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1
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Deafheaven - Sunbather
June 11, 2013
Blackgaze
,
Post-Black Metal
Critic Score
89
23
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
2
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Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
April 30, 2013
Atmospheric Black Metal
,
Post-Black Metal
Critic Score
87
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
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Gorguts - Colored Sands
August 6, 2013
Technical Death Metal
,
Dissonant Death Metal
Critic Score
87
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
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Carcass - Surgical Steel
September 17, 2013
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
86
11
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
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The Ocean - Pelagial
April 30, 2013
Progressive Metal
,
Post-Metal
,
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Critic Score
84
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
Norma Jean - Wrongdoers
August 6, 2013
Post-Hardcore
,
Sludge Metal
,
Metalcore
Critic Score
83
5
reviews
Amazon
7
.
Voivod - Target Earth
January 22, 2013
Progressive Metal
,
Thrash Metal
,
Metal
Critic Score
83
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
March 19, 2013
Doom Metal
,
Metal
Critic Score
83
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Scale The Summit - The Migration
June 11, 2013
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
83
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
January 29, 2013
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Critic Score
83
15
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
October 15, 2013
Sludge Metal
,
Drone Metal
Critic Score
80
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
12
.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
June 11, 2013
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
80
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
KEN mode - Entrench
March 15, 2013
Noise Rock
,
Metalcore
,
Post-Hardcore
,
Sludge Metal
Critic Score
80
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
In Solitude - Sister
September 30, 2013
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
May 28, 2013
Doom Metal
,
Metal
Critic Score
79
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony
June 17, 2013
Melodic Death Metal
,
Metal
Critic Score
78
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Baptists - Bushcraft
February 18, 2013
Hardcore Punk
,
Crust Punk
,
Metalcore
Critic Score
78
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
February 26, 2013
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
78
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Cathedral - The Last Spire
April 30, 2013
Doom Metal
,
Metal
Critic Score
78
8
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Portal - Vexovoid
February 19, 2013
Death Metal
,
Technical Death Metal
,
Dissonant Death Metal
Critic Score
78
8
reviews
Amazon
21
.
Watain - The Wild Hunt
August 19, 2013
Black Metal
Critic Score
77
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
May 28, 2013
Sludge Metal
Critic Score
77
17
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Shining - One One One
May 28, 2013
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Industrial Metal
Critic Score
77
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones – Part 2
April 9, 2013
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
77
6
reviews
Amazon
25
.
All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature
July 23, 2013
Hardcore Punk
,
Metalcore
Critic Score
77
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
1
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