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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 is going to become even more exciting!
I hope you will join me In my journey to expand my musical horizon.
This is my favorite metal releases of 2024.
This year I Will be adding country of origin into the album description. I Will also be adding EP’s this year.
Furthermore I will only be adding releases with a “7” rating and above.
I won’t consider a rating below “7” to be among my favorite releases as I won’t be bother listening to it.
UPDATE:
I have decided that this is gonna be a top 50 like last year. .
Anyways, I wish you a Heavy and banging new year, and please feel free to check out my list.
Have a great day!
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Aquilus - Bellum II
Rating: 8,7 - Country: Australia - Genre: Atmospheric / Symphonic Black Metal - Best songs: Into the Earth, Nigh To Her Gloam, My Frost-Laden Vale |
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Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
Rating: 8,6 - Country: Ukraine - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Transcendence, The Light of Dying Worlds, Vortex of the Worlds |
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Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Germany - Genre: Extreme Progressive Metal - Best songs: A Death Through No Loss, Selenophile, An Ode to the Conqueror |
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Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Rating: 8,5 - Country: England - Genre: Heavy Metal - Best songs: The Serpent And The King, Invincible Shield, Trial By Fire |
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Khirki - Κυκεώνας
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Greece - Genre: Stoner Metal / Hard Rock - Best songs: Featherless, Watchers of Enoch, Father Wind |
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In Vain - Solemn
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: To the Gallows, Beyond the Pale, Blood Makes the Grass Grow |
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Borknagar - Fall
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive / Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: Summits, Moon, Unraveling |
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My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding
Rating: 8,3 - Country: England - Genre: Gothic / Death Doom Metal - Best songs: Thornwyck Hymn, The Apocalyptist, Crushed Embers |
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Blazing Eternity - A Certain End Of Everything
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Atmospheric Doom Metal - Best songs: One Thousand Lights, No Bringer of Light, The Bells |
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Dvne - Voidkind
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Progressive Sludge / Stoner Metal - Best songs: Eleonora, Reliquary, Abode of the Perfect Soul |
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Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: Irjala, As Death Comes Reaping, Celestial Will |
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Hauntologist - Hollow
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Poland - Genre: Atmospheric Black / Post-metal - Best songs: Golem, Deathdreamer, Autotomy |
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Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Spain - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: A Dim Illusion, Last Refuge, The Void |
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Ihsahn - Ihsahn
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Norway - Genre: Symphonic / Extreme Progressive Metal - Best songs: Pilgrimage to Oblivion, A Taste of the Ambrosia, At the Heart of All Things Broken |
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Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Black / Death Metal - Best songs: Grace of the Past, Nordanvind, In the Twilight Grey |
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Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Post-metal - Best songs: Psalms to Shout at the Void, Lamentations by the Lochan, The Broken |
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Draugnim - Verum Malum
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Finland - Genre: Pagan Black Metal - Best songs: Salt the Earth, Lifescorn, Aeons |
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Solbrud - IIII
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Tåge, Når Solen Brydes, Sjæleskrig |
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Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Finland - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Away I Flow, The Wishing Tomb, A Mercy Fall |
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Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Brutal Death Metal - Best songs: Theresiana, Suffocation In Ash, Harbinger of Woe |
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Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Finland - Genre: Blackened Folk Metal - Best songs: Luopio ja Parras, Pedon Leikki, Uniemme Maa |
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High On Fire - Cometh The Storm
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Sludge / Stoner Metal - Best songs: Burning Down, Sol's Golden Curse, Hunting Shadows |
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The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Germany - Genre: Gothic Metal - Best songs: Chapter V: The Premature Burial, Chapter IX: Evil Dreams Run Deep, Chapter XI: Canticle |
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The Moor - Ombra
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Italy - Genre: Progressive Metal - Best songs: The Overlord Disease, Ombra, Withered |
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Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Technical Death Metal - Best songs: The Isolating of Learning Another, Survival’s Careening Inertia, He Will Fight Savagely |
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Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
Rating: 7,9 - Country: England - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: At Light's Demise, Time the Mournful, The Blind Observer |
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Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 1
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: Blink of the Moment, Sun and Moon, Vermillion Fog of War |
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Castle Rat - Into The Realm
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Doom Metal - Best songs: Dagger Dragger, Feed the Dream, Fresh Fur |
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Early Moods - A Sinner's Past
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Heavy / Doom Metal - Best songs: Blood Offerings, Walpurgis, Hell's Odyssey |
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Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Experimental Rock - Best songs: Tunnel Lights, The Liminal, Dusk |
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Benighted - Ekbom
Rating: 7,9 - Country: France - Genre: Brutal Deathgrind - Best songs: Morgue, Scapegoat, Flesh Against Flesh |
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Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans
Rating: 7,9 - Country: France - Genre: Heavy / Doom Metal - Best songs: If She Floats, Antecclesia, Harvester of Sinful Souls |
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Austere - Beneath The Threshold
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Australia - Genre: Depressive Black Metal - Best songs: The Sunset of Life, Faded Ghost, Cold Cerecloth |
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Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Technical Death Metal - Best songs: Beyond the Chemical Doorway, Grinding Wheels of Ophanim, The Agony Seeping Storm |
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Suldusk - Anthesis
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Australia - Genre: Neo-folk / Atmospheric post-black metal - Best songs: Verdalet, Anthesis, Mythical Creatures |
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Belore - Eastern Tales
Rating: 7,8 - Country: France - Genre: Epic / Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Sons of the Sun, Storm of an Ancient Age, Battle for Theralas |
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Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Greece - Genre: Thrash Metal - Best songs: When the Lions Die, Deathstalker (feat. Sakis Tolis, Fotis Benardo, Efthimis Karadimas), Virtues of Destruction |
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Slope - Freak Dreams
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Germany - Genre: Hardcore Punk / Funk Rock / Alternative Metal - Best songs: Chasing Highs, Nosedive, Freak Dreams |
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Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Venezuela / Chile - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: When True Loneliness Is Experienced, The One Who Blackens Everything, The Stench of a Dead Spirit |
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Romuvos - Spirits
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Lithuania / Germany - Genre: Epic Folk Metal - Best songs: Sun and the Morning Star, World Tree, Crescent Moon |
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Dool - The Shape Of Fluidity
Rating: 7,8 - Country: The Netherlands - Genre: Gothic Rock - Best songs: Self Dissect, The Shape of Fluidity, Evil In You |
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Midnight - Hellish Expectations
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Black n' Roll / Speed Metal - Best songs: Slave of the Blade, Nuclear Savior, F.O.A.L. |
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Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal
Rating: 7,8 - Country: France - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Dii Mauri, Swords of Dajjal, Numidian Knowledge |
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Hamferð - Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Faroe Islands - Genre: Doom Metal - Best songs: Ábær, Í Hamferð, Hvølja |
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Lucifer - Lucifer V
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Germany / Sweden - Genre: Doom Metal / Hard Rock - Best songs: At the Mortuary, Slow Dance In a Crypt, The Dead Don’t Speak |
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Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation
Rating: 7,7 - Country: England - Genre: Heavy Metal - Best songs: Madame Guillotine, Kubla Khan and the Merchant of Venice, Super Charger |
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Horndal - Head Hammer Man
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Sludge Metal / Post-hardcore - Best songs: Calling: Labor, Exiled, Blacklisted |
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The Absence - The Absence
Rating: 7,7 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: The Silent Eye, Planetary Mortuary, Fleshwalker |
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Rage - Afterlifelines
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Germany - Genre: Thrash / Symphonic Power Metal - Best songs: Under the Black Crown, Dead Man's Eyes, Curse the Night |
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Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Finland - Genre: Power Metal - Best songs: First In Line, Dark Empath, Angel Defiled |
Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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