My favourite albums from 2023

1. 50

   Asking for a Ride

   White Reaper

   

   

   Hard rock | Garage punk

   Tracks:

   1. Asking for a Ride ●
   2. Bozo
   3. Fog Machine
   4. Getting into Trouble w/ the Boss
   5. Funny Farm
   6. Pink Slip
   7. Heaven or Not
   8. Crawlspace
   9. Thorn
   10. Pages

2. 49

   Endling

   Kvelertak

   

   

   Black 'n' roll | Hardcore punk

   Tracks:

   1. Krøtervek Te Helvete
   2. Fedrekult
   3. Likvoke
   4. Motsols
   5. Døgeniktens Kvad ●
   6. Endling
   7. Skoggangr
   8. Paranoia 297
   9. Svart September
   10. Morild

3. 48

   Life Is a Game

   OTTTO

   

   

   Alternative metal | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. My Pain ●
   2. Skyscraper
   3. Night Howlers
   4. Scopa
   5. Let Them Return
   6. Ride Low
   7. Dance of the Dead
   8. Trip
   9. Cosmos
   10. The Void

4. 47

   The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

   The Hives

   

   

   Garage rock

   Tracks:

   1. Bogus Operandi
   2. Trapdoor Solution
   3. Countdown to Shutdown ●
   4. Rigor Mortis Radio
   5. Stick up
   6. Smoke & Mirrors
   7. Crash into the Weekend
   8. Two Kinds of Trouble
   9. The Way the Story Goes
   10. The Bomb
   11. What Did I Ever Do to You?
   12. Step out of the Way

5. 46

   72 Seasons

   Metallica

   

   

   Thrash metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. 72 Seasons
   2. Shadows Follow
   3. Screaming Suicide
   4. Sleepwalk My Life Away
   5. You Must Burn!
   6. Lux Æterna
   7. Crown of Barbed Wire
   8. Chasing Light
   9. If Darkness Had a Son
   10. Too Far Gone?
   11. Room of Mirrors
   12. Inamorata ●

6. 45

   Amen

   The Heavy

   

   

   Blues rock | Soul 'n' roll

   Tracks:

   1. Hurricane Coming
   2. Ain't a Love
   3. Bad Motherfucker
   4. I Feel the Love ●
   5. Messin' with My Mind
   6. Stone Cold Killer
   7. Just Like Summer
   8. A Whole Lot of Me
   9. Feels Like Rain
   10. Without a Woman

7. 44

   Starcatcher

   Greta Van Fleet

   

   

   Blues rock | Psychedelic rock

   Tracks:

   1. Fate of the Faithful
   2. Waited All Your Life
   3. The Falling Sky
   4. Sacred the Thread ●
   5. Runaway Blues
   6. The Indigo Streak
   7. Frozen Light
   8. The Archer
   9. Meeting the Master
   10. Farewell for Now

8. 43

   The Old Ways Remain

   Blood Ceremony

   

   

   Occult rock | Heavy psych

   Tracks:

   1. The Hellfire Club
   2. Ipsissimus
   3. Eugenie
   4. Lolly Willows
   5. Powers of Darkness ●
   6. The Bonfires at Belloc Coombe
   7. Widdershins
   8. Hecate
   9. Mossy Wood
   10. Song of the Morrow

9. 42

   In Times New Roman

   Queens of the Stone Age

   

   

   Alternative rock | Stoner rock

   Tracks:

   1. Obscenery
   2. Paper Machete ●
   3. Negative Space
   4. Time & Place
   5. Made to Parade
   6. Carnavoyeur
   7. What the Peephole Say
   8. Sicily
   9. Emotion Sickness
   10. Straight Jacket Fitting

10. 41

    Terrasite

    Cattle Decapitation

    

    

    Technical death metal | Deathgrind

    Tracks:

    1. Terrasitic Adaptation
    2. We Eat Our Young
    3. Scourge of the Offspring ●
    4. The Insignificants
    5. The Storm Upstairs
    6. ... and the World Will Go on Without You
    7. A Photic Doom
    8. Dead End Residents
    9. Solastalgia
    10. Just Another Body

11. 40

    Mohini Dey

    Mohini Dey

    

    

    Jazz fusion | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. In-N-Out
    2. Introverted Souls
    3. Bombay Bong
    4. Meat Eater
    5. Coloured Goddess ●
    6. First Food Then You
    7. Kick'B'ass
    8. Emotion
    9. Happy to Slap It

12. 39

    Huldufólk

    SKÁLD

    

    

    Neofolk | Nordic folk

    Tracks:

    1. Troll lakka milk
    2. Ljósálfur
    3. Mánin líður
    4. Ríðum, ríðum
    5. Hinn mikli dreki
    6. Då månen sken ●
    7. Elverhøy
    8. Her mannelig
    9. Rauður loginn brann
    10. Trollslaget
    11. Du hast
    12. A Forest

13. 38

    PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

    King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

    

    

    Thrash metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Motor Spirit
    2. Supercell
    3. Converge ●
    4. Witchcraft
    5. Gila Monster
    6. Dragon
    7. Flamethrower

14. 37

    Rush!

