MY TOP LIST OF AUGUST 2023

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.

Honestly, I am still hesitant about which one is my album of the month as Spirit Adrift, Crypta and Blood Abscision deliver absolutely great stuff.  The rest are listed in (almost) no particular order as always. Of course, there are albums that stand out more than others - Grand Cadaver, Orphalis, Blood Aus Nord (if you are in a mood), Horrendous. And what about Milking the Goatmachine and...all the others actually! Once again U.D.O. made it to my lists, releasing another heavy metal album by template but yet enjoyable. And we witnessed the last Urfaust album...

So yeah, another month gone, another monthly list done. If you haven't checked even one of the below choices, I highly recommend you to do so. 


SPIRIT ADRIFT - Ghost at the Gallows 
Release Date: 18 August


BLOOD ABSCISSION - I
Release Date: 4 August


CRYPTA - Shades of Sorrow
Release Date: 4 August
GRAND CADAVER - Deities of Deathlike Sleep   
Release Date: 25 August 
HORRENDOUS - Ontological Mysterium
Release Date: 18 August


BLUT AUS NORD - Disharmonium - Nahab
Release Date: 25 August


RUNESPELL - Shores of Nastrond
Release Date: 11 August


MILKING THE GOATMACHINE - Neue Platte
Release Date: 18 August


DISCARNATION - Demo
Release Date: 22 August


ORPHALIS - As the Ashes Settle
Release Date: 25 August


INCANTATION - Unholy Deification
Release Date: 25 August



SORROW - Death of Sorrow
Release Date: 8 August


URNE - A Feast on Sorrow
Release Date: 11 August


CRUEL FORCE - Dawn of the Axe
Release Date: 18 August


DEAD AND DRIPPING - Blackened Cerebral Riffs
Release Date: 11 August


INVULTATION - Feral Legion
Release Date: 18 August




GODTHRYMM - Distortions
Release Date: 18 August


U.D.O. - Touchdown
Release Date: 25 August




TILL THE DIRT - Outside the Spiral
Release Date: 25 August


URFAUST - Untergang
Release Date: 18 August

DRIPPING DECAY - Festering Grotesqueries
Release Date: 18 August


THE CIRCLE - Of Awakening
Release Date: 18 August

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