The BEST Metal Albums Of 2023
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- 🤘 Get ready to dive into the sonic abyss as we unleash the ultimate rundown of the Best Metal Albums of 2023! 🤘 From bone-crushing riffs to mind-bending solos, this year has been an absolute powerhouse for metal music, and we've meticulously curated a list that will leave your speakers begging for mercy.
🔥 Join us on this epic journey as we explore the realms of death metal, black metal, and everything in between; featuring groundbreaking releases from iconic bands and rising stars alike. Whether you're a die-hard metalhead or a casual listener looking for your next adrenaline-fueled obsession, this video is your gateway to the most electrifying albums the genre has to offer in 2023.
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Altarage - Worst Case Scenario
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
Portrayal Of Guilt - Devil Music
Enslaved - Heimdal
Pupil Slicer - Blossom
Scar Symmetry - The Singularity Phase II - Zenotaph
August Burns Red - Death Below
Valdrin - Throne Of The Lunar Soul
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Necropanther - Betrayal
Xoth - Exogalactic
Alkaloid - Numen
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
00:00 Intro
00:09 A Blackened Blizzard Of Death Metal
01:02 A Delightfully Devilish Take On Thrash & Speed
02:03 Rising Tension The Album
03:08 String Quartet Of The Damned
04:13 Progressive Black Metal Legends Do It Again
05:08 Ow My Eye
06:06 Underrated Progressive Melodeath
07:00 This 00's Metalcore Crew Just Gets Better
07:53 Progressive Black Metal Opus
08:43 You Knew This Would Be On Here
09:47 The Longest Album Title
10:45 Warriors Come Out And Play...
11:41 It's thrash, no it's death, no it's prog, no it's....
12:25 Prog Death Supergroup
13:43 We Have Become Death
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It’s easy when it’s this good
Heavener - Invent Animate
PV - Periphery
War of Being - TesseracT
Descent - Orbit Culture
Luminaria - Aviations
Those were my favorite/most played albums of the year.
The new August burns red album is amazing. Literally no bad albums in their discography. Best metalcore band imo in terms of having a quality discography
1. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
2. Periphery - P5
3. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
4. TesseracT - War of Beings
5. Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
Scar symmetry criminally underrated. Surprised insomnium wasn’t in here, but it goes without saying every album they put out is solid at minimum!
Started listening to panopticon because of this channel. Love it
One album that made its way, high on my list! Was Sulphur Aeon. 🖤 I’ve listened to them a lot. And being a new fan of them in general,and going through their discography. This is their best work.
Top 5 for me this year.
Great list, so many good albums this year. you reminded me of some greats i totally forgot about. Cheers, merry christmas.
SUPER list. Well done. happy holidays. Great year of content. Thank you.
Very cool list, we only had one in common, which actually surprised me, but these were all great albums, too.
My Top 15:
1. "The Weight of Remembrance" - Tribunal
2. "Hive Mind Narcosis" - Thantifaxath
3. "Suffocating Hallucination" - Full of Hell/Primitive Man
4. "Time Will Take Us All" - Entheos
5. "Terrasite" - Cattle Decapitation
6. "Thou Shalt" - The Answer Lies in the Black Void
7. "Disharmonium - Nahab" - Blut Aus Nord
8. "Spine" - Myrkur
9. "The Cessation of Suffering" - Gnaw Their Tongues (This is not a metal album, but everyone else still seems to lump GtT in with metal, so I'll keep it here)
10. "Leprous Daylight" - Fossilization
11. "The Exuviae of Gods, Part II" - Mournful Congregation (actually one of my favorites, but it's technically an EP)
12. "93696" - Liturgy
13. "Typho-tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qua'an" - Tetragrammacide
14. "The Coral Tombs" - Ahab
15. "Ashen" - Humanity's Last Breath
1.Ahab - The Coral Tombs
2. Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current
3. Valdrin - Throne of the lunar Soul
4. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
5. Mephorash - krystl-Ah
6. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Necrosis
7. In Flames - Forgone
8. Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
9. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
10. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals
I wanna personally thank you for putting me onto Majesties "Vast Reaches Unclaimed". That has my vote for my favorite album from this year. I don't think I've heard such a stellar and modern interpretation of that sweet Gothenburg sound.
