I tried to trim my list down to 30, the way I did last year, but it was impossible. For one thing, I started compiling singles for 2023 in January – last year, I got a late start. And for another thing, there have been way too many good songs released over the past twelve months!

So here are my top 50 songs of 2023 (in no particular order). And here is a link to the full playlist!

• Alive in Stone: “Fatboy”
• Katatonia: “Birds”
• Riverside: “Friend or Foe?”
• Animals as Leaders: “Red Miso”
• The Banishment: “Got What You Wanted”
• Lions at the Gate: “The Ledge”
• Fire Follows: “Say Words”
• Deadly Vices: “Notice Me”
• Kissing Candice: “Inveterate”
• Citizen Soldier + Royal Bliss: “Through Hell”
• Black Water Rising: “Hail Mary”
• Welcome Eternity: “Slave to the Crown”
• Moonfall: “Eyelids Closing Shut” (ft. Crystal Joilena)
• DK-Zero: “Nightmare”
• ANOXIA: “Earthbound” (ft. Corey James of Carbonstone)
• Saint Tragedy: “Limbo”
• City and Colour: “F**ked It Up”
• Kamelot: “Eventide”
• Band of Wolves: “On the Wagon”
• Carbonstone: “Damaged Like You”
• Linx: “Crystal Jellyfish”
• Breathing Theory: “The Cure”
• New Medicine: “Past the Past”
• Is MAN KIND: “25 to Life”
• Dark Remedy: “Haunted”
• Seven Year Witch: “Mark Cuban”
• Matt James: “Wait It Out”
• Bent Self: “Sunshine”
• Death Valley Dreams: “Ships in the Night”
• 3 Pill Morning: “Ethereal”
• Of Limbo: “California Demon”
• Stain the Canvas: “friXion”
• Patient Sixty-Seven, VRSTY: “Bad Habit”
• Rose Devika: “slow burn”
• Heartsick, Sapphire Noel: “Sadness”
• Amerakin Overdose: “Disconnect”
• Any Given Sin: “Cold Bones”
• Storm Kingdom: “Empires”
• The Props: “Target Practice”
• The BRKN: “FANGS”
• The Funeral Portrait: “Dark Thoughts”
• Lethal Injektion, Waylon Reavis: “Never Free”
• Divine Shade, Steve Fox-Harris: “Oublier”
• Rikets: “Infected and Controlled”
• Doom Groove Orchestra: “Why”
• Anaria: “Freakshow”
• The Thing With Feathers: “Ready to Burn”
• Silver Bullet Smile: “Man in the Moon”
• 2 Shadows: “Fading From Misery”
• Gears: “My Curse (Mi Maldición)”