First-time viewer here! I saw your backdrop and immediately thought, ‘This is the channel for me.’ Great list-it included all my favorites from the year, and now I’ve got some new albums to check out too. Cheers!
Great list as always, my one is 34 strong, and some of these were discovered via your good self. 1) Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 2) Ihsahn - Ihsahn 3) Borknagar - Fall 4) Opeth - The Last Will And Testament 5) Necrot - Lifeless Birth 6) Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic 7) Striker - Ultrapower 8) Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 9) Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation 10) Wintersun - Time II 11) Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg 12) IOTUNN - Kingship 13) Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon 14) Paysage D’Hiver - Die Berge 15) Dwarrowdelf - The Fall of Leaves 16) Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of The Universe 17) Vitriol - Suffer And Become 18) Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True 19) Marche Funebre - After The Storm 20) Anciients - Beyond The Reach of The Sun 21) Big Big Train - The Likes of Us 22) Triumpher - Spirit Invictus 23) Ensiferum - Winter Storm 24) Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 25) Helvetets Port - Warlords 26) Skeletal Remains - Fragments of The Ageless 27) Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose 28) Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder 29) Fulci - Duck Face Killings 30) Unto Others - Never, Neverland 31) Ripped To Shreds - Sanshi 32) Deep Purple - = 1 33) Kalandra - A Frame of Mind 34) Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
Great list! I love so many of those. Even some that I didn't end up putting on my list were so close to being on. Blitzkrieg's album was awesome, great pick there! Cheers!
Awesome list! It's been a really good year for metal. My top 20 from the year are: 1. Spirit Invictus - Triumpher 2. The Fallen Leaves - Dwarrowdelf 3. Only the Stars Are Left - War Dogs 4. Daydream Illusion - Thornbridge 5. Kingdom In Fire - Bloody Valkyria 6. Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms - Wraithfyre 7. Phantoma - Unleash the Archers 8. Return of the Witchfinder 9. On Fowl of Tyrant Wing - Bütcher 10. Heavy Metal Wraiths - Morgul Blade 11. Daudswiärk - Horn 12. Oath of the Paladins - Gloomy Reflections 13. Self Titled (EP) - Firestorm 14. The Savage Sword - Nemedian Chronicles 15. Eastern Tales - Belore 16. Time II - Wintersun 17. Citadel of Stars - Sig:Ar:Tyr 18. Divine Battle - Savage Oath 19. Winter Storm - Ensiferum 20. Absolute Elsewhere - Blood Incantation Hopefully 2025 kicks just as as much ass! Looking forward to new Century, Helms Deep, Running Wild, etc. Merry Christmas, enjoy the season brother 🤘
Great picks as well, nice list! Love that you have Triumpher right at the top! I was so close to putting it #1 also. So hard to rank these things. And ya so true, 2025 is already looking very promising with releases. Cheers and Merry Christmas to you as well!
what a killer year and you had a badass list! Thanks for all your recs for 2024. damn that beer looks good and its 8am in here TX so ill cheers later, see ya in 2025!
1. Opeth--Last Will And Testament 2. Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere 3. Witherfall-Songs Of The Forgotten 4. Ulcerate--Cutting The Throat Of God 5. Neon Nightmare--Faded Dreams 6. Aquilus-Bellum II 7. Cosmic Putrefaction-Emerald Fires Atop Farewell Mountain 8. Dark Tranquility-Endless Signals 9. Nyktophobia-To The Stars 10. Assemble The Chariots-Unyielding Night 11. Summoning The Lich-Under The Reviled Throne 12. Nile-The Underworld Awaits Us All 13. Midnight-Hellish Expectations 14. The Last Ten Seconds Of Life-No Name Graves 15. Winterfylleth-The Imperious Horizon 16. Yoth Iria--Blazing Inferno 17. Siderean-Spilling The Astral Challice 18. Ihsahn-Ihsahn 19. Eternal Storm-A Giant Bound To Fall 20. Drown In Sulphur-Dark Secrets Of The Soul 21. Atrae Bliss-Aumicide 22. Job For A Cowboy-Moon Healer 23. Worm Shepherd--Hunger 24. Cemetery Skyline-Nordic Gothic 25. Tribulation-Sub Rosa In Aeternum 26. Borknagar-Fall 27. Spectral Wound-Songs Of Blood And Mire 28. Veilburner-The Duality Of Decapitation And Wisdom 29. Oxygen Destroyer--Guardians Of The Universe 30. Candy-Its Inside You 31. Mother Of Graves-Periapt Of Absence 32. Distant-Tsukuyomi: The Origin 33. Wintersun Time II 34. Mayhemic-Toba 35. Slimelord--Chytridiomycosis Relinquished 36. Civerous-Maze Envy 37. Lucifer-Lucifer V 38. Aborted-Vault Of Horrors 39. In Vain-Solemn 40. Underneath-From The Gut Of Gaia 41. Knocked Loose-You Won’t Go Before You Are Supposed To 42. Nightwish-Yesterwynde 43. Necrot-Lifeless Birth 44. Vorga-Beyond The Palest Star 45. In Aphelion-Reaperdawn 46. Sovereign-Altered Realities 47. Demiser-Slave To The Scythe 48. Vomit Forth-Terrified Of God 49. Carnosis-Worm Tales 50. The Vision Bleak-Weird Tales
Great picks. I had Opeth as my #1 and Blood Incantation at number 5. There were a few of these that I had forgotten about. I should re-listen to Attic. I have been on a King Diamond kick lately.
Awesome to see Belore on the list, I adore that album! Seven Spires kept growing, growing, and growing until it dethroned Belore from my #1 spot (though, it's more fair to have them share the top spot.) It's such a deep journey, and truly worth all the time I invested in it. I'll be picking up the Nahtrunar and Thornbridge albums for sure. Thanks for those!
Cheers! Glad you got a couple new albums to check out from this. Love Belore! And ya that Seven Spires album is so damn good! Probably the album I listened to the most this year.
Dude, great list!! I love your presentation style and passion - super infectious. Subbed. Happy to see IOTUNN at Nr 1 as it's also my favorite record of the year! Missed out on Savage Oath and THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR. Def gonna give those albums a spin. When you brought up Moonlight Sorcery and Bodom while talking about Bloody Valkyria, it reminded me of another album I loved this year (and actually my Nr 2): Gravebound by Bloodcross (also from Finland), leaning more to the thrashy/melodic death side. An absolute ripper🤘 Here's to another great year for metal in 2025 🍻
Cheers dude, appreciate that! Ya although it was tough to narrow down, I just had to put Iotunn #1, so good! And thanks for the recommendation on Bloodcross!
I really enjoy nearly every album you mentioned haha. Thanks for making these videos! I never find the time to put a full list together, but I know my favourite black metal albums so far (there are SO many I never got around to, or got buried by something else. Infinite homework.) #1 is going to Ancient Guard - Nightfall Enthroned (Can't stop listening to this one. Their EP this year is just as good. Also Canadian!) The runners up all feel like a tie : Hellbutcher, Mortem Agmen, Arkona, Wormwood, Cistvaen, Boreal Throne, Bütcher, Downcross, Spectral Wound, Aara I will say tho that Horn is way up there on the list and Likentog is maybe the best song of the year. Gets stuck in my head all the time
Cheers! And no problem at all. Great picks too by the way! Love that you have Boreal Throne on there! I gotta check out Mortem Agmem, not familiar with that one
Dude I can see why you had that Seven Spires up high at 3. That album is awesome. I only just got to it but wow - you can tell that band poured their heart and soul into that record.
Glad you liked it! I honestly was so close to putting it at #1. Definitely my most listened to album of the year, it just really hit me. So much emotion, and I love their songwriting approach. If you haven't listened to their earlier albums, would highly recommend the last 2 as well. Just as good! Quickly becoming one of my favorite modern bands. Cheers!
Quite a few obscure releases at the top - will give Iotunn another listen in your honor. I wasn't as enthusiastic about the quality of metal this year but here's my Top 5: 1. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum 2. The Funeral Procession - In Still Silence 3. Vemod - The Deepening 4. Borkgnagar - Fall 5. Djevel - Natt Til Ende
Oh how could I forget Vemod! Such a great album, I need to revisit that. I have not heard The Funeral Procession, gonna have to check that one out. Cheers man!
Great list and thanks for all your recommendations in 2024 .. not managed to hear a lot of them as yet but they are on the hallowed list so it will happen ..love seeing sig ar tyr on there as that and winterfylleth are my top 2 ..
Hi Graham, finally got round to listening to part 2, not much on there I've heard, but I've picked a few out that I intend listening to over the next few nights at work- IOTUNN top of the list to check out. For what it's worth, I've added on my own Top 40 list that I'd put together for another channel, not as extreme as yours (nothing crusty or blackened in sight I'm afraid!!) but see what you think! Have a great festive period, however you celebrate it, see you in the New Year! Skol! PS, loved the HELVETETS PORT and SGAILE albums from your 1st half, by the way! My Albums Of The Year 2024, Top 40 1 JUDAS PRIEST Invincible Shield 2 BRUCE DICKINSON Mandrake Project 3 MAGNUM Here Comes The Rain 4 SIMONE SIMONS Vermilion (of Epica) 5 BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION V 6 NIGHTWISH Yesterwynde 7 CATS IN SPACE Time Machine 8 THE DEAD DAISIES Light Em Up 9 AD INFINITUM Abyss 10 CASSANDRA'S CROSSING Garden Of Earthly Delights (George Lynch) 11 FM Old Habits Die Hard 12 OPETH Last Will & Testament 13 DEEP PURPLE =1 14 NESTOR Teenage Rebel 15 WHOM GODS DESTROY Insanium 16 BOBBI DAZZLER Fandabidozi 17 MOGGS MOTEL S/T (UFO singer) 18 CHARLOTTE WESSELS The Obsession 19 KINGS OF MERCIA Battle Scars 20 MYRATH Karma 21 EVERGREY Theories Of Emptiness 22 VANDEN PLAS The Empyrean Equation 23 LUCIFER V 24 THE WARNING Keep Me Fed 25 ACCEPT Humanoid 26 POWERWOLF Wake Up The Wicked 27 SLASH Orgy Of The Damned 28 SIX BY SIX Beyond Shadowland 29 FROZEN CROWN War Hearts 30 WITHIN TEMPTATION Bleed Out 31 BLACKBERRY SMOKE Be Right Here 32 GRAND MAGUS Sunraven 33 CATEGORY 7 S/T (Jon Bush et al) 34 UNLEASH THE ARCHERS Phantoma 35 ORANGE GOBLIN Thieving From The House Of God 36 IRONFLAME Kingdom Torn Asunder 37 FLOTSAM & JETSAM I Am The Weapon 38 HAUNT Dreamers 39 DGM Endless 40 NIGHTMARE Encrypted Honourable Mentions, in no particular order, the albums by: BLACK CROWES, ECLIPSE, BETH HART, TAK MATSUMOTO GROUP, HOUSE OF LORDS, ARIES DESCENDANT, KEYS, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, EXIT EDEN, MR BIG, MICHAEL SCHENKER, FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, LEAVES EYES, XANDRIA, SERIOUS BLACK, MYLES KENNEDY & LIONSHEART
Cheers and happy holidays to you as well! Lots of great picks in your list that I love! And also quite a few that I have not heard, so you have given me some stuff to explore! Thanks!
There ist only one overlap with my list (Ungfell), but still a great selection of releases. Thank you for sharing. Here are my top albums of 2024: Bloody Keep - Rats Of Black Death Fullmoon Rite - Draped In The Shade Of Luciferian Light Lunatic Affliction - Nerto Brixtia Seth - La France Des Maudits Sabire - Jätt Theurgy - Emanations of Unconscious Luminescence The Crown - Crown of Thorns Lidérc - Profán Mystérium Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex of the Worlds Benighted - Ekbom Vitriol - Suffer & Become Gwoid - Dem Mondvolk zum Zeichen Unhallowed Deliverance - Of Spectres and Strife Domus Dei Satanae - King Paimon Orbital Gate - Voyage to the Closing Star Brodequin - Harbringer of Woe Arkhaeth - Profound Lore of the Ashen Specters Ungfell - De Ghörnt Törnen - Under Körpens Visdom Auld Ridge - For Death and Glory, to the Gods I Cry Gulguhk - Pillé, vendu et trahi Winter Eternal - Echoes of Primordial Gnosis Vomit The Soul - Massive Incineration Hiraes - Dormant Wormed - Omegon Dauþuz - Uranium Post Mortal Possession - The dead space between the stars Erzfeynd - Fivrrist Stiriah - Portal Nyktophobia - To the stars Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star Civerous - Maze Envy Kohlrabenschwarz - Im finsteren Tal Profane Existence - Scorn
Cheers! And thanks for sharing your picks! A few of those were very close to being on my list. And a nice handful that I have not heard, so thanks for that. You have given me some exploring to do!
Great list, thanks for all reviews, top of the month :) cheers from Poland. here's my top 10 : 1. Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus 2. Aara - Eiger 3. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge 4. Darkspace - Dark Space -II 5. Sphere - Objet violent non identifié 6. Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon 7. Arkona - Stella Pandora 8. Aquilus - Bellum II 9. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity 10. Мещера [Meschera] - Песни вечных ветров Honorable mentions : Vitriol - Suffer & Become, Iotunn - Kinship, Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic, Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star, Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death.
Cheers from Canada! Great picks yourself there too! I am not familiar with your #10 album so thanks for the recommendation! Based on your other picks I have a feeling I will like it!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews this is russian folk metal band with some influence of black metal. love this album, the name of the album : "Songs of Eternal Winds", it's only 35 min. long and for me it;s a little short imo.
Great List! You seem like such a wholesome person :) Here are some of my favorites this year in no particular order, maybe you dont know about some of them and are interested in checking them out 1. Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition Chapter 4: To shadow Zion 2. Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus 3. Blood Incatation - Absolute Elsewhere 4. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity 5. Glassing - From the other side of the Mirror 6. ZØRZA - Hellven 7. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe 8. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 9. Beenkerver - De Rode Weduwe 10. (Rap Album) Tyler The Creator - Chromakopia
Cheers, thanks! And great picks as well! I know and enjoy most of those. I haven't checked out Glassing, so thanks for the recommendation, will give it a listen for sure!
Very nice list ! (and very nice glass !) Not surprise to see the Blood Incantation in your list. It will be in mine. And it will be in many other tops for sure. I guess it will be the album of the year if we combine all tops. I still didn't listen to Iotunn but I definitely have to do it. Maybe on saturday morning at the gym. The last album was cool but not so memorable for me. However I listen to the Horn and I don't find the magic the previous album have... But listening what you said about it I think I have to listen to it again as it is indeed a really great black Metal band. And I am very sad as I have a nice tshirt of the band, a grey one, and I put some red wine on it :'( btw way I use your top 10 on my blog to create a general 2024 ranking?
Cheers Achille! Looking forward to seeing your top albums of the year as well! That definitely sucks about your Horn shirt! Hopefully the wine stain can come out :) And ya for sure you can use my top 10 on your blog, I would be honored!
As a Black Metal/Tolkien fan I'm gelling on your selections Mr Hammerheart. I don't necessarily agree Winterfylleth's IH is predictable. Just when Silent Grace leaves you floating in the clouds over snow capped craggy peaks, track 7 (The Edge of Tyranny), pulls you down into the mire and kicks you in the balls! - Great album! I didn't expect that on the first listen. It was a pleasant surprise on the first listen that I stil look forward too every time. 🤘🖤🤘
Great job man, it's so difficult to make these rankings haha. Mine is still not complete, but here's a ranking in progress. The top three were very easy to rank, while the rest is quite interchangeable. I still need to give some of the lower ranked albums another listen, before I conclude and post my list on instagram. I've still not listened to the new Aara, as I'm waiting for the physical product, but if it's as good as the previous trilogy It'd make my top 10 relatively easily (but not top 3). Here we go with a top 30 favorite releases (albums, EPs and demos) of 2024: 1. Djevel - Natt til Ende 2. Vemod - The Deepening 3. Koldbrann - Ingen Skånsel 4. Oerheks - Heksen & Geesten van Brabant 5. Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt 6. Häxenzijrkell - Portal 7. Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus 8. Old Horn Tooth - Mourning Light 9. Misotheist - Vessels By Which the Devil is Made Flesh 10. Parfaxitas - Weaver of the Black Moon 11. From The Vastland - Tenebrous Shadow 12. Nubivagant - The Blame Dagger 13. Bythos - Chthonic Gates Unveiled 14. Night Shall Drape Us - Lunatic Choir 15. Syn - Villfarelse 16. SIG:AR:TYR - Citadel Of Stars 17. Avmakt - Satanic Inversion Of…. 18. Hate Forest - Justice 19. Kråbøl - Never 20. Death Like Mass - The Lord Of Flies 21. KVAEN - The Formless Fires 22. Blood Red Throne - Nonagon 23. Reversed - Wildly Possessed 24. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge 25. Departure Chandelier - Satan Soldier of Fortune 26. Fír - De stilte van God 27. Spectral Light - In the absence of light, shadows remain... 28. Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All....... 29. Deep Purple - = 1 30. Dauþuz - Uranium 31. Narbeleth - A Pale Crown Edit: Forgot Spectral light, which is on my more developed list on my work PC, so it became a top 31.
Cheers man! I just listened to the new Aara the other day, and ya it did not disappoint! It may have snuck into my list if I had waited before recording these. Great picks too! I need to revisit some of those...Oerheks is awesome! Will definitely check out your finalized list on instagram once its up!
