My Album of the Year List for 2023

1 Lokust – Infidel

1 Host – IX

3 Blackbraid – Blackbraid II

4 Fires in the Distance – Air not Meant for Us

5 Sylosis – A Sign of Things To Come

6 Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen

7 Enslaved – Heimdal

8 Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite

9 The Ocean – Holocene

10 Bell Witch – Future’s Past Part One – The Clandestine Gate

11 Eridu – Enuma Elish

12 Overkill – Scorched

13 Sulphur Aeon – Seven Crowns Seven Seals

14 Worm Shepherd – The Sleeping Sun EP

15 Wolves in the Throne Room – Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge

16 Unseen Faith - Prodigal Sons

17 Better Lovers – God Made me an Animal

18 Thy art is murder – Godlike

19 Bleed Yourself – Mouth for War

20 Hellripper – Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags

Other great albums that need to be mentioned in no particular order

Mourning Star – A Reminder of the Wound Unhealed

REZN – Solace

As the Sun Falls – Where the silence reigns

Godsmack – Lighting up the Sky

Urne – A Feast on Sorrow

The Shores of Null – The Loss of Beauty

Jaaw – Supercluster

Orbit Culture – The Forgotten EP

Uada – Crepsucle Nocturna

Voice of Ruin – Cold Epithany – Black metal award

Terminalist – The Crisis as Condition

Svalbard – The Weight of the Mask

She Burns Red – Out of Darkness

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Petro Dragonic Apocalypse

Halls of Oblivion – 1800 and Froze to Death

Drain – Living Proof

Spirit Adrift – Ghost of the Gallows

Myrkur – Spine

Godflesh - Purge

Scars of Oblivion - Misanthropy

Allfather – A Violent Truth

Obituary – Dying of Everything

Screamer - Kingmaker

Eerie Monsters – All My Shadows

Rage Behind – Eminence or Disgrace

Wormhole – Almost human

Pupil Slicer – Blossom

Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination

Smolder – Violent Creed of Vengence

Miasmes - Répugnance

Messiahvore – Transcedence

Fen - Monuments of Absence

Mithrandir – Towards the Spires of Dol Guldur

Alchemy for the Dead – Spotlights

Sol An Varma – Sol An Varma