Thanks so much for including 'Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags' on here! I really appreciate that! 🐐

@yogxoth1959

7 ай бұрын

It’s probably my most listened to album recently. Thanks for the awesome music!

@Nick.Apeenus.

7 ай бұрын

😢🔫

@nibeam9251

7 ай бұрын

It's an absolute banger!

@poltergijstt

7 ай бұрын

Really great album, it made itself worth including :)

That intro has to be in the top 10 vocal performances of the year, hands down

My top 25: 25. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory 24. Enforced - War Remains 23. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 22. Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm 21. Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask 20. Disguised Malignance - Entering the Gateways 19. Insomnium - Anno 1696 18. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed 17. Harm’s Way - Common Suffering 16. Spirit Possession - Of the Sign... 15. Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul 14. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals 13. Mariana's Rest - Auer 12. Non Est Deus - Legacy 11. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 10. Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle 9. Ne Obliviscaris - Exul 8. Begotten - To the Dreary End 7. Wayfarer - American Gothic 6. Ahab - The Coral Tombs 5. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II 4. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit 3. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 2. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 1. Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

@Cannibal1868

7 ай бұрын

love blackbraid so much, just I dont think the song writing is to the level for 10 minute songs. Would be an immediate favorite if it wasn't for that, they get a little repetitive and boring past 5 minutes imo

@anthonynocchi7268

7 ай бұрын

Air Not Meant for Us is epic! I probably listened to that album more than all others combined.

@Killus2

7 ай бұрын

All great picks!! Fires in the Distance is also my #1

@Scorpionloquendero77

7 ай бұрын

What about Haken fauna?

@Signal_in_the_noise

6 ай бұрын

Blut aus nord?

Yo dude! Thanks so much for featuring Hellripper and Dodheimsgard, I knew that they would be on your list! Also - I recently discovered the King Gizz record as well and that has really blown me away. Need to give Thantifaxath and Panopticon a listen though for sure!

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for sending me some Peaceville vinyl goodness bud, listening to those two on vinyl definitely cemented their place in my Top 10

@ManekiNeko1972

7 ай бұрын

King Gizz is good but their earlier stuff was a bit better. That's why they didn't miss my HM's by much but they did. :)

@TheMetalTris

7 ай бұрын

@@themetalmeltdownofficial Haha any time dude! It's my pleasure, plus those records are meant to be listened to in that format for me personally. Especially DHG! Got my second episode coming this week (basically when I have the time to do it!)

Conjureth - The Parasitic Chambers was definitely an underrated death metal album this year, it came out in January but it somehow managed to stick with me all year. It manages to hit my sweet spot perfectly, the right balance of old school tonality, technicality that doesn't cross the line into proggy wankery, and brutal heaviness. Great album if you folks haven't heard it

Love the variety! I'll have to research Lion's Daughter. This year was stacked with goodies. Among my favorites were Autopsy, Wayfarer, Panopticon, Thantifaxath, Enslaved, and Haken.

Many of your choices align with my own! I think I'd have Voidceremony's Threads of Unknowing somewhere in there though. Thanks for so many great recommendations this year!

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

That was a really good album

Coral tombs when I listened to it painted a story in my head of a dystopian future where the human race is at war with Love Craftian gods starting under the ocean, and then moving onto the outer worlds. Truly an amazing record

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

that sounds rad ngl

Here's my personal top 10 (feel free to suggest more recommendations): 10. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 9. Enslaved - Heimdall 8. Brand of Sacrifice - Between Death and Dreams 7. END - The Sin of Human Frailty 6. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 5. Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM 4. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns 3. Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre 2. Veil of Maya - [M]other 1. TesseracT - War of Being

@alexistaylor9092

6 ай бұрын

Sick list

@joysticknick1185

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Two albums that have really resonated with me in 2023 are definitely The Rime of Reason by Panopticon and Sky Void of Stars by Katatonia. The former had the same effect on me as Panopticon’s previous album And Again Into The Light only this just hit me hard in a different way. And Again Into The Light felt like a warm hug telling me that everything is going to be ok. This album just felt like someone showing me a desolate landscape and watching people grieve for their lost loved ones after a catastrophe. As for Sky Void of Stars, in terms of style, I was in love with that album. I just loved the sound, the style, everything. It just felt heavier than the last album. Your list was solid. I’m gonna look for those albums and listen to them. Cheers!

Just subbed to this channel. I really appreciated the Lion's Daughter pick. I'm glad that metal groups from St. Louis are getting the love they deserve!

Very very excited to see the King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album on your list, I've been spinning it all year!

@jerrys1

7 ай бұрын

It’s SO AWESOME

Yeah cattle decapitation won album of the year for me. Travis ryans vocal performances only grow more inhuman as the years go on and its just great. Plus the concept of terrasite is just horrifying awesome. Scourge of the off spring is 10/10 The storm up stairs is 10/10 Just another body is 10/10 Terrasitic adaptation is 10/10 Best album of the year for me. Small mention for Brand of sacrifice. Their EP between death and dreams for me just really proves they are the most creative and sonicly devistating without comprimising song writing in all of modern deathcore.

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

That was a really good EP for sure. Supposedly they have more new music on the way too, should be cool.

@Coconuthut1

7 ай бұрын

Travis gets better with age and I don’t understand how

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

@@Coconuthut1 Im assuming magic

You have become my favorite metal review show! Love all the content and can’t wait for more reviews to get more recommendations for bands and albums! Thank you Metal Meltdown! 🤟

Hellripper, Cattle Decapitation and Horrendous are pretty much my holy trinity for 2023. Panopticon comes very close. The only record I was expecting but wasn't mentioned is Enslaved's Heimdal. But hey, as you so rightly said, the year was packed with great records. On a side note: Instead of the next Godzilla v King Kong mashup I want to see a movie with the monsters from the covers of Bath House and Terrasite. That would be epic.

My top 5 Insomnium Lovebites Enslaved Vintersea Svalbard Robert, you have brought Enslaved, Svalbard, Cattle Decap, Code Orange, Hellripper and a helluva lot more bands into my world. Cheers mate.

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

🍺🍺🍺🍺

@ChadTheDragonLord

6 ай бұрын

LOVEBITES +1

My HM and Top 10 (in no particular order): HM: Sermon - Of Golden Verse Fredlös - Fredlös Ahab - The Coral Tomb Xoth - Exogalactic Top 10: Sacred Outcry - Towers of Gold (my AOTY and imo the best power metal album in recent years) Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals Wayfarer - American Gothic Vinsta - Freiweitn Panopticon - The Rime of Memory King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizzard - PetroDraconic Apocalypse... Enforced - War Remains (my Nr. 1 gym album) Green Lung - This Heathen Lands Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit Serpent of Old - Esemble Under The Dark Sun

Loved that Insomnium record, and paired with the recent EP it will be way up there in my final tally. Great list!

I actually screamed when I saw Petrodragonic Apocalypse here, it’s become one of my favorite metal albums EVER and it’s great to see other people enjoying it. Happy holidays!

I love the fact that you appreciate Metal in all its forms as this awesome genre of music evolves,. You have not favoured one subgenre you have celebrated the awesomness of metal today. We are lucky because its never been better to be a metalhead and im 52

Even though it doesn’t count as a metal album, I’ll give a great special shoutout to that Foo Fighters album “But Here We Are.” That being said, Cattle Decapitation kicked ass this year.

King Gizzard album is amazing. Amazing picks dude

I got coral tombs as my album of the year and Terrasite as a close second. I’d put tomb mold and sulphur aeon in place of dødheimsgard(I think I butchered that name) and King gizzard, only changes I’d make. Great list, love to see Thantifaxath getting some love.

Great list and video! My #1 for the year is Cattle Decapitation's "Terrasite." Just found out about them this year thanks to you and Thralls, and have quickly become one of my new favorite bands. Thanks for turning me onto some great music, especially The Lion's Daughter. Keep up the great work!

Great top 10 list! All albums that are deserving to be there. My personal AOTY would go to Fires in the Distance - Air not meant for us. Has the perfect mix of Melo death and doom elements. Sprinked in are these gorgeous piano moments that really help this record stand out

@mojuy11

7 ай бұрын

Fantastic album. Just discovered them this year and both albums are so good

@ryanhanlon7001

7 ай бұрын

@mojuy1 echoes from deep November was an amazing debut. I wasn't sure if they would be able to top it but holy hell they did. Exceeded my expectations and then some

Awesome list. Thank you for turning me on to Smoulder. I would also like to add that the new Enforcer album, Nostalgia is also one of the best of the year. Check out the song Unshackle Me for some 80s style Heavy Metal with an atmosphere not often heard in 80s Metal, at least in my opinion. For some great old school Speed Metal, check out the song Coming Alive. I know the year is almost over, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

10 albums I loved from 2023: Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Triumpher - Storming the Walls Exelerate - Exelerate Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death Chronicle - Where Chaos Thrives Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite Enforced - War Remains Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour Raven - All Hell’s Breaking Loose Jesus Piece - …So Unknown

@Impassion

7 ай бұрын

Have you heard of the band Helm’s Deep, they just released an album called ‘Treacherous Ways.’ It’s my absolute favorite album of 2023, but honestly it’s my favorite new album in a long time. The guitarist/vocalist started it and got John Gallagher and the drummer of Raven on board with him for it. It’s sick.

@Jayagebee

7 ай бұрын

@@Impassionno, never heard of it. I will check it out!

Awesome list, I haven't compiled mine yet but Ahab, Horrendous, Cattle Decapitation, Hellripper, The Lion's Daughter and King Gizzard will all do well for me. Maybe Panopticon too though needs more listens. Also threatening my top 10 are Svalbard, Obituary, Insomnium, Enslaved, Heretoir and Thy Catafalque. It was an incredible year for heavy music.

Thanks for your content this year mate, will continue to watch your stuff into the new year. Cheers from Australia 🍻

LOL love your reviews bro always my go to for metal. Always painting a picture with your words. Great stuff.

Great list, as always 😀 some albums match my choices: Hellripper, Dodheimsgard, Panopticon but here some other from me: Blackbraid, Fleshvessel, Phlebotomized, Non Est Deus, Cristal Coffin, Ritual Awakening, Dead Unending/Worm. Unfortunately no bands from my country so far, Polish BM seems to wait for new Mgła, which as always will arrive unexpectedly, I hope soon. Maybe some metal lists will have to be rebuilt just before year end 😀

Awesome list, my dude! It has indeed been an awesome year for metal, with much variety to offer. I've made a full-on collage of my favourite metal albums of the year, so I'll briefly say here that my absolute favourite has been Angra - Cycles of Pain. It's a beautiful odyssey of progressive power metal melodies that shows the pure transcendent talent of all those involved. I expected it to be good, but was captivated by how much of an emotional journey it was. Special mention should also go to my #2 and #3 slots, being Marianas Rest - Auer, and Ascension - Under the Veil of Madness, respectively. Both of these albums show the diversity in my taste of metal, from the slow, melancholic melodic death-doom atmospheres of Marianas Rest, to the cheesy, ultra-technical bombastic neoclassical power metal of Ascension, making a much deserved comeback after their debut album a decade ago. Great list, as always, and many crossovers with my own. Glad to have been part of the conversations :)

My favorite this year might be Enslaved’s Heimdal but I really love that New Gizzard Album.

Love watching end of the year lists. It’s always cool to see what variety there is with other year end lists. Personally mine is filled with death and black metal. Cheers to the new year on the way. Here’s mine in order, the top 2 could honestly both be number one 1: Cattle decapitation: terrasite 2: Cannibal corpse: chaos horrific 3: dying fetus: make them beg for death 4: Sanguisugabogg: homicidal ecstasy 5: panopticon: the rime of memory 6: tomb mold: the enduring spirit 7: Kraanium: Scriptures of Vicennial Defilement 8:Sorry: self inflicted razor cutting 9: Marduk: memento Mori 10: Lamp of murmuur: Saturnian Bloodstorm

I really like your list, and thanks for introducing me to several new bands this year. I added Acausal Intrusion and Mithridatum to my best of the year. My top 10 are: Mithridatum Thantifaxath Ahab Acausal Intrusion Cattle Decapitation King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Hellripper Dying Fetus Enslaved Marduk I just cannot get into Dodheimsgard because they are like adding pickles and prawns into vanilla bean ice cream. I will listen to Horrendous some more.

