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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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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My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1.Summoning - Oath Bound

2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.Bathory - Hammerheart

5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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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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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.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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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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Best 2024 albums. Original plan was to limit the list to a top 50, but if I can listen to 100+ interesting albums it'll be a top 100. Keep it metal!…

1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Iotunn - Kinship

3.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

4.Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore

5.Wormwood - The Star

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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

Spotify Playlist…

1.Dvne - Voidkind

2.Blazing Eternity - A Certain End Of Everything

3.Austere - Beneath The Threshold

4.Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down

5.Cobra The Impaler - Karma Collision

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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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1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

3.Dvne - Voidkind

4.Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence

5.Neal Morse - No Hill For A Climber

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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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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.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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