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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2023.
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Contents

Events

Albums released

January

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
13Omen X Turmion Kätilöt Nuclear Blast Records [13]
Neon Noir VV Heartagram Records/UMG/Spinefarm [14]
204 (The Pink Album) Lukas Graham Warner Records [15]
Sky Void of Stars Katatonia Napalm Records [16]
Heroes of the Great War Sabaton Second in the “Echoes Of The Great War” EP trilogy [17]
At the Heart of Wintervale Twilight Force Nuclear Blast [18]
27The Loss of All Hope Ablaze My Sorrow Black Lion Records EP [19]
As in Gardens, So in Tombs ...And Oceans Season of Mist [20]
Compositions Deathprod Smalltown Supersound [21]

February

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
10Ad Astra Aphyxion Circular Wave [22]
Foregone In Flames Nuclear Blast First album featuring US guitarist Chris Broderick [23]
Out of the Dark Wig Wam Frontiers Music [24]
17Dance Devil Dance Avatar Thirty Tigers [25]
Heads Will Roll Oceanhoarse [26]
24Alttarimme on Luista Tehty Azaghal Immortal Frost Productions [27]
Anno 1696 Insomnium Century Media Based on a short story by vocalist Niilo Sevänen [28]
Double Decade Märvel The Sign RecordsCompilation album [29]
Storm the Void/Starving Grave Necrovation Blood HarvestEP [30]
Awake/Asleep Sløtface EP [31]

March

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
3 Heimdal Enslaved Nuclear Blast [32]
10Anesidora Isole Cyclone Empire [33]
Fandens Kall Tulus Soulseller Records [34]
17Ghost Town Narnia [35]
Janne Schaffer & Herr Allansson Band - Live! Janne Schaffer Live album [36]
24Fascination Street Sessions Ihsahn Candlelight RecordsEP [37]
Once Upon a Time Excalion Scarlet Records [38]
Hatred Reborn Hatesphere Scarlet RecordsProduced at Antfarm Studios [39]
Katharsis Keep of Kalessin Premiered on board The Freedom Of The Seas [40]
No Place Like Alone Xysma Svart RecordsFirst album for 25 years [41]
31 Screem Writers Guild Lordi Atomic Fire RecordsFirst album on Atomic Fire [42]
Apocalypse Rotten Sound Season Of Mist [43]

April

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
7Hamartia Tribulation Century MediaEP [44]
14Black Medium Current Dødheimsgard Peaceville Records [45]
Hunt the Flame Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall Frontiers Music [46]
21Death of Darkness The 69 Eyes Atomic Fire Records [47]
River of Diamonds Liv Kristine Metalville RecordsTracks composed by Tommy Olsson [48]
It's Time to Rock the World Again Magnus Rosén BandX-World / Sound PollutionIncludes 5 bonus tracks [49]
28Always on my Mind Rebekka Bakken Sony Music [50]
Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind Runemagick Hammerheart Records [51]
Blómi Susanne Sundfør Bella Union [52]

May

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
5Everything Destroys You Deathstars Nuclear BlastFirst album for eight years [53]
Nostalgia Enforcer Recorded at Hvergelmer Studios and produced by the band [54]
Fremmede Toner Lumsk Dark Essence Records [55]
19 Phantomime Ghost Lorna VistaEP [56]
26
War Against All Immortal Nuclear Blast [57]
Kalmah Kalmah Ranka Kustannus [58]
Outside the Rock Box Magnus Rosén BandMini-album [49]
1977 Sirenia Napalm Records [59]

June

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
2Interference Anubis Gate No Dust Records [60]
Slasher Omnium Gatherum Century Media RecordsEP [61]
9Lullabies for Piano and Cello Gabríel Ólafs Decca Records US [62]
The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph) Scar Symmetry First album for 9 years [63]
16The Storm Within Saturnus Nuclear BlastProduced by Flemming Rasmussen [64]
Atta Sigur Rós BMGFirst album for ten years [65]
23Carry the Beast Nocturnal Breed Darkish Essence Information [66]
Bloodlines Pyramaze AFM Records [67]
Helvegr Tsjuder Season of Mist [68]
30Stormbringers Before the Dawn [69]

July

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
6Du Måste Ta AnsvarAnsvaretNT Productions [70]
7Slugs of Love Little Dragon Ninja Tune Featuring Damon Albarn [71]
Tales from the North Bloodbound AFM/SoulfoodConcept album about Viking era [72]
14We Shall Remain Eleine Atomic Fire Records [73]
21The Age of the Offended Cadaver Nuclear Blast Records [74]
27Last of a Kind Panzerchrist Emanzipation ProductionsFirst album for ten years [75]

August

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
11 The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons The Hives Disques HivesFirst album featuring bassist The Johan and Only [76]
Rocking Heels: Live at Metal Church Tarja earMUSICLive album [77]
18The Vertigo Trigger Cyhra Nuclear BlastSelf-produced and mixed by Euge Valovirta [78]
Ýdalir Skálmöld Napalm [79]
Here for None Warmen Reaper EntertainmentFeaturing Janne Wirman [80]

September

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
1Memento Mori Marduk Century Media [81]
Memorial Soen Silver Lining Music [82]
Et Hav Av Avstand Taake Dark Essence RecordsAll instruments played by Hoest [83]
8Ending Kvelertak Nuclear Blast [84]
15Grand Explosivos Electric Boys Mighty Music [85]
Daemonic Rites Mayhem Century MediaLive album [86]
Sunholy Shade Empire Candlelight Records [87]
Shining Shining Napalm Record [88]
22Soundtrack to the End of Times Mercenary Featuring Matt Heafy [89]

October

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
6The Cancer Pledge October Tide Agonia Records [90]
13Queen of Time (Live at Tavastia 2021) Amorphis Atomic FireLive album [91]
Heartbreakmiljonär Oscar Zia SonyDigital download [92]
20Spine Myrkur Relapse Records [93]
27Reign of the Reaper Sorcerer Metal Blade Records [94]

November

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
3Songs of the Dusk Insomnium Century Media RecordsEP [95]
Die in Fire – Live in Hell (Agony and Ecstasy Over Stockholm) Watain Nuclear BlastLive album recorded 7 October 2022 [96]
10Dark Christmas Tarja Turunen earMUSICCovers album [97]
17Philosopher Aeternus Agonia RecordsRecorded at Conclave & Earshot Studios [98]
Plague Corroded Despotz Records [99]

December

DayAlbumArtistLabelNotesRef.
8Inspiratio Profanus Dimmu Borgir Nuclear Blast RecordsCovers album [100]
12Vandrar Gåte Independent labelEP [101]
15A Chapter Called Children of Bodom (The Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) Children of Bodom SpinefarmLive album [102]
Leviathan III Therion Napalm Records [103]
Trolldom Troll Polypus Records [104]

Eurovision Song Contest

Classical works

Film and television music

Deaths

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