BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2023!

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  • Death metal! Epic doom! Traditional metal! Proto-metal! Sludge! Thrash! Gothic Western black metal! Brutal alien caveman metal! Extreme castle jester power metal! AND MORE...
    Ranking and discussing the top 10 (or 11?) best metal albums of 2023 with Nate Garrett
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  • @macnorton
    @macnorton 6 місяців тому +4

    Tony Martin era Sabbath is tragically overlooked, but man it is so good. Rarely do other musicians ever mention this era. I'd love to see you do a deep dive into those different Sabbath eras.
    Great video and awesome picks!

  • @hobojungle1
    @hobojungle1 6 місяців тому +4

    First like and comment, hell yeah. I didn’t really get into the latest Wytch Hazel album however its predecessor ‘III: Pentecost’ ruled hard.

  • @knoscody
    @knoscody 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for the shout out Nate! Worcester was awesome.

  • @stevehuvane135
    @stevehuvane135 6 місяців тому

    Love your new music lists because I haven't heard of most of the bands you put up there (like Mellow Carpet in Vertoomis Seizure😂) and I don't have to sift through all of the 1000's of albums - I trust your taste and the comparisons you make give me a pretty good idea if I will like it also. And I'm too old to discover this stuff for myself. Great editing in this episode too!
    Gonna listen to Church of Misery now, hope I survive.

  • @headovmetal
    @headovmetal 5 місяців тому

    The Best Best Of List I've seen so far! Great descriptions!

  • @JasonB_13
    @JasonB_13 6 місяців тому +1

    Listening to that Wayfarer album right now and holy shit... well done my friend, putting that on my radar. I'm just scratching the surface on those tracks but you can tell there's a shit ton of effort and creativity put into it.

  • @techdeath3609
    @techdeath3609 6 місяців тому +5

    Thanks, I will check all these, honestly I didn't listen to these records. So here's my top so far :
    1 : Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite : Heavyweight champion. A real blast.
    2. Carnation - Cursed Mortality : if the two bands I miss the most (Edge of Sanity and Bolt Thrower) had a son it would be Carnation. I was amazed by their previous record Where death lies, they are still kicking ass.
    3. Gorod : The Orb. It's not to be chauvinistic but France is not only Gojira we have a lot of great bands.
    4. Katatonia - Sky void of stars. Once again, they made me dive into a maze of melodic agony
    4 ex aequo Ghost at the gallows. Made me think of a journey in the deep south of Louisiana.
    5. Xoth : Exogalactic. Great techdeath album full of shredding melodies
    That's it !

  • @diprosopus8904
    @diprosopus8904 6 місяців тому +4

    Great list and interesting explanations. The Moonlight Sorcery will be in my Top 10 as well. I was a bit disappointed by the new Wytch Hazel after their fantastic previous album.
    My current top 10 is:
    1. …and Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs
    2. Sühnopfer - Nous sommes d'hier
    3. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
    4. Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle
    5. Ahab - The Coral Tombs
    6. Roadwolf - Midnight Lightning
    7. Auld Ridge - Folklore From Further Out
    8. +1476+ - In Exile
    9. Wormhole - Almost Human
    10. ILDSKÆR - Blod & Jern
    But a lot of other great releases this year and still some interesting ones to be released during the last month like new albums from Bloedmaan, Laang, Deathcode Society, Herzog...

  • @jake8907
    @jake8907 6 місяців тому

    Great video! Church of Misery is definitely my album of the year. Wayfarer and Wytch Hazel also made my list. I would suggest listening to Triumpher if you haven't already.

  • @erictait6322
    @erictait6322 6 місяців тому +4

    My top ten favorite albums are as follows
    1. Autopsy- ashes blood organs and crypts
    2. Vastum-inward to gethsemane
    3. Tomb mold- the enduring spirit
    4.Godthrymn- distortions
    5. Gravesend- Gowanus death stomp
    6. Spirit adrift- ghost at the gallows
    7. Incantation -unholy deification
    8. Dying fetus - make them beg for death
    9. Horrendous -ontological mysterium
    10. Thantifaxath- hive mind narcosis

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +3

      Hell yea, cheers. That Vastum record rules! Autopsy is rad as well.

  • @hushson9411
    @hushson9411 6 місяців тому

    First time watching your videos and I’m hooked! Great delivery, descriptions, and extras. You even had my wife watching and she doesn’t listen to a lot of these genres. Thanks for turning me onto some new bands! Subscribed and looking forward to more. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @smytree
    @smytree 6 місяців тому +1

    Great list man, looks like I have some homework. Cheers Nate!

  • @chacurdan
    @chacurdan 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing. I'll check out these releases. In the heavy metal category I'll go with Ghost of the Gallows and I would add Sylosis - A Sign of Things to Come. 🤘🤘🤘

  • @G-Man01
    @G-Man01 6 місяців тому

    I like your list (& your band spirit adrift). Some good ones there to check out. I would have to throw in some 2023 options for albums by: Drain, Asinhell, Thy Catafalque, The Crawling, Memoriam.

  • @seanb2471
    @seanb2471 6 місяців тому +1

    I know you shouted them out in your mid-year best-of review, but that Cloak album is still on heavy rotation for me. Saw them in Baltimore and they played the audio of the coven bonfire scene from The VVITCH as they took the stage. SIIIIICK.
    Other favorites off the top of my head: Lamp of Murmuur, Spirit Possession, Frozen Soul, The Dirty Nil (not exactly metal but one of my favorite modern rock bands), East of the Wall, Horrendous, and - obviously - Spirit Adrift.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      What a great idea for an intro to a performance, I woulda lost my shit. EVIL & DARKNESS JOE!
      I love that Lamp of Murmuur record but I could not get past the fake drums. He should have played with the velocity a little bit more or something…. They get painfully monotonous (tone-wise) when it gets to blasting. Had that been recorded more organically and with a little more care, it would be top 5 for me.

    • @seanb2471
      @seanb2471 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate good point. I think there are some really great riffs and guitar work that get a little overpowered by the drums.

  • @tonyborton1544
    @tonyborton1544 6 місяців тому

    How did I miss Ashbury back then. Slapping my forehead now! I love Enforced for all the same reasons as you. Wayfarer now has the hook set in my mouth, and Church of Misery? I passed on them in the past, but now they will be on heavy rotation, with a prayer session afterward to get my mind right again. Also, I was stunned when you dropped Wytch Hazel! I thought I was the ONLY one listening to them. Fantastic, eclectic list. Thanks, Nate!

  • @DeathTragedy666
    @DeathTragedy666 6 місяців тому

    I definitely need to check out some of your choices there, Nate. A great list! Listening to Malokarpatan right now. Damn... very impressed by their unique blend of traditional heavy metal and Bathory-esque black metal.
    Even though it's early AF before the year ends, here's my personal top twenty-five albums of 2023:
    25. Tsjuder - Helvegr
    24. Godflesh - Purge
    23. Krigsgrav - Fires in the Fall
    22. Neo Inferno 262 - Pleonectic
    21. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
    20. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
    19. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
    18. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
    17. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
    16. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
    15. Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows
    14. In Flames - Foregone
    13. Blut aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab
    12. Ulthar - Anthronomicon/Helionomicon
    11. Baroness - Stone
    10. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
    9. Sermon - Of Golden Verse
    8. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
    7. Enslaved - Heimdal
    6. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
    5. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
    4. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
    3. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
    2. Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust
    MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF 2023: Wayfarer - American Gothic
    There you go!

  • @dsc1970
    @dsc1970 4 місяці тому

    You do an awesome job of describing things. My fav of the year is Cattle Decapitation -- Terrasite.

  • @folkandmyth
    @folkandmyth 6 місяців тому +2

    Great pics! Definitely down with Majesties, Wytch Hazel (fucking Ashbury, yeah) and American Gothic as two of the best. As far as stuff I think would fit on the list, Fires in the Distance "Air Not Meant for Us" is probably my favorite album this year, and I always give props to Katatonia for a job well done, and Sky Void of Stars is definitely a job well done. Cheers!

  • @localdissident3903
    @localdissident3903 6 місяців тому

    As someone who was at the tattoo the earth festival In Worcester. I'd have to say my top picks would be your album and enforced war remains. You could also throw in overkills new album aswell

  • @747jono
    @747jono 6 місяців тому +1

    Wow Nate what a fantastic list cannot disagree with any of those.
    Great to see so many bands that deserve so much more attention Malokarpatan, wow love them Wayfarer ,Moonlight Scorcery & Majesties wonderful stuff.
    Take care

  • @Byron813
    @Byron813 6 місяців тому

    Amazing picks. You”re the man.

  • @HeavyArtTalk
    @HeavyArtTalk 6 місяців тому +1

    Excellent picks! I slept on Moonlight Sorcery. You are getting damn good at these edits. That Butt-head Avant Garde moment was great 😂

    • @HeavyArtTalk
      @HeavyArtTalk 6 місяців тому

      Megaton Sword - Might and Power is a release I have on my list.
      New Baroness album is also sick- love the jammy and improvisational aspect to the songwriting.

