12/24/13

12-1 with AJ

Extol - "Betrayal" (Extol, 2013)
Kataklysm - "Fire" (Waiting For The End To Come, 2013)
Warbringer - "Hunter-Seeker" (IV: Empires Collapse, 2013)
Conducting From The Grave - "Into the Rabbit Hole" (Conducting From The Grave, 2013)
Carcass - "Mount of Execution" (Surgical Steel, 2013)

Fit For An Autopsy -"The Great Gift Of The World" (Hellbound, 2013)
TesseracT - "Of Energy - Singularity" (Altered State, 2013)
Arsis - "Unwelcome" (Unwelcome, 2013)
Fueled by Fire - "Catastrophe" (Trapped In Perdition, 2013)
Suffocation - "As Grace Descends" (Pinnacle Of Bedlam, 2013)

1-2 with Lauryn

Big Business - "Our Mutant" (Battlefields Forever, 2013)
Skeletonwitch - "Burned From Bone" (Serpents Unleashed, 2013)
Kylesa - "Unspoken" (Ultraviolet, 2013)
Cult of Luna - "I: The Weapon" (Vertikal, 2013)
Altar of Plagues - "Burnt Year" (Teethed Glory and Injury, 2013)

Deafheaven - "Dream House" (Sunbather, 2013)
Pelican - "The Tundra" (Forever Becoming, 2013)
The Ocean - "Benthic: The Origin of Our Wishes" (Pelagial, 2013)
Intronaut - "Milk Leg" (Habitual Levitations, 2013)


Lauryn's Top 25 Metal Albums of 2013

25. Exhumed - Necrocracy
24. Halmos - EXIST
23. Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
22. Arsis - Unwelcome
21. Kylesa - Ultraviolet
20. Kayo Dot - Hubardo
19. The Ocean - Pelagial
18. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods 
17. Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
16. Cara Neir - Portals to a Better, Dead World
15. Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
14. Gorguts - Colored Sands
13. Pelican - Forever Becoming
12. Rosetta - The Anaesthete
11. Morne - Shadows
10. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is The Killer
09. Inter Arma - Sky Burial
08. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
07. Woe - Withdrawal
06. Carcass - Surgical Steel
05. Oranssi Pazuzu - Velonielu
04. Russian Circles - Memorial
03. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
02. Ulcerate - Vermis
01. Deafheaven - Sunbather


Honorable Mentions (including the heavy, but not necessarily metal):
Kongh - Sole Creation, Revocation - S/T, Rising - Abominor, Havok - Unnatural Selection, Mouth of the Architect - Dawning, Anciients - Heart of Oak, KEN Mode - Entrench, Nails - Abandon All Life, Big Business - Battlefield Today

AJ's Top 15 Metal

15. Six Feet Under - Unborn
14. Starkill - Fires of Life
13. Havok - Unnatural Selection
12. The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
11. Arsis - Unwelcome
10. TesseracT - Altered State
9. After The Burial - Wolves Within
8. Gorguts - Colored Sands
7. Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
6. Carcass - Surgical Steel
5. Fallujah - Nomadic (EP)
4. Extol - S/T
3. Revocation - S/T
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
1. Protest The Hero - Volition

Honorable Mentions (including the heavy but not quite metal):
Karnivool - Asymmetry, The Ocean - Pelagial, Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire, Kataklysm - Waiting For The End To Come, Battlecross - War of Will, Exhumed - Necrocracy, Warbringer - IV: Empires Collapse, Fit For An Autopsy - Hellbound, Intronaut - Habitual Levitations, Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond The Sun

12/17/13

12-1 with AJ (All Songs From 2013)

Six Feet Under - "Neuro Osmosis" (Unborn, 2013)
Starkill - "Whispers of Heresy" (Fires of Life, 2013)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Paranoia Shields" (One Of Us Is The Killer, 2013)
After The Burial - "Nine Summers" (Wolves Within, Out Today!!!)
Revocation - "Fracked" (Revocation, 2013)
Protest The Hero - "Animal Bones" (Volition, 2013)

Fallujah - "The Dead Sea" (Nomadic - EP, 2013)
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Raped in Hatred by Vines of Thorn" (Everblack, 2013)
Gorguts - "Reduced to Silence" (Colored Sands, 2013)
Havok - "Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath cover)" (Unnatural Selection, 2013)

