Happy December! We're officially into the final stretch of the year, with End Of Year lists aplenty to keep you warm - with joy or rage, that's up to you - as we close the book on 2023. We've already asked you to tell us what the best metal album of 2023 is and pretty soon we'll be asking you to cast your votes on the songs of the year, but there's still at least one week's worth of juice to wring from 2023 yet.
That in mind, here are the results of last week's vote! Thanksgiving couldn't stop some brilliant new music trickling through at the end of November, and melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect took a very admirable third place with their latest offering The Defiant One. That was beaten however by thrashers Suicidal Angels, while top prize went to NWOBHM legends Saxon and their fist-pumping anthem Hell, Fire and Damnation.
