Necrotic Nick's Top 40 Best Albums of 2023 Pt. 3: THE TOP 10! 

Never say this channel is sad or not an accomplishment! It's always a joy to watch a bunch of dudes discuss the things they love, especially when it's as weird as Mutoid Man. You guys have allowed me to love some very strange music, and the act of saying I do is fun for its own sake. I haven't had the time to keep up with many new releases since I'm working my way through fully understanding the classics. Here are my ten favorite albums I discovered this year though, even if most didn't come out this year. 1. Colors - Between the Buried and Me (Changed my life due to Jammin Jon's recommendation) 2. Ultimate Instinct - Intestine Baalism 3. The Oncoming Storm - Unearth 4. State of Insurgency - HeXeN (I'd personally say worth a retro review. Absolutely fantastic thrash with my favorite Ed Repka piece) 5. Here Lies Humanity - Fog of War 6. Destroy the Opposition - Dying Fetus 7. Pierced from Within - Suffocation 8. Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags - Hellripper 9. Those Once Loyal - Bolt Thrower 10. Mirrorworlds - Eucharist And when I say that Colors changed my life, that's really true. Nothing has been quite the same, in the best way, since it clicked. Here's hoping 2024 will have another buffet of bangers!

Love the variety of your list. Thank you

Good stuff, thanks!

Happy birthday man! You’re always my go to for reviews and albums I may have missed! Thanks for a great year!

Dying Fetus' album is my #1. Its an instant DM classic. Was lucky enough to catch em live last month and was killer as usual.

Good googly moogly, holy hell in a hot tub! I haven't been able to stop listening to Mutoid Man since hearing your review of this new album!

Thanks for all the work that you've done with your lists. I really appreciate the hell out of what you guys do. You all made me aware of bands that i never knew excited

Great list Nick. A lot of these are the tops for me as well. Really frigging amazing year, every year that goes by it just never slows down. Hope you have a great holidays and I'll catch you on a stream soon! \m/

Really like your list - great job!!!

Closing in on 20k subs! Congrats!

Thanks for all your videos this year, much appreciated. I always discover some gems from your content. Case in point, that Sermon album. I hadn't heard of it until today... what a great album!

Excellent list Nick, just finished my top 30. Bit of a mixed bag of metal, prog and hard rock 1) Haken - Fauna 2) Enforced - War Remains 3) Enslaved - Heimdal 4) Century - The Conquest of Time 5) Jordso - Salighet 6) Tusmorke - Hestehoven 7) Hellripper - Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags 8) Cryptopsy - As Gommorah Burns 9) Mesarthim - Arrival 10) Tygers of Pan Tang - Bloodlines 11) Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars 12) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit 13) Ulthar - Anthronomicon/Helionomicon 14) Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us 15) Blazon Rite - Wild Rites And Ancient Songs 16) Rival Sons - Lightbringer 17) Elegant Weapons - Horns For A Halo 18) Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts 19) Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab 20) Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 21) Devangelic - Xul 22) Insomnium - Anno 1696 23) Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of The Thorned Castle 24) Obituary - Dying of Everything 25) Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance 26) The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 27) Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution - Golden Age of Music 28) Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows 29) Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade 30) Enterre Vivant - Shigenso

Thanks for sharing and select the most fulminant Metal albums off last year🖤🤟 I didn't know about bands like Bacterial Husk and the ''seven crowns and Seven Seals'' by Sulphur Aeon, both are pretty freaking sick among a bunch bands ya quoted right there... Thanks dude, all HAIL Thralls of MetaL🤘🤘

Thanks for the list and for another great year of reviews. Don't be ashamed about how meaningful this is; you get to impact an entire community of people, man. That's quite the ripple effect and you are using it for good!

Dude, Sermon and Katatonia are on the top of my list. Excellent selection. I think it's great that you have such a broad selection on your entire list. 🤘🤘🤘

Mutoid Man hell yeah 🙌

I'm glad to see I listened to 7 of these and they all slay. Really need to go on Sulphur Aeon, Autopsy and Sermon

Surprising picks, Nick! Good show, sir. Here's to prepping our ears to 2024! Cheers!

Hadn't heard of the Sermon album, had a listen and ordered the record. Top tip. Thanks for sharing your countdown! Great channel.

Couldn't agree more with your #1, my most listened to album of the year and it came out in august. Killer list, thanks

Its great we share a few of the same albums in our top 10...Mine are - Katatonia-Sky Void Of Stars 2.Asinhell -Impii Hora 3.URNE -A feast On Sorrow 5.Sermon - Of Golden Verse 6.Memoriam -Rise To Power 7.The Lions Daughter -Bath House 8.Thy Catafalque -Alfold 9.King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard -Petrodragonic 10.Hellripper -Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags

That was quite a list, full of amazing music Nick! This year was just packed with killer stuff and I would lose my mind to rank my favourite releases 😄. I spent a lot of my time with new records from Memoriam, Weald and Woe and King Gizzard. Keep up the good work! 🤘

Hey Nik, thanks for the Devangelic mention. You describing them as a band like Nile made me go and check them out. They are a great band with a ton of atmosphere. Totally dug it. Happy Birthday man.

I normally don't care much for review stuff but I totally dig this channel, I look under rocks for new music but you guys have shown me new rocks to look under so many thanks. Next year I am very much looking forward to hearing the new Ihsahn and Borknagar.

Thanks for the amazing list and Happy Birthday Nick i knew on the list that either Cattle or Horrendous number 1 days ago way before the list. Anyway my album is Terrasite by Cattle then The Lion's Daughter Bath House and Horrendous Ontological Mysterium.

What an awesome top 10 you have! And I don’t wanna spoil my personal album of the year for metal and for non-metal because it’s going to be unveiled in January as part of the Golden Wheel Awards (which, FYI, is my channel’s awards show).

Awesome list Nick! You're right, this year is absolutely loaded with killer releases. I'm up over 800 albums and a little over 200 EPs/Splits (i do download a lot but also support a ton of physical media) Horrendous being number 1 is no suprise as that album is peak and super killer. I'm more than likely going with a four way tie for AOTY and doing a top 100 which will suck to whittle down. I cant wait see what 2024 brings and you guys bring the killer videos!

I have 4 of these in my Top ten. Cruciamentum, Autopsy, Sulfur aeon. Horrendous spinning all the time. One of those where I hear something new each time. Great year! Thanks so much for helping to get my ears on so much new music. Cheers. Edit: you will want to hear Valdrin. ( your neighbors from Cincy!)

Amazing year for music and the channel. Appreciate all you do, its helped get me through a fairly terrible year. My top 10 would be 1. Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance 2. Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us 3. Asagraum - Veil Of Death Ruptured 4. Notturno - Inside 5. Ahab - The Coral Tombs 6. Cattle Decapitation - Terrisite 7. Wayfarer - American Gothic 8. Insomnium - Anno 1696 9. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 10. Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow

I haven't even heard of your #1😮 I need to check it out straight away.

Damn, did Hellripper's Warlock Grims & Withered Hags come out this year??? Time sure flies, man, definitely my no. 1 this year! \m/

Half an hour ago I had never heard of Sermon. Curious as I was, checked them out. What a fine surprise. Somewhere in between Tool, the older Ocean Collective and Katatonia. But the drummer is just killing it. Excellent stuff! Nice list btw. My top 5 includes Horrendous, Enslaved, Thantifaxath, Insomnium and Cattle D.

My list: 1) Afterbirth - In But Not Of 2) Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle 3) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 4) Wayfarer - American Gothic 5) Triumpher - Storming The Walls 6) Convocation - No Dawn For The Caliginous Night 7) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 8) Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar 9) Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold 10) Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 11) Stortregn - Finitude 12) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us 13) A Constant Knowledge of Death - Dissecting A One-Winged Bird 14) Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis 15) Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions 16) Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death 17) Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance 18) Mystery - Redemption 19) Nospün - Opus 20) Enforced - War Remains 21) Demoniac - Nube Negra 22) Insomnium - Anno 1696 23) Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current 24) Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance 25) Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain 26) Oromet - S/T 27) Acausal Intrusion - Panpsychism 28) Inherits The Void - The Impending Fall of the Stars 29) The Lion's Daughter - Bath House 30) Gravesend - Gowanus Death Stomp 31) Century - The Conquest Of Time 32) Telos - Delude 33) Minenwerfer - Feuerwalze 34) Cruel Force - Dawn Of The Axe 35) Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht 36) TesseracT - War Of Being 37) Purification - Elphinstone 38) Avenade - Our Raging God Unknown to Us 39) Hellwitch - Annihilational Intercention 40) Twilight Force - At the Heart of Wintervale 41. Godflesh - Purge 42) Terrifier - Trample The Weak, Devour The Dead 43) Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign 44) Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament 45) Gridlink - Coronet Juniper 46) Agriculture - S/T 47) Winger - Seven 48) Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Rapture 49) Unearth - The Wretched, The Ruinous 50) Primordial - How It Ends * Here's for a 2024 full of bangers and without stinkers!

I agree with Horrendous...two you don't have on your list are Wayfarer & Haunt (this is such a fun record). Thanks for the effort to rank these albums yet another year!

Great list Nick. Great channel thanks for all the recommendations my top 5: 1 Malokarpatan 2 Dødheimsgard 3 Enslaved 4 Horrendous 5 Tanith Another great year still have so much to catch up on

Absolutely LOVE that you included Autopsy’s new one in your top 5. I don’t know about you but I’ve seen far to many elitists out there who still want to convey that only their first two albums are worth hearing. I absolutely love everything if theirs, including from the comeback with Macabre Eternal all the way up to the new one this year. And honestly, I prefer the clearer production that they have since their first comeback. Still haven’t decided if i like it better than Morbidity, but the production on it is perfect to me. Also, I will check out the new Cruciamentum ASAP since I remember they are heavily influenced by Incantation, which is also an all time favorite of mine, along with Autopsy. Thanks for always having albums on your top lists that I haven’t heard of yet😊

Maybe had 15 this year 🤔 😁 1- Thy Catafalque - Alfold 2- Obituary - dying of everything 3- Majesties - vast reaches unclaimed 4- enslaved - Heimdal 5- Ningen Isu - Shikisoku Zekuu 6- Wayfarer- American Gothic 7- Tygers of Pan Tang - bloodlines 8- Blackbraid- ll 9- cannibal corpse- chaos horrific 10- Tribunal - weight of remembrance 11- Guts - decay Maybe only 11... Honorable mentions- Max Fckn Cavalera!!!!! Primordial Finsterforst Skalmold Voivod Godflesh Prong So many more this year....

When I didn't see you mention your #1 in the previous two videos I just knew it was coming in your top ten for sure. But I didn't think it was going to be your #1 of 2023. But it is an amazing album. Your Top 40 was filled with alot of incredible Metal albums. And I'm going to be checking out a bunch of them that passed me bye. Thanks for all the recommendations. Great video brother. Congratulations to you all for 5years.🤘🍺

Nice tops Nick! Respect on the #2 position!! Regarding your #1, I don't get that album haha, much prefered the one before - this last one is too all over the place for me BUT you are like the 4th dude that are putting them at the top so hey it worked! Happy holidays! Hail Satan.

Killer list as always man. Mutoid Man could've easily ended up on my list but unfortunately my listening habits this year meant I didn't return to it as much as I could've. But it's a fucking incredible album regardless, I put it on again last night and was kinda kicking myself for not including it. I'll be damned if I'm changing my list now though 🤣 Horrendous is absolutely justified as the top spot aswell, that one also completely caught me off guard, because it is just light years ahead of what they were doing before. Absolute gem of an album, much like every one in my top 20. My list has definitely got a few similarities here though. I could call all the albums in my top 10 masterpieces, in fact I could also say my entire top 20 blew me away, but my top 2 in particular are just light years ahead of everything else for me and continue to completely blow me away even now. Here's mine: 10) Sermon - Of Golden Verse (I also had no idea about them until maybe a week before the album came out and I am now a huge fan) 9) Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death 8) Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags (agree with you, it's their best album yet) 7) Riverside - ID: Entity 6) Suotana - Ounas I 5) Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific (better than Violence Unimagined, which I didn't think they would pull off, and now tied with Kill as my favourite Corpsegrinder era album) 4) Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars (probably the band I became the biggest fan of this year, thanks to this. I went back through the whole catalogue throughout this year and I'd say that this is easily in my top 5 of theirs) 3) Enslaved - Heimdal 2) Haken - Fauna (crept up and up my list the more I listened to it. Even now I still find new things in it and it continues to impress me more with every listen) 1) Cattle Decap - Terrasite (I am gonna be maybe controversial and say it's not just the greatest thing they've ever done, but also one of the greatest death metal albums to come out at least in the past 20 years, maybe one of the best ever. Just an absolute fucking masterpiece, my jaw was on the floor for the whole album and still continues to be with every listen, despite me returning to it more than any other album this year) Have a great holiday period and seeya in 2024! Hopefully we'll have another incredible year for new releases, it's shaping up to be pretty damn good already 🤘🤘

I’m still working on my list but here’s where I stand so far (In alphabetical order): Acid King - Beyond Vision Colter Wall - Little Songs Demons My Friends - Demons Seem to Gather Dorthia Cottrell - Death Folk Country Joanna Sternberg - I’ve Got Me Kamelot - The Awakening Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars Metallica - 72 Seasons Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved! Winery Dogs - III

My top 12 (some non-metal): 12) Enslaved - Heimdal 11) Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex 10) Primal Fear - Code Red 9) Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 8) Prong - State of Emergency 7) Winger - Seven 6) Haken - Fauna 5) Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 4) Cavalera - Bestial Devastation/Morbid Visions 3) Dying Fetus - Make them Beg For Death 2) Anthem - Crimson & Jet Black 1) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽by the way, when did Sorrow came out with their “ second “ album? This year or last year, 2022 or 2923, Or perhaps before, i herad they wrote it back in the 90s , but just now they released it……thank you Nick!!!!

Amazing list bro should out to the entire Thralls team I love this community 🤘

Great picks Nick! I gotta give Enslaved another chance. I've seen nothing but good things about that album but it didn't click with me just yet.

For me, coming from the 90s, I even struggle with how to make a top 40 in 2023 when maybe I can come up with 10 top albums...clearly my problem, however I appreciate your channel and I always follow you, I see that you are passionate and this is a great thing.. the most important in my opinion.. my top albums of 2023 are: ENFORCED - KRUELTY - RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR - ASINHELL - PRONG - DRAIN - GO AHEAD AND DIE - CAVALERA - HELLRIPPER... good album : JUDICIARY - GUILT TRIP - OVERKILL - VAMACHARA - DEAD HEAT - OBITUARY...keep it up, cheers from Italy

Killer list good to see the new hellripper on so many end of year lists as well

Fkn Horrendous man! That album blew me away this year. Might be my favorite. It's their best work so far, and they channeled all the best parts of some classic bands from several genres. Bravo to those guys. I'll be returning to Ontological Mysterium for years to come.

My top pick is Outer Heaven, adore that album. Prong and Angelus Apatrida would make my top 5 as well. Just my 2 cents.

That's a classy list there and belated Happy Birthday greetings to you..🎉 Here's my top 15: 1 Shylmagoghnar - Convergence 2 Enslaved - Heimdal 3 Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire 4 Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 5 Xoth - Exogalactic 6 Deadly Carnage - Endless Blue 7 Farsoth - Morbid Symphonies 8 Sermon - Of Golden Verse 9 Fleshvessel - Yearning Promethean Fates 10 Agriculture - Agriculture 11 Rannoch - Conflagrations 12 Serpent Corpse - Blood Sabbath 13 Hasard - Malivore 14 Vertebra Atlantis 15 Guts - Decay

Man, this year has been so good that I haven't figured it out yet. So far my top 10 goes like this: 1. Sulphur aeon - Seven crowns and seven seals 2. Cattle decapitation - Terrasite 3. Enslaved - Heimdal 4. Tesseract - War of being 5. Haken - Fauna 6. Horrendous - Ontological mysterium 7. Dying Fetus - Make them beg for death 8. Katatonia - Sky void of stars 9. Cloak - Black flame eternal 10. Stortregn - Finitude Thanks for all the amazing content that you guys do! I have discovered lots of amazing bands thanks to your reviews and collection updates!

Here's my humble top ten: 1. Excarnated Entity - Mass Grave Horizon 2. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions 3. Profane Order - One Nightmare Unto Another 4. Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm 5. Skourge - Torrential Torment 6. Tetragrammacide - Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an 7. Arbor - Behold…The Age of Pagan Blood 8. Fossilization - Leprous Daylight 9. Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars 10. Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity

This was an absolutely amazing year for music. These year end lists are always fun to watch. My favorites this year (in no particular order) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Enslaved - Heimdal Mutoid Man - Mutants Ahab - Coral Tombs David Eugene Edwards - Hyacinth

Discovered so many awesome bands since I start following this channel earlier this year! Great end of the year list, got me listening to a few new bands. Check out: Burner - it all returns to nothing. Cheers to the team 🤘

What a year! Making a list was not easy. A top 50 would definitely be possible seeing how amazing this year has been, but i'll stick to 15. I am VERY surprised that you never reviewed Putrid Yell on your channel. I think you would love it. Maybe you missed it? If so, check it out! Top 15 for me: 1. Ascended Dead - Evenfall Of The Apocalypse 2. Demonic Incarnate - Abyssal Sermons Of Desolation 3. Tetragrammacide - Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an 4. Sulphuric Death - Beyond The Void Of Doom 5. Putrid Yell - Consuming Aberration 6. Disimperium - Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars 7. Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis 8. Nekus - Sepulchral Divination 9. Supremative - Goat Blood Communion 10. Funeral Vomit - Monumental Putrescence 11. Deiphage - Nuclear Cavalry 12. Black Wound - Warping Structure 13. Invultation - Feral Legion 14. Hate Manifesto - Α​​​π​​​ο​​​σ​​​τ​​​α​​​τ​​​η​​​ς 15. Desekryptor - Vortex Oblivion

great list Nick !! 🤘MY TOP 10 ALBUMS 2023🤘 In no particular order 💀 ENSLAVED - Heimdal AUTOPSY - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts ASINHELL - Impii Hora ENFORCED - War Remains WINGS OF STEEL - Gates of Twilight OBITUARY - Dying of Everything HELLRIPPER - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags SACRED OUTCRY - Towers of Gold CATTLE DECAPITATION - Terrasite MYSTIC PROPHECY - Hellriot 🤘Honorable Mentions - ALICE COOPER - Road METAL CHURCH - Congregation of Annihilation SPIRIT ADRIFT - Ghost At The Gallows PRONG - State Of Emergency DRAIN - Living Proof CANNIBAL CORPSE - Chaos Horrific ASHEN - Ritual of Ash CREEPING DEATH - Boundless Domain

Great list and I have nine out of the ten you've listed in my collection, only minus Mutoid Man which I'll have to check out! Was a fantastic year for all genres and difficult breaking it down into a top ten but here's my list! Wayfarer- American Gothic Tomb Mold- The Enduring Spirit Eternal Rot- Moribund Dying Fetus- Make them Beg for Death Flesher- Tales of Grotesque Demise Autopsy- Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts Enforced- War Remains Incantation- Unholy Deification Horrendous- Ontological Mysterium Godthrymm- Distortions.

I should listen to the Hellripper joint again, it was very cool, probably should have been on my list, is definitely in the top 50. That Enslaved album is almost perfect but that second track "Jettegryta" throws things off with its monotonous opening and structure. Still glad I saw them live on that tour and will end up spinning that lp a lot. That Katatonia album is the best stuff I've heard from them, planned to give it another listen. Love that Sulphur Aeon and of course Horrendous Still haven't heard that Autopsy, I am cramming albums the rest of the week and its in the queue. I will check out those other death albums you recommended.

Killer list, as always! Surprised not to see Guts’ debut album “Decay” or Vastum’s new release “Inward To Gethsemane” on here, though. I know they’re both lesser known bands (especially Guts being brand new to the scene) but goddamn did those releases destroy me. Top two death metal releases of the year for me. Maybe you just haven’t heard them yet, in which case, wtf are you doing Nick

Another solid list and I'm quite surprised with your number 1 pick. Horrendous is another band i need to check out.

I'm glad that I discovered your channel guys, which was maybe this year or late last year, can't really remember when time goes by so fast. 🤔 Anyway, I found a lot of good bands by you, always a joy to watch you guys discuss so thanks (or as we Swedes says, tack så mycket) for that. 😄🤘 And here's my favorite of 2023 and in no particular order I just went with the first thing that came to my head and it made me go nuts at how many albums I liked from this year and I can probably name a lot more than this but here you go. 😅 Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Floor Jansen - Paragon Birdflesh - Sickness In The North Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll October Tide - The Cancer Pledge W.E.B. - Into Hell Fire We Burn (which is just an ep but I liked it) The Magus - Βυσσοδομώντας Atonement - Sadistic Invaders Asagraum - Veil of Death, Ruptured Incantation - Unholy Deification Ché Aimee Dorval - The Crowned Eternal Evil - The Gates Beyond Mortality Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow Grá - Lycaon Nervosa - Jailbreak Plaguemace - Reptilian Warlords Svartkonst - May The Night Fall Cobra Spell - 666 Interemo - Buried In Rotten Remains Rotten Sound - Apocalypse Xorsist - At The Somber Steps To Serenity Wretched Fate - Carnal Heresy The Arson Project - God Bless Thulcandra - Hail The Abyss Grand Cadaver - Deities of Deathlike Sleep Burning Witches - The Dark Tower Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Phantom - Handed to Execution Blackbraid - II Mork - Dypet Berzerker Legion - Chaos Will Reign Tsjuder - Helvegr Speedwhore - Visions of a Parallel World Enforced - War Remains Tyranex - Reasons for the Slaughter Mezzrow - Summon Thy Demons Kataklysm - Goliath Go Ahead and Die - Unhealthy Mechanisms Sadus - The Shadow Inside

Great list. I need to check out the Autopsy and a few others you mentioned. I love death metal and this year was incredible. Here is my list: 1. Dying Fetus-Make Them Beg for Death 2. Enslaved-Heimdal 3. Suffocation-Hymns from the Apocrypha 4. Cannibal Corpse-Chaos Horrific 5. Cryptopsy-As Gomorrah Burns 6. Incantation-Unholy Deification 7. Overkill-Scorched 8. Cattle Decapitation-Terrasite 9. Marduk-Memento Mori 10. Obituary-Dying of Everything

Absolutely killer top 40 list there’s a couple I need to check out this year off your list..this was ridiculously stacked with great albums here’s my top 10 metal albums honorable mention to Fuming Mouth…Autopsy…Celestial Sanctuary…Ulthar I’m just keeping to 10 on here but I could do 50. Band names only to make it simple 10. UADA 9. KRUELTY 8. UNEARTH 7. HELLRIPPER 6. HORRENDOUS 5. OUTER HEAVEN 4. TOMB MOLD 3. MAJESTIES 2. SULPHUR AEON 1. CAT DECAP Cheers can’t wait for 24!!!

Sulphur aeon and hellripper are top bands for me. Two bands that i didciverd because of you guys👍👍

Hey, Nick, great list. Thanks for the great content all year round. Looking forward to year 6! I’ve been prevaricating on making my own list. For one thing, I haven’t been able to listen to as much music as I wanted to this year. For another, I haven’t had time to put as much thought into it as I should’ve. Oh, well. Here is the top 10! 10: Hellripper 9: Creeping Death 8: Wayfarer 7: Blackbraid 6: Leipa 5: Smoulder 4: Necropanther 3: Sulphur Aeon 2: Church of Misery 1: Horrendous I haven’t even listed to Taake, that Lizard Gizzard Wizard ?! thing, CC, Cattle Decap yet. And some others too. Too much music! Honourable mentions include Enslaved, Imperium Dekadenz, Enforced, Ulthar, Outer Heaven, that Dream Unending/Worm split, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, Dying Fetuss,Tomb Mold, Stortregn and more.

I loved the yearly summation vids dude. Thralls is still my go to. My top 5 for the year in any order. Kalmah Mutants Horrendous Crypta Enslaved I listen to alot of music, from all genres. I love when I get done and say, "Whoa, I've never heard anything like that before." or "how did they think to go there." Mutants and Ontological Hysterium are mind blowing albums. I know melodeath is mum right now, but Kalmahs last album is freaking killer. My personal favorite Finnish release since AYDY.

I was not blown away by hellripper. He needs a full band I feel

Are y'all doing a viewer response video of upcoming albums? 😁🤘🖤💯☠️🎸🔥

In no order: Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination Sermon - Of Golden Verse (you guys introduced me to them, so thank you) Obituary - Dying Of Everything Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Honorable mentions: Dethklok - Dethalbum IV Twilight Force - At The Heart of Wintervale (I love me some cheesy power metal) Nick, if you haven't checked out that King Gizzard album yet, you should. They play a bunch of different sounds, but that album is proggy stoner thrash and it's perfect

Humanitys Last Breath - Ashen Violet Cold - Multieverse Tsjuder - Helvegr Frontieres - La Trilogie Escape From Wonderland - Pieces Atoll - Human Extract End - The SinOf Human Fraility Ten56 - downer part 1 and 2 To The Grave - Offcuts Disfiguring The Goddess - The Brutal Machine

Great list. So many to listen to. Thought Vomitory might make the bottom of the list. Was hoping for Spirit Possession to make it. Cattle Decap seems like some of the best contemporary music this year of any kind.

Throughout all three videos, I was like "why isn't he mentioning MY personal #1?!". Oh, that's because it's your #1 too. 😁👍

My picks for 2023 1. Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current 2. Haken - Fauna 3. Alkaloid - Numen 4. Ahab - The Coral Tombs 5. Enslaved - Heimdal 6. Avenged Sevenfold - Life is but a Dream 7. Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle 8. Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows 9. (A tie!) Crown Lands - Citadel / Scorched Moon - Obsidia 10. Godthrymm - Distortions

Some bangers in this pic. Autopsy was my number 4.

I feel like I've just discovered a hidden gem that specifically yoy and Jon would love. It's proggy death mixed with some blackened hardcore lol. So much going on in this album. They're called Unfurl and they're incredible. Definitely just jumped into my top 50 for the year

Thanks Nick, lot of albums i have to go through. My top albums Metide - Erebos Blackbraid Nemesis Sopor - Firmament Mizmor - Prosaic Frozen Soul Mephoras - Krystl-Ah Disguised Malignance - Entering the gateways (wow what a DM-debut by these 'kids' ) Manbryne - Interregnum Convocation - No dawn for the Caliginous night

Great top 10 list Nick. My top 5 would be . 5.) King Abyss - Snake Oil 4.) Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions 3.) Sadus - The Shadow Inside 2.) Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals 1.) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

