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

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I haven't listened a lot of 2024 albums so far, here are a few I enjoyed so far.

1.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

2.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

3.For All We Know - By Design Or By Disaster

4.Turbulence - Binary Dream

5.North Sea Echoes - Really Good Terrible Things

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1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

3.Dvne - Voidkind

4.Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence

5.Neal Morse - No Hill For A Climber

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Top 20. Only 8+ shit…

1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

3.Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating

4.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

5.Zeal & Ardor - Greif

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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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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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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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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.Suldusk - Anthesis

2.Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement

3.Chat Pile - Cool World

4.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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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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