Top 5 2023
Thank You one and all who voted al year. 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 / Youtube Link for a direct line into how to annoy your coworkers while looking like a maniac. We will see you in the Fall!
Spotify Playlist Of Most Albums
Top 5 of 2023
| Position / Album | Vote Count | Q1 Position | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags | 39 | #1 | Black / Speed / Motorcycles on the Weekend |
| #2 Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse | 33 | -- | Black / Death / Existential Unraveling |
| #3. Ulthar - Anthronomicon // Helionomicon | ~27 | #3 | Do You Know What This Abstract Black Death Sound Needs? A Double Album. |
| #4. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite | 26 | -- | Progressive Death / Grindcore |
| #5. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 22 | #2 | Melodic Death For People Who Don't Like Melodic Death |
| Spirit Possession - Of The Sign | 21 | -- | A Haunted House But With Beer And Weed |
| Kostnatění - Úpal | 20 | -- | Black Metal But Its Being Difficult |
| Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current | 19 | -- | DHG: The Spirit Molecule |
| Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate | 17 | -- | Your Move Dopesmoker |
| VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing | 17 | -- | That Feeling On Drugs And You Start Overthinking Things Too Much And Nothing Is Fun Anymore. |
| Ne Obliviscaris - Exul | 16 | ## | Hey When Did Elden Ring Make An Album? |
| Enforced - War Remains | 14 | -- | Thrash / Crossover / No Sleeves Allowed |
| Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm | 13 | -- | It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. |
| Smoulder - Violent Creed Of Vengeance | 12 | -- | Epic / Heavy / Doom / Sanderson |
| Sól Án Varma - Sól Án Varma | 11 | -- | Icelandic Black Is Really Just A Few Unhappy People Making All Of The Music |
| The Gauntlet - Dark Steel and Fire | 10 | -- | Strong Backpatch Material |
| Tanith - Voyage | 10 | -- | Prerequisites: Knowledgeable Of Two Uriah Heep Records |
| Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis | 10 | -- | The Complex Boardgames of Black Metal |
| Megaton Sword - Might & Power | 9 | -- | Epic Heavy |
| Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη | 9 | -- | Progressive Death / Black from China making an album about Greek History and Mythology. The Future is Now. |
| Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecasasy | 9 | -- | Faces of Death Metal |
| Insomnium - Anno 1696 | 9 | ## | Melodic Death |
| Gatekeeper - From Western Shores | 8 | ## | Epic Heavy |
| Ahab - The Coral Tombs | 8 | ## | Funeral Doom / Themes: Nautical literature |
| Theophonos - Nightmare Visions | 8 | -- | Black / Hardcore From A Dystopian Future |
| Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya | 8 | ## | I See You Shredditcord |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction | 8 | -- | Genre:Sludge Themes: Despair |
| Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare | 8 | ## | Dracula... If He Wasn't A Fucking Wimp |
| Gabestok - Med freden kommer hadet | 7 | ## | black_metal_internet_core |
| Oozing Wound - We Cater To Cowards | 7 | ## | Nirvana ... if they never made Nevermind |
| Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain | 7 | -- | Psychedelic Rock....Wait A Minute Can I See Your ID |
| Afsky -Om hundrede år | 7 | -- | FFO: Drudkh, Woods, Weeping Alone |
| Häxanu - Totenpass | 7 | ## | Black / Rituals By Witches |
| Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars | 6 | ## | Genre: Gothic/Alternative/Progressive Rock/Metal (later) |
| Fires in the Distance - Air Is Not Meant For Us | 7 | -- | Melodic Death But Pine Scented |
| Kruelty - Utopia | 6 | -- | Doom / Hardcore / Car Wrecks |
| Primitive Man / Full of Hell - Suffocating Hallucination | 6 | ## | Cool, like a superhero crossover but to make everyone miserable |
| Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale | 6 | ## | This is perfect dont let anyone tell you otherwise. |
| Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility | 6 | ## | Probably What Planescape Sounds Like If It Was An Album |
| Liturgy - 93696 | 6 | ## | Avant / Experimental |
| Nothingness - Supraliminal | 6 | ## | Death |
| Enslaved - Heimdal | 6 | ## | Genre: An Enslaved Album |
| Cloak - Black Flame Eternal | 6 | -- | FFO: Tribulation, Vampire: The Masquerade |
| Blood Star - First Sighting | 5 | -- | Heavy / Elric of Melniboné Paperbacks |
| Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations | 5 | -- | Who Wants To Get High And Watch Cube? |
| Profane Order - One Nightmare Unto Another | 5 | ## | Bulldozer Black/Death |
| Tetrasigil - Forest Storm | 5 | ## | Black |
| Inherits the Void - The Impending Fall Of The Stars | 5 | ## | Stargazing Black |
| ...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. |
| Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss | 5 | -- | Tangerine Nightmare |
| Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination | 5 | -- | Death |
| Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis | 5 | -- | What Death Sounds Like To People Who Dont Like Death |
| Immortal - War Against All | 5 | -- | Immortal |
Shreddit's Lonely Hearts Club
Nightmarer 4
Tyrann 4
Putrid Yell 4
Firmament 4
The Ocean 4
Wytch Hazel 4
Deiquisitor 4
Century 4
Astriferous 4
Vosbúð 3
Anachronism 3
Sacred Outcry 3
Labyrinthus Stellarum 3
Plague Bearer 3
Avenged Sevenfold 3
Dryad 3
Kalmah 3
Eremit 3
Gloryhammer 3
Runemagick 3
Torture Rack 3
Conjureth 3
Rezn 3
Aara 3
Рожь 2
Penny Coffin 2
Anthropophagous 2
Pustilence 2
Diabolical Messiah 2
Galneryus 2
Blutschwur 2
Gorod 2
Atavistia 2
Victory Over the Sun 2
Kommand 2
Sleep Token 2
Acid King 2
Tribunal 2
Altari 2
Blazon Rite 2
The Acacia Strain 2
Frozen Dawn 2
Anthem 2
Firienholt 2
Extermination Order 2
Hasard 2
Shadows 2
Oak Pantheon 2
Necropanther 2
Memoriam 2
Overkill 2
Coffin Nail 2
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods 2
Hellcrash 2
Oak 2
Haken 2
Allfather 2
Non Est Deus 2
Perilaxe Occlusion 2
Veriluola 2
Dawn Ray'd 2
Soutana 2
Mansion 2
Venusberg Cardinal 2
Scalp 2