I happened across majesties randomly, but my God that album is SO GOOD! The guitars are the closest thing I've heard to late 90's Gothenburg in quite some time. The reverb/chorus, whatever effect is on the vocals, gives such an atmosphere that blends beautifully.
@@andystockman761 If it sounds interesting to you, the vocalist/guitarist has a melodic black metal band called Obsequiae that's also awesome
Great insights! Love it! We appreciate your hard work.
Thank you for the list brother of metal 🤘
My top 15 metal albums:
1. In Flames - Foregone
2. Obituary - Dying of Everything
3. Orbit Culture - Descent
4. Sylosis - A Sign of Things To Come
5. Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
6. Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun
7. War of Ages - Dominion
8. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
9. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
10. Insomnium - 1696 Anno
11. Sevendust - Truth Killer
12. Spirit Adrift - Ghost At the Gallows
13. Hellripper - Warlock Grim and Withered Hags
14. Project 86 - Omni Pt. 1
15. Currents - The Death We Seek
You never fail when it comes to recommending albums. This is a really amazing list. Thank you for your work and I hope we live to see the Top 2024 albums, next year. Cheers!
Solid list man. I really enjoy your content.
Added a couple albums I wasn't aware of to my playlist. Thanks!
Great list man. Surprised we share so many picks too. This year was incredible for metal releases and doing a top 15 is almost a disservice for how good it was lol. Glad to have talked more in discord since I don’t think I would’ve payed more attention to new releases nor explore so many genres too. Thanks for making a cool channel, a cool discord, and being a based guy too.
Here’s my Top 55 of the year y’all. From number 1 to 8 I could swap around and accept any one of those being #1.
1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and The Beginning of Merciless Damnation
2. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
3. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
4. August Burns Red - Death Below
5. Alkaloid - Numen
6. Xoth - Exogalactic
7. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II)
8. Valdrin - Throne of The Lunar Soul
9. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
10. Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre
11. Lokust - Infidel
12. Mors Subita - Origin of Fire
13. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
14. The Ritual Aura - Heresiarch
15. Alterage - Worst Case Scenario
16. Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
17. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
18. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
19. Kalmah - S/T
20. Enslaved - Heimdal
21. Exmortus - Necrophony
22. Ringworm - Seeing Through Fire
23. Gorod - The Orb
24. Owdwyr - Receptor
25. Signs Of The Swarm - Amongst The Low & Empty
26. Carnifex - Necromanteum
27. Pupil Slicer - Blossom
28. MouthBreather - Self-Tape
29. Hinayana - Shatter and Fall
30. Grymheart - Hellish Hunt
31. Enforced - War Remains
32. Necropanther - Betrayal
33. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
34. Mental Cruelty - Zwilecht
35. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
36. Suffocation - Hymms of The Apocrypha
37. The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
38. Sadus - The Shadows Within
39. Wayfarer - American Gothic
40. END - The Sin of Human Frailty
41. Jesus Piece - …So Unknown
42. Chamber - A Love To Kill For
43. Mouth For War - Bleed Yourself
44. Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
45. The Lion’s Daughter - Bath House
46. Thy Catafalque - Alföld
47. Drain - Living Proof
48. Sea Mosquito - Igitur
49. UADA - Crepuscule Natura
50. Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift
51. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
52. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
53. Capra - Errors
54. Dryad - The Abyssal Plain
55. Gridlink - Coronet Juniper
I chose PetroDragonic as my number 1 since out of all the albums I heard this year that’s probably my lone 5/5. I think it’s nearly perfect if not actually perfect.
Listened to like 400 albums this year, here is my top 30!
...AND OCEANS - As in Gardens, so in Tombs
Aodon - Portraits
Bastard Grave - Vortex Of Disgust
Blut aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab
Conjureth - The Parasitic Chambers
Crypta - Shades of Sorrow
Darkher - the Buried Storm
Death Portrait - Morbid Curiosity
Dream Unending and Worm - Starpath
Hasard - Malivore
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm
Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations
Mithridatum - Harrowing
Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift
Obsidyen - Litany of Iah
Orphans of Dusk - Spleen
Predatory Void - Seven Keys To The Discomfort Of Being
Profeci - Ubóstwo
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Teitan - In Oculus Abyss
Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
the Mosaic Window - Plight of Acceptance
The Sun's Journey Through The Night - Worldless
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
TOMB MOLD - The Enduring Spirit
Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance
VOIDCEREMONY - Threads of Unknowing
Voidescent - Dust and Embers
I actually came across the Gizzard album a few days ago and emediately threw it on to the higher reaches of my album of the year! What a trip!
