Here is my top 50 for 2023! Only LPs, no re-recording (looking at you brilliant Paradise Lost, Kauan and Cavalera), that I rated 8 and above.

My biggest year yet in number of album I've given an ear to. Strangely, a tough one for the top 10. A lot a great records. I could have easily add 20 more, but first year I can't really see clear winners (imo of course). So I've mostly gone for comfort with Saturnus, Panopticon and Enslaved, knowing full well I've heard better from them in the past. Still, they genuinely caught my preference. The top spot goes to the biggest "surprise" for me, more than anything else. I did not expect to be that taken by the eerie and glacial atmosphere of Wolvennest DPTL, but I could not stop going back to it again and again.

Album count: 987 (!)
Average rating: 6.37

1.Wolvennest - The Dark Path To The Light

2.Saturnus - The Storm Within

3.Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Enslaved - Heimdal

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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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Reminder list for myself to keep track of new music coming out from my favourite artists.

1.Anubis Gate - Interference

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

3.Before The Dawn - Stormbringers

4.Bloodred Hourglass - How's The Heart?

5.Buckethead - TBA

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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.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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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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1.Flesh Of The Stars - The Glass Garden

2.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

3.TesseracT - War Of Being

4.The Ocean - Holocene

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

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Nowhere near finished 2022 list, but never mind, hey?

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

2.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

3.Demoniac (CHL) - Nube Negra

4.Mechina - Cenotaph

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