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Best Of 2023

Metal Injection's Top 20 Albums Of 2023

Featuring Orbit Culture, Gridlink, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, Sleep Token, and more!

Top 20 Albums Of 2023

Every year we get to December and think "man, what a great year for metal." That's when the arguing begins over what the best was, where each album falls on the year end list, and which ones don't make the cut. It gets a little bloody

As we're working through all the fan votes for the Metal Injection Reader's Poll, we here in Corey Taylor's basement at the Metal Injection office have come up with our very own year end list based on our collective taste. We had to limit it to 20 because I mean really – there's a lot of great metal out there. We've also got lists of our favorite underground records of 2023 from all our writers coming up soon, so stay tuned!

Our picks are:

  1. Orbit Culture – Descent
  2. Fires In The Distance – Air Not Meant For Us
  3. Gridlink – Coronet Juniper
  4. Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
  5. 3TEETH – EndEx
  6. Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium
  7. Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
  8. Enslaved – Heimdal
  9. Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific
  10. Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars
  11. Metallica – 72 Seasons
  12. Avenged Sevenfold – …Life Is But A Dream
  13. End – The Sin Of Human Frailty
  14. Avatar – Dance Devil Dance
  15. Night Demon – Outsider
  16. Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
  17. In Flames – Forgone
  18. Cryptopsy – As Gomorrah Burns
  19. Insomnium – Anno 1696
  20. Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite
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