2013年 Jan 3日 Thursday, 14:15

So, yet another issue of the Year End Summary is about to amuse and bewilder you. It was an awesome year for music, and it was also a totally magnificent year for my other passion, cinema, but that's not the place to speak about it. Anyway, for quite some time I've had this thought that this summary business is kinda stupid – suddenly in December you realise how many potentially awesome albums you've missed and then you desperately try to make up for it by listening as much as you can, neglecting your work, studies, family, girlfriend, cat or whatever you've got to care for. Not that I intend to drop doing this or something, I guess I just like doing pointless stuff nobody cares about. Oh well, I start to blabber here. So, let's get ready to rumble!

3/10:
This or the Apocalypse – Dead Years (The Worst Album of the Year and The Disappointment of the Year; it's actually really, really sad how this band managed to stoop so low after two great releases…)
August Burns Red – Sleddin' Hill: A Holiday Album (Special Award for the Most Unnecessary Album by an Otherwise Totally Awesome Band)

3,5/10:
Biohazard – Reborn in Defiance

4/10:
The Kandidate – Facing the Imminent Prospect of Death
The Killers – Battle Born

4,5/10:
Deserters – The Slow Rhythms of a Dead-Beat
I, The Breather – Truth and Purpose
Ital – Hive Mind

5/10:
All That Remains – A War You Can Not Win
Becoming the Archetype – I Am
Behold! The Monolith – Defender, Redeemist
God Forbid – Equilibrium
Hawthorne Heights – Hope
Lethian Dreams – Season of Raven Words
Linkin Park – Living Things
Monuments – Gnosis
Omotai – Terrestial Grief
Rival Sons – Head Down
Santigold – Master of My Make-Believe
Scarlet Anger – Dark Reign
Veil of Maya – Eclipse
Words Like Daggers – Literature

5,5/10:
Code Orange Kids – Love is Love // Return to Dust
Delain – We Are the Others
Mumford & Sons – Babel
Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

6/10:
Abraham – The Serpent, the Prophet & the Whore
Architects – Daybreaker
Aura Noir – Out to Die
Blaze – The King of Metal
Blondes – Blondes
Bonded by Blood – The Aftermath
Dawnbringer – Into the Lair of the Sun God
The Hives – Lex Hives
Jorn – Bring Heavy Rock to the Land
Leaders – Now We Are Free
Machinae Supremacy – Rise of a Digital Nation
My Ticket Home – To Create a Cure
Primitive Weapons – The Shadow Gallery
Promethee – Nothing Happens, Nobody Comes, Nobody Goes
Propagandhi – Failed States
Serocs – Oneirology
Slice the Cake – The Man With No Face
Soap&Skin – Narrow
Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix
Jessie Ware – Devotion
Whitechapel – Whitechapel

6,5/10:
3 Inches of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal
Disfiguring the Goddess – Sleeper
Evocation – Illusions of Grandeur
General Lee – Raiders of the Evil Eye
Greeley Estates – The Narrow Road EP
Lord Mantis – Pervertor
Memphis May Fire – Challenger
Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
The Omega Experiment – The Omega Experiment

7/10:
Aborted – Global Flatline
Acid Drinkers – La part du Diable
Aoria – The Constant
Baroness – Yellow & Green
Bleeding Through – The Great Fire
Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever
Chromatics – Kill for Love
Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis
Dust Bolt – Violent Demolition
Eisley – Deep Space EP
Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes
Enslaved – RIITIIR
Everything Went Black – Cycles of Light
Father Befouled – Revulsion of Seraphic Grace
Florence + The Machine – MTV Unplugged
Galahad – Beyond the Realms of Euphoria
The Ghost Inside – Get What You Give
Gojira – L'enfant sauvage
Graveyard – Lights Out
Steve Harris – British Lion
Havok – The Point of No Return EP
Hellwell – Beyond the Boundaries of Sin
If These Trees Could Talk – Red Forest
Incantation – Vanquish in Vengeance
Islands – Islands
Kadavar – Kadavar
LaikIke1 & Młodzik – Milczmen Screamdustry
Lazerhawk – Visitors
Lillian Axe – XI: The Days Before Tommorow
The Little Willies – For the Good Times
Amy Macdonald – Life in a Beautiful Light
Masachist – Scorned
Mos Generator – Nomads
Narrows – Painted
Nile – At the Gate of Sethu
Oddland – The Treachery of Senses
Panopticon – Kentucky
Paragon – Force of Destruction
Pokahontaz – Rekontakt
Serocs – So On And So Forth EP
Slash – Apocalyptic Love
To-Mera – Exile
The Very End – Turn Off the World
Vintersorg – Orkan
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Winterfylleth – The Threnody of Triumph
Witchcraft – Legend
Your Memorial – Redirect

