miserere luminis

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

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.