Top Albums of 2024
Another year and another massive selection of releases, and once again - another anguish time of culling, or as some would say - not culling since there’s 150 albums here.
Of course, as usual - there’s also a great many releases I’ve missed, or just not heard, or accidentally left off the list when building the images so just went with it (Beardfish I’m talking about you, a most excellent return release).
Top 50
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Turbulence - Binary Dream
Airbag - The Century of the Self
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
High on Fire - Cometh The Storm
Mile Marker Zero - Coming of Age
Pure Reason Revolution - Coming Up To Consciousness
Conglaciation - Conglaciation
The Crown - Crown of Thorns
Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
My Diligence - Death.Horses.Black.
Hour of Penance - Devotion
Chapel of Disease - Echoes Of Light
Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation of The Long Lost Things
DGM - Endless
Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals
Saevus Finis - Facilis Descensus Averno
VOLA - Friend Of A Phantom
Sarcophagum - The Grand Arc of Madness
Kingcrow - Hopium
Officium Triste - Hortus Venenum
Ihsahn - Ihsahn
Replicant - Infinite Mortality
Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This
God Dethroned - The Judas Paradox
Myrath - Karma
Iotunn - Kinship
Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
Big Big Train - The Likes of Us
Mother Of Millions - Magna Mater
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Eclipse - Megalomanium II
Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding
Dödsit - Nocturnal Will
Doedsmaghird - Omniverse Consciousness
Transit Method - Othervoid
Cognizance - Phantazein
Tim Bowness - Powder Dry
Professor Caffeine & the Insecurities - Professor Caffeine & the Insecurities
Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Eternum
Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness
Thy Shining Curse - Theurgia
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
Paralydium - Universe Calls
Aborted - Vault Of Horrors
Sons of Arrakis - Volume II
Transport League - We Are Satans People
Carnosus - Wormtales
Top 51-100
Jupiter Cyclops - Age Of The UFOnaut
Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
Cowardice - Atavist
Atra Bilis - Aumicide
Kings of Mercia - Battle Scars
Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star
Nachtmystium - Blight Privilege
Matrass - Cathedrals
Cobranoid - Cobranoid
GAEREA - Coma
Föhn - Condescending
Summoner's Circle - Cult
The Other Sun - Daimon, Devil, Dawn
AEQUOREA - Departure
Sundrifter - An Earlier Time
A/Oratos - Ecclesia Gnostica
Orpheus Omega - Emberglow
The Hypothesis - Evolve
Kvaen - The Formless Fires
Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens
Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless
Underneath - From the Gut of Gaia
Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum
Funeral - Gospel of Bones
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
Ceremony of Silence - Hálios
horndal - Head Hammer Man
Void Witch - Horripilating Presence
Construct of Lethe - A Kindness Dealt In Venom
Sunburst - Manifesto
Hamferõ - Men Guös hond er sterk
Angerer - Multiple Tonality Disorder
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Ghost on Mars - Out of Time and Space
Advocacy - The Path Of Decoherence
Mother of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence
Sect - Plagues Upon Plagues
Devin Townsend - PowerNerd
Mantic - (ART)IFICE
Amiensus - Reclamation, Pt.
Nightrage - Remains Of A Dead World
Perpetua - Resurgence
Sacri Monti - Retrieval
VRSA - Saltwater Circadian
Februus - Surveillance Orgy
Sgile - Traverse The Bealach
Blynd - Unbeliever
Alkymist - UnnDerr
The Mantle - Violent Cosmic Fortune
Top 101-150
OLDD WVRMS - Abysséphale
Marche Funèbre - After the Storm
The Mountain King - Apostasyn
Cowardice - Atavist
Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Lhaäd - Beneath
Santacreu - Cançons d'Amor, Dol i Enyorança
Replacire - The Center That Cannot Hold
Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence
Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans
Kristoffer Gildenlöw - Empty
Castle - Evil Remains
Paganizer - Flesh Requiem
Ministry - HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Crippled Black Phoenix - Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2)
Pain - I Am
Funeral Leech - The Illusion Of Time
Cryptic Hatred - Internal Torment
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition)
HAUNCH - Let's Get The Surgery
Bottenhavet - Ljud i Tysta Rum
Mood Hoover - Love and Loss
Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project
Body Count - Merciless
Neal Morse - No Hill For A Climber
Soulbound - obsYdian
Limbonic Art - Opus Daemoniacal
Night Thieves - Polarity
Dissolve - Polymorphic Ways of Unconsciousness
Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph, Pt. Two
Anomalie - Riverchild
Spiritual Deception - Semitae Mentis
Swallow the Sun - Shining
AKU - Solipsism
Bloodcrown - Sound of flesh and bone
Witherfall - Sounds of the Forgotten
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
Hippotraktor - STASIS
Cryptodira - A Storm Called Progress (Live in Studio)
Grand Magus - Sunraven
Kiko Loureiro - Theory of Mind
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Thrailkill - Unperson
ARD - Untouched
0 Zorn! - Vermillion Haze
Fedaykin - Wetwork
Stryper - When We Were Kings
Cripoled Black Phoenix - The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature
WORMWITCH - Wormwitch
Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörú Almok Ezután Jönnek
Another year and another massive selection of releases, and once again - another anguish time of culling, or as some would say - not culling since there’s 150 albums here.
Of course, as usual - there’s also a great many releases I’ve missed, or just not heard, or accidentally left off the list when building the images so just went with it (Beardfish I’m talking about you, a most excellent return release).