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To kick off 2024, here’s our final piece of year-end coverage for 2023: a ‘best of’ our staff’s ‘best ofs’.

Luke Jackson packs in some excellent black metal recommendations and more in his top picks for 2023.

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.

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

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

We start 2023’s listmania with Tom Morgan’s best-of list, which packs in a luxurious cross-section of heavy music’s range this year.

We gathered suggestions from our writers and came up with 22 recommendations for the best heavy music released in 2023 so far.

We round up 14 top picks (and list out 25+ honorable mentions) from Q1 2023, including Lamp of Murmuur, Katatonia, and more.

Here’s all the new metal that’s releasing between March 26th and April 1st, 2023 — spin (or skip) new music from Lamp of Murmuur, Kommand, Demonstealer, and more.