Favorite Metal Albums | AllMusic 2023 in Review

3Teeth

EndEx

Armed with their melodic but brutal techno-industrial blasts, the Los Angeles instigators provide another soundtrack to the end of the world.

Avenged Sevenfold

Life Is But a Dream...

An innovative and wide-ranging set of progressive metal epics rooted in existential crisis.

Baroness

Stone [Deluxe Edition]

Six albums in, the Georgia-based quartet continue to expand their multidimensional approach to heavy metal to excellent result.

Blut aus Nord

Disharmonium: Nahab

The second volume in the band's Disharmonium series is more experimental, consistent, and and expansive than its predecessor.

Divide and Dissolve

Systemic

Powerful fourth album from the Australian instrumental duo, alternating between punishing sludge metal and beautifully haunting neo-classical passages.

Godflesh

Purge

Justin Broadrick expands on the concept of 1992's hip-hop-influenced Pure on the group's third post-reunion album.

Green Lung

This Heathen Land

The English occult-rock group's major label debut achieves a moody grandeur that feels more stone circle-suited than stadium-ready.

Haken

Fauna

With their original keyboardist back, Haken take listeners on a kaleidoscopic sound excursion through djent, metal, prog, and electronica.

In Flames

Foregone

This 14th studio album from the seminal Gothenburg melodeath masters adopts a philosophical tone engendered by the COVID-19 lockdown.

Khanate

To Be Cruel

The doom metal supergroup's first album of new material in 17 years continues the writhing, tortured intensity of their earlier work.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

The group's second foray into metal is even more fierce and gripping than their first, incorporating black metal influences into the mix.

Kvelertak

Endling

A lively black metal throwdown that cements the validity of the Norwegian band's second act.

Liturgy

93696

The Brooklyn-based quartet pulls out all the stops, resulting in their heaviest, most adventurous album to date.

Myrkur

Spine

This ever-shifting project ties disparate elements of black metal and Scandic folk from previous work into a new format of gothic pop.

Oozing Wound

We Cater to Cowards

The fifth album from these Chicago metal outsiders is their noisiest, heaviest, and angriest set of songs yet.

Periphery

Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre

The follow-up to 2019's acclaimed Periphery IV: Hail Stan is as swashbucklingly fun as it is undeniably heavy.

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Land of Sleeper

The Newcastle stoner/doom unit confront existential dread with creativity on their fourth long-player.

Sightless Pit

Lockstep Bloodwar

The side project of the Body and Full of Hell delve into hip-hop and dub on their ambitious second release.

The Ocean

Holocene

The German metallers complete their paleontology series and embrace electronics along with their incendiary brand of prog metal.

Tomb Mold

The Enduring Spirit

The Canadian death metal enthusiasts' fourth album sees them continuing to innovate within the realm of the steadfastly orthodox heavy metal subgenre.

Voivod

Morgöth Tales

The iconic Quebec-based prog metal/thrash innovators revisit the past on re-recorded early material that's reinvented with a futurist aesthetic.

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