Uuh, those Attic, Sig:Ar:Tyr, Triumpher, Horn and Dödsrit albums will certainly be highest priority for me to check out :D Several familiar names on your list, hehe 🙂 and lot of homework for me, as usual. Stellar list. MY TOP 25 picks: 25. CRYPT SERMON - The Stygian Rose / No wonder everybody likes this. Prime heavy metal. Every subsequent listen is better and better. 24. IRON CURTAIN - Savage Dawn / Exciter's heirs. Blasting fun early 80's heavy/speed metal. Raw sound, great riffs and vocals, blazing solos! Love it! 23. OPETH - The Last Will and Testament / Too low? Yeah, this was tough for me. I love listening to the whole album, but individual songs haven't yet cleared out in my head. For now. 22. FROSTBITTEN THORNS - Mysteries of the Night / Technically it's only EP, but I had to include it here, one of my favorite Black metal releases of the year. Atmospheric, melodic, melancholic, with beautiful addition of folky acoustic parts. 21. ROMUVOUS - Spirits / Majestic folk metal album, somewhere between Wardruna and Ensiferum. So atmospheric and atmospheric! Love it! 20. GOAT MAJOR - Ritual / Holly molly, what an evil sound! Impressive debut album from these occult doom/stoner guys. Catchy and menacing sounding album! 19. PHAËTHON - Wielder of the Steel / Holly smokes, this album rips! Very similar to Heavy Load, but much more intense and better produced. Epic heavy metal in a nutshell. 18. KRYPTOS - Decimator / Man I love raw speed metal of the early 80's. These guys deliver! 17. GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven / They simply can not miss. Yet another great heavy/doom metal album. Riffing is so dense, always bopping my head. Soulful solos, great deep vocals. 16. TRAVELER - Prequel to Madness / Fans of early Iron Maiden, early Helloween, Angel Witch etc... will be most thrilled with this release. Powerful vocals, great riffing and blazing solos. 15. SPECTRAL WOUND - Songs of Blood and Mire / Classic old school Black Metal at its finest, I enjoy it a lot. One of my favorites black metal albums of the year. 14. HEXEREI - Nihil I Celandum / Fantastic 70's psychedelic / hard rock, lots of fuzz, beefy riffing and tasty solos. Great vocals too. One can easily imagine these guys opening for Hendrix back in a day. 13. SAVAGED - Night Stealer / For the fans of old school 80's heavy/speed metal and vocals of King Diamond, this album is pure gold! Awesome! 12. WHITE DOG - Double Dog Dare / Mesmerizing old school bluesy/hard rock with progressive edge. Warm and enjoyable album. 11. BLUES PILLS - Birthday / Stellar Blues Rock release, as expected from this band. This time however, with welcome touch of commerciality. Hope this album will turn wider audience to them. 10. SAXON - Hell, Fire and Damnation / We can always bet on these veterans to deliver beefy, juicy riff fest. This album is no exception. Heavy Metal treat. 09. MONKEY3 - Welcome to the Machine / Instrumental psychedelic space rock. Beautiful, adventurous album, so easy to lose oneself in the atmosphere and melodies. 08. TAROT - Glimpse of the Dawn / A killer album! Top to bottom classic! Gorgeous songs, 70's hard&heavy with progressive flavor. This might be perfect introductory album for people not experienced with 70's heavy rock. 07. CAUSA SUI - From the Source / Gorgeous album! Adventurous, wandering atmosphere, fat and heavy bass, gorgeous keys and guitars. Phenomenal mix of psychedelic rock, space rock and jazz fusion. 06. DOLMEN GATE - Gateways of Eternity / Epic heavy metal at full display! Fantastic album! 05. HAZEHOUND - Macrodose / Absolutely delightful old school blues rock / hard rock album! Sounds like a great mixture of Jimi Hendrix, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Uriah Heep 04. GJENFERD - Gjenferd / Amazing album! Treat for any fan of 70's hard rock legends Uriah Heep, Deep Purple etc. 03. ASTRAL DOORS - End of it All / Always subscribed to my list, these guys deliver yet another great heavy metal album with superb riffing, guitar solos and ever majestic vocals from Mr. Nils Patrik Johansson. 02. ALUNAH - Fever Dream / One of my most anticipated albums of the year and it is a killer! Tasty solos, beefy riffing, catchy songs and outstanding vocals! 01. LUCIFER - LUCIFER V / These guys never fail. Yet another extraordinary Catchy 70's sounding hard rock album. A must listen. Another year over, damn 😀 Hell of a journey chasing these albums. Hopefully next year will be even better, and hopefully there will be more time to listen to new music :) Happy Holidays man! Cheers!
Cheers and happy holidays to you too man! Once again, great picks! That Phaethon album was really cool...one of the guys from Fen I believe. Really enjoyed Dolmen Gate too. There are a few here I definitely need to check out as well, just simply based on your descriptions!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Have a good one man, I don't doubt that I will with some of your picks. Once again happy holidays, recharge your batteries, have fun and see ya again in 2025! Cheers!
Great list. There are quite some, I need to listen to. My Top 20 1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 2. Luck and Strange - David Gilmour 3. Opeth - Last Will and Testament 4. Beardfish - Songs for the beating hearts 5. Iotunn - Kinship 6. Vorga - Beyond the palest star 7. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 8. Thy Catafalque - XII 9. Solstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl 10.Alcest - Les Chants de l'aurore 11.Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light 12.Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk 13.The Cure - Songs of a lost World 14.Aquilus - Bellum 2 15.Horn - Daudswärk 16.Anciients - Beyond the reach of the sun 17.Grand Magus - Sunraven 18.Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon 19.Borknagar - Fall 20.Sgaile - Traverse the bealach
@@simond1574 Oh ya, the new Hamferd was great! I had it in the first part of my top 50 albums of the year video when I counted down #50-26. So many amazing albums this year!
Great List !! 1.Judas Priest-Invicible shield 2.Dark Tranquillity-Endtime signals 3.200 Stabs wounds-Manual manic procedures 4.Nyktophobia-To the stars 5.Gatecreeper-Dark superstition 6.Fulci-Duck face killings 7.Sentient Horror-In service of the dead 8.Morbid Saint-Swallowed by hell 9.Necrot-Lifeless birth 10.Dödsrit-Nocturnal will 11.Houle-Ciel cendre et misère noire 12.Deicide-Banished By sin 13.Tzompantli-Beating the drums of Ancestral Force 14.Octopoloid-Beyond the Aeons 15.Flotsam and Jetsam-I am the weapon 16.Realm of wolves-Hegemon of cold seas 17.Ripped to shreds-Sanshi 18.Saidan-Visual Kill.. 19.Nile-Te underworld awaits us all 20.Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere
Speaking of grabbing a sword, Havukruunu released a new single today! 2025 could be amazing! So many we have in common and so many for me to check out. So glad to see Sig:Ar:Tyr in your top 10. Here's a few that were faves of mine but that weren't in your list just in case you might have missed a few of them (not likely, I know): Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Flotsam and Jetsam - I Am the Weapon Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True (If you liked early Yes, this is the best Yes album in more than 20 years) Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Æternum (Great Gothic Rock) Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge Trhä - ∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno Amiensus - Reclamation, Pt. I & 2 Cistvaen - At Light's Demise Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion Aara - Eiger Huntsmen - The Dry Land Múr - Múr High On Fire - Cometh the Storm And lastly a special shoutout for Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia, a re-recording of an early Sepultura album and goddamn is it great
I am so excited for new Havukruunu! Just listened to the new track yesterday and it definitely did not disappoint! Great additional picks above also! I know and enjoy most of them, but there are a couple I have not heard. I need to check out that Mur album for sure, have heard good things about it just recently. Cheers!
We definitely had lots of albums in common in our top 50's, just in different places haha. Such an amazing year for killer albums, hope next year has just as many! Cheers 🍻 and Merry Christmas! 25. Borknagar - Fall (Viking/Folk/Black Metal, Norway) 24. Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves (Atmospheric Black Metal, UK) 23. Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive (Doom Metal, USA) 22. Striker - Ultrapower (Traditional Heavy/Power Metal, Canada) 21. Unto Others - Never, Neverland (Gothic Metal, USA) 20. Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun (Extreme Progressive Metal, Canada) 19. Aara - Eiger (Atmospheric Black Metal, Switzerland) 18. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament (Progressive Death Metal/Progressive Rock, Sweden) 17. Attic - Return of the Witchfinder (Heavy Metal, Germany) 16. Liminal Shroud - Visions of Collapse (Black Metal, Canada) 15. The Flight of Sleipnir (Folk/Doom/Stoner Metal,USA) 14. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum (Gothic Metal/Black Metal) 13. Necrot - Lifeless Birth (Death Metal, USA) 12. Evoking Winds - Your Rivers (Atmospheric Black/Folk Metal, Belarus) 11. Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars (Folk/Black Metal, Canada) 10. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose (Epic Doom Metal, USA) 9. Inquisition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence (Black Metal, Columbia) 8. Black Pyramid - The Paths of Time are Vast (Stoner/Doom Metal, USA) 7. My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding (Gothic Doom Metal, UK) 6. Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire (Black Metal, Canada) 5. Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe (Death/Thrash/Black Metal, USA) 4. Iotunn - Kinship (Progressive Melodic Death Metal, Denmark) 3. Ripped to Shreds - Sanshi (Death Metal/Grind, USA) 2. Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will (Black Metal/Crust, Sweden) 1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (Progressive Death Metal, USA)
Talk about the two of us having pretty similar tastes haha! Ya we had quite a bit of overlap, just in different spots. Pretty crazy when there were so many amazing albums this year. Great picks! Cheers and Merry Xmas as well!
@@MrOmac09 haha honestly I had such a hard time actually picking a #1. I knew what my top 10 were looking like, but the actual order was so tough. I am sure in another week I would change the order again lol
Hands down superb list and 36 minutes without going to the toilet. Bladders of Steel!!! I'll throw in my dirty dozen: Iotunn - Kinship Modern Rites - Endless Piah Mater - Under the Shadows of a Foreign Sun Cistvaen - At Lights Demise Avmakt - Satanic Perversions of... Wormwood - The Star Obscurial - Heretic Opeth - Last Will & Testament Selbst - Dispondency Chord Progressions Void Witch - Horrifying Presence Vicious Blade - Relentless Force Siderean - Spilling the Astral Chalice Two Bands To Watch: Black Birch (Sweden) & Vathr (Norway)
Bladders of steel!! haha, thats awesome. Great picks as well, I love so many of those! Plus a couple I am not familiar with, so will definitely have to check them out. Cheers!
