Dirty Dozen 2023

Last Updated on 08:24 PM by Nikos Nakos

Another year ended with a plethora of releases to flood the stores and become an object of desire for every fan of extreme sound. We hope that most of them are reviewed in our magazine. Read our editors’ personal lists and Metal Invader’s Top 12 Album List, as a result of the scoring system we use and we explain below.

In each list the first place gets 17 (12 +5 bonus) points, the second 11, the third 10 and so on, while any recurrence in any list gets 5 extra bonus points.

1. Enforcer – Nostalgia 78
2. Century – The Conquest Of Time 74
3. Tanith – Voyage 70
4. Obituary – Dying Of Everything 67
5. Cruel Force – Dawn Of The Axe 65
6. Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current 62
7. Primordial – How It Ends 56
8. The Night Eternal – Fatale 51
9. Sworn – A Journey Told Through Fire 51
10. Receiver – Whispers Of Lore 43
11. Uada – Crepuscule Natura 43
12. Enforced – War Remains 39

13. Air Raid – Fatal Encounter 38
14. Immortal – War Against All 37
15. Enslaved – Heimdal 37
16. Triumpher – Storming The Walls 35
17. Sacred Outcry – Towers Of Gold 35
18. Heavy Load – Riders Of The Ancient Storm 35
19. Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya 32
20. Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar 31

Andreas Stasinopoulos:
1. Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows – Alone At Sam’s
2. Myrkur – Spine
3. Primordial – How It Ends
4. Swans – The Beggar
5. Thy Catafalque – Afold
6. Hasard – Malivore
7. Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current
8. Saturnus – The Storm Within
9. Jag Panzer – The Hallowed
10. Ne Obliviscaris – Exul
11. Wayfarer – American Gothic
12. Mork – Dypet

Giorgos Tsekas:
1. Receiver – Whispers Of Lore
2. Skourge – Torrential Torment
3. Tanith –Voyage
4. Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar
5. Uada – Crepuscule Natura
6. Sworn – A Journey Told Through Fire
7. Century – The Conquest of Time
8. The Night Eternal – Fatale
9. Triumpher – Storming the Walls
10. Obituary – Dying of Everything
11. Heavy Load – Riders of the Ancient Storm
12. Final Gasp – Mourning Moon

Crystal Latsara:
1. Cruel Force – At the Dawn of the Axe
2. Tyrann – Besatt
3. Century – Conquest of Time
4. Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance
5. Melan Selas – Zephyrian Hymns
6. Lordi – Screem Writers Guild
7. Nervosa – Jailbreak
8. The Magus – Βυσσοδομώντας
9. Heavy Load – Riders of the Ancient Storm
10. Enforcer – Nostalgia
11. Reflection Black – Last Stop to Nowhere
12. Mortuary Drape – Black Mirror

Popy Sabbath:
1. Smoulder – Violent Creed Of Vengeance
2. Metallica – 72 Seasons
3. Sacred Outry- Towers of Gold
4. Gatekeeper- From Western Shores
5. Tanith- Voyage
6. Wytch Hazel- Sacrament
7. Enforcer- Nostalgia
8. Triumpher- Storming the Walls
9. Jag Panzer- The Halloweed
10. Primordial – How it ends
11. High Spirits- Safe on the other side
12. Cirith Ungol- Dark parade

Nikos Nakos:
1. Faidra – Militant : Penitent : Triumphant
2. Receiver – Whispers Of Lore
3. Gridlink – Coronet Jupiter
4. Poison Ruin – Harvest
5. Skourge – Torrential TOrment
6. Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite
7. Obituary – Dying OF Everything
8. Intöxicated – Sadistic Nightmares
9. Uada – Crepuscule Natura
10. Demoniac – Nube Negra
11. Enslaved – Heimdal
12. Overkill – Scorched

Skylimit:
1. Church of Misery – Born Under A Mad Sign
2. Tanith – Voyage
3. Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
4. Sadus – The Shadow Inside
5. Angra – Cycles Of Pain
6. Suffocation – Hymns From The Apocrypha
7. Metallica – 72 Seasons
8. Uada – Crepuscule Natura
9. Sworn – A Journey Told Through Fire
10. Obituary – Dying of Everything
11. Immortal – War Against All
12. Wild Beyond – Wild Beyond

