2023 Listening List

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2023 Listening List

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A list by
Dbh 20
Created
January 15, 2023
Entries
205
Endorsements
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The list has gone back to it's original format: my favorites of the year regrouped and ordered by release date (now earliest at the top). The ranked list thing didn't work out for me in the end.
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1.
Ahab - The Coral Tombs
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2.
Beyond The Black - Beyond The Black
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3.
Crom - The Era Of Darkness
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4.
Haxprocess - The Caverns Of Duat
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5.
Obituary - Dying Of Everything
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6.
Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore
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7.
Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars
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8.
Lord Mountain - The Oath
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9.
Oak Pantheon - The Absen­ce
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10.
Riverside - ID.Entity
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11.
Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance
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12.
Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale
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13.
...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs
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14.
The World Is Quiet Here - Zon
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15.
Dreadrealm - Live From The Fall
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16.
Falaise - After All This Time
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17.
Conspiracy Of Zero - Ahthos Arouris
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18.
Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent
205.
19.
The Winery Dogs - III
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20.
Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting
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21.
Deviser - Evil Summons Evil
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22.
Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility
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23.
Delain - Dark Waters
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Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods
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25.
In Flames - Foregone
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26.
Klone - Meanwhile
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27.
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
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28.
Lovebites - Judgement Day
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29.
Air Raid - Fatal Encounter
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30.
Hypno5e - Sheol
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31.
Insomnium - Anno 1696
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32.
Galneryus - Between Dread And Valor
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33.
Enslaved - Heimdal
205.
34.
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
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35.
Haken - Fauna
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36.
Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
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37.
Ocean Of Grief - Pale Existence
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38.
Frozen Crown - Call Of The North
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39.
Gorod - The Orb
205.
40.
Ice Age - Waves Of Loss And Power
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41.
Isole - Anesidora
205.
42.
Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre
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43.
Downfall Of Gaia - Silhouettes Of Disgust
205.
44.
Foretoken - Triumphs
205.
45.
Kamelot - The Awakening
205.
46.
Night Demon - Outsider
205.
47.
Pressure Points - The Island
205.
48.
Redemption - I Am The Storm
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49.
Suotana - Ounas I
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50.
Triumpher - Storming The Walls
205.
51.
August Burns Red - Death Below
205.
52.
Cruachan - The Living And The Dead
205.
53.
Excalion - Once Upon A Time
205.
54.
Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
205.
55.
Hanging Garden - The Garden
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56.
Keep Of Kalessin - Katharsis
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57.
Marianas Rest - Auer
205.
58.
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
205.
59.
Shores Of Null - The Loss Of Beauty
205.
60.
Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm
205.
61.
Aara - Triade III: Nyx
205.
62.
Ad Infinitum - Chapter III: Downfall
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63.
Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun
205.
64.
Sermon - Of Golden Verse
205.
65.
Stormhaven - Blindsight
205.
66.
Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
205.
67.
Overkill - Scorched
205.
68.
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall - Hunt The Flame
205.
69.
Against Myself - Tides Of Insanity
205.
70.
Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
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71.
Dawn Of Ouroboros - Velvet Incandescence
205.
72.
Neurotech - Ave Neptune
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73.
Saint Deamon - League Of The Serpent
205.
74.
Smoulder - Violent Creed Of Vengeance
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75.
Vorna - Aamunkoi
205.
76.
Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Rapture
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77.
Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
205.
78.
Ignea - Dreams Of Lands Unseen
205.
79.
Majesty - Back To Attack
205.
80.
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
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81.
Burning Witches - The Dark Tower
205.
82.
Vintersea - Woven Into Ashes
205.
83.
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
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84.
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
205.
85.
Nospūn - Opus
205.
86.
The Ocean - Holocene
205.
87.
Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
205.
88.
Supersonic Revolution - Golden Age Of Music
205.
89.
Thulcandra - Hail The Abyss
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90.
Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
205.
91.
Kalmah - Kalmah
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92.
Mesarthim - Arrival
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93.
Phlebotomized - Clouds Of Confusion
205.
94.
Sirenia - 1977
205.
95.
Anubis Gate - Interference
205.
96.
Gloryhammer - Return To The Kingdom Of Fife
205.
97.
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
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98.
