2023

Asking for a Ride

White Reaper

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 27 January 2023

• Hard rock
• Garage punk

1. Asking for a Ride
2. Bozo
3. Fog Machine
4. Getting into Trouble w/ the Boss
5. Funny Farm
6. Pink Slip
7. Heaven or Not
8. Crawlspace
9. Thorn
10. Pages

Endling

Kvelertak

• Label: Rise
• Released: 8 September 2023

• Black 'n' roll
• Hardcore punk

1. Krøtervek Te Helvete
2. Fedrekult
3. Likvoke
4. Motsols
5. Døgeniktens Kvad
6. Endling
7. Skoggangr
8. Paranoia 297
9. Svart September
10. Morild

Life Is a Game

OTTTO

• Label: OTTTO
• Released: 24 March 2023

• Alternative metal
• Hard rock

1. My Pain
2. Skyscraper
3. Night Howlers
4. Scopa
5. Let Them Return
6. Ride Low
7. Dance of the Dead
8. Trip
9. Cosmos
10. The Void

The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

The Hives

• Label: Disquiet Hives
• Released: 11 August 2023

• Garage rock

1. Bogus Operandi
2. Trapdoor Solution
3. Countdown to Shutdown
4. Rigor Mortis Radio
5. Stick up
6. Smoke & Mirrors
7. Crash into the Weekend
8. Two Kinds of Trouble
9. The Way the Story Goes
10. The Bomb
11. What Did I Ever Do to You?
12. Step out of the Way

72 Seasons

Metallica

• Label: Blackened
• Released: 14 April 2023

• Thrash metal
• Heavy metal

1. 72 Seasons
2. Shadows Follow
3. Screaming Suicide
4. Sleepwalk My Life Away
5. You Must Burn!
6. Lux Æterna
7. Crown of Barbed Wire
8. Chasing Light
9. If Darkness Had a Son
10. Too Far Gone?
11. Room of Mirrors
12. Inamorata

Amen

The Heavy

• Label: Bad Son
• Released: 21 April 2023

• Blues rock
• Soul 'n' roll

1. Hurricane Coming
2. Ain't a Love
3. Bad Motherfucker
4. I Feel the Love
5. Messin' with My Mind
6. Stone Cold Killer
7. Just Like Summer
8. A Whole Lot of Me
9. Feels Like Rain
10. Without a Woman

Starcatcher

Greta Van Fleet

• Label: Republic
• Released: 21 July 2023

• Blues rock
• Psychedelic rock

1. Fate of the Faithful
2. Waited All Your Life
3. The Falling Sky
4. Sacred the Thread
5. Runaway Blues
6. The Indigo Streak
7. Frozen Light
8. The Archer
9. Meeting the Master
10. Farewell for Now

The Old Ways Remain

Blood Ceremony

• Label: Rise Above
• Released: 5 May 2023

• Occult rock
• Heavy psych

1. The Hellfire Club
2. Ipsissimus
3. Eugenie
4. Lolly Willows
5. Powers of Darkness
6. The Bonfires at Belloc Coombe
7. Widdershins
8. Hecate
9. Mossy Wood
10. Song of the Morrow

In Times New Roman

Queens of the Stone Age

• Label: Matador
• Released: 16 June 2023

• Alternative rock
• Stoner rock

1. Obscenery
2. Paper Machete
3. Negative Space
4. Time & Place
5. Made to Parade
6. Carnavoyeur
7. What the Peephole Say
8. Sicily
9. Emotion Sickness
10. Straight Jacket Fitting

Terrasite

Cattle Decapitation

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 12 May 2023

• Technical death metal
• Deathgrind

1. Terrasitic Adaptation
2. We Eat Our Young
3. Scourge of the Offspring
4. The Insignificants
5. The Storm Upstairs
6. ... and the World Will Go on Without You
7. A Photic Doom
8. Dead End Residents
9. Solastalgia
10. Just Another Body

Mohini Dey

Mohini Dey

• Label: Mohini Dey
• Released: 6 August 2023

• Jazz fusion
• Progressive rock

1. In-N-Out
2. Introverted Souls
3. Bombay Bong
4. Meat Eater
5. Coloured Goddess
6. First Food Then You
7. Kick'B'ass
8. Emotion
9. Happy to Slap It

Huldufólk

SKÁLD

• Label: Decca
• Released: 20 January 2023

• Neofolk
• Nordic folk

1. Troll lakka milk
2. Ljósálfur
3. Mánin líður
4. Ríðum, ríðum
5. Hinn mikli dreki
6. Då månen sken
7. Elverhøy
8. Her mannelig
9. Rauður loginn brann
10. Trollslaget
11. Du hast
12. A Forest

PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

• Label: KGLW
• Released: 16 June 2023

• Thrash metal
• Progressive metal

1. Motor Spirit
2. Supercell
3. Converge
4. Witchcraft
5. Gila Monster
6. Dragon
7. Flamethrower

Rush!

