Best of 2023

[ochoill]

I suppose it's time to start thinking about it.  I will probably revise this list the more I check out this month (same as every year, whatever I missed or needs a second chance will be revisited now) but these are, in no order, some of my favourites.

My absolute favourite mind is Great Falls - "Objects Without Pain"; it's just absolutely savage noise rock/hardcore/sludge/fuck knows what, I must have listened to it forty times since it came out.  High on the list is Dodheimsgard, Rezn, and Thantifaxath too, all got plenty of spins.  Anyway post your own lists, give out a bit, give me more to check out.

Dodheimsgard   -   Black Medium Current
Hands Up Who Wants To Die   -   Nil All
James Holden   -   Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities
Spotlights   -   Alchemy for the Dead
Rezn   -   Solace
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs   -   Land of Sleeper
Jaaw   -   Supercluster
Godflesh   -   Purge
Thantifaxath   -   Hive Mind Narcosis
Agriculture    -   Agriculture
Various Artists   -   Heiladans 7
Blut Aus Nord   -   Disharmonium: Nahab
Celestial Sanctuary   -   Insatiable Thirst for Torment
Jute Gyte   -   Unus Mundus Patet
Tomb Mold   -   The Enduring Spirit
Great Falls   -   Objects Without Pain
Shardborne    -   Oars in the Water
Hexvessel   -   Polar Veil

[Carnage]

Haven't bought much this year but in alphabetical order:

Autopsy: Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts
Cannibal Corpse: Chaos Horrific
The Enigma Division: s/t
Enslaved: Heimdal
Geist: Blueprints To Moderate Sedation
Godflesh: Purge
The Grief: Crucible
Grief Symposium: In The Absence Of Light
Grim Ravine: Upon The Darkest Shores
Memoriam: Rise To Power & War Rages On - Artefacts
The Mountain King / Gate To Xibalba: split
Obituary: Dying Of Everything
Quiet Man: The Starving Lesson
Slung From A Tree: Voyage Into Cosmos
Swans: The Beggar
Therapy?: Hard Cold Fire
Tooms: The Schmeckoning & Proper Fuckin Live Style
True Home: Black Lotus
Tumanduumband: Throne Of Grief
Úath: s/t

There's a couple there I have yet to pick up, have them downloaded.

[ochoill]

Few on there I forgot meself (Tooms and SFAT both deadly releases) and more to check out too.  Grand.

[Trev]

Wasn't staying up to date on new releases at all this year, but really enjoyed everything I did end up picking up

Xoth - Exogalactic
Gama Bomb - Bats
Alkaloid - Numen
Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

[Rosco]

Hyperdontia- Deranged e.p
Ulthar-Anthronomicon
Autopsy-Ashes,organs,blood and crypts
Nothingness-Supraliminal
Vomitory-All heads gonna roll
Vastum-Inward to gethsemane
Horrendous-Ontological mysterium

[Anvil]

These two really stand out for me (I think they are 2023).

Megaton Sword - Might and Power
Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed

Also
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
Marduk - Mememto Mori
Cruel Force - Dawn of the Axe
Mortuary Drape - Black Mirror

(my memory is shit, so I'll add to this when I remember what was actually released this year)

[Circlepit]

The Majesties album is great so is the Megaton Sword.

Temple Of Scorn - Funeral Altar Epiphanies.
Putrascension - Forever Below.
Disguised Malignance - Entering The Gateways.
Verminous Serpent - The Malign Covenant.
Marduk - Mememto Mori.
Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death.
Altari - Kröflueldar.
 
Probably more but that's is for now.

[Mithrandir]

Cruel Force - Dawn of the Axe
Slidhr - White Hart!
Nuovo Testmento  - Love
Sacred Outcry - Towers of Gold
Black Magick SS - Burning Bridges

These have been doing it for me this year, probably others that I can't think of. Malokarpatan will likely be in there once I get around to it properly.

[Thorn]

Cruel Force and Slidhr will undoubtedly be in my Top Twenty when I put it up at Xmas

[Ollie]

These two really stand out for me (I think they are 2023).

Megaton Sword - Might and Power
Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed

Also
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
Marduk - Mememto Mori
Cruel Force - Dawn of the Axe

(my memory is shit, so I'll add to this when I remember what was actually released this year)

Megaton Sword was so good

[Eoin McLove]

I still haven't picked up the new Megaton Sword 

[Thorn]

Megaton Sword currently at my Number 2!

[Don Gately]

Katatinia - Sky void of stars
PANOPTICON - Rime of memory

[boozegeune]

Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed

I've picked up practically nothing from beyond April/May, it will take me til summer 2024 to figure out what else I liked.

[Don Gately]

New Ahab very good also