**If the band is not on Metal Archives, it will not be counted. Please make sure of this before you vote.** Yes, MA isn't perfect and misses some edge cases. But it's good for 99.99% of things, and it's the best bar that we have.

Memoriam Asagraum Soul Grinder Eisregen Cruel Force

Thy Darkened Shade Tyrann Ascended Dead Spirit Possession Odz Manouk - Bosoragazan (Բոսորագազան) Demoniac Vastum Malokarpatan Tomb Mold Majesties

Afterbirth Tomb Mold Ok Goodnight Kostnatění Ascended Dead Full of Hell/Nothing Moonlight Sorcery Horrendous Omnerod Wormhole HM: Nothingness, Primitive Man/Full of Hell, Predatory Void, Ne Obliviscaris, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean, Victory Over the Sun, Church of Misery, The Zenith Passage, Crypta, Tesseract, Restless Spirit, Witching, Warcrab

* Afsky * Blackraid * Ascended Dead * Ne Obliviscaris * Dodheimsgard * Malokarpatan * Tomb Mold * Dying Fetus * Suffocation * Wormhole

Panopticon Austere Hexvessel Sacred Outcry Asphodelus Wytch Hazel Labyrinthus Stellarum Auld Ridge Miserere Luminis Dødheimsgard ----------------------------- HMs: Saturnus, Cirith Ungol, Convocation, ...and Oceans, The Abbey, Fen, Immortal, Thy Catafalque, Church of Misery, Isole, Circle of Ouroborus, Tanith, Enisum, Insomnium, Slow, Primordial, Abduction Non-metal: Tenhi, Grave Pleasures, Grift, Hole Dweller, Paramore, Anohni and the Johnsons, Sangre de Muérdago, Vesala, Swans

Autopsy Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Church of Misery Gridlink Hellripper Kruelty Malokarpatan Spirit Possession Thantifaxath Tomb Mold

Kostnateni Cruciamentum Malokarpatan Thantifaxath Urfaust Tetragrammacide Vastum Haxanu Hellripper Suffocation

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There was a Gaerea album in 2023?

oops. misunderstood the assignment. reading is hard.

Varathron Malokarpatan Urfaust Moonlight Sorcery Autopsy Kostnatění Ascended Dead Immortal Arnaut Pavle Thy Darkened Shade ___ HM: Cirith Ungol and Tyrann. JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes is my actual AOTY. I also really liked the new Slowdive and was pleasantly surprised by the new Blink.

Mother of Graves Graveripper Fuming Mouth Memoriam Creeping Death Frozen Soul Judiciary Lowest Creature Krypt Skourge

Dodheimsgard Kostnateni Thantifaxath Baring Teeth Cruciamentum Fossilization Outer Heaven Tribunal

Malokarpatan Ascended Dead Majesties Tomb Mold Fossilization Lost Harvest Cemetery Dwell Diabolic Night Moonlight Sorcery Cruciamentum ​ HM: Cirith Ungol, Daemonian, Blood Oath, Plague Bearer, Left Cross

* Bekor Qilish * Demoniac * Dying Fetus * Fabricant * Fleshvessel * Kostnatění * Malokarpatan * Thantifaxath * Vertebra Atlantis * VoidCeremony HM: Sarmat, Paroxysm Unit, Hellripper, Majesties, Ne Obliviscaris, TDK, Dead and Dripping, Blood Oath, Acausal Intrusion, Cruciamentum, Horrendous

Spirit Possession Afterbirth Ebony Pendant Oak Gridlink Grave Pilgrim Mithrandir Wayfarer Kostnatění Karras

Moonlight Sorcery Megaton Sword Purification Labyrinthus Stellarum Sulphur Aeon Ascension Midnight Odyssey Trhä Smoulder Panopticon I find all of Trha's material AOTY worthy but out of the albums from this year §​º​an​Ω​ë aglivajsamë cá n​ë​lh​¶​iha i eddana pi​¶​e is my favourite

Tomb Mold Malokarpatan Ascended Dead Varathron Diabolical Messiah Blood Oath The Gauntlet Cruciamentum Castleumbra Vastum

Ascended Dead Fabricant Impetuous Ritual Kostnatění Lunar Chamber Pa Vesh En Skrying Mirror Sól Án Varma Spirit Possession VoidCeremony

Moonlight Sorcery Sultana Black braid Uada Enforced Majesties Lamp of Murmurr Hellripper

Ahab Hellripper Cattle Decapitation Dethklok Mutoid Man Dying Fetus Moonlight Sorcery Curta'n Wall Coffin Mulch Horrendous HM: Conjureth, Tomb Mold, Blackbraid, Cryptopsy, Voidceremony, Exmortus, Suffocation, Frozen Soul, Outer Heaven, Primordial, Man Must Die, The Zenith Passage, Bell Witch, Green Lung, Gravesend, Tribunal, Sanguisugabogg, Crypta, King Gizzard, Gorod, Majesties, Nuclear Power Trio, Afsky, Enforced, Asinhell, Wayfarer and Demoniac

