1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Inquisition - Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological Violence

3.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

4.Ripped To Shreds - Sanshi

5.Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe

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Personal favorites from 2024 in no particular order (for now)…

1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Extinction A.D. - To The Detested

3.The Troops Of Doom - A Mass To The Grotesque

4.Nightrage - Remains Of A Dead World

5.Kerry King - From Hell I Rise

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My own top 230 essential metal albums sorted in alphabetical order by band name.

1.1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse

2.1349 - The Infernal Pathway

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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This is my list of newly released Albums that I listened/will listen to in 2024. I hope that I have the motivation to finally complete it this year and not stop halfway through.
The records are presented…

1.Insade - Human Obsession

2.Hauntologist - Hollow

3.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

4.Scanner - The Cosmic Race

5.Santacreu - Cançons D'amor, Dol I Enyorança

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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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Listed in alphabetical order
…

1.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

2.Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon

3.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

4.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

5.Amorphis - Silent Waters

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down

3.Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness

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

5.Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All

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1.Moisson Livide - Sent Empèri Gascon

2.Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans

3.Griffon - De Republica

4.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

5.Dance With The Dead - Dark Matter

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What I liked the most from 2024 albums, no EPs allowed. Now ranked…

1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

3.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

4.Hauntologist - Hollow

5.Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will

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1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

3.Flotsam And Jetsam - I Am The Weapon

4.Kerry King - From Hell I Rise

5.Nightwish - Yesterwynde

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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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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.

2025
2023
2022…

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

2.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

3.Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire

4.Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

5.Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge

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The concept of this list is not exceptionally well defined, but I'm circling a basic sound of lean, fast-paced metal with high-pitched vocals that tend to be on the harsher side. The album that inspired…

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection

3.Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot

4.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse

5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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