Albums of the Month | November 2023

Going through all of my favorite metal albums from this month! I will list the albums below, as I am sure to mispronounce a few of them. They are listed in alphabetical order, but if you want to see my ranked order, you will have to watch the video!

Alchemy of Flesh - By Will Alone
Angra - Cycles of Pain
Cirkeln - The Primitive Covenant
Délétère - Songes d'une nuit souilee
Diviner - Avaton
Faidra - Militant: Penitent: Triumphant
King - Fury and Death
Kvelgeyst - Blut, Milch und Thranen
Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars
Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3: A Fullmoon Madness
Mortuary Drape - Black Mirror
Night Crowned - Tales
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Sammale - Finno-Ugric
Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha
Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul
Xoth - Exogalactic

[jono]

Wow awesome list my friend.
Plenty for me to check out.
Got Angra and Divider brilliant.
Thanks as always.
You are never predictable.
Take care mate and thanks for the recommendations 🤘💯💯🤘🤘

[bluewinter]

I, ve heard only 10 min from Xoth and it blew me away already, thanks for the tip, great album 👍

[peterock]

I think the following were November?
Gravesend, Carnation, Outer Heaven, Cruciamentum
‘23 turned into a great Metal year. Let me know if any of those hit you.

[Faustustopheles]

I don't know most of the list which is interesting. The only one I've heard is Valdrin and I ordered the CD of the new one and Effigy of Nightmares. I wanted to get all four CDs (I love vinyl but I am not made of money and the prices make it impractical sadly) but cost was a problem as I ordered a bit from other labels this black Friday weekend and had to limit myself.

[C.gooddamax]

Wow dude so much black metal I need to hear. Only heard the new Left Cross, Vastum, Dying Wish, Ragana, Valdrin and a few tracks from Panopticon which are all good. Thanks for sharing the list and can’t wait to see the Best Metal Albums of 2023 video soon!!! Putting out my Best Albums of 2023 on December 1. There is gonna be a few doom bands, a lot of black metal, some death metal, and a pinch of screamo/skarmz bands. Cheers my dude much praise to you.

[jcrockandmetalreviews]

Great list. I have a few of these on mine which were Suffocation, Xoth, Angra and Diviner. I would recommend Sadus with The Shadow Inside, it's an old-school thrash band that made a comeback, and Green Lung This Heathen Land, a band listed as stoner doom, but I felt that they were more 70's hard rock, like Ghost or Blue Oyster Cult.

[Ressic]

Awesome list! Thank you as always sir :)

No idea how I listen to like 50 new albums each month and then I get to your month-end videos and I still have never heard of about half of your list! Every month too!

So much good music out there, and your lists are always guaranteed quality (although I do dodge some of the power metal ;) )

[Mofos_of_Metal]

Yes! I discovered the Valdrin album and it's my top of November too!
Great choices here - a lot to dig into. Thanks as always for the suggestions!

[Iron_Mladen]

Quite a list man, well done :) I wondered whenever Cirkeln will come forth with new album, I'm very happy to see it's here. I'll check it out first :)
Personally, I almost missed this month entirely. Barely listened to anything new, I was mostly into the older stuff. I did listen to Mortuary Drape and Shylmagoghnar, both very strong albums. My personal highlight for November is Green Lung with "This Heathen Land: A Journey into Occult Albion". Their previous album "Black Harvest" was in my top 3 albums for 2021, so my anticipation for this album was very intense :). I'm glad to say it was worth it. Grat, great album, very atmospheric and enjoyable. Bit less heavy than previous album, I'd say, less sinister sounding, but equally as good. Very catchy, very enjoyable. :)
Cheers!

[bluewinter]

Looking forward for Shylmagoghnar especially and thanks for the other recommendations, hope to find time to check them all 😁

[MrOmac]

So many great releases this month.

16. Sigir - Rainmaker (Melodic Death Metal)
15. Carnation - Cursed Mortality (Death Metal)
14. Auriferous Flame - Ardor for Black Mastery (Black Metal)
13. Amalekim - Avodah Zarah (Black Metal)
12. Suffocation - Hymns from the Hypocrypha (Brutal Death Metal)
11. Helms Deep - Treacherous Ways (Traditional Heavy Metal)
10. Vansind - Mørket (Folk Metal)
9. Aeternus - Philosopher (Death Metal)
8. Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul (Melodic Black Metal)
7. Warcrab - The Howling Silence (Death Sludge)
6. Night Crowned - Tales (Melodic Blackened Death Metal)
5. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions (Death Metal)
4. Shylmagoghnar - Convergeance (Progressive Melodic Black/Death Metal)
3. Xoth - Exogalactic (Technical Death/Blackened Thrash
2. Angra - Cycles of Pain (Progressive Power Metal)
1. Mephorash - Krystl-Ah (Progressive Black Metal)

[Count_Deangeli]

Wasn't expecting more than another solid album from Vastum but for me they dropped the death metal AOY this month - in fact they'll give Dodheimsgard run for their money for my overall AOY. Also agree that Mortuary Drape still have it.

[Cristian_Prieto]

For me, I think the most listened on November was Xoth, cool album, reminds me about the enthusiasm of theirs first one. I only have listened once Valdrin, sounds really cool, but is too long. Also yesterday I found that Shylmagoghnar album, catch my attention, I'll give a proper listen.

[AlvsakerSimon]

Really enjoyed Convergence. Its high on my list for aoty. Atleast top 10. Agree that its not really captivating for the entire album, but the standout moment ate to good to not have them high, for me atleast.

Also been listening a lot to Midnight Odyssey. Studying a lot for exams so I enjoy those long ambient albums while working. Perfect album for that

[tonycaldwell]

I right now must of listened to Shylmagoghnar - Convergence about 20 times. Its enduring and timeless. That xoth album is fantastic. Hugely disappointed in the faidra album though, expected a lot more

[Count_Deangeli]

Otherwise, Trhä were again in constant play for me this month with another two split and EP released