KEEW 'best of 2013' edition (playlist for January 1, 2014)

For our first Kill Eat Exploit the Weak of the new year we decided to say goodbye to the old year. Our method? Running through our favourite records of 2013 - the metal we enjoyed most as well as a top Canadian metal mini-list and a few of our favourite not-quite-metal releases for a 'best of simulated meat' featurette.

This playlist represents our collective top 10 (there were lots of ties), our Canadian top 7, and three simulated meat* choices, with a fair bit of overlap between the lists.

ARTIST	ALBUM	TRACK	LABEL	Notes
Amon Amarth	Deceiver of the Gods	As Loke Falls	Metal Blade	tied for #10
Man's Gin	Rebellion Hymns	Varicose*	Profound Lore	tied for #10 overall, #3 simulated meat
Vaura	The Missing	The Missing	Profound Lore	tied for #9
Altar of Plagues	Teethed Glory and Injury	A Body Shrouded	Profound Lore	tied for #9
Gorguts	Colored Sands	Forgotten Arrows	Season of Mist	#2 Canadian, tied for #8 overall
Leprous	Coal	Foe	Inside Out	tied for #8
Carcass	Surgical Steel	A Congealed Clot of Blood	Nuclear Blast	tied for #7
The Moth Gatherer	A Bright Celestial Light	A Road of Gravel and Skulls (track 3)	Agonia	tied for #7
Ghost B.C.	Infestissumam	Jigolo Har Megiddo	Loma Vista	#6
Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse	Wisdom of Crowds	Frozen North*	K-Scope	#2 simulated meat
Anathema	Universal	The Beginning and the End*	K-Scope	#1 simulated meat
Ken Mode	Entrench	Counter Culture Complex	Season of Mist	#7 Canadian
Ayahuasca	Plato's Dark Horse	Can You Feel the New Food Chain?	Independent	#6 Canadian
Thrawsunblat	Wanderer on the Continent of Sapling	Once Fireveined	Independent	#5 Canadian
Blood Ceremony	The Eldritch Dark	The Eldritch Dark	Rise Above	#4 Canadian
Voivod	Target Earth	Corps Etranger	Century Media	#3 Canadian
October Tide	Tunnel of No Light	Caught in Silence	Pulverised	#5
Long Distance Calling	The Flood Inside	Tell the End	Superball	#4
Witherscape	The Inheritance	Dead for a Day	Century Media	tied for #3
Deafheaven	Sunbather	Dreamhouse	Deathwish	tied for #3
Audrey Horne	Youngblood	Redemption Blues	Napalm	#2
SubRosa	More Constant than the Gods	Cosey Mo	Profound Lore	tied for #1
Anciients	Heart of Oak	Faith and Oath	Season of Mist	#1 Canadian, tied for #1 overall