1-2 with Lauryn

Mouth of the Architect - "The Other Son" (Dawning, 2013)
Oranssi Pazuzu - "Vino Verso" (Valonielu, 2013)
Carcass - "Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System" (Surgical Steel, 2013)
Rising - "The Malice" (Abominor, 2013)
Cara Neir - "Red Moon Foreboding" (Portals To A Better, Dead World, 2013)

Kongh - "The Portals" (Sole Creation, 2013)
Woe - "All Bridges Burned" (Withdrawal, 2013)
Morne - "Coming of Winter" (Shadows, 2013)

12/10/13

12-1 with AJ

Ovid's Withering - "Murder To Dissect" (Scryers of the Ibis, 2013)
Arcturus - "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer" (Sideshow Symphonies, 2005)
Ministry - "PermaWar" (From Beer To Eternity, 2013)
Veil of Maya - "Subject Zero" (Subject Zero - Single, 2013)

Beyond Creation - "Omnipresent Perception" (The Aura, 2013)
The Human Abstract - "Complex Terms" (Digital Veil, 2011)
Intronaut - "Milk Leg" (Habitual Levitations [Instilling Words With Tones], 2013)
Arsis - "Scornstar" (Unwelcome, 2013)
Awaken The Ancient - "Axis of Affinity" (Axis of Affinity - EP, 2013)

1-2 with Lauryn

Weapon - "The First Witnesses of Lucifer" (Embers and Revelation, 2012)
Ulcerate - "Clutching Revulsion" (Vermis, 2013)
Exhumed - "Coins Upon the Eyes" (Necrocracy, 2013)
Russian Circles - "Defecit" (Memorial, 2013)

Rosetta - "Oku / The Secrets" (The Anaesthete, 2013)
Boris - "Korosu" (Heavy Rocks, 2002)
Cult of Luna - "Leave Me Here" (Salvation, 2004)
Inter Arma - "'sblood" (Sky Burial, 2013)
OM - "State of Non-Return" (Advaitic Songs, 2012)

12/3/13

12-1 with AJ

KMFDM - "Light" (Angst, 1993)
After The Burial - "A Wolf Amongst Ravens" (Wolves Within, upcoming!!!)
Extol - "Open the Gates" (Extol, 2013)
Protest The Hero - "Drumhead Trial" (Volition, 2013)
Animals As Leaders - "CAFO" (Animals As Leaders, 2009)

Immolation - "Keep The Silence" (Kingdom Of Conspiracy, 2013)
Meshuggah - "Dancers To A Discordant System" (Obzen, 2008)
Soulfly - "Cannibal Holocaust" (Savages, 2013)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Crossburner" (One Of Us Is The Killer, 2013)


1-2 with Ben


SubRosa - "Ghosts of a Dead Empire" (More Constant than the Gods, 2013)
Black Cobra - "Negative Reversal" (Chronomega, 2009)
Iron Witch - "Death Was the Colour" (Hangover Suicide, 2013)
Buried Inside - "Time as Surrogate Religion" (Chronoclast, 2005)

A God or an Other - "Xibalba" (Towers of Silence, 2013)
This Gift is a Curse - "Inferno" (I, Gvilt Bearer, 2012)
Enabler - "Sleep Forever" (Flies, 2013)
Cara Neir - "Peridot" (Portals to a Better, Dead World, 2013)
Sargeist - "Twilight Breath of Satan" (Let the Devil In, 2010)

11/26/13

12-1 with AJ

Battlecross - "Force Fed Lies" (War of Will, 2013)
Between the Buried and Me - "Fossil Genera - A Feed From Cloud Mountain" (The Great Misdirect, 2009)
Carnifex - "Dead Archetype" (Hell Chose Me, 2010)
Death Angel - "Caster of Shame" (The Dream Calls For Blood, 2013)
Job For A Cowboy - "Tarnished Gluttony" (Demonocracy, 2012)

Machine Head - "Wolves" (The Blackening, 2007)
Revocation - "The Tragedy of Modern Ages" (Existence Is Futile, 2009)
Stealing Axion - "Eventide" (Moments, 2012)
The Ocean - "One With The Ocean" (Aeolian, 2005)

1-2 With Lauryn 

Palaces - "Lightning Streams on Pause" (Tarnish, 2012)
Karp - "Octoberfleshed" (Karp, 1997)
Indian Handcrafts - "Centauri Teenage Riot" (Civil Disobedience for Losers, 2012)
Big Business - "Grounds for Divorce" (Here Come the Waterworks, 2007)
Red Fang - "Night Destroyer" (Red Fang, 2009)
Cobalt - "A Starved Horror" (Gin, 2009)

Anaal Nathrakh - "Time Wave Zero" (Eschaton, 2006)
Entombed - "Crawl" (Clandestine, 1991)
Bloodbath - "Draped In Disease" (Nightmares Made Flesh [Bonus Tracks], 2004)
Thou - "They Stretch Out Their Hands" (Peasant, 2008)
The Howling Wind - "Impossible Eternity" (Into The Cryosphere, 2010)

11/19/13

12-1 with AJ

Alchemist - "Nothing In No Time" (Tripsis, 2007)
After The Burial - "A Wolf Amongst Ravens" (Wolves Within, Upcoming!!!)
Protest The Hero - "Without Prejudice" (Volition, 2013)
Veil of Maya - "Subject Zero" (Subject Zero - Single, 2013)
Violator - "Atomic Nightmare" (Chemical Assault, 2006)
Northlane - "Hollow" (Hollow Existence - EP, 2013)
Warbringer - "Hunter-Seeker" (IV: Empires Collapse, 2013)

Nile - "The Chaining of the Iniquitous" (At the Gate of Sethu, 2012)
Psyopus - "2" (Our Puzzling Encounters , 2007)
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Goat of Departure" (Everblack, 2013)
Opeth - "Ghost of Perdition" (Ghost Reveries, 2005)

1-2 with Ben

Tombs - "To Cross the Land" (Path of Totality, 2011)
Meth Drinker - "Skull Smashed Concrete" (Meth Drinker, 2011)
Gaza - "Not with All the Hope in the World" (No Absolutes in Human Suffering, 2012)
Electric Wizard - "Saturnine" (Witchcult Today, 2007)

Monarque - "L'Appel De La Nuit" (Lys Noir, 2013)
Anicon - "Through Portals Shed" (Demo MMXIII, 2013)
Young Hunter - "Trail of Tears" (Embers at the Foot of Dark Mountain, 2013)
Austere - "This Dreadful Emptiness" (To Lay Like Old Ashes, 2009)

11/12/13

12-1 with AJ

The Faceless - "Legion of the Serpent" (Planetary Duality, 2010)
Fueled By Fire - "Catastrophe" (Trapped In Perdition, 2013)
God Forbid - "The Lonely Dead" (IV: Constitution Of Treason, 2005)
Kataklysm - "The Promise" (Waiting for the End to Come, 2013)
Voivod - "Mechanical Mind" (Target Earth, 2013)

7 Horns 7 Eyes - "Vindicator" (Throes of Absolution, 2012)
Vektor - "Cosmic Cortex" (Outer Isolation, 2011)
Hate Eternal - "Bringer of Storms" (Fury & Flames, 2008)

1-2 with Lauryn

Melvins - "Charmicarmicat" (Eggnog, 1991)
Old Man Gloom - "Sleeping with Snakes" (Christmas, 2004)
Church of Misery - "Master Heartache (Sir Lord Baltimore)" (Houses of the Unholy, 2009)
Gojira - "Oroborus" (The Way of the Flesh, 2008)

Skeletonwitch - "More Cruel Than Weak" (Serpents Unleashed, 2013)
Absu - "Abraxus Connexus" (Abzu, 2011)
Kayo Dot - "Zlida Caosgi" (Hubardo, 2013)
Russian Circles - "Cheyenne" (Memorial, 2013)
Deafheaven - "Tunnel of Trees" (Roads to Judah, 2011)

11/5/13

12-1 with AJ

Reflections - "My Cancer" (Exis(s)t, 2013)
Cynic - "How Could I" (Focus, 1994)
Dark Sermon - "The Scales Of Justice" (In Tongues, 2013)

vildhjarta - "Shadow" (Masstaden, 2011)
Fallujah - "Venom Upon The Blade" (Nomadic - EP, 2013)
Fear Factory - "Recharger" (The Industrialist, 2012)
Impending Doom - "Death Will Reign" (Death Will Reign, 2013)

