Yo,
This year I'm feeling generous (as well as lazy) so I'm throwing literally all of the death metal (new full-length releases) I've heard from 2024 into the list, in alphabetical order…

1.200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures

2.Abhoria - Depths

3.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

4.Andy Gillion - Exilium

5.Apep - Before Whom Evil Trembles

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1.Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera

3.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

4.Benighted - Ekbom

5.Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey

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1.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera

3.Gaerea - Coma

4.Opeth - The Last Will And Testament

5.Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All

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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.Replicant - Infinite Mortality

2.Dvne - Voidkind

3.Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions

4.Inter Arma - New Heaven

5.Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 1

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1.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

4.Manticora - Mycelium

5.Syncatto - Fiction

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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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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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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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Only what I like, not everything I listen to.
I am perfectly aware of sometimes putting aside quality albums but "les goûts et les couleurs " are not always rational.
Dominant genres: Black…

1.Narbeleth - A Pale Crown

2.Forlorat - Bury Me In Winter

3.Saevus Finis - Facilis Descensus Averno

4.Cariosus - Will, Until Beauty

5.Dzhatinga - Forgotten And Lost

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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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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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