Top 3 2023
Thank you one and all who voted this past week. Please see below for some new metal music. As always this list is our way to keep up with new music and we are less worried about what is #1 versus what we haven't heard. We have done quarter lists for a while so you can see what has been hot all year and what has fallen off versus what is acting like the fucking own the place. Also see the Spotify link for a direct line into how to annoy your coworkers while looking like a maniac. We will see you in the Summer!
Spotify Playlist Of Most Albums
Top 3 of 2023
| Position / Album | Vote Count | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| #1. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags | 51 | Black / Speed / Motorcycles on the Weekend |
| #2. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 32 | Melodic Death for people who don't like Melodic Death |
| #3. Ulthar - Anthronomicon // Helionomicon | ~28 | Do You Know What This Abstract Black Death Sound Needs? A Double Album. |
| Insomnium - Anno 1696 | 20 | Melodic Death |
| Ahab - The Coral Tombs | 16 | Funeral Doom / Themes: Nautical literature |
| Enslaved - Heimdal | 15 | Genre: An Enslaved Album |
| Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare | 15 | Dracula... if he wasnt a fucking wimp |
| Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya | 13 | I See You Shredditcord |
| Profane Order - One Nightmare Unto Another | 11 | Bulldozer Black/Death |
| Megaton Sword - Might & Power | 10 | Epic Heavy |
| Häxanu - Totenpass | 9 | Black / Rituals By Witches |
| Afsky -Om hundrede år | 8 | FFO: Drudkh, Woods, Weeping Alone |
| Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility | 7 | Probably What Planescape Sounds Like If It Was An Album |
| Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale | 7 | This is perfect dont let anyone tell you otherwise. |
| The Gauntlet - Dark Steel and Fire | 7 | Strong Backpatch Material |
| Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy | 7 | Death...shocker |
| Ne Obliviscaris - Exul | 6 | Hey When Did Elden Ring Make An Album? |
| Conjureth - The Parasitic Chambers | 6 | Death (Adept) |
| Theophonos - Nightmare Visions | 6 | Black But Upside Down |
| Gatekeeper - From Western Shores | 6 | Epic Heavy |
| Primitive Man / Full of Hell - Suffocating Hallucination | 6 | Cool, like a superhero crossover but to make everyone miserable |
| Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars | 6 | Gothic/Alternative/Progressive Rock/Metal (later) |
| ...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs | 5 | The Tome of Strahd is the journal and spellbook of Strahd von Zarovich. It is written in a personal cipher that incorporates elements of Common, Elvish, and Abyssal, as well as several other languages. |
| Vosbúð - Heklugjá | 5 | Black |
| Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη | 5 | Progressive Death / Black from China making an album about Greek History and Mythology. The Future is Now. |
| Sodality - Benediction part 1 | 5 | Cultes des Ghoules related if the skulls were not an immediate tip off. |
| Astriferous - Pulsations From The Black Orb | 5 | You Cant Die From Tripping Right? |
| Oozing Wound - We Cater To Cowards | 5 | Nirvana ... if they never made Nevermind |
| Oak - Disintegrate | 5 | Funeral Doom |
| Gabestok - Med freden kommer hadet | 5 | black_metal_internet_core |
The Few The Proud, the 4s and 3s
Necropanther - Betrayal [US, Black/Thrash] 4
Air Raid - Fatal Encounter [Sweden, Hard Rock / Heavy] 4
Night Demon - Outsider [US, Heavy] 4
Tetrasigil - Forest Storm [Finland, Black] 4
Malleus - The Fires of Heaven [US, Black / Speed] 3
Deiquisitor - Apotheosis [Denmark, Death] 3
Screamer - Kingmaker [Sweden, Heavy] 3
Rezn - Solace [US, Psych / Doom] 3
Gorod - The Orb [France, Progressive Death] 3
Nothingness - Supraliminal [US, Death] 3
Mansion - Second Death [Finland, Psych / Doom] 3
Kruelty - Untopia [Japan, Death / Doom] 3
Liturgy - 93696 [US, Avant / Experimental] 3