My Top 10 Favorite Metal Albums of 2023: 10. Reader of the Runes - Rapture by Elvenking 9. Riders of The Ancient Storm by Heavy Load 8. Judgement Day by Lovebites 7. At The Heart of Wintervale by Twilight Force 6. Interludium by Powerwolf 5. War Remains by Enforced 4. 666 by Cobra Spell 3. Ghost At The Gallows by Spirit Adrift 2. Trial by Chaos by Raider 1. Voyage by Tanith

@ChadTheDragonLord

6 ай бұрын

+1 for LOVEBITES

I appreciate these type of lists more than you'd imagine... I graduated in 1991, getting into Sepultura's "Beneath The Remains" before graduation. I was lucky enough to have moshed to Fear Factory at a Whiskey show prior to their debut, but have never been a true part of the extreme metal community. Because of my shortcomings, I live vicariously through you and your reviews (just saw Me First and the Gimme Gimmes in Anaheim, as a reference point with my 15-year-old moshing for his first time) because of pain issues I have. Thank you for doing videos like this and all your other review/monthly summation videos you do. I'm based in the US, and have to defend my (extreme) liberal beliefs frequently, but we ARE looking to travel as a culinary adventure... and would love to work any restaurant you're at into said culinary trip (provided I can get pain under control). Please stay on here until then!!! I love watching your videos, and still need to see where you rank "Leprosy" in Death's discography! Happy Christmas and New Year, hope things are even better than this past year for you & yours!

Im glad you brought up the loins daughter, i discovered them not to long ago and they completely blew my mind

The most wonderful time of the year. The good ol' tradition of sharing our favorite albums of the year. No exception to the rule, here's mine: 10. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium (a love letter to 90's progressive death metal) 9. Sermon - Of Golden Verse (polyvalent, climactic and intense progressive metal) 8. Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed (the blueprint of 90's Swedish melodic death metal applied to today; a great throwback to that era written more-than-competently well) 7. Enslaved - Heimdal (sixteen albums in their career, what else do we need to say? Imaginative, reinventing extreme prog/viking metal) 6. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (unforgiving, licky and shredding black/thrash metal, courtesy of James McBain) 5. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (dynamic and strong songwriting once again from these Californian deathgrind environmentalists/activists) 4. Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis (nightmare-induced, avant-garde and dizzying black metal) 3. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II (an impressive sequel to an already worthy black metal album; the oppression of the Native American tribes, the melancholy and anguish of the past, felt in the compact and captivating songwriting) 2. Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust (post-black metal done right with a strong influence from crust punk and doom metal; their best album since Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes) My favorite album of 2023: Wayfarer - American Gothic (black metal's answer to the American Frontier era, period; innovative, bleak and savage black metal contrasted with the grounded sound of Americana folk)

I absolutely agree on Horrendous, Outerheaven, and Tomb Mold. Seeing the first two later this month on their East Coast tour and the later next year at Decibel M&B fest in Philly.

Rob, it's been a year! I subscribed to the metal meltdown last year dude! Hope you and Anna and your family and friends a happy holidays!

Awesome picks man, Cheers!

A very respectable list. And damn, that intro hehe :D My personal top 20: 1. Lord of the Lost - Blood & Glitter - Dark Rock (Germany) 2. And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs - Melodic Black Metal (Finland) 3. Insomnium - Anno 1696 - Melodic Death Metal (Finland) 4. Enslaved - Heimdal - Progressive Black Metal (Norway) 5. Heathen Foray - Oathbreaker - Melodic Folk Death Metal (Austria) 6. Raider - Trial By Chaos - Thrash Metal (Canada) 7. The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogonoy - Melodic Death Metal (Denmark) 8. Maktkamp - Caps Lock Woke Rock - Hard Rock (Norway) 9. Nexorum - Tongue of Thorns - Black/Death Metal (Norway) 10. Aeolian - Echoes of The Future - Melodic Death Metal (Spain) 11. Orbit Culture - Descent - Thrash/Groove Metal (Sweden) 12. Mystic Prophecy - Hellriot - Power Metal (Germany) 13. Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals - Blackened Death (Germany) 14. Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire - Melodic Black Metal (Norway) 15. Ghosts of Atlantis - Riddles of The Sycophants - Symphonic Death Metal (The UK) 16. Hinayana - Shatter And Fall - Melodic Death/Doom Metal (USA) 17. Alkaloid - Numen - Technical Death Metal (Germany) 18. Enforced - War Remains - Thrash Metal (USA) 19. Aetherian - At Storm’s Edge - Melodic Death Metal (Greece) 20. Night Crowned - Tales - Melodic Black/Folk Metal (Sweden).