@HammerheartMetalReviews Haha. It's a exciting and dynamic you made there. You were not afraid to throw in some debuts/sophomore s, so a ballsy call you made there. I commend that list and will be checking some of them out 👍
10 Ihsahn - Ihsahn 9 Black Curse - Burning in Celestial Poison 8 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 7 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 6 Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus 5 Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire 4 Mitochondrion - Vitriseptome 3 Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean 2 Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God 1 Ingurgitating Oblivion - The Ontology of Nought
Skeletal remains 🐐 Coffins 🐐 Slimelord 🐐 Necrophobic 🐐 Necrot 🐐 Undeath 🐐 Blood incantation 🐐 Job for a cowboy 🐐 Laceration 🐐 So many death metal bangers this year 👹
We usually have a whole lot of overlap, but not this year! This year you went to traditional-hm road while I took the prog-death one. :D Anyway, here's my list: 10. Candy. It's Inside You 9. BEDSORE - Dreaming the Strife for Love 8. Thy Catafalque. XII: A gyönyörü álmok ezután jönnek 7. The Old Dead Tree. Second Thoughts 6. Kvadrat. The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion 5. Panzerfaust. Suns of Perdition Chapter 4 4. The Flight of Sleipnir. Nature's Cadence 3. Thyrathen. Lakonic 2. Opeth. The Last Will and Testament 1. Blood Incantation. Absolute Elsewhere
haha ya with so many amazing albums I am always surprised when lists overlap a lot. Looks like we still had 3 of the same in our top 10. Love seeing The Flight of Sleipnir there...I feel like no one is talking about that album, and its so damn good. I am not familiar with Kvadrat, so thanks for that, gonna check that one out! I only very recently hear the Thyrathen album, but I dug it a lot. Great picks!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Oh, and you seriously should check out that Kvadrat record. Hailing from Greece, brilliant one-man death metal band. There's something in the water over there, let me tell ya!
My number 1 is Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars all year long 😁 I'm curious to see where you ranked that one. Daemonskald is a God when it comes to guitar, drums and all the other instrumentation plus putting it all together, just Wow! Other bands I've enjoyed and returned to more than once: Critical Defiance from Chile, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple, Magnum, Morta Skuld, Sentry, Seid, Himinbjorg and Cavalera...oh and Winterfylleth. Cheers Hammerheart 🍻
Great list ! We have a few fantastic albums in Poland this year that You should totally check. Mary " Widy Styczniowe" Deus Mortem " Thanatos" Zorza " Hellven" Blaze of perdition " Upharsin" Hauntologist "Hollow"
My Top 50 (#1 - 25) 01. Iotunn - Kinship 02. Borknagar - Fall 03. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 04. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun 05. Sólstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl 06. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 07. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum 08. Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic 09. In Vain - Solemn 10. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals 11. Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness 12. Hamferð - Men Guös hond er sterk 13. Swallow The Sun - Shining 14. Unto Others - Never, Neverland 15. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness 16. Ubiquity - The Ascendant Travels Among The Stars 17. Witherfall - Sounds Of The Forgotten 18. Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay 19. Alcest - Les Chants de l' Aurore 20. Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek 21. Vola - Friend Of A Phantom 22. Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement 23. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach 24. The Eternal - Skinwalker 25. Múr - Múr
Have you had any Hammerheart beers out of MN? Their distribution is pretty limited -- when I was in Chicago I was always chasing down which bars had something on tap because you couldn't get it otherwise. Awesome Scandinavian style beers with metal art and themes. First time seeing yr channel, good stuff -- Iotunn is a newish discovery and quickly becoming a fave, made my Fester's Lucky 13. 1. Neon Nightmare - Faded Dream 2. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 3. Early Moods - A Sinner’s Past 4. Lucifer - Lucifer V 5. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose 6. Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun 7. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja 8. Unto Others - Never, Neverland 9. Iotunn - Kinship 10. Tarot - Glimpse of the Dawn 11. Pallbearer - Minds Burn Alive 12. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 13. Castle - Evil Remains Bubbling under: Hands Of Goro - Hands of Goro Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder Scarecrow - Scarecrow III The Gates Of Slumber - The Gates of Slumber Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Æternum Magmakammer - Before I Burn The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow Legions Of Doom - The Skull 3 REZN - Burden Demon & Eleven Children - Demonic Fascination Worshipper - One Way Trip High Reeper - Renewed by Death Lünd - Ancient Steel EP Sovereign - Altered Realities Fracture - Chaos Alchemy Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Eternal - Cryptic Lust
Cheers! I was lucky enough to try Hammerheart beers once when I was in Minnesota. I am only a few hours away from there up in Canada, but we don't get it imported here unfortunately! That brewery is run by the guy from Panopticon, which is really cool. Really delicious beer too, but it has been way too long since I have had one. Great picks also, with a few new ones for me to check out!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Were you at their taproom in Lino Lakes? Looks like they closed that in '21, relocated to Ely, MN, and stopped production for a couple years while they do the build out. Looks like they're just getting started again, distributing kegs and bottles only in MN. If I was in driving distance I'd totally pick some up, but am in TX now.
@@Fastnbulbous1969 I never got the chance to go to the actual taproom, but was lucky to find some at the local beer store in Minny many years ago. I really hope they start distributing outside MN, would love to get my hands on some again. Or will just have to search for it next time I am down there, but usually only go once every few years
Cheers! I saw the other day you talked about Iotunn in your top 15...I was gonna comment but I didnt want to give away that it was my #1 quite yet haha. will check out the rest of yours once its up!
Great selection man. Full of great albums this year. The Iotunn record is really damn good. Have you checked the Hyver album from the greylle band member. That is my fav of the year I still have to listen to some stuff to finish my list. Satanic warmaster just dropped and album at midnight... 😂
Cheers man! Ya that Hyver record was really cool too! He is in so many projects, and I have yet to be disappointed by any. And I had no idea Satanic Warmaster was putting out a new album today. Thanks for the heads up, gonna be checking that out!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews ..and as a Dane, I salute you for having Iotunn at number one.. 🤗👍 Personally my favorite Danish metal album was Neckbreakker 'Within the Vicera'. 👌
1. Spectral Voice - Sparagmos 2. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 3. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 4. Seven Spires - A Fortress Called Home 5. Civerous - Maze Envy 6. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 7. Hulder - Verses In Oath 8. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 9. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera 10. Immortal Bird - Sin Querencia 11. Aquilus - Bellum 2 12. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out To She 13. Haliphron - Anatomy Of Darkness 14. Tribulation - Sub Rosa 15. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge 16. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming Of Psychotic Depravity 17. Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe 18. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose 19. Akhyls - House Of The Black Geminus 20. Lutharo - Chasing Euphoria
Sounding "negative" when you are a music critic is literally your job. Lyktononon is a member of Blood Incantation and IMO, a better version of the same thing. When it comes to that circle, BI as good as it is was in last place, both Spectral Voice and Black Curse are way better. Cool to see Flight of Sleipnir getting some love. Band has been around forever, Lore was there highlight for me. Kvadrat-Horrible Age of Dissonance is the miss of the year for all too many it seems.
So many bands within that BI circle - If I had to pick favorites I would go with Stormkeep and Wayfarer, but ya all of them are good in their own way. Agreed that The Flight of Sleipnir is so underrated and underappreciated. I haven't heard the Kvadrat album, but someone else also recommended it to me in the comments here. I will definitely be scoping it out this week. Cheers!
I just listened to the Mork Gryning yesterday on the early stream, and ya its great. didnt know Satanic Warmaster was putting out a new one. Gonna be checking that out. Cheers!
I can break it down. Prog-death is the subgenre of choice for those who really like progressive-rock but don't like the flowery/jazzy/upbeat side of it. It's basically the best of both worlds.
Thank you for the top spot 🤘🙏
Thank you for checking out my video, and most of all thank you for putting out such an amazing record! Cheers from Canada!
First-time viewer here! I saw your backdrop and immediately thought, ‘This is the channel for me.’ Great list-it included all my favorites from the year, and now I’ve got some new albums to check out too. Cheers!
Cheers! Welcome to my channel, and thanks for checking it out! Glad you enjoyed it and that you could get a few new albums to explore!
Great list as always, my one is 34 strong, and some of these were discovered via your good self.
1) Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
2) Ihsahn - Ihsahn
3) Borknagar - Fall
4) Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
5) Necrot - Lifeless Birth
6) Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic
7) Striker - Ultrapower
8) Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
9) Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation
10) Wintersun - Time II
11) Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
12) IOTUNN - Kingship
13) Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
14) Paysage D’Hiver - Die Berge
15) Dwarrowdelf - The Fall of Leaves
16) Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of The Universe
17) Vitriol - Suffer And Become
18) Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True
19) Marche Funebre - After The Storm
20) Anciients - Beyond The Reach of The Sun
21) Big Big Train - The Likes of Us
22) Triumpher - Spirit Invictus
23) Ensiferum - Winter Storm
24) Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
25) Helvetets Port - Warlords
26) Skeletal Remains - Fragments of The Ageless
27) Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
28) Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder
29) Fulci - Duck Face Killings
30) Unto Others - Never, Neverland
31) Ripped To Shreds - Sanshi
32) Deep Purple - = 1
33) Kalandra - A Frame of Mind
34) Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
Great list! I love so many of those. Even some that I didn't end up putting on my list were so close to being on. Blitzkrieg's album was awesome, great pick there! Cheers!
Unto Others and Kalandra flew right under my radar. Have to check them out.
This looks like a list of Loudwire’s top album of each week. 😂
This guy knows how to make a list. Good shit.
Awesome list! It's been a really good year for metal. My top 20 from the year are:
1. Spirit Invictus - Triumpher
2. The Fallen Leaves - Dwarrowdelf
3. Only the Stars Are Left - War Dogs
4. Daydream Illusion - Thornbridge
5. Kingdom In Fire - Bloody Valkyria
6. Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms - Wraithfyre
7. Phantoma - Unleash the Archers
8. Return of the Witchfinder
9. On Fowl of Tyrant Wing - Bütcher
10. Heavy Metal Wraiths - Morgul Blade
11. Daudswiärk - Horn
12. Oath of the Paladins - Gloomy Reflections
13. Self Titled (EP) - Firestorm
14. The Savage Sword - Nemedian Chronicles
15. Eastern Tales - Belore
16. Time II - Wintersun
17. Citadel of Stars - Sig:Ar:Tyr
18. Divine Battle - Savage Oath
19. Winter Storm - Ensiferum
20. Absolute Elsewhere - Blood Incantation
Hopefully 2025 kicks just as as much ass! Looking forward to new Century, Helms Deep, Running Wild, etc. Merry Christmas, enjoy the season brother 🤘
Great picks as well, nice list! Love that you have Triumpher right at the top! I was so close to putting it #1 also. So hard to rank these things. And ya so true, 2025 is already looking very promising with releases. Cheers and Merry Christmas to you as well!
what a killer year and you had a badass list! Thanks for all your recs for 2024. damn that beer looks good and its 8am in here TX so ill cheers later, see ya in 2025!
