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2024: A Rough Ranking


So it begins. 3rd year at MS, 5th year of devoted metal listening. Nothing particularly exciting coming up, but Eternal Storm looks promising, and any new Persefone is a good thing. It's early days after all.

Goal? I made it to 625 albums last year, with a pretty slack first 6 months. Aiming for 800.

Update: This list is officially discontinued, apart from albums that are good enough to warrant multiple listens, aka the top end. There are various reasons for this, but a lot of changes are happening in life and I cannot/do not want to give this much time to every release I can.

Created by: 24emd | 01.01.2024



1. Wintersun - Time II
9.5
2. Aquilus - Bellum II
9.0
3. Devin Townsend - PowerNerd
9.0
4. Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter
8.5
5. Illumishade - Another Side Of You
8.5
6. Visions Of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada
8.0
7. Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I
8.0
8. Solbrud - IIII
8.0
9. Lost In Grey - Odyssey Into The Grey
8.0
10. Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves
7.5
11. Far Beyond - The End Of My Road
7.5
12. Vemod - The Deepening
7.5
13. Dark Oath - Ages Of Man
7.5
14. Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall
7.5
15. Notochord - Aegis
7.5
16. Roswell Deathsquad - Welcome Home
7.0
17. A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire
18. Turbulence - Binary Dream
19. Opera Magna - Heroica
20. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
21. Einvigi - Monokroma
22. Hiraes - Dormant
23. DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors
24. Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium
25. Shadowpath - The Aeon Discordance
26. Cathubodua - Interbellum
27. The Moor - Ombra
28. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
29. Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
30. Lipz - Changing The Melody
31. Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light
32. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
33. Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung
34. Revolution Saints - Against The Winds
35. Vanir - Epitome
36. Griffon - De Republica
37. Phillip Glass - Phillip Glass Solo
38. Etoile Filante - Mare Tranquillitatis
39. North Sea Echoes - Really Good Terrible Things
40. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of The Last Human Being
41. Any Given Day - Limitless
42. Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul
43. Ryujin - Ryujin
44. Aureole - Alunarian Bellmaster
45. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
46. Lotus Thief / Forlesen - Lotus Thief / Forlesen
47. Olhava - Sacrifice
48. Romuvos - Spirits
49. Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
50. Profane Burial - My Plateau
51. Deadyellow - What Was Left Of Them
52. Volcandra - The Way Of Ancients
53. Ihsahn - Ihsahn
54. Borknagar - Fall
55. Metalite - Expedition One
56. Exit Eden - Femmes Fatales
57. Winterborn - Break Another Day
58. Aborted - Vault Of Horrors
59. Pestilential Shadows - Devil's Hammer
60. Dymytry - Five Angry Men
61. Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology
62. Throne Of Thorns - Converging Parallel Worlds
63. Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize
64. Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart
65. Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
66. In Vain (ESP) - Back To Nowhere
67. Nlsig - Performance
68. Asarhaddon - Besenken
69. Elettra Storm - Powerlords
70. Neurotech - Memory Eternal
71. Autumnblaze - Auf Zerfetzten Schwingen
72. Shallow Waters - All Colours Blur To One
73. Slift - Ilion
6.0
74. Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation
75. Vipassi - Lightless
76. Fragment Soul - Galois Paradox
77. Wandering Oak - Resilience
78. Hauntologist - Hollow
79. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
80. Convulsing - Perdurance
81. Torchia - Arcane Magicae
82. Hand Of Kalliach - Corryvreckan
83. Kiuas - Samooja: Pyhiinvaellus
84. KMFDM - LET GO
85. Alterium - Of War And Flames
