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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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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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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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…

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

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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

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My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2023.

1.Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed

2.Liturgy - 93696

3.Dead Times - Dead Times

4.Vvon Dogma I - The Kvlt Of Glitch

5.Agriculture - Agriculture

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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.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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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…

1.Archgoat - Whore Of Bethlehem

2.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

3.Green Lung - This Heathen Land

4.Green Yeti - The Yeti Has Landed

5.Hellix - Montage

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