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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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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"...hey our sanity was with us when we walked in!"

top 40 thus far(t) in this grand, fine year of 1842 (2023 is pure mythos...)

1.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

2.Ὁπλίτης - Ψ​ε​υ​δ​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

3.Atrocity - Okkult III

4.Venuvian - Lost

5.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

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Third year, third attempt to create an up-to-date list of my findings. Third time's the charm, eh? Wish me luck.

1.Turmion Kätilöt - Omen X

2.Prognan - Naši Životi Više Ne Postoje

3.Høstsol - L​ä​nge Leve Dö​den

4.Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home

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Did a terrible job last year at compiling lists, which I guess isn't the worst thing that could happen. Let's see how 2023 goes. Will absolutely be playing around with included info/ratings and no commitments to remembering this thing exists later.
Ratings based on potential repeat listens, with 7 being whatever threshold makes sense to me in that moment. Consistency is key, after all.

1.Rye - В с ё

2.The Canyon Observer - Figura

3.Vale Of Amonition - Immortalizing The Lugubrious, Or Those Of Evolving Despair

4.Ὁπλίτης - Ψ ε υ δ ο μ έ ν η

5.Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home

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1.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

2.Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains

3.Kouta - Kaarnak ö ydet

4.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

5.Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

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1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

3.Kauan - ATM Revisited

4.Riverside - ID.Entity

5.Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

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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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Same deal as always - scenes if I somehow manage to break the 1200-album record I hit last year

1.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

3.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Moonreich - Amer

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This list will contain both full studio albums and EP's

1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy

3.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

4.Sarcoptes - Prayers To Oblivion

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

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Another year begins. This time I'm adding Country of origin next to the rating and genre.

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Wayfarer - American Gothic

3.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

4.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

3.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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