Best New Music 2023 edition

Got the new Mammoth WVH (Wolfgang Van Halen) album. I enjoyed the first one, I think I might be liking this a bit better. Catchy songs and musically interesting
 
Guns’n roses have finally released new single Perhaps, and they are also releasing The general in a short time.

Perhaps sounds like its demo really, just added a short Slash solo and great bass lines by Duff, could have fitted perfectly on Chinese democracy with its 20+ old vocals. Hope they guys locks themself in a studio in november-december to write and record some new songs now, it’s way overdue!
 
Sth2112 said:
Guns’n roses have finally released new single Perhaps,
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I wonder how that worked....
Record Company: Hey guys do you allready have a name for your new single?
Axl: Perhaps.
Record Company: So it´s not certain yet?
Axl: What´s not certain yet?
Record Company: The song title
Axl: We allready found a title you dumbass!
Record Company: Can you give it to me?
Axl: Perhaps
Record Company: I´d like to know it
Axl: I just told you the title man!
Record Company: When?
Axl: A second ago. Do you have a goldfish memory?
Record Company: No I don´t actually but I´m honestly want to know the name of the song.
Axl: P E R H A P S !!!
Record Company: You don't have to shout I´m not deaf
 


George Lynch's second all-instrumental album Guitars At The End Of The World was released yesterday, and after a few spins it certainly seems comparable in quality and variety to his previous all-instrumental album Seamless, which was my album of the year for 2021.

Layers of rich guitar work spanning many styles, often within the same song -- and while there's plenty of shredding to be had, the shred serves the song and not the other way around. It also doesn't have the "dirty" production sound that Seamless sometimes had. I'm really enjoying it.
 
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New Kvelertak! I don’t speak Norwegian so I have no idea what any song is about, but these guys kick ass.
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Dressed as Laymen
They knocked on the door
So convincing and real
They were true all way through
Sign here
Then your burden will soon be over
From the vices of your relatives
Will you finally be free

Everything shall pass
It gets cloudy in the sky
Make a pact with the devil
Who'll heal the world
A fallen last of his line
Some have to sacrifice me
For now the wind will blow
And the whole world glutted

Death psalms in the stream
Two straws lie in a cross
A pipe mounted in the ground
Where there once was a waterfall
A shadow circle across the valley
That once was his solid foundation
With a million on the books
Stone dead in soil anyway

Everything shall pass
It gets cloudy in the sky
Make a pact with the devil
Who'll heal the world
A fallen last of his line
Some have to sacrifice me
For now the wind will blow
And the whole world glutted X 2
 
Quite a month for new releases. Love the new Kvelertak, and now the new Baroness album, which is the first in a while that isn’t a sonic mess. Arguably their best since the “Blue Album,“ with lots of great riffs and guitar harmonies by John and Gina:

And, though it’s not “new” music, tomorrow is the official release date for the remixed version and box set of “Tim” by The Replacements (my all-time favorite American rock band): https://slate.com/culture/2023/09/replacements-tim-let-it-bleed-edition-reissue-review.html. Very much looking forward to this.
 
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There is a plausible argument that, with this new remix, "Tim" is the best album of all time, by anyone, ever. Not fucking around. I'm serious.
 
MY FAVOURITE SEPTEMBER ALBUMS:

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  • Primal Fear - Code Red (Metal)
  • UFO - Live in Vienna '98 (Hard Rock)
  • George Lynch - Guitars at the End of the World (Metal)
  • U.D.O. - Touchdown (Metal)
  • Laufey - Bewitched (Vocal Jazz)
  • Alice Cooper - Road (Hard Rock)
  • Spirit Adrift - Ghost at the Gallows (Metal)
 
I'm confident to say my favorites for the year now.

Album Of The Year: Primal Fear - Code Red (great album and surprise).

