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

2.Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

3.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

4.Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire

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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It’s been a great year, several of my favorite artists released excellent albums and I’ve discovered a whole lot of new artists that have become favorites as well!

Here’s some of my favorite album covers…

1.Suldusk - Anthesis

2.Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement

3.Chat Pile - Cool World

4.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

5.Inter Arma - New Heaven

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1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Swallow The Sun - Shining

5.Opeth - The Last Will And Testament

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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.The Warning - Keep Me Fed

2.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

3.The Mourning - Hush

4.Kalandra - A Frame Of Mind

5.Devin Townsend - PowerNerd

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1.Sólstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl

2.Múr - M​ú​r

3.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

4.Iotunn - Kinship

5.Vola - Friend Of A Phantom

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If it's in the list, i like it!…

1.Thou - Umbilical

2.Thirdface - Ministerial Cafeteria

3.Midwife - No Depression in Heaven

4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja

5.Pharmakon - Maggot Mass

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1.Manticora - Mycelium

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Striker - Ultrapower

4.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

5.Borknagar - Fall

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My favorite albums of 2024. Amazing year for lo-fi bedroom music, demos and nostalgia, and strong comebackes (e.g. Judas Priest, The Cure, Melt-Banana - and post-rock, for some reason).

1.Broadcast - Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009

2.Mount Eerie - Night Palace

3.Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

4.Anastasia Coope - Darning Woman

5.Litku Klemetti - Funny Girl

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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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My Top 2024…

1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Gaerea - Coma

3.Opeth - The Last Will And Testament

4.Devin Townsend - PowerNerd

5.Undeath - More Insane

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