BEST OF 2013 – THE BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR

Here’s this year’s result of our BEST OF 2013 readers poll (thanks again to all those of you who sent in their lists)

01. TRIBULATION – The Formulas Of Death
02. BÖLZER – Aura
03. GRAVE MIASMA – Odori Sepulcrorum
04. CARCASS – Surgical Steel
05. BEYOND – Fatal Power Of Death
06. VERMINOUS – The Unholy Communion
07. KRYPTS – Unending Degradation
08. AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
09. IMMOLATION – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
10. OBLITERATION – Black Death Horizon

…and in case you’re curious to find out what the VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE staff enjoyed the most this year, here’s some of our favorites in alphabetical order…

Alfonso Perez
ALTARS – Paramnesia
BLOCKHEADS – This World Is Dead
BÖLZER – Aura
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
GORGUTS – Colored Sands
GRAVE MIASMA – Odori Sepulcrorum
IMPRECATION – Satanae Tenebris Infinita
PENTAGRAM CHILE – The Malefice
PORTAL – Vexevoid
SULPHUR AEON – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide

Anders P. Jørgensen
AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
CENTURIAN – Contra Rationem
HAMFERD – Evst
IMMOLATION – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
NECROCURSE – Grip Of The Dead
OBLITERATION – Black Death Horizon
PROSANCTUS INFERI – Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night
PUTREFACT – Of Those Who Were Deceased
TYRANT’S BLOOD – Into The Kingdom Of Graves
WATAIN – The Wild Hunt

Angelica Jannone
AKSUMITE – Return
CHURCH OF MISERY – Thy Kingdom Scum
DRESSED IN STREAMS – ST / Azad Hind
IN SOLITUDE – Sister
MITOCHONDRION – Antinumerology
PORTAL – Vexovoid
PRIMITIVE MAN – Scorn
THE BODY – Master, We Perish
VHOL – Vhol
WINDHAND – Soma

Bart Gabriel
AMON AMARTH – Deceiver Of The Gods
BLACK SABBATH – 13
BORROWED TIME – Borrowed Time
HELL – Curse & Chapter
MASTERS OF DISGUISE – Back With A Vengeance
SATAN – Life Sentence
SATAN’S HOST – Virgin Sails
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS – Fire On The Mountain
WARLORD – The Holy Empire
WATAIN – The Wild Hunt

Frank Stöver
ALTARS – Paramnesia
BEYOND – Fatal Power Of Death
DEMONIC RAGE – Venomous Wine From Putrid Bodies
ONIROPHAGUS – Prehuman
PENTAGRAM CHILE – The Malefice
PRAISE THE FLAME – Profane Cult
SLUTVOMIT – Swarming Darkness
SULPHUR AEON – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide
TRIBULATION – The Formulars Of Death
VORUM – Poisoned Void

Hacker
BLITZKRIEG – Back From Hell
CRYPTIC BROOD – Morbid Rite
DIABOLICAL IMPERIUM – The Sacred Lie
ECOCIDE – Eye Of The Wicked Sight
IMMOLATION – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
KRYPTS – Unending Degradation
MONSTER – Demo 2013
NIGHT DEMON – Night Demon
PRAISE THE FLAME – Profane Cult
SATAN – Life Sentence

Jaime Perez
ARCKANUM – Fenris Kindir
BIRTH AD – I Blame You
HAIL OF BULLETS – III: The Rommel Choronicles
IMMOLATION – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
IMPRECATION – Satanae Tenebris Infinita
INQUISITION – Obscure Verses For The Multiverse
KRYPTS – Unending Degradation
LANTERN – Below
PANZERCHRIST – 7th Offensive
TOXIC HOLOCAUST – Chemistry Of Consciousness

Kunal Choksi
ANNORKOTH – The Last Days
BLOOD RED THRONE – Blood Red Throne
BÖLZER – Aura
FACADA – Nadir
FLESHPRESS – Tearing Skyholes
GORGUTS – Colored Sands
INFINITUM OBSCURE – The Luminous Black
INHUMATE – Expulsed
PRELUDIUM – Redemption
TRIBULATION – The Formulas Of Death

Luxi Lahtinen
AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
CONDITION CRITICAL – Operational Hazard
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
FUELED BY FIRE – Trapped In Perdition
ONSLAUGHT – VI
PANIKK – Unbearable Conditions
RANGER – Knights Of Darkness
SATAN’S HOST – Virgin Sails
SCYTHE – Subterranean Steel
VIOLATOR – Scenarios Of Brutality

Marc Lehmann
BEYOND – Fatal Power Of Death
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
CATHEDRAL – The Last Spire
DAGGER – Mainline Riders
DARK TRANQUILLITY – Construct
MOTÖRHEAD – Aftershock
NONEXIST – From My Cold Dead Hands
ROBERT PEHRSSON’S HUMBUCKER –  Robert Pehrsson’s Humbucker
TORMENTED – Death Awaits
WITHERSCAPE – The Inheritance

Marco Barbieri
ANCIENT WISDOM – Deathlike
BLACK SABBATH – 13
BLOOD CEREMONY – The Eldritch Dark
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DARKTHRONE – The Underground Resistance
DEATH ANGEL – The Dream Calls For Blood
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
IN SOLITUDE – Sister
ORPHANED LAND – All Is One
WITHERSCAPE – The Inheritance

Michael Kujawska
AMORPHIS – Circle
BODYFARM – The Coming Scourge
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DARK AGE – A Matter Of Trust
HAIL OF BULLETS – III: The Rommel Chronicles
NAILED TO OBSCURITY – Opaque
NAZGHOR – Life Impaled
OMNIUM GATHERUM – Beyond
SULPHUR AEON – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide
WITHERSCAPE – The Inheritance

