Top BANDCAMPS of 2013.

the only thing more lame than another year-end list is a year end list that starts with "I know I know another year end list" or some variation of that sentiment. you're not clever. you're not funny. no one is buying your insouciance. just share the things you enjoyed without fear of being made fun of by some trollish rabble.

anyway, i did the physical media version of a top 10 list earlier in the month, but i realized a good chunk of stuff i really loved this year i had heard on Bandcamp. out of my own sick need to keep track of shit, i figured i'd attempt to remember some of them. here goes.....

COWARDS - Hoarder

depraved filthcore from the bowels of France.

BEAST AS GOD - s/t

sinister metallic hardcore in the dirty beastly vein of Unruh. never not good.

FACIAL ABUSE - Slightly Uncomfortable 

like the last ten years of Napalm Death taken to deeper extremes.

UBASUTE - Tyranny Garden

supremely caustic and stridently wrenching in the way screamo was before it became "Screamo(tm)".

PURGE. - An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Unorthodoxy

i really can't say enough about this release. it just so much adheres to everything i'd want out of a grind record; heavy, memorable, misanthropic, weird artwork, cool lyrics... Purge. has it all.

SUCKED DRY - Dog Children

deranged metallic hardcore in the anti-tradition of Rorschach and other warped outsiders.

FORCED OPINION - Life in Fear

no-nonsense brutality as only Cleveland can deliver.

CUSTODIAN - Time Folds Upon Itself

one of power electronics' true composers.

AUDITOR - Form Destroyer

deconstructing deconstruction.

INTESTINAL DISGORGE - The Shadows That Stride from World to World

how to describe this? Putrid Pile meets Venetian Snares? guess that'll do.