1.Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate

2.Morne - Engraved With Pain

3.Leiþa - Reue

4.Allochiria - Commotion

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

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This is my ranking of all 2023 albums I heard. I'll update it every time I listen to a new 2023 album.

1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Haken - Fauna

3.Lokust - Infidel

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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1.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Kauan - ATM Revised

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

5.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

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1.Kostnatění - Úpal

2.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

3.Fange - Privation

4.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

5.Ascended Dead - Evenfall Of The Apocalypse

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1.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

2.Arkona - Kob'

3.Fluisteraars - De Kronieken Van Het Verdwenen Kasteel - II - Nergena

4.Taake - Et Hav Av Avstand

5.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

2.Hypno5e - Sheol

3.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

4.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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Top albums for the year (8+) rating - Meaning that the albums are worthy of multiple listens and purchase. 9 and 10s are must buy immediately.

There is no real order other than rating and then usually…

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance

3.Signo Rojo - There Was A Hole Here

4.In Flames - Foregone

5.Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

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1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

3.Kauan - ATM Revisited

4.Riverside - ID.Entity

5.Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

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TOP 2023 in the making.

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Host - IX

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All 2023 released studio albums I listened to in 2023, ranked from best to worst.

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow

3.Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll

4.Insomnium - Anno 1696

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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1.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

2.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

3.Riverside - ID.Entity

4.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

5....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

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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.

1.Afterbirth - In But Not Of

2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

3.Godthrymm - Distortions

4.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent

5.Notturno - Inside

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1.Crystal Coffin - The Curse Of Immortality

2.Exulansis - Overtures Of Uprising

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

5.Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

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1.Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

2.Enforced - War Remains

3.Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll

4.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

5.Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts

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1.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done

4.Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation

5.Behemoth - Demigod

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