What are your albums of the year so far?

Nephilim Wolf

This year has been very good so far, and some amazing albums have come out. Here are my favourites in no particular order.

Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Amorphis - Circle
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Agathodaimon - In Darkness
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Battle Beast – Battle Beast
Amon Amarth - Deciever of The Gods
Black Sabbath - 13
Hypocrisy - End of Disclosure
Ghost - Infestissumam

So what are your favourite albums of this year so far?

Invictus

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

Tribulation - The Formulas of Death

RayCon

Steven Wilson : The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Sound Of Contact : Dimensionaut
Free Fall : Free Fall

GLaDOS

Steve Wilson's the best by some distance for me

Mushy

Steven Wilson by a long shot. If anything comes remotely close to it, I'll be shocked!

Hallyington

I also found Darkthrones - The Underground Resistance, to be fantastic.

buck65

Formless by Mourning Beloveth

honorary mention

Teethed glory - Altar Of Plagues
Sunbather - Deafheaven

Nea

Enjoying QOTSA,Ghost and Amorphis albums also. Steven Wilson's is on the way, I dont know how it has avoided me this long.

The Ocean - Pelagial
A Pale Horse Named Death - Lay My Soul To Waste
Kvelertak - Meir
Kylesa -Ultraviolet
Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse- Wisdom of Crowds

blackwave

Steven Wilson as well

xerces

Nea wrote: »

Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse- Wisdom of Crowds

*Downloading*

GLaDOS

xerces wrote: »

*Downloading*

Oh yes, must give this a listen

Mushy

xerces wrote: »

*Downloading*

Read about them the other day....tonight's listening sorted. Thank you Spotify!

zombiepaw

QOTSA - Like Clockwork
Black Sabbath - 13
Anders Osborne - Three Free Amigos
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals - Walk Through Exits Only
JJ Grey & Mofro - This River

SilverScreen

My favourite rock/metal albums of the year so far:

Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Amplifier - Echo Street
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Hacride - Back to Where You've Never Been

There's still a few albums I've been meaning to listen to.

Joe_Dull

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
QOTSA - ...Like Clockwork
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Alkaline Trio - My Shame Is True

GLaDOS

Just gave Wisdom of Crowds a listen there, really is fantastic. Not surprising given the personnel involved!

Isleman

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Just gave Wisdom of Crowds a listen there, really is fantastic. Not surprising given the personnel involved!

+1

King George VI

For me, this year's best album would be Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent. Nice return to form for Jesse Leach.

And Black Sabbath's 13 is top notch too.

Napper Hawkins

Haven't really listened to new stuff this year, "Vertikal" by Cult Of Luna is very good and the first of theirs that I've liked since Salvation.

The new Immolation was decent though I preferred "Majesty & Decay".

I enjoyed Altar Of Plagues "Teethed Glory & Injury" even though I'm not the biggest fan of black metal.

Heard one song from Hacride's latest and wasn't pushed with it, even though I think they're superb and loved "Lazarus" and "Amoeba". Great live band, great mix of Meshuggah and Gojira in their sound which will always work for me.
Might give that album another chance.

PickledLime

Not a lot of new stuff for me this year but these are certainly worthy:

Defeated Sanity - "Passages Into Deformity". A slice of old school brutality, if ye've never encountered them before, think of "Effigy Of The Forgotten" era Suffocation - so it's pretty technical, but not in a cold and calculating kind of way, it can get pretty messy and violent.

Gorguts - "Coloured Sands". (kinda cheeky to include this because it's not had a physical release yet!) Nothing will match the initial impact of "Obscura", but this is turning into my favourite record by them. The playing is impeccable, the compositions are wild and varied, and it can go from sound like a calm before the storm to the destruction of the world.

Suffocation - "The Pinnacle Of Bedlam". Their best output since "Despise The Sun", which was also the last time Dave Culross recorded with them. The production is pretty clean (for them), but it compliments the playing nicely.

Still to come this year that will undoubtedly be on my list are the newies from Ulcerate, Exivious and (hopefully) Cynic.

And I've been really jonesing to hear that new Steven Wilson record, must get on that soon.

Kess73

Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell volume 1

Very very catchy, and has some serious shades of Stone Sour's House of Gold & Bones Part 1 in places.



Karnivool - Asymetry

A bit darker than some of their earlier stuff (especially lyrically), but seems to grow further with each relisten.


A Pale Horse Named Death - Lay My Soul To Waste


An excellent second album, and one that I hope had Mr Steele nodding his head in approval somewhere.


Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse - Wisdom of Crowds

Excellent, just excellent.



Steve Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing


Same as the album above it on my list.


Middle Class Rut - Pick Up Your Head.

My favourite Jane's Addiction impersonators add a little bit more of Rage Againt the Machine and Faith No More to their sound. Very good second album, and a hell of a lot of noise for just two guys.


Soil - Whole


Ryan McCombs is finally back on lead vocals and we finally have an album from Soil that is a worthy successor to Scars.



James LaBrie - Impermanent Resonance

Bit of a big shout here and may enrage some DT diehards, but this is the best album I have heard him front since Images And Words.


Front Line Assembly - Echogenetic.

Very atmospheric album from the electro-industrial - metal -dance-whatever other genres they skirt around- band.




Honourable mentions to Volbeat, Newsted, Killswitch Engage, Winery Dogs, Stone Sour, and Filter.

machiavellianme

Kess73 wrote: »

Front Line Assembly - Echogenetic.

Very atmospheric album from the electro-industrial - metal -dance-whatever other genres they skirt around- band.




Honourable mentions to Volbeat, Newsted, Killswitch Engage, Winery Dogs, Stone Sour, and Filter.

Didn't know about the Front Line Assembly new one. Just had a wee listen and it sounds excellent. Filter is a long-awaited return to form.

Loving both Mutation albums / double album thing myself.
Metal supergroup with contributions from the Wildhearts, Napalm Death, Exit International, The Sisters Of Mercy, Hawkeyes, Cardiacs and Mark E. Smith.
Mutation - The Frankenstein Effect
Mutation - Error 500

Kess73

machiavellianme wrote: »

Didn't know about the Front Line Assembly new one. Just had a wee listen and it sounds excellent. Filter is a long-awaited return to form.

Loving both Mutation albums / double album thing myself.
Metal supergroup with contributions from the Wildhearts, Napalm Death, Exit International, The Sisters Of Mercy, Hawkeyes, Cardiacs and Mark E. Smith.
Mutation - The Frankenstein Effect
Mutation - Error 500

Yep it is good. Not many bands can say they have released a 17th studio album that sounds fresh and modern.

Liam McPoyle

Been a pretty poor year to date but my 2 faves thus far are

The Black Dahlia Murder : Everblack

Solid as ever.

Chimaira : Crown of Phantoms

A massive return to form after a couple of weak releases.

Nothing on the horizon that excites me either.

I must give a listen to some of the above mentioned though.

devildriver

For me it's:

Kata Ton Aaimona Eaytoy
Rotting Christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJbqplkBBv8

Surgical Steel
Carcass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSsrKl6HtAw

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End of Disclosure
Hypocrisy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsdZ2FR3WM

Pinnacle of Bedlam
Suffocation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp1YSf_5mr8

Just Like Heaven

Black Sabbath's, Letlive's, KSE and Black Dahlia Murder's. Will get around to Alter of Plagues and Trivium soon.

Clandestine

Haven't listened to many albums this year but so far:
The World is a Beautiful Place and i am no Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever if ever
Captain We're Sinking - The Future is Cancelled
Owen - L'ami Du Peuple
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Baths - Obsidian
No Joy - Wait to pleasure
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Gorguts-Colored Sands

I realise one or two of these aren't exactly metal/rock, all are great besides that.

Nephilim Wolf

I'll have to add 'The Wild Hunt' by Watain to my list of outstanding albums of 2013 as well. So far it sounds really brilliant.

PickledLime

Will add The Winery Dogs' self titled to my list.

Well played Portnoy, DT are gonna have a tall order approaching this in terms of quality!

markomuscle

Bullet For My Valentine - Temper Temper.

They are one of the most hated bands out there but I think they're great, they are playing Belfast tonight.

Wrongway1985

markomuscle wrote: »

Bullet For My Valentine - Temper Temper.

They are one of the most hated bands out there but I think they're great, they are playing Belfast tonight.

Hated so much they sold over 3 million albums, that latest release is terrible I think even the band are trying to distance themselves from it. Should be a decent gig in Belfast tonight though.