MY TOP LIST FOR MAY 2023 (Expanded)

May 2023 was an interesting month. Not many distinguished names, but rather bands and albums that get under the skin. In the meantime, I saw Watain and Pantera live and spent quite a good time with some old klassiks that helped me clean my ears from the contemporary sugar-coated plastic fantastic metal for dummies.

Of course, there were plenty overhyped and I considered an absolute crap.  I listed below my expanded May selection featuring 27 albums in no particular order. These were the albums I liked and listened to and I am sure that part of them will really stay with me. Make sure to check them all and make up your mind about it.


...And yeah, I repeat, I listened to a lot of old stuff and klassiks. That's how I can easily differentiate the good from the crap. What about you?

IMMORTAL - War Against All
Release Date: 26 May 2023


CRYPTOSPITAL - Dark Noise
Release Date: 19 May 2023


NON EST DEUS - Legacy
Release Date: 12 May



KRALLICE - Porous Resonace Abyss
Release Date: 5 May

DEAD CHASM - Sublimis Ignotum Omni
Release Date: 5 May


PROFECI - Ubóstwo
Release Date: 12 May



VOMITORY - All Heads Gonna Roll
Release Date: 26 May


OLKOTH - At the Eye of Chaos
Release Date: 26 May



INTÖXIXATED - Sadistic NIghtmares
Released Date: 5 May


KAATAYRA/PESSIMISTA Split
Release Date: 2 May


THE OCEAN - Holocene
Release Date: 19 May

PHLEBOTOMIZED - Clouds of Confusion
Release Date: 26 May


Óreiða - The Eternal
Release Date: 12 May
THULCANDRA - Hail the Abyss
Release Date: 19 May

ABOLISH - From the Depths
Release Date: 5 May


NIGHTMARER - Deformity Adrift
Release Date: 5 May


RUÏM - Black Royal Spiritism - I​.​O Sino da Igreja
Release Date: 26 May


WILZCYCA - Magija 
Release Date: 12 May


SHADOWS - Out for Blood
Release Date: 19 May 

SPINEBREAKER - Cavern of Inoculated Cognition
Release Date: 5 May 


ABYSSAL/ ELLORSITH - Sepulchorporeal / Amore
Release Date: 5 May 


CATTLE DECAPITATION - Terrasite 
Release Date: 12 May


KALMAH - Kalmah
Release Date: 26 May



PA VESH EN - Martyrs
Release Date: 19 May


ESOCTRILIHUM - Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Release Date: 12 May


CLOAK - Black Flame Eternal
Release Date: 26 May


SPEEDWHORE - Visions of a Parallel World
Release Date: 26 May 

CONCILIUM - Sky Bvrial
Release Date: 5 May


KOSTNATENY - Úpal
Release Date: 26 May



HYL - Where Emptiness is All
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