  • @mattcrossthwaite2781
    @mattcrossthwaite2781 6 місяців тому

    Some great choices, and I’d echo some other comments I’ve seen re Tomb Mold. What do you think of the new Green Lung release as that almost made the cut for me (but was pipped by Wytch Hazel)?

  • @Patrick45392
    @Patrick45392 5 місяців тому

    Great list! Totally different from mine but very respectable picks (we do share some though)

  • @boscocfh
    @boscocfh 6 місяців тому +1

    Great list. I know it just came out but the new Suffocation is killer. It will be in my top five of the year forsure.

  • @mmmnuts5645
    @mmmnuts5645 5 місяців тому

    that Moonlight Sorcery album is ridiculous - it's certainly something special. thanks for a weird video. Cheers from TX

  • @Djare915
    @Djare915 5 місяців тому

    Your list is the best man!Thank you!

  • @grantreilly7124
    @grantreilly7124 6 місяців тому +1

    Great shout with sorcerer, the Tony Martin sabbath era comparison is spot on. Wayfarer also fantastic, have similar feelings about black metal but loved this. Enforced will be top 5 for me, good hard hitting, aggressive thrash, with that honest energy, its not forced (pun intended🙂)

  • @dplissken89
    @dplissken89 5 місяців тому +1

    Hey Nate, have you ever checked out Restless Spirit? They’re criminally underrated. They put an album out this year that is solid but their last album “Blood of the Old Gods” is outstanding. Just straightforward metal with a doomier vibe. Good melodic vocals and sick leads. Kind of gives me some crowbar vibes too at times.

  • @TurboYeti72
    @TurboYeti72 6 місяців тому

    Great list! Turned me on to lots of new shit. Thanks for that. My favourite record of 2023 (and maybe my favourite live performance) comes from Blackbraid. . . "Blackbraid II" is a future classic. Heavy, scary, beautiful, and pushes the envelope just enough. . . I mean, there's flute on the record. Flute! And yet it works.

  • @grumofardo4285
    @grumofardo4285 6 місяців тому +1

    You made me realise i have listened to... 4 albums released in 2023 😅 ( don't have much time) :
    On Thorns I Lay
    Cadaver - The age of the offended
    Prong - State of emergency
    SUP - Octa
    And i liked them ;)
    I'll go check some of your recommendations - choir voices over blast beats seem interesting. Will have to watch your video again though - forgot the names already 😂

  • @SaltOfTheEarthRecords
    @SaltOfTheEarthRecords 6 місяців тому

    Excellent list! 🤘

  • @metalgetsmehigh
    @metalgetsmehigh 6 місяців тому +1

    There’s been a ton of great albums this year, but the one that sticks out most to me is the new Outerheaven album. Absolutely killer stuff and glad you agree 🤘

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      That thing whoops so much ass. GREAT people as well.

  • @beardcog1267
    @beardcog1267 6 місяців тому +1

    I think that Wayfarer record will become a classic in the future. Masterpiece

  • @BMThrash
    @BMThrash 6 місяців тому

    dude I met you a couple of months ago at Starship...you should've told me you had a UA-cam. oh well lol I subscribed

  • @mojakk27
    @mojakk27 5 місяців тому

    Love your new album! Ghost at the Gallows made my list. Church of Misery is in my top ten. Check out new ones from Healthyliving, Daydream Flights, '68, and Lovewillsaveus!

  • @TBaggins96
    @TBaggins96 6 місяців тому

    Great list. Moonlight Sorcery is probably the most exciting new band in black metal right now. Malokarpatan to me has always sounded like Darkthrone playing a Christmas party, in a good way!
    My personal favorite this year was Black Medium Current by Dodheimsgard. Its so different, unconventional, and unexpected. A true masterpiece and a perfect experimental metal album that goes more for mood and atmosphere than wankery.

  • @MetalNeverDieswithMarkA
    @MetalNeverDieswithMarkA 6 місяців тому

    incredible list Nate!

  • @geezerbutler1969
    @geezerbutler1969 6 місяців тому

    Thank you very much for reporting on the release of Church Of Misery. I saw them at Hellfest 2018 and I believe this is their best album. I listened to some of the songs and they are INSANE!

  • @lpspresj
    @lpspresj 4 місяці тому

    Great list. American Gothic was one of my top 3. Will check out all those i hadn't heard. (On the pronunciation, that's Mug-wa, by the way).

