Go and live your passion

  A genre that I am not usually into and not big in. You won't see most of these on my AOTY list. However, over the past two months, I listened to more doom/stoner/psych albums than I listened to in the past 4 years probably... Therefore this list comes now to remind me of my current flavors... It reflects how I feel about these albums, wondering about tomorrow. If I missed something important, let me know so I can catch up with... 1. Restless Spirit - Afterimage 2. Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows 3. Dozer - Drifting in the Endless Void 4. Marthe - Further In Evil 5. High Priest - Invocation 6. Hail the Void - Memento Mori 7. Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign 8. Godthrymm - Distortions (Bonus Track Version) 9. Green Lung - This Heathen Land 10. Acid Magus - Hope Is Heavy 11. WALLOWING - Earth Reaper 12. Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance 13. Wolfnaut - Return Of The Asteroid 14. Aiwass - The Falling 15. Graveyard - 6 16. Yawning Balch - Volume Two 17. Yawning Balch - ...

  The pretentious mainstream hipster elitist poser's AOTY list of 2023 is here. The ultimate list that makes them all lists. My favorite releases of the year 2023. It features everything that I enjoyed the most throughout this already-dead and-gone year.  When I was preparing this list I looked into all my notes, went through all the monthly lists that I published here and revisited quite a lot of albums. And I must admit that basically, everyone could have a spot in the AOTY lists. It has been a really crazy year - an enormous amount of releases, thousands of bands, and very good albums shortlisted. Literally, almost every band on Earth put out a new album! I already published My Top 50 Death Metal Albums of 2023 and My Top 50 Black Metal Albums of 2023 . Of course, there are some omissions, I realize this. The good news is that I can return to my monthly selections anytime and revisit the good ones. Every time I find a forgotten gem there. You should do the same.  Whil...

Awww, the nice peaceful inclusive and beautiful part of our favorite music - black metal. 😈 Of course for some time black metal is not what it was/is supposed to be. However, some monsters were released in 2023, trying to prove me wrong. To be honest, I am not sure what will be their staying power, but I enjoyed the below 52 - in this dying year now. (In my opinion for another year in a row Death Metal for instance is performing better). What did I miss? This is the eternal question valid for every list. Of course, if you want to go into details for every month of 2023, just go through the other articles. There is more BM available.  Naturaly, there are dAnGeRoUs and sKetChy bands in this list. What did you expect, ah? At the end of the day, it is my list and after almost 35 years spent with this music, I easily can spot the good and the bad MUSIC . And most of all I can listen to whatever I want . Get real.  So here is my selection of peaceful tunes to light up your Christma...

  There you go, another year dead. So what better way to start the celebrations than to list here my most favorite DEATH METAL albums of the year! It is a simple list that corresponds to the way the artworks are ordered on the collage. If you want to dig beyond this list, you can always go back month by month through my selections. You will find there more pretty damn good death metal too.  Death metal album of 2023? It is AFTERBIRTH's In But Not Of. 🔥🔥🔥 And below you can check the full list of those 50 albums. 💀💀💀 1. Afterbirth - In But Not Of ( Bandcamp ) 2. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns & Seven Seals ( Bandcamp ) 3. FlesheR - Tales of Grotesque Demise ( Bandcamp ) 4. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death ( Bandcamp ) 5. Horrendous - Cult of Shaad'oah ( Bandcamp ) 6. Suffocation - Hymns From the Apocrypha ( Bandcamp ) 7. VoidCeremony - Threads Of Unknowing ( Bandcamp ) 8. GROTESQUERIES - Vile Crematory ( Bandcamp ) 9. Disguised Malignance - Malignant Visions ( Bandca...

This is the last monthly list of 2023. The ones that will follow will be my AOTY lists. Still hesitating whether to pull out a death metal list, a black metal list or an all-rounder AOTY list only. I have a couple of more weeks to figure it out. I think I already have it in my head, and the No.1 was clear when it was only announced for release last year... November was good. Some very nice albums were released that I liked a lot. I made the below shortlist out of too many albums released and listened to. I tried to be much more selective this time and to cut the edge to what really made a difference to me. This is how the present 20+2 list was done. It turned out to be a really HEAVY selection, to be honest. I'll take very few of these into my AOTY list probably. Not on very high positions, but still.  As always, this list is in no particular order. Suffocation kinda made it the album of the month for me, and all the rest I quite like. Enjoy and bang the head that doesn't bang!...

In another month of complete release madness and abundance, I managed to list down my 30 most preferred albums. And yes, they all are fabulous. This month even the mighty

Abundance. This is how I can describe September 2023. This is why the below list looks like shit, meaning so unprofessional that I am listing 55+ albums below. I tried somehow to make a conditional cut at 25, but honestly, it's worth spending time with all these albums.

August 2023 was a strange month. It started slowly as a typical vacation period, with very few good new albums and then ended stacked up with some serious AOTY candidates. My selection below features 22 releases that I liked quite a lot.

Another month. I got one year younger in July. 😁 Another step to eternal blackness.  July was not a strong month. Very few standouts for me, but all are very good indeed.

In short: half of the year has gone by and the new releases keep on going in hundreds per month. June was an average month. What do you say? Not much to be praised or to be discussed. In general, some very good albums in the pile of crap that deserved my attention and are listed below respectively. I must admit, there is plenty of EPs and splits this time! In total below, 30+ again for your pleasure, in no particular order! As usual, let's wait for the withstand of time of all these. Let's go! HELLERUIN - Devils, Death and Dark Arts Release Date: 16 June Tidal TSJUDER - Helvegr Release Date: 23 June Bandcamp BEYOND THE DAWN - Stormbringers Release Date: 30 June Bandcamp HATE MANIFESTO - Α​Π​Ο​Σ​Τ​Α​Τ​Η​Σ​ (​Apostate) Release Date: 9 June Bandcamp GODFLESH - Purge Release Date: 9 June Bandcamp GROTESQUERIES - Vile Crematory Release Date: 30 June Bandcamp KRIGSGRAV - Fires in the Fall Release Date: 23 June Bandcamp VILE RITUAL - Caverns of Occultic Hatred Release Date: 16 June Ba...