Sunday, September 20, 2015

The Best Rock Albums of 2013

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2012. I have covered 47 years of music in other posts (1965-2012), which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?
  • Avenged Sevenfold- Hail to the King
  • Jimi Hendrix- People, Hell, & Angels
  • John Fogerty- Wrote a Song for Everyone
  • Paul McCartney- New
  • Elton John- The Diving Board
  • Bob Dylan- Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
  • David Bowie- The Next Day
  • Queens of the Stone Age- ...Like Clockwork
  • Alice In Chains- The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
  • Rob Zombie- Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Black Sabbath- 13 (2013) 
13 is the nineteenth studio album by the Rock group Black Sabbath, which was released on June 10, 2013. The album reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart and #1 as well on the UK Albums Chart. The album has been certified Gold in the United Kingdom and Platinum in Canada.
 
13 includes three singles-- "God Is Dead?" "End of the Beginning," and "Loner." Other notable songs on the album include: "Pariah," (found in the deluxe edition of the album) "Age of Reason," and "Dear Father."
 
Notable of the album is that it is Black Sabbath's first album with singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler since the band's 1998 live album Reunion, and the first album with Osbourne since Sabbath's 1978 studio album titled Never Say Die! The album also includes drummer Brad Wilk, former drummer of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, instead of former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward. Ward did not return to the group for 13 due to contractual disputes.
 
Also notable of the album is that it was primarily written and put together at guitarist Tony Iommi's home in England instead of the group's scheduled location of Los Angeles, California. This was due to Iommi's ongoing treatment for lymphoma at the time of writing/recording of 13.
 
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