Classic Rock 192 - The Best Of 2013
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Classic Rock Magazine / Classic Rock issue 192 JANUARY 2014
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15 top tracks from the year's best new releases.
This is the state of the art, 2013.

01 MONSTER TRUCK – The Lion (Radio Edit)
Monster Truck's debut album was cited by Slash as evidence that "all hope is not lost", and the cat in the hat was surely thinking of standout track The Lion. We can't remember the last time we heard Canadians sounding so angry.
Taken from: Furiosity (Dine Alone)

02 THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT - Midnight Black
The one-time session sloggers broke through this year with their eponymous debut album, and Midnight Black sets the tone: a cranked-amp rabble-rouser that rides on chippy guitars and the raw vocal of Glaswegian Phil Campbell. Never has a band named after militant teetotalism made us want a pint so badly.
Taken from: The Temperance Movement (Earache)

03 MOTÖRHEAD - Dust And Glass
This bluesy curve ball is Motörhead, but not as we caricature them. Lemmy delivers a lyric about lost love and the sands running out that feels extra-poignant in light of his recent health wobbles. Then a monster guitar solo kicks in, just to prove that they're not going soft in their old age. Taken from: Aftershock (UDR)

04 BLACK STAR RIDERS - Hey Judas
Having put the lid on Lizzy last December, Scott Gorham and co. tore out of the blocks in May with a rush-recorded debut album and a fresh sense of purpose. Hey Judas is the pick, with Jovi-style guitars jostling with a lyric that suggests the bad-boy disciple had all the fun.
Taken from: All Hell Breaks Loose (Nuclear Blast)

05 ALTER BRIDGE - Cry Of Achilles
This classical guitar motif had been on the back burner for months before it was slotted into place as the scene-setter for the seething opening track of Fortress. "In the end we felt like we had caught lightning in a bottle," Mark Tremonti recalls of the satisfaction of nailing Cry Of Achilles/i>.
Taken from: Fortress (Roadrunner)

06 FISH - A Feast Of Consequences
Available only at his website and merch table, Fish's tenth post-Marillion release was never going to set tills ringing, but the lack of label meddling is palpable on moments like this sunny-side-up title track.
Taken from: A Feast Of Consequences (Chocolate Frog)

07 VON HERTZEN BROTHERS – Flowers And Rust
Nine Lives was another step up for the Finnish siblings, and Flowers And Rust is its most immediate moment, setting the tale of a 'living lost cause' who turns 'diamonds to dust' against the plonk of xylophone and slinky guitar lines. Intelligent and catchy, it deservedly won Best Anthem at this year's Prog Awards.
Taken from: Nine Lives (Spinefarm)

08 HEY! HELLO! - Burn The Rule Book (Fuck It)
Pledge king Ginger has been burning a stack of rulebooks lately, and the Wildhearts singer ignited a few more pages alongside New Yorker co-vocalist Victoria Liedtke with this genre-bending pop-thrasher. 'Don't get so heavy-hearted,' advises the sugar-bomb chorus. 'Let's get the good times started, before they turn to shit ...'.
Taken from: Hey! Hello! (Rounder)

09 CLUTCH - Gone Cold
A momentary pause for breath and amid the band's full-throttle tenth album, Gone Cold is also its best moment. With Neil Fallon's vocal laid low with sorrow, and a spaghetti-western guitar riff beneath it, this is a moment of pure atmosphere that's just looking for a Tarantino credits montage to soundtrack.
Taken from: Earth Rocker (Weathermaker Music)

10 ROY HARPER - The Enemy
The veteran songwriter returned from a 13-year studio hiatus to deliver the brilliant Man And Myth album. Opener The Enemy, comes on like a pop at swallow modern life, but, as Herper admits, 'it's difficult to pin down the enemy now - they're among u's.
Taken from: Man And Myth (Bella Union)

11 BLACK SPIDERS - Balls
'You gotta have balls to be a man like me!' Pete 'Spider' Spiby roars on the lead single from This Savage Land. As well as being a great chorus, it's also the perfect excuse for the Sheffield band to cast themselves as umpires in the music video's glamour-model tennis match.
Taken from This Savage Land (Double Cross/Cooking Vinyl)

12 THE VIRGINMARYS - Lost Weekend (Stripped Version)
After a run of EPs, the Macclesfield trio finally delivered debut album King Of Conflict and its unplugged companion, Stripped, the album this track is taken from: a reflective strummer that feels more like the head-in-hands Sunday morning than the off-the-rails Saturday night.
Taken from: Stripped (Cooking Vinyl)

13 MONSTER MAGNET – Three Kingfishers
God knows what happened to Dave Wyndorf during the week-long autobiographical writing period out of which came Last Patrol. Among the album's "tales of peaking libidos, alienation and epic strangeness" is this anvil-hell cover of Donovan's 1966 classic. Unlike the original, it's definitely not suitable as music to practise transcendental meditation to.
Taken from: Last Patrol (Napalm)

14 FREE FALL – Attila
2013 was a breakthrough year for the Swedish quartet, who signed to Nuclear Blast and released their so-called 'freedom rock' on debut album Power & Volume. Attila is its clearest sign of future greatness, with Kim Fransson testing the limits of one of rock's most exciting young voices, backed by Eastern motifs and bombastic, tempo-slipping riffs.
Taken from: Power & Volume (Nuclear Blast)

15 STEVEN WILSON – The Holy Drinker
Porcupine Tree remained on ice, but Steven Wilson kept busy, releasing an album of rock'n'roll ghost stories. The Holy Drinker is the tale of a pious bible basher who challenges the devil to a drinking competition: "but of course you can't beat the Devil at anything," Wilson points out, "so he gets dragged to hell."
Taken from: The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) (Kscope)