Måneskin

• Label: Epic
• Released: 20 January 2023

• Glam rock
• Alternative rock

1. Own My Mind
2. Gossip
3. Timezone
4. Bla Bla Bla
5. Baby Said
6. Gasoline
7. Feel
8. Don't Wanna Sleep
9. Kool Kids
10. If Not for You
11. Read Your Diary
12. Mark Chapman
13. La fine
14. Il Dono della Vita
15. MammaMia
16. Supermodel
17. The Loneliest

Bleed out

Within Temptation

• Label: Force Music
• Released: 20 October 2023

• Alternative metal
• Symphonic metal

1. We Go to War
2. Bleed out
3. Wireless
4. Worth Dying for
5. Ritual
6. Cyanide Love
7. The Purge
8. Don't Pray for Me
9. Shed My Skin
10. Unbroken
11. Entertain You

Ghost at the Gallows

Spirit Adrift

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 18 August 2023

• Heavy metal

1. Give Her to the River
2. Barn Burner
3. Hanged Man's Revenge
4. These Two Hands
5. Death Won't Stop Me
6. I Shall Return
7. Siren of the South
8. Ghost at the Gallows

Safe on the Other Side

High Spirits

• Label: HR
• Released: 24 November 2023

• Hard rock
• Heavy metal

1. In the Moonlight
2. Til the End of Time
3. Lonely Nights
4. One Day Closer
5. Anything You Need
6. (There Will Be) Magic Tonight
7. Loving You
8. Please Don't Leave Me Behind
9. Memories
10. Good Night

Holocene

The Ocean

• Label: Pelagic
• Released: 19 May 2023

• Progressive metal
• Post-metal

1. Preboreal
2. Boreal
3. Sea of Reeds
4. Atlantic
5. Subboreal
6. Unconformities
7. Parabiosis
8. Subatlantic

Chaos & Colour

Uriah Heep

• Label: Silver Lining
• Released: 27 January 2023

• Hard rock
• Progressive rock

1. Save Me Tonight
2. Silver Sunlight
3. Hail the Sunrise
4. Age of Changes
5. Hurricane
6. One Nation, One Sun
7. Golden Light
8. You'll Never Be Alone
9. Fly Like an Eagle
10. Freedom to Be Free
11. Closer to Your Dreams

War of Being

TesseracT

• Label: Kscope
• Released: 15 September 2023

• Progressive metal
• Djent

1. Natural Disaster
2. Echoes
3. The Grey
4. Legion
5. Tender
6. War of Being
7. Sirens
8. Burden
9. Sacrifice

6

Graveyard

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 29 September 2023

• Psychedelic rock
• Blues rock

1. Godnatt
2. Twice
3. I Follow You
4. Breathe in, Breathe out
5. Sad Song
6. Just a Drop
7. Bright Lights
8. Now Way out
9. Rampant Fields

Silhouettes of Disgust

Downfall of Gaia

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 17 March 2023

• Atmospheric black metal

1. Existence of Awe
2. The Whir of Flies
3. While Bloodsprings Become Rivers
4. Bodies as Driftwood
5. Eyes to Burning Skies
6. Final Vows
7. Unredeemable
8. Optograms of Disgust

Laugh Track

The National

• Label: 4AD
• Released: 18 September 2023

• Post-punk revival
• Art rock

1. Alphabet City
2. Deep End (Paul's in Pieces)
3. Weird Goodbyes
4. Turn off the House
5. Dreaming
6. Laugh Track
7. Space Invader
8. Hornets
9. Coat on a Hook
10. Tour Manager
11. Crumble
12. Smoke Detector

Wet Ass Plutonium

Nuclear Power Trio

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 28 July 2023

• Progressive metal
• Funk metal

1. W.A.P. (Wet Ass Plutonium)
2. Apocalypse Mao
3. Nyetflix and Chill
4. Air Force Fun
5. Snark Side of the Un
6. ¡Vamos, Brandito!
7. Anti-Saxxers (Mandatory Saxination)
8. Critical Bass Theory
9. Red Scare Bear Stare

Anno 1696

Insomnium

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 24 February 2023

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive metal

1. 1696
2. White Christ
3. Godforsaken
4. Lilian
5. Starless Paths
6. The Witch Hunter
7. The Unrest
8. The Rapids