Gorguts - "Reduced To Silence" (Colored Sands, 2013)
The Red Chord - "Dread Prevailed" (Prey For Eyes, 2007)

1-2 with Lauryn

Orange Goblin - "The Filthy and the Few" (A Eulogy for the Damned, 2012)
Red Fang - "Crows in Swine" (Crows in Swine, 2013)
Doomriders - "Grand Blood" (Grand Blood, 2013)

High on Fire - "Romulus and Remus" (De Vermis Mysteriis, 2012)
Stonehelm - "Deep Space Doom" (Stonehelm, 2010)
Big Business - "Focus Pocus" (Head for the Shallow, 2005)
Deathspell Omega - "Fiery Serpents" (Drought, 2012)

Amenra - "Prayer 8: From Birth to Grave" (Mass II, 2005)
Pelican - "Bliss in Concrete" (City of Echoes, 2007)
Isis - "In Fiction" (Panopticon, 2004)

10/29/13

12-1 with AJ

The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Room Full of Eyes" (Option Paralysis, 2010)
KMFDM - "A Drug Against War" (Angst, 1993)
Powerglove - "This Is Halloween (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)" (Saturday Morning Apocalypse, 2010)
The Devin Townsend Band - "Vampira" (Synchestra, 2006)
Iced Earth - "Frankenstein" (Horror Show, 2001)
Fantomas - "Spider Baby" (The Director's Cut, 2001)
Six Feet Under - "Vampire Apocalypse" (Undead, 2012)

Protest The Hero - "Animal Bones" (Volition, 2013)
Gojira - "The Art Of Dying" (The Way Of All Flesh, 2008)
Opeth - "The Lotus Eater" (Watershed, 2008)

1-2 set list created by Lauryn

Ulver - "We Are The Dead" (Perdition City: Music to an Interior Film, 2000)
Black Tusk - "Witch's Spell" (Passage Through Purgatory, 2011)
Order of the Owl - "Cocaine Super Demon" (In The Noon of the After Day, 2012)
Torche - "Vampyro" (S/T: Remastered, 2005)
Wizard Smoke - "Witches Brew" (The Speed of Smoke, 2011)
Rising - "Mausoleum" (To Solemn Ash, 2012)
The Atlas Moth - "Coffin Varnish" (An Ache for the Distance, 2011)
Fantomas - "Rosemary's Baby" (The Director's Cut, 2001)

Nachtmystium - "Give Me The Grave" (Silencing Machine, 2012)
Bathory - "Raise the Dead" (Bathory, 1984)
Autopsy - "Born Undead" (Macabre Eternal, 2011)
Pig Destroyer- "Gravedancer" (Terrifyer, 2004)
Skeletonwitch - "Burned From Bone" (Serpents Unleashed, 2013)
Havok - "Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath Cover)" (Unnatural Selection, 2013)

10/22/13

12-1 with AJ

Porcupine Tree - "Strip the Soul" (In Absentia, 2002)
Municipal Waste - "Wrong Answer" (Massive Aggressive, 2009)
Periphery - "Make Total Destroy" (Periphery II, 2012)
Ministry - "PermaWar" (From Beer to Eternity, 2013)
The Safety Fire - "Beware The Leopard (Jagwar)" (Mouth Of Swords, 2013)
Six Feet Under - "Neuro Osmosis" (Unborn, 2013)

Testament - "Native Blood" (Dark Roots of Earth, 2012)
The Tony Danza Tapdancing Extravaganza - "You Won't" (Danza IIII, 2012)
Within The Ruins - "Feeding Frenzy" (Elite, 2013)
Soulfly - "Spiral" (Savages, 2013)
Mastodon - "Colony of Birchmen" (Blood Mountain, 2006)

1-2 with Lauryn

Pelican - "Vestiges" (Forever Becoming, 2013)
Morne - "Coming of Winter" (Shadows, 2013)
Altar of Plagues - "Burnt Year" (Teethed Glory and Injury, 2013)
Russian Circles - "Burial" (Memorial, 2013)
Atriarch - "Downfall" (Forever the End, 2011)

Deafheaven - "The Pecan Tree" (Sunbather, 2013)
Vastum - "Spirit Abused" (Carnal Law, 2011)
Agalloch - "Our Fortress is Burning...II: Bloodbirds" (Ashes Against the Grain, 2006)

