1.Beardfish - Songs For Beating Hearts

2.Vola - Friend Of A Phantom

      View entire list ››

1.Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will

2.Iotunn - Kinship

3.Wormwood - The Star

4.Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun

5.Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness

      View entire list ››

1.Vola - Friend Of A Phantom

2.Ensiferum - Winter Storm

3.Turmion Kätilöt - Reset

4.Swallow The Sun - Shining

5.Grand Magus - Sunraven

      View entire list ››

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.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

4.Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun

5.Laudare - Requiem

      View entire list ››

1.Vola - Friend Of A Phantom

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is

4.Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

5.Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition

      View entire list ››

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.Beardfish - Songs For Beating Hearts

2.Brothers Of Metal - Fimbulvinter

3.Mitochondrion - Vitriseptome

4.My Enchantment - Illuminare

5.Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum

      View entire list ››

1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down

3.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

4.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

5.Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness

      View entire list ››

1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Hauntologist - Hollow

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

4.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

5.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

      View entire list ››

1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Swallow The Sun - Shining

5.In Vain - Solemn

      View entire list ››

I doubt I’ll get to half the releases of last year due to changes in my work but I’ll find some good stuff

Here’s a playlist with my favorite songs, max 2 songs per album: Best Songs of 2024…

1.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

2.Suldusk - Anthesis

3.Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement

4.Chat Pile - Cool World

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

      View entire list ››

1.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

2.Iotunn - Kinship

3.Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic

4.Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki

5.Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno

      View entire list ››

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
2021…

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

      View entire list ››

1.Notochord - Aegis

2.Svdestada - Candela

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

5.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung

      View entire list ››

1.Manticora - Mycelium

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Striker - Ultrapower

4.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

5.Borknagar - Fall

      View entire list ››