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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I do like last year, from my each monthly lists I rank last 5 albums here from best to worst.

1.Chris Boltendahl's Steelhammer - Reborn In Flames

2.Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows

3.Ironsword - Underground

4.Velvet Viper - Nothing Compares To Metal

5.Vandenberg - Sin

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1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper

3.Ignea - Dreams Of Lands Unseen

4.Soen - Memorial

5.Within Temptation - Bleed Out

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1.Marianas Rest - Auer

2.Soen - Memorial

3.Saturnus - The Storm Within

4.Bloodred Hourglass - How's The Heart?

5.Deathstars - Everything Destroys You

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New releases - albums, EPs and singles

1.Haavard - Haavard

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Killing Joke - Full Spectrum Dominance

4.Hanging Garden - The Garden

5.Gggolddd - I Let My Hair Grow

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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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New year, same winter

1.Ablaze My Sorrow - The Loss Of All Hope

2.The Lightbringer Of Sweden - The New World Order

3.Númenor - Majesty

4.Screamer (SWE) - Kingmaker

5.Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance

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1.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

2.Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia

3.Riverside - ID.Entity

4.Deviser - Evil Summons Evil

5....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

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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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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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All 2023 released studio albums I listened to in 2023, ranked from best to worst.

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow

3.Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll

4.Insomnium - Anno 1696

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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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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2023 here we go. My target for the year is 100+ albums, at a rule of 2 albums a week minimum.

1.Nospūn - Opus

2.Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

3.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

4.Crow Black Sky - Sidereal Light: Volume Two

5.Against Myself - Tides Of Insanity

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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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