Best albums of 2024

[hellboy]

For the 5 people who still use this forum - what are your favourite records of 2024?

In no particular order:

Foxing - Foxing
Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
Aborted - Vault of Horrors
Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
Tombstoner - Rot Stink Rip
Dissumulator - Lower Form Resistance
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Opeth - The Last Will & Testament
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Tigerwine - Toil & Spin
Thirdface - Ministerial Cafeteria
Thou - Umbilical
Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight
Dvne - Voidkind
Speed - Only One Mode
Vredhammer - God Slayer
High On Fire - Cometh The Storm
Candy - It's Inside You
Candy - Flipping
The Sawtooth Grin - Jabberwocky
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Black Tusk - The Way Forward
Ty Segall - Three Bells
Chat Pile - Cool World
Black Pantera - Perpetuo
Sun of Nothing - Maze
Baratro - The Sweet Smell of Unrest
Mammal - The Penny Drop
The Jesus Lizard - Rack

All the tracks I've dug in 2024 (so far):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Kt7X ... 5d88e14540

[Whowatchesthewampas]

I'm one of the five!

Top Albums:
Buffalo Bud Buster - El Diablo Locomotor
Into Another - Seemless
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Black Pyramid - The Paths of Time Are Vast
Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive
Thou - Umbilical
Glassing - From the Other Side of the Mirror
Grin - Hush
Rat Palace - Dust Free Home
Cowardice - Atavist
Dead Horse One - Sea of Static
Sons of Arrakis - Volume II
Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow
REZN - Burden
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
King Basterd - From Whence They Came
Druidess - The Product Of My Love
Horseburner - Voice Of Storms
Oh Hiroshima - All Things Shining
The Smashin Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
Wand - Vertigo
Heavytrip - Where They Can't See
Zeal & Ardor - GRIEF
Chelsea Wolfe - Undone EP
Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water
Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor
40 Watt Sun - Little Weight
Slomosa - Tundra Rock

Honorable Mentions:
meth. - SHAME
Boris, Coaltar of the Deepers - "hello there"
Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol - Big Dumb Riffs
Wheel - Charasmatic Leaders
Stereo Christ - The Art of Driving into the Sun
Kalgon - Kalgon
MOULD - Pull & Repulsion
Ufomammaut - Hidden
Haunted Plasma - I
Drive By Wire - Time Horizon
Cobra The Impaler - Karma Collision
Huntsmen - Dry Land
Hippotraktor - Stasis
Black Tusk - The Way Forward
Stonekind - Hollow Ground
Mr. Bison - Echoes From The Universe
Arcem - Arrival At Grief
Sumac - The Healer
Wizzerd - Kronia
Haunted - Stare At Nothing
CANDY - It's Inside You
The Dead Tongues - I Am A Cloud
Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
The Jesus Lizard - Rack

That being said, I didn't do great in the last half of the year keeping tracking of my albums I've listened to this year. REZN - Burden was my favorite album this year.

[hellboy]

The Anciients and Druidess records are great - I forgot to add them to my list. I don't think I've listened to the REZN record yet, so I'll do so today. I don't reckon I've listened to the new Huntsmen record either - their last was great so keen for the follow up.

[fortysixand2]

Albums I've enjoyed in 2024:

Kim Gordon - The Collective
Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here
Melvins - Tarantula Heart
Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
Thou - Umbilical
REZN - Burden
SUMAC - The Healer
Uniform - American Standard
Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Chat Pile - Cool World
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
The Body - The Crying Out of Things
High on Fire - Cometh The Storm
Ufomammut - Hidden
Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
Ride - Interplay
Locrian - End Terrain
Whores. - War.
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Alcest - Les chants de l'aurore
MONO - OATH
The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
JK Flesh - Echo Chamber Music 01
EXIT ELECTRONICS - BODY BUILDER
Final - What We Don't See
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Big | Brave - A Chaos of Flowers
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood

[hellboy]

A bunch of honorable mentions (records that I dug but not likely to make top 10). Genres courtesy of AI (they're somewhat accurate (slightly more accurate after I made some changes)):


