My favourite albums from 2024

1. 50

   Yesterwynde

   Nightwish

   

   

   Symphonic metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Yesterwynde
   2. An Ocean of Strange Islands
   3. The Antikythera Mechanism
   4. The Day of ...
   5. Perfume of the Timeless
   6. Sway
   7. The Children of 'Ata
   8. Something Whispered Follow Me
   9. Spider Silk
   10. Hiraeth ●
   11. The Weave
   12. Lanternlight

2. 49

   Son of a Broken Man

   Fantastic Negrito

   

   

   Blues rock | Soul 'n' roll

   Tracks:

   1. First to Betray Me
   2. Runaway from You
   3. I Hope Somebody's Loving You
   4. Skirty
   5. Goddamn Biscuit
   6. Living with Strangers
   7. Zollifer Files
   8. Devil in My Pocket
   9. California Loner
   10. My Only Friend Is You
   11. Crooked Road
   12. The Children Are Waiting
   13. This Little Light of Mine
   14. Son of a Broken Man ●

3. 48

   Madra

   NewDad

   

   

   Shoegaze | Indie pop

   Tracks:

   1. Angel
   2. Sickly Sweet ●
   3. Where I Go
   4. Change My Mind
   5. In My Head
   6. Nosebleed
   7. Let Go
   8. Dream of Me
   9. Nightmares
   10. White Ribbons
   11. Madra

4. 47

   Hex

   Crimson Veil

   

   

   Progressive metal | Alternative metal

   Tracks:

   1. Hex
   2. Ribbons
   3. Flinch
   4. Shift ●
   5. Illuminate
   6. Opulence
   7. Joyless
   8. Awake
   9. Task

5. 46

   The Art of Letting Go

   Myles Kennedy

   

   

   Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. The Art of Letting Go
   2. Say What You Will
   3. Mr. Downside ●
   4. Miss You When You're Gone
   5. Behind the Veil
   6. Saving Face
   7. Eternal Lullaby
   8. Nothing More to Gain
   9. Dead to Rights
   10. How the Story Ends

6. 45

   Science, Not Fiction

   Orange Goblin

   

   

   Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Fire at the Centre of the Earth Is Mine
   2. (Not) Rocket Science
   3. Ascend the Negative
   4. False Hope Diet ●
   5. Cemetary Rats
   6. The Fury of a Patient Man
   7. Gemini (Twins of Evil)
   8. The Justice Knife
   9. End of Transmission

7. 44

   Duck Face Killings

   Fulci

   

   

   Death metal | Horror synth

   Tracks:

   1. Vile Butchery
   2. A Blade in the Dark
   3. Fucked with a Broken Bottle
   4. Morbid Lust ●
   5. Maniac Unleashed
   6. Knife
   7. Slashereality
   8. Human Scalp Collection
   9. Duck Face Killings
   10. Rotten Apple
   11. Sadistic Murder
   12. Lo Squartore
   13. Stabbed, Gutted, and Loved
   14. Il Miele del Diavolo

8. 43

   Prequel to Madness

   Traveler

   

   

   Speed metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Mayday
   2. Take the Wheel
   3. Dark Skull
   4. The Law
   5. Rebels of Earth
   6. Heavy Hearts
   7. No Fate
   8. Vagrants of Time
   9. Prequel to Madness ●

9. 42

   Dark Matter

   Pearl Jam

   

   

   Alternative rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Scared of Fear
   2. React, Respond
   3. Wreckage
   4. Dark Matter
   5. Won't Tell
   6. Waiting for Stevie ●
   7. Running
   8. Something Special
   9. Got to Give
   10. Setting Sun

10. 41

    Birthday

    Blues Pills

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Birthday
    2. Don't You Love It
    3. Bad Choices ●
    4. Top of the Sky
    5. Like a Drug
    6. Piggyback Ride
    7. Holding Me Back
    8. Somebody Better
    9. Shadows
    10. I Don't Wanna Get Back on That Horse Again
    11. What Has This Life Done to You

11. 40

    The Underworld Awaits Us All

    Nile

    

    

    Technical death metal | Brutal death-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stelae of Vultures
    2. Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes
    3. To Strike with Secret Fang
    4. Naqada II Enter the Golden Age
    5. The Pentagrammation of Nephren-Ka
    6. Overlords of the Black Earth
    7. Under the Curse of the One God ●
    8. Doctrine of Last Things
    9. True Gods of the Desert
    10. The Underworld Awaits Us All
    11. Lament for the Destruction of Time

