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Guib's Awards (Changes Yearly)


Year Currently Covered: 2024

Hey folks! Welcome to the greatly coveted Guib Awards (not really but it's fun for me in any case)! Instead of creating a list every year, I've decided to make a single one that will change yearly to feature my favorite albums of the past one. This is now the second edition of my very own awards, so let's talk about 2024!

I will only cover a maximum of 50 albums, all featured on MS and they will be placed in alphabetical order (of the band's name).

2024 was a once again a great year for metal and especially for death metal & more so my beloved Canadian scene (Devin Townsend, Anciients, Sentiment Dissolve, Apogean, Dissimulator, Panzerfaust, Traveler, Kittie, Korrosive, etc...). So many great releases saw the light of day and quite frankly, it was a blast spending what little free time I had listening to all that new stuff. There was a few letdowns "cough" Greif "cough" and some welcomed surprises like Pyrrhon shadow dropping the amazing Exhaust (and also all that talk surrounding Acid Bath's 2025 gig). All in all, a fun time and I wanna share my yearly metal perspective with y'all.

Hope you'll enjoy and maybe some of you will agree with a few of my picks.

Cheers to good music and keep having fun!

Note: Albums with a "√" are albums I voted for in one of the categories of the last MS awards.

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Guib's Top 3 Albums of the Year

1 - Sentiment Dissolve - The Orwellian Dream

2 - Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

3 - Castle Rat - Into The Realm

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Last Updated: February 1st, 2025

Created by: Guib | 03.03.2024



1. Aborted - Vault Of Horrors
Deathcore, Brutal Technical Death Metal
2. Achelous - Tower Of High Sorcery
Power, Heavy Metal / Best Power Metal √
3. Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision
Stoner, Doom Metal / Best Stoner Metal √
4. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
Progressive Metal / Best Extreme Prog √
5. Apogean - Cyberstrictive
Technical Death Metal
6. Black Tusk - The Way Forward
Hardcore, Sludge Metal
7. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Death Metal
8. Brat - Social Grace
Grindcore
9. Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
Deathgrind, Brutal Death Metal / Best Grindcore √
10. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
Alternative, Progressive Metal / Best Progressive Metal √
11. Castle Rat - Into The Realm
Doom Metal / Best Doom Metal √
12. Cognizance - Phantazein
Deathcore, Melodic Technical Death Metal
13. Critical Defiance - The Search Won't Fall
Thrash Metal
14. Dead Head - Shadow Soul
Thrash Metal
15. Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance
Technical Death, Technical Thrash Metal
16. Exist - Hijacking The Zeitgeist
Progressive, Technical Death Metal
17. Five The Hierophant - Apeiron
Alternative, Jazz, Post-Metal / Best Experimental √
18. Gigan - Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Progressive, Technical Death Metal
19. Hemotoxin - When Time Becomes Loss
Progressive, Technical Thrash Metal
20. High On Fire - Cometh The Storm
Stoner, Sludge Metal
21. In Vain - Solemn
Progressive Death Metal
22. Iotunn - Kinship
Progressive, Melodic Death Metal
23. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
Technical Death Metal
24. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Heavy Metal
25. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
Alternative, Post-Metal
26. Khirki - Κ​υ​κ​ε​ώ​ν​α​ς
Stoner, Hard Rock / Best Hard Rock √
27. Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion
Black, Dissonant Death Metal
28. Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin
Power, Heavy Metal / Best Heavy Metal √
29. Mastiff - Deprecipice
Hardcore, Sludge Metal
30. Messiah - Christus Hypercubus
Death, Thrash Metal / Best Thrash Metal √
31. Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
Thrash Metal
32. No Terror In The Bang - Heal
Alternative, Progressive Metal / Best Alternative √
33. Nyktophobia - To The Stars
Melodic Death Metal
34. O Zorn! - Vermillion Haze
Sludge, Doom Metal / Best Sludge Metal √
35. Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Black Metal, Post-Metal / Best Black Metal √
36. Pyrrhon - Exhaust
Dissonant, Technical Death Metal
37. Sentiment Dissolve - The Orwellian Dream
Progessive Death Metal / Best Death Metal √
38. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
Post Metal / Best Pagan? Whatever the fuck, should be Post Metal √
39. Smash 'Em Up - SmashBlaster
Melodic Thrash Metal
40. Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Death, Doom Metal
41. Spiritual Deception - Semitae Mentis
Symphonic, Technical Death Metal
42. Surgical Strike - 24/7 Hate
Speed, Thrash Metal
43. Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor
Sludge, Doom Metal
44. The Spirit - Songs Against Humanity
Black, Melodic Death Metal / Best Melodeath √
45. Traveler - Prequel To Madness
Speed, Heavy Metal
46. Ulterror - Transcendent Origins
Black, Technical Death Metal
47. Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Brutal, Technical Death Metal
48. Vulgaris - Seat Of The Fire
Black Thrash, Sludge Metal
49. Within The Ruins - Phenomena II
Progressive Metalcore, Melodic Death Metal / Best Deathcore √
50. Wraith - Fueled By Fear
Black Thrash Metal



