1.VoidCeremony - Threads Of Unknowing

2.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

3.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

4.Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations

5.Sól Án Varma - Sól Án Varma

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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

1.Prognan - Naši Životi Više Ne Postoje

2.Non Est Deus - Legacy

3.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

4.Hypno5e - Sheol

5.Suotana - Ounas I

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My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2023.

1.Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed

2.Liturgy - 93696

3.Dead Times - Dead Times

4.Vvon Dogma I - The Kvlt Of Glitch

5.Agriculture - Agriculture

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1.Omnerod - The Amensal Rise

2.Hypno5e - Sheol

3.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

5.Haken - Fauna

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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.Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen

2.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

3.Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1

4.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

5.Currents - The Death We Seek

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1.Marianas Rest - Auer

2.Soen - Memorial

3.Saturnus - The Storm Within

4.Bloodred Hourglass - How's The Heart?

5.Deathstars - Everything Destroys You

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1.Sarmat - Determined To Strike

2.Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition

3.Shining - Shining

4.Marduk - Memento Mori

5.Vastum - Inward To Gethsemane

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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.Saturnus - The Storm Within

2.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.Tenhi - Valkama

5.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

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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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I've been meaning to start a 2023 list for quite a while, just trying to keep up, so here is the start of it. These are the albums that impressed me. I will update the list, obviously a work in progress.

1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Klone - Meanwhile

3.Zopp - Dominion

4.All My Shadows - Eerie Monsters

5.The Enigma Division - The Enigma Division

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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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