Year Currently Covered: 2023

Hey folks! Welcome to the greatly coveted Guib Awards! Instead of creating a list every year, I've decided to make a single one that will change yearly to feature my favorite albums of the past one. So this first iteration will feature albums for 2023!

I will not be covering every genre nor a specific one and I won't limit myself to a single album per genre. It will literally be my absolute favorites of the year currently covered or albums that I listened to a lot more than I'd like to admit, so this won't be as big as my usual lists. Also, I will only cover a maximum of 50 albums, all featured on MS and they will be placed in alphabetical order (of the band's name).

Hope some of you will agree with me, but as always... It doesn't really matter, does it?

Cheers to good music and have fun!

Note: Albums with a "√" are albums I voted for in one of the categories of the last MS awards.

Last Updated: April 15th, 2024

1.Altarage - Worst Case Scenario

2.Baroness - Stone

3.Bloodletter - A Different Kind Of Hell

4.Capra - Errors

5.CauseNeffect - Validation Through Suffering

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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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Forget the MSA's, this is the best of list you've all been waiting for. Why 23 albums? Well, because I can that's why.

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

2.Urne - A Feast On Sorrow

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Saturnus - The Storm Within

5.Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Bodyfarm - Ultimate Abomination

3.Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll

4.The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogony

5.Immortal - War Against All

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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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Here it goes, one month left to end of the year

1.From North - Raven Banner

2.Stormlord - The EPic Of War

3.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

4.Night Crowned - Tales

5.Temple Balls - Avalanche

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1.Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory

2.Dream Unending - Starpath

3.Night Crowned - Tales

4.Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions

5.Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha

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I reckon 735 albums in the first 6 months of this year is a 6-month record I will never match, but let's see how many I get through in Q3 and Q4

1.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion

2.Meridian Sun - The Curse

3.The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction

4.Earthside - Let The Truth Speak

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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This is my list of newly released Albums that I listened/will listen to in 2023.
The records are presented in order of release date and I will rate them when I´m certain that I formed an opinion on them, though the ratings might change from time to time.
I hope this list might once again be inspiring to other users maybe some people will find some new music to listen to.

1.Ὁπλίτης - Ψ ε υ δ ο μ έ ν η

2.Rye - В с ё

3.Esoctrilihum - Funeral

4.Great Cold Emptiness - Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph

5.Walg - III

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1.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

3.Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

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

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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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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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.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.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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