New year, new list. Just to keep some score where my collection goes.

1. Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
2. Decapitated - Blood Mantra
3. Demonic - Darkness Unbound
4. Evocation - Illusions Of Grandeur
5. The Crown - Death Is Not Dead
6. Enslaved - In Times
7. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
8. Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers
9. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
10. Voivod - Angel Rat
11. High On Fire - Luminiferous

What a year, I'd say! Many band saw huge changes in their line-ups while managing to keep former quality (or even to increase it). One good example is Sabaton with great Heroes -album. We also saw an anticipated reunion. This year stoner rock is absent from my list although Wo Fat put out an awesome album (and Brant Bjork released new stuff). I just listened so much more these other albums, so it felt proper to leave those two out. Machine Head deserves credits for their new Bloodstone & Diamonds -album. Definitively better than the Locust but stretching to epic…

One album per week seem reasonable, don't you think?

1. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
2. Carcass - Swansong
3. King Diamond - The Puppet Master
4. Venom - Fallen Angels
5. The Sword - Apocryphon
6. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
7. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
8. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
9. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
10. Insomnium - Shadow of the Dying Sun (Limited Edition)
11. Vallenfyre - Splinters
12. Down - Down IV, Part II
13. Bruce Springsteen - American Dream (Vinyl EP)
14. Sabaton - Heroes (Limited Digibook)
15. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere…

Best albums of the 2013

It’s listing time folks. This year turned to be a fine year after all (although I bought much less albums than in previous years). One may wonder why, but simply because I wanted to concentrate more to the music instead of collecting madly more albums. Interestingly, I was quite sure that my list would have been filled with metal and I kept saying that throughout the year. Now that I have listed everything, the selection appears to be quite versatile. I hope someone may find this list at least a bit interesting…

Carcass – Surgical…

Wed 6 Nov – Annihilator Feast On Europe Tour 2013

For a starters I reveal that this gig went easily to my top five ever. I've seen quite a many bands so it tells pretty much everything. Now that I got that off my back, let's concentrate to the details. First, these guys can play. Second, in addition to that they are damn good entertainers. Third, they make damn good music. For those rare occasions those three things happens to combine the end result is unforgettable event.

In the middle of moshing and grinning like a lunatic, I wondered why…

Fri 18 Jan – Frank Turner, Jaakko & Jay

After realizing the undeniable greatness of this artist I was eager to see the famous live show. I was more than pleased when local ticket agency announced Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls gig a Tavastia club in the heart of Helsinki.

Frank has this rare ability to use words in a popular manner and still tell stories. In fact the other such songwriter is Bruce Springsteen and I noticed several similarities between those two artists along the show. Both of them get the audience to participate, they really are able…

1. Nate Hall - A Great River
2. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
3. Down - Down IV: The Purple EP (Vinyl)
4. Frank Turner Love Ire & Song
5. down - Diary of a Mad Band
6. Pink Floyd - The Discovery Box
7. Nils Lofgren - Old School
8. The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
9. Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live
10. Nils Lofgren Band - Live
11. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
12. Amorphis - Circle
13. Hypocrisy - End of Disclosure
14. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
15. Audrey Horne -…

I sometimes wonder why this is so fun to make these lists. Anyway, this year was very good year, I found again many new favorites and made a personal record buying new albums during one year.

Here are a few albums that deserves mention:

Best albums of the 2012

Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

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The best metal album from the best thrash band at the moment. While some dinosaurs are less successful, Testament keep delivering and actually improving. De luxe -version contains three brilliant cover versions as well.

Down - Down IV, part I: The Purple EP

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It seems CD nowadays don't cost a thing.

1. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
2. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
3. Neil Young - On The Beach
4. Neil Young - Freedom
5. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
6. Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged
7. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
8. Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
9. Billy Ocean - Tear Down These Walls
10. Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue
11. Gwen Stefani - Love, Angel, Music, Baby
12. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
13. Live - Secret Samadhi
14.…

Another year behind and it is once again the time to make top lists of everything encountered during the year. Musically 2011 was very nice if not even great and my musical taste got broader which is evident from the top albums –list. Well, I don’t mind, world is filled with great music waiting to be discovered and only sad thing is that there is never enough time to check it all out. I’m not going to write any reviews because nobody reads them anyway, just some words why particular record is on my list. This listing is not in…