1.TesseracT - War Of Being

2.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

3.Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

4.Sylosis - A Sign Of Things To Come

5.Guilt Trip - Severance

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1.Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen

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

3.Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1

4.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

5.Currents - The Death We Seek

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2023, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.TesseracT - War Of Being

2.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

3.Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

4.Haken - Fauna

5.Extreme - Six

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

2.Alkaloid - Numen

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

5.Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

2.Hypno5e - Sheol

3.Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire

4.Sermon - Of Golden Verse

5.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

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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.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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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