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Created by: Vellichor | 06.01.2023


1. Death Engine - Ocean
8.5/10 (Hardcore/Post-Metal)
2. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
8.25/10 (Blackened Speed)
3. Riverside - ID.Entity
8.25/10 (Progressive Rock)
4. Ropes Inside a Hole - A Man and His Nature
8.25/10 (Post-Metal/Metalgaze)
5. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
8/10 (No Wave/Industrial)
6. Déhà - A Fleur de Peau - V - At the Poles of Everything
8/10 (Depressive Black Metal)
7. At the Altar of the Horned God - Heart of Silence
8/10 (Black Metal)
8. Harboured - Harboured
8/10 (Progressive Metal/Post-Metal)
9. Hypno5e - Sheol
7.75/10 (Progressive Metal/Djent)
10. Obituary - Dying of Everything
7.75/10 (Death Metal)
11. Oozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards
7.75/10 (Crossover Thrash)
12. Fvnerals - Let the Earth Be Silent
7.75/10 (Doom Metal)
13. The Abbey - Word of Sin
7.75/10 (Doom Metal)
14. Conspiracy of Zero - Ahthos Arouris
7.75/10 (Progressive Death Metal)
15. Haken - Fauna
7.75/10 (Progressive Metal)
16. Conjoined Twin Octopus - The Infinite Pregnancy
7.75/10 (Avant-garde Metalcore)
17. Vosh - Vessel
7.75/10 (Darkwave)
18. Kauan - ATM Revised
7.75/10 (Post-Rock)
19. Culpable - Hell Entrance: Liberation Paralysis
7.75/10 (Post-Hardcore)
20. Gorod - The Orb
7.75/10 (Technical Death Metal)
21. Lord Mountain - The Oath
7.75/10 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
22. Djunah - Femina Furens
7.5/10 (Noise/Post-Hardcore/Screamo)
23. Ikarie - Arde
7.5/10 (Death-Doom)
24. Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
7.5/10 (Black Metal)
25. Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
7.5/10 (Extreme Progressive Metal)
26. RobinPlaysChords - Unmasking
7.5/10 (Progressive Dream Pop)
27. Santo Rostro - Despu​é​s No Habrá Nada
7.5/10 (Stoner Metal)
28. Nameless Mist - Lifeless
7.5/10 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
29. Thomas Azier - The Inventory of Our Love
7.5/10 (Jazz Pop)
30. Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility
7.5/10 (Death Metal)
31. Dreadrealm - Live from the Fall
7.5/10 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
32. Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
7.5/10 (Alternative Rock)
33. Rezn - Solace
7.5/10 (Psychedelic Rock/Stoner Rock)
34. Ice Age - Waves of Loss and Power
7.5/10 (Progressive Metal)
35. Isole - Anesidora
7.5/10 (Epic Doom Metal)
36. Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues
7.5/10 (Emo/Post-Rock)
37. WuW - L'Orchaostre
7.5/10 (Avant-Garde Doom Metal)
38. Slowmove - Before We Came to Know
7.5/10 (Emo, Pop Punk)
39. Natt - Natt
7.5/10 (Post-Rock)
40. Vale of Amonition - Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those of Evolving Despair
7.5/10 (Funeral Doom Metal)
41. The World Is Quiet Here - Zon
7.5/10 (Progressive Metal)
42. ...And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs
7.5/10 (Symphonic Black Metal)
43. Bodyfarm - Ultimate Abomination
7.5/10 (Death Metal)
44. Desolate Realm - Legions
7.5/10 (Doom Metal)
45. Prognan - Naši Životi Više Ne Postoje
7.5/10 (Black Metal)
46. Ocean of Grief - Pale Existence
7.5/10 (Melodic Death/Melodic Doom Metal)
47. Keep of Kalessin - Katharsis
7.5/10 (Black Metal)
48. Thumos - Symposium
7.5/10 (Instrumental Sludge/Post/Doom Metal)
49. Bisonte - Broken
7.5/10 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
50. Firienholt - White Frost and Elder Blood
7.5/10 (Dungeon Synth/Black Metal)
51. Ashen Horde - Antimony
7.5/10 (Progressive Black Metal)
52. The Lightbringer of Sweden - The New World Order
7.5/10 (Heavy Metal)
53. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
7.5/10 (Melodic Death Metal)
54. Metagirl - I Feel You Everywhere
7.5/10 (Bedroom Pop)
55. Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore
7.25/10 (Melodic Black Metal)
56. Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre
7.25/10 (Djent/Progressive Metal)
57. Tales of a Liquid Dawn - The Rise of Emperor Var
7.25/10 (Instrumental Progressive Rock)
58. Oak - Disintegrate
7.25/10 (Funeral Doom Metal)
59. Raum Kingdom - Monarch
7.25/10 (Post-Metal)
60. Hollow Hour - Till the Grey Skies Are Gone
7.25/10 (Progressive Metal)
61. Oak Pantheon - The Absen­ce
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
62. Warp - Bound by Gravity
7.25/10 (Stoner Metal)
63. Mansion - Second Death
7.25/10 (Gothic Doom Metal)
64. Vvilderness - Path
7.25/10 (Black Metal, Folk Metal, Post-Metal)
65. Witch Ripper - The Flight After the Fall
7.25/10 (Stoner Metal)
66. Enslaved - Heimdal
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
67. Entropia - Total
7.25/10 (Post-Metal)
68. Tryglav - The Ritual
7.25/10 ( Black Metal)
69. Sons of Cult - Back to the Beginning
7.25/10 (Heavy Metal)
70. Saigon Blue Rain - Oko
7.25 (Darkwave)
71. Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen
7.25/10 (Blackened Post-Metal)
72. Ulthar - Helionomicon
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
73. Malleus - The Fires of Heaven
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
74. Foretoken - Triumphs
7.25/10 (Death Metal)
75. Alien Birds - Alien Birds
7.25/10 (Rock)
76. Enisum - Forgotten Mountains
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
77. Rye - В​с​ё
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
78. Plight - Plastic Sun
7.25/10 (Indie Rock)
79. Suplex - A Stage, an Altar
7.25/10 (Hardcore/Noise)
80. Lunar - The Illusionist
7.25/10 (Progressive Metal)
81. Daevar - Delirious Rites
7.25/10 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
82. Lovebites - Judgement Day
7.25/10 (Power Metal)
83. Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust
7.25/10 (Post-Metal)
84. Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
7.25/10 (Black Metal)
85. Megaton Sword - Might & Power
7.25/10 (Power Metal)
86. Akloleh - Aybiker Ritual
7/10 (Black Metal)
87. Insomnium - Anno 1696
7/10 (Melodic Death Metal)
88. Turbid North - The Decline
7/10 (Sludge/Death Metal)
89. Fucked Up - One Day
7/10 (Post-Hardcore)
90. Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance
7/10 (Doom Metal)
91. Invent Animate - Heavener
7/10 (Progressive Metalcore)
92. Ahab - The Coral Tombs
7/10 (Funeral Doom Metal)
93. Memoriam - Rise to Power
7/10 (Death Metal)
94. Tithe - Inverse Rapture
7/10 (Death/Doom Metal)
95. Leper Colony - Leper Colony
7/10 (Death Metal)
96. Screamer (SWE) - Kingmaker
7/10 (Heavy Metal)
97. Burden of Ymir - Heorot
7/10 (Black Metal/Folk Metal)
98. Black Sky Giant - Primigenian
7/10 (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
99. Ulthar - Anthronomicon
7/10 (Blackened Death Metal)
100. Misanthrope - Les Déclinistes
7/10 (Death Metal)
101. Remote Viewing - Modern Addictions
7/10 (Sludge Metal)
102. Delain - Dark Waters
7/10 (Symphonic Metal)
103. For I Am King - Crown
7/10 (Melodic Death Metal)
104. Paramore - This Is Why
7/10 (Alternative Rock)
105. Fathomage - Autumn’s Dawn, Winter’s Darkness
7/10 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
106. Drakon Ho Megas - Έλευσις Αντίχριστου
7/10 (Black Metal)
107. Twilight Force - At the Heart of Wintervale
7/10 (Symphonic Power Metal)
108. Fange - Privation
7/10 (Noise/Hardcore)
109. Tulus - Fandens Kall
7/10 (Black Metal)
110. Klone - Meanwhile
7/10 (Alternative Metal)
111. Cerulean Veins - Black
7/10 (Darkwave)
112. Drakwald - Black Moon Falls
7/10
113. Hexer - Abyssal
7/10 (Sludge Metal)
114. Ὁπλίτης - Ψ​ε​υ​δ​ο​μ​έ​ν​η
7/10 (Black Metal)
115. New Pagans - Making Circles of Our Own
7/10 (Emo/Indie Rock)
116. Sundowner - Sundowner
7/10 (Post-Hardcore)
117. Signo Rojo - There Was a Hole Here
6.75/10 (Sludge Metal)
118. Asian Glow & Sonhos Tomam Conta - Dreamglow
6.75/10 (Emo)
119. Kovacs - Child of Sin
