Killyourstereo.com staff Album of the Year lists

Today, we highlight the albums KYS writers have enjoyed in 2013.

Keep an eye peeled on the site tomorrow as we officially unveil the 2013 Killyourstereo.com Album of the Year poll results (as voted by you).

In the meantime, view what our contributors have personally considered impressive records this year.

KYS staff overall (international) top 10 list:

1. letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
2. Deafheaven – Sunbather
3. Daylight - Jar
4. Protest the Hero - Volition
5. Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us Is the Killer
7. The Rival Mob – Mob Justice
8. August Burns Red – Rescue & Restore
9. A Wilhelm Scream – Partycrasher
10. Norma Jean - Wrongdoers

KYS staff Australian top 10 list:

1. Karnivool – Asymmetry
2. Northlane - Singularity
3. Hands Like Houses – Unimagine
4. Violent Soho – Hungry Ghost
5. Gay Paris – The Last Good Party
6. Paper Arms – The Smoke Will Clear
7. I Exist – From Darkness
8. Dead Letter Circus – The Catalyst Fire
9. Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief & River’s End
10. Warbrain – Void of Confusion


Kane (Kane_H) – 

Overall top 10:

1. Deafheaven – Sunbather
2. All Pigs Must Die – Nothing Violates This Nature
3. Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
4. Protest The Hero – Volition
5. Nails – Abandon All Life
6. Kvelertak – Meir
7. Seven Sisters of Sleep – Opium Morals
8. TesseracT – Altered State
9. Carcass – Surgical Steel
10. Vestiges/Panopticon – Split

Australian top 10:

1. Gay Paris – The Last Good Party
2. Jack The Stripper – Raw Nerve
3. I Exist – From Darkness
4. Bare Bones – Villains (EP)
5. The Schoenberg Automaton – Vela
6. Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief & River’s End
7. The Ophidian Ascension – Ire
8. Glass Empire – Cognitive Dissonance (EP)
9. Northlane - Singularity
10. Loss of Self – Twelve Minutes


Tom (Maddo) -

Overall:

1. The Others - Red Eyes
2. Daylight - Jar
3. Citizen - Youth
4. Vigilante - Quality Of Life
5. Outsiders Code - Exiled From Birth
6. The Rival Mob - Mob Justice
7. Endless Heights - New Bloom
8. Pity Sex - Feast Of Love
9. Nails - Abandon All Life
10. Demolition - World Gone Mad

Australian:

1. The Others - Red Eyes
2. Vigilante - Quality Of Life
3. Outsiders Code - Exiled From Birth
4. Endless Heights - New Bloom
5. Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost
6. Apart From This - In Gloom
7. Warbrain - Void Of Confusion
8. Downside/Legions - Split
9. Relentless - Turn The Curse
10. Postblue/Flowermouth – Split


Luke (LukeC) -

Overall:

1. Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains
2. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
3. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
4. The 1975 - The 1975
5. Childish Gambino - Because The Internet
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
7. Jimmy Eat World – Damage
8. Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
9. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
10. Balance And Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing

Australian:

1. Red Beard – Enigma
2. Featherweight – Exhaustion
3. Paul Dempsey - Shotgun Karaoke
4. Safe Hands - Montenegro 

5. Hands Like Houses - Unimagine

6. Karnivool - Asymmetery 

7. Sleep Parade - Inside/Out

8. Gold Fields - Black Sun

9. Birds Of Tokyo - March Fires

10. Eleventh He Reaches London – Banhus


Blake (BlakeG) -

Overall:

1 Deafheaven - Sunbather
2 Savages - Silence Yourself
3 Drake - Nothing Was the Same
4 The National - Trouble Will Find Me
5 Kanye West - Yeezus
6 Iceage - You're Nothing
7 TV Colours - Purple Skies, Toxic River
8 Pissed Jeans - Honeys
9 Seahorse Divorce - Seahorse Divorce
10 RVIVR - The Beauty Between

Australian:

1 TV Colours - Purple Skies, Toxic River
2 Seahorse Divorce - Seahorse Divorce
3 The Smith Street Band - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
4 Yes I'm Leaving - Mission Bulb
5 Kirin J Callinan - Embracism
6 Fourteen Nights at Sea - Great North
7 I Exist - From Darkness
8 Eleventh He Reaches London - Banhus
9 Dick Diver - Calendar Days
10 The Bennies - Rainbows in Space


Rob (RobFoster) -

Overall:

1. Paramore - Paramore
2. Protest The Hero - Volition
3. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
4. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
5. August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore
6. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2
7. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
8. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
9. The Dangerous Summer - Golden Record
10. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is The Killer

Australian:

1. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
2. Northlane - Singularity
3. Karnivool - Asymmetry
4. Lorde - Pure Heroine
5. Hellions - Die Young
6. Hands Like Houses - Unimagine
7. Richie St James - It Is What It Is
8. Jen Buxton - Desperation Demos
9. Ash Gale - Roll With The Gold
10. Perspectives – Blind


