GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2023

[Slammed]

His mum caught him on the internet while he should have been vacuuming the front yard.

 

[SonOfNun]

What's the deadline? I've had a lot going on plus a list of about 150 releases from this year I'm sorting out so I'm behind.

 

[no country for old wainds]

end of jan at the earliest.

 

[Bourbon]

1. Phantom - Handed to Execution

2. Putrid Yell - Consuming Aberration

3. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags



4. Torture Rack - Primeval Onslaught



5. Knife - Heaven into Dust



6. Inculter - Morbid Origin



7. Wastelander - Endless Survival



8. Obituary - Dying of Everything



9. Incantation - Unholy Deification



10. Tenebro - Ultime grida dalla giungla

 

[RadicalThrasher]

^^Nice list!

 

[CiG]

Happy new year to all.

1. Wastelander - Endless Survival
2. Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
3. The Bretwaldas of Heathen - Doom Summoning the Gatekeepers
4. Negative Reaction - Zero Minus Infinity
5. Primordial - How It Ends
6. Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign
7. Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar
8. Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
9. Cosmic Jaguar - The Legacy of the Aztecs
10. Inculter - Morbid Origin

Edit: Added a few things.

 

[Slammed]

Oh fuck he came back!

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Happy new year to all.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Updated list

1. Desecresy - Deserted Realms



2. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions



3. Blood Oath - Lost in an Eternal Silence



4. Blood Libel - Giftgas!



5. Excarnated Entity - Mass Grave Horizon



6. Mortual - Evil Incarnation



7. Phantom - Handed to Execution



8. Century - The Conquest of Time



9. Demoniac - Nube Negra



10. Demoncy - Black Star Gnosis

 

[no country for old wainds]

Spoiler

10. Yaaroth - The Man in the Wood
Favourite song: 'They Seek Baryba'
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(i consider this to be functionally a 2023 release, but if it's ineligible i'd replace it with Voyeur by Witchtower).

9. Legendry - Time Immortal Wept
Favourite song: 'Warrior of Space and Time'
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8. Contrarian - Sage of Shekhinah
Favourite song: 'In Gehenna'
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7. Kostnatění - Úpal
Favourite song: 'Slunce svázáno s krvácející Zemí'
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6. Vision Master - Sceptre
Favourite song: 'Wet Net'
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5. Vórtize - Desde bajo tierra
Favourite song: 'Tempestad'
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4. Void - Jadjow
Favourite song: 'Self Isolation'
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3. DHG - Black Medium Current
Favourite song: 'Tankespinnerens Smerte'
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2. Sühnopfer - Nous sommes d'hier
Favourite song: 'D.S.F.R.'
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1. Demoniac - Nube Negra
Favourite song: 'La Caída'
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11-25 (alphabetical, asterisk next to my favourite three):
Begravement - Horrific Illusions Beckon
Colony Drop - Brace for Impact*
Darkrypt - As Fate Draws Near*
Hellix - Montage
Hellwitch - Annihilational Intercention
Inculter - Morbid Origin
Jag Panzer - The Hallowed
Protean Shield - Protean Shield
Quantum Void - Escaping Reality
Sacred Outcry - Towers of Gold
Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
Triumpher - Storming the Walls
Witchtower - Voyeur*
Zorn - Zorn

Top 5 EPs/demos:
1) Savage Oath - Savage Oath
Apolium - Live and Die with Honor
Gideon's Horn - Triumphant Command
Lividus - Teratorns
Stargazer - Bound by Spells

happy new year everybody!

my list hasn't changed really but thy darkened shade would probably sneak 9th or 10th now