My favourite albums from 2024

1. 53

   Pro Xristou

   Rotting Christ

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Pro Xristou
   2. The Apostate
   3. Like Father, Like Son
   4. The Sixth Day ●
   5. La Lettera del Diavolo
   6. The Farewell
   7. Pix Lax Dax
   8. Pretty World, Pretty Dies
   9. Yggdrasil
   10. Saoirse

   Genres

   • Symphonic metal
   • Melodic black metal

2. 52

   Yesterwynde

   Nightwish

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Yesterwynde
   2. An Ocean of Strange Islands
   3. The Antikythera Mechanism
   4. The Day of ...
   5. Perfume of the Timeless
   6. Sway
   7. The Children of 'Ata
   8. Something Whispered Follow Me
   9. Spider Silk
   10. Hiraeth ●
   11. The Weave
   12. Lanternlight

   Genres

   • Symphonic metal
   • Progressive metal

3. 51

   Son of a Broken Man

   Fantastic Negrito

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. First to Betray Me
   2. Runaway from You
   3. I Hope Somebody's Loving You
   4. Skirty
   5. Goddamn Biscuit
   6. Living with Strangers
   7. Zollifer Files
   8. Devil in My Pocket
   9. California Loner
   10. My Only Friend Is You
   11. Crooked Road
   12. The Children Are Waiting
   13. This Little Light of Mine
   14. Son of a Broken Man ●

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Soul 'n' roll

4. 50

   Madra

   NewDad

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Angel
   2. Sickly Sweet ●
   3. Where I Go
   4. Change My Mind
   5. In My Head
   6. Nosebleed
   7. Let Go
   8. Dream of Me
   9. Nightmares
   10. White Ribbons
   11. Madra

   Genres

   • Shoegaze
   • Indie pop

5. 49

   Hex

   Crimson Veil

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Hex
   2. Ribbons
   3. Flinch
   4. Shift ●
   5. Illuminate
   6. Opulence
   7. Joyless
   8. Awake
   9. Task

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Alternative metal

6. 48

   The Art of Letting Go

   Myles Kennedy

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Art of Letting Go
   2. Say What You Will
   3. Mr. Downside ●
   4. Miss You When You're Gone
   5. Behind the Veil
   6. Saving Face
   7. Eternal Lullaby
   8. Nothing More to Gain
   9. Dead to Rights
   10. How the Story Ends

   Genres

   • Hard rock

7. 47

   Science, Not Fiction

   Orange Goblin

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Fire at the Centre of the Earth Is Mine
   2. (Not) Rocket Science
   3. Ascend the Negative
   4. False Hope Diet ●
   5. Cemetary Rats
   6. The Fury of a Patient Man
   7. Gemini (Twins of Evil)
   8. The Justice Knife
   9. End of Transmission

   Genres

   • Stoner metal

8. 46

   Fall

   Borknagar

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Summits
   2. Nordic Anthem
   3. Afar
   4. Moon ●
   5. Stars Ablaze
   6. Unraveling
   7. The Wild Lingers
   8. Northward

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Melodic black metal

9. 45

   Duck Face Killings

   Fulci

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Vile Butchery
   2. A Blade in the Dark
   3. Fucked with a Broken Bottle
   4. Morbid Lust ●
   5. Maniac Unleashed
   6. Knife
   7. Slashereality
   8. Human Scalp Collection
   9. Duck Face Killings
   10. Rotten Apple
   11. Sadistic Murder
   12. Lo Squartore
   13. Stabbed, Gutted, and Loved
   14. Il Miele del Diavolo

   Genres

   • Death metal
   • Horror synth

10. 44

    Prequel to Madness

    Traveler

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Mayday
    2. Take the Wheel
    3. Dark Skull
    4. The Law
    5. Rebels of Earth
    6. Heavy Hearts
    7. No Fate
    8. Vagrants of Time
    9. Prequel to Madness ●

    Genres

    • Speed metal
    • Power metal

11. 43

    Dark Matter

    Pearl Jam

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Scared of Fear
    2. React, Respond
    3. Wreckage
    4. Dark Matter
    5. Won't Tell
    6. Waiting for Stevie ●
    7. Running
    8. Something Special
    9. Got to Give
    10. Setting Sun

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Hard rock

12. 42

    Birthday

    Blues Pills

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Birthday
    2. Don't You Love It
    3. Bad Choices ●
    4. Top of the Sky
    5. Like a Drug
    6. Piggyback Ride
    7. Holding Me Back
    8. Somebody Better
    9. Shadows
    10. I Don't Wanna Get Back on That Horse Again
    11. What Has This Life Done to You

