The most influential thing in my opinion of 2024 from the gray Argentine hell.

1.Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun

2.Sur Austru - Datura Străhiarelor

3.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

4.Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens

5.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

3.Linkin Park - Papercuts - The Single Collections

4.As The Sun Falls - Kaamos

5.Tangent Plane - The Judas Cell

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.In Vain - Solemn

3.Dvne - Voidkind

4.Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek

5.Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens

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Another long list, really long list…

1.Blazing Eternity - A Certain End Of Everything

2.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

3.Praying Mantis - Defiance

4.Kawir - Kydoimos

5.Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All......

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1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Bloodorn - Let The Fury Rise

3.Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things

4.Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals

5.Teramaze - Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace

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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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These albums have a rating of 8.5 or higher using the Metal Storm scale. In absolutely no particular order.

1.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

2.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

3.Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence

4.Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb

5.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

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List generated programmatically based on my last fm history so I don’t miss new albums from artists I’ve already listened to.

1.Svdestada - Candela

2.Emil Bulls - Love Will Fix It

3.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

4.Malist - Of Scorched Earth

5.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

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Top 50. 8+ish albums.

Only LPs no cover album or re-recordings.

EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Windswept & Persefone

Ranking and rating…

1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

5.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

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1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Hauntologist - Hollow

3.Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

4.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

5.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

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1.In Vain - Solemn

2.Gaerea - Coma

3.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

4.Borknagar - Fall

5.Octoploid - Beyond The Aeons

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The list will be updated every week until the end of the year...

1.Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is

2.Iotunn - Kinship

3.Wormwood - The Star

4.In Vain - Solemn

5.Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul

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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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1.Canaan - Ai Margini

2.Obsidian ( U.S.) - Fathomless ( progressive death metal / djent ) - 8

3.Darkcluster - Stellar Tomb - 7

4.Hauntologist - Hollow

5.Slift - Ilion

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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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