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Metalheads Podcast's Top 25

25) Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
24) Anti-God Hand - Blight Year
23) Fagus - Inter
22) Afterbirth - In But Not Of
21) Megaton Sword - Might & Power
20) Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
19) Incantation - Unholy Deification
18) Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
17) Woe - Legacies of Frailty
16) Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
15) Xoth - Exogalactic
14) Oak Pantheon - The Absence
13) Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
12) Rannoch - Conflagrations
11) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
10) Thy Catafalque - Alföld
9) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
8) Primordial - How It Ends
7) The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness
6) Alkaloid - Numen
5) Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
4) Wayfarer - American Gothic
3) Enslaved - Heimdal
2) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
1) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

George's Top 25

25) Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
24) Winterhorde - Neptunian
23) Polkadot Cadaver - Echoes Across the Hellscape
22) The Night Eternal - Fatale
21) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
20) Alcyone - Cult of Kukulkan
19) Ashen Horde - Antimony
18) Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm
17) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
16) Pupil Slicer - Blossom
15) Woe - Legacies of Frailty
14) Thy Catafalque - Alföld
13) Till the Dirt - Outside the Spiral
12) Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
11) Empire State Bastard - Rivers of Heresy
10) Alkaloid - Numen
9) Urarv - Substratum
8) Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
7) Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
6) Venomous Concept - The Good Ship Lollipop
5) Mutoid Man - Mutants
4) Xoth - Exogalactic
3) Oak Pantheon - The Absence
2) Enslaved - Heimdal
1) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

Jay's Top 25

25) God Disease - Apocalyptic Doom
24) Obituary - Dying of Everything
23) VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing
22) Sermon - Of Golden Verse
21) Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
20) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
19) Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
18) Witch Ripper - The Flight After the Fall
17) Oak Pantheon - The Absence
16) Enslaved - Heimdal
15) Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
14) Incantation - Unholy Deification
13) Sadus - The Shadow Inside
12) Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
11) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
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) Alkaloid - Numen
8) Thy Catafalque - Alföld
7) Uada - Crepuscule Natura
6) Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
5) Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
4) Primordial - How It Ends
3) Wayfarer - American Gothic
2) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
1) Megaton Sword - Might & Power

Will's Top 25

25) Ashen - Ritual of Ash
24) Dirge - Dirge
23) God Disease - Apocalyptic Doom
22) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
21) Overkill - Scorched
20) Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
19) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
18) Mammon's Throne - Mammon's Throne
17) Allfather - A Violent Truth
16) The Glorious Dead - Into Lifeless Shrines
15) Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions
14) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
13) Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths
12) Enforced - War Remains
11) Street Tombs - Reclusive Decay
10) Incantation - Unholy Deification
9) Serpent Corpse - Blood Sabbath
8) Obituary - Dying of Everything
7) Suffocation - Hymns From the Apocrypha
6) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
5) Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
4) Primordial - How It Ends
3) Wayfarer - American Gothic
2) Woe - Legacies of Frailty
1) Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific

John's Top 25

25) Fen - Monuments to Absence
24) VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing
23) Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
22) TesseracT - War of Being
21) Sermon - Of Golden Verse
20) Bekor Qilish - The Flesh of a New God
19) Gorod - The Orb
18) Insomnium - Anno 1696
17) The Ocean - Holocene
16) The Enigma Division - The Enigma Division
15) Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
14) Godthrymm - Distortions
13) Vertebra Atlantis - A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime
12) Xoth - Exogalactic
11) Thy Catafalque - Alföld
10) Enslaved - Heimdal
9) Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance
8) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
7) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
6) Alkaloid - Numen
5) Stormhaven - Blindsight
4) Rannoch - Conflagrations
3) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
2) Afterbirth - In But Not Of
1) The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness

Matt's Top 25

25) Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
24) Sadus - The Shadow Inside
23) Ashen Horde - Antimony
22) Witch Ripper - The Flight After the Fall
21) Ageless Summoning - Corrupting the Entempled Plane
20) Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
19) Rorcal - Silence
18) Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
17) Gorod - The Orb
16) Dawn Ray'd - To Know the Light
15) The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
14) Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
13) Ignominy - Imminent Collapse
12) Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane
11) SÂVER - From Ember and Rust
10) Anti-God Hand - Blight Year
9) Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
8) Somnuri - Desiderium
7) Olde Throne - In the Land of Ghosts
6) Håndgemeng - Ultraritual
5) Enslaved - Heimdal
4) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
3) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
2) Wayfarer - American Gothic
1) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

Markisan's Top 25

Check out Markisan's Top 25 of 2023 list feature HERE! You can read his album descriptions and find bandcamp links for all 25 of his picks.

25) Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
24) A Flourishing Scourge - Sickened Seed
23) Oak Pantheon - The Absence
22) Blaze of Sorrow - Vultus Fati
21) Hellish Form - Deathless
20) Enslaved - Heimdal
19) Anti-God Hand - Blight Year
18) Phobocosm - Foreordained
17) Morokh - Insomnia
16) Breaths - Floruit
15) Krigsgrav - Fires in the Fall
14) Pupil Slicer - Blossom
13) Selenoplexia - Exalt and Despair
12) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
11) Kasm - Lux Obscurata
10) Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
9) Rannoch - Conflagrations
8) Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
7) Convocation - No Dawn for the Caliginous Night
6) Sarcoptes - Prayers to Oblivion
5) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
4) Fvnerals - Let the Earth Be Silent
3) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
2) Fagus - Inter
1) The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness

Justin "The Dr. of Death Metal" Riley's Top 25

25) Fossilization - Leprous Daylight
24) Enforced - War Remains
23) Bodyfarm - Ultimate Abomination
22) Hot Graves - Plaguewielder
21) Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths
20) The Glorious Dead - Into Lifeless Shrines
19) Necropanther - Betrayal
18) Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
17) Skourge - Torrential Torment
16) Gorod - The Orb
15) Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
14) Oak Pantheon - The Absence
13) Urne - A Feast on Sorrow
12) Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
11) Ironmaster - Weapons of Spiritual Carnage
10) God Disease - Apocalyptic Doom
9) Afterbirth - In But Not Of
8) Restless Spirit - Afterimage
7) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
6) Xoth - Exogalactic
5) Somnuri - Desiderium
4) Nothingness - Supraliminal
3) Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
2) Suffocation - Hymns From the Apocrypha
1) Baroness - Stone

Metalheads Podcast Top 25 Albums of 2023

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