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| 2024: Top 20
A bit hastily compiled this year, as I was quite busy (I now have a PhD, so woo for me). Honourable mentions in the comments. | | 20 |  | Acasia
Acasia
3.5/5 (3.5)
Dungeon Synth | | 19 |  | Meat Beat Manifesto and Merzbow
Extinct
3.5/5 (3.6)
Power Noise
Best: 15:18 in "FLAKKA" = sick | | 18 |  | Anna Pest
You and Me at the End of the Fucking World
3.5/5 (3.6)
Deathcore
Best: "Search for Comfort in a City of Decline", "K.E.T.A.M.I.N.E." | | 17 |  | Ulver
Liminal Animals
3.5/5 (3.6)
Synthpop
Best: "Forgive Us", "Nocturne #1" | | 16 |  | Sprints
Letter to Self
3.5/5 (3.7)
Garage Punk, Post-Punk | | 15 | | Kazumoto Endo
At the Controls
3.5/5 (3.7)
Harsh Noise | | 14 |  | Nala Sinephro
Endlessness
3.5/5 (3.8)
Jazz Fusion, Progressive Electronic, Space Ambient | | 13 |  | Replicant
Infinite Mortality
3.5/5 (3.8)
Dissonant Death Metal
Best: "Acid Mirror", "Shrine to the Incomprehensible", "Reciprocal Abandonment", "Planet of Skin"
Heavy deathcore influence and quite legible production make this a highly accessible dissonant death metal release. Great vocals. Fun tracks, if protracted at times, and accomplished musicianship. Excellent album art. | | 12 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Wild God
3.5/5 (3.8)
Singer-Songwriter, Art Rock
Best: "Frogs", "Conversion", "O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)" (which gives me "Last Train to Bucketheadland" vibes, as strange a comparison as that is) | | 11 |  | Frail Body
Artificial Bouquet
3.5/5 (3.9)
Screamo, Post-Metal
Best: "Monolith", "No Resolution", "A Capsule in the Sediment" | | 10 |  | Melvins
Tarantula Heart
3.5/5 (3.9)
Sludge Metal, Experimental Rock | | 9 |  | Thou
Umbilical
4/5 (4.0)
Sludge Metal
Best: "Emotional Terrorist", "House of Ideas", "I Feel Nothing When You Cry", "The Promise"
Not a fan of the aimless opening track, but things pick up considerably after that. Exceedingly heavy, not the kind of thing I'm gonna listen to often, but gets the job done. | | 8 |  | Blood Incantation
Absolute Elsewhere
4/5 (4.1)
Death Metal, Progressive Metal | | 7 |  | Crippling Alcoholism
With Love From a Padded Room
4/5 (4.1)
Noise Rock, Gothic Rock
Best: "Red Looks Good on Him", "Ottessa", "Templeton" | | 6 |  | Paysage d'Hiver
Die Berge
4/5 (4.3)
Atmospheric Black Metal
Best: "Ausstieg" (15:38) | | 5 |  | Chat Pile
Cool World
4/5 (4.3)
Noise Rock, Sludge Metal
Best: "Frownland", "Masc" | | 4 |  | Pyrrhon
Exhaust
4/5 (4.4)
Dissonant Death Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Mathcore
Best: Tracks 1-4, "Stress Fractures" | | 3 |  | Ulcerate
Cutting the Throat of God
4.5/5 (4.5)
Dissonant Death Metal, Technical Death Metal
Best: "Cutting the Throat of God" | | 2 |  | Alora Crucible
Oak Lace Apparition
4.5/5 (4.5)
Chamber Music, Neoclassical New Age
Best: "Amidst Ewdendrift a Corridor", "Aestiform", "Unseen Ending in the Grass Above" | | 1 |  | State Faults
Children of the Moon
4.5/5 (4.5)
Screamo, Alternative Rock
Best: "Blood Moon", "Palo Santo", "Heat Death", "Transfiguration", "Divination", "Palm Reader"
Impeccably produced blend of screamo and alt rock with post-rock undertones. The kind of thing Sputnikmusic/RYM will eat up, though to my mind, it's slightly long and a bit style over substance (as exemplified by the overwrought album cover). But there's plenty to recommend, from strong melodies ("Palo Santo") to relatively proggy/technical ("Divination") and post-hardocre/punk aggression ("Palm Reader"). | |
TheMonster
12.16.24 | HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Uniform - American Standard
Electromancer - Enforcer
Melt-Banana - 3+5
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
The Cherry Point - Dawn of the Bloody Tapes | JohnnyoftheWell
12.16.24 | damn should i hit the new Endo | CottonSalad
12.16.24 | great list, gotta visit/revisit some of these | TheMonster
12.16.24 | You definitely should, Johnny. Really fun stuff.
And thanks, Cotton! | JohnnyoftheWell
12.16.24 | on it - is this a good old fashioned ear-scouring, or does it have any of his goofy pop interpolations? hyped either way | TheMonster
12.17.24 | More-or-less straightforward harsh noise, but in the spirit of, in his words, "wanting to create something a little more light-hearted and less serious"
(The closer is especially good) |
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