As of yesterday we are entering the final month of 2024, and that begins the final countdown to the end of the year. In the world of metal, this month we’ll also start seeing more and more lists of the year’s best releases.
Back in 2009, when this site was just a few days old, I wrote a post about year-end lists and why people bother with them. The best reason still seems to be this: Reading someone else’s list of the albums they thought were best is a good way to discover music you missed and might like.
We don’t do an “official” NCS year-end list of best albums. However, we publish the picks of each of our regular staff writers as well as a group of invited guests, in addition to lists that we re-post from a few print zines and “big platform” online sites.
Every year we also invite our readers to share their lists and we’re doing that again right here, right now.
If you’ve been pondering what you’ve heard this year and have made your own list of the albums, EPs, or splits released in 2024 that you think are the best of what you’ve heard, we invite you to share it with everyone in the Comments section to this post. And if you haven’t made a list yet but want to, there’s still plenty of time (read below).
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We don’t have any hard-and-fast rules about year-end lists. Your list doesn’t have to be a specific number — it doesn’t have to be a “Top 10” or “Top 20” list, it could be a Top 2 list or a Top 15, or any other number.
And it doesn’t have to be a cross-genre list, i.e., the best of all metal you’ve heard this year. It could be the best death metal, or the best black metal, or the best grind, or the best crust or doom or prog or thrash metal, and on and on — pretty much whatever you want to do and feel comfortable doing, as long as it fits your definition of metal.
Don’t be shy, and don’t worry about being judged — if you haven’t figured it out already, it ain’t our style nor is it usually the style of our commenters to ridicule what someone else thinks is great metal.
And if you don’t have a list ready yet, no sweat, because you can come back to this post whenever you like and add your list later — or comment on the lists others have posted. I’ll put a link to this post at the top right side of every page so people can find it quickly — look for the link to 2024 NCS READERS’ YEAR-END LISTS. That will make the comments to this post a collection point for “Best of” readers’ lists. And that link will stay on our page from now through this time in 2025.
Last year we had 86 comments on this invitation, up from 82 the year before, and I think that says something about how interested people are in seeing each other’s lists and reacting to them. So start thinking and start commenting — please, and thank you.
– islander
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No order.
Knoll – As Spoken
Vitriol – Suffer and Become
Meth. – Shame
Lustmord – Much Unseen is Also Here
Black Wound – Warping Structure
Thou – Umbilical
Crippling Alcoholism – With Love From A Padded Room
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Inter Arma – New Heaven
Chat Pile – Cool World
oh that list is good. love seeing lustmord there. I discovered them this year only, shortly before their new release. never much liked ambient. but theirs is so disturbing, it’s metal again 😀
meth also very underrated. not a sentence i though I’d ever write.
Top 5 are:
(SEP) Kannonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
(OCT) Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
(JUNE) Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
(NOV) Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition IV: To Shadow Zion
(OCT) Iotunn – Kinship
In no particular order:
(FEB) Borknagar – Fall
(NOV) Opeth – The Last Will And Testament
(APR) – Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox II – Mark of The Beast
(APR) Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions
(JUNE) Withering Surface – Exit plan
(OCT) Mother of Millions – Magna Mater
(OCT) Garea – Coma
(MAY) Wheel – Charismatic Leaders
(JUNE) Hippotraktor – Stasis
(APR) Mother of All – Global Parasitic Leviathan
(NOV) Thy Catafalque – XII
(FEB) Chapel of Disease – Echoes of Light
Exuvial
Cryptic Brood
Full of Hell
Loudblast
White Stone
These are my top releases this year
Pyrrhon
Wormed
Gigan
Aseitas
Weston Super Maim
Defeated Sanity
Beaten To Death
Malignancy
Knoll
Discord/Atvm split
Theurgy
Ingurgitating Oblivion
Black Hole Deity
Aquilas
Replicant
Mitochondrion
*Discord/Atvm split
*Aquilus
Gaerea “Coma”
Saidan “Visual Kill”
Kanonenfieber “Die Urkatastrophe”
Inter Arma “New Heaven”
Blood Incantation “Absolute Everywhere”
Gatecreeper “Dark Superstitions”
Julie Christmas “Ridiculous and Full of Blood”
Unleash the Archers “Phantoma”
Glassing “From the Other Side of the Mirror”
Thou “Umbilical”
Extinction AD “To the Detested”
Oh Hiroshima “All Things Shining”
Spectral Wound “Songs of Blood and Mire”
Barring any end of year surprises:
1. Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Nought
2. Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome
3. Pyrrhon – Exhaust
4. Deathless Void – The Voluptuous Fire of Sin
5. Convulsing – Perdurance
6. Veilburner – The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
7. Ulcerate – Cutting The Throat of God
8. Slimelord – Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
9. Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds
10. Cabinet – Hydrolysated Ordination
11. Thou – Umbilical
12. Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions
13. Effluence – Necrobiology
14. Uniform – American Standard
15. Avernus – Grievances
16. Defacement – Duality
17. Ihsahn – Ihsahn
18. Kraanerg – Heart of a Cherry Pit Sun
19. Lux Sine Lumine – Lux Sine Lumine II
20. Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains
21. Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations
22. Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
23. Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
24. Aquilus – Bellum II
25. Sumac – The Healer
26. Knoll – As Spoken
27. Akhlys – House of the Black Geminus
28. Khost – Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us
29. Venomous Echoes – Split Formations and Infinite Mania
30. Wormed – Omegon
31. Nekus – Death Apophenia
32. Scarcity – The Promise of Rain
33. Sacrificial Vein – Black Terror Genesis
34. Civerous – Maze Envy
35. Papangu – Lampião Rei
36. Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
37. Julie Christmas – Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
38. Esoctrilihum – Döth-Derniàlh
39. Ætheria Conscientia – The Blossoming
40. Hoplites – Παραμαινομένη
41. Inter Arma – New Heaven
42. Har – Cursed Creation
43. Five The Hierophant – Apeiron
44. Sanctuarium – Melted and Decomposed
45. Ævangelist – Perdition Ekstasis Meta
46. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
47. Dystopia – De Verboden Diepte I: Veldslag op de Rand van de Wereld
48. Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance
49. Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire
50. Inconcessus Lux Lucis – Temples Colliding In Fire
51. Diskord – Bipolarities
52. Abigor – Taphonomia Aeternitatis
53. Pestilength – Solar Clorex
54. Combat Astronomy – Method and Trap
55. Folterkammer – Weibermacht
56. Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive
57. Cave – Cave III
58. Utarm – Concrete God of the Scorched Earth
59. Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian of the Universe
60. Corpus Diavolis – Elixiria Ekstasis
61. Cave Sermon – Divine Laughter
62. Burial Womb – The Grand Architect
63. Construct of Lethe – A Kindness Dealt In Venom
64. Aberration – Refracture
65. Fractal Generator – Convergence
66. Wrathprayer – Enkoimeterion
67. Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
68. Apparition – Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State
69. Meth. – Shame
70. Contaminated – Celebratory Beheading
71. LKVGT – Manische Omarming Van Een Alomvatted Niets
72. Chapel of Disease – Echoes of Light
73. Antichrist Siege Machine – Vengeance of Eternal Fire
74. Iniquitous Savagery – Edifice of Vicissitudes
75. Replicant – Infinite Mortality
76. Prisoner – Putrid | Obsolete
77. Blaze of Perdition – Upharsin
78. Piah Mater – Under the Shadow of a Foreign Sun
79. Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe
80. Eye Eater – Alienate
81. Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens
82. Serpent Column – Tassel of Ares
83. Siderean – Spilling the Astral Chalice
84. Amiensus – Reclamation
85. Funeral – Gospel of Bones
86. Teeth – The Will of Hate
87. Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
88. Hideous Divinity – Unextinct
89. Paysage D’Hiver – Die Berge
90. Black Hole Diety – Profane Geometry
91. Saidan – Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
92. Ysengrin – To Endotaton
93. Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
94. Vertebrae Fetish Totem – Alchemy
95. Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – Sisyphean Cruelty
96. Occulta Veritas – Irreducible Fear of the Sublime
97. Dionysiaque – Diogonos
98. Krallice – Inorganic Rites
99. Engulf – The Dying Planet Weeps
100. Verberis – The Apophatic Wilderness
cool!