Giannis Kakavas:
1. Enforcer – Nostalgia
2. Kerrigan – Bloodmoon
3. Elysion -Bring Out Your Dead
4. The Night Eternal – Fatale
5. Century – The Conquest Of Time
6. Enforced – War Remains
7. Cruel Force – Dawn Of The Axe
8. Receiver – Whispers Of Lore
9. Wings Of Steel – Gates Of Twilight
10. Air Raid – Fatal Encounter
11. Terminalist – The Crisis As Condition
12. Solitary Sabred – Temple Of The Serpent

Evangelos Charis:
1. Century – The Conquest Of Time
2. Enforcer – Nostalgia
3. Thriller – Street Metal
4. Air Raid – Fatal Encounter
5. The Night Eternal – Fatale
6. Wanted – Late Attraction
7. Hitten – While Passion Lasts
8. Savage Grace – Sign Of The Cross
9. Obituary – Dying Of Everything
10. Enforced – War Remains
11. Mustang – Beyond Raging Thunder
12. Cruel Force – Dawn Of The Axe

George Triantafyllidis:
1. Immortal – War Against All
2. Kalmah – Kalmah
3. Wild Beyond – Wild Beyond
4. Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
5. Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars
6. Enslaved – Heimdal
7. KK’s Priest – The Sinner Rides Again
8. Sworn – A Journey Told Through Fire
9. Tanith – Voyage
10. Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
11. Sadus – The Shadow Inside
12. Green Lung – This Heathen Land

Kostas Analytis:
1. Air Raid – Fatal Encounter
2. Uada – Crepuscule Natura
3. Obituary – Dying of Everything
4. Cruel Force – Dawn of the Axe
5. Majestic Ryte – Majestic Ryte
6. Immortal – War Against All
7. Enforced – War Remains
8. Enforcer – Nostalgia
9. Drakon Ho Megas – Έλευσις Αντίχριστου
10. Varathron – The Crimson Temple
11. Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways
12. Century – The Conquest of Time

Savvas Kofidis:
1. Primordial – How It Ends
2. Sworn – A Journey Told Through Fire
3. Insomnium – Anno 1696
4. Jag Panzer – The Hallowed
5. Enslaved – Heimdal
6. Wayfarer – American Gothic
7. Blackbraid – Blackbraid II
8. Overkill – Scorched
9. Atavistia – Cosmic Warfare
10. Ne Obliviscaris – Exul
11. The Circle – Of Awakening
12. Hanging Garden – The Garden

George Kallinis:
1. Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
2. Primordial – How it Ends
3. Heavy Load – Riders of the Ancient Storm
4. Diviner – Avaton
5. Triumpher – Storming the Walls
6. Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
7. Protean Shield – Protean Shield
8. Enslaved – Heimdal
9. Jethro Tull – Rokflote
10. Wytch Hazel – IV: Sacrament
11. Megaton sword – Might and Power
12. Cirith Ungol – Dark Parade

Bonus: Top5 Dungeon Synth

1. Erang – A blaze in time
2. Questmaster – Sword and Circuitry
3. Castlesiege – The council of Trees
4. Malfet – Dolorous Gard
5. Hole Dweller – With dreams of hereafter

Nikos Tsiolis:
1. Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar
2. Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
3. Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer – II – Mahapralaya
4. Varathron – The Crimson Temple
5. Thronehammer – Kingslayer
6. Faidra – Militant : Penitent : Triumphant
7. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Nahab
8. Obituary – Dying of Everything
9. Heavy Load – Riders of the Ancient Storm
10. Triumpher – Storming the Walls
11. Cruel Force – Dawn of the Axe
12. The Night Eternal – Fatale

Johnny ‘Antzix’ Pallas:
1. Maggot Heart-Hunger
2. False Fed -Let them eat fake
3. Rigorous Institution – Cainsmarsh
4. Svalbard – The Weight of the Mask
5. Enforced – War Remains
6. Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
7. Obituary – Dying of Everything
8. Måneskin – Rush!
9. Uriah Heep – Chaos and Colour
10. Metallica – 72 seasons
11. Megaton Sword – Might & Power
12. Bastard Sword – Bastard Sword I

Liliana Tseka:
1. Tanith – Voyage
2. Enforcer – Nostalgia
3. Kerrigan – Bloodmoon
4. Fifth Angel – When Angels Kill
5. The Night Eternal – Fatale
6. Century – The Conquest Of Time
7. Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
8. Cruel Force – Dawn Of The Axe
9. Sworn – A Journey Told Through Fire
10. Aeternus – Philosopher
11. Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg for Death
12. Immortal – War Against All