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My Favorite Albums 2024


I doubt I’ll get to half the releases of last year due to changes in my work but I’ll find some good stuff

Here’s a playlist with my favorite songs, max 2 songs per album: Best Songs of 2024

Created by: Vellichor | 03.01.2024



1. Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore
9 (Atmospheric Rock, Post-Rock)
2. Suldusk - Anthesis
9 (Atmospheric Black, Neofolk, Post-Rock)
3. Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement
9 (Progressive Rock, Art Rock)
4. Chat Pile - Cool World
8.5 (Sludge, Noise Rock)
5. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
8.5 (Post-Metal)
6. Inter Arma - New Heaven
8.5 (Extreme Progressive)
7. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
8.5 (Post-Hardcore, Alternative, Post-Metal)
8. Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight
8.5 (Sludge, Noise)
9. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
8.5 (Progressive Death)
10. David Gilmour - Luck and Strange
8.5 (Atmoshperic Rock)
11. MGMT - Loss of Life
8 (Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock)
12. Sprints - Letter to Self
8 (Post-Punk)
13. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
8 (Progressive)
14. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
8 (Atmospheric Black)
15. Storefront Church - Ink & Oil
8 (Experimental Indie Rock)
16. Iress - Sleep Now, In Reverse
8 (Doom, Shoegaze)
17. Deadletter - Hysterical Strength
8 (Post-Punk, Art Punk, Jazz)
18. The Idoru - Undertow
8 (Progressive Hard Rock, Melodic Hardcore)
19. Guhts - Regeneration
8 (Atmospheric Sludge, Shoegaze, Post-Metal)
20. No Terror In The Bang - Heal
8 (Post-Hardcore)
21. Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart
8 (Avant-Garde, Gothic)
22. Okean Elzy - Мукачево
8 (Rock)
23. 40 Watt Sun - Little Weight
8 (Slowcore)
24. Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize
8 (Post-Metal, Blackened Progressive)
25. Beardfish - Songs For Beating Hearts
8 (Progressive Rock, Fusion)
26. Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire
8 (Black)
27. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow
8 (Art Punk, Indie Rock)
28. Homecoming - Those We Knew
8 (Grunge, Alternative, Progressive, Post-Metal)
29. Khirki - Κ​υ​κ​ε​ώ​ν​α​ς
8 (Stoner, Hard Rock)
30. Wormwood - The Star
8 (Melodic Black)
31. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
8 (Art Pop)
32. A Wake In Providence - I Write To You, My Darling Decay
8 (Symphonic Deathcore)
33. Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter
8 (Progressive Death, Post-Metal) 🇦🇺
34. Solar Blooms - Akhali Dzalis Dabadeba
8 (Progressive Rock)
35. Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin
8 (Heavy, Thrash)
36. Vola - Friend Of A Phantom
8 (Djent, Progressive)
37. Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - The Blossoming
8 (Atmospheric Black, Melodic Black)
38. Rendezvous Point - Dream Chaser
8 (Progressive)
39. Allie X - Girl With No Face
8 (Synth Pop, Art Pop)
40. SIG:AR:TYR - Citadel Of Stars
8 (Viking, Folk, Black)
41. Daevar - Amber Eyes
7.5 (Stoner Doom)
42. Respire - Hiraeth
7.5 (Post-Hardcore, Atmospheric Black, Screamo)
43. Botanist - Paleobotany
7.5 (Experimental Black)
44. Love Sex Machine - Trve
7.5 (Blackened Sludge)
45. Dvne - Voidkind
7.5 (Progressive, Sludge)
46. Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens
7.5 (Psychedelic Black)
47. Zetra - Zetra
7.5 (Industrial, Shoegaze)
48. Blind Girls - An Exit Exists
7.5 (Hardcore)
49. BleakHeart - Silver Pulse
7.5 (Doomgaze)
50. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
7.5 (Tech Death)
51. Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η
7.5 (Avant-Garde Black)
52. Muyubyosha - Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum
7.5 (Avant-Garde Black)
53. Hauntologist - Hollow
7.5 (Atmospheric Black, Post-Metal)
54. Iotunn - Kinship
7.5 (Progressive, Melodic Death)
55. And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna
7.5 (Post-Metal)
56. Guenna - Peak Of Jin'Arrah
7.5 (Stoner)
57. Rezn - Burden
7.5 (Stoner)
58. The Libertines - All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
7.5 (Indie Rock)
59. Spaceslug - Out Of Water
7.5 (Stoner, Sludge)
60. Aquilus - Bellum II
7.5 (Symphonic Black, Ambient Black, Atmospheric Black)
61. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
7.5 (Alrernative)
62. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
7.5 (Progressive Metal) 🇦🇺
63. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
7.5 (Symphonic Deathcore)
64. Mono - Oath
7.5 (Post-Rock)
65. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
7.5 (Pop)
66. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
7.5 (Ambient)
67. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
7.5 (Heavy)
68. Mountainscape - Iridescent
7.5 (Atmospheric Black, Post-Metal)
69. Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Jiná
7.5 (Acoustic Folk) 🇨🇿
70. Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology
7.5 (Symphonic Tech Deathcore)
71. Horndal - Head Hammer Man
7.5 (Sludge, Post-Hardcore)
72. Distances - Abstruse
7.5 (Sludge, Post-Metal, Post-Hardcore) 🇺🇸
73. Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
7.5 (Melodic Black, Melodic Death)
74. Glassing - From The Other Side Of The Mirror
7.5 (Post-Hardcore, Atmospheric Black)
75. Primaevus - An Eldritch Odyssey
7.5 (Dark Folk, Neofolk)
76. Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore
7.5 (Shoegaze, Atmospheric Black)
77. W3 4R3 NUM83R5 - Death Finds A Way
7.5 (Metalcore)
78. Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star
7.5 (Melodic Black)
79. God Is An Astronaut - Embers
7.5 (Post-Rock)
80. Aurora - What Happened to the Heart?
7.5 (Folk Pop, Art Pop)
81. Isaurian - The Pulsing Rush
7 (Stoner, Post-Metal)
82. The Other Sun - Daimon, Devil, Dawn
7 (Occult Rock, Gothic Country)
83. Witchorious - Witchorious
7 (Doom)
84. Notochord - Aegis
7 (Post-Metal, Progressive Death) 🇺🇸
85. Horseburner - Voice Of Storms
7 (Sludge, Stoner)
86. In Vain - Solemn
7 (Progressive Death)
87. Hippotraktor - Stasis
7 (Progressive, Post-Metal)
88. Shellac - To All Trains
7 (Post-Punk, Jazz, Noise)
89. The Jesus Lizard - Rack
7 (Post-Hardcore, Noise Rock)
90. Rope Sect - Estrangement
7 (Deathrock, Gothic Rock, Darkwave)
91. Austere - Beneath The Threshold
7 (Depressive Black)
92. Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
7 (Atmospheric Black)
93. Nightwish - Yesterwynde
7 (Symphonic Power)
94. Doodseskader - Year Two
7 (Atmospheric Sludge, Post-Metal)
95. Einvigi - Monokroma
7 (Post-Metal, Shoegaze)
96. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
7 (Indie Rock, Hardcore) 🇺🇸
97. Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
7 (Post-Rock)
98. Wheel - Charismatic Leaders
7 (Alternative, Progressive)
99. My Diligence - Death.Horses.Black.
7 (Stoner, Sludge)
100. Zedd - Telos
7 (EDM)
101. Hawkwind - Stories from Time and Space
7 (Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock, Progressive Rock)
102. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
7 (Experimental Rock)
103. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
7 (Art Rock)
104. Knoll - As Spoken
7 (Funeral Grind)
105. Šamane - Solstice
7 (Dark Folk, Ritual Ambient)
106. Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes
7 (Emo, Indie Rock)
107. Wintersun - Time II
7 (Extreme Power, Melodic Death)
108. Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light
7 (Melodic Death, Progressive Heavy)
109. The Body - Orchards Of A Futile Heaven [Collaboration]
7 (Death Industrial, Noise)
110. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
7 (Indie Rock, Indie Pop)
111. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
7 (Art Rock, Gothic Rock)
112. The Spirit - Songs Against Humanity
7 (Melodic Black, Melodic Death)
113. Dead Poet Society - Fission
7 (Alternative Rock)
114. Charlotte Wessels - The Obsession
7 (Alternative, Symphonic)
115. Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
7 (Screamo)
116. Ævangelist - Perdition Ekstasis Meta
7 (Industrial Death, Blackened Death)
117. Yaşru - Bilinmeze
7 (Folk, Black)
118. Frøkedal - Stay
7 (Folk Pop)
119. Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
7 (Instrumental Post-Metal) 🇬🇧
120. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstacy
7 (Art Pop) 🇬🇧
121. Borknagar - Fall
7 (Progressive Black)
122. Casey - How to Disappear
7 (Emo, Post-Hardcore)
123. Hyloxalus - Make Me The Heart Of The Black Hole
7 (Symphonic Power) 🇨🇦
124. High On Fire - Cometh The Storm
7 (Sludge)
125. Meth. - Shame
7 (Mathcore, Sludge)
126. Vitriol - Suffer & Become
7 (Technical Death, Brutal Death) 🇺🇸
127. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of The Last Human Being
7 (Avant-Garde)
128. Dool - The Shape Of Fluidity
7 (Psychedelic Rock)
129. Walg - IV
7 (Black)
130. Kulk - It Gets Worse
7 (Sludge, Noise)
131. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
7 (Alternative Folk)
132. Thou - Umbilical
7 (Sludge)
133. Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
7 (Mathcore)
134. Aluk Todolo - Lux
7 (Avant-Garde)
135. Apes - Penitence
7 (Grindcore)
136. Bronson Arm - Bronson Arm
7 (Post-Hardcore, Noise) 🇺🇸
137. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
7 (Psychedelic Black)
138. Magnum - Here Comes The Rain
7 (Progressive Rock) 🇬🇧
139. Kontact - Full Contact
7 (Heavy) 🇨🇦
140. Kaleida - In Arms
7 (Trip Hop)
141. Black Sky Giant - The Red Chariot
7 (Stoner Rock)
142. Roswell Deathsquad - Welcome Home
7 (Technical Deathcore) 🇺🇸
143. Arð - Untouched By Fire
7 (Doom, Neofolk)
144. Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 2
7 (Instrumental Progressive Metalcore)
145. Highly Suspect - As Above, So Below
7 (Alternative Rock)
146. Goragorja - Monokrom
7 (Post-Metal)
147. Ryujin - Ryujin
7 (Extreme Power) 🇯🇵
148. Eivør - Enn
7 (Art Pop)
149. Big Brave - A Chaos Of Flowers
7 (Drone, Ambient)
150. Hail Darkness - Death Divine
7 (Doom, Psychedelic Rock)
151. Keygen Church - Nel Nome Del Codice
7 (Symphonic Industrial)
152. The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - No Name Graves
6.5 (Deathcore) 🇺🇸
153. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
6.5 (Sad Pop)
154. London Grammar - The Greatest Love
6.5 (Indie Pop)
