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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Nazgoth's Top 10 metal albums of 2023.

Notes:
- not your typical metalstorm Top 10
- if you don't like NWOTHM, you might want to ignore this list

1.Thriller - Street Metal

2.Roadwolf - Midnight Lightning

3.Frenzy - Of Hoods And Masks

4.Chromeskull - Screaming To The World

5.Air Raid - Fatal Encounter

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I do like last year, from my each monthly lists I rank best 5 albums here from best to worst.
It maybe was most hardest to fix, but somehow I well it feels like this atm.

1.Ablaze My Sorrow - The Loss Of All Hope

2.Cultus Sanguine - Dust Once Alive

3.Númenor - Tales From The Edge Of Time

4.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

5.Edenfall - To Gaze Longer At The Earth

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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.Angra - Cycles Of Pain

2.Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale

3.Noveria - The Gates Of The Underworld

4.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

5.Triumpher - Storming The Walls

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1.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

2.Menace (GRE) - Open Fire

3.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

4.Nothingness - Supraliminal

5....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In 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.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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Classic cuts from TV on the radio: the music vendor. It's alright.

1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Lord Mountain - The Oath

3.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

4.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

5.Mansion - Second Death

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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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