12. 39

    Luck and Strange

    David Gilmour

    

    

    Art rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Black Cat
    2. Luck and Strange
    3. The Piper's Call ●
    4. A Single Spark
    5. Vita Brevis
    6. Between Two points
    7. Dark and Velvet Nights
    8. Sings
    9. Scattered
    10. Yes, I Have Ghosts

13. 38

    The Head & the Habit

    Greenleaf

    

    

    Stoner rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Breathe, Breathe out ●
    2. Avalanche
    3. Different Horses
    4. A Wolf in My Mind
    5. That Obsidian Grin
    6. The Sirens Sound
    7. Oh Dandelion
    8. The Tricking Tree
    9. An Alabastine Smile

14. 37

    Shining

    Swallow the Sun

    

    

    Doom metal | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Innocence Was Long Forgotten
    2. What I Have Become
    3. MelanCholy
    4. Under the Moon & the Sun ●
    5. Kold
    6. November Dust
    7. Velvet Chains
    8. Tonight Pain Believes
    9. Charcoal Sky
    10. Shining

15. 36

    Keep Me Fed

    The Warning

    

    

    Hard rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Six Feet Deep
    2. S!CK ●
    3. Apologize
    4. Qué más quieres
    5. MORE
    6. Escapism
    7. Satisfed
    8. Burnout
    9. Sharks
    10. Hell You Call a Dream
    11. Consume
    12. Automatic Sun

16. 35

    Kinship

    Iotunn

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kinship Elegiac
    2. Mistland
    3. Twilight
    4. I Feel the Night
    5. The Coming End
    6. Iridescent Way
    7. Earth to Sky
    8. The Anguished Ethereal ●

17. 34

    Your Blood

    Bombus

    

    

    Stoner metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Killer
    2. The One
    3. No Rules
    4. Take You Down
    5. Your Blood
    6. The Beast
    7. Leave and Let Die ●
    8. Carmina
    9. Lo and Behold
    10. Alone

18. 33

    The Mother

    Verwoed

    

    

    Black metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. A Prayer of Blood and Fire
    2. The Mother
    3. Seven Trumpets
    4. The Child ●
    5. The Madman's Dance
    6. A Choir of Null and Void
    7. Death in a Rosary

19. 32

    Melodies of Atonement

    Leprous

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Silently Walking Alone
    2. Atonement
    3. My Specter
    4. I Hear the Sirens
    5. Like a Sunken Ship ●
    6. Limbo
    7. Faceless
    8. Starlight
    9. Self-Satisfied Lullaby
    10. Unfree My Soul

20. 31

    Direct Inject

    Zombi

    

    

    Space rock | Progressive rock | Electronica

    Tracks:

    1. Direct Inject
    2. So Mote It Be
    3. Bodies in the Flotsam
    4. Kamichi & Sandy
    5. Sessuale II
    6. Improvise Adapt Overcome ●
    7. The Post-Atomic Horror
    8. Insurmountable Odds
    9. Sassuale I

21. 30

    Beyond the Reach of the Sun

    Anciients

    

    

    Progressive metal | Atmospheric sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Forbidden Sanctuary
    2. Despoiled
    3. Is It Your God
    4. Melt the Crown
    5. Cloak of the Vast and Black
    6. Celestial Tyrant
    7. Beyond Our Minds ●
    8. The Torch
    9. Candescence
    10. In the Absence of Wisdom

22. 29

    All Parts Diverge

    delving

    

    

    Post-rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Sentinel
    2. Omnipresence
    3. Chain of Mind
    4. New Meridian ●
    5. Zodiak
    6. The Ascetic
    7. Vanish with Grace

23. 28

    Sunraven

    Grand Magus

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Skybound ●
    2. The Wheel of Pain
    3. Sunraven
    4. Winter Storms
    5. The Black Lake
    6. Hour of the Wolf
    7. Grendel
    8. To Heorot
    9. The End Belongs to You

24. 27

    Lovecop

    Royal Republic

    

    

    Glam rock | Power pop

    Tracks:

    1. Into My House
    2. My House ●
    3. Lovecop
    4. Wow! Wow! Wow!
    5. Freakshow
    6. Lazerlove
    7. Boots
    8. Love Somebody
    9. Ain't Got Time
    10. Electra
    11. Sha-La-La Lady

