Skillet's 'Rise' Wins Loudwire's Best Rock Album of 2013

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Skillet beat our Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold and 11 other bands for the honor!

In what Loudwire called one of the "closest battles" in their annual Loudwire Music Awards, Skillet won with 31.5% of the vote. Rise, they said, was "one of the deeper efforts of 2013 in terms of quality content" (as Panheads well know!)

The Final Results:

• Alter Bridge - Fortress - 31.2%
• Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King -17.32%
• Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side of Heaven... - 5.74%
• Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones, Pt. 2 - 3.36%
• Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies - 1.86%
• Sevendust - Black Out the Sun - 1.65%
• Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here - 1.53%
• Clutch - Earth Rocker - 1.33%
• Queens of the Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork - 1.11%
• Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor - 1%
• Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt - .82%
• AFI - Burials - .74%
• Bad Religion - True North - .30%
• Palms - Palms - .21%

If you haven't seen the latest video, check out "Not Gonna Die" and you'll see one of the reasons that the rockers won!

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Skillet, Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch