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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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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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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Top albums for the year (8+) rating - Meaning that the albums are worthy of multiple listens and purchase. 9 and 10s are must buy immediately.

There is no real order other than rating and then usually just in order of listening to the album. I don't get to listen to a large portion of the albums that get released, so this list is by no means comprehensive.

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance

3.Signo Rojo - There Was A Hole Here

4.In Flames - Foregone

5.Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

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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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Hello my fellow metalheads! Got myself a brand new account, thanks to the new login conditions. Who cares, it was an old account anyway. I've been away for a long time, and I got myself a New Years resolution, being revisiting an old hobby of mine. Listening to new metal albums all the time, and ranking them in personal lists here on metal storm! So here I am, introducing my top 50 metal albums of 2023!

UPDATE:

After playing around with making separate lists containing albums from three month periods during 2023, I finally decided to make a single list. Since there are so many great albums coming out this year, the list now contains 50 albums instead of 20

Have a great day!

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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1.Turmion Kätilöt - Omen X

2.花冷え。 - 来世は偉人！

3.Frozen Crown - Call Of The North

4.Kamelot - The Awakening

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

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

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

2.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

3.Demoniac (CHL) - Nube Negra

4.Mechina - Cenotaph

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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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1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike

3.Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen

4.Structural - Decrowned

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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My top 50 albums of 2023

1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

3.Saturnus - The Storm Within

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

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

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TOP 2023 in the making.

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Host - IX

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All 2023 released studio albums I listened to in 2023, ranked from best to worst.

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow

3.Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll

4.Insomnium - Anno 1696

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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Pretty much everything I’ve listened to this year, let me know what I’ve missed and what you’ve found and cheers to 2024 being even better 🍻

Check out my seven favorite album covers that I’ve looked at so many times this year, they’re fucking awesome:















Here’s a link to some of my favorite songs from the year, max 2 per album: Best Songs of 2023

1.Silent Planet - Superbloom

2.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

3.Voice Of Baceprot - Retas

4.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion

5.TesseracT - War Of Being

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