@alexistaylor9092

6 ай бұрын

So many new bands to look up. Also, thanks for including the genres

I love your videos dude❤️🔥 for real that intro is so good😂

Damn our lists are close! I’d throw blackbraid and Endlaved in there but I can’t argue with any of your picks!

Spoilers for my Top 10 vid but Lion’s Daughter is my number 1 by a metric lightyear. I just love their combination of extreme metal and John Carpenter-esque synthwork. Also Enforced, Enslaved, and Blackbraid all put out bangers this year.

Curious about your thoughts on Tardigrade Inferno. Their album Burn the Circus is pretty high on my list for this year. You should check out Werewolves - My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me, Nervochaos - Cthonic Wrath, and Lucifuge - Monoliths of Wrath too.

awesome list!!

That was a killer list... glad I randomly clicked on this vid! Cheers from Maine!

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

Cheers from Toronto 🍺🍺🍺

My favorite metal album of the year was Sky Void of Stars by Katatonia. Their best record in years imo.

@alexperry4691

7 ай бұрын

Mine too!

@darrelladams4886

7 ай бұрын

I still think fall of hearts is the best album they’ve done in the last few years but I’m still more than satisfied with city burials and sky void of stars. Got more than enough great songs on both albums. Completely underrated band but those who know know

@shanefelle9385

7 ай бұрын

Great album, Colossal Shade is super and Birds, so catchy.

I loved your intro 👍Happy Holidays dude🙏

Thanks for recommending The Lion's Daughter, just listened to them for the first time, never heard of them before. They are amazing!

Lovely channel dude, I am watching almost all your videos from start to finish and I am telling all my friends about your channel! Did you check out the Medieval Death LP + DVD and the Mordicus “Rights ‘n Trials” LP on Yperano Records! What is your opinion on these two 2023 releases?

@themetalmeltdownofficial

6 ай бұрын

I'm not familiar with either of those records so no comment. More importantly: yay! Happy to hear bud, cheers.

@TheCoverUpsLondonUK

6 ай бұрын

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Absolute love the new AHAB so damn good. I'll check out some of the others on your list. Keep up the great work buddy!

Great list , thank you for this year's great content and introducing me to so much fantastic music. Have you listened to' Innerst I Morket' by Manii? To me it has the tone and atmosphere of Burzum (without Varg thankfully) and shades of early Emperor , plus experimentation and ambience. It feels like I could have discovered it in the 90's . Love to hear anyone's thoughts , I think it's so special and a black metal highlight of the past few years but it's all subjective after all.

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

Not familiar with it bud

That intro has some awesome singing.

My album of the year belongs to Chaos Horrific from Cannibal Corpse. So heavy, chunky, ballsy, and just pure death metal goodness from these legends. It's near the top 5 in my Cannibal Corpse album rankings list, exactly two spots higher than 2021's Violence Unimagined. My favorite tracks are the title track, Blood Blind, Summoned for Sacrifice, and Overlords of Violence. What an album.

@thatguy9464

7 ай бұрын

Noone asked

@waterdive122productions6

7 ай бұрын

@@thatguy9464 I know no one asked, but I did it anyways. Also, am I not allowed to reveal my favorite album from this year?

@bruno_gatti

7 ай бұрын

@@thatguy9464bruh literally the author of this video asked

Love your list dude!!!🤘🤘

Wonderful intro 👏

Favorite albums this year for metal Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm Blackbraid - Blackbraid II Liturgy - 93696 Obituary - Dying of Everything Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed (Because that in flames album didn't work for me, brother) Panopticon - The Rime of Memory FVNERALS - Let the Earth Be Silent Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current Revenant Marquis - All the Pleasures of Heaven

List was great, Wayfarer, hellripper, Ahab, cattle decapitation....