Great List. You and I had the same #1 album. I just can't get enough of Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 🤘 ! Some of my other favorite albums are, Lokust - Infidel, Pronostic - Chaotic Upheaval, Solar Eruption - The Demon's House just to name a few! I very much enjoyed your channel this year and there are a few albums on your list here that I haven't heard, but I plan on listening to. I don't listen to much Black Metal but a couple of these bands intrigued me enough to give them a spin, Cheers 😎🤘🍻
Really glad I could get you to try some things outside of your usual comfort zone.
A lot of great picks! Here’s my top 15:
1. Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse
2. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
3. Pupil Slicer - Blossom
4. Void Ceremony - Threads of Unknowing
5. The Lion’s Daughter - Bath House
6. Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab
7. Afterbirth - In But Not Of
8. Arnaut Pavle - Transilvanian Glare
9. Harms Way - Common Suffering
10. Altarage - Worst Case Scenario
11. Plague Rider - Intensities
12. Ok Goodnight - The Fox & the Bird
13. Purification - Elphinstone
14. Code Orange - The Above
15. Mental Cruelty - Zweilecht
Pretty good year for metal, especially death metal and metalcore. I found some awesome new favorites, especially in the later months.
finally someone mentions arnaut pavle, i was beginning to think i was the only person who discovered that album this year. good list especially your top 2
Cool picks! There has been sooooo much great stuff in metal and rock this year that I haven’t even talked about stuff like Valdrin’s new album on my channel yet!
Can’t get enough of those Valdrin, Portrayal of Guilt, Altarage, and Hellripper records. Incredible stuff and definitely AOTY material. What I’ve been hearing from Xoth, also, sounds sick!
🤘🏻
Great list! Will absolutely have to check out Xoth as I got huge vektor vibes from them in your video ( They had my AOTY in 2016). My AOTY woukd have to go to Fires in the Distance - Air not meant for us. That album blows me away every time I listen to it. Pupil Slicer and Ne Obliviscaris round out my top 3. Blossom is such a step up from their debut and NeO is my favorite metal band going and they just don't miss
Glad to see Horrendous was your AOTY!! It's mine too! Plus they're from my hometown!
I'm still constructing my top albums of the year, but it might look something like this:
1. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (my AOTY for sure, great album musically, vocally, and lyrically)
2. The Zenith Passage - Datalysium (awesome tech death)
3. Florid Ekstasis - Trepanning (great experimental death metal!)
4. Turbid North - The Decline (grind/melodic/groove somethingorother that slaps)
5. Parity Boot - Fast Forward (melodic industrial metal that hits right)
6. Cause N Effect - Validation Through Suffering (sleeper tech death masterpiece)
7. Aeffect - Theory of Mind (awesome djent with hints of death metal)
8. Molested Divinity - The Primordial (love this brutal death band. Nothing special but hits hard)
9. Neurectomy - Overwrought (tech death with Origin's drummer)
10. Dyoxidon - The Decaying Multiverse (dense industrial death metal)
So many other great albums of this year, too.
Great list as always...my pick for 2023 is all the Better Lovers stuff I have heard. Pupil Slicer also on repeat. Like all the great games this year...some great tunes as well. 2023 you will be missed.😊😊
Awesome picks as always! I was very surprised to see Necropanther! That one didn't click with me so I'll have to give it another spin. If I had to add one album to this list, it would be Velvet Incandescence by Dawn of Ourobouros, I thought that record was amazing
The Xoth love is real. This album was so great.
Once again you've opened my eyes to an absolutely amazing band that I knew nothing about. Altarage - Worse Case Scenario is an absolute masterpiece. Honorable mentions , Necropather - Betrayal and Xoth - Exogalactic also fantastic listens! 😎🤘🍻
Good list. Scar Symmetry, August Burns Red, Cattle Decapitation, and Alkaloid were in my top 10. Need to check out Necropanther, Xoth and Pupil Slicer a lot more. My AOTY was Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us. A little too much on the 'doom' side for you I figure but you placed it much higher than I would have expected on your melodeath tier list (which had most of my top 10 in it).
awesome pick like always dude
Cattle Decapitation is surprise me when they entering MeloDeath element to they song and this is good album from Cattle Decapitation 🤘🏻🤘🏻
such an incredible year for metal, here's to hoping next year will continue the trend 🤘
Great picks man some of these didn't make my top 20 but definitely top 50.
