Best Album of 2023 – Readers’ Choice

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Metal Epidemic are excited to present the Readers’ Poll for Best Metal Album of 2023!

As the Metal Epidemic team frantically put together their end of year lists, we’re turning it over to you, the readers, to have your say on what was the best album of 2023. We’ve put together this pretty bitchin’ list of albums released this year, so go forth and vote for yourTOP THREEmost-loved albums of 2023! The winner will be announced on the 18th of December.

Still undecided? Check out our ‘Best Metal Albums of 2023‘ playlist onSpotify.

This poll is no longer accepting votes

Pick Your Top 3 Albums of 2023:
  • Swansong - Awakening13.26%
  • Forcefed Horsehead - Monoceros11.41%
  • Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags4.19%
  • Orbit Culture - Descent2.35%
  • In Flames - Foregone2.18%
  • Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns2.01%
  • Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite1.85%
  • Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask1.51%
  • KEN Mode - VOID1.17%
  • Burner - It All Returns To Nothing1.17%
  • Enslaved - Heimdal1.01%
  • Winterhorde - Neptunian1.01%
  • Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival1.01%
  • Insomnium - Anno 16960.84%
  • Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific0.84%
  • Final Gasp - Mourning Moon0.84%
  • Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit0.84%
  • Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden0.84%
  • Night Crowned - Tales0.84%
  • Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars0.67%
  • Rise to Fall – The Fifth Dimension0.67%
  • URNE - A Feast On Sorrow0.67%
  • Wallowing - Earth Reaper0.67%
  • Zulu - A New Tomorrow0.67%
  • Kvelertak - Endling0.67%
  • Håndgemeng - Ultra Ritual0.67%
  • Periphery - Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre0.67%
  • Blackbraid - Blackbraid II0.67%
  • 68 – Yes, and…0.50%
  • The Zenith Passage - Datalysium0.50%
  • Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst For Torment0.50%
  • EYES - Congratulations0.50%
  • The Armed - Perfect Saviors0.50%
  • Polaris - Fatalism0.50%
  • Filth is Eternal - Find Out0.50%
  • Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current0.50%
  • Frozen Crown - Call of the North0.50%
  • Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle0.50%
  • Lo! - The Gleaners0.50%
  • Tulip - The Perpetual Dream0.50%
  • Underdark - Managed Decline0.50%
  • Within Temptation - Bleed Out0.50%
  • Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...0.50%
  • Dogma - Dogma0.50%
  • Earthside - Let the Truth Speak0.50%
  • SÂVER - From Ember and Rust0.50%
  • Suffocation - Hymns From the Apocrypha0.50%
  • The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness0.34%
  • Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous0.34%
  • Imperium Dekadenz – Into Sorrow Evermore0.34%
  • Kalmah – Kalmah0.34%
  • VV - Neon Noir0.34%
  • All Out War - Celestial Rot0.34%
  • ...And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs0.34%
  • Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen0.34%
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper0.34%
  • BLODET - Death Mother0.34%
  • Code Orange - The Above0.34%
  • Haken - Fauna0.34%
  • Allfather - A Violent Truth0.34%
  • Bjørkø - Heartrot0.34%
  • Finsterforst - Jenseits0.34%
  • Immortal - War Against All0.34%
  • Foretoken - Triumphs0.34%
  • Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley of Night: Part 10.34%
  • Gorod - The Orb0.34%
  • Rorcal - Silence0.34%
  • Metallica - 72 Seasons0.34%
  • Tesseract - War of Being0.34%
  • Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike0.34%