6.75/10 (Indie Pop)
120. Siena Root - Revelation
6.75/10 (Psychedelic Rock)
121. Xiu Xiu - Ignore Grief
6.75/10 (Avant-Garde/Experimental Rock)
122. Dysmal - Gates to Apperception
6.75/10 (Melodic Death Metal)
123. Great Cold Emptiness - Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph
6.75/10 (Funeral Doom Metal)
124. Crom - The Era of Darkness
6.75/10 (Folk/Power Metal)
125. Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy
6.75/10 (Brutal Death Metal)
126. Mithridatum - Harrowing
6.75/10 (Blackened Death Metal)
127. Dark Sarah - Attack of Orym
6.75/10 (Symphonic Power Metal)
128. Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting
6.75/10 (Symphonic Metal)
129. Belle & Sebastian - Late Developers
6.75/10 (Indie Pop)
130. Inmydreams - Melancholy Tales
6.75/10 (Gothic Doom Metal)
131. Kanashimi - Yamiuta
6.75/10 (Depressive Black Metal)
132. Chelsea Grin - Suffer in Heaven
6.75/10 (Deathcore)
133. Scáth Na Déithe - Virulent Providence
6.75/10 (Black Metal)
134. Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home
6.75/10 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
135. KOLLAPS\E - Phantom Centre
6.75/10 (Post-Metal)
136. Viscera - Carcinogenesis
7/10 (Technical Deathcore)
137. Host - IX
6.75/10 (Gothic Rock)
138. All My Shadows - Eerie Monsters
6.75/10 (Heavy Metal)
139. Amber Arcades - Barefoot on Diamond Road
6.75/10 (Psych Pop)
140. Turmion Kätilöt - Omen X
6.75/10 (Industrial Metal)
141. Dysmal - Gates to Apperception
6.75/10 (Melodic Death Metal)
142. Elusion - The Fundamental Paradox
6.5/10
143. Sarkasm - As Empires Decay
6.5/10 (Death Metal)
144. Deviser - Evil Summons Evil
6.5/10 (Death Metal)
145. Walg - III
6.5/10 (Melodic Black Metal)
146. Autrest - Follow the Cold Path
6.5/10 (Blackgaze/Black Metal/Post-Metal)
147. Ravenlight - Immemorial
6.5/10 (Symphonic Power Metal)
148. Margo Price - Strays
6.5/10 (Country Pop)
149. Elyose - Déviante
6.5/10 (Industrial Gothic Metal)
150. Grey Stag - Call of the Mountain
6.5/10 (Sludge Metal)
151. Enemy of Reality - Where Truth May Lie
6.75/10 (Symphonic Progressive Metal)
152. In Flames - Foregone
6.5/10 (Alternative Metal)
153. Falaise - After All This Time
6.5/10 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
154. Anachronism - Meanders
6.5/10 (Technical Death Metal)
155. All Out War - Celestial Rot
6.5/10 (Crossover Thrash)
156. Leiþa - Reue
6.5/10 (Black Metal)
157. Nothingness - Supraliminal
6.5/10 (Death Metal)
158. Høstsol - L​ä​nge Leve Dö​den
6.5/10 (Black Metal)
159. Motive Black - Auburn
6.5/10 (Alternative Metal)
160. Witchthroat Serpent - Trove Of Oddities At The Devil's Driveway
6.5/10 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
161. Kim Edgar - Consequences
6.5/10 (Folk Pop)
162. Judiciary - Flesh + Blood
6.5/10 (Crossover Thrash)
163. Soulmass - Let Us Pray
6.5/10 (Death Metal)
164. Oceanhoarse - Heads Will Roll
6.5/10 (Alternative Metal)
165. Beyond the Black - Beyond the Black
6.5/10 (Symphonic Metal)
166. Bianca Scout- The Heart of the Anchoress - 6.5/10 (Darkwave)
167. Othersproof - Gods in Human Form
(Synthpop)
168. Atomwinter - Sakrileg
6.25/10 (Death Metal)
169. Winds of Tragedy - Hating Life
6.25/10 (Melodic Black/Doom Metal)
170. Silver Bullet - Shadowfall
6.25/10 (Heavy Metal)
171. Liv Sin - KaliYuga
6.25/10 (Heavy Metal)
172. Dead Sun - Soul Diseased
6.25/10 (Death Metal)
173. Inherits the Void - The Impending Fall of the Stars
6.25/10 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
174. Orkrist - Luea
6.25/10 (Melodic Black/Doom Metal)
175. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
6.25/10 (Stoner Metal)
176. Where the Waves Are Born - Sundered
6.25/10 (Metalcore)
177. Velian - Spectacle of Tragedy
6.25/10 (Symphonic Metal)
178. Eisregen - Grenzgänger
6.25/10 (Gothic Black Metal)
179. Mordkaul - Feeding the Machine - Part 1
6.25/10 (Melodic Death Metal)
