The Best Metal Albums of 2023

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Insomnium Anno 1696	Feb 24, 2023	93	34	1
2	Aara Triade III: Nyx	Mar 31, 2023	98.3	3	0
3	Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle	Sep 29, 2023	90.3	19	0
4	Kamelot The Awakening	Mar 17, 2023	87.5	34	1
5	Horrendous Ontological Mysterium	Aug 18, 2023	90.4	15	1
6	Lovebites Judgement Day	Feb 22, 2023	88.1	25	1
7	Scar Symmetry The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)	Jun 9, 2023	89.7	17	1
8	Riverside ID.Entity	Jan 20, 2023	90.4	14	0
9	Haken Fauna	Mar 3, 2023	89.3	17	0
10	Pyramaze Bloodlines	Jun 23, 2023	92.5	8	2
11	Ne Obliviscaris Exul	Mar 24, 2023	88.4	18	1
12	Orbit Culture Descent	Aug 18, 2023	90	12	0
13	In Flames Foregone	Feb 10, 2023	85.2	36	3
14	Mercenary Soundtrack for the End Times	Sep 22, 2023	91.1	9	2
15	TesseracT War of Being	Sep 15, 2023	89.5	13	1
16	Twilight Force At the Heart of Wintervale	Jan 20, 2023	85.4	32	3
17	Cavalera Morbid Visions	Jul 14, 2023	88.5	15	0
18	Overkill Scorched	Apr 14, 2023	86.4	22	0
19	Sacred Outcry Towers of Gold	May 19, 2023	95	3	0
20	Children of Bodom A Chapter Called... Children of Bodom (Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) [Live]	Dec 15, 2023	90.6	8	0
21	Kalmah Kalmah	May 26, 2023	87.3	17	1
22	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation	Jun 16, 2023	87.7	15	0
23	Suffocation Hymns from the Apocrypha	Nov 3, 2023	88.5	12	1
24	Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit	Sep 15, 2023	90.7	7	1
25	Edu Falaschi Eldorado	Aug 23, 2023	88.3	11	1
26	Blackbraid Blackbraid II	Jul 7, 2023	90.8	6	0
27	Earthside Let the Truth Speak	Nov 17, 2023	90	7	1
28	Gloryhammer Return to the Kingdom of Fife	Jun 2, 2023	88.1	10	0
29	Baroness Stone	Sep 15, 2023	93.3	3	0
30	Tetragrammacide Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an	Nov 3, 2023	93.3	3	0
31	Exmortus Necrophony	Aug 25, 2023	91	5	0
32	Secret Sphere Blackened Heartbeat	Nov 10, 2023	91	5	2
33	Eldritch Innervoid	Nov 17, 2023	91	5	0
34	DGM Life	Nov 17, 2023	88.8	8	1
35	Shylmagoghnar Convergence	Nov 10, 2023	90	6	0
36	Enforced War Remains	Apr 28, 2023	91.3	4	0
37	Winger Seven	May 5, 2023	91.3	4	0
38	Jag Panzer The Hallowed	Jun 23, 2023	91.3	4	0
39	Insomnium Song of the Dusk [EP]	Nov 3, 2023	91.3	4	0
40	Panopticon the rime of memory	Nov 29, 2023	91.3	4	0
41	Immortal War Against All	May 26, 2023	86.7	11	0
42	Enslaved Heimdal	Mar 3, 2023	90	5	0
43	Gorod The Orb	Mar 10, 2023	90	5	1
44	Hellripper Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags	Feb 17, 2023	90	5	0
45	Holy Moses Invisible Queen	Apr 14, 2023	89.2	6	0
46	Excalion Once Upon a Time	Mar 24, 2023	89.2	6	0
47	Angra Cycles of Pain	Nov 3, 2023	85	15	3
48	Serenity Nemesis AD	Nov 3, 2023	87.5	8	1
49	Alkaloid Numen	Sep 15, 2023	91.7	3	1
50	Wayfarer American Gothic	Oct 27, 2023	91.7	3	0

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