Just a few quick comments on my music purchases. On avg I buy about one CD a week.

Best CD for 2013 (released in 2012 ) is probably Parallax 2: Future Sequence, recorded by Between the Buried and Me. Mostly referred to as BTBAM.

Haken takes the best prog CD of 2013 with ease. The Mountain is incredible, if not difficult. Difficult in that the singer is so weird at first one is convinced Haken must suck. They don't. Give it time brahs.

*INSERT 12 pretentious paragraphs detailing why both bands are awesome*

Devin Townsend's Ghost
Katatonia's Dead End Kings
Anathema's Weather Systems
Tesseract's Altered State