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 My Personal Top Metal Albums Of 2023

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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Created by PapiIguana on 15.12.2023



Top 25 Albums Of 2023

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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Created by Gothic Metalhead on 14.12.2023



TOP 10 Power Metal Of 2023

1.Angra - Cycles Of Pain
2.Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale
3.Noveria - The Gates Of The Underworld
4.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
5.Triumpher - Storming The Walls

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Created by Maglor on 06.12.2023



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 2023: Best Album Art

The best album art of 2023. I usually gravitate towards album covers based on these factors:
-Level of detail (Foreground, background, etc. One dimensional album covers don't work for me usually)
-Art…

1.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
3.Whalesong - Leaving A Dream
4.Morwinyon - Wastelands
5.Oak - Disintegrate

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Created by 24emd on 12.08.2023



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 2023 August

1.Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
2.Graveripper - Seasons Dreaming Death
3.Werewolves - My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me
4.Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep
5.Dethklok - Dethalbum IV

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Created by DarkWingedSoul on 07.08.2023



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 2023: Jul-Dec

I reckon 735 albums in the first 6 months of this year is a 6-month record I will never match, but let's see how many I get through in Q3 and Q4…

1.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion
2.Meridian Sun - The Curse
3.The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction
4.Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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Created by musclassia on 04.07.2023



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 Best Of 2023 Album

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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Created by EnigmaLake on 13.04.2023



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 2023

1.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...
2.Metallica - 72 Seasons
3.Voice Of Baceprot - Retas
4.Nospūn - Opus
5.Dominum - Hey Living People

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Created by Byners on 02.02.2023



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 Best 2023

1.Riverside - ID.Entity
2.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars
3.Obituary - Dying Of Everything
4.Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour
5.In Flames - Foregone

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Created by Depth land on 27.01.2023



Album 2023

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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Created by VOIVOD473 on 20.01.2023



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 2023 Listening List

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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Created by Dbh 20 on 15.01.2023



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 2023: A Rough Ranking

2023 here we go. My target for the year is 100+ albums, at a rule of 2 albums a week minimum.

1.Nospūn - Opus
2.Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre
3.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
4.Crow Black Sky - Sidereal Light: Volume Two
5.Against Myself - Tides Of Insanity

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Created by 24emd on 03.01.2023



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 Andy's top 2023

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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Created by AndyMetalFreak on 03.01.2023