To Celebrate Metal Hammer's Tumultuous Albums of the Year list, I'm releasing my top 25 Albums of the year early. It might change once the Awards come around.

1.Saturnus - The Storm Within

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Miserere Luminis - Ordalie

4.Æolian - Echoes Of The Future

5.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

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

2.Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Church Of Misery - Born Under A Mad Sign

5.Kalmah - Kalmah

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1.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

2.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

3.VoidCeremony - Threads Of Unknowing

4.Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory

5.Afterbirth - In But Not Of

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

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

3.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

4.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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

2.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

3.Omnerod - The Amensal Rise

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

5.Terminalist - The Crisis As Condition

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Chronological order…

1.Grá - Lycaon

2.Leiþa - Reue

3.Azgaroth - Kohti Unholaa

4.Nothingness - Supraliminal

5.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

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Hey guys! Here are my fav albums of the year so far. Ordered from most to least favorite. You can see a taste shaping up down there (why does this phrase sound wrong?)

Any recommendations?

PS Not…

1.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

2.Nothingness - Supraliminal

3.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

4.Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht

5.Non Est Deus - Legacy

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1.Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed

2.Devangelic - Xul

3.Wings Of Steel - Gates Of Twilight

4.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

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

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1.Avatarium - Death, Where Is Your Sting

2.Belphegor - The Devils

3.Cabal - Magno Interitus

4.Sedimentum - Suppuration Morphogénésiaque

5.Kalmah - Kalmah

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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,…

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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1.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

3.Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

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

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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Based on first impressions - re-listens often make me change my mind. Though this was not a great month - this is the first time I put any 3/5 star album on my top 10 and I'm not thrilled about it. But…

1.Voyager - Prince Of Fire

2.The Ocean - Holocene

3.Supersonic Revolution - Golden Age Of Music

4.Deathstars - Everything Destroys You

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

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1.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

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

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

4.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

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1.Insomnium - Anno 1696

2.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

3.Night Crowned - Tales

4.Marianas Rest - Auer

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

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find…

1.Amorphis - Black Winter Day

2.Aridus - Serpent Moon

3.Ascended Dead - Evenfall Of The Apocalypse

4.Austere - Corrosion Of Hearts

5.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

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