nice list!
Probably this will be my top 10. I didn’t see many people talking about the Regere Sinister album, but it really blew my mind and it’s probably my absolute favorite LP of 2024
Regere Sinister
Mitochondrion
Звёздный Храм
Mayhemic
Cosmic Putrefaction
Bedsore
Orgone
Concrete Winds
Abhorration
Hail Conjurer
20. Kvaen – The Formless Fires
19. Vale of Pnath – Between the Worlds of Life and Death
18. Feind – Ambulante Hirnamputation
17. Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All
16. Undeath – More Insane
15. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Nell Ora Blu
14. Swallow the Sun – Shining
13. Dodsrit – Nocturnal Will
12. Assemble the Chariots – Unyielding Night
11. The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude
10. Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi
9. Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
8. Fit For an Autopsy – The Nothing That Is
7. Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions
6. A Wake In Providence – I Write To You, My Darling Decay
5. Gaerea – Coma
4. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
3. Bring Me the Horizon – Post Human: Nex Gen
2. Opeth – The Last Will & Testament
1. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Here we go again, thanks for the invitation, these are my choices:
1) Apparition – “Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State”
2) Aberration – “Refracture”
3) Vemod – “The Deepening”
4) Necrotum – “Defleshed Exhumation”
5) Unaussprechlichen Kulten – “Häxan Sabaoth”
6) Spectral Voice – “Sparagmos”
7) Theophonos – “Ashes In The Uron River”
8) Ponte Del Diavolo – “Fire Blades From The Tomb”
9) Job For A Cowboy – “Moon Healer”
10) Pestilength – “Solar Clorex”
11) Griffon – De Republica
12) Slimelord – “Chytridiomycosis Relinquished”
13) Skeletal Remains – “Fragments of the Ageless”
14) Judas Priest – “Invincible Shield”
15) Hideous Divinity – “Unextinct”
16) Brodequin – “Harbringer of Woe”
17) Waidelotte – “Celestial Shrine”
18) Kvadrat – “The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion”
19) Verberis – “The Apophatic Wilderness”
20) Heresiarch – “Edifice”
21) Replicant – “Infinite Mortality”
22) High on Fire – “Cometh the Storm”
23) Engulfed – “Unearthly Litanies of Despair”
24) Inter Arma – “New Heaven”
25) Tzompantli – “Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force”
26) Rotten Tomb – “The Relief of Death”
27) Strychnos – “Armageddon Patronage”
28) Pallbearer – “Mind Burns Alive”
29) Adversarial – “Solitude with the Eternal”
30) Vastigr – “The Path of Perdition”
31) Crypt Sermon – “The Stygian Rose”
32) Haunted Plasma – “I”
33) Aquilus – “Bellum II”
34) Ucerate – “Cutting the Throath of God”
35) Kvaen – “The Formless Fires”
36) Thou – “Umbilical”
37) Akhlys – “Black House of Geminus”
38) Wormed – “Omegon”
39) Vanhelgd – “Atropos Doctrina”
40) Occulta Veritas – “Irreducible Fear of The Sublime”
41) Wormwitch – “Wormwitch”
42) Fulci – “Duck Face Killings”
43) Fleshgod Apocalypse – “Opera”
44) Spectral Wound – “Songs of Blood and Mire”
45) Wintersun – “Time II”
46) Vafurlogi – “Í vökulli áþján”
47) Deathless Void – “The Voluptuous Fires of Sin”
48) Kanonenfieber – “Die Urkatastrophe”
49) Blood Incantation – “Absolute Elsewhere”
50) Devenial Verdict – “Blessing of Despair”
51) Black Curse – “Burning in Celestial Poison”
52) Gigan – “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus”
53) Mitochondrion – “Vitriseptome”
54) Wrathprayer – “Enkoimeterion”
55) Ershetu – “Yomi”
56) Opeth – “The Last Will and Testament”
57) Panzerfaust – “The Suns of Perdition – Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion”
58) Bedsore – “Dreaming The Strife for Love”
59) Nekus – “Death Apophenia”
60) Hour of Penance – “Devotion”
*61) Gaerea – “Coma”
This list just seemed to grow and grow and grow. Especially once I came to compile it.
In no particular order:
Paisaunt & Olde Throne – Cearwylm & Misneachd split
Aureole – Alunarian Bellmaster
Clouds Taste Satanic – 79 A.E.
