Ker se 2023 bliža težko pričakovanemu koncu, bomo v zadnjem Metal detektorju letos zopet podlegli ustaljeni kapitalistični skušnjavi in skušali v izbor Top 10 kategorizirati deset plošč, ki so najbolj navdušile v poslavljajočem se letu:

10. Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin)

9. Glista – Never Apologise for Defending Yourself from Being Violated (On Parole Productions)

8. Fleshvessel – Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed (I, Voidhanger Records)

7. Vertebra Atlantis – A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime (I, Voidhanger Records)

6. Spirit Possession – Of the Sign... (Profound Lore Records)

5. Ulthar – Anthronomicon & Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin)

4. VoidCeremony – Threads of Unknowing (20 Buck Spin)

3. Kostnatění – Úpal (Willowtip Records)

2. Final Gasp – Mourning Moon (Relapse Records)

1. Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent Records)

Toda ker je uvrščati plošče med najboljših deset prekleto zagonetno delo, bomo spodaj priložili še 25 plošč zasedb, ki so v tem letu pristavile svoj kotliček k loncu z najboljšimi platami:

Dream Unending/Worm – Starpath (20 Buck Spin)

Anachronism – Meanders (Unorthodox Emanations)

Ὁπλίτης – Ψ​ε​υ​δ​ο​μ​έ​ν​η (neodvisno) (Hoplites– I Lied)

Impetuous Ritual – Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis (Profound Lore Records)

CH'AHOM – Knots of Abhorrence (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Lunar Chamber – Shambhallic Vibrations (EP) (20 Buck Spin)

Molekh – Ritus (Bent Window Records)

Nefarious Vermin – Abolition of Tradition (neodvisno)

Sarmat – Determined To Strike (I, Voidhanger Records)

Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium (Season of Mist)

Rorcal – Silence (Hummus Records)

Odz Manouk – Ծ​ո​ւ​ռ (Tzurr) (Blood Coloured Beast)

Body Void – Atrocity Machine (Prosthetic Records)

Tetragrammacide – Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an (Iron Bonehead Productions

Tideless – Eye of Water (Chaos Records)

Anti-God Hand – Blight Year (American Dream Records)

Cvinger – Doctrines by the Figures of Črnobog (Via Nocturna)

Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Peaceville Records)

Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic Records)

Coffin Mulch – Spectral Intercession (Memento Mori/At War With False Noise)

Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions (Profound Lore Records)

Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions)

Fabricant – Drudge to the Thicket (Profound Lore Records)

Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville Records)

Poison Ruïn – H​ä​rvest (Relapse Records)