  • @Maxcalavera666
    @Maxcalavera666 4 місяці тому

    My favorite album of this year is Demoniac - Nube Negra, demoniac is a chilean band, wonderful band. Nice list, and grat channel, new sub lml

  • @chadsux
    @chadsux 6 місяців тому +1

    Surprises me that The Zenith Passage didn’t make it on this list. To me, by far the best tech death album put out in a while. Liked that you got Gorod and Enforced in there. Both great albums as well.
    I think you and I have different tastes so that’s ok!!! You’ve given me a couple to check out though! Thanks for taking the time to make this!!!

    • @AUTOPSY666
      @AUTOPSY666 5 місяців тому +1

      ENTHEOS, THE ZENITH PASSAGE, AFTERBIRTH, CATTLE DECAPITATION, HORRENDOUS, WORMHOLE, MITHRIDATUM, what a year!

  • @JasonB_13
    @JasonB_13 6 місяців тому

    Man, that Enforced is a tough one. I really want to go all in on them but that War Remains track sounds a little too on the nose like Power Trip. I mean I guess that's a good thing since there is no Power Trip anymore but it's pretty conflicting right now lol. After I saw Gatecreeper and Power Trip in 2017, man you were there... you know how special that band was. It's kinda hard to express what I want to say but yeah... I'm going to have to marinate on it a bit I guess.

  • @huormartin9501
    @huormartin9501 6 місяців тому

    Nice top, we noticed other great albums this year :
    Primordial - How it ends
    Carcarias - Afterworld
    and it seems we will get a very good album of Abduction on december 1st named Toues blessent, la dernière tue !

    • @AUTOPSY666
      @AUTOPSY666 5 місяців тому

      New ABIGOR on December 6th

  • @hotwingkilla6134
    @hotwingkilla6134 6 місяців тому

    C.O.M.! I think I still have the split they did with Iron Monkey somewhere in my collection. Top 2 picks were well deserved.

  • @Slayer-John904
    @Slayer-John904 6 місяців тому

    Some killer stuff. My top 3 in no particular order are enforced, church of misery and one you didn't mention, spirit adrift!!! These three inlisten to every day.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Hell yea, cheers! 🤘🏻

  • @DarkVegetaman
    @DarkVegetaman 6 місяців тому

    The only two I’ve heard this year were Sorcerer and Godthryym but solid picks there.
    I’ll have to check out Wytch Hazel as that Ashbury Endless Skies album is killer.
    And clearly my doom itch needs scratched with that Church of Misery. Didnt know they had a new one.
    Also man i haven’t heard about Prometheus and Bob in like 15 years holy crap. Like the analogy though.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +2

      Got confirmation from Outer Heaven guitarist today that the two riff writers call each other Prometheus and Bob… I had no idea

  • @mikeharris9176
    @mikeharris9176 6 місяців тому

    Love the Trouble shirt \m/

  • @spencergrady5501
    @spencergrady5501 6 місяців тому

    Love the Wayfarer (Spaghetti Western Black Metal). My fave albums of the year came from Blut Aus Nord, Bacchus, Cattle Decapitation, Tetragrammacide, Khanate, Agriculture, Wayfarer, Dawn Ray'd and Reverence to Paroxysm.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      I always dig Blut Aus Nord when I hear it being played but for whatever reason never actively got into it. Good stuff though.

  • @Rovottin77
    @Rovottin77 6 місяців тому +2

    this might be the nerdiest best metal of 2023... Nate's explanation of each album is a delight

  • @LowNoiseJasonSkilz
    @LowNoiseJasonSkilz 6 місяців тому

    Def first out the gate! A couple in there I need to check out soon like Outer heaven and church of misery albums. I will probably put Enforced in my year end top 10 too! My list will have the new Autopsy, Frozen Soul, maybe Grotesqueries, VoidCeremony and the latest Immortal too.

  • @Nastyb77
    @Nastyb77 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for Godthrymm, huge Crowbar fan and 90’s kid.

  • @daveypsychotronic132
    @daveypsychotronic132 6 місяців тому

    Seeing as you asked, in no particular order (cause I will struggle):
    Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows (obviously!)
    Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
    Gel - Only Constant
    Mansion - Second Death
    Haunt - Golden Arm
    Bruise Control - Useless For Something
    Smoulder - Violent Creed Of Vengeance
    Knife Club - Our Club, Our Rules
    Hellripper - Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags
    I'm also enjoying new releases by Svalbard and Green Lung but haven't had time to fully digest them yet.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      I love that Gel album

    • @daveypsychotronic132
      @daveypsychotronic132 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate I'm not a big hardcore fan but this just stabbed me!