Michael Oelschlegel
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
INCARCERATION – Sacrifice
INQUISITION – Obscure Verses For The Multiverse
KRYPTS – Unending Degradation
NECROCCULTUS – Solemnelohim – Bringer Of Death
PENTAGRAM CHILE – The Malefice
PURGATORY – Deathkult – Grand Ancient Arts
SLAUGHTERDAY – Nightmare Vortex
SULPHUR AEON – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide

Michael Tak
ALTARS – Paramnesia
BEYOND – Fatal Power Of Death
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DEMONIC RAGE – Venomous Wine From Putrid Bodies
GRAVE MIASMA – Odori Sepulcrorum
LANTERN – Below
MAVETH – Coils Of The Black Earth
MITOCHONDRION – Antinumerology
OBLITERATION – Black Death Horizon
SORCERY – Arrival At Six

Minda ‘Plix’ Lapinskas
AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
HAIL OF BULLETS – III: Rommel Chronicles
HATRIOT – Heroes Of Origin
MASTER – The Witchhunt
MONSTER MAGNET – The Last Patrol
MOTÖRHEAD – Aftershock
PRO-PAIN – The Final Revolution
TORTURE KILLER – Phobia

Mirco Szymyslik
AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
BÖLZER – Aura
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DARKTHRONE – The Underground Resistance
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
ECOCIDE – Eye Of A Wicked Sight
HAIL OF BULLETS – III: The Rommel Chronicles
IMMOLATION – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
SATANIC DYSTOPIA – Double Denim Shotgun Massacre
WATAIN – The Wild Hunt

Nicola Costantini
ABSURD – Discography ’91 – ’92
ATARAXY – Revelations Of The Ethereal
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
FULMINATION – Humanity’s Dirge
PENTAGRAM CHILE – The Malefice
SORCERY – Arrival At Six
TREBLINKA – Shrine Of The Pentagram
TRIBULATION – The Formulas Of Death
UNDER THE CHURCH – Demo 2013
VERMINOUS – The Unholy Communion

Ralf Hauber
BLOOD MORTIZED – The Angel, The Demon, The Disease
DEMONICAL – Darkness Unbound
FERAL – Demo 2013
GHOST – Infestissumam
JEX THOTH – Blood Moon Rise
KRYPTS – Unending Degradation
PROCESSION – To Reap Heavens Apart
RATTENFÄNGER – Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
TORMENTED – Death Awaits
TRIBULATION – The Formulas Of Death

Ramon Claassen
AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
GORGUTS – Colored Sands
IMMOLATION – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
JEX THOTH – Blood Moon Rise
SLAUGHTERDAY – Nightmare Vortex
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS – Fire On The Mountain
WATAIN – The Wild Hunt
WITHERSCAPE – The Inheritance

Richard Osmond
BLUT AUS NORD – What Once Was… Liber III
CENTURIAN – Contra Rationem
HAIL OF BULLETS – III: The Rommel Chronicles
INFERNO – Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness
MONOLITHE – Monolithe IV
NOCTURNAL GRAVES – …From The Bloodline Of Cain
NOISEM – Agony Defined
PAYSAGE D’HIVER – Das Tor
PHELIOS – Gates Of Atlantis
TYRANT GOATGALDRAKONA – Horns In The Dark

Sergei Pismeny
ACERUS – The Unreachable Salvation
BEYOND – Fatal Power Of Death
BLACK TRIP – Goin’ Under
ENFORCER – Death By Fire
FRONT BEAST – Demon Ways Of Sorcery
GRAVE MIASMA – Odori Sepulcrorum
KEVER – Eon Of Cycling Death
MANZER – Light Of The Wreckers
ORATOR – Kapalgnosis
TRIBULATION – The Formulas Of Death

Stefan Franke
ALTARS – Paramnesia
AUTOPSY – The Headless Ritual
BEASTMILK – Climax
DEICIDE – In The Minds Of Evil
IMPRECATION – Satanae Tenebris Infinita
IN SOLITUDE – Sister
OBLITERATION – Black Death Horizon
THE RUINS OF BEVERAST – Blood Vaults
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS – Mind Control
WATAIN – The Wild Hunt

Steven Willems
AVATARIUM – Avatarium
BÖLZER – Aura
CARCASS – Surgical Steel
DAUGHTER – If You Leave
DEPECHE MODE – Delta Machine
GHOST BC – Infestissumam
IN SOLITUDE – Sister
NECROS CHRISTOS – One In Darkness Two In Damnation Three In Death
SATYRICON – Satyricon
SODOM – Epitome Of Torture

Thomas Georg
GRAVE MIASMA – Odori Sepulcrorum
INQUISITION – Obscure Verses Of The Multiverse
KRYPTS – Unending Degradation
MÅNEGARM – Legions Of The North
MAVETH – Coils Of The Black Earth
NECROWRETCH – Putrid Death Sorcery
SULPHUR AEON – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide
TRIBULATION – The Formulas Of Death
VERMINOUS – The Unholy Communion
VORUM – Poisoned Void

Thomas Meyer
BOYSETSFIRE – While A Nation Sleeps
EVANGELIST – Doominicanes
GOREGAST – Covered In Skin
GRAVEYARD – The Sea Grave
HARM – Cadaver Christi
JUST BEFORE DAWN – Precis Innan Gryningen
REVEL IN FLESH – Manifested Darkness
SULPHUR AEON – Sweallowed By The Oceans Tide
WHITHERSCAPE – The Inheritance
ZÜGELLOS – Goatwhore