Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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A new list at the end of the year. And as always with the same statistics that might be interesting to you.

This year's numbers:

- 140 albums
- Total points given: 1049,1
- Average score: 7,49/10

- Albums with a score of 7 or above: 81,43%
- Albums with a score of 8 or above: 28,57%
- Albums with a score of 9 or above: 0,71%

- Albums with a score of 5 or below: 1,43%

Nationalities: 33

- USA: 33 - 23,57%
- UK: 10 - 7,14%
- Germany: 9 - 6,43%
- Greece: 9 - 6,43%
- Sweden: 9 - 6,43%
- Brazil: 5 - 3,57%
- France: 5 - 3,57%
- Italy: 5 - 3,57%
- Mexico: 5 - 3,57%
- Norway: 5 - 3,57%
- Belgium: 4 - 2,86%
- Chile: 4 - 2,86%
- Finland: 4 - 2,86%
- Hungary: 4 - 2,86%
- Poland: 4 - 2,86%
- Spain: 4 - 2,86%
- Argentina: 2 - 1,43%
- Canada: 2 - 1,43%
- Cyprus: 2 - 1,43%
- India: 2 - 1,43%
- New Zealand: 2 - 1,43%
- Serbia: 2 - 1,43%
- Bulgaria: 1 - 0,71%
- Colombia: 1 - 0,71%
- Ireland: 1 - 0,71%
- Japan: 1 - 0,71%
- Morocco: 1 - 0,71%
- Puerto Rico: 1 - 0,71%
- Russia: 1 - 0,71%
- Slovenia: 1 - 0,71%
- Switzerland: 1 - 0,71%
- The Netherlands: 1 - 0,71%
- Ukraine: 1 - 0,71%

1.Hmunga - Crimson

2.Wardaemon - Black Metal Wardaemons

3.Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Rapture

4.From The Ages - II

5.Popiór - Pomarlisko

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

2.Oak - Disintegrate

3.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

4.Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

5.Soen - Memorial

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This is my list of newly released Albums that I listened/will listen to in 2023.
The records are presented in order of release date and I will rate them when I´m certain that I formed an opinion on them, though the ratings might change from time to time.
I hope this list might once again be inspiring to other users maybe some people will find some new music to listen to.

1.Ὁπλίτης - Ψ ε υ δ ο μ έ ν η

2.Rye - В с ё

3.Esoctrilihum - Funeral

4.Great Cold Emptiness - Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph

5.Walg - III

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Many new albums and first 8 are killer blasts. So True

1.Blood Star - First Sighting

2.Númenor - Tales From The Edge Of Time

3.Claymorean - By This Sword We Rule: A Decade Of Steel

4.Texas Hippie Coalition - The Name Lives On

5.Tanith - Voyage

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1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Nospūn - Opus

3.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

4.Ironmaster - Weapons Of Spiritual Carnage

5.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

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1.Metallica - 72 Seasons

2.Iron Savior - Firestar

3.Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Rapture

4.Primal Fear - Code Red

5.Overkill - Scorched

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New releases - albums, EPs and singles

1.Haavard - Haavard

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Killing Joke - Full Spectrum Dominance

4.Hanging Garden - The Garden

5.Gggolddd - I Let My Hair Grow

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2023 Playlist

1.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

2.On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay

3.Rye - В с ё

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time - Live At Tavastia 2021

2.Riverside - ID.Entity

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.Finsterforst - Jenseits

5.Paradise Lost - Icon 30

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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.

1.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

2.Beyond The Black - Beyond The Black

3.Crom - The Era Of Darkness

4.Haxprocess - The Caverns Of Duat

5.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

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Pretty much everything I’ve listened to this year, let me know what I’ve missed and what you’ve found and cheers to 2024 being even better 🍻

Check out my seven favorite album covers that I’ve looked at so many times this year, they’re fucking awesome:















Here’s a link to some of my favorite songs from the year, max 2 per album: Best Songs of 2023

1.Silent Planet - Superbloom

2.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

3.Voice Of Baceprot - Retas

4.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion

5.TesseracT - War Of Being

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Same deal as always - scenes if I somehow manage to break the 1200-album record I hit last year

1.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

3.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Moonreich - Amer

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1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

3.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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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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