In a year of breath-taking rapaciousness and passions igniting sonic aggressiveness from the extensive depths of metal and rock in all its various rabid disguises, it is not easy to select the best albums to have eagerly and skilfully savaged the senses. Nevertheless The RingMaster Review has applied intensive thought and time consuming deliberation over the tempest of thrilling releases it has covered in 2013 and chosen it’s Best of the Year based on the most potent lustful submission and overwhelming contagious toxicity bred by the intrusive treats covered on the site over the past twelve months.
1. Bovine -The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire 
Brawling, squalling, and impossibly contagious, The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire is an album which charms and harms the senses for easily one of the most thrilling and exciting albums this year….
2. Sofy Major – Idolize
…has defiantly emerged as one of the most frighteningly impressive albums of the year so far. The release is a beast of a record, an album which can only be declared as carnivorous, in sound and intent…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/sofy-major-idolize/
3. Cult Of Luna – Vertikal
…a colossal journey and an intense emotional narrative which transports the listener into a place of stark beauty and oppressive grandeur whilst wrapping its recipients in the dystopian canvas upon which the immense and riveting structures of the album are built…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/cult-of-luna-vertikal/
4. Bear – Noumenon
…sonic alchemy which leaves exhaustion and lust bred satisfaction raging rewards…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/bear-noumenon/
5. Shevils – Lost In Tartarus
The ten track fury of invention and passion is a monster of a release, a brutal yet ingeniously sculpted confrontation…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/shevils-lost-in-tartarus/
6. Russkaja – Energia!
Sounding like the bastard offspring of the Austrian Strauss Brothers with a bent for insatiable adrenaline fuelled folk metal and exhausting jazz…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/russkaja-energia/
7. Lord Dying – Summon the Faithless
…tsunami of rapacious riffing, deliberately antagonistic rhythms, and sonic ferocity wrapped in melodic fire…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/lord-dying-summon-the-faithless/
8. Arceye – At First Light
…devours with imagination, craft, and a devastating predacious invention that takes the listener on one of the most enthralling dangerous aural journeys lying in wait this year…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/arceye-at-first-light/
9. Coilguns – Commuters
…pushes the boundaries of band and extreme music beyond their limits with skill and startling imagination…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/coilguns-commuters/
10. KingBathmat – Overcoming The Monster
…a compelling flight of melodic fire, rhythmic provocation, and sonic beauty all wrapped in an ingenuity of craft and thought which leaves the listener quite breathless…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/kingbathmat-overcoming-the-monster/
11. lo! – Monstrorum Historia
…imagination of the band a greater open malevolence which leaves only undiluted sore pleasure and invigorated intrusive satisfaction in its caustic wash…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/lo-monstrorum-historia/
12. Hell’s Domain – Self Titled
…one of the freshest and invigorating thrash releases to come along certainly this year and a marker for other bands to aspire to if they want to permanently enslave the passions…
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/hells-domain-self-titled/
13. Abysse – En(D)Grave
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/abysse-endgrave/
…an extensive exploration of bold adventurous lands and emotions; ventures fraught with warriors and bravery, shadows and danger but all brought forth with a potent sinew driven narrative that leaves no emotive intensive stone unturned and inventive imagination untapped…
Following closely in the wake of the above are also highly recommended…
The Ocean – Pelagial
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/the-ocean-pelagial/
In Vain – Ænigma
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/in-vain-aenigma/
Code – Augur Nox
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/code-augur-nox/
Circles – Infinitas
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/circles-infinitas/
The RingMaster Review 28/12/2013
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