  • @magmachambermetal
    @magmachambermetal 4 місяці тому

    That Church of Misery, though! Nice list!

  • @benng4376
    @benng4376 6 місяців тому

    Sprirt Adrift is rad. Quality list. Amusing assessments. I have been entertained.

  • @The-Crypt
    @The-Crypt 6 місяців тому

    Good list. Waiting on the vinyl to finally listen to that Malokarpatan. Can't wait. Check out The Gauntlet - Dark Steel and Fire and The Night Eternal - Fatale if you haven't. The Gauntlet is basically Under the Sign of the Black Mark era Bathory if they were an arena band with a dash on Manowar and The Night Eternal is a little too similar to In Solitude but goddamn they write massive, anthemic, memorable songs.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Man that sounds killer

    • @The-Crypt
      @The-Crypt 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate ua-cam.com/video/G7b6ii_OKUE/v-deo.htmlsi=Ka48CAJPMd6IlAKl

  • @scottiematthews5932
    @scottiematthews5932 4 місяці тому

    Nice list brother 🤘
    My Top 20 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
    16. Polaris - Fatalism
    17. Overkill - Scorched
    18. Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM
    19. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
    20. Cliffside - Deeper Water

  • @Metalhorrorwarrior
    @Metalhorrorwarrior 6 місяців тому

    The new Krigsgrav album Fires in the Fall is great, and they're from Texas ;)

  • @DawnofExistence
    @DawnofExistence 6 місяців тому

    I know you guys are now based out of Austin, check us out. We’re a melodic death metal band just south of you and released our debut album Ancient Arts in May of this year planning our first shows in Austin next year 🤘🏻

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Hell yea, I absolutely will 🫡

  • @derjeniche5409
    @derjeniche5409 5 місяців тому

    Vargrav - The Nighthold and Moonlight Sorcery - Horned lord of the thorned castle are my favorites

  • @JCM420
    @JCM420 6 місяців тому +1

    Danava - Nothing but Nothing
    I would love to see you guys tour!

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Solid album! Really great riffs and playing.

  • @rfarmer82
    @rfarmer82 6 місяців тому +16

    I have to give a shout out to Tomb Mold. They're incredible. Definitely check out their new album and their previous ones if you've never given them a listen. Blackbraid's new album is really good too if you like black metal at all.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +7

      Love those dudes. Manor of Infinite Forms is still my favorite, though I respect the hell out of what they’re doing now as well.

    • @kearneyshine3146
      @kearneyshine3146 6 місяців тому +2

      I feel like I haven't spent enough time with the new tomb mold album to really know how I feel about it, but every time I put it on I can tell it's something special.

  • @dryker7085
    @dryker7085 6 місяців тому

    Hate to be a shill, but Ghost at the Gallows is my favorite metal album of the year, and my favorite album in quite some time. In Flames latest I've been diggin' a lot when it comes up on the playlist. And that album you gave the co-top-slot to that invokes Jester Race vibes has stood out when it comes up on ye' old playlist. Fuckin' playlists. Fuckin' love 'em, but I don't really have a sense of albums any more. I listened to Ghost at the Gallows in its entirety, then with headphones, then again... and again... and again, because I was looking forward to it, but everything else I just listen to a few songs to see if I might like it, and just put it on my Latest and Greatest playlist, then wait to see what rises to the top to make my All Quality of all time playlist.
    Been diggin' some Municipal Waste. Thanks for the recommendation! Looks like I'm gonna be listening to a lot of new shit from this list.

  • @RWalters81
    @RWalters81 6 місяців тому +9

    1 Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
    2 Baroness - Stone
    3 Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
    4 Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows
    5 Night Demon - Ousider
    6 Enforced - War Remains
    7 Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
    8 Insomnium - Anno 1696
    9 Haken - Fauna
    10 Primordial - How It Ends
    I just listened to that Sorcerer album, and that might make it.... but too soon.

  • @VictorHugo-Al
    @VictorHugo-Al 6 місяців тому +1

    My Top 10 so Far:
    1. Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed - Fleshvessel
    2. Hive Mind Narcosis - Thantifaxath
    3. Earth Will Shed It's Skin - Chrome Waves
    4. Seven Crowns And Seven Seals - Sulphur Aeon
    5. Terrasite - Cattle Decapitation
    6. Numen - Alkaloid
    7. Alföld - Thy Catafalque
    8. The Enduring Spirit - Tomb Mold
    9. Disharmonium : Nahab - Blut Aus Nord
    10. Kalmah - Kalmah
    Honorable Mentions:
    Shades of Sorrow - Crypta
    Bath House - The Lion's Daughter
    Mutants - Mutoid Man

  • @ReidReynolds-lx7gr
    @ReidReynolds-lx7gr 6 місяців тому

    Moonlight sorcery and Majesties albums are both great! Would have to add Cattle Decap and Frozen Soul to the list can’t stop jamming to those either

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +2

      Not a fan of cattle decap AT ALL but frozen soul is good!

