Top 25 Albums of 2013

And now without further ado (and before I forget), here's my ranked list for last year. It was a pain to rank these as 2013 was an incredible year for music, but after much mental wrestling, I somehow managed it. Enjoy!

1. Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
3. Scale the Summit - The Migration
4. Dream Theater - Dream Theater
5. Amorphis - Circle
6. Deafheaven - Sunbather
7. Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
8. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
9. Ghost - Infestissumam
10. Carcass - Surgical Steel

11. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

12. Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor

13. Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork

14. Russian Circles - Memorial

15. The Ocean - Pelagial

16. Tesseract - Altered State

17. Avatarium - Avatarium

18. Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

19. Amaranthe - The Nexus

20. James LaBrie - Impermanent Resonance

21. Haken - The Mountain

22. Alter Bridge - Fortress

23. Black Sabbath - 13

24. Soilwork - The Living Infinite

25. Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X

Honorable Mentions:

Sigur Ros - Kveikur

Hammock - Oblivion Hymns 

Night Verses - Lift Your Existence

Revocation - Revocation

Havok - Unnatural Selection

Cult of Luna - Vertikal

Dark Tranquillity - Construct

Intronaut - Habitual Levitations

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy

Protest the Hero - Volition

Clutch - Earth Rocker

Germ - Grief

The Dear Hunter - Migrant

Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Deep Purple - Now What?!

Persefone - Spiritual Migration

Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

My Bloody Valentine - mbv

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Blooc Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark

Leprous - Coal

Anciients - Heart of Oak

Orphaned Land - All is One

The Reign of Kindo - Play With Fire

Pelican - Forever Becoming

Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty

Goldfrapp - Tales of Us

Kataklysm - Waiting for the End to Come

Nails - Abandon All Life