Iron Firmament – Draconic Atavism
Kasturn – The Torchbearer Fades
Misotheist – Vessels By Which the Devil is Made Flesh
Coffins – Sinister Oath
Naxen – Descending Into a Deeper Darkness
Feigd – Heidenskapens Strid
Hollow Woods – Cold Winds Cleave the Earth
Nachtlich – Exaltation of Evil
Macquahuitl – Tequitl
Ufomammut – Hidden
Chotza – Pachschwarz
Muvitium – I Skogens Karga Dunkel
Inconcessus Lux Lucis – Temples Colliding in Fire
Fugitive Wizard – Apocrypha
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Ernte – Weltenzerstorer
Inter Arma – New Heaven
Pijn – From Low Beams of Hope
Lautrec – Martyrdom Impaled
Cowardice – Atavist
Insect Ark – Raw Blood Singing
Sig:Ar:Tyr – Citadel of Stars
Cult of Erinyes – Metempsychosis
Verberis – The Apophatic Wilderness
Astral Lore – For the Everlasting Fire Perishes in the Hands of the Fallen
Astwihad – Gatha 2: Dush-Sastish
Coldcell – Age of Unreason
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Seth – La France des Maudits
Gutvoid – Breathing Obelisk
Aethyrick – Death is Absent
Horna – Nyx: Hymneja Yolle
Forgjord – Perkeleen Weri
Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Avmakt – Satanic Inversion of…
Djevel – Natt Til Ende
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Undeath – More Insane
Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
Mitochondrian – Vitriseptome
Harvestman – Triptych
Trelldom – …by the Shadows
Kvadrat
Ulcerate
Knoll
Cave Sermon
Slime Lord
Spectral Voice
Verwoed
Sacrificial Vein
GODEN
Haunted Plasma
(Subject to change)
Vitriol: suffer and become
Adversarial: solitude with the eternal
Brodequin: harbinger of woe
Malignancy: discontinued
Deceased: children of the morgue
Mitochondrion: vitriseptome
Ingurgitating Oblivion: onthology of nought
Wormed: omegon
Defeated Sanity: chronicles of lunacy
Vemod: the deepening
Judas Priest: invincible shield
Akhlys: house of the black germinus
Replicant:infinite mortality
Blood Incantation – “Absolute Elsewhere
Gigan – “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus”
Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
Adorior: bleed on my teeth
Knoll: as spoken
Kvadrat: the horrible dissonance of oblivion
Werewolves: die for us
Dodsrit: Nocturnal Wil
Counting Hours: The Wushing Tomb
Austere: Beneath The Threshold
Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere
Devastator: Conjurers of Cruelty
Huntsman: The Dry Land
Blighted Eye: Agony’s Bespoke
Dvne: Voidkind
Sgaile: Traverse the Bealach
LPs:
Job for a Cowboy
Undeath
Vitriol
Blood Incantation
Ulcerate
Lowen
Nails
Dodsrit
Ripped to Shreds
Knocked Loose
Oxygen Destroyer
Fulci
Fit For An Autopsy
Atrae Bilis
The Black Dahlia Murder
Replicant
Anciients
Balance and Composure
Black Curse
200 Stab Wounds
Summoning the Lich
Darkest Hour
Slimelord
Boundaries
Inter Arma
EPs:
Disentomb
Kruelty
Counterparts
Cell
30. Limbes – Liernes
29. Necrowretch – Swords of Dajjal
28. Seth – La France des Maudits
27. Djevel – Natt Til Ende
26. Nyrst – Völd
25. Darkspace – Darkspace – II
24. Gravenoire- Devant La Porte Des Etoilles
23. Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition IV
22. Deathless Void – The Voluptuous Fire of Sin
21. Mathilde – 32 Décembre
20. Marrow of Man – Ancient Hymns of Apocalypse
19. Witch Club Satan- Witch Club Satan
18. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
17. They Came from Visions – The Twilight Robes
16. Agriculture- Living is Easy
15. Frail Body – Artificial Bouquet
14. Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
13. Les Bâtards du Roi – Les Bâtards du Roi
12. Houle – Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire
11. Sørgelig – Φθορά
10. Akhlys – House of the Black Geminus
9. Burial Oath – The Cycles of Suffering
8. Vígljós – Tome I: apidae
7. Alcest – Les Chants de L’Aurore
6. Vimur – The Timeless Everpresent
5. Kanonenfieber- Die Urkatasteophe
4. Dödsrit – Noctornal Will
3. Gaerea – Coma
2. Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire
1. Dawn Treader- Bloom & Decay
Dawn Treader was an easy #1 for me this year.
It’s so insanely good…
Blaze of Perdition – Upharsin
Deus Mortem – Thanatos
Dødsferd – Wrath
Gaerea – Coma
Griffon – De Republica
Modern Rites – Endless
Necrowretch – Swords of Dajjal
Ov Shadows – Heresiarch
Serpents Oath – Revelation
Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire
Vananidr – In Silence Descent
Weltenbrandt – Transzendenz Schatten Romantik
Whoredom Rife – Den vrede makt
Yoth Iria – Blazing Inferno
Torturers’ Lobby – Deadened Nerves
Heresiarch – Edifice
Adversarial – Solitude With The Eternal
Siderean – Spilling The Astral Chalice
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Moss Upon The Skull – Quest For The Secret Fire
Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome
Ulcerate – Cutting The Throat Of God
Tarot – Glimpse Of The Dawn
1. Wormwitch – Wormwitch
2. Eternal – Cryptic Lust
3. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
4. Nile – The underworld awaits us all
5. Undeath – More Insane
6. Laceration- I Erode
7. Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire
8. Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
9. Vredehammer – God Slayer
10. Coffins – Sinister Oath
11. Mould- Pull & Repulsion
12. Thou – Umbilical
13. Terminal Nation – Echos of the Devils Den
14. Necrot – lifeless Birth
15. Wraith – Fueled by Fear
16. Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
17. Coffin Rot- Dreams of the Disturbed.
18. Replicant – Infinite Mortality
19. 200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures
20. Defying -Wadera
This is gonna look mainstream as fuck lol. I’ve mainly been listening to older stuff, there’s so much to catch up on and I’m old with too much shit to do. As always it’s alphabetical and covers several genres.
Apes – Penitence
Bridge City Sinners – In the Age of Doubt
Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All
Deicide – Banished By Sin
Bill Fisher – How to Think Like a Billionaire
High on Fire – Cometh the Storm
Kerry King – From Hell I Rise
Kittie – Fire
Lost Dog Street Band – Survived
Lucifer – Lucifer V
Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1
Nails – Every Bridge Burning
Thou – Umbilical
Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Worshipper – One Way Trip
Zeal & Ardor – Grief
Just the stuff I didn’t already see on someone else’s list:
LPs:
Chainsword – Born Triumphant
Earth Ship – Soar
Ecclesia – Ecclesia Militans
Glacial Tomb – Lightless Expanse
Icy Steel – The Wait, The Choice And The Bravery
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia
Keitzer – Pandemonia Humanitas
Oubliette – Eternity Whispers
EPs:
Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions
Neck of the Woods – Luxury Trap
Pest Control – Year of the Pest
Tribal Gaze – Deadbody/Tribal Gaze Split
2024
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Kvaen – The Formless Fires
Trog – Beyond Horrors
Cave Sermon – Divine Laughter
Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
What I actually listened to:
Sundowning – In the Light of Defeat, I Cease to Exist
Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
Raffi – Fun Food Songs (with baby)
Belphegor – Totenritual
Clutch – Strange Cousins From the West
Kaatayra – Inpariquipê
Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
1. Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay
2. Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will
3. Nails – Every Bridge Burning
5. Knoll – As Spoken
6. Replicant – Infinite Mortality
8. Alluvial – Death Is But a Door
9. Engulfed – Unearthly Litanies of Despair
10. Saidan – Visual Kill
12. Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval
13. Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk
15. Laceration – I Erode
16. Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
18. Panzerfaust – Chapter IV
19. Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire
20. Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi
21. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera
22. Whores – War.
23. Blasphemous – To Lay Siege and Conquer
24. Invocation – The Archaic Sanctuary
25. Concrete Winds – s/t
The missing numbers are not metal
Throw that missing non-metal stuff at us too! That’s how a lot of us (at least me) find the good non-metal.
