The Best Metal Albums of 2013

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Rank	Artist name	Album title	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Anathema	Universal [Live]	2013-09-23	95.9	21	1
2	Omnium Gatherum	Beyond	2013-02-23	88.8	85	8
3	Persefone	Spiritual Migration	2013-03-29	90.6	49	3
4	Stratovarius	Nemesis	2013-02-22	87.7	83	7
5	Cult of Fire	मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान	2013-11-30	93.5	21	3
6	The Ocean	Pelagial	2013-04-30	94	17	2
7	Carcass	Surgical Steel	2013-09-13	88.5	54	4
8	Dream Theater	Dream Theater	2013-09-24	86.8	77	5
9	Ayreon	The Theory of Everything	2013-10-28	90.8	30	1
10	Shade Empire	Omega Arcane	2013-05-06	88.2	54	3
11	Parasite Inc.	Time Tears Down	2013-08-02	91.5	21	0
12	Summoning	Old Mornings Dawn	2013-06-05	90.5	23	1
13	Dark Tranquillity	Construct	2013-05-27	87.3	47	3
14	Nightwish	Showtime, Storytime [Live]	2013-11-29	90.3	22	2
15	Royal Hunt	A Life to Die For	2013-12-03	91	17	1
16	Avantasia	The Mystery of Time	2013-03-29	86.5	48	2
17	Kalmah	Seventh Swamphony	2013-06-17	87.8	33	2
18	Thy Light	No Morrow Shall Dawn	2013-07-20	91.8	13	2
19	Breakdown of Sanity	Perception	2013-10-18	93.8	8	0
20	Lingua Mortis Orchestra	LMO	2013-08-02	92	12	0
21	Gloryhammer	Tales From the Kingdom of Fife	2013-03-29	87.5	32	2
22	In Vain	Ænigma	2013-03-11	91.4	13	0
23	Soilwork	The Living Infinite	2013-02-27	86.4	40	0
24	Sulphur Aeon	Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide	2013-01-11	91.7	11	1
25	Fallujah	Nomadic [EP]	2013-04-02	93.6	7	0
26	Battle Beast	Battle Beast	2013-05-17	88.8	21	2
27	Serenity	War of Ages	2013-03-22	88.8	19	0
28	August Burns Red	Rescue & Restore	2013-06-25	88.7	17	1
29	Caladan Brood	Echoes of Battle	2013-02-15	88.6	16	2
30	After the Burial	Wolves Within	2013-12-17	92.1	7	1
31	Derdian	Limbo	2013-03-13	87.8	18	1
32	Immolation	Kingdom of Conspiracy	2013-05-10	91.3	8	0
33	Amorphis	Circle	2013-04-19	86.2	25	1
34	The Black Dahlia Murder	Everblack	2013-06-11	86.3	24	1
35	SubRosa	More Constant Than the Gods	2013-09-17	93	5	0
36	Mercenary	Through Our Darkest Days	2013-07-26	85	31	2
37	Darkthrone	The Underground Resistance	2013-02-25	88.1	15	0
38	Light Bringer	Scenes of Infinity	2013-05-29	87.2	18	3
39	Deafheaven	Sunbather	2013-06-11	83.8	38	2
40	Remnants of the Fallen	Perpetual Immaturity (REDUX 2013 Edition) [EP]	2013-01-26	84.8	30	3
41	Heaven Shall Burn	Veto	2013-04-19	83.8	36	1
42	Lost Society	Fast Loud Death	2013-03-15	88.5	12	0
43	Erra	Augment	2013-10-29	88.5	12	2
44	Pink Cream 69	Ceremonial	2013-01-25	92	5	0
45	Protest the Hero	Volition	2013-10-29	86.2	19	1
46	Deals Death	Point Zero Solution	2013-09-13	89.4	9	2
47	Noeazy	Land of Abomination	2013-07-30	88.8	10	0
48	Method	Warrior's Way [EP]	2013-11-22	88.3	11	0
49	Plini	Other Things [EP]	2013-03-11	90.8	6	0
50	Born of Osiris	Tomorrow We Die ∆live	2013-08-20	84.7	23	3
51	Rings of Saturn	Dingir	2013-02-05	87.5	12	0
52	Children of Bodom	Halo of Blood	2013-06-06	82.3	38	1
53	Gyze	Fascinating Violence	2013-06-04	85.3	19	2
54	Killswitch Engage	Disarm the Descent	2013-04-02	85	20	2
55	Helloween	Straight out of Hell	2013-01-18	80.9	51	4
56	Bane of Winterstorm	The Last Sons of Perylin	2013-11-11	86.8	13	1
57	Fair Warning	Sundancer	2013-05-27	90	6	0
58	Onslaught	VI	2013-09-20	90	6	0
59	Eternal Tears of Sorrow	Saivon Lapsi	2013-02-22	83.3	28	1
60	Bring Me the Horizon	Sempiternal	2013-04-01	85.7	16	2
61	Black Sabbath	13	2013-06-11	81.7	40	3
62	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Labyrinth	2013-08-16	82.8	31	5
63	Stryper	Second Coming	2013-03-22	87.5	10	3
64	Sodom	Epitome of Torture	2013-04-26	85.4	16	0
65	Queensrÿche	Queensrÿche	2013-06-25	85.8	14	0
66	Tesseract	Altered State	2013-05-27	85.4	15	2
67	Chthonic	武徳 / Bú-Tik	2013-05-29	83.8	21	0
68	Wormed	Exodromos	2013-03-26	90	5	0
69	The Fall of Every Season	Amends	2013-02-15	89.2	6	1
70	Wormlust	The Feral Wisdom	2013-04-15	89.2	6	0
71	Modern Day Babylon	Travelers	2013-12-15	89.2	6	0
72	Gris	À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...	2013-07-09	87.2	9	1
73	Stryper	No More Hell to Pay	2013-11-01	87.5	8	1
74	The Winery Dogs	The Winery Dogs	2013-05-15	85	14	0
75	Five Finger Death Punch	The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1	2013-07-30	85	14	0
76	Voivod	Target Earth	2013-01-18	87.9	7	0
77	Katatonia	Dethroned and Uncrowned	2013-09-09	87.9	7	0
78	Revocation	Revocation	2013-08-06	86.3	10	0
79	Starkill	Fires of Life	2013-04-30	82.8	22	2
80	DGM	Momentum	2013-03-26	83.1	20	0
81	Gamma Ray	Master of Confusion [EP]	2013-03-15	88.3	6	0
82	Golden Resurrection	One Voice for the Kingdom	2013-01-18	88.3	6	0
83	Inquisition	Obscure Verses for the Multiverse	2013-10-25	88.3	6	1
84	ADE	Spartacus	2013-04-16	89	5	1
85	PelleK	Ocean of Opportunity	2013-05-10	89	5	0
86	Avatarium	Avatarium	2013-11-01	89	5	0
87	Haken	The Mountain	2013-09-02	87.1	7	0
88	Trivium	Vengeance Falls	2013-10-15	82.1	21	3
89	Testament	Dark Roots of Thrash [Live]	2013-10-11	87.5	6	0
90	Exivious	Liminal	2013-11-08	88	5	0
91	Galneryus	The IronHearted Flag, Vol. 2: Reformation Side	2013-09-04	88	5	0
92	Amon Amarth	Deceiver of the Gods	2013-06-21	81	25	1
93	Dreamshade	The Gift of Life	2013-01-25	83.3	14	0
94	Escape The Fate	Ungrateful	2013-05-14	85.6	8	1
95	Katalepsy	Autopsychosis	2013-01-08	86.7	6	0
96	Cult of Luna	Vertikal	2013-01-25	86.7	6	1
97	Shai Hulud	Reach Beyond the Sun	2013-02-15	86.7	6	1
98	Rotting Christ	Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού	2013-03-01	86.7	6	0
99	Alice in Chains	The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	2013-05-28	86.7	6	0
100	Vassline	Black Silence	2013-09-25	84.4	10	0

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