Rat Lord - Blazed in the Northern Sky [Black Metal]
Final Coil - The World We Inheirited [Doom Metal]
Replicant - Infinite Mortality [Death Metal]
IDLES - TANGK [Post-Punk]
ACxDC - G.O.A.T. [Grindcore]
Amiture - Mother Engine [Progressive Rock]
Karkosa - Esoterrorcult [Death Metal]
Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced [Post/Noise Punk]
Cave Sermon - Diving Laughter [Mathcore]
Slimelod - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished [Deathgrind]
Ekko Astral - Pink Ballons [Dream Pop]
Escuela Grind - Dreams on Algorithms [Deathcore]
Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds [Post-Punk]
Thousand Limbs - The Aurochs [Black Metal]
Sentient Horror - In Service of the Dead [Death Metal]
Fontaines DC - Romance [Post-Punk]
The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude [Death Metal]
Fire! - Testament [Mathcore]
Whores. - War [Noise Rock
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter [Grunge]
Feind - Ambulante Hirnamputation [Black Metal]
Vicious Blade - Relentless Force [Death Metal]
Font - Strange Burden [Sludge Metal]
Groin - Paid in Flesh [Goregrind]
Crawl - Altar of Disgust [Death Metal]
Inter Arma - New Heaven [Sludge Metal, Doom Metal]
Void Witch - Horripliating Presence [Doom Metal]
Thrown - Excessive Guilt [Hardcore Punk]
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming [Indie Rock]
Ty Segall - Love Rudimentals [Garage Rock]
Dysrhthmia - Coffin of Conviction [Death Metal]
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All [Death Metal]
Shellac - To All Trains [Math rock]
Cold Wives - Cold Wives [Shoegaze]
Jack White - No Name [Alt Rock]
Bongripper - Empty [Instrumental Stoner Metal]
Hamferð -Men Guðs hond er sterk [Black Metal]
Eccentric Pendulum - Perspectiva Invertalis [Progressive Metal]
Kidnapped - Disgust [Death Metal]
The Chisel - What a Fucking Nightmare [Crust Punk]
Los Campesinos! - All Hell [Indie Rock]
Laser Eyes - Grizzly vs. Guillotine [Hardcore Punk]
In Vain - Solemn [Death Metal]
Matt Cameron - Gory Scorch Cretins [Alt Rock]
Haishen - Awaken the Endless Deep [Black Metal]
Mitocrhondrion - Vitriseptome [Death Metal]
Молчат Дома - Belaya polosa [Electro Punk]
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere [Progressive Metal]
Hammok - Look How Long Lasting Everything is Moving Forward for Once [Ambient]
LizZard - Mesh [Industrial]
Party Dozen - Crime in Australia [Post Punk]
Defacement - Duality [Crust Punk]
Pale Misery - Black Starless Sky [Black Metal]
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible [Hardcore Punk]
Veilburner - The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom [Death Metal]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 [Psychedelic Rock]
Ishahn - Ishahn [Black Metal]
Krallice - Inorganic Rites [Black Metal]
Robber Robber - Wild Guess [Indie Rock]
Ben Frost - Scope Neglect [Ambient]

[tys0n]

Joey Valence & Brae – No Hands
Drug Church – Prude
Ocean Grove – Oddworld
Eidola – Eviscerate
The Southern River Band – D.I.Y.
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Scene Queen – Hot Singles In Your Area
Speed – Only One Mode
Stand Atlantic – Was Here
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature

[basejumper]

2024 Music
No particular order.

2024 short list:

Stonekind - Hollow Ground
Letters Of Vakāra - Call it a Day
bunsenburner - Squall
Wake Up in the Cosmos - Keine Strasse
Nuclear Power Trio Ukraine in the Membrane
SUNNATA - Chasing Shadows
Hoovaranas - Três
Tempel - MMXIII
Joost Swart, Bjorn Waling, Jesse Koolhaas - Swart Waling Koolhaas
Elder - Live at BBC Maida Vale Studios
REZN - Burden
Winnnie - Life
Catapult The Smoke - A Whole New World
Fu Manchu - The Return Of Tomorrow
Greenleaf - The Head & The Habit
Kaya Project - When The Light Gets In
1000mods - Cheat Death |
Kult Ikon - Black Iron Prison
Causa Sui - From The Source

Other music listened to:

The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Black Sky Giant - The Red Chariot
King Weed - Delusions
Gravity Well - Negative Space
Hâdzen - Revolution Swamp
Volt Ritual - Return To Jupiter
Accretionist - Terra Prime
No Man's Valley - Chrononaut Cocktailbar / Flight of the Sloths
Iota Dra - Hypatia
Sykofant - Sykofant
Cold Soviets - Memories of Year Zero
Julian Lepick - The Sky & The Earth
WyndRider - Revival |
Mirovia - Katharsis
Treasure Pains – Vines
Or Alper - The Struggle Masters
Fuzzing Nation - Into The Desert
Robot God - Portal Within
Robot God – Subconscious Awakening

Not an album but one of you 5 will appreciate them.

2SICH -
Fey Fili - I Will Go

[nxrm]

2SICH

For some odd reason I remember this one from a few years back. Not sure if you shared it as well, but I always check the connection to a guitar first because of it.

[Busty McCracken]

Been a shit year for discovering new music for me. Albums that jump to mind.

Zeal & Ardor - Grief
Wheel- Charismatic leaders
Mammal - The Penny Drop
Fat Freddy's Drop - Slo Mo
Xavier Rudd - Freedom sessions
Valley Of The Sun - Quintessence
Grinspoon - Whatever Whenever
Causa Sui - from the source

Ho ho ho mofo's, hope life treating ya well

[hellboy]

I arrived at the following Top 10. One day I might post this on the main blog!

1. Mammal - The Penny Drop
2. Chat Pile - Cool World
3. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
4. High on Fire - Cometh the Storm
5. Ty Segall - Three Bells
6. Slift - Ilion
7. Dvne - Voidkind
8. Black Tusk - The Way Forward
9. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
10. The Jesus Lizard - Rack

The artists unlucky to make it: The Cure, Anciients, Dissimulator, Infant Island, Thou, Speed, Candy, Opeth, Blood incantation, Shellac