AUTOTHRALL'S ANNUAL ANNULMENT

If you're seeking a much longer list of great releases in 2023, check out my top 100 metal albums for 2003 list over at my Rate Your Music Page. If you want even more, there's a backup list with another 100 that includes a few of the EPs, but not necessarily the same ones I've listed below. As for an actual ranked list of my top 23 for '23, here goes nothing.

My Top 23 Metal Albums of 2023

01. Malokarpatan (Sk) - Vertumnus Caesar (98)

02. Dodheimsgard (No) - Black Medium Current (95)

03. Flight (No) - Echoes of Journeys Past (93)

04. Hexvessel (Fi) - Polar Veil (92)

05. Kvelertak (No) - Endling (92)

06. Taake (No) - Et hav av avstand (90)

07. Wyrgher (Ch) - Panspermic Warlords (90)

08. Vertebra Atlantis (It) - A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime (90)

09. Primordial (Ie) - How It Ends (90)

10. Thantifaxath (US) - Hive Mind Necrosis (90)

11. Wayfarer (US) - American Gothic (90)

12. Cirith Ungol (US) - Dark Parade (90)

13. Valdrin (US) - Throne of the Lunar Soul (90)

14. Hellripper (UK) - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (90)

15. Fortíð (Is) - Narkissos (88)

16. Blut Aus Nord (Fr) - Disharmonium - Nahab (88)

17. Shining (Se) - Shining (88)

18. Incantation (US) - Unholy Deification (88)

19. Mortuary Drape (It) - Black Mirror (88)

20. Cruel Force (De) - Dawn of the Axe (88)

21. Enslaved (No) - Heimdal (88)

22. At the Altar of the Horned God (Es) - Heart of Silence (87)

23. Green Lung (UK) - This Heathen Land (87)

My Top 23 Metal EPs, Demos and Splits of 2023

01. Lunar Chamber (US) - Shambhallic Vibrations (83)

02. Undergang (Dk) - De syv stadier af ford​æ​rv (83)

03. Tribulation (Se) - Hamartia (83)

04. StarGazer (Au) - Bound by Spells (83)

05. Rites of Tara (Ca) - To the Otherworld of Silver (82)

06. Dream Unending (US)/Worm (US) - Starpath (82)

07. Carathis (At) - The Haunting of Sablewood (82)

08. Ihsahn (No) - Fascination Street Sessions (80)

09. Desekryptor (US) - Curse of the Execrated (80)

10. Amethyst (Ch) - Rock Knights (80)

11. Exhumed (US) - Beyond the Dead (80)

12. Norrhem (Fi)/Sielunvihollinen (Fi) - Split (80)

13. Stangarigel (Sk) - Metafyzika barbarstva (80)

14. Hyrgal (Fr) - Session Fun​é​raire Anno MMXXIII (80)

15. Fluisteraars (Nl) - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo (80) and De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel II: Nergena (80)

16. Sign of Evil (Cl) - Psychodelic Visions (80)

17. Pestifer (Be) - Defeat of the Nemesis (80)

18. Arstidir Lifsins (Is) - Hermalausaz (80)

19. Hænesy (Hu)/Autumn Nostalgie (Sk) - Awaking Mechanon (80)

20. Worm Altar (US) - Astral Scourge (80)

21. Necrovation (Se) - Storm the Void/Starving Grave (78)

22. Abigail (Jp)/Nekrofilth (US) - Fuck in Hells Evil Bitches (77)

23. Undergang (Dk)/Spectral Voice (US) - Split (77)

Slay Bells Ringing

Happy Holidays, thanks for reading as always, and I will return with my year's end lists, and new reviews in January! - autothrall