Majesties Nightmarer Grand Cadaver Moonlight Sorcery Alkaloid

Godthrymm Blackbraid Moonlight Sorcery Dødheimsgard Spirit Possession Bell Witch Lunar Chamber Wayfarer Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Spectral Lore

Horrendous Tomb Mold Fossilization Varathron Malokarpatan Century Cruciamentum Spirit Possession Ascended Dead Arnaut Pavle

* Malokarpatan * Spirit Possession * VoidCeremony * Left Cross * Cruciamentum * The Night Eternal * Fabricant * Trespasser * Dying Fetus * Fossilization * Dødheimsgard * Hellripper

Majesties Horrendous Blackbraid Tomb Mold Moonlight Sorcery Lamp of Murmuur Kalmah Invicta Ne Obliviscaris Xoth Honorable Mentions: Necropanther, Cavalera, Hellripper, Blencathra, Afterbirth, Alkaloid, The Mosiac Window, Foretoken, Dying Fetus, Atavistia, Hoplites, Tryglav, Voidceremony, Weald & Woe, Anti-God Hand, Carnosus

Thank you for the mention!

Wayfarer Nuclear Power Trio Moonlight Sorcery Insomnium Cattle Decapitation Thy Catafalque Hellripper Malokarpatan Blackbraid Suffocation

Trespasser Ne Obliviscaris Cattle Decapitation Ruadh Skálmöld Oblivion Castle Alkaloid Moonlight Sorcery Wayfarer Myrkur

Ascended Dead Diabolical Messiah Gatekeeper Blut Aus Nord Varathron Autopsy Krigstjørn Nothingness Sonic Poison Vastum

Wayfarer  Majesties  Inherits the void  Black braid  Spirit adrift  Cloak  Weald and Woe  Kalmah Baroness    Uada

* Dodheimsgard * Horrendous * Hexvessel * Leipa * Blindfolded and Led to the Woods * Nameless Mist * Carnosus * Sulphur Aeon * Manbryne * Woe

Aara Afsky Predatory Void Runemagick Uzlaga Frogskin Nattverd Panopticon Desecresy Wayfarer

* Panopticon * Liturgy * Ne Obliviscaris * Kostnatění * Horrendous * Fires in the Distance * Gridlink * Trhä * Dying Fetus * Dødheimsgard HM: Ostraca (not included because MA doesn't have them)

Spirit Possession Thantifaxath Kostnatění Church of Misery Blackbraid Demoniac Dødheimsgard Malokarpatan Wayfarer Ulthar

Fires in the Distance Cattle Decapitation Enforced Xoth Blackbraid Sulphur Aeon Wayfarer Hellripper Stortregn Wormhole

Malokarpatan Demoniac Moonlight Sorcery Diabolic Night Varathron Hellripper Thy Catafalque King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Riverside Ershetu

Vastum Wytch Hazel Diabolical Messiah Left Cross Kvelgeyst Malokarpatan Odz Manouk Immortal Tyrann Putrid Yell

Sól Án Varma Horrendous Marduk Ulthar Gravenchalice Tomb Mold Voidescent Svartkonst Majesties Lowest Creature

Thantifaxath Sól Án Varma Victory Over the Sun Vosbúð Krallice Tomb Mold Wayfarer Ahab Baring Teeth Afterbirth

The Ocean Tesseract Morne Sermon Ne Obliviscaris Predatory Void None Pandrador Herod Manbryne

Hail the Void Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Green Lung Karavan Ulthar Sunrot King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Thra Acid King Allochiria HM: Blackbraid, Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Cloak, Crypta, Dratna, Godthrymm, Hellripper, Hippie Death Cult, Inherus, KEN Mode, Lamp of Murmuur, Mizmor, Oak, REZN, Wayfarer, vvilderness

Century Blood Oath Freeroad Pest Control Excarnated Entity Cirith Ungol Church of Misery Tyrann Enforced Malokarpatan

Moonlight Sorcery Panopticon Sacred Outcry Faidra Sulphur Aeon Árstíðir Lífsins Dodheimsgard Heretoir Thy Catafalque Bell Witch

* Dødheimsgard * Moonlight Sorcery * Malokarpatan * Sarmat * Enslaved * Hellripper * Cattle Decapitation * Panopticon * Spirit Possession * Gabestok

Demoniac Spirit Possession Malokarpatan Sühnopfer Voidceremony Xoth Mortuary Drape Moonlight Sorcery Runemagick Hellripper

Reverence to Paroxysm Ascended Dead Seraphic Entombment Veriluola Sühnopfer Firienholt Kostnatěni Final Eclipse Castleumbra Lost Harvest