4. Cheekface – It’s Sorted (Quirky pop band…think They Might Be Giants and/or Cake)
7. Stephanie Lambring – Hypocrite (Crushingly dark/beautiful lyrics for singer/songwriter)
11. Amigo the Devil – Yours Until the War is Over (Best murder folk around)
14. The Bridge City Sinners – In the Age of Doubt (Gypsy/ragtime/bluegrass about Satan)
17. Spaced – This Is All We Ever Get (Not much punk/hc caught my ear this year…but this sure did)
26. Adeem the Artist – Anniversary (Another crushing lyrically singer-songwriter…might bump someone else in my final list for this)
Bridge City Sinners are among my favorite artists. If you’re into singer/songwriter stuff in the americana/folk-country spectrum check out Benjamin Tod’s first three solo albums and some of Lost Dog Street Band. Dude is an amazing lyricist.
My wife and I saw the Sinners a couple weeks ago. First time for her, but at least third time for me. If you like the murder folk type stuff and metal/punk, you should check out my favorite festival in the states. Muddy Roots. 🙂
I live in Chattanooga and have no good excuse for not getting up to Muddy Roots. I’ll have to make it happen.
Hey! I’ve heard at least three of these!
Nimbifer – Der böse Geist
Trhä – ∫um’ad∂ejja cavvaj
Victims Of Classwar – Invitation To A Funeral
Pale Shroud – To Wage War.. Against Time Itself
Zwiespalt – Des Nachts
Spectral Wound – Songs Of Blood And Mire
Koldbrann – Ingen skånsel
Zeit – Grollwerfer
Conifère – L’impôt du sang
Vemod – The Deepening
These are my 20 favourite things in 2024:
1. Wohrs – La grande poisseuse
2. Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – Sisyphean Cruelty
3. Maudissez – Maudissez
4. Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
5. Saevus Finis – Facilis Descensus Averno
6. Thou – Umbilical
7. Kulk – It Gets Worse
8. Marterpæl – Hævnens lys
9. Aseethe – The Cost
10. Walk Through Fire – Till Aska
11. The Body – The Crying Out of Things
12. Doom Beach – Burden
13. Blind Monarch – The Dead Replenish the Earth
14. Nekus – Death Apophenia
15. Melvins – Tarantula Heart
16. Cuntroaches – Cuntroaches
17. Pthumulhu – Tungumál svarthola
18. Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight
19. Nel Buio – Nel Buio
20. Oryx – Primordial Sky
in order of them coming into my mind:
* convulsing – perdurance
* ingurgitating oblivion – ontology of nought
* ulcerate – cutting the throat of god
* gigan – anomalous abstractigate infinitessimous
* aseitas – eden trough
* teeth – the will of hate
* replicant – infinite mortality
* vitriol – suffer & become
* knoll – as spoken
* knocked loose – you won’t go before you’re supposed to
* darko – starfire
* larcenia roe – dereliction
* scarlet rot – s/t
* bring me the horizon – post human: nex gen
* hereisaropegoodluck – nothing to write home about
* mirar – mare ep
* weston super maim – see you tomorrow baby
* meth. – shame
* peacemaker – first degree
* killing of a sacred deer – s/t
* godhand – tachykinin
* pyrrhon – exhaust
* wiltwither – the yellow wallpaper
* girl of glass – s/t
* blood incantation – absolute elsewhere
* gaerea – coma
* fit for an autopsy – the nothing that is
LPs only, my favourite 30:
Adversarial – Solitude with the Eternal…
Apes – Penitence
Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
Blind Girls – An Exit Exists
Blood Dream – It Didn’t Have to be this Way
Carnophage – Matter of a Darker Nature
Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds
Convulsing – Perdurance
Deathless Void – The Voluptuous Fire of Sin
Defacement – Duality
Disfigure – New Age of Judgment
Flaahgra – Plant-Based Anatomy
Frail Body – Artificial Bouquet
Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
Gråt Strigoi – The Prophetic Silence
Groin – Paid in Flesh
Grotesque Desecration – Dawn of Abomination
Insect Ark – Raw Blood Singing
Knoll – As Spoken
Noxis – Violence Inherent in the System
Oryx – Primordial Sly
Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
Ploughshare – Second Wound
Scarcity – The Promise of Rain
Still – A Theft
Sulfuric Hatred – Sulfuric Hatred
Thou – Umbilical
Uboa – Impossible Light
Volva – Desires Profane
Witch Club Satan- Witch Club Satan
Too many that just missed this list to mention…
I forgot Respire- Hiraeth… that would knock out Full of Hell from my favourite 30.
Top 13 albums of the year for me:
Gaerea: Coma
Hamferð: Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Glassing: From the Other Side of the Mirror
Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere
Aseitas: Eden Trough
Vitriol: Suffer and Become
Genital Shame: Cronic Illness Wish
Job For A Cowboy: Moon Healer
REZN: Burden
Hail Spirit Noir: Fossil Gardens
Civerous: Maze Envy
Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God
Glacial Tomb: Lightless Expanse
Dawnwalker: The Unknowing
Top 10 in alphabetical order…
Absorb – Smog
Amarok – Resilience
Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will
Föhn – Condescending
Hell is Other People – Moirae
Mother of Graves – The Periapt of Absence
Nepenthe – The Fading Promise of Tomorrow
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Pillar of Light – Caldera
QAALM – Grave Impressions of an Unbroken Arc
Here, the ones:
Concrete Winds > ST
Nails > Every Bridge Burning
Hauntologist > Hollow ***** (Black Metal as it finest)
Kvadrat > The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion (One of the surprises of the year)
Spectral Wound > Songs of Blood and Mire (¡WOOOOOW!)
Ulcerate > Cutting the Throat of God
Brodequin > Harbinger of Woe
Sordide > Ainsi Finit le Jour
Inquisition > Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
Blind Girls > An Exist Exists
Wormed > Omegon
Vomit The Soul > Massive Incineration
Above Aurora > Myriad Woes
Selbst > Despondency Chord Progressions (Don’t forget it)
Necrowretch > Swords of Dajjal
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/3Kp9UoUfzXxx1M8cCsw0kj (it’s impossible to write his name)
Yanos > Elysium
Mitochondrion > Vitriseptome
Dissimulator > Lower Form Resistance
Pyrrhon > Exhaust
Living Gate > Suffer as One (My personal best)
DEFEATED SANITY > CHRONICLES OF LUNACY (The best of the year, musically speaking)
Ceremony of Silence > Hálios
Ad Patres > Unbreathable
Thy Catafalque > His new album 🙂
Feral Nature > Rituals (So awesome for a new band)
Voidwomb > Spiritual Apotheosis
¡Thats it! Long live to No Clean Singing! Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.