155. Manapart - Red
6.5 (Alternative)
156. The Neptune Power Federation - Goodnight My Children
6.5 (Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock)
157. Blues Pills - Birthday
6.5 (Psychedelic Blues Rock)
158. Abrams - Blue City
6.5 (Post-Metal)
159. Grin - Hush
6.5 (Stoner, Sludge) 🇩🇪
160. Slift - Ilion
6.5 (Heavy Psych) 🇫🇷
161. Fange - Perdition
6.5 (Industrial) 🇫🇷
162. Infected Rain - Time
6.5 (Nu, Metalcore)
163. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals
6.5 (Melodic Death, Gothenburg)
164. Sunnata - Chasing Shadows
6.5 (Stoner, Psychedelic Rock)
165. Foster the People - Paradise State of Mind
6.5 (Neo-Psychedelia)
166. Lucifer - Lucifer V
6.5 (Doom, Hard Rock)
167. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
6.5 (Alternative Rock)
168. Khruangbin - A La Sala
6.5 (Psychedelic Rock)
169. WyndRider - Revival
6.5 (Stoner, Doom)
170. Uboa - Impossible Light
6.5 (Death Industrial, Noise)
171. Oberst - Toil
6.5 (Post-Hardcore, Post-Metal)
172. Zombi - Direct Inject
6.5 (Synth Rock, Progressive Rock)
173. Deadyellow - What Was Left Of Them
6.5 (Blackgaze)
174. Dzhatinga - Forgotten And Lost
6.5 (Melodic Death) 🇧🇾
175. Wandering Oak - Resilience
6.5 (Folk, Progressive, Melodic Black) 🇺🇸
176. IDLES - Tangk
6.5 (Post-Punk, Noise)
177. The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This
6.5 (Alternative Rock) 🇬🇧
178. Simone Simons - Vermillion
6.5 (Symphonic)
179. Ihsahn - Ihsahn
6.5 (Extreme Progressive, Symphonic)
180. The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei
6.5 (Alternative Rock)
181. Anāʻanā - Aura Of Blood
6.5 (Black)
182. Mountain Realm - Frostfall
6.5 (Dungeon Synth)
183. Lethe - Alienation
6.5 (Experimental Rock, Trip Hop)
184. Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
6.5 (Alternative Hip Hop, Alternative Rock)
185. Midwife - No Depression in Heaven
6.5 (Shoegaze, Slowcore)
186. Mountain Realm - Shadowlorn
6.5 (Dungeon Synth, Ambient)
187. Lord Buffalo - Holus Bolus
6.5 (Americana)
188. Syk - eartHFlesh
6.5 (Extreme Progressive)
189. Cage the Elephant - Neon Pill
6.5 (Alternative Rock, Indie Rock)
190. Unleash The Archers - Phantoma
6.5 (Progressive Power)
191. Gvllow - Twin Flames
6.5 (Darkwave)
192. Sentries - Snow as a Metaphor for Death
6.5 (Post-Hardcore, Noise)
193. Mokoma - Myrsky
6.5 (Sludge, Groove)
194. Trevor Something - Archetypes
6.5 (New Wave, Darkwave) 🇺🇸
195. Cosmic Void - Subterranean Rivers
6 (Death-Doom, Funeral Doom) 🇩🇪
196. MooM - Plague Infested Urban Dump Of The Future
6 (Powerviolence, Noise) 🇮🇱
197. Zeal & Ardor - Greif
6 (Alternative Rock, Not-Quite-Black Metal)
198. Modern Day Machines - Resident
6 (Post-Hardcore)
199. Weston Super Maim - See You Tomorrow Baby
6 (Metalcore)
200. A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
6 (Noise, Shoegaze)
201. The Dredge - Torches
6 (Alternative Rock)
202. Svdestada - Candela
6 (Crust Punk, Post-Hardcore)
203. Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
6 (Post-Hardcore, Screamo, Post-Rock)
204. Vemod - The Deepening
6 (Blackgaze)
205. The Offspring - Supercharged
6 (Pop Punk)
206. Melvins - Tarantula Heart
6 (Sludge, Psychedelic Rock)
207. Romuvos - Spirits
6 (Folk, Pagan, Viking)
208. Bastille - & (“Ampersand”)
6 (Soft Rock)
209. Slope - Freak Dreams
6 (Funk, Nu)
210. Heave Blood And Die - Burnout Codes
6 (Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock) 🇳🇴
211. Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All….
