Hey you missed a really good one from Canada from the band Matante Mutante. All i ask is you go watch and listen to their food song from 2023 called Pâter Maison on this link: ruclips.net/video/Qascf8Pa1JU/видео.html There is no way you heard them before as they aren't known outside Québec (french Canada) but if you like banger metal, you'll love this. Its similar to system of a down, or at least thats what the Americans i showed it to told me so far.
I'd never heard of Sleep Token and was put onto them by a friend at work. The Summoning was the first song I listened to by them because I just started clicking on their music video singles on RUclips and that was their biggest hit yet. It absolutely blew me away, it was one of the best tracks of the year I'd heard to that point. And then the album came out. And The Summoning ended up being like my 4th favorite on the album lol. They completely knocked my socks off, and I've thoroughly enjoyed going back and experiencing the trilogy for the first time. Ascensionism was my favorite too, and it still gives me goosebumps dozens, maybe hundreds of listens later.
Absolute same. I love how they have a way with being masterful in each genre that they touch and still have a way of blending them perfectly. I will admit the title track threw me a little with the last bout of metal they threw in that track, but Ascensionism was beautifully written and masterfully executed.
I’m so glad you went with Ascensionism instead of the Summoning, because as good as the Summoning is, Ascensionism is on an entirely different level from anything else released this year
My top 10 [ not in order ] : Spiritbox - Jaded Spiritbox - Cellar Door Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow Sleep Token - The Summoning Sleep Token - Chokehold Falling in Reverse - Watch The World Burn Avenged Sevenfold - We Love You Avenged Sevenfold - Cosmic Avenged Sevenfold - Mattel Avenged Sevenfold - Game Over
My top ten: Feel Again - The Ongoing Concept Deadbolt - August Burns Red Perpetual Terminal - Darkest Hour With Distance Between - ‘68 Purgatory - Unprocessed Torn From Your Silhouette - Dying Wish The Ladder - Johnny Booth Dawn of the Militant - Unearth Sub Orbital Blues - Rivers of Nihil We Love You - Avenged Sevenfold False Divinity - Texas in July Last couple aren't 100% definitive as there were so many great songs this year it felt near impossible to choose
I knew Ascensionism would be your number 1. My favourite song from the new album was The Summoning but over time Chokehold kinda grew on me. However my all time favourite Sleep Token song remains to be Atlantic. Here were my top 10 songs in 2023: 1. Cold - Until I wake 2. Letting Go - Hollow Front 3. Not Broken - Shallow Truths 4. Sorrows - The Darkest Moment 5. I Don't Belong Here - Tapestry 6. Jaded - Spiritbox 7. Without You - For the Fallen Dreams 8. Onyx Drive - Dead Lakes 9. Sunchaser - The Wise Man's Fear 10. Holy - Of Virtue
My top 10 is: 10. Within Temptation - Bleed Out 9. Annisokay - Human 8. Thrown - Guilt 7. Paleface Swiss - The Gallow 6. Spiritbox - Jaded 5. Brand of Sacrifice - Dynasty 4. Bitter Bliss ft. Emmure - Ghost 3. In Flames - Meet Your Maker 2. Resolve, ten56. & Paleface Swiss - Older Days 1. Sleep Token - Rain Honourable mentions: The Fear of Fear EP from Spiritbox and the whole Take Me Back To Eden album from Sleep Token. There isn't any song I'd skip on both of them and that hasn't happen before. 2023 was a good year music wise.
Here is my top 15 ! It’s quite different from the Metalcore / deathcore and prog we are used to on this channel though ! 1. In flames - Meet your maker 2. Orbit Culture - From the inside 3. Ankor - Oblivion 4. Spiritbox - Cellar door 5. In Flames - Pure light of mind 6. Ankor - Darkbeat 7. Ankor - Stereo 8. Kamelot - Opus of the night 9. Within temptation - We go to war 10. Feuerschwanz - Berzerkermode 11. Orbit culture - Alienated 12. In flames - A dialogue in B flat minor 13. As everything unfolds - Felt like home 14. Spiritbox - Angel eyes 15. Synestia and Disembodied Tyrant - I, The devourer Honorable mention !!! Feuerschwanz - Knochenkarussell Spiritbox - Jaded Paleface Swiss - Best before : death Xandria - Mirror of time Xandria - Illusion is their name Humanity’s last breath - Labyrinthian Currents - Remember me Blackbraid - Twilight hymn of ancient blood Avenged sevenfold - Mattel Architects - Seeing Red Kamelot - One more flag in the ground August burns Red - Revival Betraying the martyrs - The Veil Metallica - You must burn! (I’ve tried to limit myself to 3 song per band otherwise some bands like In Flames, orbit culture and Spiritbox would have had their entire album / EP on the list)
My top: Spiritbox - Ultraviolet Sleep token - The Apparition Sleep token - Ascensionism TesseracT - War of Being Earthside - Let The Truth Speak Aviations - Pure Northlane - Dante Love Is Noise - Boutique Periphery - Wax Wings Gore. - Pray
my top 10 goes a lil something like this (though some of these sometimes change up a bit): 1. Ascensionism - Sleep Token 2. Take Me Back to Eden - Sleep Token 3. Ultraviolet - Spiritbox 4. Glass - Unprocessed 5. Antimatter - Silent Planet 6. Cellar Door - Spiritbox 7. Granite - Sleep Token 8. Without a Whisper - Invent Animate 9. Death By a Thousand Cuts - Imminence 10. Calgary - Tate McRae
Was getting so worried until number 25 hit thinking Jakub somehow got left off. That album was insanely good. Honestly your entire top 25 goes absolutely insane. Thank you for including a playlist! Top Ten if I don’t repeat artists: Remind Me - Jakub Zytecki Ascensionism - Sleep Token Everything is Quiet Now - Knocked Loose Antimatter - Silent Planet Instill - Humanity’s Last Breath guilt - thrown Put to Death - Texas in July Dumbest Girl Alive - 100 gecs (it’s so unserious but it’s so fun at the same time I don’t even care) Is this really happening - acacia strain Outloud - The New Age And an 11th for some variety ; Now That We Don’t Talk - Taylor Swift
Here’s my top 5: 1. Stoneside - Last Flowers to the Gravestone 2. Stoneside - Dirt Road 3. Stoneside - Letters To The Afterlife 4. Stoneside - Animal 5. Stoneside - Once …I love Stoneside
Acensionism also my favourite song of the year maybe one of my favourite ever. Without a whisper in 2nd and Heaven shall burn from imminence in 3rd( knew they wouldnt be on your list 😅) Great content this year
1. Humanity's Last Breath- Labyrinthian 2. Allt- The Orphan Breed 3. Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden 4. Fit For An Autopsy- Hellions 5. Signs of the Swarm- Dreamkiller
This year was pretty damn good, still gotta catch up on a bunch after watching this. Not my definitive order but still: 1: Suspyre - Ne Obliviscaris 2: The Storm Upstairs - Cattle Decapitation 3: Hymns From the Apocrypha - Suffocation 4: Death on Black Wings - Gatekeeper 5: Die Havarie - Kanonenfieber 6: The Poetic Edda - Disembodied Tyrant & Synestia 7: Shanghai - Darko US 8: Elysiism - Wormhole 9: Raikaszi - Megaton Sword 10: Will of Whispers - Tomb Mold Honorable mentions: Sword Lord of the Goblin Horde - Gloryhammer The Impending Fall of the Stars - Inherits the Void
Top 10 Without a Whisper - Invent Animate Jaded - Spiritbox The Summoning - Sleep Token Antimatter - Silent Planet Ghost of Me - Make Them Suffer Breathing - Karmanjakah Doubt Me - Beartooth God Voice - The Amity Affliction With Regards - Polaris Ashamed - HEALTH
I've discovered some of theses bands this year .. Sleep Token, Periphery and Karmanjakah are in my Top 3 🔥 Ascensionism is my favorite song too , right before Listening and Atropos (Also, Pure by Aviations ) ! Thanks for allowing people like me to discover new artists ❤❤🔥
My top 10: 1. Bury Tomorrow - Majesty 2. Metallica - Shadows Follow 3. Metallica - Chasing Light 4. Metallica - Inamorata 5. Metallica - 72 Seasons 6. Thy Art Is Murder - Destroyer Of Dreams 7. The Wise Man's Fear - The Strenght To Bury A Friend 8. Of Mice & Men - Tether 9. The Wise Man's Fear - Mazerunner 10. The Wise Man's Fear - Slumbering World
My top 10 is: 1. AntiMatter - Silent Planet 2. Self Hell - While She sleeps 3. Jaded - Spiritbox 4. LosT - Bring me the Horizon 5. Nightmare - Polaris 6. Doubt Me - Bearthooth 7. Delete Me - Shallowsky 8. While We Serve - Orbit Culture 9. Stiches - Silverstein 10. Malphas - Future Palace Some other notables in my top 50: Without a Whisper - Invent Animate Airhead - Honey Revenge Broken Bones - Kill the Lights Indigo - Of Mice & Men Afterglow - Story of the Year
If I’m honest my list is basically just all of Heavener by Invent Animate. Love that album so much. Sleep Token and Make Them Suffer is in there too. Want to make a special mention to Sparknotes Eulogy by The Burden. Heard it on a Battle of The Bangers and really enjoyed it
My Top 10 best songs of 2023 are: #1 - Disembodied Tyrant & Synestia - The Poetic Edda #2 - Immortal Disfigurement - King #3 - Woe Is Me - Red #4 - Allt - The Orphan Breed #5 - Sleep Token - The Summoning #6 - Humanity's Last Breath - Labyrinthian #7 - Brand Of Sacrifice - Between Death And Dreams #8 - Orbit Culture - Sorrower #9 - If Not For Me - Blameless #10 - Befouled Tongue - Between The Realms This year was insane, can't wait to see what 2024 brings to us!
This last year or so has really reinvigorated my passion for metal after having drifted away for a long while, some amazing albums and songs and that's in large part thanks to discovering your channel so THANK YOU! Here's to a banger 2024!
Holy cow, picking a best Sleep Token song is hard. Pretty sure that Earthside was my #1. Things that were on my list that didn't make yours: Del Infierno 🇦🇷, Arka'n Asrafokor 🇹🇬, What Lies Below 🇺🇲, Lvcas 🇧🇷, Dread Engine 🇺🇲, Ankor 🇪🇦 and Aarlon 🇮🇳.
Great list Birb! I like what you mentioned about Dan from Tesseract and how his vocals are a hybrid between Jeff Buckley & Sam Carter I can definitely hear that. My top song of the year is either Legion by Tesseract or False Meridian from Invent Animate. Alot of the songs you mentioned on your list are also on mine.
Without repeating artists, here are my top 32 songs of 2023: 1. Take Me Back To Eden by Sleep Token 2. War Of Being by TesseracT 3. Coma by Aviations 4. The Orphan Breed by Allt 5. Immolation Of Night by Invent Animate 6. + den spanska känslan + by Vildhjarta 7. Labyrinthian by Humanity's Last Breath 8. Parasites by Polaris 9. Ultraviolet by Spiritbox 10. BLACK_WAVE by Moodring 11. Abysm by Unprocessed 12. Listening by Karmanjakah 13. Echoes Within by Into The Vein 14. Viking by Slaughter to Prevail 15. White Noise by Graphic Nature 16. Tunnel Vision by Jesus Piece 17. Dreamwalker by Silent Planet 18. Deep In The Willow by Knocked Loose 19. Let The Truth Speak by Earthside 20. Rebirth by Crystal Lake 21. Sunshine! by Beartooth 22. I Fear Only That My Rage Will Fade Over Time by Harm 23. Karma Wheel by Night Verses 24. Atropos by Periphery 25. Jynx by Diamond Construct 26. Collapse in the Key of Fireworks by Johnny Booth 27. I'll See You When the Night Comes by breakk.away 28. Bladerunner by Darkmatter 29. Namesake by Catsclaw 30. on the verge by thrown 31. The Living Mountain by Harkla 32. AmEN! by Bring Me The Horizon
Phenomenal list my dude, impeccable. I know you're a big Vildhjarta fan too - they probably would have made the list if their new tracks had dropped sooner. But love your list, love your channel
I will never forget my reaction to “Ascensionism” when I first heard it. I was closing my eyes, laying in bed while taking in the album for the first time. When the drop in this track hit, I LEAPT out of bed with a huge grin on my face. Also my undisputed #1 song of the year!
