Best Albums Of 2013

2013 was a great year musically, with a lot of great releases from my favorite bands. Here are this years highlights:

January

Helloween - Straight Out Of Hell
Tracklist:
1. "Nabatea"
2. "World of War"
3. "Live Now!"
4. "Far From the Stars"
5. "Burning Sun"
6. "Waiting for the Thunder"
7. "Hold Me in Your Arms"
8. "Wanna Be God" (dedicated to Freddie Mercury)
9. "Straight Out of Hell"
10. "Asshole"
11. "Years"
12. "Make Fire Catch the Fly"
13. "Church Breaks Down"

Another great album from Helloween. I saw them live in Oslo last year in April, and it was a great show. My favorite songs from this album is "Nabatea", "Live Now!", "Waiting for the Thunder" and "Asshole".
Can't wait for their next release!

March

Gamma Ray - Master Of Confusion EP
Tracklist:
1. "Empire of the Undead"
2. "Master of Confusion"
3. "Death or Glory" (Holocaust cover)
4. "Lost Angels" (Sweet cover)
5. "The Spirit" (live)
6. "Wings of Destiny" (live)
7. "Gamma Ray" (live, Birth Control cover)
8. "Farewell" (live)
9. "Time to Break Free (live)
10. "Insurrection" (live)

I love this EP! I love the "Master of Confusion" song, I love the two cover songs, and I can't wait for the full "Empire of the Undead" album to be released in March this year.
I saw Gamma Ray live twice last year, and it's the best shows I've been to. Can't wait to see them live again this year!

April

Deep Purple - Now What?!
Tracklist:
1. "A Simple Song"
2. "Weirdistan"
3. "Out of Hand"
4. "Hell to Pay"
5. "Bodyline"
6. "Above and Beyond"
7. "Blood from a Stone"
8. "Uncommon Man"
9. "Après Vous"
10. "All the Time in the World"
11. "Vincent Price" 
12. It'll Be Me (bonus track)

This is a fantastic album. It's enchanting, spimply another masterpiece from Deep Purple.
Their show at Getaway Rock Festival last year in Gävle, Sweden, was magical. And I can't wait to see them live in Bergen in February.

June

Megadeth - Super Collider
Tracklist:
1. "Kingmaker"
2. "Super Collider"
3. "Burn!"
4. "Built for War"
5. "Off the Edge"
6. "Dance in the Rain"
7. "Beginning of Sorrow"
8. "The Blackest Crow"
9. "Forget to Remember"
10. "Don't Turn Your Back..."
11. "Cold Sweat" (Thin Lizzy cover)

I love this album! I bought it last year at the beginning of my summer holiday, and I remember playing it in my car from beginning to end, cranking it up, and loving it right away. My favorite songs are "Super Collider" and "Forget to Remember", and their sexy take on "Cold Sweat". Can't wait to see them live at Skogsröjet in August.

Black Sabbath - 13
Tracklist:
1. "End of the Beginning"
2. "God Is Dead?"
3. "Loner"
4. "Zeitgeist"
5. "Age of Reason"
6. "Live Forever"
7. "Damaged Soul"
8. "Dear Father"
9. Methademic (bonus)
10. Peace of Mind (bonus)
11. Pariah (bonus)

A really cool and heavy album. Great guitars, mean bass lines and Ozzy of course. My favorite songs are "Loner", "Age of Reason" and "Dear Father".

Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche
Tracklist:
1. "X2" (instrumental)
2. "Where Dreams Go to Die"
3. "Spore"
4. "In This Light"
5. "Redemption"
6. "Vindication"
7. "Midnight Lullaby" (instrumental)
8. "A World Without"
9. "Don't Look Back"
10. "Fallout"
11. "Open Road"

Queensrÿche has kinda been my boyfriend's band, so I've never really listened that much to their music. But this album I actually had to put on and listen to by myself, it's that good! It's really easy to like, and my favorite songs are "Redemption" and "Fallout".

October

Motörhead - Aftershock
Tracklist:
1. "Heartbreaker"
2. "Coup de Grace"
3. "Lost Woman Blues"
4. "End of Time"
5. "Do You Believe?"
6. "Death Machine"
7. "Dust and Glass"
8. "Going to Mexico"
9. "Silence When You Speak to Me"
10. "Crying Shame"
11. "Queen of the Damned"
12. "Knife"
13. "Keep Your Powder Dry"
14. "Paralyzed" 

Loved this album! A lot of great songs, and rockin' as hell! You just want to jump around, headband and play air guitar! Hard to pick some favorite songs, but "Silence When You Speak to Me", "Queen of the Damned" and "Knife" are pretty cool, but we're talkin' great album here, beginning to end!

November

Andi Deris & The Bad Bankers - Million Dollar Haircuts On Ten Cent Heads
Tracklist:
1. Cock
2. Will We Ever Change
3. Banker's Delight (Dead Or Alive)
4. Blind
5. Don't Listen To The Radio (TWOTW 1938)
6. Who Am I
7. Must Be Dreaming
8. The Last Days Of Rain
9. EnAmoria
10. This Could Go On Forever
11. I Sing Myself Away

Gotta love this album! Great melodies, written and composed by Andi Deris. It's melodic, kinda new metal-ish, but with great vocals and just awesome as fuck! My favorite songs are "Cock", "Will We Ever Change", "Don't Listen to the Radio (TWOTW 1938)" and "EnAmoria".

These are the album realeases I've bought and listened to last year. I got some more albums too, like Place Vendome - "Thunder in the Distance", Michael Schenker - "Bridge the Gap" and Saxon - "Strung Up and Unplugged". Of course, there's a lot more albums that's been released in 2013, studio and live, like Deep Purple - " Now What?! Gold Edition", where three songs are recorded live at Getaway Rock Festival, Lita Ford - "Bitch is Back...Live" and Joan Jett - "Unvarnished".

I think 2014 is going to be a great year for music too. Gamma Ray will be releasing an album in March, Unisonic and Helloween are entering studio, and a new Judas Priest album will be happening too. Heavy metal music joy!

Hope you liked my music 2013 recap. Do you got any favorite album(s) from last year?