Best Heavy Albums of 2023 - YEAR END LIST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Year end list time ladies and gents and 2023 did NOT disappoint!

Alex's list is:

Albums of the Year - 1 - Kalmah - Kalmah 2 - Fires in the Distance - Air not Meant for Us 3 - Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle 4 - Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) 5 - Isole - Aneisidora Top five Songs of the Year that are NOT on the best albums of the year - 1 - Crowne - Super Trooper off of Operation Phoenix 2 - BlackBraid - Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the moon off of Blackbraid II 3 - Angus McSix - Master of the Universe off of Angus McSix and the Sword of Power 4 - UADA - Crepuscule Natura from the album by the same name 5 - Marduk - Shovel Beats Sceptre off the Memento Mori album

Honorable Mention: Vesuvian - Emergence

Phil's list is actually pretty good this year, surprisingly, and it is:

Albums of the Year - 1 - Kalmah - Kalmah 2 - Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us 3 - Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) 4 - Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 5 - Krigsgrav - Fires in the Fall Top five Songs of the Year that are NOT on the best albums of the year - 1 - Sermon - Wake the Silent off the album Of Golden Verse 2 - Sulphur Aeon - Hammer From the Howling Void off of Seven Crowns and Seven Seals 3 - Tomb Mold - Will of Whispers off of The Enduring Spirit 4 - Earthside - But What if We're Wrong off of Let the Truth Speak 5 - Theocracy - Liar, Fool, or Messiah off of Mosaic