Sunday, December 8, 2013

Best of 2013...

Best of 2013 or something like that... Here is a list of albums that The Cracked Skull listened to more often than not in 2013. There are probably some albums left off this list for various reasons. Feel free to venture a guess as to which release saw the most spins. All in all, not a terrible year in heavy music... In no order...

Grave Upheaval--Untitled
Portal--Vexivoid
Lux Interna--There is Light in the Body, There is Blood in the Sun
Merkstave--Merkstave
The Body--Master We Perish
Altar of Plagues--Teethed Glory and Injury
Kinit Her--The Poet and the Blue Flower
Ruin Lust--Tethered and Lashed
Oranssi Pazuzu--Valonielu
Clandestine Blaze--Harmony of Struggle
Pissed Jeans--Honeys
Wormlust--The Feral Wisdom
True Widow--Circumambulation
Mouth of the Architect--Dawning
Sacriphyx--The Western Front
Nails--Abandon All Life
I Shalt Become--Louisiana Voodoo
Cloud Rat--Moksha
The Haxan Cloak--Excavation
Lycus--Tempest
Vastum-- Patricidal Lust
Fell Voices--Regnum Saturni
Rote Hexe--Red Witch
Chelsea Wolfe--Pain is Beauty
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats--Mind Control
Bolzer--Aura
Sigur Ros--Kveikur
Malthusian--MMXIII
The Sterling Sisters--Hale
My Bloody Valentine--MVB
Castevet--Obsian
Wardruna--Yggdrasil

Indiana bands that ruled in 2013...
Kata Sarka
Boddiker
Casque
Conjurer
We Are Hex
Black Goat of the Woods
Parasitic Twins
Nakay
Torturess
Kvlthammer
Coffinworm
Nuclear Hellfrost