    Måneskin

    

    

    Glam rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Own My Mind
    2. Gossip
    3. Timezone
    4. Bla Bla Bla
    5. Baby Said
    6. Gasoline ●
    7. Feel
    8. Don't Wanna Sleep
    9. Kool Kids
    10. If Not for You
    11. Read Your Diary
    12. Mark Chapman
    13. La fine
    14. Il Dono della Vita
    15. MammaMia
    16. Supermodel
    17. The Loneliest

15. 36

    Bleed out

    Within Temptation

    

    

    Alternative metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. We Go to War ●
    2. Bleed out
    3. Wireless
    4. Worth Dying for
    5. Ritual
    6. Cyanide Love
    7. The Purge
    8. Don't Pray for Me
    9. Shed My Skin
    10. Unbroken
    11. Entertain You

16. 35

    Ghost at the Gallows

    Spirit Adrift

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Give Her to the River
    2. Barn Burner
    3. Hanged Man's Revenge
    4. These Two Hands
    5. Death Won't Stop Me
    6. I Shall Return
    7. Siren of the South
    8. Ghost at the Gallows ●

17. 34

    Safe on the Other Side

    High Spirits

    

    

    Hard rock | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. In the Moonlight
    2. Til the End of Time ●
    3. Lonely Nights
    4. One Day Closer
    5. Anything You Need
    6. (There Will Be) Magic Tonight
    7. Loving You
    8. Please Don't Leave Me Behind
    9. Memories
    10. Good Night

18. 33

    Holocene

    The Ocean

    

    

    Progressive metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Preboreal
    2. Boreal
    3. Sea of Reeds
    4. Atlantic
    5. Subboreal
    6. Unconformities
    7. Parabiosis ●
    8. Subatlantic

19. 32

    Chaos & Colour

    Uriah Heep

    

    

    Hard rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Save Me Tonight ●
    2. Silver Sunlight
    3. Hail the Sunrise
    4. Age of Changes
    5. Hurricane
    6. One Nation, One Sun
    7. Golden Light
    8. You'll Never Be Alone
    9. Fly Like an Eagle
    10. Freedom to Be Free
    11. Closer to Your Dreams

20. 31

    War of Being

    TesseracT

    

    

    Progressive metal | Djent

    Tracks:

    1. Natural Disaster
    2. Echoes
    3. The Grey
    4. Legion
    5. Tender
    6. War of Being ●
    7. Sirens
    8. Burden
    9. Sacrifice

21. 30

    6

    Graveyard

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Godnatt
    2. Twice
    3. I Follow You
    4. Breathe in, Breathe out ●
    5. Sad Song
    6. Just a Drop
    7. Bright Lights
    8. Now Way out
    9. Rampant Fields

22. 29

    Silhouettes of Disgust

    Downfall of Gaia

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Existence of Awe
    2. The Whir of Flies
    3. While Bloodsprings Become Rivers
    4. Bodies as Driftwood ●
    5. Eyes to Burning Skies
    6. Final Vows
    7. Unredeemable
    8. Optograms of Disgust

23. 28

    Laugh Track

    The National

    

    

    Post-punk revival | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Alphabet City ●
    2. Deep End (Paul's in Pieces)
    3. Weird Goodbyes
    4. Turn off the House
    5. Dreaming
    6. Laugh Track
    7. Space Invader
    8. Hornets
    9. Coat on a Hook
    10. Tour Manager
    11. Crumble
    12. Smoke Detector

24. 27

    Wet Ass Plutonium

    Nuclear Power Trio

    

    

    Progressive metal | Funk metal

    Tracks:

    1. W.A.P. (Wet Ass Plutonium) ●
    2. Apocalypse Mao
    3. Nyetflix and Chill
    4. Air Force Fun
    5. Snark Side of the Un
    6. ¡Vamos, Brandito!
    7. Anti-Saxxers (Mandatory Saxination)
    8. Critical Bass Theory
    9. Red Scare Bear Stare