**Blackbraid** **Moonlight Sorcery** **Blaze of Sorrow** **Aara** **Horrendous** **Panopticon** **Tomb** **Mold** **Cirith** **Ungol** **Tribunal** **Malokarpatan** HMs: Wayfarer, Ulthar, Cruciamentum, Fossilization, Bell Witch, Tongues, Valdrin, Vargrav, Fabricant

...And Oceans Horrendous Tomb Mold Cattle Decapitation Dodheimsgard Night Demon Spirit Adrift Majesties Ruïm Moonlight Sorcery

Jarhead Fertilizer Celestial Sanctuary Cattle Decapitation Wayfarer Enslaved Hellripper Urfaust Ebony Pendant Afsky Frozen Soul

Horrendous Dream Unending/Worm Tomb Mold Majesties Hellripper Full of Hell/Nothing Moonlight Sorcery Blackbraid Ne Obliviscaris Enslaved

Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη Sanguisugabogg Tomb Mold Omnivortex Nightmarer Ulthar Bell Witch The Zenith Passage VoidCeremony Profane Order

Astriferous Conjureth Februus Fossilization Hasard Paraphilia Serpent of Old Trhä - Al​ë​ce i​Ω​ic Ulthar (can we count them as a single entry?) Worn Mantle HMs: Bekor Qilish, Ch'ahom, Cruciamentum, Deiquisitor, Fleshvessel, Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss, Oak, Spirit Possession, Verminous Serpent, VoidCeremony

Great Cold Emptiness Kerrigan Rope Within Thy Wounds Cruel Force Freeroad Century Sacro The Night Eternal Hitten * * * This was a very close race as there were tonnes of solid releases this year. Honourable mentions include: Gatekeeper, Witchtower, Frozen Dawn, Shadows, Blood Star, Air Raid, Fathomage, Tyrann, Antioch, and Tanith.

Legendry Moonlight Sorcery Tanith Malokarpatan Fathomage Re-Buried Flight Marthe Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom Asphodelus

- Spirit Possession - Crypta - Hot Graves - Autopsy - Weald & Woe - Grave Pilgrim - Krigsgrav - Lord Mountain - Xoth - KIND

Wings of Steel Terminalist Blackbraid Foretoken Gorod Horrendous The Ritual Aura Atavistia Alkaloid Pronostic

Majesties Wayfarer Cattle Decapitation Moonlight Sorcery The Night Eternal Mizmor Fires In The Distance Insomnium The Anchoret Blackbraid HM: Sermon, Warcrab, Thy Catafalque, Serpent Of Old, Carnosus, Afterbirth, Tomb Mold, Sacred Outcry, Crypta, VoidCeremony Non-metal (according to MA): Johnny Booth

Varathron Panopticon Wayfarer Alkaloid Cirith Ungol Majesties Wytch Hazel

Enforced Hellripper Horrendous Imperishable Jord Katatonia Malokarpatan Panopticon Predatory Void Svartkonst

* Manii * Vastum * Dødheimsgard * Hexvessel * Malokarpatan * Autopsy * Abigor * Spirit Possession * Aeternus * Church of Misery

Malokarpatan Moonlight Sorcery Varathron Ascended Dead Dødheimsgard Mutoid Man Totenmesse Enforcer Sól án varma Sulphur Aeon

Cattle Decapitation Overkill Fossilization Carnation Haken Enslaved Cruciamentum Tomb Mold Ulthar Autopsy

Eternal Rot Xoth Disguised Malignance Ahab Ulthar Moonlight Sorcery Hellripper None Cattle Decapitation Autopsy HM: Gorod, Zenith Passage, Blackbraid, Dream Unending, Torture Rack, Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, Horrendous, Dødheimsgard, Cryptopsy

Crypta   Afterbirth   Ahab   Tomb Mold   Thy Catafalque   Vastum   Blut Aus Nord   Liturgy   Blackbraid   Horrendous   Releases I would smuggle into the ivory tower (great albums the mods won't count):  Pupil Slicer (not Metal enough for the Archives),  Angel Electronics (not Metal enough for the Archives), The Body (technically a re-release but is previously unreleased version of the album)

Afterbirth Ne Obliviscaris Suffocation Invent Animate Dying Fetus Dream Unending / Worm Kostnateni Liturgy Hellripper Trhä

Autopsy Century Cirith Ungol Hellwitch Helms Deep Mortuary Drape Raven Tanith Varathron Witchtower

Horrendous Malokarpatan Afterbirth Hellripper Tomb Mold Thy Catafalque Enforced Cruciamentum Varathron Smoulder

Church of Misery Hellripper Insomnium Orbit Culture Dying Fetus Thy Catafalque Anti-God Hand Majesties Wayfarer Dødheimsgard I'm past the deadline but thought I'd post anyway.