Excellent list, sir! 👍 Considering how much you like that Horrendous album, I find it strange, that Alkaloid 'Numen' didn't even enter your 40 best releases of 2023? I think they really took progressive, spacy death metal to new heights on that one.. 🤗 Regarding that Cruciamentum album, like you, that damn thing keeps f*cking up my year end list; each listen make that album claw it's way ever nearer to the absolute top for me.. awesome comeback! 🤘🤘

Happy Five Years! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

What a year! Thanks for all the great Thralls of Metal content! :) My Top 40: 01. Haken - Fauna 02. Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper 03. Ahab - The Coral Tomb 04. Dödheimsgard - Black Medium Current 05. Epheles - Promesses 06. Thy Darkened Shade - Liver Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya 07. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals 08. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions 09. Trespasser - ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ 10. Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar 11. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 12. Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory 13. REZN - Solace 14. Arkona - Kob' 15. Temic - Terror Management Theory 16. Aetherian - At Storm's Edge 17. Aara - Triade III: Nyx 18. Godthrymm - Distortions 19. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis 20. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 21. Asinhell - Impii Hora 22. Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll 23. Serpent Of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun 24. Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts 25. Gorod - The Orb 26. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death 27. Thron - Dust 28. Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow 29. Predatory Void - Seven Keys To The Discomfort Of Being 30. Wayfarer - American Gothic 31. Somniate - We Have Proved Death 32. Varathron - The Crimson Temple 33. Suel - Venomous Curse 34. Tar Pond - Petrol 35. Pénitence Onirique - Nature Morte 36. Stortregn - Finitude 37. Mizmor - Prosaic 38. Hinayana - Shatter And Fall 39. The Night Eternal - Fatale 40. Entheos - Time Will Take Us All

Amazing top 10. Enslaved was my number 1 favorite metal album of the year. Sulphur Aeon, Horrendous, and Hellripper were also in my top 10. I also thought the new Cruciamentum, Katatonia, Baroness, Autopsy, and Mutoid Man we’re decent too.

Hi, Nick. Check out the new By Fire And Sword album. It's a bit like a trad metal Ghost. They have a fun fake Christian gimmick too.

You guys have a great channel, discovered a lot of new music. Thank you for this. These are my best 15 albums of 2023. 1. Mänbryne - Interregnum: O Próbie Wiary I Jarzmie Zwatpiena 2. Ruïm - Black Royal Spiritism - i. o sino da igreja 3. Angrenost - Magna Lua Ordem Mistica 4. Cattle Decapation - Terrasite 5. Izrod - Sarajevski Odisej 6. Taake - Et Hav Av Avstand 7. Excommunicatio - Kodex Luzifer 8. Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current 9. Carnation - Cursed Moratilaty 10. Afsky - Om Hundrede Ar 11. Uada - Crepuscule Natura 12. Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha 13. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions 14. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis 15. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

Glad to see Hellripper and Sulphur Aeon on your list, my friend. :) Here's my official Top 25 of 2023. Like you said, there was so much killer music this year that it was hard to pick and decide my favorite albums. Too many honorable mentions to name... lol 25. Tsjuder - Helvegr 24. Godflesh - Purge 23. Krigsgrav - Fires in the Fall 22. Neo Inferno 262 - Pleonectic 21. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit 20. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 19. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death 18. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns 17. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals 16. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody 15. Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows 14. In Flames - Foregone 13. Blut aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab 12. Ulthar - Anthronomicon/Helionomicon 11. Baroness - Stone 10. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 9. Sermon - Of Golden Verse 8. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed 7. Enslaved - Heimdal 6. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 5. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 4. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis 3. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II 2. Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF 2023: Wayfarer - American Gothic

I dig you my brother from another mother..

Flat out amazing top 40.

I saw horrendous live theyre awesome , you should check ouut , torture enduring freedom my favorite album of the year . Dripping is also really sick they recently reunited to tour and release new stuff , cheers and happy birthday :D