  • TORPOR - ABSCISSION0.34%
  • Sermon - Of Golden Verse0.34%
  • Bongzilla - Dab City0.34%
  • Burning Witches - The Dark Tower0.34%
  • Ghosts of Atlantis - Riddles of the Sycophants0.34%
  • Currents - The Death We Seek0.34%
  • DRAIN - LIVING PROOF0.34%
  • Incendiary - Change the Way You Think About Pain0.34%
  • The Ocean - Holocene0.34%
  • Torn the Fuck Apart - Kill. Bury. Repeat.0.34%
  • Wayfarer - American Gothic0.34%
  • AVKRVST - The Approbation0.34%
  • Before the Dawn - Stormbringers0.34%
  • Atreyu - A Torch in the Dark0.34%
  • Green Lung - This Heathen Land0.34%
  • Dog Tired - The Red Verse0.34%
  • Hinayana - Shatter and Fall0.34%
  • Horsewhip - Consume and Burn0.34%
  • ROSA FAENSKAP - Jeg blir til deg0.34%
  • TEMIC - Terror Management Theory0.34%
  • Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht0.34%
  • Xoth - Exogalactic0.34%
  • Pupil Slicer - Blossom0.34%
  • Structural - Decrowned0.17%
  • The Crotals - Conjure0.17%
  • Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul0.17%
  • The Bleeding - Monokrator0.17%
  • 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs0.17%
  • The Raven Age - Tales from the North0.17%
  • Ad Infinitum – Chapter III – Downfall0.17%
  • Bell Witch – Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate0.17%
  • Beyond the Black – Beyond the Black0.17%
  • Voyager - Fearless in Love0.17%
  • Will Haven - VII0.17%
  • Disguised Malignance – Entering The Gateways0.17%
  • Doro – Conqueress Forever Strong and Proud0.17%
  • Frostbitt - Machine Destroy0.17%
  • Crypta - Shades of Sorrow0.17%
  • Ashen - Ritual of Ash0.17%
  • Godthrymm - Distortions0.17%
  • Obituary - Dying of Everything0.17%
  • Hail The Sun - Divine Inner Tension0.17%
  • Horrendous - Ontologival Mysterium0.17%
  • AHAB - The Coral Tombs0.17%
  • Margarita Witch Cult – Margarita Witch Cult0.17%
  • Marianas Rest – Auer0.17%
  • Avatar - Dance Devil Dance0.17%
  • Night Demon – Outsider0.17%
  • Silverburn - Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation0.17%
  • Distant - Heritage0.17%
  • Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods0.17%
  • Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows0.17%
  • Teenage Wrist - Still Love0.17%
  • Grief Symposium - ...In The Absence of Light0.17%
  • Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman…0.17%
  • Man Must Die - The Pain Behind It All0.17%
  • Alkaloid - Numen0.17%
  • Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains0.17%
  • Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis0.17%
  • Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstacy0.17%
  • To The Grave - Director's Cuts0.17%
  • Blood Command - World Domination0.17%
  • Brujeria - Esto Es Brujeria0.17%
  • Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire0.17%
  • Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting0.17%
  • Vintersea – Woven into Ashes0.17%
  • Judiciary - Flesh + Blood0.17%
  • Empire State Bastard - Rivers of Heresy0.17%
  • Geist - Blueprints To Moderate Sedation0.17%
  • ORO - Vid Vägs Ände0.17%
  • SLOW - Abîmes I0.17%
  • Gridlink - Coronet Juniper0.17%
  • Guilt Trip - Severance0.17%
  • HEALTH - RAT WARS0.17%
  • Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Rapture0.17%
  • Enforced - War Remains0.17%
  • Visions Of Atlantis - A Pirate's Symphony0.17%
  • Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us0.17%
  • Mercenary - Soundtrack For The End Times0.17%
  • World I Hate - Years of Lead0.17%
  • Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys0.17%
  • Primordial - How It Ends0.17%
  • Jesus Piece - ...So Unknown0.17%
  • Kamelot - The Awakening0.17%
  • Slomatics - Strontium Fields0.17%
  • Ne Obliviscaris - Exul0.17%
