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

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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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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.Orbit Culture - Descent

2.Tryglav - The Ritual

3.Code Orange - The Above

4.Cloak - Black Flame Eternal

5.Thy Catafalque - Alföld

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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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1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

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

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

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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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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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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.Disbelief - Killing Karma

2.Hand Of Kalliach - Corryvreckan

3.Graveworm - (N)utopia

4.Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless

5.Six Feet Under - Killing For Revenge

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1.Graveworm - Killing Innocence

2.Crypta - Echoes Of The Soul

3.Arch Enemy - Deceivers

4.Mandragora - [d]Æscend

5.Akiavel - Veni Vidi Vici

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1.Graveworm - Killing Innocence

2.Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow

3.Akiavel - Veni Vidi Vici

4.Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination

5.Phlebotomized - Clouds Of Confusion

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

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Fen - Monuments To Absence

4.Godflesh - Purge

5.Incantation - Unholy Deification

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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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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.

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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