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Best Albums Of 2023

"Very good" or above. The top 20 are the best of the year. Everything else ranges from 8 to 9.5 on a "10" scale.

1.Afterbirth - In But Not Of
2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
3.Godthrymm - Distortions
4.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent
5.Notturno - Inside

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Created by thebenfo on 01.05.2024



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 The Deadliest Of Harmonies (A Journey Into Melodic Death Metal)

Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!

I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, Necroticism:…

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path
2.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
3.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
4.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
5.Carcass - Heartwork

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Created by Guib on 08.04.2024



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 MSA 2023 All Write-ins

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

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance
3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...
4.Code Orange - The Above
5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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Created by Maxder on 01.03.2024



Metal Albums Top 150 - My Favorites 2023

1.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
2.Insomnium - Anno 1696
3.Fen - Monuments To Absence
4.Godflesh - Purge
5.Incantation - Unholy Deification

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Created by Alexbridger on 29.01.2024



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 Best Of 2023 Suxers

I do like last year, from my each monthly lists I rank last 5 albums here from best to worst.

1.Chris Boltendahl's Steelhammer - Reborn In Flames
2.Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows
3.Ironsword - Underground
4.Velvet Viper - Nothing Compares To Metal
5.Vandenberg - Sin

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Created by Bad English on 05.01.2024



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 Best Of November 2023

Here it goes, one month left to end of the year…

1.From North - Raven Banner
2.Stormlord - The EPic Of War
3.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
4.Night Crowned - Tales
5.Temple Balls - Avalanche

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Created by Bad English on 29.11.2023



2023 November

1.Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
2.Dream Unending - Starpath
3.Night Crowned - Tales
4.Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions
5.Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha

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Created by DarkWingedSoul on 03.11.2023



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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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 AJ's Ranking Of 2023

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…

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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Created by AJ The Great on 19.02.2023



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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 Top 2023 Metal Albums

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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Created by Umideath on 13.01.2023



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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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 2023 Album Ranking

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic
2.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
3.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void
4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle
5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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Created by Anghellic67 on 02.01.2023