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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My top prog albums. The list will be regularly updated.

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Gojira - Magma

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1.Cavalera Conspiracy - Bestial Devastation (Re-Recorded)

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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.Atrium Carceri - Forgotten Gods

2.Blackend Horizon - Nerhegeb

3.Caldon Glover - Ùir

4.Daevar - Amber Eyes

5.Dead Head - Shadow Soul

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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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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The gaps between all the albums are minimal

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

4.Death - Human

5.Death - Leprosy

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1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

3.Convulsing - Perdurance

4.Hideous Divinity - Unextinct

5.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

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For the love of extreme, brutal, hellish sounds

1.Hauntologist - Hollow

2.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

3.Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath

4.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

5.Déhà - The Illusion Of Reach

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1.Masterplan - Masterplan

2.Masterplan - MK II

3.Masterplan - Time To Be King

4.Masterplan - Aeronautics

5.Masterplan - Novum Initium

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

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I've always been a fan of melodic death metal, having listened to bands such as In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates in my first few years of getting into metal around 2005-2008. Now, thanks to MS, I've gotten into many more amazing bands such as Wintersun, Insomnium and Scar Symmetry and it has become one of my favourite sub-genres.

So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of melodic death metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Wintersun - Wintersun

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It

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Top 50 of 2006

Only LPs

Album count: 180
Average rating: 7.09

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

4.Summoning - Oath Bound

5.Enslaved - Ruun

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Another new list , this time shortest month per year

1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Traveler - Prequel To Madness

3.Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts

4.Stygian Crown - Funeral For A King

5.Blaze Bayley - Circle Of Stone

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My list of my favorites metalcore albums.

1.After The Burial - Dig Deep

2.After The Burial - Rareform

3.Electric Callboy - Tekkno

4.Gideon - More Power. More Pain.

5.Aviana - Corporation

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