10/15/2013

12-2 with Lauryn

Godflesh - "Toll" (Selfless, 1994)
Rosetta - "Myo / The Miraculous" (The Anaesthete, 2013)
Ulcerate - "Confronting Entropy" (Vermis, 2013)
Exhumed - "Dysmorphic" (Necrocracy, 2013)
Altar of Plagues - "Scald Scar of Water" (Teethed Glory and Injury, 2013)

Russian Circles - "Defecit" (Memorial, 2013)
Isis - "Hall of the Dead" (Wavering Radiant, 2009)
Cult of Luna - "Vicarious Redemption" (Vertikal, 2013)

Neurosis - "We All Rage in Blood" (Honor Found in Decay, 2013)
Zoroaster - "Black Hole" (Matador, 2010)
Baroness - Isak (Red, 2007)
Woe - Ceaseless Jaws (Withdrawal, 2012)

Melvins - "Rat Faced Granny" (A Senile Animal, 2006)
Encrust - "Predatory Skin" (From Birth to Soil, 2012)
Indian Handcrafts - "Bruce Lee" (Civil Disobedience for Losers, 2012)
Mastodon - "March of the Fire Ants" (Remission, 2002)
The Ocean - "Orosirian" (Precambrian - Proterozoic, 2007)

10/8/13

12-1 with AJ

Death Angel - "Caster of Shame" (The Dream Calls For Blood, Upcoming!!!)
Reflections - "My Cancer" (Exi(s)t, Upcoming)
Opeth - "Blackwater Park" (Blackwater Park, 2010)
Breach The Silence - "Night Rider" (Dead or Alive, 2013)
Strapping Young Love - "Love?" (Alien, 2005)

Impending Doom - "Death Will Reign" (Death Will Reign, Upcoming!!!)
Warbringer - "Hunter-Seeker" (IV: Empires Collapse, Upcoming!!!)
Protest The Hero - "Clarity" (Volition, Upcoming!!!)
Job for a Cowboy - "Entombment of a Machine" (Doom - EP, 2005)
Chimp Spanner - "Bad Code" (At The Dream's Edge, 2010)

1-2 with Lauryn

Melvins - "Boris" (Bullhead, 1991)
Red Fang - "This Animal" (Whales and Leeches, 2013)
Indian Handcrafts - "Zombies" (Civil Disobedience for Losers, 2012)
Kvelertak - "Ulvetid" (Kvelertak, 2010)
Torche - "Amnesian" (Meanderthal, 2008)

High on Fire - "Cometh Down Hessian" (Blessed Black Wings, 2005)
Mastodon - "Blood and Thunder" (Leviathan, 2004)
Halmos - "Excursion Into Chaos" (EXIST, 2013)
Lord Dying - "Summoning the Faith" (Summoning the Faithless, 2013)
Yob - "Prepare the Ground" (Atma, 2011)

10/1/13

12-1 with AJ

The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants" (Miss Machine, 2004)
Soulfly - "Ayatollah of Rock 'N' Rolla" (Savages, 2013)
Periphery - "Totla Mad" (Periphery, 2010)
Revocation - "Spastic" (Revocation, 2013)
After The Burial - "Bezerker" (Rareform: Re-Issue, 2009)

Believer - "End of Infinity" (Transhuman, 2011)
Death - "Trapped In A Corner" (Individual Thought Patterns, 1993)
DevilDriver - "The Appetite" (Winter Kills, 2013)
Born of Osiris - "Devastate" (The Discovery, 2011)
Arsis - "Unwelcome" (Unwelcome, 2013)
Becoming the Archetype - "Internal Illumination" (Celestial Completion, 2011)

1-2 with Lauryn

Exhumed - "Dysmorphic" (Necrocracy, 2013)
Gojira - "Pain Is A Master" (L'Enfant Sauvage, 2012)
Withered - "From Shadows" (Dualitas, 2010)
Old Man Gloom - "Common Species" (NO, 2012)

Disma - "Towards the Megalith" (Towards the Megalith, 2011)
Krallice - "Inhume" (Diotima, 2011)
Kylesa - "Forsaken" (Spiral Shadow, 2010)
Cult of Luna - "Shun the Mask" (Vertikal II EP, 2013)