2023 Around the World   country sampler   genre sampler  
The new or newly released music that defined, united and distinguished fan communities of place and interest around the world in 2023.
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lists
#42 progressive sludge
#42progressive sludge
#52blackened hardcore
#57sludgecore
#78atmospheric sludge
#83atmospheric post-metal
#89louisiana metal
#98post-doom metal
2023 in Progressive Sludge   playlist
#trackscore
1Radiant Knife "Slumber"31
2Herod "The Intergloom"30
3Left Eye Perspective "Breathcatcher"29
4Grin "Nothingness"28
5REZN "Hypersurreal"27
6Domkraft "Slowburner"26
7The Ocean "Subboreal"24
8Lo! "Salting the Earth"23
9VAK "Panorama"21
10Somnuri "What A Way To Go"21
11Sugar Horse "Thrash Music"20
12Spotlights "Ballad in the Mirror"20
13Julie Christmas "Not Enough"19
14Restless Spirit "All Furies"18
15Firebreather "Precious & Grace"18
16East Of The Wall "Detonator Gauntlet"18
17KEN Mode "Painless"17
18Witch Ripper "The Obsidian Forge"17
19Mutoid Man "Demons"17
20Allfather "A False Peace"17
21Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean "Hole in My Head"17
22Grey Stag "Killing Monsters"16
23Sâver "Primal One"16
24SUMM "Isolated"16
25Baroness "Under the Wheel"15
26Dozer "Andromeda"15
27Swan Valley Heights "Space Bash III"15
28Hangman's Chair "Spleenwise"14
29Sermon "The Great Marsh"14
30The Lion's Daughter "Maximize Terror"14
31Ohhms "Let's Scare Jessica To Death"14
32Lord Dying "I AM NOTHING I AM EVERYTHING"14
33Wallowing "FLESH AND STEEL"14
34Slomatics "Like A Kind of Minotaur"14
35Hypno5e "Sheol, Pt. II - Lands of Haze"13
36Ufomammut "Let Me Drown"13
37Entropia "Mania"13
38The Death Wheelers "The Scum Always Rises To The Top"13
39The Gorge "Synapse Misfire"13
40BRIQUEVILLE "AKTE XVII"12
41Hail the Void "Mind Undone"12
42Turbid North "Patients"12
43KIW "bakermillerpink"12
44Monolord "Glaive (It's All The Same)"12
45URNE "Peace"12
46Downfall Of Gaia "Bodies as Driftwood"12
47Bad Objection "Cult"11
48WuW "Orchaostre 4"11
49Royal Thunder "Now Here - No Where"11
50GGGOLDDD "I Let My Hair Grow"11
51Frayle "Head Down"11
52Acid King "Destination Psych"11
53Wayfarer "To Enter My House Justified"11
54Black Rainbows "Fire In The Sky"11
55Fvnerals "Yearning"11
56Predatory Void "*(struggling..)"11
57Khemmis "Sigil"11
58Vokonis "Houndstooth"11
59Johnny the Boy "Druh"10
60Mars Red Sky "Out at Large"10
61Pyramid Mass "Profit"10
62Ahab "Mobilis In Mobili"10
63Alconaut "Ascending I : The Departure"10
64Blindfolded and Led to the Woods "Methlehem"10
65Howling Giant "Glass Future"10
66Death Engine "Mess"10
67Yakuza "Alice"10
68Junius "Transcend the Ghost - Acoustic"10
69Morne "Wretched Empire"10













 
 
alchemy by glenn mcdonald / @everynoise for Spotify, listening by the world
 
These lists compile the collective 2023 new-music listening of music fans in every country where people use Spotify, and in the fan communities for 6000+ genres and other genre-shaped distinctions. The songs in each list are scored and ranked by a combined weighting of a) their absolute popularity with those fans and b) the share of the song's global listening that those fans account for. (And then filtered to one song per artist.) This means, for example, that The Sound of Ukraine 2023 is the music that defines, unites and distinguishes Ukrainian fans, whether that music comes from Ukraine or not. Likewise, 2023 in Drift Phonk is the music that fans of Drift Phonk loved, whether it's Drift or Phonk or not. To be eligible, a song must have been released on or after 2022-12-01, as best our data can tell, so that's why no "Cruel Summer".
 
In addition to exploring by country or metagenre, you can click any artist to see all the lists on which they appear.
 
You are allowed to fall in love with things you did not know even existed until now. It is not too late.
 
It is never too late.
 
 
(PS: It's not even too late for 2022, 2021, 2020 or 2019.)