Blackbraid II

Blackbraid

• Label: Wolf Mountain Productions
• Released: 7 July 2023

• Black metal
• Folk metal

1. Autumnal Hearts Ablaze
2. The Spirit Returns
3. The Wolf That Guides the Hunter's Hand
4. Spells of the Moon and Earth
5. Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon
6. A Song of Death on Winds of Dawn
7. Celestial Passage
8. Twilight Hymn of Ancient Blood
9. Sadness and the Passage of Time and Memory
10. A Fine Way to Die

Congregation of Annihilation

Metal Church

• Label: Rat Pak
• Released: 26 May 2023

• Thrash metal
• Power metal

1. Another Judgement Day
2. Congregation of Annihilation
3. Pick a God and Prey
4. Children of the Lie
5. Me the Nothing
6. Making Monsters
7. Say a Prayer with 7 Bullets
8. These Violent Thrills
9. All That We Destroy

Spectra and Obsession

Amun

• Label: Part Tar
• Released: 26 May 2023

• Post-metal
• Atmospheric black metal

1. The Father's Foundation
2. Forevermore and Always
3. Watch for Ghosts
4. Spectra and Obsession
5. The Mother's Mark
6. A Sickly Fruit Born of Tragic Love

Stone

Baroness

• Label: Abraxan Hymns
• Released: 15 September 2023

• Sludge metal
• Progressive metal

1. Embers
2. Last Word
3. Beneath the Rose
4. Choir
5. The Dirge
6. Anodyne
7. Shine
8. Magnolia
9. Under the Wheel
10. Bloom

Spine

Myrkur

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 20 October 2023

• Ethereal wave
• Post-metal

1. Bålfærd
2. Like Humans
3. Mothlike
4. My Blood Is Gold
5. Spine
6. Valkyriernes Sang
7. Blazing Sky
8. Devil in the Detail
9. Manneskebarn

Crepuscule Natura

Uada

• Label: Eisenwald
• Released: 24 November 2023

• Melodic black metal

1. The Abyss Gazing Back
2. Crepuscule Natura
3. The Dark (Winter)
4. Retraversing the Void
5. Through the Wax and Through the Wane

I Inside the Old Year Dying

PJ Harvey

• Label: Partisan
• Released: 7 July 2023

• Art rock
• Indie folk

1. Prayer at the Gate
2. Autumn Term
3. Lwonesome Tonight
4. Seem an I
5. The Nether-edge
6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
7. All Soouls
8. A Child's Question, August
9. I Inside the Old I Dying
10. August
11. A Child's Question, July
12. A Noiseless Noise

Sky Void of Stars

Katatonia

• Label: Napalm Records
• Released: 20 January 2023

• Progressive rock
• Progressive metal

1. Austerity
2. Colossal Shade
3. Opaline
4. Birds
5. Drab Moon
6. Author
7. Impermanence
8. Sclera
9. Atrium
10. No Beacon to Illuminate Our Fall

Six

Extreme

• Label: earMusic
• Released: 9 June 2023

• Hard rock
• Funk metal

1. Rise
2. #Rebel
3. Banshee
4. Other Side of the Rainbow
5. Small Town Beautiful
6. The Mask
7. Thicker Than Blood
8. Save Me
9. Hurricane
10. X Out
11. Beautiful Girls
12. Here's to the Losers

Scorched

Overkill

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 14 April 2023

• Thrash metal

1. Scorched
2. Goin' Home
3. The Surgeon
4. Twist of the Wick
5. Wicked Place
6. Won't Be Comin Back
7. Fever
8. Harder They Fall
9. Know Her Name
10. Bag o' Bones

Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle

Moonlight Sorcery

• Label: Avantgarde
• Released: 29 September 2023

• Melodic black metal
• Symphonic black metal

1. To Withhold the Day
2. In Coldest Embrace
3. The Secret of Streaming Blood
4. Yönsilmä
5. Vihan Verhon Takaa
6. The Moonlit Dance of the Twisted Jester's Blood-soaked Rituals
7. Fire Burns the Horizon
8. Into the Silvery Shadows of Night
9. Suden tie (Wolven Hour Part II)

The Harmony Codex

Steven Wilson

• Label: Virgin
• Released: 29 September 2023

• Art rock
• Electronica

1. Inclination
2. What Life Brings
3. Economies of Scale
4. Impossible Tightrope
5. Rock Bottom
6. Beautiful Scarecrow
7. The Harmony Codex
8. Time Is Running out
9. Actual Brutal Facts
10. Staircase