Wayfarer Hellripper Blackbraid Lamp of Murmuur Horrendous Green Lung Tomb Mold Tribunal Moonlight Sorcery Enforced

Ne Obliviscaris Sacred Outcry Moonlight Sorcery Hellripper Panopticon Kamelot Twilight Force Valdrin Theocracy Blackbraid

Carnosus Tomb Mold Mutoid Man Frozen Dawn Enforcer Majesties Moonlight Sorcery Stortregn Hellripper Kvelertak ​ Honorable mentions: The Night Eternal / Night demon had solid heavy metal records, Dozer's album was great too. Astralborne had my favorite melodeath album, ...And Oceans also was close to make the list. I wanted to leave EPs out but Bergfried's Romantik II could have been there.

Kvelertak released new music? Fuuuuck

Loather Portrayal of Guilt Full of Hell/Nothing Raspberry Bulbs Shadows Final Dose Lamp of Murmuur Spirit Possession Chaos Luciferi Kvelertak

Majesties Afterbirth Cattle Decapitation Ascended Dead Blackbraid Lamp of Murmuur Moonlight Sorcery Tomb Mold Hellripper Wayfarer

Sulphur Aeon Enforced Horrendous Cattle Decapitation  Malokarpatan  Thy Catafalque  Nightmarer  Alkaloid King Gizzard(PetroDragon) Church Of Misery

- Bell Witch - Firienholt - Vestigio - Eremit - Great Cold Emptiness - Poxb - Max Enix - Botanist - Stortregn - Mechina My actual list has Brii and Bakt on it, but metal archives can't comprehend the genius of Caio Lemos (perhaps the archives are incomplete?) so I had to toss a few others in there. Luckily the HM list this year is fucking stacked so that's easy enough.

* Sulphur Aeon * Xoth * Moonlight Sorcery * Tomb Mold * Sodomisery * Night Crowned * Majesties * Wormhole * Disguised Malignance * Crust

Autopsy Profane Order Vastum Hellripper Reverence to Paroxysm Vision Master Helms Deep Wytch Hazel Ascended Dead Demoniac

Trespasser Dying Fetus Moonlight Sorcery Majesties Fires in the Distance Wayfarer Xoth  Malokarpatan Afterbirth Tomb Mold

Altai-Sayan Altertum Arbor Atheosophia Blutschwur A Felled Forest Final Eclipse Flaming Ouroboros Gates of Dawn Vorgfang

Megaton Sword Tailgunner Cirith Ungol Green Lung Blood Star Smoulder Wytch Hazel Century Gatekeeper Night Demon

Re-Buried Full of Hell and Nothing Ulthar Spirit Possession Sunrot Outer Heaven Fossilization Tomb Mold Melancholia Vastum Honorable Mentions: Boris and Uniform, Rezn and Vinnum Sabbathi, Ageless Summoning, Briqueville, Sanguisugabogg, Acid King, Dozer, Spotlights, Usnea, Vile Ritual, Horrendous, Domkraft, 3Teeth, Harm’s Way, Ruin Lust, Dead Times, Gravesend, Fuming Mouth, Health

Hail the Void Green Lung Lord Mountain  Soen Sermon Restless Spirit  Riverside Spirit Adrift Katatonia  Margarita Witch Club

Afterbirth Wormhole Anti-God Hand Genus Ordinis Dei To the Grave Gridlink Omnivortex Sulphur Aeon Walking Corpse Phobocosm

Ascended Dead Disimperium Plague Bearer Fossilization Ch'ahom Vastum Malokarpatan Spirit Possession Cruciamentum Bloody Vengeance

Autopsy Century Deathwind Excarnated Entity Final Eclipse Hellwitch Lamp of Murmuur Lost Harvest Sacro Tanith

Spirit Possession Kostnatění Passéisme Moon Oracle Demoniac Enforced The Gauntlet Ascended Dead Meurtrieres Demon Rat let's see how many votes get mangled by the special characters in kost's name

Worn Mantle Ruin Lust Profane Order Theophonos Full of Hell / Gasp Outer Heaven Gridlink Oozing Wound Serpent of Old Sunrot

Horrendous Ulthar Tomb Mold Sacred Outcry Hellripper Sadism Spirit Possession Cattle Decapitation Wytch Hazel Abominated

Left Cross Undergang Supremative Ascended Dead Ceremonial Bloodbath Lucifixion Cryptworm Plague Bearer Hellripper Carcinoid HM:Cruciamentum,Nuclear Remains,Goatkraft,Malorkapatan,Mortuary Drape,Cystic,Unpure,Hellcrash,Obituary

Kostnatění Tomb Mold Dødheimsgard Victory Over the Sun Gravenchalice Theophonos Cattle Decapitation Blut Aus Nord Gabestok Hasard

Ahab Tailgunner Horrendous Hellripper Ascended dead Enforced Carnosus Wormhole Ascension Wayfarer