My top ten: Future Palace - Malphas Kingdom of Giants - Wasted Space Currents - Unfamiliar Sleep Token - Ascensionism Beartooth - Might Love Myself Imminence - Heaven Shall Burn The Word Alive, Bad Omens - One of Us Holding Absence - False Dawn Of Virtue - Cut me Open Invent Animate - Without a Whisper
my top10: 1. IA - without a whisper 2. soul despair - return to gold 3. IA - immolation of night 4. ERRA - pale iris 5. revaira - when im gone 6. allt - emanate 7. soul despair - crimson 8. revaira - omnigate 9. hollow front - over the cradle 10. like moths to flames - predestination paradox
Hell yes! Great list, dude!!! This took some work. Awesome job. So many of these bands are new to me and can't wait to go check out. Thanks for the quality content!! ✌🏽
Poetic Edda was absolutely sick! And crystal lake, Polaris, Make them suffer, invent/animate. Killer list. Yes very subjective, that’s exactly what music is. Love you birb!
Where to begin? What a year so many new discoveries so many bangers super hard to make a top 10 but I'll give it a shot! My top 10 is something like this in no particular order: 1. Northlane - Dante 2. Periphery - Wildfire 3. Silent Planet - Collider 4. Monuments - Nefarious 5. Allt - The Orphan Breed 6. TesseracT - Legion 7. Unprocessed - Thrash 8. Beartooth - The Surface 9. Thrown - On the Verge 10. Knosis - Yakusai Honorable mention for Orbit Culture and While She Sleeps too. Hard to actually fit everything in a top 10 that's for sure.
My top songs (in no particular order, also not metal exclusively) are: War of Ages - Dominus, Armageddon, Famine, Laodicea Theocracy - Red Sea, Mosaic, Sinsidious Periphery - Zagreus, Wax Wings Disciple - Scapegoat Anberlin - Animals Cattle Decapitation - Scourge of the Earth August Burns Red - Deadbolt Lacey Sturm - Reconcile Magdelene Rose - Modern Genocide Horrendous - Chrysopoeia In Flames - Foregone Pt. 2 Impending Doom - Eternal RED - Cold World Spiritbox - Jaded Polaris - The Aftermath Hail The Sun - Tithe, Chunker Upon A Burning Body - An Insatiable Hunger Fallstar - Savior Self Currents - Split Bury Tomorrow - The Carcass King, Recovery? Svalbard - Faking It
After watching your channel for a while I was expecting this, but yeah great choice, sleep token is totally something else! Happy new sleep token year to all sleep token buddies out there!
I was waiting for The Poetic Edda. So close to the end of your list, I was starting to think you forgot about it 😂 The most brutal and epic song I heard this year!
Most of these songs were new to me - and I like to think I listen to a lot of new music. That, I suspect, will be why people's lists differ greatly - almost none of us will have listened to every song that every one commenting has included in their list. With that in mind, here's my quick top 20: 20. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific 19. Cattle Decapitation - We Eat Our Young 18. Wayfarer - To Enter My House Justified 17. Slaughter To Prevail - Viking 16. As Everything Unfolds - Ultraviolet 15. Scar Symmetry - Overworld 14. Ignea - Dunes 13. We Blame The Empire - As I Fall 12. Spirit Adrift - Hanged Man’s Revenge 11. Elegant Weapons - Do Or Die 10. Angelus Apatrida - To Whom It May Concern 9. Equilibrium - Shelter 8. Rage of Light - The Scent of Dead Leaves 7. Judas Priest - Panic Attack 6. Lord Of The Lost - The Curtain Falls 5. Code Orange - Take Shape 4. Spiritbox - The Void 3. Polaris - Overflow 2. Electric Callboy - Parasite 1. Sleep Token - Ascension
Hard to name songs but.... HEALTH. Their sound just does it for me. After that it would have to be silent planet, invent animate, johnny booth and spiritbox. Huge northlane fan and dante really grew on me. Really hoping for an album next year. Happy new year
Good list and great video as always Birb👏🏼 Wont bore you with a full list but I couldn’t decide what my favourite song was between pretty much the whole Tesseract album, can’t describe how impressed I was with it, but I think I’d give it to natural disaster
From A to Z (because I just couldn't figure out an order that made sense for me), but it should be 50 songs: Allt - The Orphan Breed Ankor - Darkbeat Annisokay - Human Architects - Seiing Red Asking Alexandria - Dark Void Assemble the Chariots - Glactic Order Aviations - Coma Babymetal - Maya Band-Maid - Shambles Beartooth - Doubt Me Blood Command - The Plague On Both Your Houses Brand of Sacrifice - Dynasty breakk.away - I'll See You When the Night Comes Bring Me The Horizon - AmEN! Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun Crystal Lake - Rebirth Currents - So Alone East of Eden - Evolve Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch Enterprise earth - The World Without Us Falling In Reverse - Watch the Wolrd Burn Hanabie - Pardon Me I Have To Go HEALTH - DSM-V Humanity's last Breath - Linger Ice Nine Kills - Meat & Great Imminence - Heaven Shall Burn In Flames - Meet Your Maker Invent Animate - Without a Whisper JILUKA - VENOM Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow Lovebites - Soldier Stands Solitarily Make Them Suffer - Ghost of me Maze - Idol Riot Myrkur - Valkyriernes Sang Nemophila - Rise Orbit Culture - From the Inside PassCode - Groundswell Periphery - Wildfire Polaris - Nightmare Samurai Pizza Cats - Pizza Homicide Shadow of Intent - The Migrant Silent Planet - Antimatter Slaughter to Prevail - Viking Sleep Token - Take me Back to Eden Spiritbox - Jade Svalbard - Eternal Spirits Termina - Inside My Walls TesseracT - Legion Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous Unprocessed - Trash
My song of the year is actually a tie and by the same artist. The co #1's are Enduring the snow drought and The blue against the white by Panopticon. They are the final 2 tracks of the album and are my favorite 28 minutes of music I've heard all year
I'm 62 yo and I grew up with Led Zepp, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann, Deep Purple, Genesis, Dio, Supertramp... Now I'm listening Romuvos, Trahir, Powerwolf, Wytch Hazel... Here is just a lot of noise (more noisy, more listeners ?), grunting (lyrics are easier, because they doesn't matter). Like less forests on the planet, less quality music. All is commercial today.
