It’s December, which means it’s time for that annual rite of passage where everyone attempts to summarize a year’s worth of music into a top ten list. Metal Insider and its contributors will be releasing our lists starting soon, but we’ve also gotten lists from some of the artists themselves. In the latest installment, members of Gypsyhawk, Skeletonwitch, Saxon, Black Water Rising, and others weigh in on what kept them going in 2013.

Dustin Boltjes of Skeletonwitch

(in no particular order)

10) Gorguts, Colored Sands

9) Carcass, Surgical Steel

8) Noisem, Agony Defined

7) Kvelertak, Meir

6) Nero Di Marte, s/t

5) Suffocation, Pinnacle of Bedlam

4) Ulcerate, Vermis

3) Watain, The Wild Hunt

2) Portal, Vexovoid

1) Wormed, Exodromos 

Eric Harris of Gypsyhawk
Favorite albums of 2013:

1) Venomous Maximus, Beg Upon The Light

2) The Sword Apocryphon

3) Valient Thorr, Our Own Masters

4) American Sharks, S/T

5) Ghost, Infestissumam

Favorite albums to listen to in 2013:

6) Van Halen, S/T

7) Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak

8) Deep Purple, Machine Head

9) The Hellacopters, High Visibility

10) Ozzy Osbourne, Diary Of A Madman