I absolutely love the two 2 ll albums you picked the lions daughter bath house and cattle decapitation terrisite you should have gave something like monument to absense from fen a chance tho

I didn't realize horrendous released a record! The Lion's daughter are brilliant, a great pick.

So what made you cut your hair off just curious buddy?🤘

Ahab: The Coral Tombs and Fires In The Distance: Air Not Meant For Us were the best for me but many many other brilliant albums in ’23 🤘

My top 5 Metal Albums 2023: • Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis • Sea Mosquito - Igitur • Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite • The Lion's Daughter - Bath House • Panopticon - The Rime of Memory Btw, you should listen to Sea Mosquito's Igitur, Robert. I commented on at least 3 videos about it, but I guess it was too late for a review or a mention. Here are another albums I really enjoyed this year (no particular order): • Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II • Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust • Blut Aus Nord - Disarmonium: Nahab • None - Inevitable • Blackbraid - Blackbraid II • Pénitence Onirique - Nature Mort • Fossilization - Leprous Daylight • Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals • Torture Chain - The Reign of Deimos • Outlaw - Reaching Beyond Assiah • Asagraum - Veil of Death, Ruptured • Oak Pantheon - The Absence • Non Est Deus - Legacy

I'm surprised Enslaved didn't make this episode.

Cattle decap won for me. Bought the vinyl. Theyre my all time favorite band without a doubt My list. 1. Cattle decap: terrasite 2. To the grave: director's cuts 3. Dying fetus: make them beg for death 4. August burns red: death below 5. Exterminatiom dismemberment: dehumanization protocol 6. Periphery: djnet is not a genre 7. Crown magnetar: everything bleeds 8. Sanguisugabogg: homocidal exstacy 9. Acacia strain: Step into the light & failure will follow 10. Ov sulfur: burden of faith This was the year for death metal/core for me. New signs and distant was okay but to the grave and crown magnetar really caught my attention. Ovsulfur as well. And sewagesandiwchbob bpew my expectations outof the water with their album. Itd be my nunber one DM record if dying fetus didnt release anything this year. Acacia strain killed it with the two evil albums they dropped. Extermination dismemberment brought the brutality i love from them and so much more. I dont listen to much metalcore but ABR has been a ling time fav and they once more stole the show from every other band in their genre. Periphery hit at the right time and the right places. I was going through a huge prog phase when they dropped it. Dying fetus bringing the god tier grooves and brutality with their album. But above all, travis the god among men he is, stole the world with his vocals. Terrasite is perfection from start to finish. Easy win for 2023. What a great year. Cheers mate

After that opening, I will need to rethink my top 10 songs!

King Gizzard would be my favourite album from your list 🙏

Can't wait to watch, I know you weren't really fond of it, but Life is But a dream was my AOTY

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

It was fine. A little messy but props to Avenged Sevenfold for trying I guess. Glad you dig it bud.

@thebends1029

7 ай бұрын

@@themetalmeltdownofficial your a cool fucking dude, have a merry chrismas

Enslaved - Heimdal! Nice poster.

A couple of my absolute favourites were in your honourable mentions: Tomb Mold and Sulphur Aeon, but kudos for having Ahab in your top 10, that is in the top 3 for me this year. For me though, Alkaloid 'Numen' takes the AOTY title hands down; what a complete progressive death metal masterpiece! 👌👌

@cbn6635

7 ай бұрын

... incidentally the 3 best releases this year for me were all by German bands; now THAT'S a first for me! 🤗

That suit is badass af

My number one this year would probably be Sacred Outcry - Towers of Gold. You've got the legendary Daniel Heiman on lead vocals giving the performance of a lifetime.

14:33 I'm surprised Enslaved didn't make your list or honorable mentions. I remember literally every review channel was going nuts over it when it came out.

Great list, and theyre all great albums. My favorite metal album of the year was KGLW, but there was an EP that beat everything else for me. Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vinrations blew my fucking mind. Hopefully, we get more from them in 2024.

I had to re spin it but now I’m confident my album of the year is “Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen”. Every time I come back to it, I find something new to enjoy and it never grows old. 😮‍💨that was difficult lol

interesting list...my favourite is Black Medium Current...just listened to it again yesterday...it is fantastic...

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

An excellent choice.

Black Medium Current is one of my favorite albums ever. I wish there was more music like Dodheimsgard. I love that blackened prog sound.