The Greek named one is translated to Hoplites in English. If you just type that into Spotify it does come up. They’ve been putting out some challenging releases the last few years. Pretty crazy stuff. That ’24 album was on my shortlist that missed my top of the year.
My Top 10 :
1) Iotunn, “Kinship”
2) Mayhemic, ‘Toba”
3) Void Witch, “Horripilating Presence”
4) Slimelord, “Chytridiomycosis Relinquished”
5) Hail Spirit Noir, “Fossil Gardens”
6) Concrete Winds, “Concrete Winds”
7) Veilburner, “The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom”
8) Evilyn, “Mondestrunker”
9) Chapel of Disease, “Echoes of Light”
10) Rotten Tomb, “The Relief of Death”
A most diverse year. Many great albums, but Iotunn is IMHO way ahead of the pack. Haven’t been so moved by a metal album since “Anthems to the Welkin’ at Dusk”.
1 Paysage D’Hiver Die Berge
2 Sumac The Healer
3 Klein – Marked
4 Opium Warlords Strength!
5 Mitochondrian
6 Oranssi Pazuzu
7 Blackdeath
8 Aluk Todolo Lux
9 Sunrise Patriot Motion My Father Took Me Hunting In The Snow
10 Gjendod
11 Uniform – American Standard
12 Trelldom
13 Misotheist
14 Hate Forest Justice
15 Concrete Winds
16 Chat Pile
17 Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
18 Hollow Woods Like Twisted Bones of a Fallen Giant
19 Thou Umbilical
20 Desperatio Dei
21 Røkkr “Den ufortalte saga”
22 Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
23 Spectral Voice Sparagmos
24 Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River
25 Kirkebrann – Mot Trellenes Forfall…
10 Sanshi Ripped to Shreds
9 Voidkind Dvne
8 Ashes in the Huron River Theophonos
7 Agony & Wounds Obscene
6 Satanic Inversion of…. Avmakt
5 Chytridiomycosis Relinquished Slimelord
4 Toba Mayhemic
3 Solitude With the Eternal… Adversarial
2 Cutting the Throat of God Ulcerate
1 Sparagmos Spectral Voice
My top 5:
1)Blood Incantation- Absolute Elsewhere
2)Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full Of Blood
3)Inter Arma- New Heaven
4)Contaminated – Celebratory Beheading
5)Necrowretch – Sword of Dajjal
Some of my favorites:
Tzompantli
Blood Incantation
Terminal Nation
Fellowship
Dwarrowdelf
Eternal Storm
Dark Oath
Folterkammer
Lust Hag
Assemble the Chariots
Kanonenfieber
And I don’t usually rank but this year Job For A Cowboy released my absolute favorite record!
1. Paysage d’Hiver “Die Berge”
2. Abigor “Taphonomia Aeternitatis (Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt)”
3. Serpent Column “Tassel of Ares”
4. Auld Ridge “For Death and Glory, to the Gods I Cry”
5. Papangu “Lampião Rei”
6. Conifère “L’impôt du sang”
7. Uboa “Impossible Light”
8. Звёздный Храм “Звёздный Храм”
9. Invunche “Atavismo”
10. Trhä “∫um’ad∂ejja cavvaj”
11. Saidan “Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity”
12. Sabbat “Sabbaticult”
13. Fugitive Wizard – “Apocrypha”
14. Demon Bitch “Master of the Games”
15. Ulcerate “Cutting the Throat of God”
16. Defeated Sanity “Chronicles of Lunacy”
17. Mitochondrion “Vitriseptome”
18. Chat Pile “Cool World”
19. Bríi “Camaradagem póstuma”
20. Black Curse “Burning in Celestial Poison”
21. Mefitis “The Skorian // The Greyleer”
22. Lander “Boreal Tactics”
23. Trelldom “…By the Shadows…”
24. Nächtlich “Exaltation of Evil”
25. Föhn “Condescending”
Podría ser algo así:
Wormed
Devenial Verdict
Hamferd
Borknagar
Vomit Forth
Brodequin
Christ Denied
Ulcerate
Oxygen Destroyer
Thou
Svdestada
Ripped to Shreds
Chat Pile
Iron Curtain
Kanonenfieber
A lot of great stuff this year, very good year for metal!
1. Grimaze – “The Heart of a Collapsing Star”
2. Akhlys – “House of the Black Geminus”
3. Ihsahn – “Ihsahn”
4. Hauntologist – “Hollow”
5. Ministry – “HopiumForTheMasses”
6. Marylin Manson – “One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1”
7. Bruce Dickinson – “The Mandrake Project”
8. Kerry King – “From Hell I Rise”
9. Opeth – “The Last Will And Testament”
10. Vltimas – “Epic”
These were my ten standouts of the year, in no real order except for Number 1
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Bongripper – Empty
Offernat – Where Nothing Grows
Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Pijn – From Low Beams of Hope
Krallice – Inorganic Rites
Atavist – Cowardice
Dodsrit – Nocturnal Will
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Attic – Return of the Witchfinder
Acero Letal – Legiones
Sabbat – Sabbaticult
Yoth Iria – Blazing Inferno
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
Master – Saints Dispelled
Traveller – Prequel to Madness
Noxis – Violence Inherent in the System
Desolus – System Shock
Saidan – Visual Kill
Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All
Witchtrap – Hungry as the Beast
So far, here are the ones that stand out according to the Reader’s List :
1- Blood Incantation (17)
2- Ulcerate (12)
3- Thou (11)
4- Mitochondrion (9)
5- Spectral Wound (9)
6- Opeth (8)
7- Knoll (8)
8- Replicant (8)
9- Concrete Winds (7)
10- Dodsrit (7)
11- Garea (7)
12- Kannonenfieber (7)
13- Black Curse (7)
20. Dvne – Voidkind
19. Múr – ST
18. Throne of Exile – The Endless Sky
17. Necrot – Lifeless Birth
16. Apogean – Cyberstrictive
15. Carnosus – Wormtales
14. Atrae Bilis – Aumicide
13. Morgue – Close to Complete Darkness
12. Slimelord – Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
11. Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains
10. Feind – Ambulante Hirnamputation
9. Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
8. Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
7. Civerous – Maze Envy
6. Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
5. Amiensus – Reclamation Pt I and II
4. Wormed – Omegon
3. Huntsmen – The Dry Land
2. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
1. Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Guilty Pleasures:
Fit For an Autopsy
Knocked Loose
Kublain Khan TX
Unleash the Archers
Devin Townsend
Best EPs
Alluvial
Persefone
Escuela Grind
Misotheist – Vessels By Which the Devil Is Made Flesh
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Eye Eater – Alienate
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay
Paysage D’Hiver – Die Berge
Odium Humani Generis – Miedzyckas
Mother – Mother II
Whoredom Rife – Den Vrede Makt
Saidan – Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
Ecr.Linf – Belluaires
Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome
Thou – Umbilical
Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will
Opeth – The Last Will and Testimony
Djevel – Natt Till Ende
Akhlys – House of the Black Geminus
Inter Arma – New Heaven
