The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Mark Hebblewhite

Top Ten Albums
1.  Warbrain  -  Void Of Confusion
2.  Black Sabbath  -  13
3.  Outsiders Code  -  Exiled From Birth
4.  Hail Of Bullets  -  III: The Rommel Chronicles
5.  Off With Their Heads!  -  HOme
6.  Bad Religion  -  True North
7.  Motorhead  -  Aftershock
8.  Nails  -  Abandon All Life
9.  Night Birds  -  Born To Die In Suburbia
10.  Integrity  -  Suicide Black Snake

Top Three Miscellaneous Albums
1.  Toe To Toe  -  Still Fighting
2.  Cold Ground  -  We Make Us Sick
3.  Rust Proof  -  S/T

Top Five Songs
1.  Bad Religion  -  Robin Hood In Reverse
2.  Placebo  -  Loud Like Love
3.  Off With Their Heads!  -  Start Walking
4.  Black Sabbath  -  Methademic
5.  Audrey Horne  -  Redemption Blues

Artist Of The Year
1.  Black Sabbath
2.  Bad Religion
3.  Motorhead
4.  Warbrain
5.  Iron Mind

Best Five International Artist Performances  
1.  Black Breath
2.  Descendents
3.  Black Sabbath
4.  Ghost
5.  Orange Goblin

Best Five Australian Artist Performances  
1.  Warbrain
2.  Toe To Toe
3.  Mindsnare
4.  Vigilante
5.  Boneless

Top Five TV Shows   
1.  Breaking Bad
2.  Boardwalk Empire
3.  Game Of Thrones
4.  House Of Cards
5.  Borgen

Top Five Films
1.  Before Midnight
2.  Silver Linings Playbook
3.  Thor: The Dark World
4.  Man Of Steel
5.  The Hunt

 Top Five Websites
1.  Mediaite
2.  Politico
3.  metal sucks
4.  Rest Assured
5.  new york times

The Highlight Of 2013
Finishing my never ending PHD thesis - and seeing Black Sabbath

Prediction For 2014
More of the same - the more things change the more they stay the same....