180. Måneskin - Rush!
6.25/10 (Alternative Rock)
181. The Howling Void - Into Darkness Ever More Profound
6.25/10 (Funeral Doom Metal)
182. Esoctrilihum - Funeral
6.25/10 (Funeral Doom Metal)
183. Necropanther - Betrayal
6.25/10 (Melodic Death/Thrash Metal)
184. Stoned Jesus - Father Light
6.25/10 (Stoner Rock)
185. Gorillaz - Cracker Island
6.25/10 (Pop)
186. 71TONMAN - Of End Times
6.25/10 (Doom Metal)
187. Genghis Khan - Who Art in Hell
6.25/10 (Heavy Metal)
188. Zulu - A New Tomorrow
6.25/10 (Powerviolence)
189. Atrocity - Okkult III
6/10 (Symphonic Death Metal)
190. Skrying Mirror - Omnimalevolence
6/10 (Death Metal)
191. Conjureth - The Parasitic Chambers
6/10 (Death Metal)
192. Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare
6/10 (Black Metal)
193. Vosbúð - Heklugjá
6/10 (Black Metal)
194. Wedingoth - Five Stars Above
6/10 (Progressive Metal)
195. Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar
6/10 (Dub)
196. VV - Neon Noir
6/10 (Suomi Metal)
197. Where the Waves Are Born - Sundered
6/10 (Metalcore)
198. Limbes - Ecluse
5.75/10 (Black Metal)
199. Storm{O} - Endocannibalismo
5.75/10 (Mathcore)
200. Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation
5.75/10 (Pop)
201. Wothrosch - Odium
5.75/10 (Black Metal)
202. Homeskin - End's Daze Without Organs
5.75/10 (Avant-Garde Black Metal, Post-Punk)
203. Cline's Mind - Land of the Plague
5.75/10 (Metalcore)
204. Kommandant - Titan Hammer
5.75/10 (Blackened Death/Thrash Metal)
205. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
5.75/10 (Soul/Pop)
206. Full of Hell / Primitive Man - Suffocation Hallucination
5.5/10 (Avant-Garde Metal/Grindcore)
207. Kraków Loves Adana - Oceanflower
5.5/10 (Darkwave/Synthpop)
208. Veilcaste - Precipice
5.5/10 (Sludge Metal)
209. Seven Black Books - The Sorcerer’s Path
5.5/10 (Dungeon Synth)
210. Slegest - Avstand
5.5/10 (Blackened Heavy Metal)
211. Defy the Curse - Horrors of Human Sacrifice
5.5/10 (Crust Punk)
212. Astarot (MEX) - De Mystica Silva ad Cosmos
5.5/10 (Black Metal)
213. Dryad - The Abyssal Plain
5.5/10 (Black Metal)
214. Dark Princess - Phoenix
5.5/10 (Symphonic Metal)
215. Vermintide - Ashamed of My Species
5.5/10 (Grindcore)
216. Elffor - The Wintery Warrior Spirit
5.5/10 (Dungeon Synth)
217. Ten - Something Wicked This Way Comes
5.25/10 (Heavy Metal)
218. Heroes and Monsters - Heroes and Monsters
5.25/10 (Hard Rock)
219. Necrodeath - Singin' In The Pain
5.25/10 (Blackened Thrash Metal)
220. The Canyon Observer - Figura
5.25/10 (Free Jazz/Post- Metal)
221. Avatar - Dance Devil Dance
5.25/10 (Nu Metal)
222. Black Star Riders - Wrong Side of Paradise
5.25/10 (Hard Rock)
223. Suicide Silence - Remember... You Must Die
5/10 (Deathcore)
224. Mechina - Cenotaph
5/10 (Djent/Symphonic Metal)
225. Drowning the Light - Haunter of the Deep
4.5/10 (Black Metal)
226. Jarboe - Procession
4.5/10 (Darkwave/Ambient)
227. Homeskin - Forgetfully Washed into Callousness
4/10 (Avant-garde Black Metal)
228. The Smashing Pumpkins - Atum Act II
4/10 (Alternative/Electronic Rock)
229. Reverorum Ib Malacht - Aieganzes Aigonzis : Angels of God
3.5/10 (Avant-Garde Black Metal)
230. Najand - Battle for Emancipation
3/10 (Black Metal/Noise)
231. Reverorum Ib Malacht - Emet Amen
3/10 (Black Metal/Ambient)


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Comments: 2   Visited by: 36 users
01.02.2023 - 19:24
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Wow your steaming through some releases this year there's so many for me to catch up on, many of which are listed here. Your list may prove a valuable source for me in the year ahead
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My 2023 list (so far)
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02.02.2023 - 01:28
Vellichor

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 01.02.2023 at 19:24

Wow your steaming through some releases this year there's so many for me to catch up on, many of which are listed here. Your list may prove a valuable source for me in the year ahead


Looking at your list last year is what actually made me want to keep track this year! I usually find I listen to so many albums that it’s hard to remember some of the stuff I liked at the beginning of the year by the end so this is a great way to keep track as I go.
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