86. Scanner - The Cosmic Race
87. Lords Of Black - Mechanics Of Predacity
88. Magnum - Here Comes The Rain
89. Among The Lights - Sphere Of Solitude
90. Malist - Of Scorched Earth
91. Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb
92. Darkspace - Dark Space -II
93. Metal De Facto - Land Of The Rising Sun Part I
94. Corpus Diavolis - Elixiria Ekstasis
95. Malsten - The Haunting Of Silvåkra Mill - Rites Of Passage
96. Striker - Ultrapower
97. Aaru - S.W.N.P.L
98. Firewind - Stand United
99. Ego Depths - Prognimous Ekk Solthi
100. Infected Rain - Time
101. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
102. Austrian Death Machine - Quad Brutal
103. Deathropy - Deathropy
104. Praise The Plague - Suffocating In The Current Of Time
105. Kanseil - Vaia
106. Svdestada - Candela
107. Exocrine - Legend
108. Motherwood - A Fading Elegy
109. Prognan - Sjene Nad Balkanom
110. Angmodnes - Rot Of The Soul
111. Kill The Thrill - Autophagie
112. Anāʻanā - Aura Of Blood
113. Heave Blood And Die - Burnout Codes
114. Kings Winter - The Other Side Of Fear
115. Nemesis (SRB) - Embrace Reality
116. Witchorious - Witchorious
117. The Grandmaster - Black Sun
118. Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project
119. Goragorja - Monokrom
120. Grin - Hush
121. At The Plates - Omnivore
122. Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
123. Abhoria - Depths
124. Darkest Hour - Perpetual / Terminal
125. Syncatto - Fiction
126. Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond
127. Farsot - Life Promised Death
128. Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η
129. Mean Messiah - In Infinite Illusion
130. Alluvial - Death Is But A Door
131. Lionheart (UK) - The Grace Of A Dragonfly
132. EXA - Left In Shards
133. Engulf - The Dying Planet Weeps
134. Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence
135. Vitriol - Suffer & Become
136. Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two
137. Canaan - Ai Margini
138. Domination Campaign - A Storm Of Steel
139. Mourning Dawn - The Foam Of Despair
140. Mick Mars - The Other Side Of Mars
141. Krvna - The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal
142. Manticora - Mycelium
143. Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal
144. Kalt Vindur - Magna Mater
145. Mega Colossus - Showdown
146. Myrath - Karma
147. In Tears - Pale Under My Crown Of Flowers
148. Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon
149. Dzhatinga - Forgotten And Lost
150. Merrimack - Of Grace And Gravity
151. Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans
152. Early Moods - A Sinner's Past
153. Grey Skies Fallen - Molded By Broken Hands
154. Cognizance - Phantazein
155. Horrorgraphy - A Knight's Tale
156. Durbin - Screaming Steel
157. Silent Stream Of Godless Energy - Jina
158. Isenordal - Requiem For Eir​ê​nê
159. Messiah - Christus Hypercubus
160. The Rods - Rattle The Cage
161. Rituals Of The Dead Hand - The Wretched And The Vile
162. Theatrum - Tableau Vivant
163. Defying - Wadera
164. Ravenstine - 2024
165. Gotus - Gotus
166. Saevus Finis - Facilis Descensus Averno
167. The Gems - Phoenix
168. The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - No Name Graves
169. Amaranthe - The Catalyst
170. The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow
171. Russell/Guns - Medusa
172. David Reece - Baptized By Fire
173. Narbeleth - A Pale Crown
174. Panzerchrist - All Witches Shall Burn
175. Blood Red Throne - Nonagon
176. Mägo De Oz - Alicia En El Metalverso
177. Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts
178. Toby Knapp - Transmission To Purgatory
179. Suldusk - Anthesis
180. InnerSphere - In The Shadows Of The Sun
181. The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic
182. Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Häxan Sabaoth
183. Jenner - Prove Them Wrong
184. Abyssius - Abyssius
185. Drowned (GER) - Procul His
186. Hulder - Verses In Oath
187. Good NightOwl - Belief
188. O Zorn! - Vermillion Haze
189. Northern Genocide - The Point Of No Return
190. Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory
191. Toxikull - Under The Southern Light
192. Static-X - Project Regeneration, Vol. 2
193. Cosmic Void - Subterranean Rivers
194. Pestilength - Solar Clorex
195. Sujin - Save Our Souls
196. Ribspreader - Reap Humanity
197. Petrification - Sever Sacred Light
198. Sovereign (NOR) - Altered Realities
5.0
199. Knoll - As Spoken
200. Hypoxia - Defiance
201. Bombarder - Sa Dna Groba
202. Fange - Perdition
203. Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
204. Lutharo - Chasing Euphoria
205. Morta Skuld - Creation Undone
206. Monovoth - Pleroma Mortem Est
207. Goat Major - Ritual
208. Iron Curtain - Savage Dawn
209. Dust Bolt - Sound And Fury
210. Vircolac - Veneration
211. Hadit - Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon
212. Carnal Savagery - Into The Abysmal Void
213. Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
214. Ponte Del Diavolo - Fire Blades From The Tomb
215. Toadliquor - Back In The Hole
216. Inquisition - Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological Violence
217. Kontact - Full Contact
218. Mokoma - Myrsky
219. The End Machine - The Quantum Phase
220. Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless
221. Steel Mammoth - Shadow Diamond
222. Stygian Crown - Funeral For A King
223. Slower - Slower
224. Atrophy - Asylum
225. Lucifer - Lucifer V
226. Surgical Strike - 24/7 Hate
227. Brat - Social Grace
228. Vincent Crowley - Anthology Of Horror
229. Master - Saints Dispelled
230. Hrizg - Damnatio Memoriae
231. Saturnalia Temple - Paradigm Call
232. VLTIMAS - EPIC
233. Savaged - Night Stealer
234. Stress Angel - Punished By Nemesis
235. Wade Black's Astronomica - The Awakening
236. Smoking Snakes - Danger Zone
237. Dipygus - Dipygus
238. Devastators - Conjurers Of Cruelty
239. Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer
240. Hands Of Goro - Hands Of Goro
241. Blaze Bayley - Circle Of Stone
242. Hyloxalus - Make Me The Heart Of The Black Hole
243. Slope - Freak Dreams
244. Exhorder - Defectum Omnium
245. Graywitch - Children Of Gods
246. Traveler - Prequel To Madness
247. CobraKill - Serpent's Kiss
248. F.K.Ü. - The Horror And The Metal
249. Boundless Chaos - Sinister Upheaval
250. Stuporous - Asylums Lament
251. Doodseskader - Year Two
252. Gravewürm - Poisonous Kingdom
253. Diabolic - Blastmasters Twisted Metal
254. Ruthless - The Fallen
255. Ministry - HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
256. Atoll - Inhuman Implants
257. Midnight - Hellish Expectations
258. Defect Designer - Chitin
259. Meth. - Shame
260. Houwitser - Sentinel Beast
261. Necrotum - Defleshed Exhumation
262. LLNN - The Horror / Sleep Paralysis Demon
263. MooM - Plague Infested Urban Dump Of The Future
4.0
264. Udåd - Udåd
265. Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
266. Molten - Malicide
267. Gonemage - Spell Piercings
268. Daemoniac - Visions Of The Nightside
269. Stages Of Decomposition - Raptures Of Psychopathy
270. Escuela Grind - DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL
271. Kollapse - AR
272. Celestial Sword - Nocturnal Divinity
3.0



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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02.01.2024 - 11:26
AndyMetalFreak
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I'm looking forward to seeing this list grow over the course of this year, hopefully there will be some surprising discoveries along the way. Good luck reaching your target
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06.01.2024 - 02:58
24emd
Theory Snob
Hit 10 albums, one quite good album thus far
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"I am too stupid to be human, and I lack common sense." - Proverbs 30:2
"Music? Well, it's just entertainment, folks!" - Devin Townsend

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29.01.2024 - 13:55
24emd
Theory Snob
94 albums in January alone... Time to touch grass
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"I am too stupid to be human, and I lack common sense." - Proverbs 30:2
"Music? Well, it's just entertainment, folks!" - Devin Townsend

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