1.Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore

2.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

3.Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion

4.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

5.Vemod - The Deepening

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Another year, another list. Every 2024 release I hear at least once in entirety will be featured here. This is not a best-of nor a ranking so albums will be displayed in chronological order (newest at…

1.Fellowship - The Skies Above Eternity

2.Opeth - The Last Will And Testament

3.Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion

4.Crippled Black Phoenix - The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature

5.Monolithe - Black Hole District

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

3.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

4.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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Another year has come, and it is time for me to put up and rank the albums I like the most. I have been doing this silently for years with my own spread sheets so I'll give it a try using this format.

1.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung

2.Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul

3.Ryujin - Ryujin

4.Svdestada - Candela

5.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down

3.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

4.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

5.Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness

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1.Ryujin - Ryujin

2.Nyktophobia - To The Stars

3.Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno

4.Sovereign (NOR) - Altered Realities

5.Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star

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1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Swallow The Sun - Shining

5.Opeth - The Last Will And Testament

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1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

3.Civerous - Maze Envy

4.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

5.Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence

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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…

1.Suldusk - Anthesis

2.Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement

3.Chat Pile - Cool World

4.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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Hoping to not beat last year's total albums, but to still find the good stuff this year.

1.Vulgaris - Seat Of The Fire

2.Dvne - Voidkind

3.Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

4.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

5.Horseburner - Voice Of Storms

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1.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

2.Iotunn - Kinship

3.Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic

4.Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki

5.Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno

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Another year begins, same scenario, ranking ordered from favorite down to least favorite. The list is also edited daily so the ranking may be subject to change.

2023
2022
2021…

1.Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

2.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

3.Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire

4.Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion

5.Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno

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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…

1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Aquilus - Bellum II

3.Devin Townsend - PowerNerd

4.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

5.Illumishade - Another Side Of You

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1.Notochord - Aegis

2.Svdestada - Candela

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

5.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung

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It is not uncommon that album titles are chosen after the band`s name. However, song titles that include or are identical to the band`s name are relatively seldom found.
This is an alphabetical list…

1.(hed) p.e. - Broke

2.71TONMAN - 71TONMAN

3.Ænigmatum - ÆNIGMATUM

4.Æther Realm - One Chosen By The Gods

5.A Feast For Lampreys - Graveyard Abyss

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