Category: Metal Tuesday

Top Albums of 2023

I did not listen to as much new music this year (though I think I listened to more music overall), but a lot of what I did listen to was pretty excellent.

Top Album

Cover for Air Not Meant for Us

Fires in the Distance – Air Not Meant for Us

Fires in the Distance came out with an amazing album a few years ago (2020’s Echoes from Deep November) with songs that wormed their way into your brain for days. This year’s Air Not Meant for Us continues this tradition with another slate of catchy, complex, and powerful songs.

A close runner up this year was Katatonia’s A Sky Void of Stars, but Air Not Meant for Us just edged it out.

Death

Alkaloid - Numen Hinayana - Shatter and Fall Insomnium - Anno 1696 Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods Lokust - Infidel

Not Death

Andy James - Fury From Above Essence of Datum - Radikal Rats Katatonia - Sky Full of Stars Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium Scaphoid - Echoes of the Rift