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Don’t think either of them would’ve fit well in another category. Both were more prog than death but both were on the extreme side of prog so don’t really fit elsewhere

20:43 - MadHatter

Ikr. And in terms of absolute numbers, we can probably guess the winner too. Not that I'm personally in one camp or another. It is what it is, I guess, those are really the best this year had to offer

20:29 - Viniercarp

Madhatter I was just about to say the same thing

20:27 - MadHatter

I'm probably not the first to mention this, but putting Kinship and Absolute Elsewhere in the same category is just brutal, ngl

17:42 - Boxcar Willy

They are masters of texture. Feels Like You was a banger too. I just think this has nudged it a bit. They're both near 10/10 records for me though. Same with Sway honestly.

17:40 - Alex F

Hmm, I'll give it another shot and see if my opinion has changed. Wasn't bad by any means, just not up to the standards of their previous releases imo.

17:37 - Boxcar Willy

Maybe recency bias, but I'm having a hard time thinking of another Shoegaze album that I would rate higher than it. Collect Sadness, Everyday Is The Same, Walk Through Space are all 11/10 tracks.

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36 - Anil Carrier
39 - Anthony Delvecchio
37 - Anton Dor
27 - Carlo Stolze
35 - Daniel Hernández Mateos
(1974-2012) - Dmitry Sachko
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31 - Iris Goessens
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Charts Top of 2024 Top 200

1.	The Halo Effect March Of The Unheard
2.	Harakiri For The Sky Scorched Earth
3.	The Great Old Ones Kadath
4.	Grave Digger Bone Collector
5.	Hazzerd The 3rd Dimension
6.	Patriarkh Пpopoк Илия
7.	Iotunn Kinship
8.	Besna Krásno
9.	Wardruna Birna
10.	Opeth The Last Will And Testament

1.	Megadeth Rust In Peace
2.	Judas Priest Painkiller
3.	Death Symbolic
4.	Opeth Blackwater Park
5.	Metallica Master Of Puppets
6.	Metallica Ride The Lightning
7.	Black Sabbath Paranoid
8.	Agalloch The Mantle
9.	Iron Maiden Powerslave
10.	Death The Sound Of Perseverance

1.	Iotunn Kinship
2.	Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
3.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
4.	Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek
5.	Wormwood The Star
6.	Opeth The Last Will And Testament
7.	Ulcerate Cutting The Throat Of God
8.	Wintersun Time II
9.	Gaerea Coma
10.	Panzerfaust The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion

	Band ( added )	Style	Country	Formed	Split	Fans
1	Potentiam 1997-	Avantgarde black metal	Iceland	1997	-	18
2	Taunusheim 1995-	Pagan black metal	Germany	1995	-	6
3	Curse 1995-	Black metal	Iceland	1995	-	3
4	Xerión 2001-	Celtic black metal	Spain	2001	-	3
5	Fir Bolg 2006-	Black metal	France	2006	-	2
6	Uhrilehto 1996-2006	Black metal	Finland	1996	2006	1
7	Formicarius 2014-2021	Black metal	United Kingdom	2014	2021	0