Agalloch-The Serpent & the Sphere
Alcest-Shelter
Aphex Twin-Syro
At the Gates-At War With Reality
The Atlas Moth-The Old Believer
Boris-Noise
Cormorant-Earth Diver
Earth-Primitive and Deadly
Godflesh-A World Lit Only By Fire
Have a Nice Life-The Unnatural World
How to Dress Well-"What is this Heart?"
Lantlos-Melting Sun
Mastodon-Once More 'Round the Sun
Mono-The Last Dawn/Rays of Darkness
Ne Obliviscaris-Citadel
Nothing-Guilty of Everything
Opeth-Pale Communion
Pallbearer-Foundations of Burden
Pianos Become the Teeth-Keep You
Primordial-Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Swans-To Be Kind
Thou-Heathen
Tombs-Savage Gold
Yob-Clearing the Path to Ascend

Really lazy putting this together…not only was it difficult to rank albums this year, I wasn't in the mood to write paragraph long summaries of each, so I'm just making simple lists.

Best albums of 2013

25. Vattnet Viskar-Sky Swallower

24. The Black Dahlia Murder-Everblack

23. Jesu-Everyday I Get Closer To the Light from Which I Came

22. Mouth of the Architect-Dawning

21. Russian Circles-Memorial

20. Pelican-Forever Becoming

19. Cloudkicker-Subsume

18. Inter Arma-Sky Burial

17. Nine Inch Nails-Hesitation Marks

16. Palms-Palms

15. Sannhet-Known Flood

14. Rosetta-The Anaesthete

13. Protest the Hero-Volition

12. Carcass-Surgical Steel

11. Gorguts-Colored Sands

10. Touche Amore-Is…

Didn’t make the cut (Good releases that didn't match up to others this year):
Altar of Plagues/Year of No Light split (black metal/post metal)
Behold the Arctopus-Horrorscension (instrumental prog metal)
Burzum-Umskiptar (black metal)
Childish Gambino-Royalty (hip hop/rap)
The Contortionist-Intrinsic (progressive metalcore)
Cradle of Filth-The Manticore and Other Horrors (blackened gothic metal)
Cynic-The Portal Tapes (progressive metal)
Daylight Dies-A Frail Becoming (death/doom metal)
Earth-Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (doom metal/post rock/experimental)
A Forest of Stars-A Shadowplay for Yesterdays (psychedelic black metal)
High on Fire-De Vermis Mysteriis (doom/stoner metal)
Inverloch-Dusk/Subside (death/doom metal)
Les Discrets-Ariettes oubliées… (shoegaze/post rock)
Marissa Nadler-The Sister…

First, the honorable mentions:
Amebix-Sonic Mass (crust punk/thrash)-More than 20 years after their last one, they can still deliver. It has a different sound (Iron Maiden meets Neurosis?), but that’s no reason to skip this one.

Autopsy-Macabre Eternal (death metal)-Another solid reunion album. This was a great year for death metal. Heavy and crushing.

Blut aus Nord-777 – Sect(s)/ 777 – The Desanctification (black metal)-The first 2 parts of this trilogy puts them on the same level as their fellow French black metallers Deathspell Omega. The dissonance and rawness is EVIL.

Bon Iver-Bon Iver (folk/indie rock)-An album I didn’t think…

Abigail Williams-In the Absence of Light (black metal)
Less symphony, more awesome.

Agalloch-Marrow of the Spirit (folk metal/post rock)
Everything that the band has done before was given new life, and the drumming is better than ever. Potentially number one for the year.

Alcest-Ecailles de Lune (black metal/shoegaze)
The harsh cold of black metal and the serene beauty of shoegaze. It works so well. This is also a contender for number one.

Anathema-We're Here Because We're Here (alternative/progressive rock)
It's been a while, but it sounds as lush and beautiful as their earlier works. Who would've thought that Anathema would…

1. How did you get into 29?
*shrug* I just did

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Bloodmeat

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
All of them

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
Orosirian

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
Without God

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Yes

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
One

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
good ol 235

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
not…

1. Between the Buried and Me-The Great Misdirect (progressive metal/metalcore)
As if anything could surpass Colors, The Great Misdirect shows up and kick its ass. This album might be the starting point at which their music becomes more and more progressive….they'll be the new Dream Theater in 5 or 10 years. From the jazzy bass lines and the drum destroying to the epic guitars and lush keyboards topped off with insane vocals, this album has it all.

2. Cormorant-Metazoa (progressive black/folk)
I've been following this band since they released their EP The Last Tree in 2007, and my admiration has…

Sun 9 Aug – Blink-182 / Fall Out Boy

My first show ever. Not very typical of my music tastes of the past few years, but Blink 182 was one of my favorite bands for a few years, and I enjoy a few songs from Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco.

Chester French was OK. I posted a Twitter from my phone during the show and Andrew "D.A." Wallach replied to it:

Chester French is on…decentabout 22 hours ago from txt

@SanskarWagley xoxox - much appreciated.about 19 hours ago from web in reply to SanskarWagley

Panic at the…

1. How did you get into 29?
Known about them for a long time, finally decided to give them a listen

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Re-Connect

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
If by own you mean downloaded, various songs off the first 4 albums, and the entire Octahedron album

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
Metropolis

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
One

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
No, they're an angry band

7. What is your favorite song…

Post your Last.fm overall top 10 artists, the first song you heard of theirs (a), the song that made you fall in love (b), and your current favorite ©.

Opeth
Blackwater Park
The Drapery Falls
Heir Apparent

Avenged Sevenfold
Bat Country
Beast and the Harlot
Tension

Between the Buried and Me
Alaska
Selkies: The Endless Obsession
Bicycle Race

Atreyu
The Crimson
Ex's and Oh's
Can't Happen Here

Metallica
Enter Sandman
One
The Judas Kiss

The Black Dahlia Murder
I'm Charming
Statutory Ape
Nocturnal

My Dying Bride
Deeper Down
Catherine Blake
The Dreadful Hours

Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet…