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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Another summer month has pass by and another list this time damn hard and 3 heavy doom albums in top 3.

1.Scald - Ancient Doom Metal

2.Spiral Grave - Ill Repute

3.Servants To The Tide - Where Time Will Come To Die

4.Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating

5.Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder

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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.A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire

2.Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun

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

4.Delving - All Paths Diverge

5.Kalandra - A Frame Of Mind

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1.Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb

2.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

3.Ministry - HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES

4.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

5.Farsot - Life Promised Death

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These albums have a rating of 8.5 or higher using the Metal Storm scale. In absolutely no particular order.

1.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

2.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

3.Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence

4.Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb

5.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

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Only 8+ shit…

1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating

3.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

4.Zeal & Ardor - Greif

5.Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All

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The list will be updated every week until the end of the year...

1.Wormwood - The Star

2.In Vain - Solemn

3.Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul

4.Borknagar - Fall

5.Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology

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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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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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