It's that time of the year again! Yes, we know we're only just into November, but with Thanksgiving just a few weeks away and Christmas adverts already flooding the airwaves, we figure it was high time to get the ball rolling on those enormous end of year lists that have critics agonising for months, only to chuck everything out and start from scratch anyway.
Last year, Metal Hammer readers voted Slipknot's The End, So Far as the best metal album of 2022, flying in the face of our critics' poll which crowned Ghost's Impera. But will 2023 see another schmism between fans and critics, or will we unify as one in hailing one album above all - as we did with Gojira's 2021 epic Fortitude?
