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.Aquilus - Bellum II

2.As The Sun Falls - Kaamos

3.Wheel - Charismatic Leaders

4.ACOD - Versets Noirs

5.Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 1

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Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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For the love of extreme, brutal, hellish sounds

1.Hauntologist - Hollow

2.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

3.Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath

4.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

5.Déhà - The Illusion Of Reach

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I haven't heard new music in a long time so 2024 is the year. These albums will be getting the full treatment of multiple listens over the course of the year, so ratings and placements are subject to change. Of course this is just my opinion

1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Austrian Death Machine - Quad Brutal

3.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

4.Amaranthe - The Catalyst

5.Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

3.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

4.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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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.Dvne - Voidkind

2.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

3.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

4.Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will

5.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

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Top 50. 8+ish albums.

Only LPs.

EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Persefone & 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.The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales

4.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

5.Motherwood - A Fading Elegy

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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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Subjective as fuck.

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.Convulsing - Perdurance

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1.Hulder - Verses In Oath

2.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

3.Royal Graves - AMEN

4.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

5.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

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1.Exocrine - Legend

2.Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance

3.Ribspreader - Reap Humanity

4.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

5.Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.At The Plates - Omnivore

2.Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

3.Black Sky Giant - Red Chariot

4.Full Of Hell - When No Birds Sang [Collaboration]

5.Hate - Solarflesh: A Gospel Of Radiant Divinity

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My Top 2024

1.Hannes Grossmann - Echoes Of Eternity

2.Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey

3.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

4.Hauntologist - Hollow

5.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

3.Hamferð - Men Gu ð s Hond Er Sterk

4.The Monolith Deathcult - The Demon Who Makes Trophies Of Men

5.Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal

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