Rise To Fall - The Fifth Dimension
205.
99.
The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogony
205.
100.
Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
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101.
Slow Fall - Obsidian Waves
205.
102.
Arkona - Kob'
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103.
Church Of Misery - Born Under A Mad Sign
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104.
Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
205.
105.
Royal Thunder - Rebuilding The Mountain
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106.
Saturnus - The Storm Within
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107.
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
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108.
Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire
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109.
The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness
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110.
Pyramaze - Bloodlines
205.
111.
Anima Tempo - Chaos Paradox
205.
112.
Before The Dawn - Stormbringers
205.
113.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
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114.
Fen - Monuments To Absence
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115.
The Raven Age - Blood Omen
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116.
Winterage - Nekyia
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117.
Aetherian - At Storm's Edge
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118.
Eleine - We Shall Remain
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119.
The Night Eternal - Fatale
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120.
Voyager - Fearless In Love
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121.
Cadaver - The Age Of The Offended
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122.
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
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123.
Arch Echo - Final Pitch
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124.
Astralborne - Across The Aeons
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125.
Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
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126.
Flight - Echoes Of Journeys Past
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127.
Lokust - Infidel
205.
128.
Vinsta - Freiweitn
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129.
The Crawling - All Of This For Nothing
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Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow
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131.
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
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132.
Hemina - Romancing The Ether
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133.
Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
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134.
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
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135.
Orbit Culture - Descent
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136.
Sanguine Glacialis - Maladaptive Daydreaming
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137.
Skálmöld - Ýdalir
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138.
Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows
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139.
Warmen - Here For None
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140.
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab
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141.
Exmortus - Necrophony
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Noveria - The Gates Of The Underworld
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143.
Primal Fear - Code Red
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144.
Soen - Memorial
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Finsterforst - Jenseits
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146.
Kvelertak - Endling
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147.
Sylosis - A Sign Of Things To Come
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148.
Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition
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149.
Uada - Crepuscule Natura
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150.
Alkaloid - Numen
205.
151.
Shade Empire - Sunholy
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ShadowStrike - Traveler's Tales
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153.
TesseracT - War Of Being
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154.
Tideless - Eye Of Water
205.
155.
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
205.
156.
Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains
205.
157.
Mercenary - Soundtrack For The End Times
205.
158.
Subsignal - A Poetry Of Rain
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159.
Graveyard - 6
205.
160.
Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle
205.
161.
Obsidian Tide - The Grand Crescendo
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162.
Omnivortex - Circulate
205.
163.
Primordial - How It Ends
205.
164.
Stam1na - X
205.
165.
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
205.
166.
Heretoir - Nightsphere
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167.
October Tide - The Cancer Pledge
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168.
Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask
205.
169.
Wolvennest - The Dark Path To The Light
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170.
Décembre Noir - Your Sunset / My Sunrise
205.
171.
Fortíð - Narkissos
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172.
Kaunis Kuolematon - Mielenvalta
205.
173.
On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay
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174.
Stortregn - Finitude
205.
175.
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals
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176.
Theocracy - Mosaic
205.
177.
Bloodred Hourglass - How's The Heart?
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178.
Lalu - The Fish Who Wanted To Be King
205.
179.
Temperance - Hermitage - Daruma's Eyes Pt. 2
205.
180.
Berzerker Legion - Chaos Will Reign
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181.
Ghosts Of Atlantis - Riddles Of The Sycophants
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182.
Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar
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183.
Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper
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Wayfarer - American Gothic
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185.
Angra - Cycles Of Pain
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186.
Serenity - Nemesis AD
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187.
Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha
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188.
Xoth - Exogalactic
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189.
Hinayana - Shatter And Fall
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190.
Night Crowned - Tales
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191.
Secret Sphere - Blackened Heartbeat
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192.
Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
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193.
DGM - Life
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194.
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
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Eldritch - Innervoid
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Sadus - The Shadow Inside
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TEMIC - Terror Management Theory
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Helga - Wrapped In Mist
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Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness
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TodoMal - A Greater Good
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Valdrin - Throne Of The Lunar Soul
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Weeping Silence - Isles Of Lore
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Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
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Varathron - The Crimson Temple
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Winterhorde - Neptunian
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