Verwoed – The Mother
Hauntologist – Hollow
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Shaarimoth – Devildom
Sig:Ar:Tyr – Citadel of Stars
Horna – Nyx
Alta Rossa – A Defiant Cure
Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition
Solar Temple & Dead Neanderthals – Embers Beget the Divine
Demande a la Poussiere – Kintsugi
Yoth Iria – Blazing Inferno
Sun Worship – Upon the Hills of Divination
Naxen – Descending Into a Deeper Darkness
Verberis – The Apophatic Wilderness
Death Like Mass – The Lord of Flies
Ungfell – De Ghörnt
Hippotraktor – Stasis
Árstíðir Lífsins – Aldrlok
Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Dvne – Voidkind
Schattenfang – Perdurabo
Avernus – Grievances
Civerous – Maze Envy
Ershetu – Yumi
Horn – Daudswiärk
Infestus – Entzweiung
Job For a Cowboy – Moon Healer
Labyrinthus Stellarum – Vortex of the Worlds
Cosmic Putrefection – Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains
Living Gate – Suffer As One
Thy Catafalque – XII: A-Gyonyoru-Almok-Ezutan-Jonnek
Cryptic Hatred – Internal Torment
Live:
Mgła – Torn Aether: Live Recordings 2013-2022
Nokturnal Mortum – Оберіг – Live At Ragnard Reborn Fest
Behemoth – XXX: Years of Blasphemy
Re-Issue:
Sodom – Tapping the Vein (deluxe)
Galg – Monochroom
Kaatayra – Toda História Pela Frente
Black Sabbath – Anno Domini 1989-1995
Ulver – Grieghallen 20180528
1. Ataraxie – Le Declin
2. The Infernal Sea – Hellfenlic
3. Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon
4. Malist – Of Scorched Earth
5. Slift – Ilion
6. Ufomammut – Hidden
7. Amarok – Resilience
8. Blood Red Throne – Nonagon
9. Madder Mortem – Old Eyes, New Heart
10. Borknagar – Fall
11. Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All
12. Fellwarden – Legend: Forged In Defiance
13. Saxon – Hell, Fire And Damnation
14. My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding
15. Vorga – Beyond The Palest Star
16. Alcest – Les Chants De I’aurore
17. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats – Nell’ Ora Blu
18. Vaegtlos – Aftryk
19. Molten – Malicide
20. Big/Brave – A Chaos Of Flowers
A top 20 from a pretty darned good year.
Not enough time this year to dig into the underground. My list in no particular order
Opeth
Blood Incantation
Ershetu
Kvadrat
Ulcerate
Selbst
Schammasch
Givre
Panzerfaust
Darkend
Kolga
Akhlys
Anciients
Melt Banana
Huntsmen
Oranssi Pazuzu
Cigno
Krallice
Pyrrhon
Alphabetical Order of Albums in EOTY Pool
AARA – Eiger
Acathexis – Immerse
Ætheria Conscientia – The Blossoming
Akhlys – House of the Black Geminus
Alcest – Les Chants de l’Aurore
Amiensus – Reclamation, Pt. II
Amiensus – Reclamation: Part 1
An Autumn – Ethereal
Aquilus – Bellum II
Aristarchos – Martyr of Star and Fire
Árstidir Lifsins – Aldrlok
Ashenheart – Faded Gold
A Somber Funeral – Summertime Sorrow
AT THE ALTAR OF THE HORNED GOD – Elements
ATRÆ BILIS – Aumicide
Auriferous Flame – The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers
BAAZLVAAT – RIDICULED BY THE COMMON SOLDIERY
Black Aeons – Entering the Shadows
Black Birch – Black Birch
Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
Black Pyre – Blessed Bran, Son Of The Sea
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Brodequin – Harbinger Of Woe
Burial Oath – The Cycles of Suffering
Candy – It’s Inside You
Cantique Lepreux – Le bannissement
Cave Sermon – Divine Laughter
Chapel of Disease – Echoes Of Light
Chapel Perilous – The Tower of Silence
chat pile – Cool World
Convulsing – Perdurance
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature
Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay
Dawnwalker – The Unknowing
Defacement – Duality
Defeated Sanity – Chapters Of Repugnance
Djevel – Tanker Som Rir Natten
Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will
Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consciousness
Dystopia – De Verboden Diepte I: Veldslag Op De Rand Van De Wereld
Engulfed – Unearthly Litanies of Despair
Eternal Storm – A Giant Bound To Fall
Fellwarden – Legend
Firtan – Ethos
Floscule – I
Folterkammer – Weibermacht
GAEREA – Coma
Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition
glassing – From the Other Side of the Mirror
Glyph – Odes of Wailing, Hymns of Mourning
Griffon – De Republica
Groza – Nadir
Hadit – Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon
Hamferð – Men Guds hond er sterk
Häxenzijrkell – Portal
Hecatoncheir – Nightmare Utopia
Houle – Ciel Cendre et Misere Noire
Hulder – Verses in Oath
Huntsmen – The Dry Land
I AM THE INTIMIDATOR – I AM THE INTIMIDATOR
Ihsahn – Ihsahn
Ildganger – For Hver Tanke Mister Sjælen Atter Farve
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia
Inter Arma – New Heaven
Iotunn – Kinship
Isleptonthemoon – Only The Stars Know Of My Misfortune
Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Knoll – As Spoken
Lhaad – Beneath
Life Cycles – Portal To The Unknown
Liminal Shroud – Visions of Collapse
Locrian – End Terrain
malist – Of Scorched Earth
Mamaleek – Vida Blue
Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance
Misotheist – Vessels by Which the Devil is Made Flesh
Mother of Graves – The Periapt Of Absence
Motherwood – A Fading Elegy
Múr – Múr
Narzissus – Akt III: Erlosung
Naxen – Descending Into A Deeper Darkness
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All
Noroth – Sacrificial Solace
Nostalghia – Phaneron
Obscene – Agony & Wounds
Opeth – The Last Will And Testament
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Orgone – Pleroma
oxygen destroyer – Guardian of the Universe
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Piah Mater – Under the Shadow of a Foreign Sun
Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
Potvor – Садится солнце
Pyrrhon – Exhaust
Replicant – Infinite Mortality
RESIN TOMB – Cerebral Purgatory
Reverb On Repeat – XMTb
Rhun – Conveyance in Death
Riitasointu – Pedon Leikki
Sacrificial Vein – Black Terror Genesis
Saidan – Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
Scarcity – The Promise of Rain
Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions
Serpent Column – Tassel of Ares
Silhouette – Les Dires de l’Ame
Solbrud – IIII
Sólstafir – Hin Helga kvöl
Sorcerer – Devotion
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
SPECTRAL WOUND – Songs Of Blood and Mire
Spider God – Possess the Devil
Sun Worship – Upon the Hills of Divination
Sunrise Patriot Motion – My Father Took Me Hunting in the Snow
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
The Chisel – What a Fucking Nightmare
The Mosaic Window – Hemasanctum
