Features

The Noise Pollution curator and storyteller selects his favorites of 2023, featuring classic artists and new blood alike.

Colin Dempsey provides an internationally dispersed list of favorites to recap his 2023 listening.

Colin Williams’s favorites from 2023 venture into the weird realms that black and death metal gave us this year – and beyond.

The best metalcore albums of the year, from Jesus Piece to Dying Wish to Better Lovers and more.

Steve Lampiris highlights his favorite records of the year, with some non-metal highlights rounding out an already eclectic list.

Co-Editor-in-Chief Jon Rosenthal weighs in on his favorites from 2023, including a selection of favorite demos.

Our  ‘Cheap Thrills’ author gives us his favorites of the year—Weird, delightful music awaits.

Tom Campagna tells us about his favorite albums from the year – make sure to check out all the interviews he did with these stellar picks, too.

Here’s all the new metal that’s dropped between December 2nd and last Saturday—Spin (or skip) new music from Void, Sulfuric Hatred, Jarhead Fertilizer, and more, and we’ll be back with UMR (spanning the 17th through the new year) in January.

Cheryl Carter’s picks for 2023 are heavy on black metal, but there’s some eclectic outliers here that will both energize and traumatize.