25. 26

    From the Other Side of the Mirror

    Glassing

    

    

    Post-metal | Blackgaze

    Tracks:

    1. Anything You Want
    2. Nothing Touches You
    3. Defacer ●
    4. Sallow
    5. Nominal Will
    6. Ritualist
    7. As My Heart Rots
    8. Circle Down
    9. The Kestrel Goes
    10. Wake

26. 25

    Coming up to Consciousness

    Pure Reason Revolution

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Prelude: Coming up to Consciousness
    2. Dig Till You Die
    3. Interlude 1
    4. Betrayal ●
    5. The Gallows
    6. Interlude 2
    7. Useless Animal
    8. Interlude 3
    9. Worship
    10. Interlude 4
    11. Bend the Earth
    12. Lifeless Creature
    13. Interlude 5
    14. As We Disappear

27. 24

    Facing the End

    Apocryphal

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Smells Like the End of the World
    2. All Is Empty ●
    3. He Forgot You
    4. It Wasn't So Complicated
    5. Plague Doctor
    6. My Hero Inside
    7. Just Behind
    8. Swallow My Lies
    9. Taste My Hate
    10. Stella
    11. From Depths

28. 23

    Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night

    Night Verses

    

    

    Progressive metal | Math rock

    Tracks:

    1. 8 Gates of Pleasure
    2. Arrival ●
    3. Rose Wire
    4. Karma Wheel
    5. Love in a Liminal Space
    6. Bound to You
    7. Séance
    8. Plague Dancer
    9. Åska
    10. Glitching Prisms
    11. Desire to Feel Nothing
    12. Crystal X
    13. Slow Dose
    14. Phoenix V Invocation

29. 22

    Les Chants de l'Aurore

    Alcest

    

    

    Post-metal | Blackgaze

    Tracks:

    1. Komorebi
    2. L'Envol
    3. Améthyste ●
    4. Flamme Jumelle
    5. Réminiscence
    6. L'Enfant de la Lune
    7. L'Adieu

30. 21

    Mind Burns Alive

    Pallbearer

    

    

    Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Where the Light Fades ●
    2. Mind Burns Alive
    3. Signals
    4. Endless Place
    5. Daybreak
    6. With Disease

31. 20

    Muuntautuja

    Oranssi Pazuzu

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bioalkemisti
    2. Muuntautuja ●
    3. Voitelu
    4. Hautautuuli
    5. •
    6. Valotus
    7. Ikikäärme
    8. Vierivä usva

32. 19

    Invincible Shield

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Panic Attack
    2. The Serpent and the King
    3. Invincible Shield
    4. Devil in Disguise
    5. Gates of Hell
    6. Crown of Horns
    7. As God Is My Witness
    8. Trial by Fire ●
    9. Escape from Reality
    10. Sons of Thunder
    11. Giants in the Sky

33. 18

    Nocturnal Will

    Dödsrit

    

    

    Melodic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Irjala ●
    2. Nocturnal Fire
    3. Ember and Ash
    4. Utmed Gyllbergens Stig
    5. As Death Comes Reaping
    6. Celestial Will

34. 17

    Cometh the Storm

    High on Fire

    

    

    Stoner metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Lambsbread
    2. Burning Down ●
    3. Trismegistus
    4. Cometh the Storm
    5. Karanlık Yol
    6. Sol's Golden Curse
    7. The Beating
    8. Tough Guy
    9. Lightning Beard
    10. Hunting Shadows
    11. Darker Fleece

35. 16

    Ihsahn

    Ihsahn

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Cervis Venator
    2. The Promethean Spark
    3. Pilgrimage to Oblivion
    4. Twice Born
    5. A Taste of the Ambrosia
    6. Anima Extraneae
    7. Blood Trails to Love
    8. Hubris and Blue Devils
    9. The Distance Between Us ●
    10. At the Heart of All Things Broken
    11. Sonata Profana

36. 15

    The Dry Land

    Huntsmen

    

    

    Post-metal | Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. This, Our Gospel ●
    2. Cruelly Dawns
    3. Lean Times
    4. In Time, All Things
    5. Rain
    6. The Herbsight

37. 14

    Umbilical

    Thou

    

    

    Sludge metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Narcissist's Prayer
    2. Emotional Terrorist ●
    3. Lonely Vigil
    4. House of Ideas
    5. I Feel Nothing When You Cry
    6. Unbidden Guest
    7. I Return as Chained and Bound to You
    8. The Promise
    9. Panic Stricken, I Flee
    10. Siege Perilous

