I'm doing a "Best of 2013" metal show Friday night. (January 3rd 2014). It goes from 9pm to 12 midnight on 90.3 WRIU and you can listen to it online.

http://wriu.org/listen.php

http://www.wriu.org/


I have been obsessively listening to new releases since Thanksgiving, and I have spent the last few days narrowing it down. At this point it looks like I will do a 'Top 30' with some 'Honorable Mentions' at the end. It's tough picking out tracks, and I am trying to make sure I can squeeze it all in. Some bands have phenomenal tracks that are 9 - 15 minutes long, but I want to fit in as much as I can - so picking out shorter tracks has been a task.

It will be a mix of death, black, thrash, heavy etc., etc. Tune in if you want to get a cool overview of awesome stuff that is out there. You may get turned out to some new bands.

Tonight

Cool. There's an APP too.

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Best of 2013

30 - Bölzer - Aura
"Entranced by Wolfshook"
Switzerland (blackdeath)

29 - Altars - Paramnesia
"Terse"
Australia (Death)

28 - Extermination Dismemberment - Serial Urbicide
"Survival"
Belgium (brutal death)

--break


27 - Darken Nocturn Slaughtercult - Necrovision
"The Eviscerator"
Germany (black)

26 - Abyssal – Novit enim Dominus
"The Headless Serpent"
UK (black/death)

25 - Aborym - Dirty
"Bleedthrough"
Italy (black industrial)

24 - Sepultura - The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart
"Trauma of War"
Brazil (thrash)

--break


23 - Six Feet Under - Unborn
"Neuro Osmosis"
USA (death)

22 - Skeletal Spectre - Voodoo Dawn
"Bone Lust"
Sweden/USA (death/doom)

21 - Speedtrap - Powerdose
"Redemption of Might"
Finland (speed)

--break


20 - Pentagram Chile - The Malefice
"La Fiura"
Chile (Death/thrash)

19 - Vastum - Partricidal Lust
"Incel"
USA (death)

18 - Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
"Flesh Turns to Dust"
USA (death)

17 - Broken Hope - Omen of Disease
"The Flesh Mechanic"
USA (death)

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16 - Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
"Goat Skull Crown"
Norway (death)

15 - Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane
"Vintage Black Magic"
Poland (black)

14 - Coffins - The Fleshland
"No Savior"
Japan (death)

--break


13 - Spektr - Cypher
"The Singularity"
France (black industrial)

12 - Master - The Witchhunt
"Plans of Hate
USA/Czech Republic (death)

11 - Shitfucker - Suck Cocks in Hell
Sex Dungeon"
USA (blackened death thrash punks)

--break


10 - Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness
"Awaken The Serpent"
USA (thrash)

9 - The Ruins of Beverast – Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
"Trial" + "Ordeal"
Germany (atmospheric blackened doom/death)

8 - Nekrofilth - Devil's Breath
"Devil's Breath"
USA (thrash/crossover)

7 - Machetazo - Ruin
"Ectoplasma"
Spain (deathgrind)

--break


6 - Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Germany (death)

5 - Verminous – Unholy Communion
"Hordes of Vermin"
Sweden (death/thrash)

4 - Von - Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves
"Monster!"
USA (black)

--break


3 - Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
"Force of the Floating Tomb"
USA/Columbia (black)

2 - Satan - Life Sentence
"Life Sentence"
UK (heavy NWOBHM)

1 - Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
"Dead Early"
Norway (black thrash)

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Honorable Mentions from 2013:


Carcass - Surgical Steel
"Captive Bolt Pistol"

Profanatica – Thy Kingdom Cum
"Ropes of Hatred"

Manifesting - Descension Through the Seven Forbidden Seals EP
"Gathering in Exaltation (Intro)/Asomatous Hubris"

Onslaught - VI
"Slaughterize"

--break


Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
"Sworn Upon The Styx"

Entrails – Raging Death
"Carved To The Bone"

Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
"Ultra Silvam"

Gorguts - Inverted from From Wisdom to Hate
Not from 2013 ! (I accidentally dropped in the wrong cd ... alas)

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██████ - Demo 2013 - "II"
Note:The band has no name; only a solid bar used instead.
However, their name is usually pronounced as "nic"
(Czech for "nothing/null/none")

Ancient Crypts - Devoured by Serpents demo
"Deep into the Ancient Crypts "

Trenchrot - Dragged Down to Hell demo
"Gallery of the Dead "

--Break


Sacriphyx - The Western Front
"Food for the Front"

Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood
"Son of the Mourning"

Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
"Eminent Wrath + As Grace Descends"

Ensnared - Ravenous Damnation's Dawn
"With Roots Below"

--break


Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
"Leave No Cross Unturned"

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this is for Rob the Scrod

Rob, sorry I hung up when I transferred lines. Call back.

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Dave, I'm eating pretzels and drinking beer and dedicating this ritual to Brian The Yacking Skull Paskin!

Oh yes Vyvyan, when the mountain won't come to Mohammed, smash the drawing room to pieces. That's very Buddhist, isn't it?

Yes!!!!!!! This is my #1 of 2013 also, I always knew you were a fine lad, El Presidente!

By the way, that Obliteration crushes as well, i'm sure you've heard Nekromantheon also

Yeah, I have. (I've got it downloaded somewhere) But I never took the time for it. I'm guessing that I should hunh?