  • Sylosis - A Sign of Things To Come0.17%
  • Taake - Et Hav av Avstand0.17%
  • Poison Ruin - Härvest0.17%
  • Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music0.17%
  • Rotten sound - Apocalypse0.17%
  • Uada - Crepuscule Natura0.17%
  • Wormhole - Almost Human0.17%
  • Spotlights - Alchemy for the Dead0.17%
  • Stillbirth - Homo Deus0.17%
  • Årabrot - Of Darkness and Light0.17%
  • Suicide Silence - Remember... You Must Die0.17%
  • Baring Teeth - The Path Narrows0.17%
  • The St Pierre Snake Invasion - Galore0.17%
  • Creeper - Sanguivore0.17%
  • Crystal Coffin - The Curse of Immortality0.17%
  • Blindfolded and Led to the Woods - Rejecting Obliteration0.17%
  • Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction0.17%
  • Cloak - Black Flame Eternal0.17%
  • Death Goals - A Garden of Dead Flowers0.17%
  • Devildriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. II0.17%
  • Khanate - To Be Cruel0.17%
  • Morag Tong - Grieve0.17%
  • Mors Subita - Origin of Fire0.17%
  • Omnerod - The Amensal Rise0.17%
  • Myrkur - Spine0.17%
  • Mutoid Man - Mutants0.17%
  • Soulkeeper - Holy Design0.17%
  • Prong - State of Emergency0.17%
  • Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals0.17%
  • Antirope - Amnesia0.17%
  • Throat - We Must Leave You0.17%
  • Astralborne - Across the Aeons0.17%
  • Xorsist - At the Somber Steps To Serenity0.17%
  • Akersborg - Feelantropicoco0.17%
  • Calligram - Position | Momentum0.17%
  • Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade0.17%
  • Coffin Mulch - Spectral Intercession0.17%
  • Crown Magnetar - Everything Bleeds0.17%
  • Helmet - Left0.17%
  • Eleine - We Shall Remain0.17%
  • Evile - The Unknown0.17%
  • Kraanium - Scriptures of Vicennial Defilement0.17%
  • Godflesh - PURGE0.17%
  • Grant The Sun - Voyage0.17%
  • Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere0.17%
  • Lokust - Infidel0.17%
  • Mutoid Man - Mutants0.17%
  • Yatsu - It Can't Happen Here0.17%
  • Year of the Knife - No Love Lost0.17%
  • Nita Strauss - The Call of the Void0.17%
  • Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory0.17%
  • Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)0.17%
  • Serpent of Old - Ensemble Under the Dark Sun0.17%
  • Sevendust - Truth Killer0.17%
  • Signs of the Swarm - Amongst The Low & Empty0.17%
  • The Arcane Order - Distortions from Cosmogony0%
  • Vansind - Mørket0%
  • The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction0%
  • The Suns' Journey Through The Night - Wordless0%
  • 71TonMan – Of End Times0%
  • A Slight in Veracity - Trivial Imagination, Pt. 10%
  • Thra - Forged in Chaotic Spew0%
  • Tortured - Genetically Engineered Monstrosity0%
  • Agriculture – Agriculture0%
  • Tortured Demon - Rie of the Lifeless0%
  • Alchemy of Flesh – By Will Alone0%
  • Tsjuder - Helvegr0%
  • Aphotic – Abyssgazer0%
  • Unsolicited - Luminous Empire0%
  • VEXED - Negative Energy0%
  • Vortex - The Future Remains In Oblivion0%
  • Conquer Divide – Slow Burn0%
  • Crown the Empire – Dogma0%
  • Cyhra – The Vertigo Trigger0%
  • Act of Impalement - Infernal Ordinance0%
  • After Earth - The Rarity of Reason0%
  • Disimperium – Grand Insurgence upon Despotic Altars0%
  • An Autumn for Crippled Children - Closure0%
  • Asking Alexandria - Where Do We Go From Here?0%
  • Escape the Fate – Out of the Shadows0%
  • Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab0%
  • Extermination Dismemberment – Dehumanization Protocol0%
  • Caskets - Reflections0%
  • Filter – The Algorithm0%
  • Gozu – Remedy0%
  • Creak - Depth Perception0%
  • Helfró – Tálgröf0%
  • Acid Magus - Hope is Heavy0%
  • Heretoir – Nightsphere0%
  • Dead and Dripping - Blackened Cerebral Rifts0%
  • Death Engine - Ocean0%