Theophonos – Ashes in the Huron River
Thy Catafalque – XII: A Gyonyoru Almok Ezutan Jonnek
Tribulation – Sub Rosa in Æternum
Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Umbra Vitae – Light Of Death
Ungfell – De Ghörnt
Unto Others – Never, Neverland
UZLAGA – DEPTHDWELLER
Vafurlogi – Í vökulli ábján
Veilburner – The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
Vemod – The Deepening
Verwoed – The Mother
Vimur – The Timeless Everpresent
Vitriol – Suffer & Become
Void Witch – Horripilating Presence
Vorga – Beyond the Palest Star
Vuur & Zijde – Boezem
Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon
Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum
WORMWITCH – Wormwitch
Yanos – Elysium
Zeal & Ardor – GREIF
Όπλίτης – Παραμαινομένη
Swear, for a couple of y’all on here it would be faster to just list the three albums that came out this year that you didn’t like 😀
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
Opeth – Last Will and Testament
Madder Mortem – Old Eyes, New Heart
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Master Boot Record – Hardwarez
Satan – Songs in Crimson
Darkthrone – It beckons us all
Haunt – Dreamers
Thy Catafalque – XII: A Gyönyöru Álmok Ezután Jönnek
Blood Incantation – Almost Somewhere
Devin Townsend – Supernerd
Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk
Jerry Cantrell – I want Blood
Diamond Falcon – Gates of Hell
Black Pyramid – The Paths of Time are Vast
Phaeton – Wielder of the Steel
Bombus – Your Blood
Ulcerate – Cutting The Throat Of God
Savage Oath – Divine Battle
My Top 15
Aklash – Reincarnation
Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Blateroid – Crypts Of Mind
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Cistvaen – At Light’s Demise
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Etoile Filante – Mare Tranquillitatis
Fathomless Ritual – Hymns for the Lesser Gods
Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens
Horseburner – Voice Of Storms
Huntsmen – The Dry Land
Marche Funebre – After the Storm
Omnivide – A Tale of Fire
The Flight of Seipnir – Nature’s Cadence
Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon
No order:
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Caligulas Horse – Charcoal Grace
Dis Fig, The Body – Orchards Of A Futile Heaven
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go…
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Replicant – Infinite Mortality
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Fellowship – Skies Above Eternity
Hecatoncheir – Nightmare Utopia
Vitriol – Suffer and Become
Dawn Treader – Bloom and Decay
Dååth – The Decievers
Kvaen – The Formless Fires
Here’s a top 25, first 10 are in order and are my top 10, the rest has no order in particular after that:
Vemod – The Deepening
Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds
Dodsrit – Nocturnal Will
Tarot – Glimpse of the Dawn
Conifère – L’impôt du sang
Exhumation – Master’s Peronae
Unaussprechlichten Kulten – Haxan Sabaoth
Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
Ungfell – De Ghörnt
Adorior – Blood on my Teeth
Adversarial – Solitude with the Eternal…
Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome
Aara – Eiger
Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum
Invunche – Atavismo
Thy Catafalque – XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek
Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder
Grendel’s Syster – Katabasis into the Abaton
Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi
Antichrist Siege Machine – Vengeance of Eternal Fire
Nagasaki Sunrise – Distroyer
Brodequin – Harbringer of Woe
Demon Bitch – Master of the Games
Heriot – Devoured by the Mouth of Hell
Pøltergeist – Nachtmusik
My top 30, in alphabetical order:
Aborted – Vault of Horrors
Atrae Bilis – Aumicide
Bloodcross – Gravebound
Ceremony of Silence – Halios
Chaos Invocation – Wherever We Roam…
Cistvaen – At Light’s Demise
Cognitive – Abhorrence
Cognizance – Phantazein
Cryptic Hatred – Internal Torment
Devenial Verdict – Blessing of Despair
Fractal Generator – Convergence
Funeral Storm – Chthonic Invocations
Givre – Le Cloître
Glacial Tomb – Lightless Expanse
Hell:on – Shaman
Hemotoxin – When Time Becomes Loss
In Vain – Solemn
Inherits The Void – Scars of Yesteryears
Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder
Krvna – The Rythmus of Death Eternal
Kvaen – The Formless Fires
Mork Gryning – Fasornas tid
Necrowretch – Swords of Dajjal
Nokturnal – Shades of Night
Paenil Era – Idle Cage
Skeletal Remains – Fragments of the Ageless
Trog – Horrors Beyond
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Vale of Pnath – Between the Worlds of Life and Death
Vorga – Beyond the Palest Star
This is a great, thanks everyone for posting – I found some crackers that I’d missed along the way;
Here’s my fave’s for the year:
Dystopia – De Verboden Diepte I
Malconfort – Humanism
Cantique Lepreux – Le Bannisement
Cave Sermon – Devine Laughter
Aara – Eiger
Haematologist – Hollow
Berstug – Shadows Over Uncharted Paths
The Body and Disfig – Orchards Of A Futile Heaven
Dvne – Voidkind
Givre – Le Cloitre
Haunted plasma – I
Livlos – The Crescent King
Lomsk – Act I
Slug salt lava – Apathy Indefinite
Theophonos – Ashes In The Huron River
Nails – Every Bridge Burning
1. Lifeless Dark – Forces of Nature’s Transformation
2. Axefear – Prophetic End
3. Coffins – Sinister Oath
4. Doldrey – Only Death Is Eternal
5. Funeral Leech – The Illusion Of Time
6. Abhorration – Demonology
7. Vicious Blade – Relentless Force
8. Skeletal Remains – Fragments Of The Ageless
9. Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance
0. Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death
Buff… after some listenings and re-listenings, and checking almost all the Listmania 2024 recommendations published ’till now, finally I’ve finished the GARGANTUAN – BEST OF THE BEAST – 2024 TOP 10:
Honorable mentions:
– Grin – Hush
– High on Fire – Cometh the Storm
– Korpiklaani – Rankarumpu (Hell of a fun album!!!)
And the top 10:
10 – Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera
09 – Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
08 – Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
07 – 200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures
06 – Inquisition – Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
05 – Hauntologist – Hollow
04 – Chainsword – Born Triumphant
03 – Gaerea – Coma
02 – Black Pyramid – The Paths of Time are Vast
… And the winner is ….