  • @joseantoniomarmol6324
    @joseantoniomarmol6324 6 місяців тому

    That Watch Hazel album is fantastic, so freaking addictive! 🍻

    • @joseantoniomarmol6324
      @joseantoniomarmol6324 5 місяців тому

      Dude, I just came to realize you are the guy behind Spirit Adrift! No wonder why your name was so freaking familiar. Ghost at The Gallows is my favorite Metal album of 2023! Kudos bro! Cheers and rock on!

  • @spencergrady5501
    @spencergrady5501 6 місяців тому

    Oh yeah, and Malokarpatan is right up there too!!! Great record. If you liked that one, the new one from Mortuary Drape might all appeal.

  • @davidkimbrough4648
    @davidkimbrough4648 6 місяців тому

    My Top 10 in no order:
    1. Night Demon - Outsider
    2. Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
    3. Haunt - Golden Arm
    4. Sorcerer - Reign of The Reaper
    5. Kerrigan - Bloodmoon
    6. Legendry - Time Immortal Wept
    7. Century - The Conquest of Time
    8. Blood Star - First Sighting
    9. Smoulder - Violent Creed Of Vengeance
    10. Megaton Sword - Might & Power

  • @nmuwr89
    @nmuwr89 6 місяців тому

    What about the new Cattle Decapitation album Terrasite? This is their fourth album in a row that they have worked with Dave Otero and each of them are flawless IMO. Do you like Cattle Decapitation? Such a great band.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      I never cared for their music, production, aesthetic, or anything. Not my thing. Then when the singer started doing the Disney gremlin vocals I can’t even listen to 3 seconds of that.

    • @nmuwr89
      @nmuwr89 6 місяців тому

      Yeah, I actually enjoy that part of Travis Ryan’s vocals, so I can understand why it’s not your cup of tea. Keep up the excellent work on the podcast.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      @@nmuwr89 cheers! 🤘🏻

  • @coledelahooke809
    @coledelahooke809 6 місяців тому

    Nate, I feel like this is an angry ass list, and other than Witch Hazel and Sorcerer, have not heard of the other bands. Can’t wait to check them out and judge accordingly 😊

  • @IgorLuisSeemann
    @IgorLuisSeemann 6 місяців тому

    Not in any particular order:
    1. Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows
    2. Crypta - Shades of Sorrow
    3. Nervosa - Jailbreak
    4. Angra - Cycles of Pain
    5. Torture Squad - Devilish
    6. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags
    7. Elegant Weapons - Horns for a Halo
    8. The Night Eternal - Fatale
    9. Evile - The Unknown
    10. Overkill - Scorched
    I also loved the Enforced and Sorcerer albums

  • @Zanzibarbarian88
    @Zanzibarbarian88 6 місяців тому

    did you check out the new tomb mold? Those guys are on another planet

  • @adamjohnson8128
    @adamjohnson8128 6 місяців тому +3

    Mutoid Man- Mutants.

  • @guywoznicki7847
    @guywoznicki7847 6 місяців тому

    OK Nate I’m gonna check out these nuggets, hopefully finding some bands that catch my ear. Haven’t really latched onto anything new in almost a decade, possibly because of what I don’t like: death, black, vomit vocals. Trying to shed the closed-mindedness of most older folks (like ones parents), I will give every record a taste. I’ll start with the more traditional like Wytch Hazel and Sorcerer and then try in earnest to assimilate the skull crushers in hopes of finding something I wanna play over and over. Here’s to opening the mind and consuming much alcohol!

