Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Counting down my top 50 favorite metal albums of 2023! This is Part 1 of 2, counting down #'s 50 - 26. Part 2 will count down the top 25, and will be released on Friday.

Albums mentioned today are listed below (in alphabetical order - for the actual ranked order, you will have to watch the video!):

Alchemy of Flesh - By Will Alone
Angra - Cycles of Pain
Blackbraid - II
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab
Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current
Eave - Fervor
Enforcer - Nostalgia
Enslaved - Heimdal
Fen - Monuments to Absence
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home
Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar
Marthe - Further in Evil
None - Inevitable
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Passeisme - Alternance
Primordial - How It Ends
Ruadh - 1296
Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
Triumpher - Storming the Walls
Ulthar - Anthronomicon/Helionomicon
Vertebra Atlantis - A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime