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@Liafev does it really matter? I dont think its even humanely possible to listen to every release that comes out. But this time around i had a very clear idea of my choices. The only one i struggled a but was with the ...

12:48 - Night Theater

Some good symphonic metal this year. Looks like things are picking up again.

11:01 - Netzach

For instance, last year, Cult Of Luna's EP The Raging River won post-metal

10:55 - Netzach

@nephilim80 EPs have been known to be included in the overall nominations, I don't think we had any this year but there have been EPs nominated before

10:28 - Bad English

I discovered more as 100 new album and do it per year

Reviews Articles

	...And Oceans As In Gardens, So In Tombs
	Fvnerals Let The Earth Be Silent
	Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore
	Oak Pantheon The Absence
	Tribunal The Weight Of Remembrance
	Trastorned Into The Void
	Raum Kingdom Monarch
	Memoriam Rise To Power
	Lord Mountain The Oath
	Riverside ID.Entity

29.01 - A Year In Metal - 2022: Highlights Through The Eyes Of The MS Staff And Official Contributors

26.01 - Epica & Apocalyptica - The Epic Apocalypse Tour, Unibet Arena, Tallinn, Estonia, 20.01.2023

16.01 - Splitting Hairs / Hearing Splits (Jul-Dec 2022)

08.01 - Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! - December 2022

04.01 - Abattoir's Concert Hunt - Clutch (Live In Zagreb 22')

31.12 - Clandestine Cuts Vol. 12 Issue #12 - Awesome New Demos and EPs

19.12 - Getting Into: Cult Of Luna

15.12 - Radu's Concert Trip To Budapest And Cluj

Events Now online Today

19.05 - Czech Republic
Ozzy Osbourne: Farewell World Tour 2023 - Europe 7

21.04 - Serbia
Soilwork & Kataklysm: European Tour 2023 6

02.08 - Romania
Rockstadt Extreme Fest 2023 4

29.03 - Czech Republic
Cult Of Luna & Russian Circles: European Tour 2023 4

05.02 - Spain
Trivium & Heaven Shall Burn: European Tour 2023 3

08.04 - Canada
Enslaved & Insomnium: North American Co-Headline Tour 2023 3

06.04 - The Netherlands
Draconian & Swallow The Sun: European Tour 2023 3

Staff / Elite: 2

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Members: 41

Guests: 365

Musicians' birthdays:

33 - Daan Douma
37 - Daria Stavrovich
(1964-1995) - Dwayne Goettel
64 - Enrique Héctor Chalar
47 - Freddy Lim
36 - Hayley Morgan
43 - James Malone
(1964-2011) - Jani Lane
(1952-2016) - John "Big" Thomas
39 - Karl Linus Öhrn
49 - Kurt Parker Ballou
5 - Marcin Walenczykowski
46 - Marco Kautonen
30 - Martin Matiašovič
(1971-2003) - Mike Machette
41 - Oliver Grbavac
43 - Pedro J. Monge
52 - Radboud Burgsma
36 - Sebastian Markus
41 - Takanori Matsumoto
61 - Tomoyasu Hotei
49 - Urs Fischer
68 - Václav Vlasák
56 - Walter Oberhofer
68 - Wojciech Hoffmann

RIP:

2015 - Joel DiPietro

Charts Top of 2022 Top 200

1.	Obituary Dying Of Everything
2.	Katatonia Sky Void Of Stars
3.	...And Oceans As In Gardens, So In Tombs
4.	Riverside ID.Entity
5.	Atrocity Okkult III
6.	Ahab The Coral Tombs
7.	Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore
8.	Ὁπλίτης Ψευδομένη
9.	Tribunal The Weight Of Remembrance
10.	Crom The Era Of Darkness

1.	An Abstract Illusion Woe
2.	Disillusion Ayam
3.	Brymir Voices In The Sky
4.	Gaerea Mirage
5.	Allegaeon Damnum
6.	Immolation Acts Of God
7.	Aenaon Mnemosyne
8.	White Ward False Light
9.	The Halo Effect Days Of The Lost
10.	Tómarúm Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

	Band	Style	Country	Formed	Split	Fans
1	Vermin Womb 2014-	Death Grindcore	USA	2014	-	14
2	Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire 2006-2013	Grindcore	USA	2006	2013	7
3	Love Sex Machine 2009-	Sludge	France	2009	-	6
4	Cowards 2011-	Black Sludge Hardcore	France	2011	-	3
5	Death Engine 2012-	Hardcore Noise Post-metal	France	2012	-	3
6	Fange 2013-	Hardcore Sludge Industrial	France	2013	-	3
7	Verdun 2010-	Hardcore Sludge	France	2010	-	3
8	Vuyvr 2011-	Black	Switzerland	2011	-	1