1.Vvilderness - Path

2.Air Raid - Fatal Encounter

3.Insomnium - Anno 1696

4.Mithridatum - Harrowing

5.Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent

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

2.Metallica - 72 Seasons

3.Voice Of Baceprot - Retas

4.Nospūn - Opus

5.Dominum - Hey Living People

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1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

3.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

4.Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour

5.In Flames - Foregone

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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.King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation

2.Sylosis - A Sign Of Things To Come

3.Overkill - Scorched

4.Legion Of The Damned - The Poison Chalice

5.Leper Colony - Leper Colony

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2023 Playlist

1.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

2.On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay

3.Rye - В с ё

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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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.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

2.Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts

3.Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific

4.Memoriam - Rise To Power

5.Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha

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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.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Aeternus - Philosopher

3.Marianas Rest - Auer

4.Primordial - How It Ends

5.Slow Fall - Obsidian Waves

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