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

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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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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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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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Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…

1.Living Colour - Vivid

2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

3.Faith No More - The Real Thing

4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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I've been meaning to start a 2023 list for quite a while, just trying to keep up, so here is the start of it. These are the albums that impressed me. I will update the list, obviously a work in progress.

1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Klone - Meanwhile

3.Zopp - Dominion

4.All My Shadows - Eerie Monsters

5.The Enigma Division - The Enigma Division

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1.Hanging Garden - The Garden

2.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

3.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

4.Runemagick - Beyond The Cenotaph Of Mankind

5.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

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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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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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Year Currently Covered: 2023

Hey folks! Welcome to the greatly coveted Guib Awards! Instead of creating a list every year, I've decided to make a single one that will change yearly to feature my…

1.Altarage - Worst Case Scenario

2.Baroness - Stone

3.Bloodletter - A Different Kind Of Hell

4.Capra - Errors

5.CauseNeffect - Validation Through Suffering

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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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Forget the MSA's, this is the best of list you've all been waiting for. Why 23 albums? Well, because I can that's why.

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

2.Urne - A Feast On Sorrow

3.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

4.Saturnus - The Storm Within

5.Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination

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1.Palaye Royale - The Bastards

2.Palaye Royale - Fever Dream

3.Green Lung - This Heathen Land

4.Orm - Intet • Altet

5.Spiritbox - The Fear Of Fear

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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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