This year, we decided to ask musicians that we truly admire to pick their favorite albums of the year and name a band they’d like to get together and make a new record in 2014. Check out below the third batch of answers that we received from members of Pelican, Beaten to Death and Downfall of Gaia.

Trevor de Brauw (Pelican)

What are your top 10 releases of 2013?
This has been changing day-by-day as I've been actively trying to catch up on 2013 listening the past couple of weeks, but as it stands this is where I'm at.
1-My Bloody Valentine - MBV (Self-Released)
2-Deafheaven - Sunbather (Deathwish)
3-Black Boned Angel - The End (Handmade Birds)
4-Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came (Avalanche)
5-Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons to Die (Soul Temple)
6-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.)
7-Mutoid Man - Helium Head (Magic Bullet)
8-Chance the Rapper - Acidrap (Self-Released)
9-Kayo Dot - Hubardo (Self-Released)
10-Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance (Peaceville)

What’s the best concert you have seen this year?
The set I saw Lilacs and Champagne perform was perfection. It was great to see production-based beat music reimagined in a live context, and the fact that they transformed from instrumental psych-hip hop into a full blown jazz fusion band was impressive and inspirational.

What band would you like to reunite and make a record in 2014?
I prefer living in the present, so I would like the endless spate of band reunions end next year. But it won't.

Martin Rygge (Beaten to Death)

What are your top 10 releases of 2013?
1-Benea Reach - Possession
2-Cheatahs - Extended Plays
3-Ghost - Infestissumam
4-Weekend Nachos - Still
5-Wolves Like Us - Get Gone
6-Black Debbath - Nå får det faen meg være rock! Akademisk stoner-rock!
7-True Widow - Circumambulation
8-Russian Circles - Memorial
9-Shevils - Lost In Tartarus
10-Fuck The Facts - Amer

What's the best concert you have seen this year?
Rotten Sound

What band would you like to reunite and make a record in 2014?
Burnt by the Sun

Anton Lisovoj (Downfall of Gaia)

What are your top 10 releases of 2013?
1-Ulcerate - Vermis
2-Year Of No Light - Tocsin
3-Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
4-So Hideous - Last Poem - First Light
5-Oathbreaker - Eros – Anteros
6-The Body - Christs Redeemers
7-Russian Circles - Memorial
8-Windhand - Soma
9-Terra Tenebrosa - The Purging
10-Ash Borer - Bloodlands

What’s the best concert you have seen this year?
OM at Hafenklang in Hamburg

What band would you like to reunite and make a record in 2014?
Altar of Plagues
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Last year when Beaten to Death released their acclaimed debut album, “Xes and Strokes”, they were accused by some publications of being hipsters, or in other words, of not playing an authentic grindcore style. The truth is that the Norwegians never really tried to be another one of those numerous grind projects out there who religiously copy the formula Napalm Death created more than thirty years ago. There’s nothing wrong with a good, straight-up grind record, but Beaten To Death certainly bended and twisted the rules of engagement by incorporating some big grooves and catchy melodies alongside their ferocious grindcore. With incredible results, I must add. 
“At Rockefeller” is actually a live recording, captured this year in Oslo, when the band opened for Killswitch Engage. Despite being a live recording, this release underlines their fresh and irreverent take on grind, with the band performing all the songs from their debut effort plus, some new and unreleased songs with sharp precision and wild intensity. Whether they’re playing blindingly fast and, well a bit slower, the band’s energy is consistent and never falters, drummer Christian "Bartender (also with Tsjuder) sounds like a powerhouse, bashing the skins with frenetic vehemence, while the frenzied guitar work of Martin and Tommy (both from technical metallers Insense) resonates with a killer intensity and a surprising catchiness.
If you’re a fan of off kilter and frantic grind then, “At Rockefeller” is definitely a live album worth owning. (8)

Band info: www.beatentodeath.net

Label info: www.facebook.com/maskinarecordings

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