Welcome again to our annual year end wrap-up curated by Heavy Phucking \m/etal. We listened to more than 275 new releases this year, and narrowed it down to the ones we were helplessly addicted to. Get ready to open up a pit with 23 of the best heavy albums from 2023! The list will include only full-length albums of new material - no live albums, compilations, EPs, or reissues.
Leave a comment and tell us what albums you were banging your head to in 2023!
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OUR 2023 ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
Band: ORBIT CULTURE
Album: Descent
Release Date: August 18, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Black Mountain / Vultures of North
Support the artist: https://orbitculture.bandcamp.com/
Band: DOZER
Album: Drifting in the Endless Void
Release Date: April 21, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Ex-Human, Now Beast / Andromeda
Support the artist: https://dozerofficial.bandcamp.com/
Band: FROZEN DAWN
Album: The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
Release Date: February 10, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Frozen Kings / Wanderer of Times
Support the artist: https://frozendawnbm.bandcamp.com/
Band: DEATH ENGINE
Album: Ocean
Release Date: January 13, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Leaden Silence / Dying Alone
Support the artist: https://deathenginesound.bandcamp.com/
Band: BURY TOMORROW
Album: The Seventh Sun
Release Date: March 31, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Wrath / Heretic (feat. Loz Taylor)
Support the artist: https://store.bury-tomorrow.com/product/102964
Band: DOMKRAFT
Album: Sonic Moons
Release Date: September 8, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Slowburner / The Big Chill
Support the artist: https://domkraft.bandcamp.com/
Band: ENDSEEKER
Album: Global Worming
Release Date: October 27, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Hell is Here / Nemesis
Support the artist: https://endseeker.bandcamp.com/
Band: BLACK SEA OF TREES
Album: The Spiritual Beast
Release Date: March 25, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Over the Dunes / The Spiritual Beast
Support the artist: https://blackseaoftreesofficial.bandcamp.com/
Band: EARTHSIDE
Album: Let the Truth Speak
Release Date: November 17, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Watching the Earth Sink / Let the Truth Speak
Support the artist: https://earthside.bandcamp.com/
Band: HAIL THE VOID
Album: Memento Mori
Release Date: February 17, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: 100 Pills / Goldwater
Support the artist: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/memento-mori
Band: MAN MUST DIE
Album: The Pain Behind it All
Release Date: February 17, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks:
The Pain Behind it All / Bring Me the Head of the King
Support the artist: https://manmustdie1.bandcamp.com/
Band: INVENT ANIMATE
Album: Heavener
Release Date: March 17, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Shade Astray / Without a Whisper
Support the artist: https://inventanimate.bandcamp.com/
Band: HYPNO5E
Album: Sheol
Release Date: February 24, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks:
Lava from the Sky / Slow Steams of Darkness - Part II - Solar Mist
Support the artist: https://hypno5e.bandcamp.com/
Band: …AND OCEANS
Album: As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Release Date: January 27, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: As in Gardens, So in Tombs / The Earth Canvas
Support the artist: https://andoceans.bandcamp.com/
Band: INSOMNIUM
Album: Anno 1696
Release Date: February 24, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: White Christ (feat. Sakis Tolis) / Lilan
Support the artist: https://www.insomnium.net/
Band: TO THE GRAVE
Album: Director's Cuts
Release Date: February 24, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Full Sequence / Die, Rise
Support the artist: https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/directors-cuts
Band: POLARIS
Album: Fatalism
Release Date: September 8, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Nightmare / The Crossfire
Support the artist: https://sharptonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/fatalism
Band: FALSE FED
Album: Let Them Eat Fake
Release Date: October 13, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: The Tyrant Dies / Echoes of Compromise
Support the artist: https://falsefed.bandcamp.com/
Band: CARNOSUS
Album: Visions of Infinihility
Release Date: February 10, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: In Debt to Oblivion / Towards Infinihilistic Purity
Support the artist: https://carnosus.bandcamp.com/
Band: HEROD
Album: Iconoclast
Release Date: May 5, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: The Icon / The Edifice
Support the artist: https://herod.bandcamp.com/
Band: CURRENTS
Album: The Death We Seek
Release Date: May 5, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: The Death We Seek / Remember Me
Support the artist: https://currentsofficial.com/
Band: OMEGA DIATRIBE
Album: Deviant
Release Date: December 1, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: Mindreader / Deviant
Support the artist: https://omegadiatribe.bandcamp.com/
Band: IN FLAMES
Album: Foregone
Release Date: February 10, 2023
2 Favorite Tracks: State of Slow Decay / Bleeding Out
Support the artist: https://inflamesofficial.bandcamp.com/
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