Ipod's First Quarter, 2013
Feel free to throw on any I've missed, Here's my first quater (of mainly metal) of 2013. |
| 1 | | The Devil
Gather The Sinners
When everybody was toting Ghost's debut in 2011, these guys found themselves somewhat under the radar and Just like Ghost, they're back in 2013. Traditional Doom Landscapes with a modern take. - 3.6/5 |
| 2 |  | Zozobra
Savage Masters
Only fifteen minutes in length, this is a short burst of sludge that keep on giving. - 3.8/5 |
| 3 | | Rorcal
Vil?gv?ge
A sludge, doom, death hybrid. Quite intense for an album with numbers. The vocals are a definite high point. - 4/5 |
| 4 |  | Rotting Christ
Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
I wasn't expecting this one to have the impact that it did. - 4.1/5 |
| 5 |  | Inter Arma
Sky Burial
Sludgy doomy posty, Incredibly steady for these newcomers to the scene - 3.4/5 |
| 6 |  | High Priest of Saturn
High Priest of Saturn
Doom with female vocals, the vocals don't overpower the music just adding when it's needed. - 4.5/5 |
| 7 |  | The Flight Of Sleipnir
Saga
Blackened folk, Building on the band's past works - 3.8/5 |
| 8 |  | Fen
Dustwalker
Folkened Black/Post metal, Same as above - 3.6/5 |
| 9 |  | Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt
Dys/Closure
Remeber this name, this Australian Punk/Grind out fit play furiously albeit shortly. - 3.4/5 |
| 10 |  | Enforcer
Death By Fire
Relive the old days, 3.7/5 |
| 11 | | Eight Bells
The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter is a weird one, chances are if you have heard this album, it's because someone told you about it. So this is me, telling you about it. - 4/5 |
| 12 |  | Amaranthe
The Nexus
Corsette metal, Female led pop/symphonic almost melodic death metal - 4/5 |
| 13 |  | Appalachian Winter
Ghosts of the Mountains
Atmospheric Pagan metal, free to download as per the artist's wishes. Album art is a bit shoddy but thankfully the music holds it's own. - 4/5 |
| 14 |  | Avantasia
The Mystery Of Time
Your Power metal AOTY thus far, Features a roster of 16 artists from various bands including ex.Kiss and Helloween. - 4.2/5 |
| 15 |  | Blut der Nacht
Sargnagel
Black metal, hard hitting and raw. - 3.7/5 |
| 16 | | Boris
Pr?parat
I hope you guys have all heard this, I'm pretty sure most of you have. - 3.8/5 |
| 17 |  | Botanist
IV: Mandragora
Eco-terrorist-black-metal, do I need to say any more? - 4/5 |
| 18 |  | Brown Mountain
Brown Mountain
Sludge filled post metal, largely instrumental. - 3.5/5 |
| 19 | | Cnoc An Tursa
The Giants of Auld
If you didn't guess from the titles, it's a lot folky : ] - 3.8/5 |
| 20 |  | Darkthrone
The Underground Resistance
These titans are back with an album to kick your face in. - 5/5 |
| 21 |  | Dreamshade
The Gift Of Life
Good metalcore, It doesn't exactly do anything out of the ordinary but it's surprisingly solid. - 3.5/5 |
| 22 | | Graveyard
The Sea Grave
Death metal, it had to get a mention somewhere right?. -3.6/5 |
| 23 | | Krypts
Unending Degredation
A titan of a record, primal, angry ready to blast your socks off. - 3.9/5 |
| 24 |  | Hatebreed
The Divinity Of Purpose
Metallic hardcore kings, The Divinity of Purpose provided everything it needed to while conforming to what made this band popular. - 3.8/5 |
| 25 |  | KAGRENAK
Part One
3.5/5 |
| 26 |  | KAGRENAK
Part Two
The Double album of doomster's Kagrenak was a short but pleasurable journey through doom's droney depths. - 4/5 |
| 27 |  | Kongh
Sole Creation
Ritualistic Sludge, complete with a gorilla on the album art. 3.7/5 |
| 28 |  | On Wings Of Wax
The Empty Bed
Instrumental, beautiful and thouroghly captivating. - 4/5 |
| 29 |  | October Falls
The Plague Of A Coming Age
A plague you want - 4/5 |
| 30 |  | October Tide
Tunnel Of No Light
Not as great as the other 'October' but great none-the-less. - 3.5/5 |
| 31 |  | Path to Ixtab
Black Sky
Semi raw, death metal with the occasional black metal influence. - 3.3./5 |
| 32 |  | Portal
Vexovoid
Yes, it murks. - 4/5 |
| 33 |  | Raxa
Starchildren
Context focusing on the ancient Mayan civilisation, This one-manned black/experimental/stoner project is quite the listen. - 4/5 |
| 34 | | Reflection Nebula
Ekhar
Ambient droning funeral doom. - 4/5 |
| 35 |  | Riverside
Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Prog rock, doesn't have the same punch that ADHD had but it's moved outwards focusing on smooth bouncy tones. - 4.5/5 |
| 36 |  | Sevendust
Black Out The Sun
The band is now a few albums in, this is as solid as the group's best. - 3.7/5 |
| 37 | | Stone Sour
House Of Gold and Bones Part 2
Who would've thought that the second chapter in this series would be the best release Stone Sour have made. - 4/5 |
| 38 |  | Trvth
Black Horse Plague
Massive record, built from the ground up by Sputnik's resident death metaling CaptainDooRight. - 4.6/5 |
| 39 |  | Universe217
Never
Female led doom metal, it's some seriously powerful stuff. - 3.8/5 |
| 40 |  | Void Of Sleep
Tales Between Reality and Madness
Stoner/doom anthems, you know the stuff Paperback, Greg, Vovoid would all dig. - 3.9/5 |
| 41 |  | When Woods Make Graves
Consuming Darkness
Bend over and show us your dark side. This is vile, angry black metal. - 4.2/5 |
| 42 |  | Coheed and Cambria
The Afterman: Descension
While this seemed to split people right down the middle, I personally liked it. - 3.9/5 |
| 43 |  | Killswitch Engage
Disarm The Descent
It wasn't the game changer everybody was hyping for, but as far as mainstream metalcore goes, it manages to hold it's own. - 3.3/5 |
| 44 | | Horna
Askel L?hemp?n? Saatanaa
Some more black metal, Horna proves again and again that they know how to do it right. - 4.4/5 |
| 45 | | Paysage d'Hiver
Das Tor
This album is the sound of winter, contining in the same manner from previous releases Paysage make it clear which direction they are going. - 4.1/5 |
| 46 | | Steven Wilson
The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Highly anticipated, held up to all most of its promises. - 3.6/5 |
| 47 |  | Cult Of Luna
Vertikal
An extremely solid record in the world of post metal. - 4/5 |
| 48 |  | Mutiny Within
Synchronicity
Although at the start of the year it's good to see these guys putting out more material, especially with Chris Clancy's powerful vocals. 4.3/5 |
| 49 |  | Of Solitude and Solemn
Of Solitude and Solemn
Noctus' foray into the world of ambient post doom metal. Has cleans screams etc. All from the work of multi-instrumentalist Joe Hawker. - 4/5 |
| 50 |  | Hela
Broken Cross
More female fronted stoner doom psychedelic metal. This is a genre on the rise, - 4.1/5 |
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