Cheers dude! haha ya its only like 9AM here too, so might be a bit early to crush some beers.
Man, I just love your enthusiasm! Thanks for the list.
Cheers, thanks! And no problem, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the video! Excellent list 🤘🏽 … Iottun is also the album I loved the most this 2024. Cheers! 🍻
Cheers! Ya that Iotunn album is amazing
Great year! Great list!
Cheers!
1. Opeth--Last Will And Testament
2. Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere
3. Witherfall-Songs Of The Forgotten
4. Ulcerate--Cutting The Throat Of God
5. Neon Nightmare--Faded Dreams
6. Aquilus-Bellum II
7. Cosmic Putrefaction-Emerald Fires Atop Farewell Mountain
8. Dark Tranquility-Endless Signals
9. Nyktophobia-To The Stars
10. Assemble The Chariots-Unyielding Night
11. Summoning The Lich-Under The Reviled Throne
12. Nile-The Underworld Awaits Us All
13. Midnight-Hellish Expectations
14. The Last Ten Seconds Of Life-No Name Graves
15. Winterfylleth-The Imperious Horizon
16. Yoth Iria--Blazing Inferno
17. Siderean-Spilling The Astral Challice
18. Ihsahn-Ihsahn
19. Eternal Storm-A Giant Bound To Fall
20. Drown In Sulphur-Dark Secrets Of The Soul
21. Atrae Bliss-Aumicide
22. Job For A Cowboy-Moon Healer
23. Worm Shepherd--Hunger
24. Cemetery Skyline-Nordic Gothic
25. Tribulation-Sub Rosa In Aeternum
26. Borknagar-Fall
27. Spectral Wound-Songs Of Blood And Mire
28. Veilburner-The Duality Of Decapitation And Wisdom
29. Oxygen Destroyer--Guardians Of The Universe
30. Candy-Its Inside You
31. Mother Of Graves-Periapt Of Absence
32. Distant-Tsukuyomi: The Origin
33. Wintersun Time II
34. Mayhemic-Toba
35. Slimelord--Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
36. Civerous-Maze Envy
37. Lucifer-Lucifer V
38. Aborted-Vault Of Horrors
39. In Vain-Solemn
40. Underneath-From The Gut Of Gaia
41. Knocked Loose-You Won’t Go Before You Are Supposed To
42. Nightwish-Yesterwynde
43. Necrot-Lifeless Birth
44. Vorga-Beyond The Palest Star
45. In Aphelion-Reaperdawn
46. Sovereign-Altered Realities
47. Demiser-Slave To The Scythe
48. Vomit Forth-Terrified Of God
49. Carnosis-Worm Tales
50. The Vision Bleak-Weird Tales
Same top two. I'll have to come back to this one.
Cheers! And thanks again for sharing your list, great picks!
Great list man! cheers!! I feel curious about a lot of albums from your list, I'll try to check most of them. Thanks for share. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Cheers, thanks! Glad my list could give a few new albums to check out!
Great picks. I had Opeth as my #1 and Blood Incantation at number 5. There were a few of these that I had forgotten about. I should re-listen to Attic. I have been on a King Diamond kick lately.
Cheers, thanks! Ya that Opeth record easily could have been higher on my list too. And ya, that Attic album is pretty killer!
Awesome to see Belore on the list, I adore that album! Seven Spires kept growing, growing, and growing until it dethroned Belore from my #1 spot (though, it's more fair to have them share the top spot.) It's such a deep journey, and truly worth all the time I invested in it.
I'll be picking up the Nahtrunar and Thornbridge albums for sure. Thanks for those!
Cheers! Glad you got a couple new albums to check out from this. Love Belore! And ya that Seven Spires album is so damn good! Probably the album I listened to the most this year.
Dude, great list!! I love your presentation style and passion - super infectious. Subbed.
Happy to see IOTUNN at Nr 1 as it's also my favorite record of the year! Missed out on Savage Oath and THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR. Def gonna give those albums a spin.
When you brought up Moonlight Sorcery and Bodom while talking about Bloody Valkyria, it reminded me of another album I loved this year (and actually my Nr 2): Gravebound by Bloodcross (also from Finland), leaning more to the thrashy/melodic death side. An absolute ripper🤘
Here's to another great year for metal in 2025 🍻
Cheers dude, appreciate that! Ya although it was tough to narrow down, I just had to put Iotunn #1, so good! And thanks for the recommendation on Bloodcross!
I really enjoy nearly every album you mentioned haha. Thanks for making these videos!
I never find the time to put a full list together, but I know my favourite black metal albums so far (there are SO many I never got around to, or got buried by something else. Infinite homework.)
#1 is going to Ancient Guard - Nightfall Enthroned (Can't stop listening to this one. Their EP this year is just as good. Also Canadian!)
The runners up all feel like a tie : Hellbutcher, Mortem Agmen, Arkona, Wormwood, Cistvaen, Boreal Throne, Bütcher, Downcross, Spectral Wound, Aara
I will say tho that Horn is way up there on the list and Likentog is maybe the best song of the year. Gets stuck in my head all the time
Cheers! And no problem at all. Great picks too by the way! Love that you have Boreal Throne on there! I gotta check out Mortem Agmem, not familiar with that one
I love your varied taste. You are one of the only channels that gives power Metal any love…
Cheers, thanks! Ya it boggles my mind why so many seen to completely ignore power and traditional heavy metal
Thanks for the tips, did only listen to Blood Incantion this year and have very much to listen to in my vacation next week. Greetings and great week 👋
Cheers! Enjoy your vacation and hope you find a few new albums to check out!
Dude I can see why you had that Seven Spires up high at 3. That album is awesome. I only just got to it but wow - you can tell that band poured their heart and soul into that record.
Glad you liked it! I honestly was so close to putting it at #1. Definitely my most listened to album of the year, it just really hit me. So much emotion, and I love their songwriting approach. If you haven't listened to their earlier albums, would highly recommend the last 2 as well. Just as good! Quickly becoming one of my favorite modern bands. Cheers!
Cheers! Loads for me to check out here. The Iotunn album is a great choice for no.1. Thanks dude🤘
Cheers Green Man! Thanks!
Quite a few obscure releases at the top - will give Iotunn another listen in your honor. I wasn't as enthusiastic about the quality of metal this year but here's my Top 5:
1. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum
2. The Funeral Procession - In Still Silence
3. Vemod - The Deepening
4. Borkgnagar - Fall
5. Djevel - Natt Til Ende
Oh how could I forget Vemod! Such a great album, I need to revisit that. I have not heard The Funeral Procession, gonna have to check that one out. Cheers man!
Great list and thanks for all your recommendations in 2024 .. not managed to hear a lot of them as yet but they are on the hallowed list so it will happen ..love seeing sig ar tyr on there as that and winterfylleth are my top 2 ..
Cheers! Definitely not going to argue Sig:Ar:Tyr and Winterfylleth at the top! Both amazing albums
Hi Graham, finally got round to listening to part 2, not much on there I've heard, but I've picked a few out that I intend listening to over the next few nights at work- IOTUNN top of the list to check out.
For what it's worth, I've added on my own Top 40 list that I'd put together for another channel, not as extreme as yours (nothing crusty or blackened in sight I'm afraid!!) but see what you think!
Have a great festive period, however you celebrate it, see you in the New Year! Skol!
PS, loved the HELVETETS PORT and SGAILE albums from your 1st half, by the way!
My Albums Of The Year 2024, Top 40
1 JUDAS PRIEST Invincible Shield
2 BRUCE DICKINSON Mandrake Project
3 MAGNUM Here Comes The Rain
4 SIMONE SIMONS Vermilion (of Epica)
5 BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION V
6 NIGHTWISH Yesterwynde
7 CATS IN SPACE Time Machine
8 THE DEAD DAISIES Light Em Up
9 AD INFINITUM Abyss
10 CASSANDRA'S CROSSING Garden Of Earthly Delights (George Lynch)
11 FM Old Habits Die Hard
12 OPETH Last Will & Testament
13 DEEP PURPLE =1
14 NESTOR Teenage Rebel
15 WHOM GODS DESTROY Insanium
16 BOBBI DAZZLER Fandabidozi
17 MOGGS MOTEL S/T (UFO singer)
18 CHARLOTTE WESSELS The Obsession
19 KINGS OF MERCIA Battle Scars
20 MYRATH Karma
21 EVERGREY Theories Of Emptiness
22 VANDEN PLAS The Empyrean Equation
23 LUCIFER V
24 THE WARNING Keep Me Fed
25 ACCEPT Humanoid
26 POWERWOLF Wake Up The Wicked
27 SLASH Orgy Of The Damned
28 SIX BY SIX Beyond Shadowland
29 FROZEN CROWN War Hearts
30 WITHIN TEMPTATION Bleed Out
31 BLACKBERRY SMOKE Be Right Here
32 GRAND MAGUS Sunraven
33 CATEGORY 7 S/T (Jon Bush et al)
34 UNLEASH THE ARCHERS Phantoma
35 ORANGE GOBLIN Thieving From The House Of God
36 IRONFLAME Kingdom Torn Asunder
37 FLOTSAM & JETSAM I Am The Weapon
38 HAUNT Dreamers
39 DGM Endless
40 NIGHTMARE Encrypted
Honourable Mentions, in no particular order, the albums by:
BLACK CROWES, ECLIPSE, BETH HART, TAK MATSUMOTO GROUP, HOUSE OF LORDS, ARIES DESCENDANT, KEYS, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, EXIT EDEN, MR BIG, MICHAEL SCHENKER, FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, LEAVES EYES, XANDRIA, SERIOUS BLACK, MYLES KENNEDY & LIONSHEART
Cheers and happy holidays to you as well! Lots of great picks in your list that I love! And also quite a few that I have not heard, so you have given me some stuff to explore! Thanks!