My top three were
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Wayfarer - American Gothic
Vertebra Atlantis - A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime
Personally Enslaved is my favourite out of your list. Incredible album and SOOO glad I saw them live this year. Agree with you, one of the greatest bands ever, period.
Ne Obliviscaris & Cattle Decapitation round out my top 3.
Thanks for the introduction to Altarage! How the hell have I been sleeping on this band, I mean DAMN
Anytime is a good time to start
1. Sulphur Aeon- "Seven Crown and Seven Seals"
Fav. Tracks- "Arcane Cambrian Sorcery" and Title Track
2. In Flames- "Foregone"
Fav. Tracks- "Pure Light of Mind", " In The Dark", and "A Dialogue in B Flat Minor"
3. Dusk- "Dissolve into Ash"
Fav. Tracks- "Libations Offered" and "Shrouded in Mist"
4. Katatonia - "Sky Void of Stars"
Fav. Tracks- "Birds", "Drab Moon" and "Colossal Shade".
5. Horrendous- "Ontological Mysterium"
Fav. Tracks- "Chrysopoeia (The Archaeology Of Dawn", "Cult Of Shaad'oah", and Title Track.
6. 3 Eyes from The Void- "The Athiest"
Fav. Tracks- "Descent" and "No More Light"
7. Eat The Decay- "Nefarious Means"
Fav. Tracks- "Killing for Company", "Overpower, Overthrow", and "Nuclear Fog".
8. Ebony Pendant- "S/T"
Fav. Tracks- "The Idyllic Gate Between Realms", "He, Who Casts Long Shadows", and "The Impermanence of All".
9. Autopsy- "Ashes, Organs, Blood, and Crypts"
Fav. Tracks- "Rabid Funeral", Title Track, and Well of Entrails.
10. Hellripper- "Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags".
Fav. Tracks- The Nuckelavee, Title Track, and Goat Vomit Nightmare
Honorable Mentions: Phobocosm- "Foreordained"
Fav. Tracks: "Primal Dread" and "For an Aeon".
Good to see the Altarage love there.
Not sure I could ever write a better reason for not liking King Gizzard than "Like Tool collided with Kyuss plus a dash of White Zombie", well done sir. Yet another great year for metal, tons of bands with great releases and debuts. My personal top 5 for 2023 is:
5. Minenwerfer - Feuerwalze
4. Deiphage - Nuclear Cavalry
3. End - Hunter
2. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
1. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Can't argue with Hellripper or Necropanther.
I think 2023 was an incredible year for death metal, hence my top 5 being all DM lol:
5). Almost Human- Wormhole
4). Agonal Hymms - Nithing
3). Deformity Adrift - Nightmarer
2). Anthronomican - Ulthar
1). In But Not Of - Afterbirth
Thanks so much again for including 'Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags' on here!
Solid list. I've ventured heavily into brutal death metal this year so most of my favorites are by Dying Fetus, Peeling Flesh, 10 to the Chest, etc.
I think Horned lord of the throned castle by Moonlight sorcery is one of the best albums of this year. Great video, as always :)
Yes it's fucking amazing and original sounding!!
Love the Bodom vibe that Moonlight Sorcery brings to the table
Amazing picks Trenches. I loved the new Hellripper, Panopticon, Enslaved, Cattle Decapitation, and Horrendous albums and they were in my top 10 albums of the year. I also really liked the new August Burns Red, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s PetroDragonic Apocalypse, Xoth, and Alkaloid albums. The new Altarage, Scar Symmetry, and Necropanther albums were decent as well.
It’s been a very strong year
Wayfarer!!!! American Gothic is the AOTY!!!!
This is my top 30 of the year. This has been one of the best years in a long while for me just in terms of the quality of all that came out.
