Hello my fellow metalheads! Got myself a brand new account, thanks to the new login conditions. Who cares, it was an old account anyway. I've been away for a long time, and I got myself a New Years resolution, being revisiting an old hobby of mine. Listening to new metal albums all the time, and ranking them in personal lists here on metal storm! So here I am, introducing my top 50 metal albums of 2023!

UPDATE:

After playing around with making separate lists containing albums from three month periods during 2023, I finally decided to make a single list. Since there are so many great albums coming out this year, the list now contains 50 albums instead of 20

Have a great day!

Created by:

ChrisWinther94 | 15.01.2023

	1.	Wayfarer - American Gothic Rating: 8,8 - Genre: Atmospheric Black / Folk Metal - Best songs: The Cattle Thief, To Enter My House Justified, False Constellation
	2.	Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Rating: 8,7 - Genre: Blackened Speed Metal - Best songs: Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags, Goat Vomit Nightmare, The Cursed Carrion Crown
	3.	Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us Rating: 8,6 - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Wisdom of the Fallen Leaves, Crumbling Pillars of a Tranquil Mind, Idiopathic Despair
	4.	Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle Rating: 8,6 - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: In Coldest Embrace, Vihan verhon takaa, Suden tie (Wolven Hour Part II)
	5.	Shylmagoghnar - Convergence Rating: 8,6 - Genre: Progressive Black / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Follow the River, Egregore, The Sea
	6.	Saturnus - The Storm Within Rating: 8,5 - Genre: Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: The Storm Within, Chasing Ghosts, The Calling
	7.	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation Rating: 8,5 - Genre: Progressive Stoner Metal - Best songs: Supercell, Witchcraft, Gila Monster
	8.	Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite Rating: 8,5 - Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathgrind - Best songs: Scourge of the Offspring, A Photic Doom, Just Another Day
	9.	Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals Rating: 8,5 - Genre: Blackened Death Metal - Best songs: Hammer From The Howling Void, Usurper of the Earth and Sea, Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
	10.	Varathron - The Crimson Temple Rating: 8,5 - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: Cimmerian Priesthood, Shrouds of the Miasmic Winds, Constellation of the Archons
	11.	Insomnium - Anno 1696 Rating: 8,4 - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: 1696, Godforsaken (feat. Johanna Kurkela), The Rapids
	12.	Blackbraid - Blackbraid II Rating: 8,4 - Genre: Atmospheric / Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: The Wolf that Guides the Hunter’s Hand, A Song of Death on Wings of Dawn, Twilight Hymn of Ancient Blood
	13.	Thy Catafalque - Alföld Rating: 8,4 - Genre: Avant-garde Black Metal - Best songs: Testen Túl, Alföld, Néme Vermek
	14.	Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit Rating: 8,4 - Genre: Progressive / Technical Death Metal - Best songs: Will of Whispers, Servants of Possibility, The Enduring Spirit of Calamity
	15.	Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed Rating: 8,4 - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: In Yearning Alive, Our Gracious Captors, Seekers of the Ineffable
	16.	Helga - Wrapped In Mist Rating: 8,4 - Genre: Folk Metal / Art Rock - Best songs: Skogen Mumlar, Alive Again, Som En Trumme
	17.	Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars Rating: 8,3 - Genre: Progressive Doom / Alternative Metal - Best songs: Austerity, Colossal Shade, Drab Moon
	18.	Enslaved - Heimdal Rating: 8,3- Genre: Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: Congelia, Forest Dweller, Kingdom
	19.	Ne Obliviscaris - Exul Rating: 8,3 - Genre: Extreme Progressive Metal - Best songs: Equus, Misericorde I - As the Flesh Falls, Graal
	20.	Green Lung - This Heathen Land Rating: 8,3 - Genre: Doom Metal / Stoner Rock - Best songs: Mountain Throne, Maxine (Witch Queen), Hunters In the Sky
	21.	Kalmah - Kalmah Rating: 8,3 - Genre: Extreme Power / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Haunted by Guilt, Tons of Chaos, Drifting in a Dream
