A couple of early 2023 records:
(Incidentally - Tim: how did you discover Art of Silence? I'm just checking out their Bandcamp page...looks like their are from my "hometown"...Milan, Italy)
Screamer was a fun listen. I mean, there is literally nothing here that wasn't heard before
80s Judas Priest, some Maiden...but it's in a well-done package. And the track The Traveler is real nice, with a bit of 80s AOR in there too.
Ashen's Ritual of Ash sounds like a pretty good death metal album, mostly traditional but with some nice twists.
Plus a couple of random 2022 leftovers, both pretty cool:
...and finally a bit more of an Enslaved revisit, and the Steven Wilson remix of Brave (what an album, man, what an album...)