1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogony

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogony

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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1.Crystal Coffin - The Curse Of Immortality

2.Exulansis - Overtures Of Uprising

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

5.Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

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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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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2023. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

3.The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

4.Phlebotomized - Clouds Of Confusion

5.Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains

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I do like last year, from my each monthly lists I rank best 5 albums here from best to worst.
It maybe was most hardest to fix, but somehow I well it feels like this atm.

1.Ablaze My Sorrow - The Loss Of All Hope

2.Cultus Sanguine - Dust Once Alive

3.Númenor - Tales From The Edge Of Time

4.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

5.Edenfall - To Gaze Longer At The Earth

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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.Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

2.Leiþa - Reue

3.Sarcoptes - Prayers To Oblivion

4.Melancholia - Book Of Ruination

5.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

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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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To Celebrate Metal Hammer's Tumultuous Albums of the Year list, I'm releasing my top 25 Albums of the year early. It might change once the Awards come around.

1.Saturnus - The Storm Within

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Miserere Luminis - Ordalie

4.Æolian - Echoes Of The Future

5.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

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

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

3.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

4.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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Chronological order

1.Grá - Lycaon

2.Leiþa - Reue

3.Azgaroth - Kohti Unholaa

4.Nothingness - Supraliminal

5.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

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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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Hey guys! Here are my fav albums of the year so far. Ordered from most to least favorite. You can see a taste shaping up down there (why does this phrase sound wrong?)

Any recommendations?

PS Not every album I've listened to this year has made the list, of course.

1.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

2.Nothingness - Supraliminal

3.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

4.Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht

5.Non Est Deus - Legacy

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