Music Tracking 2023

These are 2023 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range, ~ indicates the grade is for a previous release of the album). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The prioritization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • 3Teeth: Endex (Century Media) [09-22] - metal
  • 3Teeth: EndEx () [09-22] - industrial metal
  • Afterbirth: In but Not Of (Willowtip) - metal
  • Agriculture: Agriculture (The Flenser) [07-21] - blackgaze
  • Air Raid: Fatal Encounter (High Roller) - metal
  • The Amity Affliction: Not Without My Ghosts () [05-12] - metalcore
  • Anachronism: Meanders (Unorthodox Emanations) - metal
  • Anti-God Hand: Blight Year (American Dreams) - metal
  • Ascended Dead: Evenfall of the Apocalypse (20 Buck Spin) - metal
  • Ashnikko: Weedkiller () [08-25] - trap metal
  • Auriferous Flame: Ardor for Black Mastery (True Cult) - metal
  • Autopsy: Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (Peaceville) [10-27] - metal
  • Avenged Sevenfold: Life Is but a Dream . . . (Warner) [06-02] - prog meetal
  • Babymetal: The Other One (Cooking Vinyl) [03-24] - metal
  • Baroness: Stone (Abraxan Hymns) [09-15] - prog metal
  • Beartooth: The Surface () [10-13] - metalcore
  • Bell Witch: Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate () [04-21] - metal
  • Better Lovers: God Made Me an Animal () [07-07] - metalcore
  • Big Laugh: Consume Me (Revelation) - hardcore
  • Big/Brave: Nature Morte (Thrill Jockey) [02-24] - metal
  • BlackBraid: BlackBraid II () [07-07] - black metal
  • Blut Aus Nord: Disharmonium: Nahab (Debemur Morti Productions) - metal
  • Body Void: Atrocity Machine (Prosthetic) - metal
  • Boris: Bright New Disease (Sacred Bones) [06-16] - metal
  • Boris & Uniform: Bright New Disease () [06-16] - sludge metal
  • Bury Tomorrow: The Seventh Sun () [03-31] - metalcore
  • The Callous Daoboys: God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys (MNRK -EP) [10-20] - metalcore
  • Cannibal Corpse: Chaos Horrific (Metal Blade) [09-22] - metal
  • Cattle Decapitation: Terrasite (Metal Blade) [05-12] - metal
  • Celestial Sanctuary: Insatiable Thirst for Torment (Church Road) - metal
  • Chepang: Swatta () [07-07] - grindcore
  • Cicada the Burrower: Blight Witch Regalia (Blue Bedroom) - metal
  • Circle of Ouroborus: Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset (His Wounds) - metal
  • Coffin Mulch: Spectral Intercession () [06-30] - death metal
  • Dorthia Cottrell: Death Folk Country (Relapse) [04-21] - metal
  • Creeper: Sanguivore () [10-13] - gothic rock
  • Crisis Sigil: God Cum Poltergeist () [07-07] - metal
  • Cruciamentum: Obsidian Refractions (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Crypta: Shades of Sorrow (Napalm) [08-04] - death metal
  • Cryptopsy: As Gomorrah Burns (Nuclear Blast) - metal
  • Dethklok: Dethalbum IV () [08-22] - death metal
  • Divide and Dissolve: Systemic (Invada) [06-30] - metal
  • Dodheimsgard: Black Medium Current (Peaceville) - metal
  • Kim Dracula: A Gradual Decline in Morale () [07-14] - alt metal
  • Dying Fetus: Make Them Beg for Death (Relapse) [09-08] - metal
  • Dying Wish: Symptoms of Survival () [11-03] - metalcore
  • Empire State Bastard: Rivers of Heresy (Roadrunner) [09-01] - sludge metal
  • END: The Sin of Human Frailty (Closed Casket Activities) [10-27] - metalcore
  • Enforced: War Remains (Century Media) - metal
  • Enforcer: Nostalgia (Nuclear Blast) - metal
  • Enslaved: Heimdal (Nuclear Blast) [03-03] - metal
