1.Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey

2.Necrot - Lifeless Birth

3.Morta Skuld - Creation Undone

4.Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless

5.Blood Red Throne - Nonagon

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

2.Albino Slug - Barabbas

3.Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew

4.Autopsy - Mental Funeral

5.Dipygus - Dipygus

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That's all.

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

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Here we go again

1.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

2.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

3.Scanner - The Cosmic Race

4.Steve Riley's L.A. Guns - The Dark Horse

5.Jenner - Prove Them Wrong

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1.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

2.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

3.Downfall Of Nur - Umbras De Barbagia

4.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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Another band that is difficult to rank, with no two lists that are the same.

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite

4.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

5.Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2023. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

3.The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

4.Phlebotomized - Clouds Of Confusion

5.Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains

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1.Asphyx - The Rack

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Obituary - Slowly We Rot

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

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Fen - Monuments To Absence

4.Godflesh - Purge

5.Incantation - Unholy Deification

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I haven't heard new music in a long time so 2024 is the year. These albums will be getting the full treatment of multiple listens over the course of the year, so ratings and placements are subject to change. Of course this is just my opinion

1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Austrian Death Machine - Quad Brutal

3.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

4.Amaranthe - The Catalyst

5.Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

3.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

4.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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I'm not good at making a click baity list name, but here is my Judas Priest ranking. Not an easy thing to do, I could switch a couple of them around. Just like Iron Maiden, no lists look the same.

1.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

2.Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

3.Judas Priest - Stained Class

4.Judas Priest - Killing Machine (Hell Bent For Leather)

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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Dream Theater! Once my favourite band of all time, now number 2. I took an involuntary break from them for a while, and upon return realised my feelings had changed to a lot of their music. Also since at some point I stupidly deleted my old ranking of them, I feel now is the time to make a new one.

Feel free to bash my terrible taste.

1.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

2.Dream Theater - Dream Theater

3.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

4.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

5.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

3.Lucifer - Lucifer V

4.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

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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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