The 3rd Annual Golden Wheel Awards: The BEST, WORST and MIDDEST of 2023!

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Playlist of WoM's 2023 Notable Releases: Wheels of Mercury's 2023 Notable Rele...

Nominees Shorts below!
Worst AOTY: This new Dokken album was BAD… #worst...
MIDDEST AOTY: These metal albums were MID…😐😑😐 #meta...
Most Disappointing AOTY: These albums were so DISAPPOINTING…😢#...
Biggest Surprise of the Year: These albums SURPRISED me!😳#music #me...
Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal AOTY: These albums prove that heavy metal i...
Best Prog Rock/Metal AOTY: These prog albums will make you THINK...
Best Deathcore/Metalcore AOTY: These -core albums are AWESOME! 🔥🔥🔥#2...
Best Thrash/Speed Metal AOTY: These albums will drive you METAL TH...
Best Death Metal AOTY: You will LOVE these metal albums… to ...
Best Black Metal AOTY: Blackened hymns from the ABYSS… 🌕🦇🕯️#...
Best Short Release of the Year: These metal releases are SHORT but SW...
Best Neofolk/Dark Folk AOTY: These dark folk/neofolk albums will m...
Best Non-Metal AOTY: I don’t JUST listen to metal, y’know…...
Best Metal AOTY: 2023: A GLORIOUS year for METAL!🔥🤘🏻🔥#...

A Grab Bag of Honourable Mentions

Árstídir lífsins - Hermalausaz

Auriferous Flame - Ardor for Black Mastery

Victory Over The Sun - Dance You Monster to My Soft Song!

Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar

Bogside Sniper Squadron - DEMO 2023

Veriluola - Cascades of Crimson Cruor

Rites of Tara - To the Otherworld of Silver

Anti-God Hand - Blight Year

Kostnateni - Úpal

Wretched Fate - Carnal Heresy

Mortuary Drape - Black Mirror

Varathron - The Crimson Temple

Kvelgeyst - Blut, Milch und Thränen

Myrkur - Spine

Century - The Conquest of Time

Megaton Sword - Might & Power

Hexvessel - Polar Veil

Beartooth - The Surface

NØNE - Inevitable

Mephorash - Krystl-Ah

Helms Deep - Treacherous Ways

Non Est Deus - Legacy

Θλίψις (Thlipsis) - Dawn of Defiance

Profane Order - One Nightmare Unto Another

Curta’n Wall - Siege Ubssessed!

Passéisme - Alternance

Worst Album of the Year

Dokken - Heaven Comes Down

WINNER— Staind - Confessions of the Fallen

MIDDEST Album of the Year

Evile - The Unknown

Immortal - War Against All

WINNER— Metallica - 72 Seasons

Most Disappointing Album of the Year

Grave Pilgrim - The Bigotry of Purpose

Sól án varma - Sól án varma

Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

WINNER— Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher

Biggest Surprise of the Year

Unearth - The Wretched; the Ruinous

Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust

Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream…

WINNER— Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album of the Year

By Fire and Sword - Glory

Legendry - Time Immortal Wept

Triumpher - Storming the Walls

WINNER— Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament

Best Progressive Rock/Metal Album of the Year

Crown Lands - Fearless

Sermon - Of Golden Verse

Enslaved - Heimdal

WINNER— Einar Solberg - 16

Best Deathcore/Metalcore Album of the Year

END - The Sin of Human Frailty

Unearth - The Wretched; the Ruinous

Carnifex - Necromanteum

WINNER— Mental Cruelty - Zweilicht

Best Thrash/Speed Metal Album of the Year

Enforced - War Remains

Cruel Force - Dawn of the Axe

WINNER— Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags

Best Death Metal Album of the Year

Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts

The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals

Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

WINNER— Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

Best Black Metal Album of the Year

Aara - Triade III: Nyx

Trespasser - ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ (Apokálypsi)

Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis

Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

Miserere Luminis - Ordalie

WINNER— Panopticon - The Rime of Memory

Best Short Release of the Year

Amethyst - Rock Knights

Wraithlord - The Ballad of John Joel Glanton

Stangarigel - Metafyzika Barbarstva

WINNER— Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge

Best Neofolk/Dark Folk Album of the Year

Osi and the Jupiter - Cedar & Sage (Riders of the Gallows Pt. 1)

Unto Ashes - Orchids Grew Here

David Eugene Edwards - Hyacinth

WINNER— Tenhi - Valkama

Best Non-Metal Album of the Year

Squid - O Monolith

Tenhi - Valkama

Parannoul - After the Magic

100 gecs - 10,000 gecs

WINNER— Geese - 3D Country

Best Metal Album of the Year

Aara - Triade III: Nyx

Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags

Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

Panopticon - The Rime of Memory

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse

WINNER— Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream…