Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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1.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Kauan - ATM Revised

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

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

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

2.Oak - Disintegrate

3.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

4.Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

5.Soen - Memorial

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1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

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

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

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As 2023 is coming to an end, and I grow one year closer to death, also YouTube Music seems to have jumped on the "recap" train following Spotify's template. It's not as accurate as Spotify, telling me not much more than 65% of my listening being simply "heavy metal" (unlike Spotify which separates into subgenres, but I still prefer YouTube Music for various reasons), 8% rock, 2% indie, 2% pop, and 2% reggae. My top "moods" were 39% dramatic, 39% sorrowful, 14% energising, 3% uplifting, 3% happy. My 5 top artists were Impaled Nazarene, Senshi, Bloodywood, Kypck, and Turmion Kätilöt.

I'm a bit surprised by some of these stats, such as electronic music not appearing among my top genres (I still listen to Shpongle a lot and will do so until I die), "angry" not being one of my top moods, and alternative metal being so heavily featured among my top bands, but I can't fight the stats, I guess. Here are my most listened to songs in 2023 according to YouTube Music's recap.

1.Bloodywood - Aaj

2.Arkona - Kob'

3.Bloodywood - Gaddaar

4.Anamnesi - La Precessione Degli Equinozi

5.Senshi - Evil In Dem Eyes

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1.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Arkona - Kob'

3.Fluisteraars - De Kronieken Van Het Verdwenen Kasteel - II - Nergena

4.Taake - Et Hav Av Avstand

5.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.Allochiria - Commotion

2.Arkona - Kob'

3.Astral Tomb - Total Spiritual Death

4.Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

5.Christ Of Kather • Markus Maria Hoff - Das Oldschoolformat Der Zukunft

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By By June, By By Summer

1.Saturnus - The Storm Within

2.Jag Panzer - The Hallowed

3.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

4.Necrofier - Burning Shadows In The Southern Night

5.Fifth Angel - When Angels Kill

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1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex

3.Baroness - Stone

4.Haken - Fauna

5.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

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1.Hanging Garden - The Garden

2.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

3.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

4.Runemagick - Beyond The Cenotaph Of Mankind

5.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

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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.Orbit Culture - Descent

2.Tryglav - The Ritual

3.Cloak - Black Flame Eternal

4.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

5.Mass Hysteria - Tenace - Part 1

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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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Nowhere near finished 2022 list, but never mind, hey?

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

2.Demoniac (CHL) - Nube Negra

3.Mechina - Cenotaph

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5.Baroness - Stone

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The list has gone back to it's original format: my favorites of the year regrouped and ordered by release date (now earliest at the top). The ranked list thing didn't work out for me in the end.

1.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

2.Beyond The Black - Beyond The Black

3.Crom - The Era Of Darkness

4.Haxprocess - The Caverns Of Duat

5.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

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