Awesome channel...I'm an older metal and hard-core listener (55) and have been listening to these genres for 40+ years and still discovering more and more amazing bands not just from the heavier end of the spectrum...what i personally hate are the haters of these genres...unfortunately most people that are only into mainstream music just want to listen to what's popular or what is on trend...there are 2 types of music groups, those who HEAR music and these who LISTEN to music...keep up the good work 🤟❤ from Australia 🇦🇺
Great list! A couple I have regrettably missed but now have in my cart as I'm a physical media addict. Some you may have missed that I would suggest. IOTUNN 'Kinship', Ulcerate 'Cutting the Throat of God', Job for A Cowboy 'Moon Healer', and GAEREA 'Coma'. Happy holidays and I hope you have an even better 2025!!
Anciients! Great record. See them play alot because they're from here (Vancouver) and with the two new members they are killing it. The bonus track Some Other Time (Alan Parsons cover) is a great slower one! Cheers
My Top 10 (in no order): Deep Purple, Blood Incantation, Jon Anderson, Opeth, Judas Priest, Kerry King, Category 7, Moggs Motel, Sarke, Cassandra's Crossing. Honorable mention to: Tribulation, Crossbone Skully, The Cure, Devin Townsend, Rosalie Cunningham. Lots of great new music this year!
My top 5 from this year I've listened to the most: Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe Vredehammer - Godslayer Thy Shining Curse - Theurgia Gaerea - Coma Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Love your list! My top albums this year are: Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Paysage d'hiver - Die Berge Spectral Voice - Sparagmos My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding Vemod - The Deepening Hauntologist - Hollow Alcest - Les Chants de L'Aurore Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All Folterkammer - Weibermacht Crypt Sermon -Stygian Rose
Great list .. I haven't made a top 10 list, but a few I would put on it are Opeth, Blood Incantation, High Parasite, Cemetery Skyline... (Those off the top of my head at the moment) Others I love- Chelsea Wolfe, The Cure, Iotunn... Now my mind's going blank LOL
in no particular order- Kollapse- AR Five the heirophant- Aperion Julie christmas- ridiculous and full of blood Beth Gibbons- lives outgrown Chelsea wolfe- she reaches out to... Glass beams- Mahal The Cure- songs of a lost world The smile- wall of eyes Squarepusher- Dostrotime Rezn- Burden runner up- Nails- every bridge burning also the new Pest control EP is insanely good fun
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Chat Pile - Cool World An Axis of Perdition - Apertures Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
These are my Top Ten, in order 1. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe 2. Borknagar - Fall 3. Wind Rose - Trollslayer 4. Hiraes - Dormant 5. Neckbreakker - Within The Viscera 6. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals 7. DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors 8. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition 9. Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey 10. Hammerfall - Avenge The Fallen
Great list!!! My 2 top albums of the year are "Endtime Signals" by Dark Tranquillity, and "Nordic Gothic" by Cemetary Skyline. Same vocalist, but vastly different styles. Both albums are incredible!
Love looking at these lists. I'll drop my top 10: 1) Iotunn - Kinship 2) Modern Rites - Endless 3 Piah Mater - Under The Shadows of a Foreign Sun 4) Cistvaen - At Lights Demise 5) Avmakt - Satanic Perversions of... 6) Wormwood - The Star 7) Obscurial - Heretic 8) Opeth - Last Will & Testament 9) Vicious Blade - Relentless 10) Wolvencrown - Celestial Lands
Awesome video as ever and extremely based that you had Cave in there. I will say I don't necessarily agree it's his best for a long time. I genuinely believe the last 4 are 4 of the best he's done with The Seeds.
@ThatMetalBloke same, my friend. Cave doesn't know how to make bad music. The 2 Grinderman albums are 2 of my absolute favourites by the guy. I'm surprised I don't see more metalheads talk about those albums.
❌Great honourable mentions with High on Fire & the Chisel Blood Incantation & Chelsea Wolfe are a few favourites of the year as well. 2 extra mentions, if I may: Spectral Wound & Tribulation
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 2. Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis: Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt 3. Frost* - Life in the Wires 4. Chat Pile - Cool World 5. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 6. Ulver - Luminal Animals 7. Satan - Songs in Crimson 8. Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
@ Yeah, I know it was released 21th of December, digitally. Stupid date to release an album, my year-list was already done :P The LP and CD was however released in 2024, and Bandcamp says «released January 18, 2024», so I decided that it was a case of doubt. I talked to another big Abigor-fan, and he put it as #1 both in 2023 and 2024 :D
Great list mate and I've definitely got a couple to check out. Not the heaviest picks for me but lve loved the latest Unto others and zeal and ardor albums they've been on consistently since they were released
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.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant mate. I actually feel honoured to get a mention on one of your videos pal, class that. Lovely stuff indeed. As an actually response, no it isn’t enough I want more 🤣 Oh yeh nearly forgot, YES MY DUDE!!!
