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Greetings my fellow metalheads, and happy new year to you all!
A new year, a new list. 2023 was one hell of a year concerning metal and rock records, and with upcoming releases scheduled so far 2024 is going to become even more exciting!
I hope you will join me In my journey to expand my musical horizon.
This is my favorite metal releases of 2024.
This year I Will be adding country of origin into the album description. I Will also be considering adding EP’s this year.
Furthermore I will only be adding releases with a “7” rating and above.
I won’t consider a rating below “7” to be among my favorite releases as I won’t be bother listening to it.
UPDATE:
I have decided that this is gonna be a top 50 like last year. .
Anyways, I wish you a Heavy and banging new year, and please feel free to check out my list.
Have a great day!
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Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Rating: 8,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Atmospheric / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: The Stargate (Tablet I), The Message (Tablet I), The Message (Tablet III) |
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Iotunn - Kinship
Rating: 8,8 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Progressive / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Mistland, Twilight, Earth to Sky |
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Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
Rating: 8,7 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Progressive Metal - Best songs: §2, §4, §6 |
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Wintersun - Time II
Rating: 8,6 - Country: Finland - Genre: Symphonic Power / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: The Way of the Fire, One With the Shadows, Silver Leaves |
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Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek
Rating: 8,6 - Country: Hungary - Genre: Avant-garde Metal - Best songs: Mindenevő, Vasgyár, Aláhullá |
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Moisson Livide - Sent Empèri Gascon
Rating: 8,6 - Country: France - Genre: Melodic Black / Pagan Folk Metal - Best songs: La Serpent d’Itavit, Sent Empéri Gascon, Caçaire D'Eternitat |
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Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Germany - Genre: Extreme Progressive Metal - Best songs: A Death Through No Loss, Selenophile, An Ode to the Conqueror |
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Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Rating: 8,5 - Country: England - Genre: Heavy Metal - Best songs: The Serpent And The King, Invincible Shield, Trial By Fire |
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Wormwood - The Star
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Atmospheric / Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: Stjärnfall, Galactic Blood, Ro |
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Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin
Rating: 8,4 - Country: England - Genre: Heavy / Power Metal - Best songs: Northern Skyline, The Oracle, Light of a Black Sun |
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Khirki - Κυκεώνας
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Greece - Genre: Stoner Metal / Hard Rock - Best songs: Featherless, Watchers of Enoch, Father Wind |
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Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Germany - Genre: Black / Death Metal - Best songs: Sturmtrupp, Waffenbrüder, Panzerhenker |
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Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Ukraine - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Transcendence, The Light of Dying Worlds, Vortex of the Worlds |
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Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
Rating: 8,4 - Country: New Zealand - Genre: Technical Death Metal - Best songs: The Dawn is Hollow, Further Opening the Wounds, To See Death Just Once, Cutting the Throat of God |
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Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Canada - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: When Even the Ground Is Hostile, The Damascene Conversions, Occam’s Razor |
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Gaerea - Coma
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Portugal - Genre: Post-Black Metal - Best songs: Hope Shatters, World Ablaze, Unknown |
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Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
Rating: 8,3 - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Oblivion, A Chilling Aura, Flesh Habit |
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flight B741
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Australia - Genre: Blues Rock - Best songs: Field of Vision, Le Risque, Rats In the Sky |
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Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Greece - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: But Fear Not, Rites of Blood and Ice, Purgatory Revolution |
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Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: Irjala, As Death Comes Reaping, Celestial Will |
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Octoploid - Beyond The Aeons
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Finland - Genre: Progressive Death / Folk Metal - Best songs: Coast of the Drowned (feat. Tomi Koivusaari & Janitor Muurinen), The Hallowed Flame (feat. Mikko Kotamäki), A Dust of Vex (feat. Jón Aldará & Ile Laaksomaa) |
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Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Canada - Genre: Progressive Metal - Best songs: Despoiled, Celestial Tyrant, In the Absence of Wisdom |
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Aquilus - Bellum II
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Australia - Genre: Atmospheric / Symphonic Black Metal - Best songs: Into the Earth, Nigh To Her Gloam, My Frost-Laden Vale |
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Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Post-metal - Best songs: Psalms to Shout at the Void, Lamentations by the Lochan, The Broken Spectre |
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Hauntologist - Hollow
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Poland - Genre: Atmospheric Black / Post-Metal - Best songs: Ozymandian, Deathdreamer, Autonomy |
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In Vain - Solemn
Rating: 8,2- Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: To the Gallows, Beyond the Pale, Blood Makes the Grass Grow |
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Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Hungary - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Watershed, The Winding Path, Feathers In Ashes |
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Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Canada - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: At Wine-Dark Midnight In Mouldering Halls, Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal, A Coin Upon the Tongue |
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Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke
Rating: 8,2 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic Black / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: In Enmity, Howls from Beyond the Mist, A Reverent Stillness |
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SIG:AR:TYR - Citadel Of Stars
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Canada - Genre: Black / Folk Metal - Best songs: Beyond the Stars Unknown, I Sail On Eternal, From the Land of the North |
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Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
Rating: 8,2 - Country: England - Genre: Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal - Best songs: Like Brimming Fire, Upon this Shore, To the End of Tyranny |
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My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding
Rating: 8,1 - Country: England - Genre: Gothic / Death Doom Metal - Best songs: Thornwyck Hymn, The Apocalyptist, Crushed Embers |
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Laudare - Requiem
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Germany - Genre: Post-hardcore / Avant-garde Metal - Best songs: Dies Irae, Quid Sum Miser, Sanctus |
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Piah Mater - Under The Shadow Of A Foreign Sun
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Brazil - Genre: Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: As Islands Sink, Fallow Garden, In Fringes |
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Blazing Eternity - A Certain End Of Everything
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Atmospheric Doom Metal - Best songs: One Thousand Lights, No Bringer of Light, The Bells |
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Borknagar - Fall
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive / Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: Summits, Moon, Unraveling |
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Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Black / Death Metal - Best songs: Grace of the Past, Nordanvind, In the Twilight Grey |
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Solbrud - IIII
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Tåge, Når Solen Brydes, Sjæleskrig |
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Unto Others - Never, Neverland
Rating: 8,1 - Country: USA - Genre: Gothic Rock / Heavy Metal - Best songs: Butterfly, When the Kids Get Caught, Rageiki |
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The Crown - Crown Of Thorns
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Death / Thrash Metal - Best songs: Churchburner, God-King, The Agitator |
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Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Heavy / Doom Metal - Best songs: Glimmers In The Underworld, Scrying Orb, The Stygian Rose |
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Mörk Gryning - Fasornas Tid
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: The Seer, Black Angel, Det Svarta |
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Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 2
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: Sólfarið, Decaying God Child, Orb of Vanishing Light |
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Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Gothic Metal - Best songs: Tainted Skies, Saturn Coming Down, Time & the Vivid Ore |
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Hamferð - Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Faroe Islands - Genre: Doom Metal - Best songs: Ábær, Í Hamferð, Hvølja |
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Livløs - The Crescent King
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Orbit Weaver, Maelstrom, Harvest |
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Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Shatter the Visage, Apparition, As the Earth Fell Silent |
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Fulci - Duck Face Killings
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Italy - Genre: Brutal Death Metal - Best songs: Maniac Unleashed, Slashereality, Stabbed Gutted and Loved |
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Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Finland - Genre: Melodic Doom / Gothic Metal - Best songs: Away I Flow, A Mercy Fall, The Well of Failures |
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Beardfish - Songs For Beating Hearts
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Progressive Rock - Best songs: Ecotone, Out in the Open, In the Autumn |
Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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