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Those are two good ones to start with, try Church of Misery as well. Technically it’s clean vocals… although they are fucking ROWDY

  • @iasknoonewithkevin
    @iasknoonewithkevin 5 місяців тому

    Nice list, Metal Nate. Liking your content. Shout-out to my twin bro in the Bavarian Alps for sharing. Metal album of '23 gotta be Metallica's 72 SEASONS 💛♠

  • @mangusrangar
    @mangusrangar 6 місяців тому

    Excepting the mighty Ghost at the Gallows, I think Horrendous takes the cake this year. Ontological Mysterium is so good you can't even call it death metal anymore. Also wanna shout out Enslaved's Heimdal, Hellripper's Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags, and - the best workout album of the year - Sanguisugabogg's Homicidal Ecstasy.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for the kind words! I respect horrendous and like their old stuff but that new album reminded me of a lot of emo type stuff my very first girlfriend listened to… not even trying to be a dick. Not sure if it’s the production on the guitars or what? Hellripper is cool but the vocals + production seem like afterthoughts. GREAT songs and playing though. Somebody pointed out one of his lyrics is something about a “spirit adrift” so that’s rad. Bonus points there 😂

  • @nmuwr89
    @nmuwr89 6 місяців тому

    Forgot about one other one, don’t know if you’re a fan of post metal, but the German band The Ocean Collective released their most recent Geological based album Holocene in 2023 and is a great album. I’m a huge fan of the band, check out their 2007 album Precambrian and 2013 Pelagial. Phanerozoic I in 2018 and Phanerozoic II are also great.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Those dudes stayed at my house once but I’ve honestly never really listened to em

    • @nmuwr89
      @nmuwr89 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate 🤯

  • @tomrockcircuz3253
    @tomrockcircuz3253 6 місяців тому

    Very cool shirt !!!

  • @bobilly
    @bobilly 6 місяців тому

    Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium for me. I'll have to check out your picks for sure, but between Outer Heaven and this'n, Pennsylvania is kicking death metal ass this year. 🤟

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Love older horrendous but can’t hang with the new one. Sounds like minus the bear or some shit

    • @bobilly
      @bobilly 6 місяців тому

      @BornTooNate I get late-era Death, Cynic, and Atheist vibes from it. It's definitely quite different from their earlier material, which I personally don't connect with as much - unlike everyone else. 🤷‍♂️

  • @directedbyxanderjones8329
    @directedbyxanderjones8329 6 місяців тому

    Subscribe to The Great Metal Debate on UA-cam to see our albums of the year. Click that little bell notification to do you don't miss it when it gets uploaded in late December. Feel free to check out some of our other content.
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  • @ronadleta1541
    @ronadleta1541 6 місяців тому

    Yup gorod is the shit I just got wind of them at the beginning of this year now I own all their albums

  • @peterock4210
    @peterock4210 6 місяців тому

    Church of Misery Album ranking in the future?

  • @626lifeaa
    @626lifeaa 6 місяців тому

    I have a top 5…I didn’t really listen to much new metal this year tbh but here are my favorites
    5 new cattle decap
    4 cannibal corpse
    3 new cryptopsy
    2 new dying fetus
    1 death symbolic

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Love the new Cannibal album! Summoned to Sacrifice is one of the best songs they’ve ever done. Rob Barrett, baby!

    • @626lifeaa
      @626lifeaa 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate yup besides death cc is the goat imo. I actually think they are getting better as time goes on which is wild.

    • @626lifeaa
      @626lifeaa 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate also I haven’t listened to the new wayfarer yet but the last one a romance with violence was incredible. Not a huge bm guy but I love that western American lore thing they are doing

  • @smote_his_ruin
    @smote_his_ruin 6 місяців тому

    If you liked Majesties check out Astralborne's new LP Across the Aeons. IMO the melodies are more captivating than Majesties.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Will do. I keep seeing the name

  • @Oldy-dingo
    @Oldy-dingo 6 місяців тому

    This is a fantastic but this is definitely way too premature. Especially considering some of the stuff that was released last night. I've listened to the new Shylmagoghnar already and I'm pretty sure it's taking my number one spot. If you're a big fan of their previous 2 this might be their best.

  • @moom76
    @moom76 6 місяців тому

    Bruh, the year aint over yet 😊

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Nothing coming out is in any danger of ending up on this list

  • @vanzylalberts5552
    @vanzylalberts5552 5 місяців тому

    Here are my TOP 25 METAL ALBUMS OF 2023! In order from 1 to 25.
    Cause N Effect - Validation Through Suffering
    Asinhell - Impii Hora
    Kataklysm - Goliath
    Harms Way - Common Suffering
    Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike
    Atrocity - OKKULT III
    Mezzrow - Summon Thy Demons
    Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha
    Signs of the Swarm - Amongst the Low & Empty
    Xoth - Exogalactic
    Prong - State of Emergency
    Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
    Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
    Obituary - Dying of Everything
    KK’s Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
    Cavalera Conspiracy - Bestial Devastation (EP) / Morbid Visions
    Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation
    Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
    The Fallen Prophets - Perpetual Damnation
    Overkill - Scorched
    Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
    Carnifex - Necromanteum
    Agora - Empire
    Myrath - Karma
    Carnation - Cursed Mortality

  • @JLee-bi4es
    @JLee-bi4es 4 місяці тому

    Church of misery! Hell yes

  • @rds874
    @rds874 6 місяців тому

    Great list. Shout out to Orbit Culture- Descent. Total banger

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Not at all my thing but I reckon they do it well?