Top 5 songs for me this year 1. Take me back to Eden / Ascensionism - Sleep Token 2. I wish I wasn’t - unprocessed 3. Antimatter- silent Planet 4. War of being - Tesseract 5. Older Days- Resolve Ps: such an amazing year for metalcore and like subgenres. Thank you metalbirb, have a happy new year!
10. DArkSide - Bring Me the Horizon 9. Every time We Touch - Electric Callboy 8. No Prayer at Midnight - Powerwolf 7. Viking - Slaughter to Prevail 6. New Babylon - Kamelot feat. Melissa Bonny 5. Meet Your Maker - In Flames 4. 1916 - Sabaton 3. Lost - Linkin Park 2. Purge - Brand of Sacrifice 1. Chokehold - Sleep Token
Not gonna make a full list, but here is what I “missed” from this list: Genus Ordinis Dei - We are the strangers Shokran - Toth: The Silent Witness Renesans - Labor of Hate Currents - The Death We Seek Sylosis - Deadwood Orbit Culture - From the Inside TesseracT - War of Being For I Am King - Trojans Lokust - Parasitic Bury Tomorrow - Abandon Us August Burns Red - Backfire
Vildhjärta (any of the new releases) Orbit Culture (at least one or two) It is so hard to make lists since my taste varies with my current mood, but those bands that would *definitely* be on it (and your list is blatantly missing both).
Is it me or are guitars less and less in the forefront of the mixes on most modern metal songs? Maybe im just getting older or maybe theyre just tuned so low nowadays but the guitars on songs dont seem to cut through or be as prominent or sound as clear as they used to. It seems like its harder and harder to hear the actual notes.
A lot of the core genres use guitars more for rhythm, not that there are no riffs but that’s less of a focus. Some great bands with riffs for you are: Sailing Before the Wind and Slice the Cake I’ve found overall more prominent riffs outside of metalcore and deathcore.
@@Rubbish_ I've been listening to deathcore since it's inception and it's only in the last 5-10 years I've started to notice guitars taking a back seat. I'll check those bands out though.
@@ihateeveryone684found the gatekeeper 😂 if you hate the music and subsequently the youtuber, why watch? Go off and watch something else or listen to whomever you consider true metal. You are simply here because you WANT to hate, which is honestly just a sad way to be.
The METALBIRB 2023 Bangers Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2uk3juRFxhY2AkoRk6nhRY?si=48297c056e2a4fae
Are you going to save over this ranked list? Or create a seperate playlist, or not do any thing (that works for me)?
Banger top 50 man. I'm just a bit sad because Hypno5e is not in it.
Great content anyway, keep it up! Cheers from France.
Bro forgot to react to the new Darko, wow
Hey you missed a really good one from Canada from the band Matante Mutante. All i ask is you go watch and listen to their food song from 2023 called Pâter Maison on this link: ruclips.net/video/Qascf8Pa1JU/видео.html
There is no way you heard them before as they aren't known outside Québec (french Canada) but if you like banger metal, you'll love this. Its similar to system of a down, or at least thats what the Americans i showed it to told me so far.
My top 10:
1. Everything from Take Me Back To Eden
2. Same
3. Same
4. Same
5. Same
6. Same
7. Same
8. Same
9. Same
10. Same
Sleep token are trash
For real
Ascensionism is also my number 1. Possibly my favourite song ever, absolutely gorgeous masterpiece of a song
I'd never heard of Sleep Token and was put onto them by a friend at work. The Summoning was the first song I listened to by them because I just started clicking on their music video singles on RUclips and that was their biggest hit yet. It absolutely blew me away, it was one of the best tracks of the year I'd heard to that point. And then the album came out. And The Summoning ended up being like my 4th favorite on the album lol. They completely knocked my socks off, and I've thoroughly enjoyed going back and experiencing the trilogy for the first time. Ascensionism was my favorite too, and it still gives me goosebumps dozens, maybe hundreds of listens later.
@@brandonrust4114 it’s so gorgeous
Absolute same. I love how they have a way with being masterful in each genre that they touch and still have a way of blending them perfectly. I will admit the title track threw me a little with the last bout of metal they threw in that track, but Ascensionism was beautifully written and masterfully executed.
Literally can't get enough Sleep Token but I gta say since I started watching your channel I have found some killer bands! Thanks to you!
I’m so glad you went with Ascensionism instead of the Summoning, because as good as the Summoning is, Ascensionism is on an entirely different level from anything else released this year
My top 10 [ not in order ] :
Spiritbox - Jaded
Spiritbox - Cellar Door
Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow
Sleep Token - The Summoning
Sleep Token - Chokehold
Falling in Reverse - Watch The World Burn
Avenged Sevenfold - We Love You
Avenged Sevenfold - Cosmic
Avenged Sevenfold - Mattel
Avenged Sevenfold - Game Over
Vildhjarta - kristallfågel
HLB - Instill
Karmanjakah - flying
Allt - the orphan breed
Disembodient tyrant - the poetic edda
Insane Therapy - Vacuum
Vildhjarta - Ylva
HLB - Labyrinthian
Jiluka - Venom
Mirrorcell - Zombie
T H A L L
Flying 🙌
Omfg. I knew it was Sleep Token, but I did not expect you to pick the actual best song
spit my drink out seeing we made it on this. thank u very much birb
My top ten:
Feel Again - The Ongoing Concept
Deadbolt - August Burns Red
Perpetual Terminal - Darkest Hour
With Distance Between - ‘68
Purgatory - Unprocessed
Torn From Your Silhouette - Dying Wish
The Ladder - Johnny Booth
Dawn of the Militant - Unearth
Sub Orbital Blues - Rivers of Nihil
We Love You - Avenged Sevenfold
False Divinity - Texas in July
Last couple aren't 100% definitive as there were so many great songs this year it felt near impossible to choose
TMBTE has to be my favorite album from 2023. I haven’t listened to an album front to back in years and I listen to this one daily.
I think there was a solid 5 months this year where Ascensionism was the first song I put on while driving to work every day
Thanks for more love, Birb!
