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Metal
Critics' Highest Rated Metal Albums of 2023
Fires In The Distance
Air Not Meant for Us
88
critic score
(5)
Cattle Decapitation
Terrasite
88
critic score
(7)
Dødheimsgard
Black Medium Current
87
critic score
(7)
Mork
Dypet
86
critic score
(6)
Frozen Soul
Glacial Domination
86
critic score
(5)
Zulu
A New Tomorrow
86
critic score
(7)
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods
Rejecting Obliteration
84
critic score
(5)
Ne Obliviscaris
EXUL
84
critic score
(7)
Katatonia
Sky Void of Stars
84
critic score
(8)
Insomnium
Anno 1696
82
critic score
(7)
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Users' Highest Rated Metal Albums of 2023
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Live at Red Rocks '22
90
user score
(54)
Liturgy
93696
82
user score
(971)
fromjoy
fromjoy
79
user score
(142)
Thantifaxath
Hive Mind Narcosis
79
user score
(40)
Sadness / Abriction
sadness // abriction
78
user score
(50)
Hypno5e
Sheol
77
user score
(30)
Ὁπλίτης [Hoplites]
Τρωθησομένη
77
user score
(41)
The Canyon Observer
Figura
77
user score
(39)
Ne Obliviscaris
EXUL
77
user score
(187)
Imperium Dekadenz
Into Sorrow Evermore
76
user score
(35)
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Recent Metal Albums
Reverorum Ib Malacht
Kyrie Eleison
Thantifaxath
Hive Mind Narcosis
82
critic score
(4)
Avenged Sevenfold
Life Is But a Dream...
81
critic score
(6)
Ok Goodnight
The Fox and the Bird
70
critic score
(1)
OLTH
every day is sOmeOne’s special day
Belkètre
Xèr.n O-r.iidr
Gloryhammer
Return to the Kingdom of Fife
Sankaku / Trhä
Sankaku / Trhä
Belkètre
Ambre Zuèrkl Vuorhdrévarvtre
Phlebotomized
Clouds Of Confusion
70
critic score
(1)
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Critics' Top Metal Artists
Metallica
High on Fire
Cradle of Filth
Bullet For My Valentine
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4
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6
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3
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6
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5
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5
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9
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22
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19
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28
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42
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73
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76
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91
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99
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110
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111
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141
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159
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184
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208
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223
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206
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206
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181
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196
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222
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236
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254
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268
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266
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295
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307
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310
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353
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362
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353
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386
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451
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451
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511
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571
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706
2018
781
2019
1,087
2020
1,133
2021
1,561
2022
1,580
2023
459
15,654 releases
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