1. Vale of Amonition - Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those of Evolving Despair
2. Bell Witch - The Clandestine Gate
3. Gridlink - Coronet Jupiter
4. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
5. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
6. Phlebotomized - Clouds of Confusion
7. Decemberance - Implosions
8. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
9. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
10. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
11. Nameless Mist - Lifeless
12. Ahab - The Coral Tombs
13. Oxbow - Love's Holiday
14. Weald & Woe - For The Good Of The Realm
15. APHOTIC - Abyssgazer
16. The Glorious Dead - Cemetery Paths
17. Vanishing Kids - Miracle of Death
18. Convocation - No Dawn For Caliginous Night
19. The Salt Pale Collective - A Body That Could Pass Through Stones and Trees
20. Suffer Yourself - Axis of Tortures
21. Krieg - Ruiner
22. Fossilization - Leprous Daylight
23. Fawn Limbs - Vestigial Spectra
24. Laang - Riluo
25. Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion
26. Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent
27. END - The Sin of Human Frailty
28. Full Of Hell/Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination
29. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
30. Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths
My list:
1) Afterbirth - In But Not Of
2) Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
3) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
4) Wayfarer - American Gothic
5) Triumpher - Storming The Walls
6) Convocation - No Dawn For The Caliginous Night
7) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
8) Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar
9) Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
10) Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
11) Stortregn - Finitude
12) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
13) A Constant Knowledge of Death - Dissecting A One-Winged Bird
14) Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
15) Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions
16) Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
17) Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
18) Insomnium - Anno 1696
19) Nospün - Opus
20) Enforced - War Remains
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Cheers and for a 2024 full of bangers!
Great list! A fun watch.
My personal top 20 list:
1. Lord of the Lost - Blood & Glitter - Dark Rock (Germany)
2. And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs - Melodic Black Metal (Finland)
3. Insomnium - Anno 1696 - Melodic Death Metal (Finland)
4. Enslaved - Heimdal - Progressive Black Metal (Norway)
5. Heathen Foray - Oathbreaker - Melodic Folk Death Metal (Austria)
6. Raider - Trial By Chaos - Thrash Metal (Canada)
7. The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogonoy - Melodic Death Metal (Denmark)
8. Maktkamp - Caps Lock Woke Rock - Hard Rock (Norway)
9. Nexorum - Tongue of Thorns - Black/Death Metal (Norway)
10. Aeolian - Echoes of The Future - Melodic Death Metal (Spain)
11. Orbit Culture - Descent - Thrash/Groove Metal (Sweden)
12. Mystic Prophecy - Hellriot - Power Metal (Germany)
13. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals - Blackened Death (Germany)
14. Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire - Melodic Black Metal (Norway)
15. Ghosts of Atlantis - Riddles of The Sycophants - Symphonic Death Metal (The UK)
16. Hinayana - Shatter And Fall - Melodic Death/Doom Metal (USA)
17. Alkaloid - Numen - Technical Death Metal (Germany)
18. Enforced - War Remains - Thrash Metal (USA)
19. Aetherian - At Storm’s Edge - Melodic Death Metal (Greece)
20. Night Crowned - Tales - Melodic Black/Folk Metal (Sweden).
Sworn is my #1 this year!
Great list. Only missing Svalbard and The Zenith Passage
Great picks! My winner out of those would be Portrayal of Guilt. Loved that album so much and although this year I really enjoyed that Horrendous album just not as much as Portrayal of Guilt 🤘
Yes, a very unique album. I hope they continue to do weird stuff that we don’t expect
Love that you included Scar Symmetry. One of my favorite bands of all time. Disappointed not to see The Zenith Passage's album on the list. Incredible technical death metal. The first album in a LONG time that stopped me in my tracks just to headbang.
I agree with many of your picks, which is why I watch ur vids.. my fave aoty is Xoth.. just blistering!!
I need to get back into metal. I’ve been following the dubstep community this year, and it’s been wild. The underground for dubstep is amazing. But, this is a good list, and need to return to metal.
I had a period where I got pretty into Knife Party, Deadmau5, etc
Periphery, Pandrador, Blut aus nord, hellripper, cattle decap and nightmarer are my favs this year
Thank you for this great list. If I would make my own I would only include albums from 40 years ago. Damn, even the new cool album covers don't get me excited anymore.
PetroDragonic Apocalypse is pure perfection
Here's my list:
1. Suicide Silence - Remember… You Must Die
2. Of Mice & Men - Tether
3. In Flames - Foregone
4. Beyond the Black - Beyond the Black
5. Stitched Up Heart - To the Wolves
6. Escape the Fate - Out of the Shadows
7. Periphery - Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre
8. Asking Alexandria - Where Do We Go From Here?
9. Shining - Shining
10. Within Temptation - Bleed Out
Great list man! What a year it was! Here’s my top 15 out of my top 40 of the year.