38. 13

    Wild God

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Art rock | Baroque pop

    Tracks:

    1. Song of the Lake
    2. Wild God ●
    3. Frogs
    4. Joy
    5. Final Rescue Attempt
    6. Conversion
    7. Cinnamon Horses
    8. Lond Dark Night
    9. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
    10. As the Waters Cover the Sea

39. 12

    One Deep River

    Mark Knopfler

    

    

    Roots rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Two Pairs of Hands ●
    2. Ahead of the Game
    3. Smart Money
    4. Scavengers Yard
    5. Black Tie Jobs
    6. Tunnel 13
    7. Janine
    8. Watch Me Gone
    9. Sweeter Than the Rain
    10. Before My Train Comes
    11. This One's Not Going to End Well
    12. One Deep River

40. 11

    Dreaming the Strife for Love

    Bedsore

    

    

    Progressive metal | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Mierva's Obelisque
    2. Scars of Light
    3. A Colossus, an Elephant, A Winged Horse; the Dragon Rendezvous ●
    4. Realm of Eleuterillide
    5. Fanfare for a Heartfelt Love
    6. Fountain of Venus

41. 10

    As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Folk rock | Progressive folk

    Tracks:

    1. Burial Ground
    2. Oh No!
    3. The Reapers
    4. Long White Veil ●
    5. William Fitzwilliam
    6. Don't Go to the Woods
    7. The Black Maria
    8. All I Want Is You
    9. Born to the Morning
    10. America Made Me
    11. Tell Me What's on Your Mind
    12. Never Satisfied
    13. Joan in the Garden

42. 9

    I Want Blood

    Jerry Cantrell

    

    

    Alternative metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Villified ●
    2. Off the Rails
    3. Afterglow
    4. I Want Blood
    5. Echoes of Laughter
    6. Throw Me a Line
    7. Let It Lie
    8. Held Your Tongue
    9. It Comes

43. 8

    Die Urkatastrophe

    Kanonenfieber

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Melodic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Grossmachtfantasie
    2. Menschenmühle
    3. Sturmtrupp
    4. Der Maulwurf ●
    5. Lviv zu Lemberg
    6. Waffenbrüder
    7. Gott mit der Kavallerie
    8. Panzerhenker
    9. Ritter der Lüfte
    10. Verdun
    11. Ausblutungsschlacht
    12. Als die Waffen kamen

44. 7

    =1

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Show Me
    2. A Bit on the Side
    3. Sharp Shooter
    4. Portable Door ●
    5. Old-Fangled Thing
    6. If I Were You
    7. Pictures of You
    8. I'm Saying Nothing
    9. Lazy Sod
    10. Now You're Talkin'
    11. No Money to Burn
    12. I'll Catch You
    13. Bleeding Obvious

45. 6

    Liminal Animals

    Ulver

    

    

    Synth-pop | Art pop | Ambient

    Tracks:

    1. Ghost Entry
    2. A City in the Skies
    3. Forgive Us
    4. Nocturne #1
    5. Locusts
    6. Hollywood Babylon
    7. The Red Light
    8. Nocturne #2
    9. Helian (Trakl) ●

46. 5

    XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Progressive metal | Folk metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Piros kocsi, fekete éj ●
    2. Mindenevő
    3. Vasgyár
    4. Világnak világa
    5. Nyárfa, nyírfa
    6. Lydiához
    7. Vakond
    8. Ködkirály
    9. Aláhullás
    10. A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek
    11. Babylon

47. 4

    Friend of a Phantom

    VOLA

    

    

    Progressive metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Cannibal ●
    2. Break My Lying Tongue
    3. We Will not Disband
    4. Glass Mannequin
    5. Bleed out
    6. Paper Wolf
    7. I Don't Kow How We Got Here
    8. Hollow Kid
    9. Tray

48. 3

    Absolute Elsewhere

    Blood Incantation

    

    

    Technical death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Stargate ●
    2. The Message

49. 2

    The Last Will and Testament

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. §1
    2. §2
    3. §3
    4. §4
    5. §5
    6. §6
    7. §7 ●
    8. A Story Never Told

50. 1

    Múr

    Múr

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Eldhaf ●
    2. Múr
    3. Frelsari
    4. Vitrun
    5. Messa
    6. Heimsslit
    7. Holskefla