moonlight sorcery

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.

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.

July through September contained a massive amount of heavy metal – here’s our guide to the best of the past few months.

Here’s all the new metal that’s released and is releasing between September 17th and September 30th—Spin (or skip) new music from Cannibal Corpse, Wolves in the Throne Room, Harm’s Way, and more.