Top 10 Albums of 2023

10. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

9. ††† - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.

8. Baroness - STONE

7. Eartheater - Powders

6. Liturgy - 93696

5. Paramore - This Is Why

4. Lazarvs - Blackest

3. Poppy - Zig

2. Nicole Dollanganger - Married in Mount Airy

1. Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden

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Honorable Mentions / Other Really Good Albums

• Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign
• TesseracT - War of Being
• Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
• END - The Sin of Human Frailty
• Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar
• Hanging Garden - The Garden
• Mutoid Man - Mutants
• Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED!
• Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
• Esben and the Witch - Hold Sacred
• Wargasm - Venom
• HOST - IX
• Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre
• The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow
• Áron András - The Moment
• Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
• Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
• Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
• Incendiary - Change the Way You Think About Pain
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EP Love

• Defamed - Blackblood
• The World - Vol. 2: This World I'd Die For
• Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal
• Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear

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Top Songs of 2023

Below I've listed some of my favorite songs of the year that don't appear on any of the albums or EPs mentioned above. These are in no particular order.

• Fit for an Autopsy - "Hellions"
• Bring Me the Horizon - "LosT"
• Linkin Park - "Lost"
• Tyler, the Creator - "DOGTOOTH"
• Post Malone - "Mourning"
• Jiluka - "Venom"
• Thy Art Is Murder - "Lesson in Pain"
• FILTH - "Chin Check"

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Graveyard

And here are the other albums that were contenders for my AOTY, but just couldn't compete with my final top picks and honorable mentions.

• Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
• The Acacia Strain - Step Into the Light
• Predatory Void - Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being
• The Ocean - Holocene
• Gozu - Remedy
• Acid Magus - Hope Is Heavy
• Restless Spirit - Afterimage
• Green Lung - This Heathen Land
• Carnation - Cursed Mortality
• Empire State Bastard - Rivers of Heresy