1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Nospūn - Opus

3.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

4.Ironmaster - Weapons Of Spiritual Carnage

5.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

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1.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

3.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

4.On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay

5.Enslaved - Heimdal

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

2.Alkaloid - Numen

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

5.Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

2.Hypno5e - Sheol

3.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

4.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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Here is my top 50 for 2023! Only LPs, no re-recording (looking at you brilliant Paradise Lost, Kauan and Cavalera), that I rated 8 and above.

My biggest year yet in number of album I've given an ear to. Strangely, a tough one for the top 10. A lot a great records. I could have easily add 20 more, but first year I can't really see clear winners (imo of course). So I've mostly gone for comfort with Saturnus, Panopticon and Enslaved, knowing full well I've heard better from them in the past. Still, they genuinely caught my preference. The top spot goes to the biggest "surprise" for me, more than anything else. I did not expect to be that taken by the eerie and glacial atmosphere of Wolvennest DPTL, but I could not stop going back to it again and again.

Album count: 987 (!)
Average rating: 6.37

1.Wolvennest - The Dark Path To The Light

2.Saturnus - The Storm Within

3.Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Enslaved - Heimdal

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New releases - albums, EPs and singles

1.Haavard - Haavard

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Killing Joke - Full Spectrum Dominance

4.Hanging Garden - The Garden

5.Gggolddd - I Let My Hair Grow

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1.Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis

2.Gravenchalice - Messiah

3.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

4.Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed

5.Hasard - Malivore

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"...hey our sanity was with us when we walked in!"

top 40 thus far(t) in this grand, fine year of 1842 (2023 is pure mythos...)

1.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

2.Ὁπλίτης - Ψ​ε​υ​δ​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

3.Atrocity - Okkult III

4.Venuvian - Lost

5.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

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1.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

2.Menace (GRE) - Open Fire

3.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

4.Nothingness - Supraliminal

5....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

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New year, same winter

1.Ablaze My Sorrow - The Loss Of All Hope

2.The Lightbringer Of Sweden - The New World Order

3.Númenor - Majesty

4.Screamer (SWE) - Kingmaker

5.Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance

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1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

3.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

4.Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour

5.In Flames - Foregone

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1.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

2.Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia

3.Riverside - ID.Entity

4.Deviser - Evil Summons Evil

5....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

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2023 Playlist

1.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

2.On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay

3.Rye - В с ё

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time - Live At Tavastia 2021

2.Riverside - ID.Entity

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.Finsterforst - Jenseits

5.Paradise Lost - Icon 30

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1.Flesh Of The Stars - The Glass Garden

2.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

3.TesseracT - War Of Being

4.The Ocean - Holocene

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

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