Spotify's Best Metal of 2023... 

Best Spotify procured playlist I’ve seen yet tbr

The Scoop of Poo was flowery

Antimatter by Silent Planet sounds like Cypher by Northlane

Seems like people are listening to good shit these days

Lotta shit in there too

Myrkur has always existed in the space between Nordic Folk, black metal, and folk metal. And I think a lot of folks don't know what to do with an artist as ambiguous as she is. That twilight existence scares them. If she were only black metal or folk metal, they'd love her. If she were only Viking folk, they'd embrace her like they have Heilung or Wardrunna.

@@princealigorna7468Dude 100%, I love Myrkur’s music, both the black metal and the folk. Average people look at it sideways due to the black metal, and black metal elitists hate it because it’s not “trve” (the fact Myrkur is a woman also plays a role). You end up with this cross genre where nobody’s willing to give it a try.

@@evilemuempire9550 Yeah, it's weird. People give Chelsea Wolfe a pass for mixing folk with doom metal, but not Myrkur mixing folk and black metal? When folk metal as we know it today (Trollhammer, Primordial, Cruachan, Falkenbach) comes out of black metal?

Yeah funny, it's more metal than a lot of the emo/metalcore stuff on the list to me at least.

The Myrkur slander in the video genuinely made me a little sad, haha. I love that record. It isn't heavy, but it's super creative

Foregone pt.1 was straight fire

@@skiandbike131 oh absolutely, that main riff is just so tasty. One of my favorites of theirs, ever.

I was dummy sad, especially since 1916 was a cover/tribute to one of the all-time greats

They must have edited all the good music out.

They played a few festivals in Europe this past summer too

Yeah, i know them for years. They are really good. Their latest album is really good too.

saw them years ago and they were sick

Rotns is awesome. Surprised that nik didn’t knew them.

Hearing that makes me wonder if they are wanting to be affiliated with the Fist of the NorthStar or is just a coincidence

How do you even put those two bands together? Spiritbox is SOOOOOOOOO much better. Sleep Token is literally Baby's first metalcore.

@@IIZylark Not that hard to believe a lot of people would like ST. It’s metal for people who don’t JUST like metal. You’ve seriously never heard a song on the radio and thought it’d sound a lot better with djenty guitars? Sleep Token is just that with extra steps.

​@christianryan9989 Personally, that's exactly why I don't like them. I don't really have a problem with people who like them, but the broad appeal approach of their music is very off-putting to me. Honestly, even more so as someone who enjoys other genres as well. Sleep Token, to me, blends so many different genres. . . and executes many of them poorly. Like, that rap section in Take Me Back to Eden is actually horrid. To me, of course. I can get why people would like them, but personally I just don't get it. Either way, I think it's a bit unfair to say it's metal for people who don't like metal. That sorta comes off (to me) as you saying that those who don't like Sleep Token are metal elitists, and therefore invalid. When it is perfectly possible for someone to just. . . not like them. Either way, I'm glad you can enjoy them. Everything's gonna appeal to someone, and I definitely wish they appealed to me. It's more fun to like than hate a band, honestly.

@@flyingsauce101 It’s valid to not like them, we all perceive music differently. I enjoy them for all the reasons you probably don’t but there’s an obvious uniqueness to their sound that will inevitably attract a lot of love and hate. One way or another, EVERYONE is talking about them. Also, I didn’t say it was metal for people that don’t like metal, but rather people that enjoy many genres including metal. Hell, you’ll find a ST song sandwiched between Kublai Kahn TX and Gideon on my playlist or maybe between a Beatles and Tupac song, ya never know.

@@IIZylark both bands are bad. sleep token isnt even metal, it's more like rock and spiritbox is whatever-core

They were on Pitchfork's best of the year list

Dude I like nick but dam why you gotta just go after them like that there one of the absolute best death metal bands of recent years

I love the riffs of that album it’s heavy and physcadelic (spelt wrong) Also blood incantation’s new song should be in there

agreed man. Not one to be skipped over at all.