  • Exmortus - Necrophony0%
  • Jag Panzer – The Hallowed0%
  • Fall of the Albatross - Rite0%
  • Jarhead Fertilizer – Carceral Warfare0%
  • Kohnerah - Ominous Uniquitous0%
  • Leper Colony - Leper Colony0%
  • Grand Cadaver - Deities of Deathlike Sleep0%
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse0%
  • Oak Pantheon - The Absence0%
  • Graveripper - Seasons Dreaming Death0%
  • KK's Priest – The Sinner Rides Again0%
  • Kommand – Death Age0%
  • Polar - Everywhere, Everything0%
  • Krallice – Porous Resonance Abyss0%
  • SCALP - Black Tar0%
  • Incantation - Unholy Deification0%
  • Krieg – Ruiner0%
  • Turbid North - The Decline0%
  • Kallias - First Ascent0%
  • Lordi – Screem Writers Guild0%
  • Kataklysm - Goliath0%
  • Lurk – Aegis0%
  • Massen - Gentle Brutality0%
  • Monasteries - Ominous0%
  • Anachronism - Meanders0%
  • Moon Coven - Sun King0%
  • Minenwerfer – Feuerwalze0%
  • Move BHC - Black Radical Love0%
  • Mithridatum – Harrowing0%
  • Aphyxion - Ad Astra0%
  • Nott - Hiraeth0%
  • Mizmor – Prosaic0%
  • Ashen Horde - Antimony0%
  • Morbikon – Ov Mournful Twilight0%
  • Atrocity - OKKULT III0%
  • Orphalis - As The Ashes Settle0%
  • Mork – Dypet0%
  • Reformat - Precursed0%
  • Necronomicon – Constant to Death0%
  • Bodyfarm - Ultimate Abomination0%
  • Ringworm - Seeing Through Fire0%
  • Negative Vortex – Tomb Absolute0%
  • Delain - Dark Waters0%
  • Royal Deceit - III0%
  • Nekus – Sepulchral Divination0%
  • Depravation - IV:LETVM0%
  • Shepherds Reign - Ala Mai0%
  • Designer Disguise - Elswaer0%
  • Order of Decay – Mortification Rites0%
  • Sisters - Leecheater0%
  • Osiah – Kairos0%
  • Something is Waiting - Absolutely0%
  • Phlebotomized - Clouds of Confusion0%
  • Powerwolf – Interludium0%
  • Going Off - What Makes You Tick?0%
  • Profanatica – Crux Simplex0%
  • Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting To Die0%
  • Tegmentum - Evolvement0%
  • Psygnosis – Mercury0%
  • Half Me - Soma0%
  • The Arson Project - God Bless0%
  • Re-Buried – Repulsive Nature0%
  • The Word Alive - Hard Reset0%
  • Rise of the Northstar – Showdown0%
  • HOST - IX0%
  • Till The Dirt - Outside The Spiral0%
  • To Kill Achilles - Recovery0%
  • Ruïm – Black Royal Spiritism – I O Sino da Igreja0%
  • Ruin Lust – Dissimulant0%
  • Werewolves - My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me0%
  • Runemagick – Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind0%
  • Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore0%
  • Atoll - Human Extract0%
  • Sacrificium – Oblivion0%
  • Klone - Meanwhile0%
  • Sarcoptes – Prayers to Oblivion0%
  • 1476 – In Exile0%
  • Shade Empire – Sunholy0%
  • Memoriam - Rise To Power0%
  • Static Abyss – Aborted from Reality0%
  • Negative Blast - Echo Planet0%
  • Steel Panther – On the Prowl0%
  • Nothingness - Supraliminal0%
  • Asinhell - Impii Hora0%
  • Stoned Jesus – Father Light0%
  • Ophiocordyceps - Anthropocene0%
  • Altarage - Worst Case Scenario0%
  • Stortregn – Finitude0%
  • Atena - Subway Anthem0%
  • Story of the Year – Tear Me to Pieces0%
  • See You Next Tuesday - Distractions0%
  • Baroness - STONE0%
  • BEAR - Vanta0%
  • The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts0%
  • Sepolcral - Scourge0%
  • Besra - Transitions0%
  • The Eating Cave – The Miscalculation0%
  • TankZilla - TankZilla0%
  • Blind Equation - DEATH AWAITS0%
  • The Hirsch Effekt – Urian0%
  • The Enigma Division - The Enigma Division0%
  • The Mosaic Window – Plight of Acceptance0%
  • The Ongoing Concept – Again0%
  • Ulthar - Anthronomicon0%
  • Ulthar - Helionomicon0%
  • Torture Rack – Primeval Onslaught0%
  • Venomous Concept - The Good Ship Lollipop0%
  • Capra - Errors0%
