23 Jan 2024

TOP 50 METAL ALBUMS OF 2023


Initially, every album on this list was going to be reviewed, but at some point it dawned on me that there's just too many albums for me personally to review, since 2023 was a very productive year for metal (as you can see from this list). I figured it's better if I publish each review individually and get my list out as soon as possible since people were already waiting for it. I only had about 21 reviews ready, so you can imagine how much longer it would have taken me to finish the article if every review were to be included. I may update this list again later if I come across more killer shit. I hope this list will be useful for those who may have missed out on some of these amazing releases. If I missed some important titles, don't fret, I'll probably review them at some point, or you can just send me an email to give me a heads up. Thanks for browsing, and I wish all you maniacs and music nerds a prosperous 2024, so without further ado, here are my favourite albums of 2023 IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:


50. 


INFERNAL EXECRATOR (SGP)
 
Diabolatry

Pulverised Records


49.


FAITHXTRACTOR (US)

Contempt for a Failed Dimension

Redefining Darkness Records


48.


ESKHATON (AUS)

Horracle

Hells Headbangers Records


47.


APHELIUM AETERNUM (DEU)

Dark interstellar Mysteries

Dominance of Darkness Records


46.


DIABOLICAL MESSIAH (CHL)

Satanic Alpha-Omega

Veins Full of Wrath Productions


45.


IZROD (BiH)

Sarajevski Odisej

Signal Rex 


44.


ABYSSAL RIFT (US)

Extirpation Dirge

Sentient Ruin Laboratories


43.


MORTUARY DRAPE (ITL)

Black Mirror

Peaceville Records


42.


MISANTHROPY APOTHEOSIS (GRC)

Crush the Mask of Virtue

Repulsive Echo Records


41.


NOTHINGNESS (US)

Supraliminal

Everlasting Spew Records


40.


THUNRAZ (EST)

Revelation

Independent 


39.


THY DARKENED SHADE (GRC)

Liber Lvcifer II – Mahapralaya

World Terror Committee Productions


38.


TRAMALIZER (FIN)

Fumes of Funeral Pyres

Soulseller Records


37.


ATONEMENT (SWE)

Sadistic Invaders

Dying Victims Productions


36.


SHADOWS (CHL)

Out for Blood

Sentient Ruin Laboratories


35.


CRUCIAMENTUM (UK)

Obsidian Refractions

Profound Lore Records


34.


MORKERA (HRV)

Aggravations

Independent


33.


KEN MODE (CAN)

Void

Artoffact Records
 

32.


BLOOD SERPENT (VN)

Bestial Extermination

House of Ygra


31.


IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT (US)

Ancient Glacial Resurgence

Debemur Morti Productions


30.


CEMETERY URN (AUS) 
 
Suffer the Fallen

Hells Headbangers Records 


29.


ALCHEMY OF FLESH (US)

By Will Alone

Redefining Darkness Records


28.


AEON VOID (TR)

Fragments of Illusion

Zazen Sounds 

27.


AUTOPSY (US)

Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts

Peaceville Records


26.


INCANTATION (US)

Unholy Deification

Relapse Records


25.


REBEALLIUN (BRA)

Under The Sign of Rebellion

Agonia Records


24.


BLACK EUCHARIST (US)

Inn of the Vaticide

Stygian Black Hand


23.


ASCENDED DEAD (US)

Evenfall of the Apocalypse

20 Buck Spin 


22.


SPIRIT POSSESSION (US)

Of the Sign…

Profound Lore 


21.


THE NEGATIVE BIAS (AUT)

The Seven Seals of Saligia

Vendetta Records


20.


CIRITH UNGOL (US)

Dark Parade

Metal Blade Records


19.



MARDUK (SWE)

Memento Mori

Century Media Records


18.


WARGOAT (GRC)

Mysteries of Primitive Damnation

Angel of Cemetery RecordS


17.


COMBAT NOISE (CUBA)

To the Heart of the Battle

Independent


16.


MÊLÉE DES AURORES (CAN)

Aube Cannibale

Sepulchral Productions


15.


VILE RITUAL (US)

Caverns of Occultic Hatred

Sentient Ruin Laboratories


14.


FESTERDECAY (JPN)

Reality Rotten to the Core

Everlasting Spew Records


13.


BLUT AUS NORD

Disharmonium – Nahab

Debemur Morti Productions


12.


STARGAZER (AUS)

Bound by Spells

Nuclear War Now! Productions


11.


TETRAGRAMMACIDE (IND)

Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an

Iron Bonehead Productions


10.


MAZE OF TERROR (PE)

The Night Where The Evil Prevails

Selvajaria Records


9.


BASTARD GRAVE (SWE)

Vortex of Disgust

Pulverised Records


8.


PROFANATICA (US)

Crux Simplex

Season of Mist Underground Activists


7.


NUCLEARHAMMER (CAN)

Xaos Tenawas - Demo MMXXIII

Nuclear War Now! Productions 


6.


SAMMATH (NDL)

Grebbeberg

Hammerheart Records 


5.


VARATHRON (GRC)

The Crimson Temple

Agonia Records


4.


ONE MASTER

The Names of Power

Eternal Death


3.


DEMONCY (US)

Black Star Gnosis

Dark Descent Records


2. 


ASTRIFEROUS (CR)

Pulsations from the Black Orb

Me Saco un Ojo Records


1.


ANGRENOST (PT)

Magna Lua Ordem Mística

Norma Evangelium Diaboli