Loudwire’s Best Concert Photos of 2013

At Loudwire, we pride ourselves on bringing you the best and biggest stories in rock and metal throughout the year, whether it be the latest news, features or viral videos. But our greatest thrill comes in covering the live concerts.

Seeing the bands up close and personal is what rock and metal is all about. Feeling the sweat drip off the artists' faces and getting kicked in the head by a crowd-surfing concertgoer are all part of the experience of capturing memorable onstage moments from our favorite rockers.

Below is the best in 2013 concert pictures from Loudwire's very own photographers. We hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed taking them.

AFI:

Slayer:

Iggy Pop:

Billy Idol:

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne:

Rancid:

Courtney Love:

Philip Anselmo:

Metallica:

Korn's Fieldy:

Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor:

Bush:

Shinedown:

Bullet for My Valentine:

Volbeat:

Slash:

Stone Sour's Corey Taylor:

Avenged Sevenfold:

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell:

Shinedown:

Ghost B.C.:

In This Moment:

Butcher Babies:

Letlive:

Amon Amarth:

Alice in Chains:

Avenged Sevenfold:

Bring Me the Horizon:

Thrown Into Exile:

Rob Zombie:

Mastodon:

Iron Maiden's Steve Harris:

Falling in Reverse:

Alice in Chains:

Five Finger Death Punch:

John 5:

Children of Bodom:

Rob Zombie: