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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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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1.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

2.Enslaved - Heimdal

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

4.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

5.Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts

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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…

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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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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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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Another year begins. This time I'm adding Country of origin next to the rating and genre.

2024
2022
2021…

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Wayfarer - American Gothic

3.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

4.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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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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