	22.	Alkaloid - Numen Rating: 8,3 - Genre: Extreme Progressive Metal - Best songs: The Cambrian Explosion, Shades of Shub-Niggurath, Alpha Aur
	23.	Riverside - ID.Entity Rating: 8,3 - Genre: Progressive Rock - Best songs: Landmine Blast, Big Tech Brother, Self-Aware
	24.	Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Ambient / Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: As Darkness Dims the Fire, The Ghost of Endymion, A Fullmoon Madness
	25.	Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Avant-garde / Industrial Black Metal - Best songs: It Does Not Follow, Det Tomme Kalde Mørke, Abyss Perihelion Transit
	26.	Sermon - Of Golden Verse Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Alternative / Progressive Metal - Best songs: Light the Witch, The Distance, Departure
	27.	Myrkur - Spine Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Blackgaze / Folk Metal - Best songs: Blazing Sky, Spine, Valkyriernes Sang
	28.	October Tide - The Cancer Pledge Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Tapestry of Our End, The Cancer Pledge, Breathe the Walter
	29.	Uada - Crepuscule Natura Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: The Abyss Gazing Back, The Dark (Winter), Through the Wax and Through the Wane
	30.	Faidra - Militant : Peninent : Triumphant Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Punishment Nailed Deep, Halo of Ashes, Mother Acherontia
	31.	Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Technical Thrash Metal - Best songs: The Crisis as Condition, Last Remains, Frenetic Standstill
	32.	Soen - Memorial Rating: 8,2 - Genre: Alternative / Progressive Metal - Best songs: Violence, Hollowed (Elisa), Icon
	33.	Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Winter’s Ghost, Cedar Skeletons, Enduring the Snow Drought
	34.	Décembre Noir - Your Sunset / My Sunrise Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Against the Daylight, Your Sunset / My Sunrise, Sentimental Giants
	35.	Asinhell - Impii Hora Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Island of Dead Men, Trophies, Desert of Doom
	36.	Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Melodic Death / Extreme Power Metal - Best songs: Cosmic Warfare, Ethereal Wanderer (feat. Vincent Jones), Spectral Rebirth
	37.	...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Symphonic Black Metal - Best songs: The Collector and His Construct, Wine Into Water, Ambivelant God
	38.	Urne - A Feast On Sorrow Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Hardcore / Sludge Metal - Best songs: A Stumble of Words, Becoming the Ocean, The Long Goodbye / Where Do the Memories Go?
	39.	On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Death / Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: Crestfallen, Raise Empires, Thorns of Fire
	40.	Afsky - Om Hundrede År Rating: 8,1 - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Stormfulde Hav, Frosne Vind, Tid
	41.	Graveyard - 6 Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Blues / Hard Rock - Best songs: I Follow You, Just A Drop, Rampant Fields
	42.	Stortregn - Finitude Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Technical Death / Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: A Lost Battle Rages On, Xeno Chaos, The Revelation
	43.	Marianas Rest - Auer Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Diseased, Light Reveals Our Wounds, The Hanging Blade
	44.	Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Poisonous Apathy, Stronghold, The Other Side of Anger, Agents of Chaos
	45.	In Flames - Foregone Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Gothenburg / Alternative Metal - Best songs: State of Slow Decay, Foregone pt. 1, The Great Deceiver
	46.	Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Grand Eclipse, Visions of Fire, Monumental
	47.	Obituary - Dying Of Everything Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Barely Alive, The Wrong Time, My Will to Live
	48.	Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death Rating: 8,0 - Genre: Brutal / Technical Death Metal - Best songs: Compulsion for Cruelty, When the Trend Ends, Undulating Carnage
	49.	VV - Neon Noir Rating: 7,9 - Genre: Gothic / Alternative Rock - Best songs: Neon Noir, Loveletting, Salute the Sanguine
	50.	The Zenith Passage - Datalysium Rating: 7,9 - Genre: Technical Death Metal - Best songs: Algorithmic Salvation, Divinertia I, Automated Twilight