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AJ's Ranking Of 2023
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Here is my top 50 for 2023! Only LPs, no re-recording (looking at you brilliant Paradise Lost, Kauan and Cavalera), that I rated 8 and above.

My biggest year yet in number of album I've given an ear to. Strangely, a tough one for the top 10. A lot a great records. I could have easily add 20 more, but first year I can't really see clear winners (imo of course). So I've mostly gone for comfort with Saturnus, Panopticon and Enslaved, knowing full well I've heard better from them in the past. Still, they genuinely caught my preference. The top spot goes to the biggest "surprise" for me, more than anything else. I did not expect to be that taken by the eerie and glacial atmosphere of Wolvennest DPTL, but I could not stop going back to it again and again.

Album count: 987 (!)
Average rating: 6.37

Created by: AJ The Great | 19.02.2023


1. Wolvennest - The Dark Path To The Light
2023
2. Saturnus - The Storm Within
2023
3. Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
2023
4. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
2023
5. Enslaved - Heimdal
2023
6. TesseracT - War Of Being
2023
7. Fen - Monuments To Absence
2023
8. Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
2023
9. Heretoir - Nightsphere
2023
10. Autrest - Follow The Cold Path
2023
11. Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen
2023
12. Vitriolic Sage - 梦路
2023
13. Crow Black Sky - Sidereal Light: Volume Two
2023
14. Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab
2023
15. Insomnium - Anno 1696
2023
16. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
2023
17. ...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs
2023
18. None - Inevitable
2023
19. Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire
2023
20. Enforced - War Remains
2023
21. Shining - Shining
2023
22. Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle
2023
23. Wayfarer - American Gothic
2023
24. Soen - Memorial
2023
25. Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home
2023
26. Rye - id:157669
2023
27. Shores Of Null - The Loss Of Beauty
2023
28. Downfall Of Gaia - Silhouettes Of Disgust
2023
29. Host - IX
2023
30. Hanging Garden - The Garden
2023
31. Uada - Crepuscule Natura
2023
32. Mephorash - id:173342
2023
33. Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent
2023
34. Úlfúð - Of Existential Distortion
2023
35. Vansidian - Reflecting The Shadows
2023
36. Baroness - Stone
2023
37. Helleruin - Devils, Death And Dark Arts
2023
38. Ikarie - Arde
2023
39. Hinayana - Shatter And Fall
2023
40. Night Crowned - Tales
2023
41. Vanishing Kids - Miracle Of Death
2023
42. Marianas Rest - Auer
2023
43. Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
2023
44. Sól Án Varma - Sól Án Varma
2023
45. Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
2023
46. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
2023
47. Health - Rat Wars
2023
48. Morne - Engraved With Pain
2023
49. Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore
2023
50. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
2023


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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