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Decibel: The Top 40 Albums of 2023

16 November 2023

Ontological Mysterium - Horrendous

Decibel Magazine: The Top 40 Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2012]

  1. Ontological Mysterium
    Horrendous
  2. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
  3. American Gothic
    Wayfarer
  4. ...So Unknown
    Jesus Piece
  5. Distortions
    Godthrymm
  6. The Rime Of Memory
    Panopticon
  7. Saturnian Bloodstorm
    Lamp Of Murmuur
  8. Glacial Domination
    Frozen Soul
  9. Hive Mind Narcosis
    Thantifaxath
  10. Little Bird
    The Keening
  11. Blackbraid II
    Blackbraid
  12. War Remains
    Enforced
  13. Only Constant
    Gel
  14. Heimdal
    Enslaved
  15. Fatale
    The Night Eternal
  16. The Weight Of Remembrance
    Tribunal
  17. Obsidian Refractions
    Cruciamentum
  18. Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
    Autopsy
  19. Prosaic
    Mizmor
  20. Access To The Lonely
    Rid Of Me
  21. Ruiner
    Krieg
  22. Objects Without Pain
    Great Falls
  23. Chaos Horrific
    Cannibal Corpse
  24. Find Out
    Filth Is Eternal
  25. Unholy Deification
    Incantation
  26. Outsider
    Night Demon
  27. Untopia
    Kruelty
  28. Violent Creed Of Vengeance
    Smoulder
  29. VII
    Will Haven
  30. Fires in the Fall
    Krigsgrav
  31. Ghost At The Gallows
    Spirit Adrift
  32. Mourning Moon
    Final Gasp
  33. Terrasite
    Cattle Decapitation
  34. Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset
    Circle of Ouroborus
  35. Incendium
    Witching
  36. Air Not Meant For Us
    Fires in the Distance
  37. Dying of Everything
    Obituary
  38. Reclusive Decay
    Street Tombs
  39. Wreath Of Bleeding Snowfall
    Kommodus
  40. Black Medium Current
    Dødheimsgard

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