Nice list. For me Malokarpatan, Graveripper, Crystal Coffin, Blackbraid, Asagraum are top 5.

Any list with ahab is a good list in my books ;)

I don't know what my list is fully but I am certain that my aoty has to be the newest Behold the Arctopus album that dropped this year. It is super progressive in it's sound and has a really fun space theme. I've seen no one talk about it which is sad as a big fan of the band because it feels like everything they make is a guaranteed aoty winner or contender. Regardless though, this year was absolutely fantastic for death metal and metalcore though and as those are my 2 favorite genres (metalcore being my number 1) it has beem a great 12 months for me in terms of listening to new music

Love the presentation, nice to watch. my top10 is totally different, ah better. Merry Christmas

@themetalmeltdownofficial

6 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you too bud

Very nice list! A lot of what you talked about is in my top 40 for the year. Here’s my HM and Top 10 HM The Night Eternal - Fatale Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals Enforced - War Remains Morokh - Insomnia Convocation - No Dawn for the Caliginous Night 10. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 9. Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask 8. Ashbringer - We Came Here To Grieve 7. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit 6. Wayfarer - American Gothic 5. Afterbirth - In But Not Of 4. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 3. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory 2. Sermon - Of Golden Verse 1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse

Thank you for guiding us through the maze. I got to know tons of bands and albums thanks to you ! Here’s my top 20 for ’23 : 1. Altarage - Worst Case Scenario 2. Blindfolded and led to the Woods - Rejecting Obliteration 3. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions 4. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 5. The Bleeding - Monokrator 6. Burner - It All Returns to Nothing 7. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns 8. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium 9. Imperial Crystalline Entombment - Ancient Glacial Resurgence 10. Acid King - Beyond Vision 11. Shining - Shining 12. Raider - Trial by Chaos 13. Haar - Ouroboros 14. Tongues - Formlöse Stjerner 15. Panopticion - The Rime of Memory 16. Mānbryne - Interregnum: O próbie wiary i jarzmie zwątpienia 17. Enforced - War Remains 18. Coffinborn - Cadaveric Retribution 19. Ikarie - Arde 20. Moonreich - Amer

I'm here to advocate for Helm's Deep - Treacherous Ways Monster album for lovers of that old school sound.

My list: 1. Cannibal Corpse-Chaos Horrific 2. Enslaved-Heimdal 3. Suffocation-Hymns from the Apocrypha 4. Ahab-The Coral Tombs 5. Autopsy-Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts 6. Overkill-Scorched 7. Rotten Sound-Apocalypse 8. Cattle Decapitation-Terrasite 9. Dying Fetus-Make Them Beg for Death 10. Scar Symmetry-The Singularity (Phase II-Xenotaph)

@robertsparling917

7 ай бұрын

@@dungeonwolf8919 You guys suck! White Elf SUCKS!

As usual, whenever I create a "best of" annual year-end list I leave a bunch of good stuff off and 2023 was no exception at all. I probably could have made this list ten times longer and boring af to read, but that said, barring a complete miracle for 2023's last month, I have what would be the 25 albums that I enjoyed the most this year: 1. Lovebites -- Judgement Day 2. Delain -- Dark Waters 3. Hellripper -- Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags 4. Insomnium -- Anno 1696 5. Overkill -- Scorched 6. Redshift -- Laws of Entropy 7. Xandria -- The Wonders Still Awaiting 8. Perc3ption -- Art In Extreme Situations 9. Fierce Justice -- Fireborn 10. Acid King -- Beyond Vision 11. Enforced -- War Remains 12. Wytch Hazel -- IV: Sacrament 13. Restless Spirit -- Afterimage 14. Kalmah -- S/T 15. Ne Obliviscaris -- Exul 16. Echoes of Bronze -- Ilium 17. Night Legion -- Fight or Fall 18. Enchantya -- Cerberus 19. Majesties -- Vast Reaches Unclaimed 20. Midnight Vice -- S/T (the riffs on this are KILLER) 21. Excalion -- Once Upon A Time 22. Naitaka -- Emergence 23. Blood Ceremony -- The Old Ways Remain 24. Soen -- Memorial 25. Iron Savior -- Firestar Just missed: Dhaliax -- Doomed , Obituary -- Dying of Everything, Blackbraid -- Blackbraid II, Cruachan -- The Living and the Dead, Enslaved -- Heimdal, Blackbriar -- A Dark Euphony, Moonlight Sorcery -- Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle, Akilla -- The Gods Have Spoken, Omnium Gatherum -- Slasher, Powerwolf-- Interludium, and Exmortus -- Necrophony. Even with 25, I left off a LOT of good stuff.

