Honorable Mentions:
1. Omnium Gatherum- Beyond- The Sonic Sign
2. Artillery- Legions- God Feather
3. Pestilence- Obsideo- Obsideo
4. Tyr- Valkyrja- The Lay Of Love
5. Children Of Bodom- Halo Of Blood- Damaged Beyond Repair
6. Hecate Enthroned- Virulent Rapture- Unchained
7. Immolation- Kingdom Of Conspiracy- A Spectacle Of Lies
8. Paradise Lost- Tragic Illusion 25- Gothic 2013
9. Throne Of Katarsis- The Three Transcendental Keys- The First Transcendental Key
10. Catuvolcus- Voyageurs de l'Aube- Voyageurs Pts. I & II
11. Hacride- Back To Where You've Never Been- Overcome
12. Deliverance- Hear What I Say!- Liber 111/The Annals Of Subterfuge
13. October Tide- Tunnel Of No Light- Of Wounds To Come
14. Saprogenic- Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs- Navigating The Human Eye
Best Albums Of 2013:
15. Helloween- Straight Out Of Hell- Years
16. Logic Of Denial- Atonement- Behold The Throne Of Torture
17. Falkenbach- Asa- Wulfarweijd
18. Tristania- Darkest White- Number
19. Dream Theater- Dream Theater- Illumination Theory
20. Suffocation- Pinnacle Of Bedlam- Inversion
21. Crystallion- Killer- Far Cry
22. Svart- Det Personlinga Helvetets Spiral- Genom Forgangelsans Dimmor
23. Fleshgod Apocalypse- Labyrinth- Warpledge
24. Darkane- The Sinister Supremacy- Insurrection Is Imminent
25. Summoning- Old Morning's Dawn- The White Tower
26. Watain- The Wild Hunt- They Rode On
27. Dark Tranquillity- Construct- The Silence In Between
28. Darkthrone- The Underground Resistance- Valkyrie
29. Katatonia- Dethroned & Uncrowned- The Parting
30. Katatonia- Dethroned & Uncrowned- Lethean
31. Guttural Secrete- Nourishing The Spoil- Deadened Prior To Coitus
32. Guttural Secrete- Nourishing The Spoil- Voyeuristic Engagement
34. Death Angel- The Dream Calls For Blood- Execution/Don't Save Me
35. Rotting Christ- Kata Ton Aimona Eaytoy- Gilgames
36. Necrotic Disgorgement- Documentaries Of Dementia- Anal Trauma
37. Gris- A l'Ame Enflammee, l'Amme Constellee- Une Epitaphe de Suie
38. Gris- A l'Ame Enflammee, l'Amme Constellee- Nadir
2014 Preview:
39. Iced Earth- If I Could See You (NEW)
40. Dark Funeral- The Black-Winged Horde
41. Mastodon- The Czar
42. Behemoth- Blackest Ov The Black
43. Ulver- Mother Of Mercy