There ist only one overlap with my list (Ungfell), but still a great selection of releases. Thank you for sharing.
Here are my top albums of 2024:
Bloody Keep - Rats Of Black Death
Fullmoon Rite - Draped In The Shade Of Luciferian Light
Lunatic Affliction - Nerto Brixtia
Seth - La France Des Maudits
Sabire - Jätt
Theurgy - Emanations of Unconscious Luminescence
The Crown - Crown of Thorns
Lidérc - Profán Mystérium
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex of the Worlds
Benighted - Ekbom
Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Gwoid - Dem Mondvolk zum Zeichen
Unhallowed Deliverance - Of Spectres and Strife
Domus Dei Satanae - King Paimon
Orbital Gate - Voyage to the Closing Star
Brodequin - Harbringer of Woe
Arkhaeth - Profound Lore of the Ashen Specters
Ungfell - De Ghörnt
Törnen - Under Körpens Visdom
Auld Ridge - For Death and Glory, to the Gods I Cry
Gulguhk - Pillé, vendu et trahi
Winter Eternal - Echoes of Primordial Gnosis
Vomit The Soul - Massive Incineration
Hiraes - Dormant
Wormed - Omegon
Dauþuz - Uranium
Post Mortal Possession - The dead space between the stars
Erzfeynd - Fivrrist
Stiriah - Portal
Nyktophobia - To the stars
Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star
Civerous - Maze Envy
Kohlrabenschwarz - Im finsteren Tal
Profane Existence - Scorn
Cheers! And thanks for sharing your picks! A few of those were very close to being on my list. And a nice handful that I have not heard, so thanks for that. You have given me some exploring to do!
Great list, thanks for all reviews, top of the month :) cheers from Poland.
here's my top 10 :
1. Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
2. Aara - Eiger
3. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge
4. Darkspace - Dark Space -II
5. Sphere - Objet violent non identifié
6. Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
7. Arkona - Stella Pandora
8. Aquilus - Bellum II
9. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
10. Мещера [Meschera] - Песни вечных ветров
Honorable mentions : Vitriol - Suffer & Become, Iotunn - Kinship, Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic, Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star, Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death.
Cheers from Canada! Great picks yourself there too! I am not familiar with your #10 album so thanks for the recommendation! Based on your other picks I have a feeling I will like it!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews this is russian folk metal band with some influence of black metal. love this album, the name of the album : "Songs of Eternal Winds", it's only 35 min. long and for me it;s a little short imo.
Iotunn rules the metal planet again. My #1 as well
Seven Spires being in your top 3 instantly earns you my respect. My favorite band and this new album is amazing.
Such a great band and album! So underrated too. Cheers!
Great videos . I’m not an easy viewer, I get bored easily but this 2 rankings catch me
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed them!
Great List! You seem like such a wholesome person :)
Here are some of my favorites this year in no particular order, maybe you dont know about some of them and are interested in checking them out
1. Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition Chapter 4: To shadow Zion
2. Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
3. Blood Incatation - Absolute Elsewhere
4. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
5. Glassing - From the other side of the Mirror
6. ZØRZA - Hellven
7. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
8. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
9. Beenkerver - De Rode Weduwe
10. (Rap Album) Tyler The Creator - Chromakopia
Cheers, thanks! And great picks as well! I know and enjoy most of those. I haven't checked out Glassing, so thanks for the recommendation, will give it a listen for sure!
Very nice list ! (and very nice glass !)
Not surprise to see the Blood Incantation in your list. It will be in mine. And it will be in many other tops for sure. I guess it will be the album of the year if we combine all tops.
I still didn't listen to Iotunn but I definitely have to do it. Maybe on saturday morning at the gym. The last album was cool but not so memorable for me.
However I listen to the Horn and I don't find the magic the previous album have... But listening what you said about it I think I have to listen to it again as it is indeed a really great black Metal band. And I am very sad as I have a nice tshirt of the band, a grey one, and I put some red wine on it :'(
btw way I use your top 10 on my blog to create a general 2024 ranking?
Cheers Achille! Looking forward to seeing your top albums of the year as well! That definitely sucks about your Horn shirt! Hopefully the wine stain can come out :) And ya for sure you can use my top 10 on your blog, I would be honored!
As a Black Metal/Tolkien fan I'm gelling on your selections Mr Hammerheart. I don't necessarily agree Winterfylleth's IH is predictable. Just when Silent Grace leaves you floating in the clouds over snow capped craggy peaks, track 7 (The Edge of Tyranny), pulls you down into the mire and kicks you in the balls! - Great album! I didn't expect that on the first listen. It was a pleasant surprise on the first listen that I stil look forward too every time. 🤘🖤🤘
Cheers! Great comment about Winterfylleth, that is very true! Solid album front to back. It is just predictable in how good it is haha
Great job man, it's so difficult to make these rankings haha.
Mine is still not complete, but here's a ranking in progress. The top three were very easy to rank, while the rest is quite interchangeable. I still need to give some of the lower ranked albums another listen, before I conclude and post my list on instagram. I've still not listened to the new Aara, as I'm waiting for the physical product, but if it's as good as the previous trilogy It'd make my top 10 relatively easily (but not top 3).
Here we go with a top 30 favorite releases (albums, EPs and demos) of 2024:
1. Djevel - Natt til Ende
2. Vemod - The Deepening
3. Koldbrann - Ingen Skånsel
4. Oerheks - Heksen & Geesten van Brabant
5. Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt
6. Häxenzijrkell - Portal
7. Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus
8. Old Horn Tooth - Mourning Light
9. Misotheist - Vessels By Which the Devil is Made Flesh
10. Parfaxitas - Weaver of the Black Moon
11. From The Vastland - Tenebrous Shadow
12. Nubivagant - The Blame Dagger
13. Bythos - Chthonic Gates Unveiled
14. Night Shall Drape Us - Lunatic Choir
15. Syn - Villfarelse
16. SIG:AR:TYR - Citadel Of Stars
17. Avmakt - Satanic Inversion Of….
18. Hate Forest - Justice
19. Kråbøl - Never
20. Death Like Mass - The Lord Of Flies
21. KVAEN - The Formless Fires
22. Blood Red Throne - Nonagon
23. Reversed - Wildly Possessed
24. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge
25. Departure Chandelier - Satan Soldier of Fortune
26. Fír - De stilte van God
27. Spectral Light - In the absence of light, shadows remain...
28. Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All.......
29. Deep Purple - = 1
30. Dauþuz - Uranium
31. Narbeleth - A Pale Crown
Edit: Forgot Spectral light, which is on my more developed list on my work PC, so it became a top 31.
Cheers man! I just listened to the new Aara the other day, and ya it did not disappoint! It may have snuck into my list if I had waited before recording these. Great picks too! I need to revisit some of those...Oerheks is awesome! Will definitely check out your finalized list on instagram once its up!
Uuh, those Attic, Sig:Ar:Tyr, Triumpher, Horn and Dödsrit albums will certainly be highest priority for me to check out :D Several familiar names on your list, hehe 🙂 and lot of homework for me, as usual. Stellar list.
MY TOP 25 picks:
25. CRYPT SERMON - The Stygian Rose / No wonder everybody likes this. Prime heavy metal. Every subsequent listen is better and better.
24. IRON CURTAIN - Savage Dawn / Exciter's heirs. Blasting fun early 80's heavy/speed metal. Raw sound, great riffs and vocals, blazing solos! Love it!
23. OPETH - The Last Will and Testament / Too low? Yeah, this was tough for me. I love listening to the whole album, but individual songs haven't yet cleared out in my head. For now.
22. FROSTBITTEN THORNS - Mysteries of the Night / Technically it's only EP, but I had to include it here, one of my favorite Black metal releases of the year. Atmospheric, melodic, melancholic, with beautiful addition of folky acoustic parts.
21. ROMUVOUS - Spirits / Majestic folk metal album, somewhere between Wardruna and Ensiferum. So atmospheric and atmospheric! Love it!
20. GOAT MAJOR - Ritual / Holly molly, what an evil sound! Impressive debut album from these occult doom/stoner guys. Catchy and menacing sounding album!
19. PHAËTHON - Wielder of the Steel / Holly smokes, this album rips! Very similar to Heavy Load, but much more intense and better produced. Epic heavy metal in a nutshell.
18. KRYPTOS - Decimator / Man I love raw speed metal of the early 80's. These guys deliver!
17. GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven / They simply can not miss. Yet another great heavy/doom metal album. Riffing is so dense, always bopping my head. Soulful solos, great deep vocals.
16. TRAVELER - Prequel to Madness / Fans of early Iron Maiden, early Helloween, Angel Witch etc... will be most thrilled with this release. Powerful vocals, great riffing and blazing solos.
15. SPECTRAL WOUND - Songs of Blood and Mire / Classic old school Black Metal at its finest, I enjoy it a lot. One of my favorites black metal albums of the year.
14. HEXEREI - Nihil I Celandum / Fantastic 70's psychedelic / hard rock, lots of fuzz, beefy riffing and tasty solos. Great vocals too. One can easily imagine these guys opening for Hendrix back in a day.