    Genres

    • Blues rock

13. 41

    The Underworld Awaits Us All

    Nile

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Stelae of Vultures
    2. Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes
    3. To Strike with Secret Fang
    4. Naqada II Enter the Golden Age
    5. The Pentagrammation of Nephren-Ka
    6. Overlords of the Black Earth
    7. Under the Curse of the One God ●
    8. Doctrine of Last Things
    9. True Gods of the Desert
    10. The Underworld Awaits Us All
    11. Lament for the Destruction of Time

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Brutal death-metal

14. 40

    Luck and Strange

    David Gilmour

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Black Cat
    2. Luck and Strange
    3. The Piper's Call ●
    4. A Single Spark
    5. Vita Brevis
    6. Between Two points
    7. Dark and Velvet Nights
    8. Sings
    9. Scattered
    10. Yes, I Have Ghosts

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Progressive rock

15. 39

    The Head & the Habit

    Greenleaf

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Breathe, Breathe out ●
    2. Avalanche
    3. Different Horses
    4. A Wolf in My Mind
    5. That Obsidian Grin
    6. The Sirens Sound
    7. Oh Dandelion
    8. The Tricking Tree
    9. An Alabastine Smile

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Heavy psych

16. 38

    Shining

    Swallow the Sun

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Innocence Was Long Forgotten
    2. What I Have Become
    3. MelanCholy
    4. Under the Moon & the Sun ●
    5. Kold
    6. November Dust
    7. Velvet Chains
    8. Tonight Pain Believes
    9. Charcoal Sky
    10. Shining

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Gothic metal

17. 37

    Keep Me Fed

    The Warning

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Six Feet Deep
    2. S!CK ●
    3. Apologize
    4. Qué más quieres
    5. MORE
    6. Escapism
    7. Satisfed
    8. Burnout
    9. Sharks
    10. Hell You Call a Dream
    11. Consume
    12. Automatic Sun

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Alternative rock

18. 36

    Kinship

    Iotunn

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Kinship Elegiac
    2. Mistland
    3. Twilight
    4. I Feel the Night
    5. The Coming End
    6. Iridescent Way
    7. Earth to Sky
    8. The Anguished Ethereal ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

19. 35

    Your Blood

    Bombus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Killer
    2. The One
    3. No Rules
    4. Take You Down
    5. Your Blood
    6. The Beast
    7. Leave and Let Die ●
    8. Carmina
    9. Lo and Behold
    10. Alone

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Heavy metal

20. 34

    The Mother

    Verwoed

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. A Prayer of Blood and Fire
    2. The Mother
    3. Seven Trumpets
    4. The Child ●
    5. The Madman's Dance
    6. A Choir of Null and Void
    7. Death in a Rosary

    Genres

    • Black metal
    • Post-metal

21. 33

    Memoria viva

    White Stones

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Memoria vida
    2. Humanoides
    3. D-Generación
    4. Zamba de Orun
    5. La ira
    6. Somos
    7. Grito al silencio ●
    8. Vencedores vencidos
    9. Yemayá

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

22. 32

    Melodies of Atonement

    Leprous

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Silently Walking Alone
    2. Atonement
    3. My Specter
    4. I Hear the Sirens
    5. Like a Sunken Ship ●
    6. Limbo
    7. Faceless
    8. Starlight
    9. Self-Satisfied Lullaby
    10. Unfree My Soul

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Progressive metal
    • Art rock

23. 31

    Direct Inject

    Zombi

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Direct Inject
    2. So Mote It Be
    3. Bodies in the Flotsam
    4. Kamichi & Sandy
    5. Sessuale II
    6. Improvise Adapt Overcome ●
    7. The Post-Atomic Horror
    8. Insurmountable Odds
    9. Sassuale I

    Genres

    • Space rock
    • Progressive rock
    • Electronica

24. 30

    Beyond the Reach of the Sun

    Anciients

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Forbidden Sanctuary
    2. Despoiled
    3. Is It Your God
    4. Melt the Crown
    5. Cloak of the Vast and Black
    6. Celestial Tyrant
    7. Beyond Our Minds ●
    8. The Torch
    9. Candescence
    10. In the Absence of Wisdom

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Atmospheric sludge metal

25. 29

    All Parts Diverge

    delving

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Sentinel
    2. Omnipresence
    3. Chain of Mind
    4. New Meridian ●
    5. Zodiak
    6. The Ascetic
    7. Vanish with Grace

    Genres

    • Post-rock
    • Progressive rock

26. 28

    Sunraven

    Grand Magus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Skybound ●
    2. The Wheel of Pain
    3. Sunraven
    4. Winter Storms
    5. The Black Lake
    6. Hour of the Wolf
    7. Grendel
    8. To Heorot
    9. The End Belongs to You

