Metallica, A7X, Horrendous
Albums Of The Year, Recent Attendance, Apple Music
In This Issue:
The Hard Rock & Metal songs in Apple Music’s Year-End lists.
The Best Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Albums of 2023 according to Amplified Anthems, Audio Ink Radio, Consequence, Metal Kingdom, Metal Storm, The Quietus, Revolver Magazine, Sputnik Music, and XS Rock.
A ton of recent attendance, including Guns N’ Roses; Tool; Ghost; Greta Van Fleet; The Warning; Gojira & Mastodon; Simple Plan; Three Days Grace, Chevelle; Evanescence; Royal Blood; Thy Art Is Murder, Whitechapel, Fit For An Autopsy, Spite; Sleep Token; Slaughter To Prevail; Flogging Molly, The Bronx; Dayseeker, Silent Planet; The Winery Dogs; Fear Factory, Butcher Babies; Ash; Dying Wish; Story Of The Year, Four Year Strong; The Hives; Cult Of Luna; Atreyu; OFF!, and more.
New Signings ✍🏻
Comeback Kid w/ SharpTone Records
Apple Music
Year-End Charts
Top 100 2023: Fitness
Linkin Park “In The End” (No. 76 overall)
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (No. 92)
Top 100 2023: Shazam
Aerosmith “Dream On” (No. 29 overall)
Måneskin “THE LONELIEST” (No. 40)
Amplified Anthems
10 Best Rock And Metal Albums of 2023
Black Star Riders Wrong Side of Paradise
Metallica 72 Seasons
Blur The Ballad of Darren
Neil Young Chrome Dreams
Corinne Bailey Rae Black Rainbows
Creeper Sanguivore
Boygenius The Record
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
Wednesday Rat Saw God
Fires In The Distance Air Not Meant for Us
Audio Ink Radio
15 Best Rock and Metal Albums of 2023
Metallica 72 Seasons
Iggy Pop Every Loser
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
Mammoth WVH Mammoth II
Sevendust Truth Killer
Elegant Weapons The Call of the Void
Greta Van Fleet Starcatcher
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Sophie Lloyd Imposter Syndrome
Consequence
Top 50 Albums of 2023
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Wednesday Rat Saw God (No. 2 overall)
Poison Ruïn Härvest (No. 10 overall)
Metallica 72 Seasons (No. 20)
Blondshell Blondshell (No. 32)
Hotline TNT Cartwheel (No. 38)
Foo Fighters But Here We Are (No. 39)
Sprain The Lamb as Effigy (No. 43)
Baroness Stone (No. 76)
Deeper Careful! (No. 49)
Metal Kingdom
Insomnium Anno 1696
Riverside ID.Entity
Kamelot The Awakening
Scar Symmetry The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
TesseracT War of Being
Ne Obliviscaris Exul
Pyramaze Bloodlines
Orbit Culture Descent
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic…
Metal Storm
Shylmagoghnar Convergence
Fires In The Distance Air Not Meant For Us
Ne Obliviscaris Exul
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Sworn A Journey Told Through Fire
Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
Hellripper Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
Insomnium Anno 1696
Blackbraid Blackbraid II
Thy Catafalque Alföld
The Quietus
Albums of the Year 2023
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Khanate To Be Cruel (No. 7 overall)
Hey Colossus In Blood (No. 35)
Benefits Nails (No. 39)
JAAW Supercluster (No. 46)
Skull Practitioners Negative Stars (No. 47)
Bell Witch Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate (No. 52)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Land of Sleeper (No. 65)
Årabrot Of Darkness and Light (No. 69)
House Of All House of All (No. 75)
Spirit Possession Of The Sign… (No. 85)
Godflesh Purge (No. 87)
Oozing Wound We Cater to Cowards (No. 98)
Revolver Magazine
30 Best Albums of 2023
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Metallica 72 Seasons
††† (Crosses) Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
Avenged Sevenfold Life is But a Dream…
Spiritbox The of Fear EP
Better Lovers God Made Me An Animal
Drain Living Proof
HEALTH RAT WARS
Dethklok Dethalbum IV
Scowl Psychic Dance Routine
Sputnik Music
Panopticon The Rime of Memory
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness
Wings Of Steel Gates of Twilight
Unprocessed …And Everything In Between
Mental Cruelty Symphony of a Dying Star
Crusty Old Toad King Cryptid
Anthem Crimson & Jet Black
Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul
Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére
Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current
XS Rock
The Top 20 Hard Rock and Metal Albums of 2023
Overkill Scorched
Metal Church Congregation of Annihilation
Extreme Six
KK’s Priest The Sinner Rides Again
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons Kings of the Asylum
Obituary Dying of Everything
Dokken Heaven Comes Down
Metallica 72 Seasons
Winger Seven
L.A. Guns Black Diamonds
More Year-End Album Lists:
Tomb Mold, Metallica, Paramore
In This Issue: Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Tours of 2023 by total ticket sales, including Metallica, Muse, Paramore, Iron Maiden, and more. The Best Albums of the Year lists have begun! I collected the top entries from Decibel Magazine, Exclaim!, Louder Than War, Loudwire, PopMatters, Treble, Ultimate Classic Rock
Recent Attendance
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