Nazgoth's Top 10 metal albums of 2023.

Notes:
- not your typical metalstorm Top 10
- if you don't like NWOTHM, you might want to ignore this list

1.Thriller - Street Metal

2.Roadwolf - Midnight Lightning

3.Frenzy - Of Hoods And Masks

4.Chromeskull - Screaming To The World

5.Air Raid - Fatal Encounter

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Another year has come, and it is time for me to put up and rank the albums I like the most. I have been doing this silently for years with my own spread sheets so I'll give it a try using this format.

1.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung

2.Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul

3.Ryujin - Ryujin

4.Svdestada - Candela

5.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

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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.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

2.Borknagar - Fall

3.Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things

4.Hiraes - Dormant

5.Hauntologist - Hollow

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1.Griffon - De Republica

2.Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans

3.Moisson Livide - Sent Empèri Gascon

4.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

5.Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

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1.Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive

2.Dvne - Voidkind

3.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

4.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

5.Austere - Beneath The Threshold

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1.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

4.Manticora - Mycelium

5.Syncatto - Fiction

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What I liked the most from 2024 albums, no EPs allowed. Now ranked

1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

3.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

4.Hauntologist - Hollow

5.Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will

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Top 50. 8+ish albums.

Only LPs.

EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin & Persefone

Ranking and rating subject to constant change

Album count: 964
Average rating: 6.30

1.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

2.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

3.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

4.The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales

5.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

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1.Hauntologist - Hollow

2.Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

3.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

4.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

5.Vale Of Pnath - Between The Worlds Of Life And Death

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After doing a deep dive into Dio's full discography, these are the songs that have impressed me the most.

Disclaimer: I know many metal fans prefer album reviews instead of track reviews, but I'm a product of the digital era and I tend to engage with tracks over albums after I've listened through an album a few times.

1.The Last in Line - The Last In Line

2.Holy Diver - Holy Diver

3.Rainbow in the Dark - Holy Diver

4.Egypt (The Chains) - The Last In Line

5.Don't Talk to Strangers - Holy Diver

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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

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1.High On Fire - Cometh The Storm

2.Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

3.Exocrine - Legend

4.Goat Major - Ritual

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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As with the others, gonna update as I go through my collection. This is really just for my own organizational purposes.

1.Brutus (BEL) - Unison Life

2.Chat Pile - God's Country

3.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

4.Xaon - The Lethean

5.Helms Alee - Keep This Be The Way

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1.Hulder - Verses In Oath

2.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

3.Royal Graves - AMEN

4.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

5.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

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