6 (Black, Crust Punk)
212. Kala Azar - Kala Azar
6 (Stoner, Sludge) 🇨🇭
213. In Tears - Pale Under My Crown Of Flowers
6 (Blackgaze)
214. Mount Eerie - Night Palace
6 (Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Art Rock)
215. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
6 (Rap, Hip Hop)
216. Clan Of Xymox - Exodus
6 (Gothic Rock, Darkwave)
217. Aaru - S.W.N.P.L
6 (Djent, Progressive)
218. Kollapse - AR
6 (Sludge)
219. Darkcluster - Stellar Tomb
6 (Progressive Thrash) 🇨🇦
220. Gray State - Under The Wheels Of Progress
6 (Mathcore, Metalcore) 🇫🇮
221. Eye - Dark Light
6 (Doomgaze, Dream Pop, Trip Hop)
222. Spirit of the Beehive - You’ll Have to Lose Everything
6 (Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock)
223. The Last Of Lucy - Godform
6 (Technical Deathcore)
224. Future Palace - Distortion
6 (Post-Hardcore, Melodic Metalcore)
225. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup De Grâce
6 (Metalcore)
226. Coldplay - Moon Music
6 (Pop, Space Rock)
227. Cyborg Octopus - Bottom Feeder
5.5 (Metalcore)
228. Arcwelder - Continue
5.5 (Alternative Rock) 🇺🇸
229. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
5.5 (Hardcore)
230. Xiu Xiu - 13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
5.5 (Experimental Rock, Experimental Pop)
231. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - Until God Shows
5.5 Electronic Rock, Post-Hardcore)
232. Grand Magus - Sunraven
5.5 (Heavy)
233. Fucked Up - Another Day
5.5 (Indie Punk)
234. Being as an Ocean - Death Can Wait
5.5 (Screamo, Post-Hardcore) 🇺🇸
235. Ruusuriimu - Ruusuriimu
5.5 (Experimental Neofolk) 🇫🇮
236. Erra - Cure
5.5 (Metalcore)
237. Devin Townsend - PowerNerd
5.5 (Progressive)
238. Full Of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
5 (Grindcore, Hardcore Punk)
239. Alien Ant Farm - Mantras
5 (Alternative)
240. Leaves' Eyes - Myths Of Fate
5 (Symphonic)
241. New Skeletal Faces - Until The Night
5 (Deathrock, Post-Punk)
242. Sunspear - Sunspear
5 (Metalcore)
243. Intercourse - Egyptian Democracy
5 (Mathcore, Hardcore) 🇺🇸
244. Windark - Wildergrave
5 (Atmospheric Black)
245. The Pixies - The Night the Zombies Came
5 (Alternative Rock)
246. Kid Cudi - INSANO
5 (Rap, Hip-Hop)
247. The OddEven - Darkness
5 (Alternative, Nu) 🇺🇸
248. Saturnalia Temple - Paradigm Call
5 (Stoner, Doom)
249. Mushroomhead - Call The Devil
5 (Industrial, Nu)
250. Childish Gambino - Atavista
5 (R&B, Hip Hop)
251. Harvestman - Triptych: Part One
5 (Neofolk, Ambient, Electronic)
252. Zanias - Ecdysis
5 (Darkwave)
253. Clarion Void - Failure in Repetition
5 (Stoner, Sludge)
254. Kim Gordon - The Collective
4.5 (Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Rock)
255. Sophie - Sophie
4.5 (Electropop)
256. Green Day - Saviors
4.5 (Pop Punk)
257. Black Nail Cabaret - Chrysanthemum
4.5 (Darkwave) 🇭🇺
258. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine
4.5 (Pop)
259. Canaan - Ai Margini
4 (Darkwave)
260. Gravewürm - Poisonous Kingdom
4 (Death) 🇺🇸
261. SETYØURSAILS - Bad Blood
3.5 (Metalcore, Post-Hardcore)
262. Charli XCX - Brat
3 (Pop)
263. Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen
3 (Electronic Rock, Alternative Metal)
264. Melt-Banana - 3+5
3 (Mathcore, Noise)
265. —— EPs and Splits ——
266. Maruja - Connla’s Well
9.5 (Jazz, Post-Punk, Noise)
267. King Like Mom - The Cycle
8.5 (Post-Hardcore)
268. Starer - Waking
8 (Symphonic Black)
269. Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I
8 (Extreme Progressive)
270. Remina - Erebus
7.5 (Atmospheric Doom)
271. Ulver - Forgive Us
7.5 (Synthpop, Art Pop, Electronica)
272. She's in Parties - Puppet Show
7.5 (Darkwave, Alternative Pop)
273. Nox - Entity
7 (Darkwave, Industrial)
274. Sundowner - Asbestos Tiles
7 (Post-Hardcore, Noise) 🇨🇦
275. Omsorg - Echoes
7 (Post-Hardcore)
276. Modern Life Is War - Tribulation Worksongs
7 (Hardcore)
277. Chelsea Wolfe - Undone
6.5 (Darkwave)
278. Escuela Grind - DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL
3.5 (Grindcore, Hardcore)



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