25. 26

    Anno 1696

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. 1696
    2. White Christ ●
    3. Godforsaken
    4. Lilian
    5. Starless Paths
    6. The Witch Hunter
    7. The Unrest
    8. The Rapids

26. 25

    Blackbraid II

    Blackbraid

    

    

    Black metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Autumnal Hearts Ablaze
    2. The Spirit Returns ●
    3. The Wolf That Guides the Hunter's Hand
    4. Spells of the Moon and Earth
    5. Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon
    6. A Song of Death on Winds of Dawn
    7. Celestial Passage
    8. Twilight Hymn of Ancient Blood
    9. Sadness and the Passage of Time and Memory
    10. A Fine Way to Die

27. 24

    Congregation of Annihilation

    Metal Church

    

    

    Thrash metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Another Judgement Day
    2. Congregation of Annihilation
    3. Pick a God and Prey
    4. Children of the Lie ●
    5. Me the Nothing
    6. Making Monsters
    7. Say a Prayer with 7 Bullets
    8. These Violent Thrills
    9. All That We Destroy

28. 23

    Spectra and Obsession

    Amun

    

    

    Post-metal | Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Father's Foundation
    2. Forevermore and Always
    3. Watch for Ghosts
    4. Spectra and Obsession ●
    5. The Mother's Mark
    6. A Sickly Fruit Born of Tragic Love

29. 22

    Stone

    Baroness

    

    

    Sludge metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Embers
    2. Last Word
    3. Beneath the Rose
    4. Choir
    5. The Dirge
    6. Anodyne
    7. Shine ●
    8. Magnolia
    9. Under the Wheel
    10. Bloom

30. 21

    Spine

    Myrkur

    

    

    Ethereal wave | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bålfærd
    2. Like Humans
    3. Mothlike ●
    4. My Blood Is Gold
    5. Spine
    6. Valkyriernes Sang
    7. Blazing Sky
    8. Devil in the Detail
    9. Manneskebarn

31. 20

    Crepuscule Natura

    Uada

    

    

    Melodic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Abyss Gazing Back
    2. Crepuscule Natura
    3. The Dark (Winter)
    4. Retraversing the Void ●
    5. Through the Wax and Through the Wane

32. 19

    I Inside the Old Year Dying

    PJ Harvey

    

    

    Art rock | Indie folk

    Tracks:

    1. Prayer at the Gate ●
    2. Autumn Term
    3. Lwonesome Tonight
    4. Seem an I
    5. The Nether-edge
    6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    7. All Soouls
    8. A Child's Question, August
    9. I Inside the Old I Dying
    10. August
    11. A Child's Question, July
    12. A Noiseless Noise

33. 18

    Sky Void of Stars

    Katatonia

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Austerity
    2. Colossal Shade
    3. Opaline
    4. Birds
    5. Drab Moon
    6. Author
    7. Impermanence
    8. Sclera
    9. Atrium ●
    10. No Beacon to Illuminate Our Fall

34. 17

    Six

    Extreme

    

    

    Hard rock | Funk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rise ●
    2. #Rebel
    3. Banshee
    4. Other Side of the Rainbow
    5. Small Town Beautiful
    6. The Mask
    7. Thicker Than Blood
    8. Save Me
    9. Hurricane
    10. X Out
    11. Beautiful Girls
    12. Here's to the Losers

35. 16

    Scorched

    Overkill

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scorched ●
    2. Goin' Home
    3. The Surgeon
    4. Twist of the Wick
    5. Wicked Place
    6. Won't Be Comin Back
    7. Fever
    8. Harder They Fall
    9. Know Her Name
    10. Bag o' Bones

36. 15

    Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle

    Moonlight Sorcery

    

    

    Melodic black metal | Symphonic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. To Withhold the Day
    2. In Coldest Embrace ●
    3. The Secret of Streaming Blood
    4. Yönsilmä
    5. Vihan Verhon Takaa
    6. The Moonlit Dance of the Twisted Jester's Blood-soaked Rituals
    7. Fire Burns the Horizon
    8. Into the Silvery Shadows of Night
    9. Suden tie (Wolven Hour Part II)

37. 14

    The Harmony Codex

    Steven Wilson

    

    

    Art rock | Electronica

    Tracks:

    1. Inclination
    2. What Life Brings
    3. Economies of Scale
    4. Impossible Tightrope
    5. Rock Bottom
    6. Beautiful Scarecrow ●
    7. The Harmony Codex
    8. Time Is Running out
    9. Actual Brutal Facts
    10. Staircase

