Ten Tracks That Shook Apart 2013 (And Held It Together)

So 2013 ended up being a downer year with health scares involving metal titans, and the dark early loss of Jeff Hanneman. Summing up some tracks that lit up the year, and held things together, there are impressive explosions of extremity via Bölzer and Inquisition, crafty comebacks by Voivod and Carcass, spooky witch doom rock by Mansion and Purson, pop purulence by Ghost, and A BAND CALLED SLEAFORD MODS THAT I HAD TO CHECK UP AFTER SEEING MICK HARRIS TOUT THEM IN 101 CONSECUTIVE MORNING FACE...