Your Top Albums of 2013 (so far)

Neo-Romantic wrote: ^I haven't heard Raven personally, but I can vouch for The Mountain. It's in my personal top 10, and not just for this year. It's just that good.

1 - Haken's The Mountain
2 - Cult of Luna's Vertikal
3 - Steven Wilson's The Raven...
4 - The Ocean's Pelagial
5 - Atoms for Peace's Amok
6 - Coheed and Cambria's The Afterman: Descension
7 - Scale the Summit's The Migration
8 - And So I Watch You From Afar's All Hail Bright Futures
9 - Riverside's Shrine of New Generation Slaves
10 - Carcass' Surgical Steel

Ok. Here is my final list, but in 2 weeks i will list my top ten...it won't be easy. God. What a year.


My Best for 2013....

In no order.
Unreal City--La Crudelta Di Aprile
Ochre--La Moddie
Edison's Children--The Final Breath Before November
Dead Heroes Club--Everything Is Connected.
Royal Hunt--A Life to Die For
Devin Townsend--Retinal Circus
Spocks Beard--Brief Nocturnes
The Flower Kings--Desolation Rose.
Himilabacken--Vol.1
Genesis Revisted--Live At The Hammersmith Odeon (2013) 2dvd 3cd set
Kompendium--Elements
Believe--The warmest Winter Sun
Days between Stations--In Extremist
Airbag--The Greatest show on earth
Il Cerchio D'Oro---Dedalo E Icaro
IQ---Tales From The Lush Attic (Remix/reissue 2013)
Anathema--Universal
Maurizo Guarini--Creatures From A Drawer
Soulfly--Savages
The Tangent: The Rite Of Work
Magenta--The 27 Club
Dead Can Dance--In Concert 2012 (album released 2013)
Clive Nolan--Alchemy (studio Version)
Clive Nolan--Alchemy live! (Box Set (3cd/2dvd 2013)
Autechre--Xai
Pendragon--Introducing Pendragon (2cd Compilation album 2013)
Depeche Mode--Delta Machine
Ulver---Messe I.X--VI.X
WinterSun--Time I
Hibernal--The Machine
Comedy Of Errors--Fanfare And Fantasy
T--Psychoanorexia
Orphaned Land--All Is One
Nine Inch Nails--Hesitation Marks
Haken--The Mountain
Dream Theater--Live at Luna Park (2dvd--3cd set)
Device--Vilify
Trivium-- Vengeance Falls
Ayreon-- The Theory Of Everything (2cd/DVD set)
Arena--The Rapture
Queensryche---X2
Amon Amarth--Deceiver Of Gods
Levin Rudess Minnemann--The Project
James LaBrie--Impermanent Resonance.
Steven Wilson--The Raven That Refused To Sing:And other short stories.
Riverside--Shrine Of A New Generation
Lifesigns--Lifesigns (debut 2013)
Big Big Train--English Electric Full Power
Tears For Fears--The Hurting 4cd Reissue box set-2013)
Aciients--Heart Of Oak
Cosmograf--The Man Left In Space
Sound Of Contact--Dimensionaut
Nightwish--The Ballads (compilation 2013)
Metallica: Through The Never (Music from the Motion Picture)
Katatonia--Dethroned & UnCrowned
The Alan Parsons Project--I Robot ( 35th Anniversary Legacy Edition)
Skinny Puppy--The Weapon
Fish-- A Feast of Consequences.
PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - In
Classic: Da Mozart - A Celebration (2013)
Leprous--Coal
Draconian--The Arcane Rain Fell (2013 digital reissue)
Ministry--From Beer To Eternity (farewell album)
Psykerion--The Thought Chamber
Motorpsycho--Still Life With Eggplant.
Gary Numan's--Splinter
The Psychedelic Ensemble--The Return Of The Golden King
The Eldritch Dark--Blood Ceremony
DREAM THEATER--DREAM THEATER
FATES WARNING--A DARKNESS IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Always interesting, I've bought around 50 prog albums this year that I'd consider at least good and we only have one in common, Steve Wilson. Got to love the variety & volume of releases at the moment.

Er yes.

Here my updated 2013 list

1.     Dream Theater - Dream Theater
2.     Comedy of Errors - Fanfare and Fantasy
3.     Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
4.     The Tangent - Le Sacre Du Travail
5.     Sound of Contact - Dimensionaut
6.     Eclipse Sol-Air - Schizophilia
7.     Haken - The Mountain

^ Nice debut album as you say. I think I have 3 in my list (Lifesigns and Fright Pig being the others) all good imo. 

^ Anathema - Weather Systems was the last album that had that impact on me.

Man With Hat wrote: The Worm Ouroboros - Of Things...

I bought this recently, and was surprised to find these guys not on the Archives (from what I can tell?). There is an American band with the same name, but pretty sure they're a totallly different group altogether?

Unless they are on the Archives, I wonder if anyone has proposed them on the `suggest new artists' thread?

I'm going to give it my first spin on the way to work today!

Thanks Mr Hat! I noticed on your lists here and the other thread that you've also rated highly both the new Unit Wail and the Miss Clara one - another two albums I've bought but haven't listened to yet!

I'm also liking Dialeto's `The Lost Tribe', really good, got a review ready to go for that one.

Great to see some love for OE's `Permafrost', got that one in the car right now too...though listening at night is much more appropriate!

Man With Hat wrote: Spaltklang - In Between Unit Wail - Retort Archestra - Arches October Equus - Permafrost Caillou - S/t Jaga Jazzist - Live With BS The Worm Ouroboros - Of Things...

I'm a fan of all of these, I agree with your assessment that Unit Wail's release is even stronger than their excellent debut. One of the highlights of the year was seeing them in Paris at Soleil Zeuhl.