Tomb Mold being #1 on the aggregated lists isn't a surprise. The fact Dodheimsgard wound up so high on so many lists kind of surprised me. Maybe we're all getting weirder. Anyway, here's my top 10 of 2023. I'm tempted to fly out to New York for that Tomb Mold/Afterbirth show. I'm also shocked at how much I liked that Gunship album.
Great job and thanks for doing this! This list added like 25 more 2023 albums to my listening list, which already had 25, so I know what I’m doing for the next couple months. If forced to make a top ten right now without hearing those 50, it would look something like this:
1. Venomous Concept, THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP
2. Gridlink, CORONET JUNIPER
3. Hexer, ABYSSAL
4. Tomb Mold, THE ENDURING SPIRIT
5. Ulthar, HELIONOMICON (but not ANTHRONOMICON; I liked it a little less)
6. Godflesh, PURGE
7. Ὁπλίτης, Ψευδομένη (Hoplites, FAKE)
8, Leiþa, REUE
9. Nithing, AGONAL HYMNS
10. Negative Blast, ECHO PLANET
But this leaves out a whole bunch of great albums, like Kostnaténí’s ÚPAL and Lamp of Murmuur’s SATURNIAN BLOODSTORM.
Anyway, can’t wait to see what 2024 and To The Teeth have in store!
Tomb Mold being #1 on the aggregated lists isn't a surprise. The fact Dodheimsgard wound up so high on so many lists kind of surprised me. Maybe we're all getting weirder. Anyway, here's my top 10 of 2023. I'm tempted to fly out to New York for that Tomb Mold/Afterbirth show. I'm also shocked at how much I liked that Gunship album.
1. Afterbirth - In But Not Of
2. Sermon - Of Golden Verse
3. Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations
4. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
5. Haken - Fauna
6. Voyager - Fearless in Love
7. Gunship - Unicorn
8. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
9. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
10. Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium
Great job and thanks for doing this! This list added like 25 more 2023 albums to my listening list, which already had 25, so I know what I’m doing for the next couple months. If forced to make a top ten right now without hearing those 50, it would look something like this:
1. Venomous Concept, THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP
2. Gridlink, CORONET JUNIPER
3. Hexer, ABYSSAL
4. Tomb Mold, THE ENDURING SPIRIT
5. Ulthar, HELIONOMICON (but not ANTHRONOMICON; I liked it a little less)
6. Godflesh, PURGE
7. Ὁπλίτης, Ψευδομένη (Hoplites, FAKE)
8, Leiþa, REUE
9. Nithing, AGONAL HYMNS
10. Negative Blast, ECHO PLANET
But this leaves out a whole bunch of great albums, like Kostnaténí’s ÚPAL and Lamp of Murmuur’s SATURNIAN BLOODSTORM.
Anyway, can’t wait to see what 2024 and To The Teeth have in store!
I really have to go listen to Nithing. Cheers!
Happy new year! Which means happy new Ὁπλίτης album. https://hoplites.bandcamp.com/album/--8
Yay! Thanks for all the hard work you put into this, Peter!
Thanks for reading Johan!
Interesting result as always, thanks for the effort and initiative!
Thanks as always Peter! Such a pity, no Ahab or Anachronism.