| The Objective Top 25 Albums of 2024 of All Time |
| 25 |  | Upon Stone
Dead Mother Moon
MELODIC DEATH METAL
Very derivative over the Gothenberg sound but still really fun.
Highlights:
Dead Mother Moon
Onyx Through the Heart |
| 24 |  | Blasfeme
Black Legion
BLACK METAL
Black Metal that riffs.
Highlights:
Purified By the High Flames of Hell
Cachtice 1611 |
| 23 |  | Dwarrowdelf
The Fallen Leaves
MELODIC BLACK METAL
Cool black metal based of Middle Earth.
Highlights:
The Journey to Dawn
To Dust, We All Return |
| 22 |  | Piah Mater
Under the Shadow of a Foreign Sun
PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL
Like old Opeth but with enough new ideas to make them more distinct than most Opeth clones.
Highlights:
As Islands Sink
Fallow Garden |
| 21 |  | Detach the Islands
A Highly Magnified History
MATHCORE
Fucking riffs!
Highlights:
Deleted
Spiraling Glitch |
| 20 |  | Missouri Executive Order 44
Salt Sermon
MATHCORE
Fucking riffs!
Highlights:
The Unbuckling
They Built a Bass Pro Shop In Our Zion |
| 19 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu
Muuntautuja
BLACK METAL
One of the most unique black metal albums that I've listened to. A very strange and mostly effective soundscape here. Ikikäärme is something else entirely.
Highlights:
Valotus
Ikikäärme |
| 18 |  | Domestic Terminal
Sanctuary
INDIE ROCK
This genre is not something I'm all too familiar with so I'll just say the choruses are great and the highlights are must listens. Some really cathartic stuff here.
Highlights:
Capo 0 Song
Golden |
| 17 |  | Wormwood
The Star
MELODIC BLACK METAL
I like melody and this them in spades. Last track is amazing.
Highlights:
Liminal
Ro |
| 16 |  | Hoplites
Παραμαινομένη
MATHCORE
Crazy album even if it can be a bit too much at points. Love the saxophone here. Saxophone can never be a bad thing.
Highlights:
Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεὰ παραμαινομένη ἐμοῦ...
Συμμιαινόμεναι Διονύσῳ Ἐλευθέριῳ |
| 15 |  | Frail Body
Artificial Bouquet
SCREAMO
Super intense album that rarely takes its foot off the pedal but still finds time for the odd cathartic melody.
Highlights:
Devotion
Runaway |
| 14 |  | Respire
Hiraeth
SCREAMO
Not really sure what genre this band fits into but its screamo mixed with classical, jazz and black metal making for a super unique listen.
Highlights:
Keening
Do the Birds Still Sing |
| 13 |  | Dodsrit
Nocturnal Will
BLACK METAL
Was super happy when I found out the guitarist from Totem Skin was in another band and this group did not disappoint. Great crusty black metal with super solid melodic guitar playing.
Highlights:
Irjala
Nocturnal Fire |
| 12 |  | Veilburner
The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
BLACK METAL
Some really crazy instrumentation here.
Highlights:
Tem Ohp Ab in Mysticism
The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom, Pt. 1 & 2 |
| 11 |  | The Flight of Sleipnir
Nature's Cadence
DOOM METAL
This sort of band typically isn't my thing but with the folky Agalloch-esque atmosphere, it is hard to not like it.
Highlights:
The Woodsman
Wanderer |
| 10 |  | Coma Control
Perennial
PROGRESSIVE METAL
Between the Buried and Me but with much better harsh vocals and really amazing neoclassical guitar playing. Album slaps hard.
Highlights:
Scour the Air
Don't Sleep or You'll Fall |
| 9 |  | Fergus McCreadie
Stream
JAZZ
Really nice piano jazz. Kinda reminds me of a Joe HIsaishi score but with a Scottish folk flare to the melodies.
Highlights:
Storm
The Crossing
Sun Pillars |
| 8 |  | Magdalena Bay
Imaginal Disk
SYNTH POP
Really catchy and well crafted pop music. Still prefer their debut just by a little bit though.
Highlights:
Image
Watching TV
Tunnel Vision |
| 7 |  | Pyrrhon
Exhaust
MATHCORE
Absolutely fucking riffs.
Highlights:
Not Going to Mars
The Greatest City On Earth |
| 6 |  | In Vain (NO)
Solemn
MELODIC DEATH METAL
Definitely a step up from their last album. Some really catchy melodies here.
Highlights:
Shadows Flap Their Black Wings
Where the Winds Meet |
| 5 |  | Caligula's Horse
Charcoal Grace
PROGRESSIVE METAL
One of my favourite bands so I'm kinda biased here but this did not disappoint. Lacks some of the highs of their previous work but the solos are still epic and Jim Grey's vocals are still unbelievably good.
Highlights:
The World Breathes With Me
Charcoal Grave IV: Give Me Hell
Sails |
| 4 |  | Goat
Goat
PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
Really unique sound and nothing I've really heard before.
Highlights:
One More Death
All Is One / Ouroboros |
| 3 |  | Geordie Greep
The New Sound
JAZZ FUSION
One of the weirdest and most fun releases of the year. Saw him live and it was incredible.
Highlights:
Terra
Holy, Holy
Walk Up |
| 2 |  | Saidan
Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
MELODIC BLACK METAL
Really enjoyed the inclusion of classic heavy metal into this bands sound. The solos here are some of the best of the whole year.
Highlights:
Sick Abducted Purity
Visual Kill |
| 1 |  | Bloody Tyrant
Heisen Monogatari
MELODIC DEATH METAL
Everything you want in melodeath is right here. Killer riffs, electrifying solos, folk instrumentation, infectious melodies and a breakdown in rhythm of a machine gun.
Highlights:
要塞
遙望正義 |
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