Our 2013 Top 10 (or top 12 as it turned out) list was filled with the usual assortment of 20 year old bands that we’ve all heard before. One of the problems with running a poll like this is that it inevitably becomes a popularity contest.
However, many of us are interested into listening to something a little different, or a little newer. Below, I present the Top 10 albums that come from non-mainstream and/or new artists that you may (or may not) have heard of before.
I applied a series of rules to come up with this list, bands that are older than 15 years have been eliminated, as have any with high selling (gold or better) albums. I’ve also knocked out a number of super groups. Karnivool could claim to be part of this list, however since they did make the top 12, I’ve removed them!
With that in mind, here are the next 10 best albums from bands you may not have heard of:
Habitual Levitations – Intronaut
Memorial – Russian Circles
Altered State – Tesseract
Shaking The Habitual – The Knife
Pelagial – The Ocean
Shrine of New Generation Slaves – Riverside
Ultraviolet – Kylesa
Forever Becoming – Pelican
Sunbather – Deafheaven
Whales And Leeches – Red Fang