Hello! This post does pretty much what it says on the tin: below you can find the top ten lists from all blog members who chose to submit them. Some chose to rank them; most didn't. They are presented exactly as said staff members submitted them. We are chill like that.
This post also closes our End of Year 2023 content! Thanks again for sticking with us, through thick and thin: we really appreciate it. You probably don't need me to say it again but: 2023 in music was, once again, eclectic, interesting and, most of all, fucking amazing. Heavy metal lives and prospers. Music continues to be a miracle we do not deserve. We spin on through the void.
Enjoy. Heavy Blog forever.
P.S yes, I recycled the banner for The Void Screameth. That's how making these lists feels, to me. You're welcome.
Joshua Bulleid
- Steven Wilson – The Harmony Codex
- The Ongoing Concept – Again
- Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous
- Sermon – Of Golden Verse
- Ville Valo – Neon Noir
- Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
- Urne – A Feast on Sorrow
- Primal Fear – Code Red
- The 69 Eyes – Death of Darkness
- Katatonia – Sky Void of Stars
Jordan Jerabek
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Cicada the Burrower - Blight Witch Regalia
Vanishing Kids - Miracle of Death
Unfurl - Ascension
The Armed - Perfect Saviors
Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color In the Valley of Night Pt. 1
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
Kvelertak - Endling
End - The Sin of Human Frailty
Josh Gaston
The Armed - Perfect Saviors
Bandit - Siege of Self
Gridlink - Coronet Juniper
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
crushed - extra life
Vantana Row - FAT_ASS_PUSSY
Ex-Everything - Slow Change Will Tear Us Apart
Rotten Sound - Apocalypse
Korine - Tear
Clearbody - Bend into a Blur
Bridget Hughes
Nithing - Agonal Hymns
Torn the Fuck Apart - Kill. Bury. Repeat.
Angel Electronics - ULTRA PARADISE
Dead and Dripping - Blackened Cerebral Rifts
Thunder Horse - After the Fall
Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit
Griefeater - For Once, Then, Something
Wallowing - Earth Reaper
Flammable Regurgitosis - Unhinged Irreversible Mutilations
Hippie Death Cult - Helichrysum
Karlo Doroc
- Alkaloid - Numen
- Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
- TesseracT - War of Being
- Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
- Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
- The Ocean - Holocene
- Code Orange - The Above
- Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
- Xoth - Exogalactic
- Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Son
Trent Bos
Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music
Ostraca - Disaster
Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You
fromjoy - fromjoy
Chamber - A Love to Kill For
Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
Oxx - The Primordial Blues
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
Jimmy Rowe
PEGMAFIA and Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Dead and Dripping - Blackened Cerebral Rifts
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
Liturgy - 93696
Paramore - This Is Why
Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
Nithing - Agonal Hymns
Jon Adams
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
Nithing - Agonal Hymns
Nothingness - Supraliminal
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Sermon - Of Golden Verse
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Wayfarer - American Gothic
Phil Knock
Mithridatum – Harrowing
Khanate – To Be Cruel
Telos – Delude
Nightmarer – Deformity Adrift
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Rejecting Obliteration
Turbid North – The Decline
Death Engine – Ocean
KEN mode – VOID
Serpent of Old – Ensemble Under the Dark Sun
Great Falls – Objects Without Pain
Eden Kupermintz
A Constant Knowledge of Death - A Constant Knowledge of Death
Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
TesseracT - War of Being
Mohini Dey - Mohini Dey
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
Xoth - Exogalactic
Stortregn - Finitude
Flesh of the Stars - The Glass Garden
Dream Unending & Worm - Starpath
Exulansis - Overtures of Uprising