Don your hazmat suit, this personal list comes from the master of misery, Steve Woodier of the Anointing The Sick radio show. A champion of the filthier side of the Doom Charts, Steve beckons you into his torture chamber to enjoy the death metal, doom, sludge, and more below.
We’re honored to present it here another list of Favorite Albums of 2023 by one of the Doom Charts Contributors… There are many as you might know; and many already posted their list of Favorite Albums of 2023 on their own sites or the sites they write for. Some of those lists will be published here as well. And for all the others we advise you to check out all of their personal sites… Cause it might just contain your next very favorite album!
“2023 was an exceptional year for new, underground music and my list of great albums is endless, however I’ve somehow narrowed it down to 12. These bands have released albums that perfectly reflect the sounds on the Anointing The Sick Show.”
Presenting 2023’s Dirty Dozen
DREAD WITCH ~ Tower Of The Severed Serpent (Favorite track: Serpent God)
“Six tracks of skin crawling doom sludge aural abuse, crushing the megalith with riffs of gravitational force and neutronium density.” ~ Anointing The Sick
DEVISER ~ Evil Summons Evil (Favorite track: Death Is Life Eternal)
“spiteful and giving evidence of their occult roots with a gothic twist to the sound. Evil Summons Evil is an album layered with symphonic drama and Lovcraftian hatred.” ~ Anointing The Sick
DIVINIST ~ Divinist (Favorite track: Warhead)
” Ominous, sludgy doom seething with evil intent. Bleak, black and sullen, the surprisingly sumptuous sound adds multitudes of layers, pitted with pained, acidic guitar leads, to the numbing, hypnotic dissonance taking root into your skull” ~ Anointing The Sick
CRATER ~ Degenerate (Favorite track: The Melting Point Of Drugs)
“Chinese doom/sludge heavy enough to make your eyeballs burst and your teeth rattle out of your skull. All the warmth and moisture you normally get from standard doom riffs have been sucked out and the fuzz sandblasted away to leave an arid musical wasteland of slow, hateful tempos.” ~ Anointing The Sick
BLAZON RITE ~ Wild Rites And Ancient Songs (Favorite track: Salvage What You Can Of The Night)
” It’s like being aurally picked off rather than hacked to death and gives a gorgeous balance of sounding really catchy but hard hitting at the same time.” ~ Anointing The Sick
CANNABUS ~ The Maple Split Sessions (Favorite track: Come Down)
“It’s been a while since I’ve heard an album as tight as The Maple Spliff Sessions, even my tinnitus broke out in an acid sweat.” ~ Anointing The Sick
FEANNAG ~ Throne (Favorite track: Which of the Twain was God)
“Thick, chunky, Scottish blackened death metal. Tempo’s change dramatically with each song but your punishment remains merciless and extreme whatever the speed, although much of the album is mid to fast -paced giving Throne elements of doom/death here and there.” ~ Anointing The Sick
ADVERSVM ~ Vama Marga (Favorite track: Vindex)
“Riffs are carnivorous with an immense bite radius ensuring Adversvm’s evolving position among the top apex predators of this particular genre.” ~ Anointing The Sick
SPAWN OF EVIL ~ Sadistic Missionaries (Favorite track: Storm Of All Sins)
” Unyielding in its ferocity, Sadistic Missionaries overwhelms you with scything riffs and earthquake inducing rhythm sections.” ~ Anointing The Sick
JUST BEFORE DAWN ~ A War Too Far (Favorite track: We Few)
” A full frontal assault of Swedish death metal swathed from start to finish with incendiary riffs dripping phosphorus. With leanings toward Bolt Thrower, A War Too Far is an overwhelming assault on the senses, as merciless as it is brutal.” ~ Anointing The Sick
CEASED SUNFIRE ~ The Divide (Favorite track: Looked Back But Couldn’t See)
“Mountainous riffs and a pummelling rhythm section combine to create a tectonic shifting of Finnish stoner sludge.” ~ Anointing The Sick
WARCRAB ~ The Howling Silence (Favorite track: The Howling Silence)
“An unstoppable mix of rampaging death metal fused with thick sludge creating a morass of lawless rage.” ~ Anointing The Sick
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