@@magnus1249he likes metalcore too much

Antimatter = Northlane - Cypher. Ruined the song for me.

@@heyimaaron96 to each their own, I respect that.

My friend linked me this album on Discord, and after the first 3 songs I decided this is the exact type of music I enjoy. A perfect mix of grunting and clear singing with some absolute blasting in the background. I tried asking him more similar albums and artists, but none clicked just the same way Silent Planet did. Truly a magical album.

Dude they make their rituals feel so special. So many ritual goers got amazing experiences of hearing the songs before they dropped or hearing it the week it dropped. That's got to be a surreal ecstatic experience. And for them to go from no one singing it to the entire audience singing it

It was kinda funny, saw Sleep Token as opener for Architects beginning of last year (before I actually got to know them), and for this years part 2 of the european tour Architects have Spiritbox. Just madness

Honestly I wish spotify picked a different song off the album

Instrumentally great, vocally very very samey :(

It was solid mine was either dying fetus or cryptopsy

@@thepotatolord3052 I'm missing me some good The Zenith Passage man, besides that, solid picks!

@@Z0mb13moon I haven’t listened to that yet I’ll go try it out also new autopsy album is good

ne obliviscaris!

Haken and Periphery are so good dude damnnn

Saw them live. Bryan came out and played with motionless, core memory.

No

Amazing song but no because it's not from this year.

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oh hell yes BEAUTIFUL music

I was looking for people defending Myrkur, glad I've found many here in the comment section. Because I love her, too. ^^

Metal is not exactly the type of music I think of as "tunes to fall asleep to", but you're not the first person I've heard doing so. During my year of mandatory military service, my lower bunk bed buddy listened to the most ear screeching, goat sacrificing death metal one can think of before sleeping. Every morning when I woke up I had to make sure he hadn't drawn pentagrams with his blood to the bottom of my top bunk. Although I did learn to sing out of nowhere after the service, so maybe he did sell my soul to a devil.

dude watch the video first

On the topic of German metal, Annisokay's Human should've absolutely been on here, it has one of the most explosive breakdowns I've ever heard

Could've gone with Vultures of North and called it a day for Orbit Culture.

No Prisoner from Ankor??! By far my most replayed song of theirs this past year.

@@Jarlaxle_Baenre I would have chosen this one but it came out at the very end of 2022 (which I guess could still count as 2023)

"We go to war is also a better choice for Within temptation than Wireless" I absolutely agree. Bleeds Out was also very good but for me We Go To War was their overall best song in 2023.

Need

would help if they released something this year :D

@@bidcs_ it would ur right but in the video some band got chosen and they didnt make shit that year so i was hoping it would happen to loathe too

true@@goth9160

1,000 plays a year doesn't seem like a major threshold to reach to warrant royalties from Spotify. Realistically, it's less than $5 if they reach the lowest threshold of 1,000 players a year.

You know that Nik is really pissed off when his voice goes up 2 octaves

@@daewooharvey if thats true then lol, yea withholding 4 dollars from you from not reaching 1000 unique listeners in 12 months, doesnt mean much. RU-vid requires quite a bit more numbers to be monetised

hey i'm just happy for the exposure I don't really need the 20c

Starting in 2024 Spotify will stop paying anything at all for roughly two-thirds of tracks on the platform. That is any track receiving fewer than 1,000 streams over the period of a year

I've mainly heard them called Post Hardcore but I'm not even sure that's the right genre either. It's a good sign when you can't place a band though, means it's new and original!

Big facts about rock. The best of 23 rock playlist on Spotify is literally just indie rock and bands who still think it’s 2004. No hate, I listen to a lot of that stuff, but I found it weird that the largest music streaming service in world equates indie rock with all rock.

I am obsessed with obsession 😍. Bloody love Aviana

Yeah Myrkur is fucking amazing. I like Chelsea Wolfe better tho

@@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 indie/emo riffing? Lmao, what album did you listen to?

@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 yeah, I've seen that video before, it's very cringe

But doesn't know Tomb Mold, credibility gone.