In recent years I've had trouble coming up with ten albums I really liked. This year I had trouble paring down about thirty albums. Suffice it to say, 2013 was a great year for music. The following are my honorable mentions - ten albums that I really enjoyed, but didn't quite make my final "top ten." Some came very close, but I had to make some tough decisions. This is basically my runners-up list - not ranked, but ordered alphabetically.* Enjoy. . . . ASG: Blood Drive (6.5/10) 6. I hadn't heard of Wilmington, North Carolina, stoner/sludge rockers ASG until earlier this summer. Turns out Blood Drive is their fifth album and it sounds like a lost gem from 1992. All the hallmarks of that era are preserved and resurrected brilliantly here as if Creed and Nickleback never existed to piss all over them - the angst, the beauty, and the riffs. Vocalist Jason Shi displays uncanny range, emulating both Perry Farrell's nasal rasp a...
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