This Best Of list is way overdue. Even if I wanted to publish it sooner and on time, I couldn’t. Not only because there were too many releases to choose from, but I also had a hard time trying to put them in order of preference, which is silly, because doesn’t preference depend on other factors as well? (circumstances, moods, etc.)
That’s why I won’t do that anymore and just post, in alphabetical order, a certain, round number of releases I found worth checking out. Not that there wasn’t more of 2013 that is worth listening to. There is / was a whole lot more. But one can’t keep an eye and ear on everything and this kind of list is best kept relatively short.
This is my selection of what stood out (full albums only), in alphabetical order:
- AMON AMARTH – Deceiver Of The Gods
- ANIHILATED – iDeviant
- ARMORY – Empyrean Realms (review)
- AYREON – The Theory of Everything
- CIVIL WAR – The Killer Angels (review)
- DGM – Momentum
- DREAM THEATER – Dream Theater
- DYSCORDIA – Twin Symbiosis (review)
- EMPYRIOS – Zion
- EREB ALTOR – Fire Meets Ice
- EYE OF SOLITUDE – Canto III (review)
- FREEDOMS REIGN – Freedoms Reign (review)
- GORGUTS – Colored Sands
- HAKEN – The Mountain
- IVANHOE – Systematrix
- KALMAH – Seventh Samphony
- LA-VENTURA – White Crow (review)
- LOCUS CONTROL – Àttavita (review)
- MASTERPLAN – Novum Initium
- ONSLAUGHT – VI (review)
- OPERADYSE – Pandemonium
- POWERWOLF – Preachers Of The Night
- PSYCHOTHERMIA – Fall To The Rising Sun (review)
- SANDSTONE – Delta Viridian (review)
- SERENITY – War Of Ages
- SOILWORK – The Living Infinite
- SPOCK’S BEARD – Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
- TIERRA SANTA – Mi Nombre Serà Leyenda
- TIMO TOLKKI’S AVALON – The Land Of New Hope
- VISIONS OF ATLANTIS – Ethera
And here’s, also in alphabetical order, what I think didn’t stand out (for whatever reason: production, compositions, variety, …), at least not like the releases above:
- AVANTASIA – The Mystery Of Time
- CRYSTAL VIPER – Possession
- FKÜ – Rise Of The Moshmongers (review)
- KROSSBREED – The Art Of Suffering (review)
- LONEWOLF – The Fourth And Final Horseman
- LUCID DREAMING – The Chronicles Pt. I
- MINOTAURUS – The Call
- MYSTERY – 2013 (review)
- ROZZ – Tranches De Vie (review)
- SAXON – Sacrifice
- SINNER – Touch Of Sin 2
- SWITCHBLADE – Heavy Weapons (review)
- THYRFING – De Ödeslösa
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