SurgicalBrute

I can say with some degree of confidence that this one's in my top five. The combination of bm played by what to me sounds like these guys came from a death metal background with folk melodies shining through in a less than obvious way really did it for me.
 
NP: Kommodus - Wreath of Bleeding Snow
▶︎ Wreath Of Bleeding Snowfall | Kommodus (bandcamp.com)

I could be wrong, but I think I heard this awhile back. I remember thinking the somewhat realistic sounding instrumentation was just not doing it for me at the time. So far I'm glad to be giving it another shot. It's not exactly a high-energy raw attack, but the distortion still has some teeth, and the bells and whistles are used as more of an accent.

Malformed - The Gathering of Souls
https://malformeddm.bandcamp.com/album/the-gathering-of-souls

Try their previous album...Eminence was pretty damn good
...and that Poison Ruin was one of the albums on that dudes list that I've been considering...damn good release

More 2023 shiiite:
Desenterro/Assombrado Pela Ajuda Futurista (from the general as it were)
Passéisme/Alternance (black metal)-kinda diggin' on this. Probably not a purchase yet, but it has it's cultish, but not necessarily cvlt'ish (there is a difference) charms
Pupil Slicer/Blossom (pop/Nu metalgaze influenced math metal, um Converge-dillinger escape plan-Marilyn Mansoncore, and I'm totally fine with this LOL)-not sure if this qualifies for GG's teeny bopper metal, but it might come close. I still enjoy such drivel on occasion. 
Harvest/Ruin-Medieval crust punk anyone? Fuck yes, sign me up! This is kinda great in all kind of ways

 

 

Noice?? So my beloved Anti that you shit on was no good, but when you listen to boring depressive 'black' metal then it's alright? Dude there's nothing to this. I hope you didn't buy this, they're stealing your money. They can churn these out every other month because they don't have to write any actual music. 35 albums in 5 years what does that tell you? More albums than the Gizzard Wizzards' 25 in 11 years even. 
 
NP: Flaming Ouroboros - Anthems for Brotherhood 
 
 

Asagraum - Veil of Death, Ruptured (2023)
 

Manii - Innerst I mørket (2023)
 

A few of those i like, one or two I'm actually considering on my own list, but that Sulphur Aeon album is one of the biggest disappointments of the year, and anyone who likes Curta'n Wall needs their head examined.

Black Wound - Warping Structure (2023)
 

Happy metal year 2024!
First musical listen of the year:
Tetragrammacide - Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an (2023)
Nasty Indian death metal band.
 

NP: Hellcrash - Demonic Assassinatiön (from Surge's post above). Yup, this is pretty bad ass.

It's a specific kind of brutal death that, much like deathcore, is basically known for it's focus on breakdowns. The styles are actually pretty similar, but if you listen to them side by side, slam tends to sound more "bouncy" if that makes sense.
 
Hellcrash - Demonic Assassinatiön
...topnotch blackened thrash that's definitely in the running for one of the best of 2023
https://hellcrash.bandcamp.com/album/demonic-assassinati-n

Honestly, he's one of the most even keel, zen-type dudes you'd ever meet..and his musical tastes go extremely wide...He's the type of dude who can find something to like in the weirdest releases

It's a specific kind of brutal death that, much like deathcore, is basically known for it's focus on breakdowns. The styles are actually pretty similar, but if you listen to them side by side, slam tends to sound more "bouncy" if that makes sense.
 
Hellcrash - Demonic Assassinatiön
...topnotch blackened thrash that's definitely in the running for one of the best of 2023
https://hellcrash.bandcamp.com/album/demonic-assassinati-n

Honestly, he's one of the most even keel, zen-type dudes you'd ever meet..and his musical tastes go extremely wide...He's the type of dude who can find something to like in the weirdest releases

Inquisition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence

 
Drowned - Procul His

 
Vircolac - Veneration

 
Attic - Return Of The Witchfinder

 
Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

 
Heretic - Filthy Hymns For Sleazy

 
Pentagram (Chile)
supposed to be released in April on Listenable Records
 
Shit I'll believe when I actually see...but I've heard unconfirmed reports about:
New Deathevokation (yes, the band who did Chalice of Ages is supposedly releasing new material)
Funebrarum
Black Curse - Burning in Celestial Poison
Mgla (new stuff, not just a retrospective/compilation album)
Adversarial
 

That looks and sounds real good. It's not yet noon here, but I want one of those right now.
I'm talking about the barley wine of course.

Wasn't sure what a caramel barelywine would taste like...but it tastes like caramel and booze

Wasn't sure what a caramel barelywine would taste like...but it tastes like caramel and booze

You'll have forgotten by the time you do your lists in February.

I'll be looking forward to your list as you always uncover some true underground gems for me.
Suffocation/Hymns from the Aprocrypha (23)- pretty darn solid

Nice...this is right up my alley
 
Sulfuric Hatred - S/T
Wall of thunder style death metal from members of Vile Ritual and Undeath

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/sulfuric-hatred

Yeah I do have to admit it isn’t a style I actively seek out, more something I will give a listen if it’s recommended by another user whose taste is at least somewhat similar to mine, like our Goat hoofed fiend for example.

Curmudgeon's Better Half
Curmudgeon is an old ale brewed with molasses and aged on oak; it becomes Better Half after aging—for 254 days—in bourbon barrels that have more recently been aging Michigan maple syrup
Good beer for a cold night...hope they bring this one back again sometime soon. I'm down to my last bottle
 

Leather Brigade - Pray to the Knife
Blackened speed metal ala early Sodom etc.  Very good.
Out now on Vicious Witch Records
 
 

Thing about A.I. is the answer is only as good as the data it uses. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those albums, they're mostly the really well known black metal albums as well...the ones you'd primarily start with when getting into black metal. Makes me wonder what criteria it was using to determine "best" and where it was scraping data from.

Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane
Cavernous DM - getting some real late 1990s/early 2000s vibes.  I dig it.  Been a phenomenal year for death metal and it just keeps getting better.