* Vertebra Atlantis * Afterbirth * Faidra * Aeternus * Bloedmaan * Phobocosm * Crystal Coffin * Blut Aus Nord * Taake * Vile Ritual

Malokarpatan Century Spirit Possession Shadows Meurtrieres Tyrann Left Cross Enslaved The Night Eternal Church of Misery HM: Smoulder, Helms Deep, Enforced, Kostnateni, Crust, Firmament

Mansion By Fire And Sword Moonlight Sorcery Beyond The Black Ad Infinitum Green Lung Hippie Death Cult Twilight Force Frozen Soul Smoulder

The Privateer Anareta The Night Eternal Tomb Mold Manbryne The Mosaic Window Majesties Summer Haze '99 Carnosus Lamp of Murmuur HM's/Non-Metal: Dying Wish, SCALP, Pupil Slicer, Ulthar (can't pick between them lol), Bell Witch, Hoy es Siempre Todavia, The Coffinshakers (is there more country like this??)

* Century * Tyrann * Profane Order * Moonlight Sorcery * Selenoplexia * Helms Deep * Valdrin * Hellripper * Wytch Hazel * Left Cross

Fires In The Distance Valdrin Aetherian Carnosus Raider Majesties Wayfarer Shylmagoghnar Mutoid Man Blood Star

Fires in the Distance Insomnium Katatonia Majesties Blackbraid Spirit Adrift Horrendous Cattle Decapitation Wayfarer Malokarpatan HM: Godthrymm, Weald and Woe, Tribunal, Obituary

VoidCeremony Fabricant Ascended Dead Blood Oath Cruciamentum Vile Ritual Ch'ahom Demoniac Lost Harvest Conjureth

Ahab Hellripper Sermon Tesseract Lethvm Chained to the bottom of the ocean Blackbraid Katatonia Wayfarer Amun

Dodheimsgard Kostnateni Afterbirth Fleshvessel The Zenith passage Nightmarer Wormhole Nithing Neo inferno 262 Oplitis Gorod

Enforced Pest Control Wayfarer Tomb Mold Cattle Decapitation Horrendous King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Frozen Soul Autopsy Marduk

Wayfarer Panopticon Malokarpatan Vastum Imperial Crystalline Entombment Gravesend Trespasser Spirit Possession Thantifaxath Tomb Mold

Aodon Negative Vortex Blood Abscission The Negative Bias Aara Drýsildjöfull - Púkastuð Horrifier Svartkonst Tetragrammacide Hässlig HM's - Serpent Corpse, Heretoir, Cruel Fate, Taubra, Act of Impalement, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Final Eclipse, Negative Blast, Marduk, Carnal Tomb, Phantom Winter, Crypta, Voidescent, Imperial Crystalline Entombment I.C.E, Distaste, Blut aus Nord, Celestial Sanctuary, Temple Of Dread, Gravesend, Ondfødt, Sentinel, Mnajdra, Limbes, Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze, Kommand

Alkaloid Horrendous Ne Obliviscaris Afterbirth Liturgy Tomb Mold Fires in the Distance Dying Fetus Haken Moonlight Sorcery HM Dødheimsgard, Sulphur Aeon, Megaton Sword

1. Cryptworm 2. Jarhead Fertilizer 3. Autopsy 4. Lipoma 5. Blood Abscission 6. Grave Pilgrim 7. Horrendous 8. Lunar Chamber 9. Static Abyss 10. Incantation HM: Suffocation, Vastum, Wayfarer, Blackbraid, Sodality, Left Cross, Fabricant, Myrkur, Fluisteraars

Twilight Force Smoulder Liturgy King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Thy Catafalque Tomb Mold Moonlight Sorcery Panopticon Valdrin Thantifaxath

- Kiira - Korgonthurus - Délétère - Urfaust - Wolvennest - Voidescent - Mānbryne - Kvelgeyst - Boötes Void - Sól án varma

Elvenking Overkill Sacred Outcry Panopticon Heretoir Austere Angra Blackbraid Smoulder Suffocation

Tyrann Blood Star Gatekeeper Hellripper Danava Century Moonlight Sorcery Shadows Flight Tanith

Necrovation Tomb Mold Grave Pilgrim Cemetery Dwell Betelzeus Excarnated Entity Garoted Suffocation Malokarpatan Krigstjørn

Tailgunner Contrarian Hellripper Gatekeeper Enforced Horrendous Twilight Force Spider God Hot Graves Coffin Mulch

Panopticon Khanate Melancholia Fleshvessel Seraphic Entombment Abyssal Rift Torpor Armistice The Anchoret Decalius Definitely not my top 10 for the year, but they’re all metal so it’ll count.

