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The full Prepare the Ground festival lineup is here! Ticket links for the full fest and single days are available.

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.

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.

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.

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 releasing between September 10th and September 16th—Spin (or skip) new music from Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold, Baroness, and more.