1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
2. Sermon - Of Golden Verse
3. Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
4. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
5. Afterbirth - In But Not Of
6. Wayfarer - American Gothic
7. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
8. Ashbringer - We Came Here To Grieve
9. Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
10. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
11. The Night Eternal - Fatale
12. Enforced - War Remains
13. Morokh - Insomnia
14. KEN Mode Void
15. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
1. Pupil Slicer - Blossom
2. The Hirsch Effekt - Urian
3. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
4. Polkadot Cadaver - Echoes Across The Hellscape
5. Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere
Thantifaxath, Autopsy, Bell Witch, Outer Heaven, and Spirit Possession were a few that I enjoyed.
Ever heard Darkspace? That band is 🤘🤘
Wounded Funeral, Cruiciamentum, Faceless Burial, Beastlurker, Embodied Torment, Barbarian Swords, Krod, Slugathor, Analepsy, Wretched , Belenos , Uada, Melanthropy, Malefic Throne, Neurectomy, Oracle of Worms, Signs of The Swarm, Angel Maker, Monstrosity " imperial doom" The Crossed , The Ritual Aura, If Metallica was Death Metal..and Justice for all , Slu
Thanks for your video. I really like the new Valdrin album. But no intersection between our Top 15 lists:
…and Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Sühnopfer - Nous sommes d'hier
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Bloedmaan - Castle inside the Eclipse
Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle
Ahab - The Coral Tombs
Roadwolf - Midnight Lightning
Auld Ridge - Folklore From Further Out
+1476+ - In Exile
Wormhole - Almost Human
ILDSKÆR - Blod & Jern
Arkhtinn - 三度目の災害
Schavot - Kronieken Uit de Nevel
Albionic Hermeticism - Nova Nativitas Mundi
Nithing - Agonal Hymns
Honorable mentions:
The Night Eternal, Crepititation, Böotes Void, Dryad, Imperium Dekadenz, Hellish Form... so many great releases this year.
Thank you for putting Numen so high!
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I've listened to basically no new music this year. My top pick would still be Convergence by Shylmagoghnar.
Thanks for this list, I'll be starting listening to music that this year had to offer from this list I guess, so I appreciate it :)
Can't wait for the most disappointing albums list of the year, those are always fun
Very unique and solid list. Proves you dive deep into the dirtiest cracks of metal to find this stuff. I had no idea Portrayal of Guild released this year, so they won't make my list simply because I missed them.
For me #1 is EASILY "As In Gardens, So In Tombs" by ...And Oceans. Visceral Atmospheric Black Metal that released in January, and undoubtedly remained first place throughout the year. Not even recency bias with other albums that released later in the year were able to sway me off of this. Easiest #1 slot for me since 2020 when Winterfylleth released their magnum opus "The Reckoning Dawn".
#2 - "Descent" by Orbit Culture
#3 - "Origin of Fire" by Mors Subita
#4 - "Cursed Mortality" by Carnation
#5 - "Alfold" by Thy Catafalque
#6 - "War of Being" by TesseracT
#7 - "Chapter III - Downfall" by Ad Infinitum
#8 - "Monuments to Absence" by Fen
#9 - "No Dawn For The Caliginous Night" by Convocation
#10 - "Convergence" by Shylmagoghnar
Honorable Mentions:
"American Gothic" by Wayfarer
"Distortions From Cosmogony" by The Arcane Order
"Blackbraid II" by Blackbraid
"Of Golden Verse" by Sermon
"Tales" by Night Crowned
Many more I can't think of right at the moment. Everything 4-10th are pretty much neck and neck in the race, I liked them all just about equally.
Among my favorites are:
Xoth, The Night Eternal, Valdrin, Vargrav, Varathron and Moonlight Sorcery.
My top 10 metal albums of 2023:
Scar Symmetry-The Singularity (Phase II-Xenotaph)
Dying Fetus-MAKE THEM BEG FOR DEATH
Cattle Decapitation-Terrasite
Rotten Sound-Apocalypse
Overkill-Scorched
Autopsy-Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
Ahab-The Coral Tombs
Suffocation-Hymns from the Apocrypha
Enslaved-Heimdal
Cannibal Corpse-Chaos Horrific (#1 best metal album of 2023)
FINALLY someone who has Alkaloid 'Numen' in their year end list; easilly AOTY for me. Songwriting, musicianship and production values combined to perfection! 😎👍
Ontological Mysterium is my AOTY. It reminds me a lot of Woe by An Abstract Illusion (my AOTY from last year).