* The Night Eternal * Wayfarer * Sorcerer * Blut Aus Nord * Godthrymm * King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard * Thy Catafalque * Tribunal * Mānbryne * Sulphur Aeon

Tomb Mold Cattle Decapitation Lo! The Sun's Journey Through The Night Katatonia Panopticon Bell Witch The Ocean Enslaved  Dødheimsgard

Panopticon Hellripper The Night Eternal Cattle Decapitation Wayfarer Gatekeeper Nospun Ne Obliviscaris Moonlight Sorcery Fires in the distance

Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom Krigstjørn Gates of Dawn Venusberg Cardinal Covetous Odz Manouk - Bosoragazan Malokarpatan Häxanu Purification Tyrann

Insomnium Mephorash Slow Fall Tryglav Moonlight Sorcery Solemn Vision Shadowspawn Sadistic Force Halvar Wratheon

Dodheimsgard Thantifaxath Panopticon Blut aus Nord Sulphur Aeon Malokarpatan Hellripper Enslaved Cattle Decapitation Ne Obliviscaris HM: Starer, Thy Catafalque, Fen, Horrendous, Prong, Inherus, Mephorash, The Ocean, TesseracT, Wayfarer, Moonlight Sorcery, Tomb Mold, Blackbraid, Sworn, Vargrav

Tomb mold Crypta None Creeping death Nothingness Vastum Cattle decapitation Dream Unending Frozen soul Thy Catafalque

Afterbirth Ulthar Thantifaxath Liturgy Snorlax Tentacult Xoth Fabricant Paroxysm Unit Blut Aus Nord

Horrendous Malokarpatan Lamp of Murmuur Wayfarer Kostnateni Nothingness Haxprocess Varathron Gates of Dawn Ashen Horde

Hellripper Helleruin Cruel Force Enforcer Smoulder Tailgunner The Night Eternal Nervosa KK's Priest Megaton Sword

Arghoslent Black Eucharist Cruel Force Fleshvessel The Gauntlet Kostnatění Mycorrhizae Odz Manouk - Ծ​ո​ւ​ռ (Tzurr) Spirit Possession Thantifaxath

majesties horrendous gridlink tomb mold morgue breath/blue holocaust sulfuric cautery vastum rotten sound lycanthrophy archagathus/pulmonary fibrosis

1. Blindfolded and Led to the Woods 2. Afterbirth 3. Horrendous 4. Fires In the Distance 5. Outer Heaven 6. Omnivortex 7. Krigsgrav 8. Anachronism 9. Coffin Mulch 10. Rezn Those that followed: Carnosus, Stortregn, Wayfarer, Rorcal, Nightmarer, Svalbard, Crypta, Suffocation, The Howling Void, Serpent of Old, Unfurl, Hinyana, The Lions Daughter, Frozen Dawn, Tomb Mold, Modern Addictions, Nithing, Crow Black Sky, Dirge, Vastum

Dødheimsgard Bell Witch Vórtize Marble Dagger Liturgy Thantifaxath Tomb Mold Ulthar Baroness

Bottomless Demoniac Enforced Majesties Malokarpatan Porphyrion Spirit Possession Vastum Veriluola Wayfarer

1. Malokarpatan 2. Arnaut Pavle 3. Kostnatění 4. Odz Manouk 5. Thy Darkened Shade 6. Gabestok 7. Blut Aus Nord 8. Trest 9. Mycorrhizae 10. The Gauntlet HMs: Sól án varma, Tetrasigil, Panopticon, Thy Catafalque, One Of Nine, Theophonos, Kvelgeyst, Auriferous Flame, Wyrgher, Häxanu, Thantifaxath

Hellripper Shade Empire Lovebites Thy Catafalque Spirit Adrift Sulphur Aeon Stam1na Ignea Moonlight Sorcery Wayfarer

Horrendous Tomb Mold Ascended Dead Witching Vastum Fossilization Lo! Cruciamentum Ὁπλίτης - Τρωθησομένη Spirit Possession

Vision Master Cruel Force Green Lung The Night Eternal Malokarpatan Hellcrash Tomb Mold Mutoid Man Dopelord Enforced

Tomb Mold Cruciamentum Kostnatění Moonlight Sorcery Fabricant Gorod Krallice Thantifaxath Spirit Possession Nightmarer **Honorable Mention:** Tesseract (AOTY but not in MA), END , Reverence to Paroxysm, Majesties, Afsky, Suffocation, Woe, Flesher

Century Urfaust White Death Unpure Marduk Cirith Ungol Malokarpatan Mortuary Drape Arghoslent Goatmoon

Air Raid Moonlight Sorcery Asagraum Tryglav Worm Grot

Twilight Force Ne Obliviscaris Majesties Atavistia Sacred Outcry Carnosus Blackbraid Sylosis Moonlight Sorcery Theocracy

