Top 10 - 2013 / By YngwieViking
January 19, 2014
No. 10
Band: Avenged Sevenfold
Album: "Hail To The King"
Year of formation:1999
Label: Warner Bros
The best example that the New Wave of American Heavy Metal is a tangible reality, and that the large commercial success is possible for a straight Old School Metal band in the USA in 2013!Hail to the King.
No. 9
Band: Lord
Album: "Digital Lies"
Year of formation:2003
Label: Riot / Dominus Records
To my knowledge LORD is a one-off specimen, indeed a very special band, I never managed to find such a similar band, stylistically speaking, indeed their music a very rare melting pot of influences ranging from Progressive hi-tech Thrash to a Very Melodic Metal almost AOR and even stretching gradually to the maximum to an exponential artistic success from album to album.
No. 8
Band: Mercenary
Album: "Through Our Darkest Days"
Year of formation:1991
Labe: NoiseArt Records
Along with the prestigious "11 Dreams" and "Architect Of Lies" in 2008, "Through Our Darkest Days" belongs to the same fantastic category of album released by the Danish Modern Metal Merchants of MERCENARY , with the perfect synthesis of Brutality and enchanting Melodies!Clever and evolutionary.
No. 7
Band: Stryper
Album: "No More Hell to Pay"
Year of formation: 1983
Label: Frontiers Records
The Yellow and Black attack is back with their strongest album ever or at least their most steady and constant release. And by supplying each and every recognizable signature elements of their legendary style with their positive message in the most pristine way, they prove to the incredulous world that their triumphal success in the 80's wasn't a fluke.
No. 6
Band: Avantasia
Album: "The Mystery of Time"
Year of formation:2000
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Tobias Sammet and cohort are doing the trick one more time, by providing another incredible collection of great Euro Melodic Metal songs of the best kind with a strong addictive potential and a real mastery in the making
No. 5
Band: Dream Theater
Album: "Dream Theater"
Year of formation: 1986
Label: Roadrunner Records
The more coherent DREAM THEATER album since maybe "Awake" , this is the true essence of their sound, perhaps it's the reason why the album is simply self-titled, it's because this disc reveal exactly what D.T. is all about: brilliant / melodic and some musical prowess technically unreachable by the others Progressive Metal bands out there.
No. 4
Band: The Winery Dogs
Album: "The Winery Dogs"
Year of formation:2012
Label: Loud & Proud Records
After some high profile releases and a particular impressive ubiquity, the ex DREAM THEATER/A7X drums God Mike Portnoy is back again with his new musical partner the magnificent Bass Maestro Billy Sheehan, under a power trio format, completed by none other than one of the most gifted Guitarist of his generation: Richie Kotzen but this time no instrumental trickery, no instrumental knitting, because beside his absolute skilled six strings wizardry , he is also indeed an hell of a fantastic soulful singer and a very underrated vocalist of the best brand! A supergroup, hell yeah! But mostly a Great Classic Rock band with great songs.
No. 3
Band: Satan Jokers
Album: "Psychiatric"
Year of formation: 1981
Label: Brennus Records
Since their successful, yet spectacular and unexpected return in 2009, SATAN JOKERS and his charismatic leader Renaud Hantson are on a high roll, and maybe at the peak of their creativity, they morphed themselves into a very tight & unique dangerous killing machine of Shred Melodic Metal.
No. 2
Band: Seventh Key
Album: "I Will Survive"
Year of formation: 2001
Label: Frontiers Records
Mike Slamer and Billy Greer are two experienced gentlemen who are holding an unique kind of magic in recording Top Class and pure AOR elegancy with plenty of refined and sophisticated melodies with some beautiful ambiances, this is a pure load of ear orgasmic pleasure, a delivery of grace and sheer finesse in this brutal and dumb world.
No. 1
Band: Magnus Karlsson's Freefall
Album: "Freefall"
Year of formation: 2013
Label: Frontiers Records
The more prolific and talented writer/guitarist of the contemporary times: Mr. Magnus Karlsson with the most impressive bunch of world class lead singers recording for the virtually best selection of tunes in Melodic Metal, the whole wrapped in a perfect sound for the monumental CD of the year in the finest Swedish Tradition.
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