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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’.

Brandon’s list packs in some of the best heavy metal you’ll find from this year, plus a few other treats.

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

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.

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

We talked to Majesties members Carl Skildum, Tanner Anderson, and Matthew Kirkwold about their recent debut album, and discussed their love for melodic death metal’s beginnings.

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

We spoke to guitarist Carl Skildum (Inexorum, Antiverse) about the band’s debut album (out this week), which taps into the early Gothenburg melodic death metal sound with striking authenticity.