01 – Saidan – Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity (One of the most entertaining Black Metal albums to listen to from start to finish, a breath of fresh air for the genre)
2024 was a hell of a ride… Let’s hope 2025 surprises us with the same musical quality, amidst the wars and bombs flying over our heads…
First my Honorable Mentions:
I restrain myself
Dødsferd – Wrath
Todesstoß – Das liebweh- decret
Knoll-as-spoken
My best 25 best of the year from what I heard so far.
25. Horna – Nyx – Hymnejä yölle
24. Obsidian Sun -Burning Obsidian Sun
23. Panzerchrist – All Witches Shall Burn
22. Dauþuz – Uranium
21. Primeordeal Serpent – Triumphant Son of Darkness
20. Malist – Of Scorched Earth
19. Cult of Erinyes – Metempsychosis
18. Aquilus – Bellum II
17. Drengskapur/Häxenzijrkel (s/t)
16. Black Lycanthropy – Restoring Satanic Honor and Purity
15. Gauntlet Ring – Promo tape ’24
14. Throne of Charlemagne – the great Victory
13. KPN: Dieppe : livre II
12. Gaerea- Coma
11. Lunar Spells- Sacraments of Necromantical Empires
10. Antzaat/Ronarg : Madness/Morgen
9. Cistvaen – At Light’s Demise
8. Hyver – Noirceur mystique d’autrefois
7. Svrm – Є тільки смерть, є тільки тьма
6. Alcest – Les chants de l’aurore
5. Geheimnisvoll / Ghast Misanthropia – Geheimnisvoll / Ghast Misanthropia
4. Spectral Wound – Song of Blood and Mire
3. Wallfahrer – In Dubio Pro Misanthropia
2. Aara- Eiger
1. Akhlys – house of the black geminus
Howl – Drought
Keres – Homo Homini Lupus
Thaw – Fading Backwards
Invunche – Atavismo
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Construct of Lethe – A Kindness Dealt in Venom
G.O.O.N. – God’s Only Option Now
Grave Heresy – Incineration Victory
Departure Chandelier – Satan Soldier of Fortune
Tzompantli – Beating the drums of Ancestral Force
Lowen – Do Not Go to War with the Demons of Mazandaran
Hasslig – Apex Predator
Dungeon Keeper – Chaos Sorcery Strike at Midnight
Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
Torena – No Control
Extinction AD “To the Detested”
Scumripper – For a Few Fixes More
Gaerea – Coma
Deus Mortem – Thanatos
Rotten Tomb – The Relief of Death
Werewolves – Die For Us
Darkspace -/ -2
Cult of Erinyes – Metempsychosis
LVME – Of Sinful Nature
Kalt Vindur – Magna Mater
Verberis – The Apophatic Wilderness
Ponte del Diavolo
Skeletal Remains – Fragments of the Ageless
Benighted – Ekbom
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
My favorite music for 2024
Cabinet – Hydrolysated Ordination
Black Curse – Burning In Celestial Poison
Sumac – The Healer
Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations
Aequorea – Departure
Árstíðir Lífsins – Aldrlok
Ærkenbrand – Hedenfarne Æventyr
Convulsing – Perdurance
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Geordie Greep – The New Sound
Thou – Umbilical
夢遊病者 – Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum
Buñuel – Mansuetude
Serpent Column – Tassel of Ares
Biesy – Golem
Brii – Camaradagem Póstuma
Ævangelist – Perdition Ekstasis Meta
Ævangelist – Fæthm Excursus (demo)
Deathless Void – The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin
Skin Tension – Prolegomenon
Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Withering Herd – Ron’s Angel House
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Goat – Goat
Glassing – From the Other Side of the Mirror
Pa Vesh En – Sesyi RytualistyČNyja
Hull of Light – Gilded Liminal Shrines
Harvestman – Triptych Part One +Two + Three
Farsot – Life Promised Death
Those Poor Bastards – Back to the Primitive
Verwoed – The Mother
Maudissez – Maudissez
Whoredom Rife – Den Vrede Makt
Cantique Lépreux – Le bannissement
Writhing Squares – Mythology
Maruja – Connla’s Well + The Vault
Uboa – Impossible Light
Black Pus – Terrestrial Seethings
Senyawa – Vajranala
Malconfort – Humanism
Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens
Insect Ark – Raw Blood Singing
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Hadit – Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon
Prisoner – PUTRID | OBSOLETE
Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Häxan Sabaoth
Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe
Secrets – Towards the Nightside
Receive – New Abrasions
Beryllium – Your Laughter is an Echo in my Head
The Body / Dis Fig – Orchards of a Futile Heaven
Altar of Gore – Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies
Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
Aquilus – Bellum II
Dark Citadel – Carcosa I +The Conqueror Larvae
Orgone – Chimera
Scarcity – The Promise of Rain
Vimur – The Timeless Everpresent
Badbadnotgood – Mid Spiral: Order/Chaos/Growth
Illyria – Wanderlust
The Jesus Lizard – Rack
Kee Avil – Spine
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Vemod – The Deepening
Rhùn – Conveyance in Death
SLIFT – ILION
Öxxö Xööx – +
Ὁπλίτης – Παραμαινομένη
Beryllium – Your Laughter Is An Echo In My Head
Departure Chandelier – Satan Soldier of Fortune
La Torture des ténèbres – V
Melvins – Tarantula Heart
Elegý – Graveflowers
The Vision Bleak – Weird Tales
Frail Body – Artificial Bouquet
Violent Magic Orchestra – Death Rave
Μνήμα – Καταραμένα Λείψανα
His Master’s Noise – His Master’s Noise
Oči Vlka – Oči Vlka
Aberration – Refracture
Vltimas – Epic
Acathexis – Immerse
1) ABHORRATION • Demonolatry
2) MITOCHONDRION • Vitriseptome
3) DEMON BITCH • Master of the Games
4) NAGASAKI SUNRISE • Distroyer
5) DECEASED… • Children of the Morgue
6) EXHUMATION • Master’s Personae
7) HELVETETS PORT • Warlords
8) Unaussprechlichen Kulten • Häxan Sabaoth
9) SABBAT • Sabbaticult
10) ORANSSI PAZUZU • Muuntautuja
11) ULCERATE • Cutting the Throat of God
12) ADORIOR • Bleed On My Teeth
13) CRYPT SERMON • The Stygian Rose
14) ADVERSARIAL • Solitude With the Eternal…
15) HELLBUTCHER • s/t
16) FREEWAYS • Dark Sky Sanctuary
17) SPECTRAL VOICE • Sparagmos
18) MAYHEMIC • Toba
19) SABÏRE • Jätt
20) MEFITIS • The Skorian//The Greyleer
21) TAROT • Glimpse of the Dawn
22) Blood Incantation • Absolute Elsewhere
23) ROPE SECT • Estrangement
24) SCALD • Ancient Doom Metal
25) BLACK CURSE • Burning in Celestial Poison