Other highlights are:

Metallica - 72 Seasons
KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
Iron Savior - Firestar

Song/s of the year:

Primal Fear - ''Fearless''/''Deep In The Night''
Metallica - ''Inamorata''
KK's Priest - ''The Sinner Rides Again''
Elegant Weapons - ''Do Or Die''
Iron Savior - ''Firestar''
U.D.O. - ''Better Start To Run''

Album Cover Of The Year: Primal Fear - Code Red and Twilight Force - At The Heart Of Wintervale.
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Really looking forward to the albums released in 2024 with so many of my favorite bands in the spotlight.
 
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The best metal albums of 2023 so far

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date
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Any Top 35 list from 2023 that has Babymetal on it but doesn't have Sacred Outcry on it is a fundamentally terrible list.

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The Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2023 (So Far)

So far, so good!
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This one's from June, and I don't recognize half the stuff on it, but it's got the right amount of Sacred Outcry on it, at least!
 
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MY FAVOURITE OCTOBER ALBUMS:

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  • Baroness - Stone (Metal)
  • John Zorn - Quatrain (jazz)
  • Primordial - How it Ends (Metal)
  • Yussef Dayes - Black Magic Music (Jazz)
  • Ray Alder - II (Metal)
  • The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds (Rock)
  • Wishbone Ash - Live Dates Live (Prog Rock / Hard Rock)
  • Lynch Mob - Babylon (Hard Rock)
  • UFO - California at the Edge 1995 (Hard Rock)
  • Motörhead - The 00's Hits (Hard Rock)
  • Blood Star - First Sighting (Metal)
 
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MY FAVOURITE JANUARY ALBUMS:

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  • Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour (Hard Rock)
  • Riverside - ID Identity (Prog Rock/Metal)
  • Black Star Riders - Wrong Side of Paradise (Hard Rock)
  • Gaz Coombes - Turn the Car Around (Alternative)
  • Nora Kamm - One (Jazz)
  • Gabi Hartmann - Gabi Hartmann (Vocal Jazz)
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Sorry for replying to a 10 month old comment lol but I love that Gaz Coombes album! I heard Long Live The Strange on Radio X and loved it, so I checked out all his back catalogue. I'd say Matador is my favourite album of his, but they've all been great,
 
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Sorry for replying to a 10 month old comment lol but I love that Gaz Coombes album! I heard Long Live The Strange on Radio X and loved it, so I checked out all his back catalogue. I'd say Matador is my favourite album of his, but they've all been great,
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I have no listened his whole catalog but this last one is very good. Matador is very good too (with some Radiohead vibes)
 
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Industry darlings—sometimes called “industry plants” inaccurately—The Last Dinner Party give off a Queen vibe IMO. Already signed to a major label and managed by Q Prime, these ladies could potentially be huge, and soon. Debut album drops this coming February, four singles already out there, including this one. Stick through the skipping at the beginning, it gets heavier:
 
Saw a terrific young band, tailgunner, open for KKs Priest at the gig in August (went mainly as I had never seen PaulDianno live before)- part of "the new wave of traditional heavy metal" which was a new one to me. Album is worth a listen.

 
MY FAVOURITE NOVEMBER ALBUMS:

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  • Whitin Temptation - Bleed Out (Metal)
  • The Fusion Syndicate - A Speedway on Saturn's Rings (Jazz Fusion)
  • The Chick Corea Elektric Band - The Future is Now (Jazz Fusion)
  • The Fusion Syndicate - Beautiful Horizon (Jazz Fusion)
  • Amorphis - Queen of Time (Live At Tavastia 2021) (Metal)
  • UFO - Too Hot in Tokyo 1994 (Live) (Hard Rock)
  • Trapeze - Lost Tapes Vol. 1 (Hard Rock)
  • Lalu - The Fish Who Wanted to Be King (Prog Rock)
  • Gong - Unending Ascending (Prog Rock)
  • UFO - Lights Out in Babenhausen Live 1993 (Hard Rock)
  • Coline Rio - Ce qu'il restera de nous (et plus encore) (Songwirter)
  • Dokken - Heaven Comes Down (Hard Rock / AOR)
 
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