38. 13

    First Two Pages of Frankenstein

    The National

    

    

    Post-punk revival | Chamber pop

    Tracks:

    1. Once Upon a Poolside
    2. Eucalyptus
    3. New Order T-Shirt ●
    4. This Isn't Helping
    5. Tropic Morning News
    6. Alien
    7. The Alcott
    8. Grease in Your Hair
    9. Ice Machines
    10. Your Mind Is Not Your Friend
    11. Send for Me

39. 12

    Alföld

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. A csend hegyei
    2. Testen túl
    3. A földdel egyenlő
    4. Alföld ●
    5. Folyondár
    6. Csillagot görgető
    7. A felkelő hold országa
    8. Szíriusz
    9. Néma vermek

40. 11

    Lightbringer

    Rival Sons

    

    

    Blues rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Darkfighter
    2. Mercy
    3. Redemption
    4. Sweet Life ●
    5. Before the Fire
    6. Mosaic

41. 10

    IX

    Host

    

    

    Gothic rock | Darkwave

    Tracks:

    1. Wretched Soul
    2. Tomorrow's Sky ●
    3. Divine Emotion
    4. Hiding from Tomorrow
    5. A Troubled Mind
    6. My Only Escape
    7. Years of Suspicion
    8. Inquisition
    9. Instinct

42. 9

    Screamin' at the Sky

    Black Stone Cherry

    

    

    hard rock | southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. Screamin' at the Sky
    2. Nervous
    3. When the Pain Comes
    4. Out of Pocket
    5. Show Me What It Feels Like ●
    6. R.O.A.R.
    7. Smile, World
    8. The Mess You Made
    9. Who Are You Today?
    10. Not Afraid
    11. Here's to the Hopeless
    12. You Can Have It All

43. 8

    Road

    Alice Cooper

    

    

    garage rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. I'm Alice
    2. Welcome to the Show
    3. All Over the World
    4. Dead Don't Dance
    5. Go Away
    6. White Line Frankenstein ●
    7. Big Boots
    8. Rules of the Road
    9. The Big Goodbye
    10. Road Rats Forever
    11. Baby Please Don't Go
    12. 100 More Miles
    13. Magic Bus

44. 7

    The Rime of Memory

    Panopticon

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. I erindringens høstlige dysterhet
    2. Winter's Ghost ●
    3. Cedar Skeletons
    4. An Autumn Storm
    5. Enduring the Snow Drought
    6. The Blue Against the White

45. 6

    Memorial

    Soen

    

    

    Progressive metal | ALternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sincere
    2. Unbreakable ●
    3. Violence
    4. Fortress
    5. Hollowed
    6. Memorial
    7. Incendiary
    8. Tragedian
    9. Icon
    10. Vitals

46. 5

    Dance Devil Dance

    Avatar

    

    

    Alternative metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dance Devil Dance
    2. Chimp Mosh Pit
    3. Valley of Disease
    4. On the Beach
    5. Do You Feel in Control?
    6. Gotta Wanna Riot
    7. The Dirt I'm Buried in ●
    8. Clouds Dipped in Chrome
    9. Hazmat Suit
    10. Train
    11. Violence No Matter What

47. 4

    Fauna

    Haken

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Taurus
    2. Nightingale
    3. The Alphabet of Me ●
    4. Sempiternal Beings
    5. Beneath the White Rainbow
    6. Island in the Clouds
    7. Lovebite
    8. Elephants Never Forget
    9. Eyes of Ebony

48. 3

    Darkfighter

    Rival Sons

    

    

    Blues rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Mirrors
    2. Nobody Wants to Die
    3. Bird in the Hand
    4. Bright Light ●
    5. Rapture
    6. Guillotine
    7. Horses Breath
    8. Darkside

49. 2

    Hard Cold Fire

    Therapy?

    

    

    Punk rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. They Shoot the Terrible Master
    2. Woe
    3. Joy
    4. Bewildered Herd
    5. Two Wounded Animals
    6. To Disappear
    7. Mongrel
    8. Poundland of Hope and Glory
    9. Ugly ●
    10. Days Kollaps

50. 1

    Foregone

    In Flames

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Beginning of All Things That Will End
    2. State of Slow Decay
    3. Meet Your Maker ●
    4. Bleeding out
    5. Foregone, Pt. 1
    6. Foregone, Pt. 2
    7. Pure Light of Mind
    8. The Great Deceiver
    9. In the Dark
    10. A Dialogue in B Flat Minor
    11. Cynosure
    12. End the Transmission