Been a while, hasn't it? Well, the true vets will remember the deal.

2024 favorite albums list, but, following in the vein of my previous year lists, focusing specifically on the lulling, hypnotizing, and otherwise ethereal jamz y'all know are my bread and butter. Inevitably going to be slanted toward doom, black metal, drone, and ambient - type stuff, but anything (metal or non) that sends me sufficiently into the Twilight realms is up for inclusion.

In order by release date. Full streams when available. Recs encouraged and appreciated.

1.Canaan - Ai Margini

2.Crizin da Z.O. - Accelero

3.Roscian - The First Disgrace

4.Grin - Hush

5.Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

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This is my list of newly released Albums that I listened/will listen to in 2024. I hope that I have the motivation to finally complete it this year and not stop halfway through.
The records are presented in order of release date and I will rate them when I´m certain that I formed an opinion on them, though the ratings might change from time to time.
I hope this list might once again be inspiring to other users maybe some people will find some new music to listen to.
Let´s see if I have the motivation to finally complete it this year and not stop halfway through.

1.Insade - Human Obsession

2.Hauntologist - Hollow

3.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

4.Scanner - The Cosmic Race

5.Santacreu - Cançons D'amor, Dol I Enyorança

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1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Spectral Voice - Sparagmos

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

5.Motherwood - A Fading Elegy

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1.Dream Theater - Octavarium

2.Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

3.Imminence - The Black

4.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

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I haven't listened a lot of 2024 albums so far, here are a few I enjoyed so far.

1.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

2.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

3.For All We Know - By Design Or By Disaster

4.Turbulence - Binary Dream

5.North Sea Echoes - Really Good Terrible Things

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1.Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion

2.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

3.Vemod - The Deepening

4.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

5.The Smile - Wall Of Eyes

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Another year, another list. Every 2024 release I hear at least once in entirety will be featured here. This is not a best-of nor a ranking so albums will be displayed in chronological order (newest at the top). (I had to restart this list because I accidentally deleted the last one lol).

1.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

2.Nightrage - Remains Of A Dead World

3.Rhapsody Of Fire - Challenge The Wind

4.The Troops Of Doom - A Mass To The Grotesque

5.Witherfall - Sounds Of The Forgotten

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1.Metal De Facto - Land Of The Rising Sun Part I

2.Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

3.Kiuas - Samooja: Pyhiinvaellus

4.Lucifer - Lucifer V

5.

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1.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

2.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

3.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

4.Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal

5.Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Häxan Sabaoth

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1.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

2.Borknagar - Fall

3.Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things

4.Hiraes - Dormant

5.Hauntologist - Hollow

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1.Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive

2.Dvne - Voidkind

3.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

4.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

5.Austere - Beneath The Threshold

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Top 50. 8+ish albums.

Only LPs.

EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Persefone, Ulver & Meanstreak

Ranking and rating subject to constant change

Album count: 765
Average rating: 6.29

1.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

2.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

3.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

4.The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales

5.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

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1.Hauntologist - Hollow

2.Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

3.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

4.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

5.Deicide - Banished By Sin

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1.High On Fire - Cometh The Storm

2.Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

3.Exocrine - Legend

4.Goat Major - Ritual

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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1.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

2.Chapel Perilous - The Tower Of Silence

3.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

4.Sacrificial Vein - Black Terror Genesis

5.Dvne - Voidkind

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