    • @rds874
      @rds874 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate it’s old Gojira meets the pop heaviness of Metallica I’d say. I’ve just recently gotten into them. But I appreciate you’re list because I go and discover the bands I don’t know for new listens, so thanks 👍

  • @user-up7yw9vp3f
    @user-up7yw9vp3f 6 місяців тому

    Headless cross
    Best black Sabbath album in my book ever.

  • @BobbyPVZ
    @BobbyPVZ 5 місяців тому

    Really need some sound along thé comments
    👀👀🇫🇷🇫🇷

  • @Fastnbulbous1969
    @Fastnbulbous1969 6 місяців тому +1

    Great list, a few shared, all of them are in my long list. My Lucky 13 so far, but this is still early days as I'm giving myself a few more weeks to listen before I finalize mine:
    Metal
    1. Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows
    2. Witch Ripper - The Fight After the Fall
    3. REZN - Solace
    4. Church Of Misery - Born Under A Mad Sign
    5. Restless Spirit - Afterimage
    6. Haunt - Golden Arm
    7. Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
    8. Legendry - Time Immortal Wept
    9. Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper
    10. Blood Lightning - Blood Lightning
    11. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
    12. Green Lung - This Heathen Land
    13. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
    Bubbling under: Dopelord, Cardinal's Folly, Heavy Load.
    Hard Rock
    1. Graveyard - 6
    2. Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman . . .
    3. Royal Thunder - Rebuilding the Mountain
    4. Spidergawd - VII
    5. Rival Sons - Darkfighter
    6. Maggot Heart - Hunger
    7. The Golden Grass - Life is Much Stranger
    8. Crown Lands - Fearless
    9. Dead Quiet - IV
    10. Flight - Echoes of Journeys Past
    11. Deathchant - Thrones
    12. Rival Sons - Lightbringer
    13. Bahboon - Thunder Ape
    Bubbling under: Kvelertak, live Vintage Caravan album, Owl.
    Stoner Psych Prog
    1. Large Plants - The Thorn
    2. Baroness - Stone
    3. Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
    4. Lucid Sins - Dancing in the Dark
    5. The Fierce & The Dead - News From the Invisible World
    6. Glass Hammer - Arise
    7. Motorpsycho - Yay!
    8. DoctoR Doom - A Shadow Called Danger
    9. White Canyon & The 5th Dimension - Gardeners of the Earth
    10. Kanaan - Downpour
    11. DIIE - The Right Hand of the Devil
    12. Black Helium - UM
    13. Mansion - Second Death
    Bubbling under: Rose City Band, Druid Fluids, The Heavy Minds.

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Honored! Thank you 🤘🏻

  • @jordanmoran1983
    @jordanmoran1983 6 місяців тому

    For me the new Mutoid Man, Hellripper, coffin mulch, Enforced and Exhibition - the last laugh jointly take the trophy. Definitely not metal but new Qotsa is class.

    • @spencergrady5501
      @spencergrady5501 6 місяців тому +1

      Coffin Mulch - yeah! And Eternal Rot!

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      Love that new QOTSA… probably their best since Lullabies/Era Vulgaris

    • @jordanmoran1983
      @jordanmoran1983 6 місяців тому

      @@BornTooNate such an easy listen

  • @dannyscaglione6233
    @dannyscaglione6233 5 місяців тому

    I cant be the only one who thought that Ne Obliviscarus album should be in the conversation.... am i?

  • @Sped_Dog
    @Sped_Dog 6 місяців тому

    I really liked the new dying fetus album

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому +1

      I’m not crazy about that band in general BUT that new one is undeniably great

  • @user-up7yw9vp3f
    @user-up7yw9vp3f 6 місяців тому

    Xoth???? Nobody heard of em ..
    .
    Sad

    • @BornTooNate
      @BornTooNate  6 місяців тому

      Heard em. Don’t like em.

  • @MrLando0
    @MrLando0 6 місяців тому

    Pretty sure Mgla is pronounced Migwa, and it means fog.

  • @mitochondriaman4798
    @mitochondriaman4798 6 місяців тому

    Moonlight Sorcery are just melodic black metal