Our editor’s picks for best metal and hard rock songs of the year. Cover: Spiritbox


Kickass Metal presents: Best Heavy Songs of 2023

Sleep Token

Take Me Back To Eden

The Summoning

Spiritbox

The Fear of Fear

Jaded

Metallica

72 Seasons

Lux Æterna

Avenged Sevenfold

Life Is But a Dream…

Nobody

In Flames

Foregone

Meet Your Maker

Knocked Loose

Upon Loss Singles

Deep in the Willow

Bring Me The Horizon

Lil Uzi Vert

Daryl Palumbo

AmEN! (feat. Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw)

Glassjaw

August Burns Red

Death Below

Backfire

Code Orange

Take Shape (feat. Billy Corgan)

Billy Corgan

Lamb of God

Evidence

Corey Taylor

Beyond

Beartooth

The Surface

Sunshine!

Godsmack

Lighting Up The Sky

Surrender

Ghost

Phantomime

Jesus He Knows Me

Within Temptation

Wireless

Motionless In White

Bryan Garris

Slaughterhouse (feat. Bryan Garris Of Knocked Loose)

Slaughterhouse (feat. Bryan Garris)

Asking Alexandria

Where Do We Go From Here?

Psycho

From Ashes to New

Blackout

Nightmare

Make Them Suffer

Ghost Of Me

Silent Planet

Antimatter

Polaris

Fatalism

Inhumane

Orbit Culture

Descent

Nita Strauss

The Call of the Void

Alissa White-Gluz

The Wolf You Feed (feat. Alissa White-Gulz)

Judas Priest

Panic Attack

BABYMETAL

THE OTHER ONE

Monochrome

The HU

Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe)

Serj Tankian

Bad Wolves

Daniel Laskiewicz

Black Thunder (feat. Serj Tankian and DL of Bad Wolves)

Periphery

Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

Atropos

Invent Animate

Heavener

Without a Whisper

Of Mice & Men

Castaway

Imminence

Heaven Shall Burn

Slaughter to Prevail

VIKING

Cattle Decapitation

Terrasite

Scourge of the Offspring

Cannibal Corpse

Chaos Horrific

Blood Blind

Baroness

STONE (Deluxe)

Last Word

Sabaton

Stories From The Western Front

1916

Brand of Sacrifice

Dynasty

The Amity Affliction

Not Without My Ghosts

It's Hell Down Here

The Devil Wears Prada

Reaching

Atreyu

The Moment You Find Your Flame

Drowning

Sevendust

Truth Killer

Everything

The Plot In You

Forgotten

Left Behind

HEALTH

CHILDREN OF SORROW

Lacuna Coil

Never Dawn

Avatar

Dance Devil Dance

The Dirt I'm Buried In

Haken

Fauna

Nightingale

TesseracT

War Of Being

Left to Suffer

Feral

Disappoint Me

Dying Fetus

Unbridled Fury

Chelsea Grin

Suffer in Heaven

Sing to the Grave

Kvelertak

Endling

Blind Channel

DEADZONE

Smash Into Pieces

Six Feet Under

The Word Alive

Hard Reset

Bad Omens

One Of Us

Crown The Empire

DOGMA

Courtney LaPlante

In Another Life (feat. Courtney LaPlante)

Bury Tomorrow

The Seventh Sun

Heretic (feat. Loz Taylor)

Currents

The Death We Seek

Remember Me

Veil Of Maya

[m]other

Red Fur

Myrkur

Spine

Like Humans

Fit For An Autopsy

Hellions

Paleface Swiss

Please End Me

Ministry

Just Stop Oil

Goddamn White Trash

Static-X

Z0mbie

3TEETH

EndEx

Mick Gordon

Merchant of the Void

The Acacia Strain

Step Into The Light

Jacob Lilly

CHAIN (feat. Jacob Lilly)

Jesus Piece

...So Unknown

Tunnel Vision

Ne Obliviscaris

Exul

Equus

Dying Wish

Symptoms of Survival

Lost In The Fall

thrown

on the verge

Immortal

War Against All

Tomb Mold

The Enduring Spirit

The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)

DevilDriver

Through the Depths

Adam Ratzman

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