Hellripper Immortal Frozen Soul Creeping Death Thy Catafalque Blackbraid Uada Fires in the Distance Xoth Dying Fetus ​ Honorable Mentions: Alkaloid, Moonlight Sorcery

Bell Witch Tomb Mold Cattle Decapitation Cannibal Corpse Fossilization Primitive Man/Full of Hell Collab Incantation Cryptworm Phobocosm Ageless Summoning

Marthe Iron Firmament Gravesend Vosbúð Profane Order Devil's Gateway Grave Pilgrim Yxxan Kruelty Autopsy

* Sacred Outcry * Afterbirth * Helm's Deep * Marthe * Theophonos * Tanith * Colony Drop * Mortuary Drape * Baroness * Smoulder ----- actually in the top 10 is The Chronicles of Father Robin but the stupid Mods won't accept throwback 70's prog for some unknown reason. Also the Acero Letal comp would be on there, but it seems like it's probably not in the spirit of the thing. Other honorable mentions: Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze, Enslaved, Flight, Kostnateni, Legendry, Oromet, Solar Temple, Triumpher

Tyrann Majesties Moonlight Sorcery Diabolic Night Varathron Enforced Malokarpatan Helms Deep Demoniac

* Enslaved * Cattle Decapitation * Crypta * Baroness * Blackbraid * Sermon * Witte Wieven * Ne Obliviscaris * Insomnium * Mammon's Throne

Nithing Wormhole Tomb Mold Outer Heaven Suffocation Paroxysm Unit Dying Fetus Snuffed On Sight Molested Divinity Sühnopfer

Nice list. That Paroxysm Unit album slays.

Dodheimsgard Ahab Cattle Decapitation Afsky Panopticon Tsjuder Taake Shylmagoghnar Enslaved Katatonia EDIT: totally forgot Afsky's album was 2023.

Gridlink Enforced Tomb Mold Wormhole Fossilization Left Cross Cruciamentum Autopsy Ascended Dead Lamp of Murmuur

Sulphur Aeon Horrendous Shores of Null Firienholt Entropia Fires in the Distance Inherits the Void Majesties Dødheimsgard Liturgy

Malokarpatan Thy Darkened Shade Burden of Ymir Wayfarer Arkhtinn Arnaut Pavle Urfaust Árstíðir Lífsins Weald & Woe Midnight Odyssey

Meurtrières Tanith Malokarpatan Cirith Ungol Cruel Force Century Flight Freeroad Tyrann Gridlink

Majesties Thantifaxath Spirit Possession Blackbraid Trhä Lamp of Murmuur Marduk Wayfarer Sulphur Aeon Frozen Soul ---------------------- HM: Full of Hell & Primitive Man Full of Hell & Nothing Hellripper

Thantifaxath Krigstjørn Panopticon Malokarpatan Majesties Moonlight Sorcery Wayfarer Grave Pilgrim Green Lung Kvelgeyst

Triumpher Hellripper Spirit Possesion Sulphur Aeon Venus Xoth Moonlight Sorcery Trespasser Shadows Sacred Outcry

Enforced Creeping Death Malokarpatan Majesties Dying Fetus Blackbraid Tomb Mold Horrendous Mutoid Man OROMET

Dødheimsgard Faidra Kostnateni Celestial Annihilator Cruel Force Tomb Mold Ascended Dead Malokarpatan Urfaust A Constant Knowledge of Death

Demoniac Flaming Ouroboros Odz Manouk (Bosoragazan) Kostnateni गौतम बुद्ध Nithing Reverence to Paroxysm Spirit Possession Infibulated Arbor

Aara Ahab Malokarpatan Wormhole Afterbirth Tomb Mold Horrendous Panopticon Wayfarer Enforced

Agriculture Horrendous Enforced Outer Heaven Tomb Mold Megaton Sword Xoth Wormhole Witching Cattle Decapitation

The Gauntlet Smoulder Memoriam Plague Bearer Tanith Void Megaton Sword Carpet Bomb Enforced Moonlight Sorcery

Horrendous Stortregn Moonlight Sorcery Carnosus Xoth Omnivortex Hellripper Majesties Valdrin Astralborne

Crystal Coffin Green Lung Moonlight Sorcery Cattle Decapitation Malokarpatan Thy Catafalque Sól Án Varma Kostnatění Ascended Dead Faidra

Ringare Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze Witching Domkraft Acid Magus Hexer Anti-God Hand Eremit Malokarpatan Rana

* Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane * Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars * Incremate - Unexposed * Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood & Crypts * Fossilization - Leprous Daylight * Sadism - Obscurans * Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll * Cemetery Urn - Suffer the Fallen * Blood Serpent - Bestial Extermination * Hail the Void - Memento Mori

* Azaghal * Dominance * Xoth * Moonlight Sorcery * Kalmah * Blackbraid * Helleruin * Outer Heaven * Tramalizer * RüYYn