If we take out the "Bath House" and add "Heimdall", we have the exact same list.

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

but... but Bath House 🥺🥺🥺

@Akshay-ji9nt

7 ай бұрын

@@themetalmeltdownofficial i will check it out now sir:)

Great list but why not wait until after Christmas or when the year is officially over?

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

Because this is the perfect time to do it. I've heard every album I want to hear, there's nothing else coming out in December that I've heard that will change my mind about this list (or, frankly, not much else coming out at all), and I want to spend what little time I have at the end of the year that isn't spent working with my family, not making big videos like this.

@FelixWolf

7 ай бұрын

@@themetalmeltdownofficial totally fair, was only asking. :3

@SquidwardBenton

7 ай бұрын

Good point

Good list asinhell could be up there possibly

I feel like the odd one out again. My metal album of year is the Liturgy project. King Gizzard album is a close second though, and Dragon is my favorite song of the year from any genre.

I liked Black Medium Current, but i've put It on my honorable mentions, maybe i should give it another listen. Here's my list: 1. Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed - Fleshvessel 2. Hive Mind Narcosis - Thantifaxath 3. Earth Will Shed It's Skin - Chrome Waves 4. Seven Crowns And Seven Seals - Sulphur Aeon 5. Terrasite - Cattle Decapitation 6. Numen - Alkaloid 7. Alföld - Thy Catafalque 8. The Enduring Spirit - Tomb Mold 9. Disharmonium : Nahab - Blut Aus Nord 10. Kalmah - Kalmah Honorable Mentions: Shades of Sorrow - Crypta Common Suffering - Harm's Way The Reign Of The Anticrust - Pizza Death Mutants - Mutoid Man Igitur - Sea Mosquito Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre - Periphery Black Medium Current - Dødheimsgard As Gomorrah Burns - Cryptopsy Worst Case Scenario - Altarage Bath House - The Lion's Daughter

My top 5 Blackbriar - A Dark Euphone (not normally my type of metal, but goddamn this album was so haunting and ethereal that i couldn't stop listening) Scar Symmetry - Xenotaph King gizzard - really long named album in not typing Ahab - Coral Tombs Cattle Decap - Terrasite

Nice vocal performance 😂😂😂🤘🤘🤘from 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵

Great list! I always look forward to your videos, especially uear end lists. I loved the variety of videos too (especially UMK). It was cool to see a little bit more into your life. I had no idea you were a chef. Anyways, here's my picks for this year. 25. Wayfarer - American Gothic 24. Nothingness - Supraliminal 23. Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun 22. Zulu - A New Tomorrow 21. Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift 20. Herod - Iconoclast 19. Claustrum - Claustrum 18. Crypta - Shades of Sorrow 17. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 16. Ne Obliviscaris - Exul 15. Gorod - The Orb 14. Harms Way - Common Suffering 13. DRAIN - Living Proof 12. Bandit - Siege of Self 11. Chamber - A Love to Kill For 10. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns 9. Silent Planet - Superbloom 8. Obituary - Dying of Everything 7. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II 6. URNE - A Feast on Sorrow 5. Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination 4. Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility 3. Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival 2. Year of the Knife - No Love Lost 1. Horrendous - Ontilogical Mysterium

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

More Uncle Meltys Kitchen on the way...

What are your thoughts on Stratovarius survive?

@themetalmeltdownofficial

7 ай бұрын

No comment, didnt listen to it

@gorgasim87

7 ай бұрын

Ah ok 👌🏼

I'm surfing the different 2023 lists looking for something unique to check out. Gonna give Bath House a spin.

Top 5, in order: 1. Victory Over The Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song 2. Gridlink - Coronet Juniper 3. Ahab - The Coral Tombs 4. Liturgy - 93696 5. Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home