Best albums of 2023

[hellboy]

It's December, so let's get to it. Here's a list of all the records I've enjoyed this year. Feel free to let me know what I've missed!

Jesus Piece - ...So Unknown
Metallica - 72 Seasons
URNE - A Feast On Sorrow
Zulu - A New Tomorrow
Sylosis - A Sign of Things to Come
Rid Of Me - Access To The Lonely
Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll
Rotten Sound - Apocalypse
Vermintide - Ashamed Of My Species
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
Destiny Bond - Be My Vengeance
SCALP - Black Tar
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
Pupil Slicer - Blossom
Forest Swords - Bolted
Industrial Puke - Born Into the Twisting Rope
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
These Beasts - Cares, Wills, Wants
Harms Way - Common Suffering
Geld - Currency // Castration
Bloodgutter - Death Mountain
Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music
Ostraca - Disaster
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Negative Blast - Echo Planet
3TEETH - EndEx
Disguised Malignance - Entering the Gateways
Sonic Poison - Eruption
Iggy Pop - EVERY LOSER
Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1
thrown - EXTENDED PAIN
mr.phylzzz - Fat Chance
Polaris - Fatalism
AKANAME - Filthlicker
Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows
The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery
Better Lovers - God Made Me An Animal
Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike
Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha
Ingrina - Ice Flares
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths
Thee Oh Sees, Osees - Intercepted Message
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
DRAIN - LIVING PROOF
Endless Swarm - Manifested Forms
Great Falls - Objects Without Pain
The Armed - Perfect Saviors
Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Radiant Knife - Pressure
The Stools - R U Saved?
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
Dave Lombardo - Rites Of Percussion
Empire State Bastard - Rivers Of Heresy
Rorcal - Silence
Coffin Mulch - Spectral Intercession
Spiritual Cramp - Spiritual Cramp
Nothingness - Supraliminal
The C.I.A. - Surgery Channel
Yakuza - Sutra
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
CIVIC - Taken by Force
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Code Orange - The Above
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord
Obelyskkh - The Ultimate Grace Of God
Organ Dealer - The Weight of Being
Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around
Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM
The Turin Horse - Unsavory Impurities
Venera - Venera
KEN Mode - VOID
Seer - Vol. 7
Immortal - War Against All
Oozing Wound - We Cater To Cowards
The Hirs Collective, Shirley Manson, AC Sapphire - We're Still Here
Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium
ALL IN - What Remains
Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6c5cw ... 9677f64758

[tys0n]

Are you seeing Drain on Saturday?

Living Proof is in my top 5.

Also no Tesseract - War of Being?

[hellboy]

Are you seeing Drain on Saturday?

Living Proof is in my top 5.

Also no Tesseract - War of Being?

Good call - Tesseract should be on that list.

Away this weekend, so sadly missing Drain and Quicksand

[ms2r]

Listened a lot of older albums this year but the following two 2023 albums I really love:

Afsky – Om Hundrede År
Panopticon - the Rime of Memory

[tys0n]

Missing Homicidal Ecstasy - Sanguisugabogg

[basejumper]

ENJOY


///// Short List //////
Malta Kano - The Malta Kano
Accretionist - Proxima Solaris
Daikaiju - Phase 3
Tree Of Life - Passover
Cigarette Vagina - Cosmic Empathy
Lakes Of Wada - Three
They Watch Us From The Moon - Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1
The Ascension Ohm Square - /0
Humulus - Flowers Of Death
Illusions Of An Orange - Second Illusions
Zeit Driver - Minds Unloaded
I Am Low - Úma
James Ellis Ford - The Hum
IAH - V
Tkivo - Banlands
Stereochrome - Observer
Sleeping Pandora - Solar Island
Teeth Of The Sea - Hive
Oddplay - Inherited /Instrumental
Giant Lungs - Giant Lungs
Orbitron - Cassini
Water Crisis - Songs from the End of the World
Les Évadés - Telepass
Amphibian Man - Path