  • Filth Is Eternal: Find Out (MNRK) - metal
  • Fires in the Distance: Air Not Meant for Us (Prosthetic) [04-28] - death metal
  • Frozen Dawn: The Decline of the Enlightened Gods (Transcending Obscurity) - metal
  • Frozen Soul: Glacial Domination (Century Media) - metal
  • Fucked Up: One Day (Merge) [01-27] - post-hardcore
  • Fuming Mouth: Last Day of Sun () [11-03] - death metal
  • Gel: Only Constant (Convulse -EP) [03-31] - hardcore punk [B]
  • Geld: Currency//Castration () - hardcore
  • Ghost: Phantomime () [05-18] - metal
  • Go Ahead and Die: Unhealthy Mechanisms (Nuclear Blast) - metal
  • Godflesh: Purge (Avalanche) [06-09] - industrial metal
  • Godthrymm: Distrortions (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Graphic Nature: A Mind Waiting to Die () [02-17] - metalcore
  • Great Falls: Objects Without Pain (Neurot) [09-15] - post-hardcore
  • Green Lung: This Heathen Land () [11-03] - doom metal
  • GridLink: Coronet Juniper (Willowtip) [09-15] - grindcore
  • Hail the Sun: Divine Inner Tension () [08-11] - post-hardcore
  • Haken: Fauna (InsideOut) [03-03] - prog metal
  • Harm's Way: Common Suffering () [09-29] - metalcore
  • Horrendous: Ontological Mysterium (Season of Mist) [08-18] - metal
  • Ignominy: Imminent Collapse ( Transcending Obscurity) - metal
  • Imperium Dekadenz: Into Sorrow Evermore (Napalm) - metal
  • In Flames: Foregone () [02-10] - alt metal
  • In This Moment: Godmode () [10-17] - alt metal
  • Incantation: Unholy Deification (Relapse) - metal
  • Initiate: Cerebral Circus (Triple B) [04-14] - hardcore
  • Invent Animate: Heavener () [03-17] - metalcore
  • Jesus Piece: . . . So Unknown (Century Media) [04-14] - metal
  • Jute Gyte: Unus Mundus Patet (Jeshimoth Entertainment) - metal
  • Katatonia: Sky Void of Stars () [01-20] - alt metal
  • The Keening: Little Bird (Relapse) - metal
  • Khanate: To Be Cruel () [05-19] - drone metal
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (KGLW) [06-16] - thrash metal
  • Kommodus: Wreath of Bleeding Snowfall (GoatowaRex) - metal
  • Kostnateni: Upal (Willowtip) - metal
  • Krieg: Ruiner (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Krigsgrav: Fires in the Fall (Wise Blood) - metal
  • Kruelty: Untopia (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Kvelertak: Endling (Rise) [09-08] - hardcore punk
  • Lamp of Murmuur: Saturnian Bloodstorm (Not Kvlt/Night of the Pale Moon/Argento) [03-26] - black metal
  • Laster: Andermans Minje (Prophecy) - metal
  • Liturgy: 93696 (Thrill Jockey) [03-24] - black metal
  • Dave Lombardo: Rites of Percussion (Ipecac) [05-05] - metal [**]
  • Megaton Sword: Might & Power (Dying Victims) - metal
  • Memoriam: Rise to Power (Reaper Entertainment) - metal
  • Metallica: 72 Seasons (Blackened) [04-14] - metal
  • Mil-Spec: Marathon (Lockin' Out) - hardcore
  • Militarie Gun: Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista) [06-23] - hardcore [B]
  • Mizmor: Prosaic (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Myrkur: Spine () - metal
  • Ne Obliviscaris: Exul () [03-24] - prog metal
  • Night Demon: Outsider (Century Media) - metal
  • The Night Eternal: Fatale (Van) - metal
  • Nightmarer: Deformity Adrift (Total Dissonance Worship) - metal
  • Nithing: Agonal Hymns (New Standard Elite) - metal
  • Obituary: Dying of Everything (Relapse) [01-13] - metal
  • The Ocean: Holocene () - metal
  • Oozing Wound: We Cater to Cowards (Thrill Jockey) [01-27] - metal
  • Orbit Culture: Descent () [08-18] - metal