  • Úlfúð – Of Existential Distortion0%
  • Chaver - Of Gloom0%
  • Unfelled – Pall of Endless Perdition0%
  • Carrion - Morbid Nailgun Necropsy0%
  • Usnea – Bathed in Light0%
  • Entheos - Time Will Take Us All0%
  • VARATHRON - The Crimson Temple0%
  • Dayshell - Pegasus0%
  • Vile Ritual – Caverns of Occultic Hatred0%
  • Deadly Carnage - Endless Blue0%
  • Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death0%
  • Voice of Ruin - Cold Epiphany0%
  • Viscera - Carcinogenesis0%
  • Witch Ripper - The Flight After the Fall0%
  • Fabricant - Drudge To The Thicket0%
  • Witchthroat Serpent – Trove of Oddities at the Devil's Driveway0%
  • Fiends - Insolent Noise0%
  • Astray Valley- Midnight Sun0%
  • ANGRA - Cycles of Pain0%
  • EKTOMORF - Vivid Black0%
  • As Everything Unfolds - Ultraviolet0%
  • Genus Ordinis Dei - The Beginning0%
  • August Burns Red - Death Below0%
  • Fossilization - Leprous Daylight0%
  • Baby Metal - The Other One0%
  • MARS RED SKY - Dawn Of The Dusk0%
  • Black Orchid Empire - Tempus Veritas0%
  • Gendo Ikari - ROKUBUNGI0%
  • Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun0%
  • Graveyard - 60%
  • Chelsea Grin - Suffer in Heaven0%
  • Great Falls - Objects Without Pain0%
  • Unprocessed - ...and everything in between0%
  • Choof - Dimwitted Amoral Exploitation0%
  • Varg – Ewige Wacht0%
  • Dawn of Ouroboros - Velvet Incandescence0%
  • VoidCeremony – Threads of Unknowing0%
  • Dawn Ray'd - To Know the Light0%
  • Hanging Fortress - Suspended in Torment0%
  • Cryptworm - Oozing Radioactive Vomition0%
  • Demonstealer - The Propaganda Machine0%
  • Harmagedon - Dystopian Dreams0%
  • Embrace Your Punishment - Made Of Stone0%
  • Devangelic - Xul0%
  • Heart Of A Coward - This place only brings death0%
  • Hexvessel - Polar Veil0%
  • Panzerchrist - Last of a Kind0%
  • Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust0%
  • Karras - We Poison Their Young0%
  • Rage Behind - Eminence Or Disgrace0%
  • Dystersol - Anaemic0%
  • Stress Positions - Harsh Reality0%
  • Kill Devil Hill - Seas of Oblivion0%
  • Enter Shikari - A Kiss for the Whole World0%
  • Magnitude - Of Days Renewed...0%
  • Marduk - Memento Mori0%
  • Blow Your Brains Out - BIG ESCAPE0%
  • For The Fallen Dreams - For The Fallen Dreams0%
  • Envision - The Gods That Built Tomorrow0%
  • Modder - The Great Liberation Through Hearing0%
  • Skourge - Torrential Torment0%
  • Necrotted - Imperium0%
  • Nervosa - Jailbreak0%
  • Seven Doors - Feast Of The Repulsive Dead0%
  • GEL - Only Constant0%
  • Night in Gales - The Black Stream0%
  • Gideon - MORE POWER. MORE PAIN.0%
  • Phobocosm – Foreordained0%
  • Omnivortex - Circulate0%
  • Raider - Trial by Chaos0%
  • Outergods - A Kingdom Built Upon the Wreckage of Heaven0%
  • Graveworm - Killing Innocence0%
  • Pain of Truth - Not Through Blood0%
  • Hanging Garden - The Garden0%
  • Pomegranate Tiger - All Input is Error0%
  • Hatesphere - Hatred Reborn0%
  • Rebaelliun - Under the Sign of Rebellion0%
  • Invent Animate - Heavener0%
  • Resolve - Human0%
  • Ironmaster - Weapons of Spiritual Carnage0%
  • ROT AWAY - Heavy Weight0%
  • Serration - Simulations of Hell0%
  • Kruelty - Untopia0%
  • Soen - Memorial0%
  • Stitched Up Heart - To The Wolves0%
  • Netherlands - Severance0%
  • Ohhms - Rot0%
  • Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith0%
  • Taproot - SCSSRS0%
  • Overkill - Scorched0%
  • Terminalist - The Crisis as Condition0%
  • Terra Builder - Solar Temple0%
  • Preadatory Void - Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being0%
  • Riverhead - Cancer0%
  • Unity TX - Ferality0%
  • Shores of Null - The Loss of Beauty0%
  • Violent Life Violent Death - Break.Burn.End0%
  • Sleepsculptor - Divine Recalibration0%
  • War of Ages - Dominion0%
  • Solitaris - Siwa0%
  • Afterbirth - In But Not Of0%
  • Arborescence of Wrath - Inferno0%
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  • Telos - Delude0%
  • Beartooth - The Surface0%
  • Ten56. - Downer0%
  • Berzerker Legion - Chaos Will Reign0%
  • Terranoct - Icon of Ruin0%
  • Body Void - Atrocity Machine0%
  • The Fallen Prophets - Perpetual Damnation0%
  • Carnation - Cursed Mortality0%
  • Corrosive - Wrath of the Witch0%
  • These Beasts - Cares, Wills, Wants0%
  • Tribe of Pazuzu - Blasphemous Prophecies0%
  • Walking Corpse – Our Hands, Your Throat0%
  • Decembre Noir - Your Sunset | My Sunrise0%
  • Arrival of Autumn - Kingdom Undone0%
  • Dopelord - Songs For Satan0%
  • Dream Unending/Worm - Starpath0%
  • End - The Sin of Human Frailty0%
  • Burial Clouds - Last Days of a Dying World0%
  • Endseeker - Global Worming0%
  • Flesh of the Stars - The Glass Garden0%
  • Glacier Eater - Tempest0%
  • Go Ahead and Die - Unhealthy Machanisms0%
  • Hollow Front - The fear of Letting Go0%
  • Howling Giant - Glass Future0%
  • Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis0%
  • Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination0%
  • Magdalene - The Dying Process0%
  • Herod - Iconoclast0%
  • Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar0%
  • Immerse - ENERGY0%
  • Martyrdoom - As Torment Prevails0%
  • In Fear - All Is.All Sall Be0%
  • Matelotage - Seasick0%
  • Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift0%
  • Olkoth - At The Eye of Chaos0%
  • Mouth For War - Bleed Yourself0%
  • Phoxjaw - notverynicecream0%
  • SERVERS - The Vertical Plane0%
  • October Tide - The Cancer Pledge0%
  • Of Mice & Men - Tether0%
  • Of Virtue - Omen0%
  • The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow0%
  • On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay0%
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  • ONI - The Silver Line0%
  • Restless Spirit - Afterimage0%
  • Rile - Pessimist0%
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  • Sepulchral Curse - Abhorrent Dimensions0%
  • Vomitheist - NekroFvneral0%
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  • Aeffect - Theory of Mind0%
  • Svartkonst - May the Night Fall0%
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  • alt. - ABEYANCE0%
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  • The Voynich Code - Insomnia0%
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14 thoughts on “Best Album of 2023 – Readers’ Choice”

  1. Matti Heikkinen says:

    Swansong offers hard banging and great riffs and beautiful melodies, combined with Jemiina’s growling voice on her debut. On this album, you can hear influences from the 80s/90s death and black , which personally warmed the heart. This album definitely represents contemporary melodic death metal, but the most important thing for the listener is their own style and sound. I got chills many times while listening to this album. The album has a lot to say that deals with difficult topics, which certainly gives many people something to stick to, which is a good thing. This is the best domestic  album I’ve listened to in 2023.

  2. Anonymous says:

    The best album of the year!

  6. Matias says:

    Swansong debut is best album in a long long time.

  7. Anonymous says:

    Thanks guys. Really enjoy the content.

  8. Vicki Maria Halvorsen says:

    Forcefed horsehead, Monoceros 👍🤩

  12. Juho Pennanen says:

    Swansong on Paras, todella kova Debyytti albumi. Soundit laulu ja kitara riffit ja rummut, kaikki niin täydellisessä tasapainossa, ja tarjoaa upean kokonaisuuden. 🤘🤘

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