As usual, here are our picks as the best metal albums of July 2023. Have you listened to them yet? Let us know if we left some good records behind.

• Number 16 – HORIZON IGNITED – Towards the Dying Lands (Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore)
• Number 15 – PANZERFAUST – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter III: The Astral Drain (Black Metal)
• Number 14 – ETERNAL DRAK – Shadow Storm (Black/Thrash Metal (early); Groove/Thrash Metal (l)
• Number 13 – WAKE – Thought Form Descent (Grindcore/Crust (early); Black/Death Metal (later)
• Number 12 – VOMIT FORTH – Seething Malevolence (Brutal Death Metal)
• Number 11 – TRAITOR – Exiled to the Surface (Thrash Metal)
• Number 10 – MANTAR – Pain Is Forever and This Is the End (Sludge Metal (early); Sludge/Black Metal (later)
• Number 09 – TEMPLARS – Knight of Metal (Heavy Metal)
• Number 08 – MUNICIPAL WASTE – Electrified Brain (Thrash Metal/Crossover)
• Number 07 – IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT – Spirit of Ecstasy (Neoclassical Black Metal (early); Avant-garde/Tech)
• Number 06 – OCEANS OF SLUMBER – Starlight and Ash (Progressive Metal/Rock)
• Number 05 – CONJURER – Páthos (Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal)
• Number 04 – ANTTI MARTIKAINEN – Throne of the North (Redux (Symphonic Metal/Soundtrack)
• Number 03 – BELPHEGOR – The Devils (Death/Black Metal)
• Number 02 – WORMROT – Hiss (Grindcore)
• Number 01 – FELLOWSHIP – The Saberlight Chronicles (Symphonic Power Metal)