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…

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.Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis

2.Gravenchalice - Messiah

3.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

4.Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed

5.Hasard - Malivore

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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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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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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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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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1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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1.Turmion Kätilöt - Omen X

2.花冷え。 - 来世は偉人！

3.Frozen Crown - Call Of The North

4.Kamelot - The Awakening

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

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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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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.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike

3.Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen

4.Structural - Decrowned

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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My top 50 albums of 2023…

1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

3.Saturnus - The Storm Within

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

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

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TOP 2023 in the making.

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Insomnium - Anno 1696

3.Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

4.Enslaved - Heimdal

5.Host - IX

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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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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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