We didn’t end up having enough nominations to justify a poll - no worries, Lemmy is still small and growing, that’ll happen. Here are my own picks, with the nominations we did have added at the end (next up: Silent Killers, EPs, and Off-Genre)

  1. Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility (Sweden - bc, s, yt, em)
  2. The Zenith Passage - Datalysium (USA-CA - bc, s, yt, em)
  3. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns (CAN-QC - bc, s, yt, em)
  4. Xoth - Exogalactic (USA-WA - bc, s, yt, em)
  5. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (USA-CA - bc, s, yt, em)
  6. The Ritual Aura - Heresiarch (AUS-WA - bc, s, yt, em)
  7. Gorod - The Orb (France - bc, s, yt, em)
  8. Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha (USA-NY - bc, s, yt, em)
  9. Omnivortex - Circulate (Finland - bc, s, yt, em)
  10. Sleep Terror - Railroad to Dystopia (USA-WA - bc, s, yt, em)

Also, since we didn’t end up doing a poll, here are the other user-submitted albums:

  • Kataklysm - Goliath (USA/CAN - s, yt, em)
  • The Eating Cave - The Miscalculation (USA-VA - bc, s, yt, em)
  • @Choco617OPMEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    Also also, jfc this was so much work. I’m never taking AOTY-picking this seriously again. gotta do it by gut feel. Across my 4 lists, I selected and ranked 50 releases. Getting there took me a listen through all the 2023 music I liked, 2 rounds of rating, then a final A:B sorting to try to get the order right. Takes all the fun out of it, best just to shoot from the hip unless you’re an actual reviewer with, like, credentials and stuff