  • Pain of Truth: Not Through Blood (Daze) - hardcore
  • Panopticon: The Rime of Memory (Bindrune) [11-29] - black metal
  • Periphery: Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre () [ 03-10] - prog metal
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Land of Sleeper (Missing Piece) [02-17] - metal
  • Poison Ruin: Harvest (Relapse) [04-14] - metal
  • Polaris: Fatalilsm (Sharptone) [09-01] - metalcore
  • Portrayal of Guilt: Devil Music (Run for Cover) [04-21] - metal
  • Pupil Slicer: Life Is but a Dream . . . (Prosthetic) [06-02] - mathcore
  • Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman . . . (Matador) [06-16] - stoner rock [B-]
  • Ragana: Desolation's Flower (The Flenser) [10-27] - metal
  • Restraining Order: Locked in Time (Triple B) - hardcore
  • Rid of Me: Access to the Lonely (Knife Hits) - metal
  • Sanguisugabogg: Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media) [02-03] - death metal
  • Scowl: Psychic Dance Routine () [04-07] - post-hardcore
  • Sea Mosquito: Igitur (Onism) - metal
  • Sevendust: Truth Killer ( ) [07-28] - alt metal
  • Sightless Pit: Lockstep Bloodwar () - metal
  • Silent Planet: Superbloom () [11-03] - metal
  • Skindred: Smile (Earache) [08-04] - nu metal
  • Sleep Token: Take Me Back to Eden (Spinefarm) [05-19] - alt metal
  • Smoulder: Violent Creed of Vengeance (Cruz del Sur) - metal
  • Spirit Adrift: Ghost at the Gallows (Century Media) [08-18] - metal
  • Spirit Possession: Of the Sign . . . () [03-31] - black metal
  • Spiritbox: The Fear of Fear () [11-03] - metal
  • Street Tombs: Reclusive Decay (Carbonized) - metal
  • Summer Haze '99: Inevitable (Fiadh Productions) - metal
  • Svalbard: The Weight of the Mask () [10-06] - blackgaze
  • Sylosis: A Sign of Things to Come (Nuclear Blast) [09-08] - metal
  • Taake: Et Hav Av Avstand (Dark Essence) [09-01] - black metal
  • Tanith: Voyage (Metal Blade) - metal
  • Corey Taylor: CMF2 () [09-15] - alt metal
  • TesseracT: War of Being () [ 09-15] - prog metal
  • Tetragrammacide: Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From the Arachneophidian Qur'an (Iron Bonehead) - metal
  • Thantifaxath: Hive Mind Necrosis (Dark Descent) - metal
  • Tigercub: The Perfume of Decay () [06-02] - stoner rock
  • Tomb Mold: The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin) [09-15] - metal
  • Tribunal: The Weight of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin) - metal
  • Truth Cult: Walk the Wheel (Pop Wig) [03-03] - hardcore [*]
  • Ulthar: Anthronomicon & Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin) - metal
  • Urne: A Feast on Sorrow () [08-11] - sludge metal
  • The Used: Toxic Positivity () [05-19] - post-hardcore
  • Voice of Baceprot: Retas (12Wired) [07-13] - nu metal
  • Voivod: Morgoth Tales () - metal
  • Wargasm: Venom (Republic) [10-27] - nu metal
  • Wayfarer: American Gothic (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Will Haven: VII (Minus Head) - metal
  • Within Temptation: Bleed Out () [10-20] - alt metal
  • The Word Alive: Hard Reset () [08-25] - metalcore
  • Yakuza: Sutra (Svart) - metal
  • Eri Yamamoto: Colors of the Night Trio (Mahakala Music) [09-29] - Mahakala Music [J|jazz]
  • Year of the Knife: No Love Lost (Pure Noise) [10-27] - deathcore
  • Zulu: A New Tomorrow (Flatspot) [03-03] - metalcore [*]

Reissues, Etc.

    Priority Counts

    • Priority 1: 155
    • Priority 2: 0
    • Priority 3: 0
    • Priority 4: 7
    • Priority 5: 0

    Total: 162