Top Selling New Metal Heavy Metal CDs and Albums 2023

While this blog usually focuses on rare metal collections I buy from around the world, as a music retailer, we sell many brand-new titles from various metal labels, including Metal Blade, Hells Headbangers, High Roller Records, and Osmose Productions. The following is a list of the top 50 titles, as ranked by number of sales for 2023.

Tops Sellers 2023

Mercyful Fate – Melissa CD 2020 Metal Blade – 3984-15681-2 [Gatefold Digipak]

Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break The Oath CD 2020 Metal Blade – [Gatefold Digipak]

Blood Incantation – Hidden History Of The Human Race CD Dark Descent – DDR 236

Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated LP 2022 Metal Blade [Red/White Swirl]

Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back To Life CD 2017 Metal Blade 3984-14425-2 SEALED

King Diamond – “Them” CD 2020 Metal Blade – 3984-15677-2 [Gatefold Digipak]

Bathory – Bathory LP 2004 Black Mark Production – BMLP666-1 [180 Gram Sweden]

Goatmoon – Finnish Steel Storm CD 2018 Werewolf Records – EVIL009 [SEALED] *FN

Bathory – Under The Sign Of The Black Mark LP 2014 Black Mark BMLP66 Sweden 180G

King Diamond – Abigail CD 2020 Metal Blade – 3984-15676-2 [Gatefold Digisleeve]

Black Flag – My War LP 2020 SST Records – SST 023 [SEALED]

NOFX – The Decline LP 1999 Fat Wreck Chords – FAT605-1

Sacrifice – Torment In Fire CD 2022 Shadow Kingdom – SKR190CD [Sealed]

NOFX – The War On Errorism LP 2003 Fat Wreck Chords FAT657-1 [SEALED] 

Face To Face – Face To Face LP 2016 Fat Wreck Chords – FAT 970-1 [SEALED]

Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill LP 2021 EastWest Records [Orange Marbled]

Powerwolf – The History Of Heresy I (2004-2008) CD 2014 Metal Blade [3 CD Box ]

Mgla – Exercise In Futility CD 2018 Northern Heritage NH-089 [Sealed] [Finland]

NOFX – I Heard They Suck Live!! LP 1995 Fat Wreck FAT 0528-1 [SEALED] 1ST PRESS

Propagandhi – How To Clean Everything LP 2013 Fat Wreck Chords – FAT911-1 SEALED

Cannibal Corpse – Butchered At Birth LP 2022 Metal Blade [Clear & Black Vinyl]

Gwar – Phallus In Wonderland DVD 2015 Metal Blade Records – 3984-34071-9

Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back To Life LP 2021 Metal Blade

Sacrifice – Soldiers Of Misfortune CD 2022 Shadow Kingdom – SKR192CD [Sealed]

Goatmoon – What Once Was… Shall Be Again CD 2023 Werewolf Records – EVIL-097

Beherit – The Oath Of Black Blood CD 2020 Nuclear War Now ANTI-GOTH 500 [Sealed]

NOFX – Wolves In Wolves’ Clothing LP 2006 Fat Wreck Chords – FAT711-1

Blood Incantation – Starspawn CD 2016 Dark Descent – DDR157CD [SEALED]

Behemoth – The Satanist LP 2021 Metal Blade 3984-15213-1 [LTD 2x Clear Vinyl]

Rudimentary Peni Death Church LP 2022 Sealed Records – SEAL-014 [Brand New] UK

Grave – You’ll Never See… LP 2022 Cosmic Key – CKC069 [Oxblood Swirl] *NL NEW

Sacrifice – Forward To Termination CD 2022 Shadow Kingdom – SKR191CD [Sealed]

Beherit – Drawing Down the Moon CD 2023 Nuclear War Now – ANTI-GOTH 600 [Sealed]

X-Cops – You Have The Right To Remain Silent CD 2023 Brutal Planet – BPCD1611

Protector – A Shedding Of Skin CD 2020 High Roller – HRR 427 CD *DE [SLIPCASE]

Dystopia – Dystopia CD 2023 Tankcrimes – TC 117 [Sealed] (155723156403)

Angry Samoans – Back from Samoa CD 1992 Triple X Records – 51034-2 (155155539144)

Merauder – Master Killer LP 2021 Rebellion – RR246 [Brand New] [Netherlands]

Blood Incantation – Starspawn LP 2016 Dark Descent – DDR157LP [Brand New]

Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes LP 2019 Indie Recordings INDIE262LP [WHITE 140G]

Hallows Eve – Death & Insanity CD 2014 Metal Blade – 3984-14059-2 [SEALED]

Conspiracy by King Diamond CD 2021 Metal Blade [Gatefold Digisleeve]

Deliverance – Deliverance CD 2020 Retroactive – RRCD1564 [Gold Disc Edition]

White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1 LP 2012 Music On Vinyl [180G]

Fates Warning – The Spectre Within CD 2002 Metal Blade – 3984-14430-2 SEALED

Death – Leprosy LP 2014 Relapse Records – RR7228 [SEALED w/ POSTER]

Fates Warning – Awaken The Guardian Live Blu-ray 2017 Metal Blade – 3984-34075-9

The Ocean – Pelagial CD 2013 Metal Blade – 3984-15420-2 [Digsleeve] [Germany]

Guardian – Fire And Love LP 2017 Retroactive Records – RR1414 [Sealed]

Satanic Warmaster – We Are The Worms CD 2022 Werewolf Records EVIL-044 [Sealed]

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