Scott (Srussell) -

Overall:

1. A Wilhelm Scream - Partycrasher
2. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
4. August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore
5. Stray from the Path - Anonymous
6. Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones Part 2
7. Protest the Hero - Volition
8. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
9. Alter Bridge - Fortress
10. Red Fang - Whales and Leeches

Australian:

1. Gay Paris - The Last Good Party
2. Circles - Infinitas
3. Karnivool - Asymmetry
4. Sticky Fingers - Caress Your Soul
5. Bare Bones - Villains (EP)
6. Northlane - Singularity
7. Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost
8. Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire
9. Hellions - Die Young
10. Jack the Stripper - Raw Nerve


Natasha (TashS) –

Overall:

1. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
2. After The Fall - Unkind
3. Daylight - Jar
4. Touche Amore - Is Survived By
5. The Smith Street Band - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
6. Sainthood Reps - Headswell
7. Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart
8. Paper Arms - The Smoke Will Clear
9. Hundredth - Revolt
10. The Front Bottoms - Talon Of The Hawk

Australian:

1. The Smith Street Band - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
2. Paper Arms - The Smoke Will Clear
3. Trophy Eyes - Everything Goes Away
4. Milestones - I'd Rather Be Honest
5. Perspectives - Blind
6. Sierra - Sierra
7. Luca Brasi - Tassie
8. Outlines - Idle Times and Clouded Minds
9. Sunsets - Make It Happen
10. Wil Wagner – Laika


Arielle (H0lywood) –

Overall:

1. Rob Zobmie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
2. Get Scared - Everyone's Out To Get Me
3. Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal
4. Witchgrinder – The Demon Calling
5. Wednesday 13 – The Dixie Dead
6. Fall Out Boy – Save Rock and Roll
7. Story of the Year – Page Avenue: Ten Years and Counting
8. A Day To Remember – Common Courtesy
9. Trivium – Vengeance Falls
10. AFI – Burials

Australian:

1. Witchgrinder – The Demon Calling
2. Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief & River’s End
3. Rise of Avernus - L'appel du vide
4. Our Last Enemy – Engineering the Enemy
5. Scar the Surface – From the Shadows to the Fire
6. Trophy Eyes – Everything Goes Away
7. Milestones – I’d Rather Be Honest
8. Northlane – Singularity
9. D At Sea – Unconscious
10. Outsiders Code – Exiled From Birth


Nathan (Nathann) –

Overall:

1. Mansions - Doom Loop
2. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever
3. Violent Soho – Hungry Ghost
4. I Kill Giants - I Kill Giants
5. The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk
6. A Great Big Pile of Leaves - You’re Always on My Mind
7. The Dangerous Summer – Golden Record
8. Kevin Devine & the Goddamn Band - Bubblegum
9. The Dear Hunter - Migrant
10. Into It. Over It. – Intersections

Australian:

1. Violent Soho – Hungry Ghost
2. Hands Like Houses – Unimagine
3. Karnivool – Asymmetry
4. The Drones – I See Seaweed
5. Dead Letter Circus – The Catalyst Fire
6. Hungry Kids of Hungry – You’re A Shadow
7. Dream On Dreamer – Loveless
8. Snakadaktal – Sleep in the Water
9. Cloud Control – Dream Cave
10. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Float Along / Fill Your Lungs


Natasha (Natasha) –

Overall:

1. letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
2. Deafheaven – Sunbather
3. The Rival Mob – Mob Justice
4. Daylight – Jar
5. Kvelertak – Meir
6. Down To Nothing – Life On The James
7. Balance And Composure – The Things We Think We're Missing
8. Title Fight – Spring Songs
9. A Wilhelm Scream – Partycrasher
10. The Story So Far – What You Don't See

Australian:

1. Northlane – Singularity
2. Warbrain – Void Of Confusion
3. Violent Soho – Hungry Ghost
4. Safe Hands – Montenegro
5. Paper Arms – The Smoke Will Clear
6. Perspectives – Blind
7. Endless Heights – New Bloom
8. The Smith Street Band – Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
9. Apart From This – In Gloom
10. Monuments – Existence


Lachlan (Lockie_Murders) -

Overall:

1. letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful
2. Karnivool - Asymmetry
3. Misery Signals - Absent Light
4. Sights and Sounds - Silver Door
5. Crossfaith - Apocalyze
6. Story of the Year - Page Avenue: Ten Years and Counting
7. Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire
8. High Tension - Death Beat
9. Caulfield - Vanity
10. Young Lions – Burn

Australian:

1. Karnivool - Asymmetry
2. High Tension - Death Beat
3. Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire
4. Caulfield - Vanity
5. Aural Window - Candlelight
6. Young Lions - Burn
7. Hands Like Houses - Unimagine
8. The Smith Street Band - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
9. Violent Soho - Hungry Ghost
10. Luca Brasi - Tassie