
18. Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
19. Carcass - Surgical Steel
20. Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
21. Inter Arma - Sky Burial
22. Winds of Plague - Resistance
23. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
24. Noisem - Agony Defined
25. Coffins - The Fleshland
26. Kylesa - Ultraviolet
27. Black Sabbath - 13
28. Mouth of the Architect - Dawning
29. Clutch - Earth Rocker
30. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
31. Fen - Dustwalker
32. Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
33. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
EPs
1. The Body - Master, We Perish
2. Insomnium - Ephemeral
2. Rotten Sound - Species At War
Splits
1. Yawning Man/Fatso Jetson
1. Àrsaidh – Roots
2. Gorguts – Colored Sands
3. VHÖL – VHÖL
4. Usnea – Usnea
5. Metalocalypse – The Doomstar Requiem A Klok Opera
6. Kauan – Pirut
7. Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
8. Carcass – Surgical Steel
9. Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods
10. De Arma – Lost, Alien, and Forlorn
11. Portal – Vexovoid
12. Fen – Dustwalker
13. Black Mare – Field of the Host
14. Anna Murphy – Cellar Darling
15. Anneke Van Giersbergen – Drive
16. Protest The Hero – Volition
17. Deafheaven – Sunbather
18. Blood Ceremony – The Eldritch Dark
19. A Pale Horse Named Death – Lay My Soul To Waste
20. Abyssal – Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
--the rest (unordered)--
Wormlust – The Feral Wisdom
Elesh Norn – All The Pain I Built Up
Act of Impalement – Necromancer's Theme
Fallujah – Nomadic
Mist – Demo 2013
Njiqahdda – False Legends
Njiqahdda – Around the Covers
Primitive Prison – Vacant Future Demo
In Fidelity – Demo 2013
Pissbath – Demo II
Deaf Kid – 2013 Demo
Kvelertak – Meir
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Labyrinth
Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed
Warbringer – IV: Empires Collapse
Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness
Joel Grind’s Yellowgoat – The Yellowgoat Sessions
Warbeast – Destroy
Diamond Plate – Pulse
Evile – Skull
Voivod – Target Earth
Smash Potater – In Buffet There Is No Law!
Battlecross – War of Will
Nekrogoblikon – Power
Bumilingus – Fifty Shades of Poo
Gloryhammer – Tales From The Kingdom of Fife
Alestorm – In The Navy (single)
Týr – Valkyrja
Turisas – Turisas2013
Rainbowdragoneyes – Uentitled
Queensrÿche – Queensrÿche (2013)
Queensrÿche – Frequency Unknown
Black Sabbath – 13
The Gates of Slumber – Stormcrow
Across Tundras – Electric Relics
War Bong – World War Weed
Locrian – Return to Annihilation
Hazel and the Instruments – The Clouds Going By
Val Dorr – dead reed E.P.
Eitarnora – Tall Grasses and Black Ash
Venowl & Morton Feldman – Patterns of Chromatic Failure (collaboration/ remix)
Venowl & Auditor – Acid Revealing Open Wounds (collaboration)
Venowl – Vacant Cellar
Shavasana – Shavasana
Planning For Burial – Quietly
Planning For Burial – Glowing Windows, Walk Alone
Planning For Burial – Dreamless Split
Broken Hope – Omen of Disease
Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy
Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam
Autopsy – The Headless Ritual
Exhumed – Necrocracy
The Black Dahlia Murder – Everblack
Katalepsy – Autopsychosis
Amon Amarth – Under the Influence
Hate – Solarflesh
Blockheads – This World Is Dead
Rotten Sound – Species At War
Devourment – Conceived in Sewage
Defeated Sanity – Passages Into Deformity
Dementia 13 – Tales For The Carnivorous
Deuil– Acceptance / Rebuild
Erimha – Reign Through Immortality
Hordes – I
Hordes – II
Autolatry – Native
In Gowan Ring – The Glinting Spade
65daysofstatic – Wild Light
God is an Astronaut – Origins
Long Distance Calling – The Flood Inside
Oak – Not Afraid Anymore
Sigur Rós – Kveikur
Low – The Invisible Way
Light Bearer – Silver Tongue
Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 1
Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 2
Killswitch Engage – Disarm The Descent
Cult of Luna – Vertikal
TesseracT – Altered State
Arrowwood – Beautiful Grave
Vuyvr – Eiskalt
Vit – The Dry Season
Cortez – Phœbus
Vorum – Poisoned Void
Common Eider, King Eider – Earth Liver
The Phantom Carriage – Falls
Newstead – Heavy Metal Music
Newstead – Metal
Anatomy of Habit – Anatomy of Habit
No Omega – Shame
BABYMETAL – Ijime, Dame, Zettai
BABYMETAL – Megitsune
Nails – Abandon All Life
Shroud Eater – Dead Ends
Lair of the Minotaur – Godslayer
Indricothere – II
Mandragora – IV
Helloween – Straight Out of Hell
Autarch – The Death of Actiacus
Ice Dragon – The Soul’s Midnight
Trist – Zrcadlení melancholie
Tentacle – Ingot Eye
Blut der Nacht – Sargnagel
Grayceon – Pearl and the End of Days
Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Alice in Chains – The Devil Put The Dinosaurs Here
--Stuff I didn’t care for--
Megadeth – Super Collider
Meshuggah – Pitch Black (single)
Soilwork – The Living Infinite
Thrown Into Exile – Thrown Into Exile
Drowning Pool – Resilience
Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
Device – Device
Hambeast – The Curse Of The Parfait
Trivium – Vengeance Falls
Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King