7,5/10:
Aegaeon – Being
Aldaaron – Suprême silence
BadBadNotGood – BBNG2
Candlemass – Psalms for the Dead
Daylight Dies – A Frail Becoming
Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
Earthrise – Eras Lost
Eluveitie – Helvetios
Exumer – Fire & Damnation
Flying Colors – Flying Colors
Norah Jones – …Little Broken Hearts
Khors – Wisdom of Centuries
Lahmia – Into the Abyss
Moonspell – Alpha Noir
The Night Flight Orchestra – Internal Affairs
Nominon – The Cleansing
Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol
Poliça – Give You the Ghost
Ram – Death
Sear Bliss – Eternal Recurrence
Sent by Ravens – Mean What You Say
Six Organs of Admittance – Ascent
Sophicide – Perdition of the Sublime
Stealing Axion – Moments
Vales – Clarity EP

8/10:
Ad Patres – Scorn Aesthetics
Aggression – Viocracy
Altar of Oblivion – Grand Gesture of Defiance
Anti Tank Nun – Hang'em High
As I Lay Dying – Awakened
Azaghal – Nemesis
Beneath – Enslaved by Fear
Black Country Communion – Afterglow
Bloc Party – Four
Blut aus Nord – What Once Was… Liber II
Borknagar – Urd
Bosse-de-Nage – III
Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
The Chariot – One Wing
Christian Mistress – Possesssion
Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension
Deathspell Omega – Drought EP
Destinity – Resolve in Crimson
Dordeduh – Dar de duh
Dragged Into Sunlight – Widowmaker
DragonForce – The Power Within
Drudkh – Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Dying Fetus – Reign Supreme
Enabler – Reign Supreme
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo – Tree of Tongues
Gallows – Gallows
Heartless Bastards – Arrow
Krallice – Years Past Matter
The Last Secret of Houdini - The Last Secret of Houdini
Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion
Marduk – Serpent Sermon
The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
Meshuggah – Koloss
Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine
Naglfar – Teras
Naïve – Illuminatis
Pathfinder – Fifth Element
The Pineapple Thief – All the Wars
Primal Fear – Unbreakable
Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression
Ragnarok – Malediction
Reverence – The Asthenic Ascension
Sigh – In Somniphobia
Swallow the Sun – Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster – Exegesis
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody – Ascending to Infinity
Vindicator – United We Fall
War From a Harlots Mouth – Voyeur

8,5/10:
A Life Once Lost – Ecstatic Trance
A Sound of Thunder – Out of the Darkness
Accept – Stalingrad
Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Altar of Oblivion – Salvation EP
Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas
Asidefromaday – Chasing Shadows
Asphyx – Deathhammer
AtomA – Skylight
Be'lakor – Of Breath and Bone
Black Breath – Sentenced to Life
Black Sheep Wall – No Matter Where It Ends
Blut aus Nord – 777 – Cosmosophy
Creatures – Vesuvius
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora's Piňata
Furia – Marzannie, Królowej Polski
Gaza – No Absolutes in Human Suffering
High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Konkeror – The Abysmal Horizons
Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships
Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
Loma Prieta – I.V.
Mgła – With Hearts Toward None
Moonspell – Omega White
Napalm Death – Utilitarian
Ne Obliviscaris – Portal of I
Odium – Burning the Bridges to Nowhere
Pharaoh – Bury the Light
Purity Ring – Shrines
Rush – Clockwork Angels
Sabaton – Carolus Rex
Striker – Armed to the Teeth
Suicidal Angels – Bloodbath
Trioscapes – Separate Realities
Unisonic – Unisonic
Vision Divine – Destination Set to Nowhere
Vision of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed

9/10, enter the domain of Awesome:
Angelus Apátrida – The Call
Beneath the Massacre – Incongruous
Joe Bonamassa – Driving Towards the Daylight
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
Dyscarnate – And So It Came to Pass
Gods of Eden – Gods of Eden EP
Grand Magus – The Hunt
Hour of Penance – Sedition
Huntress – Spell Eater
Ihsahn – Eremita
In Mourning – The Weight of Oceans
Katatonia – Dead End Kings
Lamb of God – Resolution
Nekromantheon – Rise, Vulcan Spectre
Overkill – The Electric Age
Seven Kingdoms – The Fire Is Mine
Spawn of Possession – Incurso
Stam1na – Nocebo
Steelwing – Zone of Alienation
The Sword – Apocryphon
Sylosis – Monolith
Syqem – Reflections of Elephants
Tank – War Nation
Serj Tankian – Harakiri

9,5/10, more awesome than Awesome:
4arm – Submission for Liberty
Anathema – Weather Systems
Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Hypno5e – Acid Mist Tommorow
Threshold – March of Progress
Unleashed – Odalheim

10/10, the pinnacle of Awesome:
Aeternam – Moongod
Gorod – A Perfect Absolution
Testament – Dark Roots of Earth

667/10 and the title of The Album of the Year:
Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
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So, that's it for now. Hope 2013 will be at least as good as 2012. Now I leave the stage to you - show your hate. Oh, and once you stop bashing me for my ignorance, you may as well recommend me some albums that I've missed.