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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - February 2026
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Feels a bit top-heavy, but there's still some monumental stuff that will...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - January 2026
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! This is a momentous occasion for this column because January 2026 marks...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - December 2025
Welcome to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the month! December tends to be a quiet month for new releases as most people are...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - November 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the month! November is a chaotic time of the year for releases and it's easy to miss...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - October 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month. The race to get caught up in the middle of AOTY season is real. Will we...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - September 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! We're oh so very close to being caught up. Only one month behind, right...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - August 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Is it just me or was it relatively quiet for new releases? A calm before...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - July 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Yes this is several months late. There's no big reason why - shit just...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - June 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! We're in the season of a torrential downpour of new releases. We'll get...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - May 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month. No lengthy preamble for this one, we've got too many albums to get...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - April 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Spring is upon us, and with that comes a deluge of new music that's...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - March 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! We're a little late on the draw for this one, sorry to keep all you eager...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - February 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's top 10 albums of the month! February was a quick month but nonetheless there was an array of...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - January 2025
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! January is a special month for this column, because the start of the year...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - December 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the month! December is always a weird time in the music journalism business - it's...
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MetalBite's Top Albums Of 2024
This is becoming a yearly tradition here at MetalBite - we had the top 22 of '22, top 23 of '23 and...well, you know. If we keep...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - November 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Yet another list full of nasty riffs and nightmarish adventures. This...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - October 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! October is always a huge month for new albums as people gear up to make...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - September 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top Albums of the Month! We've got a HUGE list, with almost 40 albums just for September 2024....
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - August 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the month! August was fairly dense for releases - we've got heavy hitters, we've got...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - July 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month. You know the drill by now (hopefully) - one of the most comprehensive...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - June 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! This is typically the time of year where more stuff comes out than we can...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - May 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Thankfully, I was able to have this one out a bit faster, so we're back...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - April 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's top 10 albums of the month! Yes, we're putting out April's list in June. I have a lot of reasons why...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - March 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's top 10 albums of the month! As you might expect, now that spring is here, the floodgates are open and...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - February 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! February was comparatively a lighter month, but there were still a...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - January 2024
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the month! This list marks the three year anniversary of this column, when I (Nate)...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - December 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! It was a bit of a thin month and we were all collectively recovering from...
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MetalBite's Top Albums Of 2023
Hello fellow girls and boys of the MetalBite community! The year 2023 was full of metal releases of various subgenres from all...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - November 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! In the midst of the ubiquitous year-end lists, we like to keep plugging...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - October 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Last push before the holiday slowdown but still lots of time to...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - September 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! This is busy season for album releases, as is evidenced by not one, not...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - August 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! You know the drill at this point - everything good from the past month...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - July 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! This was (comparatively) a smaller list than we've had in other months,...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - June 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Took us a bit to get caught up because there were a boatload of...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - May 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Finally we're back on schedule…or at least, this isn't coming out...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - April 2023
Welcome back! After I made a promise this month's list would come earlier, I…took even longer to put to together this month....
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - March 2023
Hi friends, welcome back! Sorry this is late. 100% my bad. Thank you for holding out, we'll try and get an extra quick turnaround...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - February 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! My apologies that I (Nate) am a little late getting this one up. As we...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - January 2023
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month, first one of 2023! Despite some delays, hiccups and growing pains, we are...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - December 2022
We're back for the final installment of 2022's Top 10! It's been a hell of a ride. We featured nearly 200 total albums over the...
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MetalBite's Top Albums Of 2022
The list to end all lists! I put out a notice that we were getting an AOTY compilation to our writers similar to how we did last...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - November 2022
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! We're just a few short weeks away from 2022 being a complete wrap, and of...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - October 2022
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! We've got a huge list of ear-mutilating sonatas lined up as per usual,...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - September 2022
MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month returns! If August was a lighter for new releases, it's because it was the calm before the...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - August 2022
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Surprisingly enough, it was thin, at least from the perspective of these...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - July 2022
We have returned for July's Top 10 Albums of the Month! It's definitely becoming harder to keep up with this as time goes on....
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - June 2022
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the month. We're in the peak of release season and tons of great stuff is coming out...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - May 2022
Welcome to May's Top 10 Albums of the month at MetalBite! You might notice that this is list is late by a couple of weeks, and...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - April 2022
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 albums of the Month. April is always a really good month for new releases. Spring is here,...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - March 2022
Welcome back to a (moderately more timely) edition of MetalBite's Top 10! As is promised, we've got a big ass list for you, with...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - February 2022
Welcome back to a way-too-late edition of MetalBite's Top 10. Somehow, we got through most of COVID times without missing a beat,...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - January 2022
We're back in business! This is usually the time of year that releases drop off because of consumerism and shit (statistically...
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MetalBite's Top Albums Of 2021 By George
Of the four years I've now spent exploring metal, 2021 has been by far the most noteworthy, and that's hardly surprising. 2020...
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MetalBite's Top Albums Of 2021
Hi, MetalBite readers! As a bonus to our usual month-end lists, here are the top 20 albums of the Year from our more regular...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - December 2021
We've finally come to the end of the year for MetalBite's Top 10! Bet you forgot this was a thing with all the year-end lists...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - November 2021
Welcome to the second to last "best album of a month in 2021" list. As we gear up for year-end lists, there's noticeably fewer...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - October 2021
Welcome once more to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month. As is the norm, we've got myself (Nate), Michael, and Benjamin...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - September 2021
Welcome, once again, to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! We've almost been doing this for a full year. Who knew I would...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - August 2021
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! This month, I (Nate) received fewer contributions from my fellow...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - July 2021
Despite life seemingly throwing everything it possibly could at me to prevent this month's write-up from being finished, the Top...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - June 2021
Welcome back to MetalBite's top 10, we've managed to keep this thing going for half a year now!In a month where album releases...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - May 2021
Come one, come all, we're almost halfway through the year and the list of hot fresh riffs continues to grow!In an attempt to...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - April 2021
It's back - bigger, better, and with more writers! Because I wanted to make these monthly top 10 lists as comprehensive as...
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