I knew Ascensionism would be your number 1. My favourite song from the new album was The Summoning but over time Chokehold kinda grew on me. However my all time favourite Sleep Token song remains to be Atlantic. Here were my top 10 songs in 2023:
1. Cold - Until I wake
2. Letting Go - Hollow Front
3. Not Broken - Shallow Truths
4. Sorrows - The Darkest Moment
5. I Don't Belong Here - Tapestry
6. Jaded - Spiritbox
7. Without You - For the Fallen Dreams
8. Onyx Drive - Dead Lakes
9. Sunchaser - The Wise Man's Fear
10. Holy - Of Virtue
A lot of people going with The Summoning, but Ascensionism is next level. My fav song of the year too.
Very good list btw.
My top 10 is:
10. Within Temptation - Bleed Out
9. Annisokay - Human
8. Thrown - Guilt
7. Paleface Swiss - The Gallow
6. Spiritbox - Jaded
5. Brand of Sacrifice - Dynasty
4. Bitter Bliss ft. Emmure - Ghost
3. In Flames - Meet Your Maker
2. Resolve, ten56. & Paleface Swiss - Older Days
1. Sleep Token - Rain
Honourable mentions: The Fear of Fear EP from Spiritbox and the whole Take Me Back To Eden album from Sleep Token. There isn't any song I'd skip on both of them and that hasn't happen before. 2023 was a good year music wise.
Can't wait to watch the incredibly based birb tell us the definitive 50 best songs of the year! 🔥
Here is my top 15 ! It’s quite different from the Metalcore / deathcore and prog we are used to on this channel though !
1. In flames - Meet your maker
2. Orbit Culture - From the inside
3. Ankor - Oblivion
4. Spiritbox - Cellar door
5. In Flames - Pure light of mind
6. Ankor - Darkbeat
7. Ankor - Stereo
8. Kamelot - Opus of the night
9. Within temptation - We go to war
10. Feuerschwanz - Berzerkermode
11. Orbit culture - Alienated
12. In flames - A dialogue in B flat minor
13. As everything unfolds - Felt like home
14. Spiritbox - Angel eyes
15. Synestia and Disembodied Tyrant - I, The devourer
Honorable mention !!!
Feuerschwanz - Knochenkarussell
Spiritbox - Jaded
Paleface Swiss - Best before : death
Xandria - Mirror of time
Xandria - Illusion is their name
Humanity’s last breath - Labyrinthian
Currents - Remember me
Blackbraid - Twilight hymn of ancient blood
Avenged sevenfold - Mattel
Architects - Seeing Red
Kamelot - One more flag in the ground
August burns Red - Revival
Betraying the martyrs - The Veil
Metallica - You must burn!
(I’ve tried to limit myself to 3 song per band otherwise some bands like In Flames, orbit culture and Spiritbox would have had their entire album / EP on the list)
My top:
Spiritbox - Ultraviolet
Sleep token - The Apparition
Sleep token - Ascensionism
TesseracT - War of Being
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
Aviations - Pure
Northlane - Dante
Love Is Noise - Boutique
Periphery - Wax Wings
Gore. - Pray
my top 10 goes a lil something like this (though some of these sometimes change up a bit):
1. Ascensionism - Sleep Token
2. Take Me Back to Eden - Sleep Token
3. Ultraviolet - Spiritbox
4. Glass - Unprocessed
5. Antimatter - Silent Planet
6. Cellar Door - Spiritbox
7. Granite - Sleep Token
8. Without a Whisper - Invent Animate
9. Death By a Thousand Cuts - Imminence
10. Calgary - Tate McRae
Was getting so worried until number 25 hit thinking Jakub somehow got left off. That album was insanely good. Honestly your entire top 25 goes absolutely insane. Thank you for including a playlist!
Top Ten if I don’t repeat artists:
Remind Me - Jakub Zytecki
Ascensionism - Sleep Token
Everything is Quiet Now - Knocked Loose
Antimatter - Silent Planet
Instill - Humanity’s Last Breath
guilt - thrown
Put to Death - Texas in July
Dumbest Girl Alive - 100 gecs (it’s so unserious but it’s so fun at the same time I don’t even care)
Is this really happening - acacia strain
Outloud - The New Age
And an 11th for some variety ; Now That We Don’t Talk - Taylor Swift
Here’s my top 5:
1. Stoneside - Last Flowers to the Gravestone
2. Stoneside - Dirt Road
3. Stoneside - Letters To The Afterlife
4. Stoneside - Animal
5. Stoneside - Once
…I love Stoneside
Stoneside mentioned🗣️‼️‼️
Acensionism also my favourite song of the year maybe one of my favourite ever. Without a whisper in 2nd and Heaven shall burn from imminence in 3rd( knew they wouldnt be on your list 😅)
Great content this year
Even thought i really like metalcore and deathcore, honestly my genre of the year was death metal.
was 100% expecting sleep token at the top but i was NOT expecting that song choice. gotta respect it lol
We need to get you, Nik, and Keem together to do a massive Awards show next year. Bomb af list 🔥
1. Humanity's Last Breath- Labyrinthian
2. Allt- The Orphan Breed
3. Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
4. Fit For An Autopsy- Hellions
5. Signs of the Swarm- Dreamkiller
This year was pretty damn good, still gotta catch up on a bunch after watching this.
Not my definitive order but still:
1: Suspyre - Ne Obliviscaris
2: The Storm Upstairs - Cattle Decapitation
3: Hymns From the Apocrypha - Suffocation
4: Death on Black Wings - Gatekeeper
5: Die Havarie - Kanonenfieber
6: The Poetic Edda - Disembodied Tyrant & Synestia
7: Shanghai - Darko US
8: Elysiism - Wormhole
9: Raikaszi - Megaton Sword
10: Will of Whispers - Tomb Mold
Honorable mentions:
Sword Lord of the Goblin Horde - Gloryhammer
The Impending Fall of the Stars - Inherits the Void
Flying by Karmanjakah is my #1 for this year, just brilliant, uplifting, hopeful, a break from all the craziness ❤️
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Top 10
Without a Whisper - Invent Animate
Jaded - Spiritbox
The Summoning - Sleep Token
Antimatter - Silent Planet
Ghost of Me - Make Them Suffer
Breathing - Karmanjakah
Doubt Me - Beartooth
God Voice - The Amity Affliction
With Regards - Polaris
Ashamed - HEALTH
I've discovered some of theses bands this year .. Sleep Token, Periphery and Karmanjakah are in my Top 3 🔥 Ascensionism is my favorite song too , right before Listening and Atropos (Also, Pure by Aviations ) !
Thanks for allowing people like me to discover new artists ❤❤🔥
As an og metalbirb fan, To see invent crack your top 10 is crazy based on your history lol. Happy to see it
My top 10:
1. Bury Tomorrow - Majesty
2. Metallica - Shadows Follow
3. Metallica - Chasing Light
4. Metallica - Inamorata
5. Metallica - 72 Seasons
6. Thy Art Is Murder - Destroyer Of Dreams
7. The Wise Man's Fear - The Strenght To Bury A Friend
8. Of Mice & Men - Tether
9. The Wise Man's Fear - Mazerunner
10. The Wise Man's Fear - Slumbering World
My top 10 is:
1. AntiMatter - Silent Planet
2. Self Hell - While She sleeps
3. Jaded - Spiritbox
4. LosT - Bring me the Horizon
5. Nightmare - Polaris
6. Doubt Me - Bearthooth
7. Delete Me - Shallowsky
8. While We Serve - Orbit Culture
9. Stiches - Silverstein
10. Malphas - Future Palace
Some other notables in my top 50:
Without a Whisper - Invent Animate
Airhead - Honey Revenge
Broken Bones - Kill the Lights
Indigo - Of Mice & Men
Afterglow - Story of the Year
If I’m honest my list is basically just all of Heavener by Invent Animate. Love that album so much. Sleep Token and Make Them Suffer is in there too.
Want to make a special mention to Sparknotes Eulogy by The Burden. Heard it on a Battle of The Bangers and really enjoyed it
Woe is Me-Red is prob a top 5 for me..its just so perfect
My top 10
1. Sleep Token The summoning
2. “ Chokehold
3. “ Vore
4. Invent Animate Immolation of Night
5. Periphery Dracul Gras
6. “ Wax Wings
7. “ Zagreus
8. “ Wildfire
9. “ Atropos
10. Allt Emanate
You already know what my song of the year is 🤣
Any Sleep Token song this year is a valid number one
VERY eclectic Top 10 my guy! Also, Spanks for the shoutout
🤘😝🤘
My Top 10 best songs of 2023 are:
#1 - Disembodied Tyrant & Synestia - The Poetic Edda
#2 - Immortal Disfigurement - King
#3 - Woe Is Me - Red
#4 - Allt - The Orphan Breed
#5 - Sleep Token - The Summoning
#6 - Humanity's Last Breath - Labyrinthian
#7 - Brand Of Sacrifice - Between Death And Dreams
#8 - Orbit Culture - Sorrower
#9 - If Not For Me - Blameless
#10 - Befouled Tongue - Between The Realms
This year was insane, can't wait to see what 2024 brings to us!
between the realms and summoning def on my list aswell
This last year or so has really reinvigorated my passion for metal after having drifted away for a long while, some amazing albums and songs and that's in large part thanks to discovering your channel so THANK YOU! Here's to a banger 2024!
Holy cow, picking a best Sleep Token song is hard. Pretty sure that Earthside was my #1. Things that were on my list that didn't make yours: Del Infierno 🇦🇷, Arka'n Asrafokor 🇹🇬, What Lies Below 🇺🇲, Lvcas 🇧🇷, Dread Engine 🇺🇲, Ankor 🇪🇦 and Aarlon 🇮🇳.
Great list Birb! I like what you mentioned about Dan from Tesseract and how his vocals are a hybrid between Jeff Buckley & Sam Carter I can definitely hear that. My top song of the year is either Legion by Tesseract or False Meridian from Invent Animate. Alot of the songs you mentioned on your list are also on mine.
Those are my top 2 lol
Without repeating artists, here are my top 32 songs of 2023:
1. Take Me Back To Eden by Sleep Token
2. War Of Being by TesseracT
3. Coma by Aviations
4. The Orphan Breed by Allt
5. Immolation Of Night by Invent Animate
6. + den spanska känslan + by Vildhjarta
7. Labyrinthian by Humanity's Last Breath
8. Parasites by Polaris
9. Ultraviolet by Spiritbox
10. BLACK_WAVE by Moodring
11. Abysm by Unprocessed
12. Listening by Karmanjakah
13. Echoes Within by Into The Vein
14. Viking by Slaughter to Prevail
15. White Noise by Graphic Nature
16. Tunnel Vision by Jesus Piece
17. Dreamwalker by Silent Planet
18. Deep In The Willow by Knocked Loose
19. Let The Truth Speak by Earthside
20. Rebirth by Crystal Lake
21. Sunshine! by Beartooth
22. I Fear Only That My Rage Will Fade Over Time by Harm
23. Karma Wheel by Night Verses
24. Atropos by Periphery
25. Jynx by Diamond Construct
26. Collapse in the Key of Fireworks by Johnny Booth
27. I'll See You When the Night Comes by breakk.away
28. Bladerunner by Darkmatter
29. Namesake by Catsclaw
30. on the verge by thrown
31. The Living Mountain by Harkla
32. AmEN! by Bring Me The Horizon
Phenomenal list my dude, impeccable. I know you're a big Vildhjarta fan too - they probably would have made the list if their new tracks had dropped sooner. But love your list, love your channel
5. Amen - BMTH
4. Dissipate - Polaris
3. Sea of Fire - The Wise Man's Fear
2. Collider - Silent Planet
1. Ghost of Me - Make Them Suffer
Great choices
My top five:
1. Chelsea Grin - Sing To The Grave
2. Spiritbox - Jaded
3. BMTH - Darkside
4. Ice Nine Kills - Meat & Greet
5. Architects - Seeing Red
I will never forget my reaction to “Ascensionism” when I first heard it.
I was closing my eyes, laying in bed while taking in the album for the first time. When the drop in this track hit, I LEAPT out of bed with a huge grin on my face. Also my undisputed #1 song of the year!
