The Best Of 2023

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The Best Of 2023

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A list by
thebenfo
Created
May 01, 2024
Entries
104
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"Very good" or above. The top 20 are the best of the year. Everything else ranges from 8 to 9.5 on a "10" scale.
104.
1.
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
104.
2.
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
104.
3.
Godthrymm - Distortions
104.
4.
Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent
104.
5.
Notturno - Inside
104.
6.
Chrome Waves - Earth Will Shed Its Skin
104.
7.
The Ocean - Holocene
104.
8.
On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay
104.
9.
Kataklysm - Goliath
104.
10.
Helga - Wrapped In Mist
104.
11.
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
104.
12.
Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility
104.
13.
Nothingness - Supraliminal
104.
14.
Deviser - Evil Summons Evil
104.
15.
Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Rapture
104.
16.
Isole - Anesidora
104.
17.
Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
104.
18.
Marianas Rest - Auer
104.
19.
Inherits The Void - The Impending Fall Of The Stars
104.
20.
Velian - Spectacle Of Tragedy
104.
21.
Host - IX
104.
22.
Ruadh - 1296
104.
23.
Burden Of Ymir - Heorot
104.
24.
Wretched Fate - Carnal Heresy
104.
25.
Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods
104.
26.
Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting
104.
27.
Shores Of Null - The Loss Of Beauty
104.
28.
Hanging Garden - The Garden
104.
29.
Insomnium - Anno 1696
104.
30.
Enforced - War Remains
104.
31.
Mork - Dypet
104.
32.
Vredensdal - Sonic Devotion To Darkness
104.
33.
Riverside - ID.Entity
104.
34.
Obituary - Dying Of Everything
104.
35.
Delain - Dark Waters
104.
36.
Suotana - Ounas I
104.
37.
Ahab - The Coral Tombs
104.
38.
Ulthar - Anthronomicon
104.
39.
...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs
104.
40.
Oak - Disintegrate
104.
41.
In Flames - Foregone
104.
42.
Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance
104.
43.
Predatory Void - Seven Keys To The Discomfort Of Being
104.
44.
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
104.
45.
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
104.
46.
Downfall Of Gaia - Silhouettes Of Disgust
104.
47.
Mesmur - Chthonic
104.
48.
Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
104.
49.
Dawn Of Ouroboros - Velvet Incandescence
104.
50.
Tygers Of Pan Tang - Bloodlines
104.
51.
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
104.
52.
Vintersea - Woven Into Ashes
104.
53.
Hex A.D. - Delightful Sharp Edges
104.
54.
Burial Clouds - Last Days Of A Dying World
104.
55.
Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
104.
56.
Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
104.
57.
Kalmah - Kalmah
104.
58.
Immortal - War Against All
104.
59.
Sirenia - 1977
104.
60.
Saturnus - The Storm Within
104.
61.
Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
104.
62.
Cavern Deep - Part II - Breach
104.
63.
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
104.
64.
Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
104.
65.
Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
104.
66.
Krigsgrav - Fires In The Fall
104.
67.
Snorlax - The Necrotrophic Abyss
104.
68.
Before The Dawn - Stormbringers
104.
69.
Oromet - Oromet
104.
70.
Fen - Monuments To Absence
104.
71.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
104.
72.
Voyager - Fearless In Love
104.
73.
Aetherian - At Storm's Edge
104.
74.
Radiant Knife - Pressure
104.
75.
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
104.
76.
Mizmor - Prosaic
104.
77.
Mutoid Man - Mutants
104.
78.
Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths
104.
79.
The Night Eternal - Fatale
104.
80.
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
104.
81.
The Crawling - All Of This For Nothing
104.
82.
Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows
104.
83.
Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion
104.
84.
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
104.
85.
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab
104.
86.
Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
104.
87.
TesseracT - War Of Being
104.
88.
Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
104.
89.
Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle
104.
90.
Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask
104.
91.
Restless Spirit - Afterimage
104.
92.
The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
104.
93.
Stortregn - Finitude
104.
94.
Kaunis Kuolematon - Mielenvalta
104.
95.
Dream Unending / Worm - Starpath
104.
96.
A Flourishing Scourge - Sickened Seed
104.
97.
Aeonian Sorrow - Katara
104.
98.
Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha
104.
99.
Sea Mosquito - Igitur
104.
100.
Hinayana - Shatter And Fall
104.
101.
Helmet - Left
104.
102.
Exulansis - Overtures Of Uprising
104.
103.
Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions
104.
104.
Sol - Promethean Sessions
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