My top 30. It's still a work in progress, really, but here we go. A few albums suffer from me not listening to it until very recently (Malokarpatan, Wayfarer, Cirith Ungol). Oh, and I include EPs and demos as well: 30. Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade 29. Gatekeeper - From Western Shores 28. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current 27. Aldheorte - Upon Dying Fields 26. Faidra - Militant : Penitent : Triumphant 25. Nechrotik Veil - Desolate Emptiness 24. Ave Sanguine - By Clandestine Will 23. Nexorum - Tongue of Thorns 22. Non Est Deus - Legacy 21. Wayfarer - American Gothic 20. Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar 19. Moortrieder - Towards the Hills of Triumph 18. Enslaved - Heimdal 17. Stangarigel - Na Severe Srdca 16. Tempel Wolf - Hirschgeweihmaskeraden 15. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 14. Sacred Outcry - Tower of Gold 13. Afsky - Om Hundrede År 12. Mänbryne - Interregnum 11. A la fin de l'univers - Le Voyageur 10. NONE - Inevitable 9. Nordicwinter - The Mournful Dawn 8. Manii - Innerst i Mørket 7. Unviâr - Faliscjis 6. Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore 5. Aara - Triade III: Nyx 4. Keep of Kalessin - Katharsis 3. Lumsk - Fremmede Toner 2. Oerheks - Landschapsanachronismen (also gotta mention the freshly released 'Grondslagen', which compiles all three of Oerheks' demos. Really good release. They released two demos this year and both would've made the list if I included more than one release per band) 1. Antrisch - Expedition II: Die Passage

I haven't listened to the Horrendous album yet. My pics are: Enslaved, Hellripper, Baroness, Insomnium, Ne Obliviscaris, Cattle Decapitation, Haken and Dodheimsgard. Thanks

This year was great for metal I really enjoyed Festerdecays album mainly because I enjoy Carcass worship

i'm genuinely curious, and hate to be that guy but where is Outer Heaven and King Gizzard?! LOVED this series from you Nick. best heavy music RU-vid show there is out there. will Jammin' Jon be making one?

Horrendous was my fav too. It’s a firework show. Did you listen to the new album or ep by Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean? Rannoch and Cursebinder also put out awesome releases this year.

That Horrendous is great. My top albums that I don’t think you had- Asagraum, Thulcandra, Crystal Coffin, Malokarpatan, Marte, Graveripper.

Fave albums this year AsinHell : impii hora Cattle decapitation : terrasite Katatonia : sky void of stars Nervosa: jailbreak Enslaved: heimdal Enforced : war remains Blood ceremony: old ways remain Paradise lost: icon 30 Depeche mode: memento Mori Cruciamentum: obsidian refractions Crypta : shades of sorrow But check it out AsinHell : the songs trophies and inner sancticide rule , great riffs, drums, vocals Bolt thrower. Entombed, autopsy and death I know u love them then this album is for u 🤘👍 L Love the channel

Fucking Killer list man! My Number one is Cruciamentum! Two is Sulphur Aeon! Three is Dying Fetus! 💀🤘💀🤘💀🤘

My Top 10: 01. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current 02. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 03. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death 04. Enslaved - Heimdal 05. Green Lung - This Heathen Land 06. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns 07. Baroness - Stone 08. Cruel Force - Dawn of the Axe 09. Ahab - The Coral Tombs 10. Obituary - Dying of Everything

I was waiting for your final list for this but I thought I'd share my list! I did a top 20 this year. We have some similarities and some of your picks are in my top 20. Coincidentally, we share a #1! Thanks for your lists, man. I have plenty of new listening to keep me busy because of it. Here's mine: 1. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 2. Enforced - War Remains 3. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 4. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit 5. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory 6. Nothingness - Supraliminal 7. Ulthar - Anthronomicon/Helionomicon 8. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 9. Metallica - 72 Seasons Metallica - 72 Seasons 10. Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths 11. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death 12. Blindfolded and Led to the Woods - Rejecting Obliteration 13. Creeping Death - Boundless Domain 14. Aetherian - At Storm’s Edge 15. Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination 16. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 17. Snorlax - The Necrotrophic Abyss 18. Re-Buried - Repulsive Nature 19. Baroness - Stone 20. Green Lung - The Heathen Land

Cruciamentum and Autopsy would be in my list too. I'd add Fossilization, CC, Gravesend and Dripping Decay as well.

Kickass top 10. I keep forgetting to check out Horrendous and I need to go back and give Cruciamentum more listens. Here are my top 10 metal albums of 2023. 1. Mesarthim - Arrival (atmospheric black metal/trance) 2. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II (atmospheric black metal/melodic black metal) 3. Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask (blackened hardcore/post-metal/post-rock) 4. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory (atmospheric black metal/folk) 5. Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen (progressive post-black metal) 6. Sermon - Of Golden Verse (progressive metal/alternative metal/post-metal) 7. Olde Throne - In the Land of Ghosts (atmospheric black metal) 8. Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home (atmospheric black metal) 9. Thy Catafalque - Alf​ö​ld (avant-garde metal: black metal/death metal/heavy metal/folk/jazz/electronic) 10. Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us (melodic death-doom)

Me and you both have enslaved at 2. That album is a masterpiece!