1. Jiluka - Venom
2. Currents - Gone astray
3. Synestia - I, the devourer
4. Atena - Leave
5. Imminence - Heaven shall burn
7. Dead by april - my light
8. Brand of sacrifice - Dynasty
9. Invent animate - Without a whisper
10. The devil wears prada - Ignorance
Fuck yeah, Leave is such a sick song really glad to see others appreciating it
My top ten:
Future Palace - Malphas
Kingdom of Giants - Wasted Space
Currents - Unfamiliar
Sleep Token - Ascensionism
Beartooth - Might Love Myself
Imminence - Heaven Shall Burn
The Word Alive, Bad Omens - One of Us
Holding Absence - False Dawn
Of Virtue - Cut me Open
Invent Animate - Without a Whisper
I’m very happy to see the new Darko track on the list. I was very curious to see what your thoughts were on that track
thank you, this videos help me to find new bands and songs.
Ton of bangers I missed or forgot about on this list, thanks for sharing
Best list I have seen so far in my subjective opinion
Thrilled to see Woe, Is Me on the list. Killer track that hasnt gotten the respect it deserves imo
lore is my favorite off the new unprocessed album, nice to see it so high on the list!!
Cool gemacht ich mag Linken Park 😅😅
my top10:
1. IA - without a whisper
2. soul despair - return to gold
3. IA - immolation of night
4. ERRA - pale iris
5. revaira - when im gone
6. allt - emanate
7. soul despair - crimson
8. revaira - omnigate
9. hollow front - over the cradle
10. like moths to flames - predestination paradox
Hell yes! Great list, dude!!! This took some work. Awesome job. So many of these bands are new to me and can't wait to go check out. Thanks for the quality content!! ✌🏽
Poetic Edda was absolutely sick! And crystal lake, Polaris, Make them suffer, invent/animate. Killer list. Yes very subjective, that’s exactly what music is. Love you birb!
Where to begin? What a year so many new discoveries so many bangers super hard to make a top 10 but I'll give it a shot! My top 10 is something like this in no particular order:
1. Northlane - Dante
2. Periphery - Wildfire
3. Silent Planet - Collider
4. Monuments - Nefarious
5. Allt - The Orphan Breed
6. TesseracT - Legion
7. Unprocessed - Thrash
8. Beartooth - The Surface
9. Thrown - On the Verge
10. Knosis - Yakusai
Honorable mention for Orbit Culture and While She Sleeps too.
Hard to actually fit everything in a top 10 that's for sure.
Ascensionism is the best song ive ever heard
My top songs (in no particular order, also not metal exclusively) are:
War of Ages - Dominus, Armageddon, Famine, Laodicea
Theocracy - Red Sea, Mosaic, Sinsidious
Periphery - Zagreus, Wax Wings
Disciple - Scapegoat
Anberlin - Animals
Cattle Decapitation - Scourge of the Earth
August Burns Red - Deadbolt
Lacey Sturm - Reconcile
Magdelene Rose - Modern Genocide
Horrendous - Chrysopoeia
In Flames - Foregone Pt. 2
Impending Doom - Eternal
RED - Cold World
Spiritbox - Jaded
Polaris - The Aftermath
Hail The Sun - Tithe, Chunker
Upon A Burning Body - An Insatiable Hunger
Fallstar - Savior Self
Currents - Split
Bury Tomorrow - The Carcass King, Recovery?
Svalbard - Faking It
This is an amazing year for metal, my only counter point to it not being the best is that we got the Rotoscope EP and Trinity in 2022.
Great list! I definitely have some songs to check out. Not sure if i should even post my list as Metalcore is not my main genre.
After watching your channel for a while I was expecting this, but yeah great choice, sleep token is totally something else! Happy new sleep token year to all sleep token buddies out there!
How dare you not have every Sleep Token song in the top 50 like everyone else.
I was waiting for The Poetic Edda. So close to the end of your list, I was starting to think you forgot about it 😂
The most brutal and epic song I heard this year!
Alright
1. Desolate - "c.y.b.o.1.h."
2. HEATLH - "DEMIGODS"
3. HEALTH - "DSM-V"
4. Silent Planet - "Antimatter"
5. The Callous Daoboys - "Pushing The Pink Envelope"
6. Humanity's Last Breath - "Instill"
7. HEALTH - "UNLOVED"
8. HEATLH - "ASHAMED + (OF BEING BORN)"
9. HEALTH - "CHILDREN OF SORROW"
10. fromjoy - "helios"
feliz jueves big health
Most of these songs were new to me - and I like to think I listen to a lot of new music.
That, I suspect, will be why people's lists differ greatly - almost none of us will have listened to every song that every one commenting has included in their list.
With that in mind, here's my quick top 20:
20. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
19. Cattle Decapitation - We Eat Our Young
18. Wayfarer - To Enter My House Justified
17. Slaughter To Prevail - Viking
16. As Everything Unfolds - Ultraviolet
15. Scar Symmetry - Overworld
14. Ignea - Dunes
13. We Blame The Empire - As I Fall
12. Spirit Adrift - Hanged Man’s Revenge
11. Elegant Weapons - Do Or Die
10. Angelus Apatrida - To Whom It May Concern
9. Equilibrium - Shelter
8. Rage of Light - The Scent of Dead Leaves
7. Judas Priest - Panic Attack
6. Lord Of The Lost - The Curtain Falls
5. Code Orange - Take Shape
4. Spiritbox - The Void
3. Polaris - Overflow
2. Electric Callboy - Parasite
1. Sleep Token - Ascension
Super tentative top 5 in no particular order
Karmanjakah - Listening
Sleep Token - Ascensionism
Periphery - Wax Wings
Invent Animate - Heavener
Silent Planet - :Signal:
Just leaving a comment to help with algorithm :)
Hard to name songs but.... HEALTH. Their sound just does it for me. After that it would have to be silent planet, invent animate, johnny booth and spiritbox. Huge northlane fan and dante really grew on me. Really hoping for an album next year. Happy new year
Fuck yes I appreciate all the sleep token love metalbirb has been giving
Good list and great video as always Birb👏🏼
Wont bore you with a full list but I couldn’t decide what my favourite song was between pretty much the whole Tesseract album, can’t describe how impressed I was with it, but I think I’d give it to natural disaster
From A to Z (because I just couldn't figure out an order that made sense for me), but it should be 50 songs:
Allt - The Orphan Breed
Ankor - Darkbeat
Annisokay - Human
Architects - Seiing Red
Asking Alexandria - Dark Void
Assemble the Chariots - Glactic Order
Aviations - Coma
Babymetal - Maya
Band-Maid - Shambles
Beartooth - Doubt Me
Blood Command - The Plague On Both Your Houses
Brand of Sacrifice - Dynasty
breakk.away - I'll See You When the Night Comes
Bring Me The Horizon - AmEN!
Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun
Crystal Lake - Rebirth
Currents - So Alone
East of Eden - Evolve
Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch
Enterprise earth - The World Without Us
Falling In Reverse - Watch the Wolrd Burn
Hanabie - Pardon Me I Have To Go
HEALTH - DSM-V
Humanity's last Breath - Linger
Ice Nine Kills - Meat & Great
Imminence - Heaven Shall Burn
In Flames - Meet Your Maker
Invent Animate - Without a Whisper
JILUKA - VENOM
Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow
Lovebites - Soldier Stands Solitarily
Make Them Suffer - Ghost of me
Maze - Idol Riot
Myrkur - Valkyriernes Sang
Nemophila - Rise
Orbit Culture - From the Inside
PassCode - Groundswell
Periphery - Wildfire
Polaris - Nightmare
Samurai Pizza Cats - Pizza Homicide
Shadow of Intent - The Migrant
Silent Planet - Antimatter
Slaughter to Prevail - Viking
Sleep Token - Take me Back to Eden
Spiritbox - Jade
Svalbard - Eternal Spirits
Termina - Inside My Walls
TesseracT - Legion
Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
Unprocessed - Trash
Agreed on 2023 being one of the best years for metal ever. So much high quality content came out. Gonna be tough to top.
Good list so happy that viper room by thornhill was in 48 still that song doesn’t click with me anymore.
Thanks for the list ! Advices for death melodic listener (arch enemy/inflames)?
My song of the year is actually a tie and by the same artist. The co #1's are Enduring the snow drought and The blue against the white by Panopticon. They are the final 2 tracks of the album and are my favorite 28 minutes of music I've heard all year
Love to see a metal channel shout out Nihilist Blues as a peak BMTH track
How have I never heard Johnny Booth!? My goodness. 🤘🏼
5:17 Sensei 🤜✋
I like your top 10 but I think Currents should have been somewhere on the Top 50 list. (Unless I missed it).
I'm also shocked Currents didn't make it at all.
So glad to see the poetic Edda on here, absolute banger
I'm 62 yo and I grew up with Led Zepp, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann, Deep Purple, Genesis, Dio, Supertramp... Now I'm listening Romuvos, Trahir, Powerwolf, Wytch Hazel...
Here is just a lot of noise (more noisy, more listeners ?), grunting (lyrics are easier, because they doesn't matter). Like less forests on the planet, less quality music. All is commercial today.
I like the list, I would’ve added Seeing red by Architects and Angel Eyes by Spiritbox as well!
Всех с новым годом и вас всём металл🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
great list
Top 5 songs for me this year
1. Take me back to Eden / Ascensionism - Sleep Token
2. I wish I wasn’t - unprocessed
3. Antimatter- silent Planet
4. War of being - Tesseract
5. Older Days- Resolve
Ps: such an amazing year for metalcore and like subgenres. Thank you metalbirb, have a happy new year!
I wish I wasnt is a based pick dude
@@blinddattler my man 🫡 that song is underrated because the whole album is so good
@@landonsillyman3996 yeah I gave it a listen yesterday and INSTANTLY fell in love with unprocesseds sound.
Probably my AOTY to be honest.
@@blinddattler it’s number 2 or 3 for me. Such an amazing album, plus they blessed us with many music videos.
@@landonsillyman3996 yesss c:
1. Basically every single song off of Heavener
2. Ascensionism
3. Antimatter
10. DArkSide - Bring Me the Horizon
9. Every time We Touch - Electric Callboy
8. No Prayer at Midnight - Powerwolf
7. Viking - Slaughter to Prevail
6. New Babylon - Kamelot feat. Melissa Bonny
5. Meet Your Maker - In Flames
4. 1916 - Sabaton
3. Lost - Linkin Park
2. Purge - Brand of Sacrifice
1. Chokehold - Sleep Token
Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia have released the best song by far in my opinion. Love to see them sitting at 2nd place 🤙
The Poetic Edda getting the love makes me so happy. I cried happy tears when I first heard it 😂😂
Not gonna make a full list, but here is what I “missed” from this list:
Genus Ordinis Dei - We are the strangers
Shokran - Toth: The Silent Witness
Renesans - Labor of Hate
Currents - The Death We Seek
Sylosis - Deadwood
Orbit Culture - From the Inside
TesseracT - War of Being
For I Am King - Trojans
Lokust - Parasitic
Bury Tomorrow - Abandon Us
August Burns Red - Backfire
New Darko just came out and it already made the list 🤘
Vildhjärta (any of the new releases)
Orbit Culture (at least one or two)
It is so hard to make lists since my taste varies with my current mood, but those bands that would *definitely* be on it (and your list is blatantly missing both).
Not enough Imminence, this band deserve so much, i'm glad there's deathcore in the list btw :)
What a solid top 3!
Is it me or are guitars less and less in the forefront of the mixes on most modern metal songs? Maybe im just getting older or maybe theyre just tuned so low nowadays but the guitars on songs dont seem to cut through or be as prominent or sound as clear as they used to. It seems like its harder and harder to hear the actual notes.
A lot of the core genres use guitars more for rhythm, not that there are no riffs but that’s less of a focus.
Some great bands with riffs for you are: Sailing Before the Wind and Slice the Cake
I’ve found overall more prominent riffs outside of metalcore and deathcore.
@@Rubbish_ I've been listening to deathcore since it's inception and it's only in the last 5-10 years I've started to notice guitars taking a back seat. I'll check those bands out though.
@@ihateeveryone684found the gatekeeper 😂 if you hate the music and subsequently the youtuber, why watch? Go off and watch something else or listen to whomever you consider true metal. You are simply here because you WANT to hate, which is honestly just a sad way to be.