The Top 100 Most Paranoid Albums of 2013

IMPORTANT NOTE: So this is it, this is the official Paranoid Hitsophrenic year's end best of list for the year 2013, but there are a couple things that you should know.  1). That the order and selection of the albums on this list are based on but a single criteria: amount of plays.  There's a whole formula that goes into it, but basically this is a list of my Most Played albums from 2013.  I still can't think of a better way to accurately document personal favorites.  And 2). that this list only covers albums that were officially released between January 1 and October 31 2013 with three exceptions (Egypt's 'Become The Sun', Green Shades's '..Bright Interlude' and Cpt Kronos's 'The Invocation' E.P. all of which were released in the final days of December 2012).  Albums released between November 1 and December 31, 2013 will be covered in next year's list.

All albums listed have links to listen to or purchase the album or both.  Please feel free to click the links of unfamiliar albums and fall in love.

1. IRON MAN – South of the Earth
2. DEVIL – Gather the Sinners
3. BEELZEFUZZ – Self-Titled
4. HEAD OF THE DEMON – Self-Titled
5. BLOOD CEREMONY – The Eldritch Dark
6. DEVIL TO PAY – Fate Is Your Muse
7. MOTHER OF GOD – Anthropos
8. NYMF – From the Dark
9. ABYSMAL GRIEF – Feretri
10. UNCLE ACID &THE DEADBEATS – Mind Control
11. BLIZARO – Strange Doorways
12. NEON WARSHIP – Self-Titled
13. TUMBLEWEED DEALER – Self-Titled
14. ALICE IN CHAINS – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
15. HOLLOW LEG – Abysmal
16. MONSTER MAGNET – Last Patrol
17. CURSE THE SON – Psychache
18. MOUNTAIN WITCH – Cold River
19. VISTA CHINO – Peace
20. SASQUATCH – IV
21. UZALA – Tales of Blood & Fire
22. ZODIAC – Self-TitledE.P.
23. TOMBSTONES – Red Skies& Dead Eyes
24. LA CHINGA – Self-Titled
25. WINDHAND – Soma
26. BRUTUS – Behind the Mountains
27. KADAVAR – Abra Kadavar
28. TSAR BOMBA – Silent Queen
29. DEMON EYE – Self-Titled E.P.
30. BEASTWARS – Blood Becomes Fire
31. TENTACLE – Ingot Eye
32. ICE DRAGON – Born a Heavy Morning
33. SPIRAL SHADES – Hypnosis Sessions
34. CRYPT TRIP – Self-Titled E.P.
35. DOCTOR SMOKE – Demo
36. PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS – Walk Through Exits Only
37. MOTHERSHIP – Self-Titled
38. SHALLOW GRAVE – Self-Titled
39. MAGIC CIRCLE – Self-Titled
40. HORISONT – Time Warriors
41. AT DEVIL DIRT - Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución
42. CPT. KRONOS – The Invocation E.P.
43. GOZU – The Fury of a Patient Man
44. EGYPT – Become the Sun
45. CULT OF OCCULT – Hic Est Domus Diaboli
46. SUMERU – Self-Titled
47. ROTE MARE – The Invocation / The Kingdom
48. BORRACHO – Oculus
49. RED FANG – Whales & Leeches
50. EARTHEN GRAVE – Self-Titled
51. WEED PRIEST – Self-Titled
52. ALEPH NULL – Belladonna E.P.
53. ICE DRAGON – The Soul’s Midnight
54. MAMMOTH STORM – Demo
55. DEMONAUTA – Caminando En La Luna
56. THE GATES OF SLUMBER – Stormcrow E.P.
57. BLACK SABBATH – 13
58. GREEN SHADE - ..Bright Interlude
59. WICKED INQUISITION – Silence Thereafter
60. SEREMONIA – Ihminen
61. KRÖWNN – Hyborian Age
62. YIDHRA – Hexed
63. GOATESS – Self-Titled
64. BLACK CAPRICORN – Born Under the Capricorn
65. ORANSSI PAZUZU – Valonielu
66. ALBINO PYTHON – The Doomed & The Damned
67. REVELATION – Inner Harbor
68. SPACE GOD RITUAL – Eldritch Tales
69. MAGISTER TEMPLI – Lucifer Leviathan Logos
70. BLACK PYRAMID – Adversarial
71. PEACEMAKER – Cult .45
72. PALM DESERT – Rotten Village Sessions
73. IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS – Of the Flock
74. VOID OF SLEEP – Tales Between Reality & Madness
75. CATHEDRAL – The Last Spire
76. IRON HEARSE – Get In the Hearse
77. CULTURA TRES – Rezando Al Miedo
78. CHURCH OF VOID – Winter Is Coming E.P.
79. CROWLORD – Nakes Chicks, Goats & Wolves
80. SHININ’ SHADE – Sat-Urn
81. BLACK RAINBOWS – Holy Moon E.P.
82. ARGUS – Beyond the Martyrs
83. TOMBSTONE – Where the Dead Belong
84. CHURCH OF VOID – Dead Rising
85. BLOOD RED WATER – All the Ills of Mankind
86. FANGS OF THE MOLOSSUS – Self-Titled
87. BLACK ANGELS – Indigo Meadow
88. MOSS – Horrible Night
89. WEREWOLVES IN SIBERIA – The Rising
90. FIVE HORSE JOHNSON – The Taking of Blackheart
91. APE SKULL – Self-Titled
92. DOZER – Vultures E.P.
93. PYRES – Year of Sleep
94. POMBAGIRA – Maleficia Lamiah
95. DIESEL KING – The Grey Man E.P.
96. MOUNT SALEM – Endless
97. THE HEAVY CO. – Midwest Electric
98. NOCTUM – Final Sacrifice
99. APE MACHINE – Mangled By the Machine
100. SHROUD EATER – Dead Ends E.P.

One final note:  This being a most played list, the rankings are fluid.  Take a look at last year's list right here (looks better doesn't it?  Well, I gave myself a lot more time last year), then compare it to where the 2012 list stands at this moment in time (Top 30):

1. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Self-Titled
2. HIGH ON FIRE - De Vermis Mysteriis
3. FROM BEYOND - The Color Out of Space E.P.
4. MOON CURSE - Self-Titled
5. ABRAHMA - Through the Dusty Paths of Our Lives
6. RED DESERT - Damned By Fate
7. SONIC TITAN - Even Higher
8. MOUNT FUJI - Self-Titled
9. WINDHAND - Self-Titled
10. HOUR OF 13 - 333
11. ADMIRAL SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL - Don't Hear It ... Fear It!
12. SKANSKA MORD - Paths To Charon
13. AT DEVIL DIRT - Chapter II "Vulgo gratissimus auctor"
14. ICHABOD - Dreamscapes From Dead Space
15. ORANGE GOBLIN - A Eulogy For the Damned
16. GREENLEAF - Nest of Vipers
17. VINUM SABBATUM - Bacchanale Premiere
18. DOWN - Down IV: The Purple E.P.
19. SATELLITE BEAVER - The Last Bow
20. THE GRAVIATORS - Evil Deeds
21. WO FAT - The Black Code
22. SET - Sacred Moon Cult
23. SEREMONIA - Self-Titled
24. DOPELORD - Magick Rites
25. CAPTAIN CRIMSON - Dancing Madly Backwards
26. MOS GENERATOR - Nomads
27. MOONLESS - Calling All Demons
28. THE WANDERING MIDGET - From the Meadows of Opium Dreams
29. SOUNDCRAWLER - The Sandcrawler
30. GOYA - Demo