Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

1.

2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

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

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

      View entire list ››

I do like last year, from my each monthly lists I rank best 5 albums here from best to worst.
It maybe was most hardest to fix, but somehow I well it feels like this atm.

1.Ablaze My Sorrow - The Loss Of All Hope

2.Cultus Sanguine - Dust Once Alive

3.Númenor - Tales From The Edge Of Time

4.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

5.Edenfall - To Gaze Longer At The Earth

      View entire list ››

My favourite and most played albums of 2023. Any of the first four could have ended up taking my #1 spot, but, in the end, it had to be Heavy Load's Riders Of The Ancient Storm due to the countless replays it got.

Best EP: Bergfried - Romantik II.
Best demo: Treazon - Victim Of Treason.
Best split: Dream Unending | Worm - Starpath.
Best video: Mutoid Man - "Siren Song".
Best album artwork: Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations Of The Majickal Zodiac.

1.Heavy Load - Riders Of The Ancient Storm

2.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

3.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

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

5.Horizon's End - The Great Destroyer

      View entire list ››

A new list at the end of the year. And as always with the same statistics that might be interesting to you.

This year's numbers:

- 140 albums
- Total points given: 1049,1
- Average score: 7,49/10

- Albums with a score of 7 or above: 81,43%
- Albums with a score of 8 or above: 28,57%
- Albums with a score of 9 or above: 0,71%

- Albums with a score of 5 or below: 1,43%

Nationalities: 33

- USA: 33 - 23,57%
- UK: 10 - 7,14%
- Germany: 9 - 6,43%
- Greece: 9 - 6,43%
- Sweden: 9 - 6,43%
- Brazil: 5 - 3,57%
- France: 5 - 3,57%
- Italy: 5 - 3,57%
- Mexico: 5 - 3,57%
- Norway: 5 - 3,57%
- Belgium: 4 - 2,86%
- Chile: 4 - 2,86%
- Finland: 4 - 2,86%
- Hungary: 4 - 2,86%
- Poland: 4 - 2,86%
- Spain: 4 - 2,86%
- Argentina: 2 - 1,43%
- Canada: 2 - 1,43%
- Cyprus: 2 - 1,43%
- India: 2 - 1,43%
- New Zealand: 2 - 1,43%
- Serbia: 2 - 1,43%
- Bulgaria: 1 - 0,71%
- Colombia: 1 - 0,71%
- Ireland: 1 - 0,71%
- Japan: 1 - 0,71%
- Morocco: 1 - 0,71%
- Puerto Rico: 1 - 0,71%
- Russia: 1 - 0,71%
- Slovenia: 1 - 0,71%
- Switzerland: 1 - 0,71%
- The Netherlands: 1 - 0,71%
- Ukraine: 1 - 0,71%

1.Hmunga - Crimson

2.Wardaemon - Black Metal Wardaemons

3.Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Rapture

4.From The Ages - II

5.Popiór - Pomarlisko

      View entire list ››

My Personal Favorites From 2023

1.Asinhell - Impii Hora

2.Graveripper - Seasons Dreaming Death

3.Overkill - Scorched

4.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

5.Metal Church - Congregation Of Annihilation

      View entire list ››

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

      View entire list ››

One of hardest list to create, not so many bands, but all are awesome albums

1.Asphodelus - Sculpting From Time

2.Icon Of Sin - Legends

3.Cruel Force - Dawn Of The Axe

4.Nocte Obducta - Karwoche (Die Sonne Der Toten Pulsiert)

5.Warmen - Here For None

      View entire list ››

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 exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.Allochiria - Commotion

2.Arkona - Kob'

3.Astral Tomb - Total Spiritual Death

4.Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

5.Christ Of Kather • Markus Maria Hoff - Das Oldschoolformat Der Zukunft

      View entire list ››

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

      View entire list ››

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

      View entire list ››

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, though the ratings might change from time to time.
I hope this list might once again be inspiring to other users maybe some people will find some new music to listen to.

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

      View entire list ››

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

      View entire list ››

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

      View entire list ››

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

      View entire list ››

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

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Wayfarer - American Gothic

3.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

4.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

      View entire list ››