Top Albums of 2023
Somehow it seems I never actually published my Top Albums of 2022 here, which I must rectify soon - however, after much anguish and culling and pulling 50 albums into the “Top of 2023 Runners Up” overflow list, here’s my favourite 100 albums (that I managed to get around to listening to) split into two alphabetical lists, along with the runners up/honourable mentions list - no rankings here!
The playlists are also exported to Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music:
- ...And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs (Deluxe Edition)
- All My Shadows - Eerie Monsters
- Anachronism - Meanders
- Angra - Cycles Of Pain
- Archon Angel - II
- AVKRVST - The Approbation
- Blackbird Angels - Solsorte
- Bosco Sacro - Gem
- Cløudy Skies - Changes
- Coridian - Hava
- Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
- DGM - Life
- Dozer - Drifting In The Endless Void
- Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
- Elderseer - Drown In The Shallowness
- Extreme - SIX
- GODTHRYMM - Distortions
- Hail the Void - Memento Mori
- Hanging Garden - The Garden
- Hypno5e - Sheol
- Insomnium - Anno 1696
- Iterum Nata - Trench of Loneliness
- Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
- Lalu - The Fish Who Wanted To Be King
- Mesmur - Chthonic
- Molybaron - Something Ominous
- Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift
- Obituary - Dying of Everything
- Obsidian Tide - The Grand Crescendo
- Oxbow - Love's Holiday
- Pattern-Seeking Animals - Spooky Action at a Distance
- Ray Alder - II
- Ronnie Atkins - Trinity
- Servant - Aetas Ascensus
- Shores Of Null - The Loss of Beauty
- Soen - Memorial
- Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper
- Space Paranoids - Badlands Ride
- Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
- TEMIC - Terror Management Theory
- Tesseract - War Of Being
- The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness
- The Glorious Dead - Cemetery Paths
- The Ocean - Holocene
- Thy Catafalque - Alföld
- Tog - MEGAMAX
- Toumaï - Tempus Fugit
- Vorna - Aamunkoi
- Wayfarer - American Gothic
- Winger - Seven
- Agusa - Prima Materia
- Allfather - A Violent Truth
- Angelus Apatrida - Aftermath (Bonus Tracks Edition)
- Apotheus - Ergo Atlas
- Ashen Horde - Antimony
- Black Orchid Empire - Tempus Veritas
- Blindfolded and Led to the Woods - Rejecting Obliteration
- Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
- Contrail Architects - Guarded Cave
- Crown Lands - Fearless
- Decipher - Arcane Paths to Resurrection
- Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
- Dream The Electric Sleep - American Mystic
- Einar Solberg - 16
- Enslaved - Heimdal
- Gloom Is Okay - Gloom is Okay
- Gorod - The Orb
- Haken - Fauna (Deluxe Edition)
- Heroes And Monsters - Heroes and Monsters
- In Flames - Foregone
- Isole - Anesidora
- Jackie Venson - Evolution of Joy
- Klone - Meanwhile
- Marco Minnemann - Their Colors Fade
- Mice on Stilts - I Am Proud of You
- Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1
- Nott - Hiraeth
- Oblivion Protocol - The Fall of the Shires
- Ofnus - Time Held Me Grey and Dying
- Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding
- Prins Svart - Till vårt försvar
- Riverside - ID.Entity (Deluxe Edition)
- Serpent Of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun
- Shodan - None Shall Prevail
- Sodomisery - Mazzaroth
- Sól án varma - Sól án varma
- Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows
- Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals
- TeN - Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Necrosis
- The Burning Paris - Everything is Broken & I Don't Feel a Thing
- The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors - A Clock Without A Craftsman
- The World Is Quiet Here - Zon
- Tidal Wave - The Lord Knows
- Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
- Varathron - The Crimson Temple
- Voyager - Fearless in Love
- Wilczyca - Magija
- Wooden Veins - Imploding Waves
- Zustand Null - Beyond The Limit of Sanity
- The Abbey - Word of Sin
- Ahab - The Coral Tombs
- Aodon - Portraits
- Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution, Ayreon - Golden Age of Music
- Atomwinter - Sakrileg
- Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But a Dream…
- Big Big Train - Summer Shall Not Fade
- Big Red Fire Truck - Trouble In Paradise
- Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
- Bloodbound - Tales from the North
- Bruce Soord - Luminescence
- Church of Misery / Sheavy - Born Under a Mad Sign
- Creye - III: Weightless
- Dead Shrine - The Eightfold Path
- The Dear Hunter - Migrant Returned
- Dorthia Cottrell - Death Folk Country
- Drain - LIVING PROOF
- Glass Hammer - ARISE
- Gong - Unending Ascending
- Grandma's Ashes - This Too Shall Pass
- Heleven - New Horizons, Pt. 1
- Hibernaut - Ingress
- Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
- Incantation - Unholy Deification
- King Abyss - Snake Oil
- Kohnerah - Ominous Ubiquitous
- Kvelertak - Endling
- Leper Colony - Leper Colony
- The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
- Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht
- Mystic Prophecy - Hellriot
- Narrative - Servants of the Prophets, Martyrs of Men
- Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
- Neal Morse - The Dreamer - Joseph, Pt. 1
- Ninth Circle - Dis, Emerge
- Overkill - Scorched
- Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE / CONTINUATION. LIVE. AMSTERDAM 07/11/22
- Pyramid Mass - Monolith
- Ramage Inc - Humanity Has Failed
- Restless Spirit - Afterimage
- Ronnie Romero - Raised on Heavy Radio
- Roots of the Old Oak - The Devil and his Wicked Ways
- Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
- Sweet & Lynch - Heart & Sacrifice
- Sylosis - A Sign of Things to Come
- Ulthar - Anthronomicon
- Ulthar - Helionomicon
- Vega - Battlelines
- Veilcaste - Precipice
- The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
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Somehow it seems I never actually published my Top Albums of 2022 here, which I must rectify soon - however, after much anguish and culling and pulling 50 albums into the “Top of 2023 Runners Up” overflow list, here’s my favourite 100 albums (that I managed to get around to listening to) split into two alphabetical lists - no rankings here!