BEST 30 METAL ALBUMS OF 2023 CHOSEN BY ROCKANDMETALNEWZ

BEST/TOP METAL ALBUMS OF 2023 CHOSEN BY ROCKANDMETALNEWZ 30. Withering Scorn – Prophets of Demise 29. Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot 28. The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts 27. The Ocean – Holocene 26. Vendetta – Black As Coal - good German thrash metal album 25. Unearth – The Wretched, The Ruinous 24. KK’s Priest – The Sinner Rides Again KK Downing from Priest and Tim Ripper Owens on vocals. 23. Staind – Confessions of The Fallen 22. Avenged Sevenfold – Life is But a Dream – very interesting song structures and lyrics 21. Paramayze – Bloodlines 20. Avatar - Dance Devil Dance 19. Ne Obliviscaris - Exul 18. Nervosa - Jalbreak 17. Spirit Adrift – Ghost At The Gallows 16. Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden 15. DGM – Life DGM (“Diego, Gianfranco and Maurizio“) prog with Mark Basile on vocals like Dream theatre with a better vocalist 14. Baroness – Stone 13 Drain – Living Proof 12. Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite 11. . Cyhra – The Vertigo Trigger --- Cyhra is a Swedish heavy metal supergroup formed in 2017. The band is made up of lead vocalist Joacim “Jake E“ Lundberg (ex-Amaranthe), rhythm guitarist Jesper Strömblad (ex-In Flames), the German drummer Alex Landenburg (Kamelot, ex-Annihilator, ex-Axxis), Finnish lead guitarist Euge Valovirta (ex-Shining) and currently also guitarist Marcus Sunesson (Engel). 10. Overkill- Scorched 9. Tesseract – War of Being 8. Delain – Dark Waters - so many hits and 1st with Diana Leah on lead vocals 7. Metallica – 72 Seasons - good solid album 6. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse 5. Sorcerer – Reign of the Reaper (some good Sabbath doom sounds) 4. Katatonia – Sky Void of Stars 3. Soen – Memorial (ex-Opth drummer Martin Lopez) a mix of TOOL and Opeth .. sound 2. Kamelot – The Awakening - (guitarist Thomas Youngblood and vocalist Tommy Karevik) The Great Divide, Evertide, One more Flag in the Ground .. Opus of the night .. 1. In Flames – Foregone … State of Slow Decay, Meet Your Maker, Bleeding Out, Forgone Pt 1 and 2, Pure Light of Mind, In The Dark … all bangers!