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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Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However, there are examples of songs that have a central link to the album title without sharing the same name. In these cases, certain lyrics from the song were chosen as the album title.

This (alphabetical) list shows the names of these “hidden title tracks” and the central lyrics that gave the name to the corresponding album.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.

1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

2.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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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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My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2023.

1.Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed

2.Liturgy - 93696

3.Dead Times - Dead Times

4.Vvon Dogma I - The Kvlt Of Glitch

5.Agriculture - Agriculture

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1.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

3.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

4.On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay

5.Enslaved - Heimdal

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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.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

2.Hypno5e - Sheol

3.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

4.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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1.Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike

2.Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

3.Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith

4.In Flames - Foregone

5.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

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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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Albums that are considered good on my first time of listenin'.

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4.Afterbirth - In But Not Of

5.Appalooza - The Shining Son

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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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