Love the tech death representation in Xoth, Alkaloid and Horrendous holding down the top 3. I have to shout out my top 3 albums of this year, a year of strong releases!
03. Johnny the Boy: You
02. The Anchoret: It All Began With Loneliness
01. Die Like Gentlemen: Hard Truths
Ruyyn: "Chapter II: The Flames. The Fallen, The Fury".
Aodon: "Portraits".
Both my favorite albums of the year.
Exul, Ne Obliviscaris. Everything else is fighting for second🤘🏻
"Grinning like an idiot..." also describes me listening to that entire King Gizzard album. Love it.
My top 15:
15. Entrancement - "Of Passions Cruelty"
14. Dying Fetus - "Make Them Beg for Death"
13. Katatonia - "Sky Void of Stars"
12. Hellripper - "Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags"
11. Wesele - "Fin de siècle"
10. Midnight Odyssey - "Biolume Part 3: A Fullmoon Madness"
9. Fvnerals - "Let the Earth Be Silent"
8. Arkhtinn - "三度目の災害"
7. Wij - "Przestwór"
6. Full of Hell & Primitive Man - "Suffocating Hallucinations"
5. Wayfarer - "American Gothic"
4. Altai-Sayan - "Sängke-Tūrem Najt Muh-Mörah"
3. Thy Darkened Shade - "Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya"
2. Ch'ahom - "Knots of Abhorrence"
1. Mānbryne - "Interregnum: O próbie wiary i jarzmie zwątpienia"
My list has changed around a fair bit this year.
But no1 has been there since its release. ❤1.Melancolia
2.Sulphur Aeon
3.The anchoret
4.blindfolded and led to the woods
5.Monosphere
6.humanities last breathe
7.Carnosus
8.Sagen
9.olkoth
10.cattle Decap.
I really didn’t listen to too much metal this year. I kinda just stuck to what I’m familiar with. I really liked the new Enslaved, Katatonia, Ahab and King Gizzard albums. Those are the only new metal albums that come to mind that I’ve listened to this year.
Great list, dude!
Ranking was way to anxiety-inducing this year, so here are some of my favorotes. If I had to pick one, it would be either Horrendous, Incantation, or YOTK.
Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun
Obituary - Dying of Everything
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
URNE - A Feast on Sorrow
Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
Year of the Knife - No Love Lost
Horrendous - Ontilogical Mysterium
Incantation - Unholy Deification
+ My Albums of 2023 + (In Alphabetical Order)
01). Bad Wolves ~ Die About It
02). Bongzilla ~ Dab City
03). Cannibal Corpse ~ Chaos Horrific
04). Cattle Decapitation ~ Terrasite
05). Cavalera Conspiracy ~ Bestial Devastation/Morbid Visions
06). Church Of Misery ~ Born Under A Mad Sign
07). Contrarian ~ Sage Of Shekhinah
08). Cultus Black ~ Cultus Black
09). Dope ~ Blood Money Pt.Zer0
10). Dying Fetus ~ Make Them Beg For Death
11). Godflesh ~ Purge
12). Horrible Earth ~ Weakened By Civilization
13). In Flames ~ Foregone
14). Karras ~ We Poison Their Young
15). King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard ~ PetroDragonic Apocalypse
16). Lions At The Gate ~ The Excuses We Cannot Make
17). Sanguisugabogg ~ Homicidal Ecstasy
18). Tomb Mold ~ The Enduring Spirit
19). Venomous Concept ~ The Good Ship Lollipop
20). Werewolves ~ My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me
Nice list, Alkaloid was great. Hearing a lot of good things about Xoth so gotta check them out too. My top 10 is
10 Carnation - Cursed Mortality
9 Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
8 Haken - Fauna
7 Horrendous- Ontylogical Mysterium
6 Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
5 Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
4 Cattle Decap - Terrasite
3 Alkaloid - Numen
2 Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns
1 The Ocean - Holocene
I loved all the albums you mentioned namely king gizzard and pupil slicer but for me my AOTY has to by 93696 by Liturgy
My top albums of the year are
Terrasite - Cattle Decap
Divine Inner Tension - Hail The Sun
Sola Pravitas EP - Plaguebringer
Godlike - Thy Art Is Murder
Tons of great stuff this year, although imo 2022 was a little better for metal
Xoth and Valdrin best of the year.