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

27. 27

    Lovecop

    Royal Republic

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Into My House
    2. My House ●
    3. Lovecop
    4. Wow! Wow! Wow!
    5. Freakshow
    6. Lazerlove
    7. Boots
    8. Love Somebody
    9. Ain't Got Time
    10. Electra
    11. Sha-La-La Lady

    Genres

    • Glam rock
    • Power pop

28. 26

    From the Other Side of the Mirror

    Glassing

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Anything You Want
    2. Nothing Touches You
    3. Defacer ●
    4. Sallow
    5. Nominal Will
    6. Ritualist
    7. As My Heart Rots
    8. Circle Down
    9. The Kestrel Goes
    10. Wake

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Blackgaze

29. 25

    Coming up to Consciousness

    Pure Reason Revolution

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Prelude: Coming up to Consciousness
    2. Dig Till You Die
    3. Interlude 1
    4. Betrayal ●
    5. The Gallows
    6. Interlude 2
    7. Useless Animal
    8. Interlude 3
    9. Worship
    10. Interlude 4
    11. Bend the Earth
    12. Lifeless Creature
    13. Interlude 5
    14. As We Disappear

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Art rock

30. 24

    Facing the End

    Apocryphal

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Smells Like the End of the World
    2. All Is Empty ●
    3. He Forgot You
    4. It Wasn't So Complicated
    5. Plague Doctor
    6. My Hero Inside
    7. Just Behind
    8. Swallow My Lies
    9. Taste My Hate
    10. Stella
    11. From Depths

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

31. 23

    Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night

    Night Verses

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. 8 Gates of Pleasure
    2. Arrival ●
    3. Rose Wire
    4. Karma Wheel
    5. Love in a Liminal Space
    6. Bound to You
    7. Séance
    8. Plague Dancer
    9. Åska
    10. Glitching Prisms
    11. Desire to Feel Nothing
    12. Crystal X
    13. Slow Dose
    14. Phoenix V Invocation

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Math rock

32. 22

    Les Chants de l'Aurore

    Alcest

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Komorebi
    2. L'Envol
    3. Améthyste ●
    4. Flamme Jumelle
    5. Réminiscence
    6. L'Enfant de la Lune
    7. L'Adieu

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Blackgaze

33. 21

    Mind Burns Alive

    Pallbearer

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Where the Light Fades ●
    2. Mind Burns Alive
    3. Signals
    4. Endless Place
    5. Daybreak
    6. With Disease

    Genres

    • Doom metal

34. 20

    Muuntautuja

    Oranssi Pazuzu

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bioalkemisti
    2. Muuntautuja ●
    3. Voitelu
    4. Hautautuuli
    5. •
    6. Valotus
    7. Ikikäärme
    8. Vierivä usva

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Industrial metal

35. 19

    Invincible Shield

    Judas Priest

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Panic Attack
    2. The Serpent and the King
    3. Invincible Shield
    4. Devil in Disguise
    5. Gates of Hell
    6. Crown of Horns
    7. As God Is My Witness
    8. Trial by Fire ●
    9. Escape from Reality
    10. Sons of Thunder
    11. Giants in the Sky

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

36. 18

    Nocturnal Will

    Dödsrit

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Irjala ●
    2. Nocturnal Fire
    3. Ember and Ash
    4. Utmed Gyllbergens Stig
    5. As Death Comes Reaping
    6. Celestial Will

    Genres

    • Melodic black metal

37. 17

    Cometh the Storm

    High on Fire

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Lambsbread
    2. Burning Down ●
    3. Trismegistus
    4. Cometh the Storm
    5. Karanlık Yol
    6. Sol's Golden Curse
    7. The Beating
    8. Tough Guy
    9. Lightning Beard
    10. Hunting Shadows
    11. Darker Fleece

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Sludge metal

38. 16

    Ihsahn

    Ihsahn

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Cervis Venator
    2. The Promethean Spark
    3. Pilgrimage to Oblivion
    4. Twice Born
    5. A Taste of the Ambrosia
    6. Anima Extraneae
    7. Blood Trails to Love
    8. Hubris and Blue Devils
    9. The Distance Between Us ●
    10. At the Heart of All Things Broken
    11. Sonata Profana

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Avant-garde metal

39. 15

    The Dry Land

    Huntsmen

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. This, Our Gospel ●
    2. Cruelly Dawns
    3. Lean Times
    4. In Time, All Things
    5. Rain
    6. The Herbsight