First Two Pages of Frankenstein

The National

• Label: 4AD
• Released: 14 April 2023

• Post-punk revival
• Chamber pop

1. Once Upon a Poolside
2. Eucalyptus
3. New Order T-Shirt
4. This Isn't Helping
5. Tropic Morning News
6. Alien
7. The Alcott
8. Grease in Your Hair
9. Ice Machines
10. Your Mind Is Not Your Friend
11. Send for Me

Alföld

Thy Catafalque

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 16 June 2023

• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive metal

1. A csend hegyei
2. Testen túl
3. A földdel egyenlő
4. Alföld
5. Folyondár
6. Csillagot görgető
7. A felkelő hold országa
8. Szíriusz
9. Néma vermek

Lightbringer

Rival Sons

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 20 October 2023

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. Darkfighter
2. Mercy
3. Redemption
4. Sweet Life
5. Before the Fire
6. Mosaic

IX

Host

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 24 February 2023

• Gothic rock
• Darkwave

1. Wretched Soul
2. Tomorrow's Sky
3. Divine Emotion
4. Hiding from Tomorrow
5. A Troubled Mind
6. My Only Escape
7. Years of Suspicion
8. Inquisition
9. Instinct

Screamin' at the Sky

Black Stone Cherry

• Label: Mascot
• Released: 29 September 2023

• hard rock
• southern metal

1. Screamin' at the Sky
2. Nervous
3. When the Pain Comes
4. Out of Pocket
5. Show Me What It Feels Like
6. R.O.A.R.
7. Smile, World
8. The Mess You Made
9. Who Are You Today?
10. Not Afraid
11. Here's to the Hopeless
12. You Can Have It All

Road

Alice Cooper

• Label: earMusic
• Released: 25 August 2023

• garage rock
• hard rock

1. I'm Alice
2. Welcome to the Show
3. All Over the World
4. Dead Don't Dance
5. Go Away
6. White Line Frankenstein
7. Big Boots
8. Rules of the Road
9. The Big Goodbye
10. Road Rats Forever
11. Baby Please Don't Go
12. 100 More Miles
13. Magic Bus

The Rime of Memory

Panopticon

• Label: Bindrune
• Released: 29 November 2023

• Atmospheric black metal
• Post-rock

1. I erindringens høstlige dysterhet
2. Winter's Ghost
3. Cedar Skeletons
4. An Autumn Storm
5. Enduring the Snow Drought
6. The Blue Against the White

Memorial

Soen

• Label: Silver Lining
• Released: 1 September 2023

• Progressive metal
• ALternative metal

1. Sincere
2. Unbreakable
3. Violence
4. Fortress
5. Hollowed
6. Memorial
7. Incendiary
8. Tragedian
9. Icon
10. Vitals

Dance Devil Dance

Avatar

• Label: Black Waltz
• Released: 17 February 2023

• Alternative metal
• Groove metal

1. Dance Devil Dance
2. Chimp Mosh Pit
3. Valley of Disease
4. On the Beach
5. Do You Feel in Control?
6. Gotta Wanna Riot
7. The Dirt I'm Buried in
8. Clouds Dipped in Chrome
9. Hazmat Suit
10. Train
11. Violence No Matter What

Fauna

Haken

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 3 March 2023

• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock

1. Taurus
2. Nightingale
3. The Alphabet of Me
4. Sempiternal Beings
5. Beneath the White Rainbow
6. Island in the Clouds
7. Lovebite
8. Elephants Never Forget
9. Eyes of Ebony

Darkfighter

Rival Sons

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 2 June 2023

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. Mirrors
2. Nobody Wants to Die
3. Bird in the Hand
4. Bright Light
5. Rapture
6. Guillotine
7. Horses Breath
8. Darkside

Hard Cold Fire

Therapy?

• Label: Marshall
• Released: 5 May 2023

• Punk rock
• Alternative metal

1. They Shoot the Terrible Master
2. Woe
3. Joy
4. Bewildered Herd
5. Two Wounded Animals
6. To Disappear
7. Mongrel
8. Poundland of Hope and Glory
9. Ugly
10. Days Kollaps

Foregone

In Flames

• Label: Napalm Records
• Released: 10 February 2023

• Melodic death metal
• Alternative metal

1. The Beginning of All Things That Will End
2. State of Slow Decay
3. Meet Your Maker
4. Bleeding out
5. Foregone, Pt. 1
6. Foregone, Pt. 2
7. Pure Light of Mind
8. The Great Deceiver
9. In the Dark
10. A Dialogue in B Flat Minor
11. Cynosure
12. End the Transmission