My list :
• Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
• Burner - It All Returns to Nothing
• Mental Crualty - Zwielicht
• Distention - Nothing Comes from Death
• Nashgul - Opobrio
Great year. This is my top list, didn’t bother to remove the non-metal albums:
Afterbirth- In but not of
Arkhtinn - 三度目の災害
El Caco - Uncelebrations
fen - Monuments to Absence
Gabriel, Peter - i/o
Half Moon Run - Salt
Marduk - Memento Mori
Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
Non-metal always welcome
Enslaved - Heimdal
KEN Mode - Void
Hippie Death Cult - Helichrysum
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Will Haven - VII
Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust
Hellripper - Warlocks...
Geld - Currency // Castration
Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows
Capra - Errors
Top 10 ( you didn't include)
10. Blackbraid 2
9. Sarmat-determined to strike
8. Entheos- Time will take us all
7. Panopticon - Rime of Memory
6. Blackbriar- a dark euphony
5. Smoulder
4. Moonlight Sorcery- Horned Lord
3. Wayfarer- American Gothic
2. Dodheimsgard- Black Medium Current
1. Im breaking the rules bc I can't NOT mention the mighty Gizz
I can't believe how long I had to scroll to see someone who had Dodheimsgard on their list. Yeesh that band needs more exposure.
Im going to have to check out horrendous ive been seeing that album pop up, and i really like what im hearing.
New ABR was just so good 🔥
My top 10 aoty:
1. Dodheimsgard
2. Kostnateni
3. Lunar Chamber
4. Afterbirth
5. Fleshvessel
6. Wormhole
7. Oplitis
8. Sarmat
9. Nithing
10. Nightmarer
Good list i agree on most but i would add these like a cherry on top. 👌
Signs of the swarm, Johnny Booth, Burner, Embrace your punishment, Ophiocordyceps,
Woah! did not pick any of these in my top 20. Might check the Cattle Decap sometime. My picks were more death metal leaning.. Autopsy, Frozen Soul, VoidCeramony, Act of Impalement..
Those albums were good, but for my top 15 I tend to pick things that felt like they aren’t just doing the same thing I’ve already heard everyone else doing.
@@MetalTrenches thats Fair!
Mizmor's Prosaic is definitely my AOTY, great list though!
I’m very much a modern prog simp so my top 5 was Haken, Tesseract, Periphery, The Hirsch Effekt and Avenged Sevenfold
I have a couple harder albums, but i got say, i was never really into Death Metal. My top 5: 5-The heavist. Scar Symmetry
4- best thrash metal band in the world right now ANGELUS APATRIDA
3 -METAL CHURCH
2- ELEGANT WEAPONS
1- PYRAMAZE
Damn, Alter Bridge got heavy AF
LOWEST CREATURE - WITCH SUPREME
DUDE!
1. Marduk - Memento Mori
2. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
3. Skindred - Smile
4. In Flames - Foregone
5. Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream
6. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
7. Orbit Culture - Descent
8. Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood, & Crypts
9. Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike
10. Sevendust - Truth Killer
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Obituary - Dying Of Everything
For The Fallen Dreams - Self-titled 7th Album
Enslaved - Heimdall
Metallica - 72 Seasons
Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
It'll be fun to see if we even have similarities, but I guess we both have Alkaloid in here :)
My list:
10 Carnation - Cursed Mortality (black metal)
9 Gorod - The Orb (tech death)
8 Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting (symphonic metal)
7 The Ritual Aura (prog/tech death)
6 Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare (symphonic black metal)
5 Devil's Reef - The Droste Observer (death/thrash a la Revocation / Death on Spiritual Healing)
4 Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht (symphonic deathcore)
3 Zenith Passage - Datalysium (tech/prog death)
2 Alkaloid - Numen (prog/tech death)
1 Riverside - ID.Entity (prog rock)
Big honourable mentions: Frozen Dawn (black), Cattle Decapitation (brutal death), Noveria (prog/power), Stortregn (tech/prog death), Pronostic (tech death/thrash), Terminalist ("hyper" thrash a la Vektor), Dying Fetus (death metal)