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The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Lochlan Watt

Lochlan Watt is still waiting for Slayer to break up - he hopes it'll happen in 2014.

Top Ten Albums
1.  Bring Me The Horizon  -  Sempiternal
2.  Northlane  -  Singularity
3.  The Dillinger Escape Plan  -  One Of Us Is The Killer
4.  The Ocean  -  Pelagial
5.  Misery Signals  -  Absent Light
6.  Rosetta  -  The Anaesthete
7.  Attila  -  About That Life
8.  The Schoenberg Automaton  -  Vela
9.  Boysetsfire  -  While A Nation Sleeps
10.  Encircling Sea  -  A Forgotten Land  

Top Five Songs
1.  Attila  -  The Callout
2.  Dead Kelly  -  New World Slaughter
3.  Northlane  -  Scarab
4.  The Dillinger Escape Plan  -  Hero of The Soviet Union
5.  Sewercide  -  Condemned To Sanity


Artist Of The Year
1.  Palm
2.  Dead Kelly
3.  Bring Me The Horizon
4.  The Dillinger Escape Plan
5.  Attila

Best Five International Artist Performances  
1.  Palm
2.  Cattle Decapitation
3.  Behemoth
4.  Crossfaith
5.  Black Breath

Best Five Australian Artist Performances  
1.  Jack The Stripper
2.  King Parrot
3.  The Amity Affliction
4.  Totally Unicorn
5.  A Secret Death

Top Three TV Shows   
1.  Breaking Bad
2.  South Park
3.  A Currunt Affair

Top Five Films
1.  The Conjuring
2.  Architects - One Hundred Days
3.  Dirty Wars
4.  Elysium
5.  World War Z

 Top Five Websites
1.  Lambgoat
2.  Pozible
3.  Silk Road
4.  Twitter
5.  Al Jazeera

The Highlight Of 2013
Being the best man at my best friend's wedding, them immediately kicking off a 19 show tour with my friends in Palm and A Secret Death.

Prediction For 2014
I predicted that Slayer would break up a couple of years ago... can it just be put to rest already? Whatever man. I hope someone assassinates Tony Abbott.