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Comments: 10   Visited by: 17 users
03.03.2024 - 23:21
Guib
Thrash Talker
Fixed Bloodletter's link, Seems like it links to their Demo with the same name rather than the studio album.
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03.04.2024 - 16:32
Guib
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Slight update made to this one.

Added CauseNeffect - Validation Through Suffering which was not featured on MS until a couple days ago.
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15.04.2024 - 16:12
Guib
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Again I updated this one since Somnium De Lycoris was added to MS only a few days ago.

I added their album In The Failing Hours. Nice Melodic Tech-Death from Japan.
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20.01.2025 - 01:33
Guib
Thrash Talker
Whats up folks! Currently compiling my 2024 "Awards" which will represent my favourite 50 albums of the year.

A bit more than the first half is there, stay tuned for the rest hopefully by the end of this month, so soonish! Cheers all and keep sharing & enjoying the good music.
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20.01.2025 - 01:44
F3ynman
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Contributor
Written by Guib on 20.01.2025 at 01:33

Whats up folks! Currently compiling my 2024 "Awards" which will represent my favourite 50 albums of the year.

First half is there, stay tuned for the last half by the end of Feb 2025! Cheers all and keep sharing & enjoying the good music.

Nice selection so far. I like many of your thrash picks and O Zorn!. Job For A Cowboy and Vitriol were also cool, I think I only listened to those once though.
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20.01.2025 - 01:46
Guib
Thrash Talker
Written by F3ynman on 20.01.2025 at 01:44

Written by Guib on 20.01.2025 at 01:33

Whats up folks! Currently compiling my 2024 "Awards" which will represent my favourite 50 albums of the year.

First half is there, stay tuned for the last half by the end of Feb 2025! Cheers all and keep sharing & enjoying the good music.

Nice selection so far. I like many of your thrash picks and O Zorn!. Job For A Cowboy and Vitriol were also cool, I think I only listened to those once though.

Thanks! This year's O Zorn! was absolutely brilliant.
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20.01.2025 - 01:47
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Guib on 20.01.2025 at 01:46


Thanks! This year's O Zorn! was absolutely brilliant.

Indeed! Had you checked out my top 10 list for this year?
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20.01.2025 - 01:47
Guib
Thrash Talker
Written by F3ynman on 20.01.2025 at 01:47

Written by Guib on 20.01.2025 at 01:46


Thanks! This year's O Zorn! was absolutely brilliant.

Indeed! Had you checked out my top 10 list for this year?

Haven't but I sure will!
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22.01.2025 - 04:16
Guib
Thrash Talker
So there it is! I think I've made up my mind for 2024. Enjoy or disagree, to your heart's content. But don't forget to headbang
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01.02.2025 - 20:55
Guib
Thrash Talker
Updated with my MSA votes with the category (you can find them with the symbol.) And no I didn't vote in every category

Also changed my intro for 2024 and added my top 3 albums of the year in it. That's new for this year. Why those? Because I've played those 3 more than any other albums this year and that must mean something.
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