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The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.
The end of the year at TNM is nigh; it's time to cut the ribbon and begin crowning our top 20 albums, as Perran and Elliot start off with all of the great musical colour and invention that has graced our ears in 2023.
News show close for 2023 with acknowledgement of the passing of Killing Joke's Geordie Walker, before turning to more new music from ex-Black Peaks members and Video Nasties, and some very exciting Glenn Danzig news.
Releases:
Future Static - Liminality
Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions
Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul
Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness
Kvelgeyst - Blut, Milch und Thranen
Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation of Suffering
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Mouth Culture - Mishaps of My Mid Twenties
Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
Bjorko - Heartrot
Varathon - The Crimson Temple
Going Off - Kill List
Health - Rat Wars
The final reviews bag of 2023 is a brilliant one, with loads of late year contenders: The Gaslight Anthem, Green Lung, Dying Wish, NOBRO, Autopsy, Wayfarer, Underdark, & Malokarpatan.
The Gaslight Anthem 24:45
Green Lung 50:42
Dying Wish 1:11:20
NOBRO 1:27:30
Autopsy 1:42:46
Wayfarer 2:02:52
Underdark 2:22:46
Malokarpatan 2:37:30
When We Were Young pulls an insane choice, Slipknot drummer rumours abound, and live reports from Creeper and future Download headliners Queens of the Stone Age among others.
Releases:
Dolly Parton - Rock Star
High Spirits - Safe on the Other Side
Racetraitor - Creation and the Timeless Order of Things
C.L.S.M. - Infinity Shit
Plaguemace - Reptilian Warlords
Foetal Juice - Grotesque
Sadus - The Shadow Inside
Aeturnus - Philosopher
King - Fury and Death
Bewitcher - Deep Cuts & Shallow Graves
Earthside - Let the Truth Speak
Soars - Repeater
Celeste - Epilogue(s)
We were fully back on the ground for this year's Damnation Festival (41:12) to see sets from Anaal Nathrakh, Electric Wizard, Enslaved, Akercocke, and many more of the best in underground and extreme. Bonus on Download and Grammys whinging.
Releases:
Tarja - Dark Christmas
Lonely the Brave - What We Do to Feel
Helmet - Left
MTVoid - Matter’s Knot, Pt. 1
Gama Bomb - Bats
MouthBreather - Self-Tape
Ex Everything - Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart
Shylamagoghnar - Convergence
Night Crowned - Tales
Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane
Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars
AGLO - Build Fear
Sodom - 1982
Triumph of Death - Resurrection of the Flesh
Spiritbox release their new Fear of Fear EP, and there are conundrums about the ethics of contriving "viral moments" at shows with Frozen Soul's Magic the Gathering pit and Blink-182 recreating the Denny's hardcore meme
Releases:
Green Lung - This Heathen Land
Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival
Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun
Sugar Horse - Truth or Consequence, New Mexico
Spiritual Cramp - Spiritual Cramp
Sexless Marriage - This is Not Love
Morne - Engraved With Pain
All Get Out - All Get Out
Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha
Krypta - Outo laakso
Mortuary Drape - Black Mirror
Watain - Die In Fire - Live In Hell
Strigoi - Bathed in a Black Sun
Insomnium - Songs of the Dusk
Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear
Green Day threaten us with a new album, there's the out of nowhere news of Mike Portnoy's return to Dream Theater, and Mortician become the unlikeliest social media stars of all time. We TOLD you.
Releases:
Within Temptation - Bleed Out
Myrkur - Spine
Boys Like Girls - Sunday at Foxwoods
Knuckle Puck - Losing What We Love
Go Ahead and Die - Unhealthy Mechanisms
Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
SAVAGE - Glory Riders
Clowns - Endless
awakebutstillinbed - chaos take the wheel and i am a passenger
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
Marthe - Further In Evil
Worm / Dream Unending - Starpath
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
Taking Back Sunday - 152
Wargasm - Venom
Poppy - Zig
In This Moment - Godmode
Year of the Knife - No Love Lost
END - The Sin of Human Frailty
Rile - Pessimist
NOBRO - Set Your Pussy Free
Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
Wayfarer - American Gothic
Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar
Endseeker - Global Worming
Dokken - Heaven Comes Down
Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper
Legendry - Time Immortal Wept
This month we feast upon the new albums from Creeper, The Menzingers, Blink-182's nostalgic reunion, Svalbard, Kristin Hayter, Primordial, Maggot Heart... and Roger Waters redoing Dark Side of the Moon.
Creeper 26:20
The Menzingers 1:01:40
Blink-182 1:20:43
Roger Waters 1:41:29
Svalbard 1:58:50
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter 2:16:00
Primordial 2:37:29
Maggot Heart 3:03:44
Sam catches a double helping of Better Lovers, and Sick New World announces its lineup for 2024.
Releases:
Creeper - Sanguivore
The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True
Beartooth - The Surface
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
Twin Temple - God is Dead
Årabrot - Of Darkness and Light
Free Throw - Lessons That We Swear to Keep
The Keening - Little Bird
Gévaudan - Umbra
Body Void - Atrocity Machine
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Krieg - Ruiner
Gruzja - Koniec Wakacji
Slidhr - White Hart!
Laster - Andermans Mijne
Sadistic Force - Midnight Assassin
Acid Blade - Shooting Star
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