1.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

2.In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

3.In Flames - Come Clarity

4.In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

5.In Flames - Foregone

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"Very good" or above. The top 20 are the best of the year. Everything else ranges from 8 to 9.5 on a "10" scale.

1.Afterbirth - In But Not Of

2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

3.Godthrymm - Distortions

4.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent

5.Notturno - Inside

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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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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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Pretty average year, with really spare releases for me.

Plus since Epic Games, before won against Google on trail, has sold Bandcamp (wich was bought only to disturb Google during thier trail) to Songtradr (a music licensing platform), wich has cut off half of the stuff just after acquisition, so i feel bad for artists and workers. Pretty sad times for indie music...

1.Blaze Of Sorrow - Vultus Fati

2.Shores Of Null - The Loss Of Beauty

3.Overkill - Scorched

4.Kalmah - Kalmah

5.Burden Of Grief - Destination Dystopia

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A new list at the end of the year. And as always with the same statistics that might be interesting to you.

This year's numbers:

- 140 albums
- Total points given: 1049,1
- Average score: 7,49/10

- Albums with a score of 7 or above: 81,43%
- Albums with a score of 8 or above: 28,57%
- Albums with a score of 9 or above: 0,71%

- Albums with a score of 5 or below: 1,43%

Nationalities: 33

- USA: 33 - 23,57%
- UK: 10 - 7,14%
- Germany: 9 - 6,43%
- Greece: 9 - 6,43%
- Sweden: 9 - 6,43%
- Brazil: 5 - 3,57%
- France: 5 - 3,57%
- Italy: 5 - 3,57%
- Mexico: 5 - 3,57%
- Norway: 5 - 3,57%
- Belgium: 4 - 2,86%
- Chile: 4 - 2,86%
- Finland: 4 - 2,86%
- Hungary: 4 - 2,86%
- Poland: 4 - 2,86%
- Spain: 4 - 2,86%
- Argentina: 2 - 1,43%
- Canada: 2 - 1,43%
- Cyprus: 2 - 1,43%
- India: 2 - 1,43%
- New Zealand: 2 - 1,43%
- Serbia: 2 - 1,43%
- Bulgaria: 1 - 0,71%
- Colombia: 1 - 0,71%
- Ireland: 1 - 0,71%
- Japan: 1 - 0,71%
- Morocco: 1 - 0,71%
- Puerto Rico: 1 - 0,71%
- Russia: 1 - 0,71%
- Slovenia: 1 - 0,71%
- Switzerland: 1 - 0,71%
- The Netherlands: 1 - 0,71%
- Ukraine: 1 - 0,71%

1.Hmunga - Crimson

2.Wardaemon - Black Metal Wardaemons

3.Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Rapture

4.From The Ages - II

5.Popiór - Pomarlisko

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1.Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys

2.Primordial - How It Ends

3.Wayfarer - American Gothic

4.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

5.Enslaved - Heimdal

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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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1.Metallica - 72 Seasons

2.Ascension (UK) - Under The Veil Of Madness

3.Antioch - Antioch VI: Molten Rainbow

4.Course Of Fate - Somnium

5.Subsignal - A Poetry Of Rain

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1.The Circle - Of Awakening

2.In Flames - Foregone

3.Currents - The Death We Seek

4.You Win Again Gravity - Into The Dancing Blue

5.Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition

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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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Albums that share their name with a song usually have only one title track. However, there are also examples of albums where several songs contribute to the album name.

Please feel free to suggest more examples for albums with multiple title tracks.

1.Alpinist - Lichtlærm

2.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

3.Black Flag - Damaged

4.Blindead - Absence

5.Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride

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1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

3.Night Crowned - Tales

4.Marianas Rest - Auer

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

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