13. SAVAGED - Night Stealer / For the fans of old school 80's heavy/speed metal and vocals of King Diamond, this album is pure gold! Awesome!
12. WHITE DOG - Double Dog Dare / Mesmerizing old school bluesy/hard rock with progressive edge. Warm and enjoyable album.
11. BLUES PILLS - Birthday / Stellar Blues Rock release, as expected from this band. This time however, with welcome touch of commerciality. Hope this album will turn wider audience to them.
10. SAXON - Hell, Fire and Damnation / We can always bet on these veterans to deliver beefy, juicy riff fest. This album is no exception. Heavy Metal treat.
09. MONKEY3 - Welcome to the Machine / Instrumental psychedelic space rock. Beautiful, adventurous album, so easy to lose oneself in the atmosphere and melodies.
08. TAROT - Glimpse of the Dawn / A killer album! Top to bottom classic! Gorgeous songs, 70's hard&heavy with progressive flavor. This might be perfect introductory album for people not experienced with 70's heavy rock.
07. CAUSA SUI - From the Source / Gorgeous album! Adventurous, wandering atmosphere, fat and heavy bass, gorgeous keys and guitars. Phenomenal mix of psychedelic rock, space rock and jazz fusion.
06. DOLMEN GATE - Gateways of Eternity / Epic heavy metal at full display! Fantastic album!
05. HAZEHOUND - Macrodose / Absolutely delightful old school blues rock / hard rock album! Sounds like a great mixture of Jimi Hendrix, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Uriah Heep
04. GJENFERD - Gjenferd / Amazing album! Treat for any fan of 70's hard rock legends Uriah Heep, Deep Purple etc.
03. ASTRAL DOORS - End of it All / Always subscribed to my list, these guys deliver yet another great heavy metal album with superb riffing, guitar solos and ever majestic vocals from Mr. Nils Patrik Johansson.
02. ALUNAH - Fever Dream / One of my most anticipated albums of the year and it is a killer! Tasty solos, beefy riffing, catchy songs and outstanding vocals!
01. LUCIFER - LUCIFER V / These guys never fail. Yet another extraordinary Catchy 70's sounding hard rock album. A must listen.
Another year over, damn 😀 Hell of a journey chasing these albums. Hopefully next year will be even better, and hopefully there will be more time to listen to new music :)
Happy Holidays man!
Cheers!
Cheers and happy holidays to you too man! Once again, great picks! That Phaethon album was really cool...one of the guys from Fen I believe. Really enjoyed Dolmen Gate too. There are a few here I definitely need to check out as well, just simply based on your descriptions!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Have a good one man, I don't doubt that I will with some of your picks. Once again happy holidays, recharge your batteries, have fun and see ya again in 2025! Cheers!
Great list. There are quite some, I need to listen to. My Top 20
1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
2. Luck and Strange - David Gilmour
3. Opeth - Last Will and Testament
4. Beardfish - Songs for the beating hearts
5. Iotunn - Kinship
6. Vorga - Beyond the palest star
7. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
8. Thy Catafalque - XII
9. Solstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl
10.Alcest - Les Chants de l'aurore
11.Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light
12.Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk
13.The Cure - Songs of a lost World
14.Aquilus - Bellum 2
15.Horn - Daudswärk
16.Anciients - Beyond the reach of the sun
17.Grand Magus - Sunraven
18.Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
19.Borknagar - Fall
20.Sgaile - Traverse the bealach
Cheers! And great picks as well!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews If you like Iotunn (which I can fully understand), did you also check the new Hamferd?
@@simond1574 Oh ya, the new Hamferd was great! I had it in the first part of my top 50 albums of the year video when I counted down #50-26. So many amazing albums this year!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Oh, ok. Saw the video, but somehow missed it 🙂
Amazing list.🎉
Thanks for all the video,s
1.iotunn
2.opeth
3.blood incantation
Cheerzz!
Cheers, thank you!
My man knows what he likes, haha. You should definitely check out Bedsore.
Great List !!
1.Judas Priest-Invicible shield
2.Dark Tranquillity-Endtime signals
3.200 Stabs wounds-Manual manic procedures
4.Nyktophobia-To the stars
5.Gatecreeper-Dark superstition
6.Fulci-Duck face killings
7.Sentient Horror-In service of the dead
8.Morbid Saint-Swallowed by hell
9.Necrot-Lifeless birth
10.Dödsrit-Nocturnal will
11.Houle-Ciel cendre et misère noire
12.Deicide-Banished By sin
13.Tzompantli-Beating the drums of Ancestral Force
14.Octopoloid-Beyond the Aeons
15.Flotsam and Jetsam-I am the weapon
16.Realm of wolves-Hegemon of cold seas
17.Ripped to shreds-Sanshi
18.Saidan-Visual Kill..
19.Nile-Te underworld awaits us all
20.Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere
Cheers, thanks! And nice picks yourself!
Speaking of grabbing a sword, Havukruunu released a new single today! 2025 could be amazing! So many we have in common and so many for me to check out. So glad to see Sig:Ar:Tyr in your top 10. Here's a few that were faves of mine but that weren't in your list just in case you might have missed a few of them (not likely, I know):
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
Flotsam and Jetsam - I Am the Weapon
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True (If you liked early Yes, this is the best Yes album in more than 20 years)
Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Æternum (Great Gothic Rock)
Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge
Trhä - ∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj
Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno
Amiensus - Reclamation, Pt. I & 2
Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Aara - Eiger
Huntsmen - The Dry Land
Múr - Múr
High On Fire - Cometh the Storm
And lastly a special shoutout for Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia, a re-recording of an early Sepultura album and goddamn is it great
I am so excited for new Havukruunu! Just listened to the new track yesterday and it definitely did not disappoint! Great additional picks above also! I know and enjoy most of them, but there are a couple I have not heard. I need to check out that Mur album for sure, have heard good things about it just recently. Cheers!
We definitely had lots of albums in common in our top 50's, just in different places haha.
Such an amazing year for killer albums, hope next year has just as many!
Cheers 🍻 and Merry Christmas!
25. Borknagar - Fall (Viking/Folk/Black Metal, Norway)
24. Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves (Atmospheric Black Metal, UK)
23. Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive (Doom Metal, USA)
22. Striker - Ultrapower (Traditional Heavy/Power Metal, Canada)
21. Unto Others - Never, Neverland (Gothic Metal, USA)
20. Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun (Extreme Progressive Metal, Canada)
19. Aara - Eiger (Atmospheric Black Metal, Switzerland)
18. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament (Progressive Death Metal/Progressive Rock, Sweden)
17. Attic - Return of the Witchfinder (Heavy Metal, Germany)
16. Liminal Shroud - Visions of Collapse (Black Metal, Canada)
15. The Flight of Sleipnir (Folk/Doom/Stoner Metal,USA)
14. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum (Gothic Metal/Black Metal)
13. Necrot - Lifeless Birth (Death Metal, USA)
12. Evoking Winds - Your Rivers (Atmospheric Black/Folk Metal, Belarus)
11. Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars (Folk/Black Metal, Canada)
10. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose (Epic Doom Metal, USA)
9. Inquisition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence (Black Metal, Columbia)
8. Black Pyramid - The Paths of Time are Vast (Stoner/Doom Metal, USA)
7. My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding (Gothic Doom Metal, UK)
6. Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire (Black Metal, Canada)
5. Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe (Death/Thrash/Black Metal, USA)
4. Iotunn - Kinship (Progressive Melodic Death Metal, Denmark)
3. Ripped to Shreds - Sanshi (Death Metal/Grind, USA)
2. Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will (Black Metal/Crust, Sweden)
1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (Progressive Death Metal, USA)
Talk about the two of us having pretty similar tastes haha! Ya we had quite a bit of overlap, just in different spots. Pretty crazy when there were so many amazing albums this year. Great picks! Cheers and Merry Xmas as well!
@HammerheartMetalReviews I gotta say I was slightly surprised by your number one! Haha Amazing album though.
@@MrOmac09 haha honestly I had such a hard time actually picking a #1. I knew what my top 10 were looking like, but the actual order was so tough. I am sure in another week I would change the order again lol
Hands down superb list and 36 minutes without going to the toilet. Bladders of Steel!!! I'll throw in my dirty dozen:
Iotunn - Kinship
Modern Rites - Endless
Piah Mater - Under the Shadows of a Foreign Sun
Cistvaen - At Lights Demise
Avmakt - Satanic Perversions of...
Wormwood - The Star
Obscurial - Heretic
Opeth - Last Will & Testament
Selbst - Dispondency Chord Progressions
Void Witch - Horrifying Presence
Vicious Blade - Relentless Force
Siderean - Spilling the Astral Chalice
Two Bands To Watch: Black Birch (Sweden) & Vathr (Norway)
Bladders of steel!! haha, thats awesome. Great picks as well, I love so many of those! Plus a couple I am not familiar with, so will definitely have to check them out. Cheers!
@HammerheartMetalReviews Haha. It's a exciting and dynamic you made there. You were not afraid to throw in some debuts/sophomore s, so a ballsy call you made there. I commend that list and will be checking some of them out 👍
10 Ihsahn - Ihsahn
9 Black Curse - Burning in Celestial Poison
8 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
7 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
6 Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
5 Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
4 Mitochondrion - Vitriseptome
3 Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
2 Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
1 Ingurgitating Oblivion - The Ontology of Nought
Great picks! Cheers!
What beer you got? Looks good.
This one was an Erdinger! So tasty
Skeletal remains 🐐
Coffins 🐐
Slimelord 🐐
Necrophobic 🐐
Necrot 🐐
Undeath 🐐
Blood incantation 🐐
Job for a cowboy 🐐
Laceration 🐐
So many death metal bangers this year 👹
Ya it was a great year for death metal!