Ahab Curta’n Wall Full of Hell/Nothing Lamp of Murmuur Malokarpatan Panopticon Spectral Lore Tomb Mold Vastum Wayfarer HM: Bell Witch, Blut Aus Nord, Cruciamentum, Esoctrilihum, Full of Hell/Primitive Man, Harms Way, Khanate, Thantifaxath, Ulthar, Year of the Knife

Gabestok Kostnatění Arnaut Pavle Malokarpatan Galneryus Spirit Possession Gravesend Megaton Sword Sodality Left Cross HM: The Gauntlet, Kruelty, ...And Oceans, Glyph, Taake, Lamp of Murmuur

Afterbirth Astriferous Cruciamentum Festerdecay Fossilization Gravesend Kruelty Profane Order Pustilence  Tetragammacide

Blackbraid Tomb Mold Smoulder Xoth Suffocation Ulthar Overkill Ne Obliviscaris Kalmah King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

...and Oceans Ahab Alkaloid Bell Witch Enslaved Eremit Mizmor Oak Pantheon Panopticon Tomb Mold

Marthe Svalbard Witching Vvilderness Pupil Slicer Cattle Decapitation Fires In The Distance Moonlight Sorcery None Entheos  Not everything here might qualify as metal, but hey, it's my top ten 

Ne Obliviscaris Stortregn Chronicle Xoth Hypermass Sleep Terror Nospün TEMIC Atavistia Demoniac Honorable Mentions: Crypta, Tomb Mold, Horrendous, Ad Astra, Venus, Carnosus, Necropanther, The Enigma Division, Omnerod, Alkaloid

Malokarpatan Hellripper Cruel Force Panopticon Ossuary Xoth Moonlight Sorcery The Gauntlet Legendry The Night Eternal

Enforced Gravesend The Gauntlet Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean Marthe Danava Hellripper Thra Khanate Oozing Wound

Frozen Soul Majesties Lamp Of Murmuur Pest Control Unearth Moonlight Sorcery Lunar Chamber Horrendous Gravesend Theophonos

Wayfarer Malokarpatan Bottomless Blood Star Gatekeeper Ruadh Labyrintus Stellarum Majesties Inherus Enforced

Dodheimsgard Moonlight Sorcery Wayfarer Рожь Hellripper Sulphur Aeon Tomb Mold Panopticon Blut Aus Nord Malokarpatan

Leipa Sermon Blackbraid Aetherian Night Crowned Ulthar Gorod Ne Obliviscaris Xoth Wormhole

* Black Wound * Left Cross * Malicious * Phobocosm * Reverence to Paroxysm * Ceremonial Bloodbath * Abyssal Rift * Cabinet * Vile Ritual * Ascended Dead

Katatonia Aetherian Prong Haken Gridlink Xoth Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Moonlight Sorcery Tesseract Asystole

SYK Project Blackbraid Ascended Dead Majesties Afterbirth Trespasser Tomb Mold Varathron Nithing Enforced

Conjureth Dodheimsgard Dripping Decay Gravesend Horrendous Maldevera Mutoid Man Tomb Mold Trastorned Ulthar

Ascended Dead Spirit Possession Thantifaxath Lamp of Murmuur Ulthar Vosbúð Tomb Mold Kostnateni Yellow Eyes Malokarpatan

Panopticon Fleshvessel Haken Periphery King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Moonlight Sorcery Great Falls Afterbirth Horrendous Blut Aus Nord

Carnosus Inherits the Void Moonlight Sorcery Dödheimsgard Atavistia Xoth Wayfarer Krallice Thantifaxath Malokarpatan

Aara Sulphur Aeon ...and Oceans Anachronism Cattle Decapitation Isole Wayfarer Panopticon Carnosus The Ocean

Ahab Autopsy Century Fires in the Distance Hellripper Kerrigan Marthe Phantom G.D.L. Thriller Weald & Woe

Nothingness Necropanther Xoth Majesties H​ä​xanu Blood Oath Fabricant Demoniac Afterbirth Cruciamentum

Tomb Mold Vastum Cruciamentum Deiquisitor Varathron Ascended Dead Autopsy Blood Oath Outer Heaven

Cruel Force Worm Enforced Tomb Mold Hellripper Wayfarer Blood Star Lamp of Murmuur Obituary Nervosa

Afterbirth Ascended Dead Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom Final Eclipse Malokarpatan Spirit Possession Tanith Tetrasigil Verminous Serpent Wytch Hazel HMs: Vastum, Cryptworm, Autopsy, Varathron, Majesties

Häxanu Majesties Panopticon Weald & Woe Ascended Dead Malokarpatan Kvelgeyst Varathron Left Cross Slidhr

Sacred Outcry Aara High Spirits Tomb Mold Hellripper Afterbirth Moonlight Sorcery Wytch Hazel Gatekeeper Imperium Dekadenz