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Gothic Americana

40. 14

    Umbilical

    Thou

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Narcissist's Prayer
    2. Emotional Terrorist ●
    3. Lonely Vigil
    4. House of Ideas
    5. I Feel Nothing When You Cry
    6. Unbidden Guest
    7. I Return as Chained and Bound to You
    8. The Promise
    9. Panic Stricken, I Flee
    10. Siege Perilous

    Genres

    • Sludge metal
    • Doom metal

41. 13

    Wild God

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Song of the Lake
    2. Wild God ●
    3. Frogs
    4. Joy
    5. Final Rescue Attempt
    6. Conversion
    7. Cinnamon Horses
    8. Lond Dark Night
    9. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
    10. As the Waters Cover the Sea

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Baroque pop

42. 12

    One Deep River

    Mark Knopfler

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Two Pairs of Hands ●
    2. Ahead of the Game
    3. Smart Money
    4. Scavengers Yard
    5. Black Tie Jobs
    6. Tunnel 13
    7. Janine
    8. Watch Me Gone
    9. Sweeter Than the Rain
    10. Before My Train Comes
    11. This One's Not Going to End Well
    12. One Deep River

    Genres

    • Roots rock
    • Blues rock

43. 11

    Dreaming the Strife for Love

    Bedsore

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Mierva's Obelisque
    2. Scars of Light
    3. A Colossus, an Elephant, A Winged Horse; the Dragon Rendezvous ●
    4. Realm of Eleuterillide
    5. Fanfare for a Heartfelt Love
    6. Fountain of Venus

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Jazz fusion

44. 10

    As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

    The Decemberists

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Burial Ground
    2. Oh No!
    3. The Reapers
    4. Long White Veil ●
    5. William Fitzwilliam
    6. Don't Go to the Woods
    7. The Black Maria
    8. All I Want Is You
    9. Born to the Morning
    10. America Made Me
    11. Tell Me What's on Your Mind
    12. Never Satisfied
    13. Joan in the Garden

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Progressive folk

45. 9

    I Want Blood

    Jerry Cantrell

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Villified ●
    2. Off the Rails
    3. Afterglow
    4. I Want Blood
    5. Echoes of Laughter
    6. Throw Me a Line
    7. Let It Lie
    8. Held Your Tongue
    9. It Comes

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Sludge metal

46. 8

    Die Urkatastrophe

    Kanonenfieber

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Grossmachtfantasie
    2. Menschenmühle
    3. Sturmtrupp
    4. Der Maulwurf ●
    5. Lviv zu Lemberg
    6. Waffenbrüder
    7. Gott mit der Kavallerie
    8. Panzerhenker
    9. Ritter der Lüfte
    10. Verdun
    11. Ausblutungsschlacht
    12. Als die Waffen kamen

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Melodic black metal

47. 7

    =1

    Deep Purple

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Show Me
    2. A Bit on the Side
    3. Sharp Shooter
    4. Portable Door ●
    5. Old-Fangled Thing
    6. If I Were You
    7. Pictures of You
    8. I'm Saying Nothing
    9. Lazy Sod
    10. Now You're Talkin'
    11. No Money to Burn
    12. I'll Catch You
    13. Bleeding Obvious

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Progressive rock

48. 6

    Liminal Animals

    Ulver

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ghost Entry
    2. A City in the Skies
    3. Forgive Us
    4. Nocturne #1
    5. Locusts
    6. Hollywood Babylon
    7. The Red Light
    8. Nocturne #2
    9. Helian (Trakl) ●

    Genres

    • Synth-pop
    • Art pop
    • Ambient

49. 5

    XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek

    Thy Catafalque

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Piros kocsi, fekete éj ●
    2. Mindenevő
    3. Vasgyár
    4. Világnak világa
    5. Nyárfa, nyírfa
    6. Lydiához
    7. Vakond
    8. Ködkirály
    9. Aláhullás
    10. A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek
    11. Babylon

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Folk metal
    • Avant-garde metal

50. 4

    Friend of a Phantom

    VOLA

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Cannibal ●
    2. Break My Lying Tongue
    3. We Will not Disband
    4. Glass Mannequin
    5. Bleed out
    6. Paper Wolf
    7. I Don't Kow How We Got Here
    8. Hollow Kid
    9. Tray

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Alternative metal

51. 3

    Absolute Elsewhere

    Blood Incantation

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Stargate ●
    2. The Message

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Progressive metal

52. 2

    The Last Will and Testament

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. §1
    2. §2
    3. §3
    4. §4
    5. §5
    6. §6
    7. §7 ●
    8. A Story Never Told

    Genres

    • Progressive death metal

53. 1

    Múr

    Múr

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Eldhaf ●
    2. Múr
    3. Frelsari
    4. Vitrun
    5. Messa
    6. Heimsslit
    7. Holskefla

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Progressive death metal