///// Other 2023 Music /////

Stone Rebel - Space Indigo Part III
Black Sky Giant - Primigenian
Dømon The Architect - Gold
Null-O Band - Combat Droid Lullabies
The Orange Riot Mood - Into the Riot
Reverse Death - Stretching to Infinity
Foreseen - Suspended Reality
Amberjacks - The Ride
Choose The Juice - Meteoria
Carbellion - Weapons Of Choice
Dead Canyon - Wasting Arizona
Smokemaster - Cosmic Connector
Lucie Antunes - Carnaval
:nepaal – Protoaeolianism
OUDEZIEL - Fluistert
Mars City Drive-In - Liquid Purple
Wind In His Hair - Future Primitives
Adapter Adapter - Sleep Spell
Oddplay - Inherited
Dieselbreather - Goddamn Electric Powerhouse Music
Name Of Kings - Yurt
Khan - Creatures
The Shattered Mind Machine - Technokrat
Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd - En plats i solen
Autonomie - No Peace, Only Violence
Turbo Wizard - Barbarian Love Songs
Vista Bruiser - Hokus Smokus
Spagguetta Orghasmmond - Via​​​ţ​​​a e frumoasă
Bend the Future - Sounds So Wrong
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Seeker
Severed Satellites - Aphelion
Skyjelly - Spirit Guide
Tō Yō - Stray Birds From the Far East
The Fierce and The Dead - News From The Invisible World
Elevators To The Grateful Sky - Cloud Eye
Isoptera - Red Giant
Ivy Chalice - Nachtmahr
Analog Sunshine - The Mountain
Dialgo - The Baguette Effect Vol​.​1
Van Groover - Back From The Shop
Astral Wizard - Astral Wizard
Oblivion Castle - Witch's Lament in the Moonlight
Smoke The Light - The Great Never Ending
Zac Crye - Hudu Akil
Mantras - Samsara & Grava Mesago
Mystic Majesty - Speak Your Mind
Tusoc - Éter
Insonika - Lost At Sea
Tommy Guerrero - Amber of Memory
Kleazer - Signals
Massive Hassle - Number One
Below A Silent Sky - Walls Of Light
Miscellen – Contrablonde
The Fulcrum - Collide Booster - Terraglyphs
Treasure Seeker - Secret of Aiun
Cavern Deep - Part II - Breach
Ekaterina Shelehova – Savage Daughter (not an album but love her voice)
Velvet Meadow – Sing Low (Not an album)

[tys0n]

They Watch Us From The Moon - Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1

Can you recommend more like this with female vocals please?

[earthrocker]

Nice lists so far guys.

We've been base jumped!

Never fails to disappoint...thanks mate!

[basejumper]

They Watch Us From The Moon - Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1

Can you recommend more like this with female vocals please?

Maybe try:
Messa
Electric Citizen
Mount Salem
Witch Mountain
Ruby the Hatchet
Brume
Acid King also put out an album earlier this year called - Beyond Vision

[fortysixand2]

Some of my favorite albums in 2023:

Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
††† - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
JK Flesh - NO EXITS
Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease
Godflesh - Purge
EXIT ELECTRONICS - EVERY SHADE OF GREY
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
Slowdive - everything is alive
Explosions in the Sky - End
Final - Oblivion 0
Helms Alee & Melvins - Controlling Data For A Better Feeling Future
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
Baroness - Stone
Swans - The Beggar
Metallica - 72 Seasons
KEN Mode - VOID
Sigur Rós - ÁTTA
Final & Richard Ramirez - Ravine of Spears
Hyunhye Seo - Eel
Xiu Xiu - Ignore Grief
Loud As Giants - Empty Homes

[hellboy]

Some of my favorite albums in 2023:

Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
††† - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
JK Flesh - NO EXITS
Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease
Godflesh - Purge
EXIT ELECTRONICS - EVERY SHADE OF GREY
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
Slowdive - everything is alive
Explosions in the Sky - End
Final - Oblivion 0
Helms Alee & Melvins - Controlling Data For A Better Feeling Future
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
Baroness - Stone
Swans - The Beggar
Metallica - 72 Seasons
KEN Mode - VOID
Sigur Rós - ÁTTA
Final & Richard Ramirez - Ravine of Spears
Hyunhye Seo - Eel
Xiu Xiu - Ignore Grief
Loud As Giants - Empty Homes

Thanks for this - a few there I need to check out

[tys0n]

Witchskull - The Serpent Tide is one that is missing from all your lists

[basejumper]

Last minute additions for a nice listen for 2023.
Digital Carbs - Conform Deform
(Radiohead vibes)



Kosmodrom - Welcome to Reality