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…

1.Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

2.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

3.Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire

4.Cistvaen - At Light's Demise

5.Inherits The Void - Scars Of Yesteryears

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Greetings my fellow metalheads, and happy new year to you all!

A new year, a new list. 2023 was one hell of a year concerning metal and rock records, and with upcoming releases scheduled so far 2024…

1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Moisson Livide - Sent Empèri Gascon

3.Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

4.Wormwood - The Star

5.Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke

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A year behind as I managed to not get around to a 2023 list (so far). With a new Ulcerate album out I couldn’t not do one this year. Caught them live for the second time in November 2023. Aiming to catch…

1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Replicant - Infinite Mortality

3.Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt

4.Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens

5.Dvne - Voidkind

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With 600-odd albums across Q1 and Q2, I've gotten through marginally less than last year so far, let's see if I keep that up…

1.Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke

2.A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire

3.Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun

4.Piah Mater - Under The Shadow Of A Foreign Sun

5.Delving - All Paths Diverge

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This is my 2024 list. Welcome!…

1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Grey Skies Fallen - Molded By Broken Hands

3.Balwezo Westijiz - Tower Of Famine

4.Theophonos - Ashes In The Huron River

5.Drowned (GER) - Procul His

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1.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

2.Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki

3.Bloody Valkyria - Kingdom In Fire

4.Einvigi - Monokroma

5.Arx Atrata - A Reckoning

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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.Grimgotts - The Time Of The Wolfrider

2.Invernoir - Aimin' For Oblivion

3.Marche Funèbre - After The Storm

4.Munarheim - Heimkehr

5.The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude

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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.Emil Bulls - Love Will Fix It

2.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

3.Inquisition - Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological Violence

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

5.Bokassa - All Out Of Dreams

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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.

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

Ranking and rating subject to constant change

Album…

1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

3.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

4.Rezn - Burden

5.Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals

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1.Dzhatinga - Forgotten And Lost

2.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

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

4.Arkona (POL) - Stella Pandora

5.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

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1.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

2.Civerous - Maze Envy

3.SIG:AR:TYR - Citadel Of Stars

4.Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt

5.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

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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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1.Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War Is Over

2.Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - The Blossoming

3.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

4.Chapel Perilous - The Tower Of Silence

5.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

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