Over the weekend, landing a week after my top 20 albums of 2024 video, I posted the "10 worst albums of 2024" video.
We usually have a whole lot of overlap, but not this year! This year you went to traditional-hm road while I took the prog-death one. :D
Anyway, here's my list:
10. Candy. It's Inside You
9. BEDSORE - Dreaming the Strife for Love
8. Thy Catafalque. XII: A gyönyörü álmok ezután jönnek
7. The Old Dead Tree. Second Thoughts
6. Kvadrat. The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion
5. Panzerfaust. Suns of Perdition Chapter 4
4. The Flight of Sleipnir. Nature's Cadence
3. Thyrathen. Lakonic
2. Opeth. The Last Will and Testament
1. Blood Incantation. Absolute Elsewhere
haha ya with so many amazing albums I am always surprised when lists overlap a lot. Looks like we still had 3 of the same in our top 10. Love seeing The Flight of Sleipnir there...I feel like no one is talking about that album, and its so damn good. I am not familiar with Kvadrat, so thanks for that, gonna check that one out! I only very recently hear the Thyrathen album, but I dug it a lot. Great picks!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews I've been a fan of TFOS for over ten years. Definitely one of the most talented and underrated bands around.
@@Perchumovic Nice! I only discovered them with the Skadi album, so more recently for me, but ya they are so underrated and underappreciated
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Oh, and you seriously should check out that Kvadrat record. Hailing from Greece, brilliant one-man death metal band. There's something in the water over there, let me tell ya!
My number 1 is Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars all year long 😁
I'm curious to see where you ranked that one. Daemonskald is a God when it comes to guitar, drums and all the other instrumentation plus putting it all together, just Wow!
Other bands I've enjoyed and returned to more than once:
Critical Defiance from Chile, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple, Magnum, Morta Skuld, Sentry, Seid, Himinbjorg and Cavalera...oh and Winterfylleth. Cheers Hammerheart 🍻
Love Sig:Ar:Tyr! I placed it fairly high, it was easily in my top 10 all year too! Cheers!
Great list ! We have a few fantastic albums in Poland this year that You should totally check.
Mary " Widy Styczniowe"
Deus Mortem " Thanatos"
Zorza " Hellven"
Blaze of perdition " Upharsin"
Hauntologist "Hollow"
Cheers! And thanks for the recommendations! I have only heard a couple of those, so will definitely check the others out!
My Top 50 (#1 - 25)
01. Iotunn - Kinship
02. Borknagar - Fall
03. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
04. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
05. Sólstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl
06. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
07. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum
08. Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic
09. In Vain - Solemn
10. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals
11. Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness
12. Hamferð - Men Guös hond er sterk
13. Swallow The Sun - Shining
14. Unto Others - Never, Neverland
15. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness
16. Ubiquity - The Ascendant Travels Among The Stars
17. Witherfall - Sounds Of The Forgotten
18. Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
19. Alcest - Les Chants de l' Aurore
20. Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek
21. Vola - Friend Of A Phantom
22. Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement
23. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
24. The Eternal - Skinwalker
25. Múr - Múr
Nice! Same #1. Great list
Have you had any Hammerheart beers out of MN? Their distribution is pretty limited -- when I was in Chicago I was always chasing down which bars had something on tap because you couldn't get it otherwise. Awesome Scandinavian style beers with metal art and themes.
First time seeing yr channel, good stuff -- Iotunn is a newish discovery and quickly becoming a fave, made my Fester's Lucky 13.
1. Neon Nightmare - Faded Dream
2. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
3. Early Moods - A Sinner’s Past
4. Lucifer - Lucifer V
5. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
6. Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
7. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
8. Unto Others - Never, Neverland
9. Iotunn - Kinship
10. Tarot - Glimpse of the Dawn
11. Pallbearer - Minds Burn Alive
12. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
13. Castle - Evil Remains
Bubbling under:
Hands Of Goro - Hands of Goro
Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder
Scarecrow - Scarecrow III
The Gates Of Slumber - The Gates of Slumber
Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Æternum
Magmakammer - Before I Burn
The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow
Legions Of Doom - The Skull 3
REZN - Burden
Demon & Eleven Children - Demonic Fascination
Worshipper - One Way Trip
High Reeper - Renewed by Death
Lünd - Ancient Steel EP
Sovereign - Altered Realities
Fracture - Chaos Alchemy
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Eternal - Cryptic Lust
Cheers! I was lucky enough to try Hammerheart beers once when I was in Minnesota. I am only a few hours away from there up in Canada, but we don't get it imported here unfortunately! That brewery is run by the guy from Panopticon, which is really cool. Really delicious beer too, but it has been way too long since I have had one. Great picks also, with a few new ones for me to check out!
@@HammerheartMetalReviews Were you at their taproom in Lino Lakes? Looks like they closed that in '21, relocated to Ely, MN, and stopped production for a couple years while they do the build out. Looks like they're just getting started again, distributing kegs and bottles only in MN. If I was in driving distance I'd totally pick some up, but am in TX now.
@@Fastnbulbous1969 I never got the chance to go to the actual taproom, but was lucky to find some at the local beer store in Minny many years ago. I really hope they start distributing outside MN, would love to get my hands on some again. Or will just have to search for it next time I am down there, but usually only go once every few years
Good list, we have 2 in common.
Cheers! I saw the other day you talked about Iotunn in your top 15...I was gonna comment but I didnt want to give away that it was my #1 quite yet haha. will check out the rest of yours once its up!
@ nice it is a great album, you can comment now lol
1.Blood Incantation
2.Judas Priest
3.Achelous
4.Attic
5. Morgul Blade
6. Crypt Sermon
7. Saxon
8. Krillion
9. Bloody Valkyria
10. Gloomy Reflections
Excellent picks! Achelous is great!
My top 10(band names only):
Mitochondrion
Blood incantation
Gaerea
Bruce Dickinson
Iottun
Lucifer
Sinistro
Sgaile
Ulcerate
Knoll
Nice picks!
That better be Erdinger in that glass!! Lol I love that stuff.
haha! It was Erdinger. Such a good beer!
Great selection man. Full of great albums this year. The Iotunn record is really damn good. Have you checked the Hyver album from the greylle band member. That is my fav of the year
I still have to listen to some stuff to finish my list. Satanic warmaster just dropped and album at midnight... 😂
Cheers man! Ya that Hyver record was really cool too! He is in so many projects, and I have yet to be disappointed by any. And I had no idea Satanic Warmaster was putting out a new album today. Thanks for the heads up, gonna be checking that out!
Topped off a Stella Artois to this video. A little too much heavy metal/power metal for my taste, but good list man!
Cheers! Stella is a great choice!
Solid list. 👍 ... although I think Ulcerate 'Cutting the Throat of God' is placed FAR to low... easily my AOTY.. 🤗
Cheers! and hey thats fair, I can totally see why it could easily be an AOTY.
@@HammerheartMetalReviews ..and as a Dane, I salute you for having Iotunn at number one.. 🤗👍 Personally my favorite Danish metal album was Neckbreakker 'Within the Vicera'. 👌
1. Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
2. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
3. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
4. Seven Spires - A Fortress Called Home
5. Civerous - Maze Envy
6. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
7. Hulder - Verses In Oath
8. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
9. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
10. Immortal Bird - Sin Querencia
11. Aquilus - Bellum 2
12. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out To She
13. Haliphron - Anatomy Of Darkness
14. Tribulation - Sub Rosa
15. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge
16. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming Of Psychotic Depravity
17. Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
18. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
19. Akhyls - House Of The Black Geminus
20. Lutharo - Chasing Euphoria
Great picks! Love so many of those, and even some that I didnt end up putting in my list were very close to making it. Cheers!
As an unbiased Horn fan, whose favorite black metal band is not Horn, my favorite album of the year was Daudswiärk.
Nice! Its so damn good
New Satanic Warmaster just dropped, honestly became my favorite album this year.
Just listened to it yesterday! Didn't even know a new album was coming
@@HammerheartMetalReviews I don't think anyone knew it was coming. Looks like it just dropped out of nowhere.
Sounding "negative" when you are a music critic is literally your job.
Lyktononon is a member of Blood Incantation and IMO, a better version of the same thing. When it comes to that circle, BI as good as it is was in last place, both Spectral Voice and Black Curse are way better.
Cool to see Flight of Sleipnir getting some love. Band has been around forever, Lore was there highlight for me.
Kvadrat-Horrible Age of Dissonance is the miss of the year for all too many it seems.
So many bands within that BI circle - If I had to pick favorites I would go with Stormkeep and Wayfarer, but ya all of them are good in their own way. Agreed that The Flight of Sleipnir is so underrated and underappreciated. I haven't heard the Kvadrat album, but someone else also recommended it to me in the comments here. I will definitely be scoping it out this week. Cheers!
Mörk Gryning and Satanic Warmaster releases today!
I just listened to the Mork Gryning yesterday on the early stream, and ya its great. didnt know Satanic Warmaster was putting out a new one. Gonna be checking that out. Cheers!
Opeth Mùr Winterfylleth
I'm surprised you don't have paysage d'hiver on your list.
Great album! Was definitely in the mix to be on my list, but ultimately I left it off. Had tough decisions when narrowing this list down
i don't get the appeal of blood incantation and opeth. i'd rather shuttle thru a playlist of pink floyd and nile.
hey fair enough, I get why they wouldn't interest everyone
I can break it down. Prog-death is the subgenre of choice for those who really like progressive-rock but don't like the flowery/jazzy/upbeat side of it. It's basically the best of both worlds.
I love prog and death metal so its a good mix of the two 🐐
Only like Thornbridge and it didn't make my top 50.