Episode 17 - Year End Top Ten

Here we go for my year end special.  I was able to narrow my collection down to 15 outstanding albums which I've arranged into a top ten with five honorable mentions.  As I provide commentary during the show, I won't write much here.  All are worthy of checking out for yourself.

Number 10

Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea by Returning We Hear the Larks.  Songs featured:

1. Prologue: Stheno; Slain by Hand of Gods  CC - BY - SA  0:00
2. Nascence in the Caverns of Mount Olympus  CC - BY - SA  11:22
3. The Despairing Sea I: In Search of Solace  CC - BY - SA  17:54
4. The Despairing Sea II: The Wanderer Euryale  CC - BY - SA  22:18

Honorable Mention

False Vision EP by Armaroth.  Song Featured:

1. Labyrinth Of Greed  CC - BY - NC - SA  28:39

Number 9

Pró-Exploração by Narayama.  Songs featured:

1. Paradoxo da Reforma I  CC - BY - NC - SA  34:10
2. Paradoxo da Reforma II  CC - BY - NC - SA  34:30
3. Vontade e Poder  CC - BY - NC - SA  35:06
4. Miséria Oculta  CC - BY - NC - SA  35:47
5. Orgulho  CC - BY - NC - SA  36:41
6. Sexo Antropofágico  CC - BY - NC - SA  37:50
7. Destituída  CC - BY - NC - SA  38:34
8. Jornada Tripla  CC - BY - NC - SA 39:12
9. Toda Sua  CC - BY - NC - SA  39:56
10. Escolha?  CC - BY - NC - SA  40:17
11. Pró-Exploração  CC - BY - NC - SA  40:42
12. Prepotência  CC - BY - NC - SA  41:49

Honorable Mention

Danse! For Macabre Shall Come by Frostbitten.  Song Featured:

1. I, The Plaguebearer...  CC - BY - SA  44:11

Number 8

Oligarchy by Lycanthia.  Songs featured:

1. Forgone  CC - BY - NC  54:51
2. Time Feeds this Wound  CC - BY - NC  1:02:21
3. Hair of the Beast  CC - BY - NC  1:08:51
4. From Ancestral Lands  CC - BY - NC  1:14:06

Honorable Mention

VOID. ETERNAL. by Cursed Altar.  Song featured:

1. VOID  CC - BY - NC  1:21:20

Number 7

Banewreaker by Banewreaker.  Songs featured:

1. Masterful Wroth  CC - BY - NC - SA  1:29:23
2. Treasonous  CC - BY - NC - SA  1:32:28
3. The Calm  CC - BY - NC - SA  1:36:06
4. Shallow Roots  CC - BY - NC - SA  1:36:53
5. Gaoler's Whip  CC - BY - NC - SA  1:41:22
6. Bilenursed  CC - BY - NC - SA  1:44:12

Honorable Mention

Glacial by Judd Madden.  Song featured:

1. Mountain Slayer  CC - BY - NC  1:49:20

Number 6

The Rose Coil by Patrons of The Rotting Gate.  Songs featured:

1. Secrets In The Soil  CC - BY - SA  1:58:45
2. Pride In Descent  CC - BY - SA  2:01:41
3. Chest Of Light  CC - BY - SA  2:07:27
4. Clandestine Fractures  CC - BY - SA  2:14:35
5. A Perfect Suicide  CC - BY - SA  2:19:43
6. ...Of All Eyes  CC - BY - SA  2:27:11

Honorable Mention

Known Flood by Sannhet.  Song featured:

1. Haunches  CC - BY - NC - ND  2:28:52

Number 5

Ghost Light by Galaktik Cancer Squad.  Songs featured:

1. In lichrwelosen Weiten  CC - BY - NC  2:34:17
2. Ghost Light  CC - BY - NC  2:46:12
3. Hypnose  CC - BY - NC  2:53:10

Number 4

Portals to a Better, Dead World by Cara Neir.  Songs featured:

1. Red Moon Foreboding  CC - BY - NC - ND  3:08:52
2. Dust Collector  CC - BY - NC - ND  3:14:37
3. Forlorn Love (Henry and Karen)  CC - BY - NC - ND  3:20:45
4. Exalting the Shadow Proprietor  CC - BY - NC - ND  3:23:09
5. 3,380 Pounds  CC - BY - NC - ND  3:30:23

Number 3

A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time by Obsidian Tongue.  Songs featured:

1. Black Hole In Human Form  CC - BY - NC  3:41:19
2. My Hands Were Made to Hold the Wind  CC - BY - NC  3:49:53
3. The Birth of Tragedy  CC - BY - NC  3:57:29
4. A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time  CC - BY - NC  4:06:19

Number 2

Unbecoming by RAGANA.  Songs featured:

1. Chain Reaction  CC - BY - NC - SA  4:16:01
2. Unbecoming  CC - BY - NC - SA  4:19:02
3. Curved Grass  CC - BY - NC - SA  4:25:44
4. Enough  CC - BY - NC - SA  4:30:36
5. Invocation  CC - BY - NC - SA  4:34:54

Number 1 - Hayduke's Album of the Year for 2013

Anarchic by Skagos.  Songs featured:

1. Anarchic (side A)  CC - BY  4:38:46
2. Anarchic (side B)  CC - BY  5:01:56
3. Anarchic (side C)  CC - BY  5:20:03

I have a little time left, so I'll end with a few songs by bands that really spoke to me this year, even though the albums were released further in the past.

1. Héroe by Santa Marta Golden from El Fallo Humano  CC - BY - NC - SA  5:43:47
2. Enchantress by Landforge from Servitude to Earth  CC - BY - NC - SA  5:47:59
3. Black flag over our fortress by axidance form split w/ catastrofe (cd) 2010 CC - BY - NC - ND  5:55:04

Thanks for listening.  I hope you enjoyed.  Don't forget to comment or vote so I can crown a People's Champ next week!