Great list! Great taste. I listened to hundreds of albums this year and had to drop a whole TOP 30! Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis - Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt / Austria Ætheria Conscientia - The Blossoming / France Apogean - Cyberstrictive / Canada Aristarchos - Martyr of Star and Fire / Scotland Blasteroid - Crypts of Mind / Greece Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke / USA Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere / USA Civerous - Maze Envy / USA Devenial Verdict - Blessing of Despair / Finland Dvne - Voidkind / Scotland Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens / Greece Hauntologist - Hollow / Poland IOTUNN - Kinship / Denmark Krallice - Inorganic Rites / USA Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion / Greece Mallephyr - Ruins of Inner Composure / Czechia Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All / USA Parfaxitas - Weaver of the Black Moon / Norway Pyrrhon - Exhaust / USA Rhûn - Conveyance in Death / USA Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions / Venezuela Sidus Atrum - Torn Sky / Ukraine Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished / USA Spectral Voice - Sparagmos / USA Thanatotherian - Alienation Manifesto / USA Theophonos - Ashes in the Huron River / USA Typhonian - The Gate of the Veiled Beyond / Germany Vástígr - The Path of Perdition / Austria Veilburner - The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom / USA
1 Akhlys - House of the Black Gemini 2 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 3 Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All 4 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures 5 Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating 6 Fulci - Duck Face Killings 7 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 8 Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God 9 Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition 10 Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal This is my Top 10 albums Blood Incantation is such an amazing mind blowing album but Akhlys are just top tier Black Metal all their albums are seriously perfect albums.
@ThatMetalBloke saw them both live on the same bill back in October both amazing live bands. The Gatecreeper guys were so cool they came out and hung out with everyone in the line outside the venue really down to earth which always makes a band even better when they are like that.
Nails, Nile and Blood Incantation made it on my list too! The rest for me: Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe (my album of the year, jaw dropping) Mirar - Mare (very unique thall) Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal (my favourite french band) Worm Sheperd - Hunger (symphonic deathcore) Replicant - Infinite Mortality (it's just perfect in every single way) Sear Bliss - Heavenly Doom (some good old Symphonic Black Metal from my hometown) Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision (huge fan of them, awesome doom album) aaand Thy Catafalque - A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek (peak hungarian ABM album of the year)
Nice to see Nile on your list. That's my #1 for sure. That album is incredible and continues to blow me away. I like it much better than Vile Nilotic Rites. This new one is much faster and more aggressive. My list: 1. Nile-The Underworld Awaits Us All 2. Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere 3. Ulcerate-Cutting the Throat of God 4. Opeth-The Last Will and Testament 5. High on Fire-Cometh the Storm 6. Judas Priest-Invincible Shield 7. Deicide-Banished By Sin 8. Better Lovers-Highly Irresponsible 9. Skeletal Remains-Fragments of the Ageless 10. Ihsahn-Ihsahn
I have fewer albums from the current year on my shelf than I usually have at this point in the year. I just ended up spending a lot of time digging in to some older stuff, so there's "only" 22 albums from 2024 on the CD shelves. Not a lot is metal. None of the best stuff is. So I've got some real catching up to do in 2025! Album of the year for me is "Haz" by La Yegros. My favorite metal album of the year is probably the new Fleshgod Apocalypse album, I guess.
Darkspace -2.-2, Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us all, Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere, Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge....no particular order yet \m/
My list 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 list, I have The Cure and Chelsea Wolfe as honourable mentions myself. My top 15 are as follows 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
I didn’t listen to nearly as many metal albums as you did but here are my favourites... Invincible Shield by Judas Priest: They've still fucking got it. Thunderous riffs, killer vocals and catchy as hell. You got fast thrashy shit as well as slower more doomy riffs and Rob Halford... he's the metal god for a fucking reason! Hell, Fire and Damnation by Saxon: They've also still... fucking... got it. This is the best album they've done since their last awesome album. Pure British heavy metal with killer riffs and catchy melodies and Biff Byford's vocals are as good now as they were back in 1979. This helped me get through some long cardio sessions. Draconian Darkness by Wolfheart: Basically a blend of Dark Tranquility and Agalloch. Melodic death metal but with a cold, wintery feel. Perfect for a rainy day. They've never made a bad album imo and this is an edition to their already great discography. Nordic Gothic by Cemetery Skyline: Beautiful album. I didn’t have any expectations for this as im kinda bored of gothic metal at this point, but this is a much needed breath of fresh air for the sub genre. Mikael Stanne's clean vocals are beautiful, the melodies are catchy, the production is perfect. It's for weirdos like me who enjoy cerebral head banging while driving in the rain. Fimbulvinter by Brothers of Metal: Cheesy power metal at it's finest. The album flows very nicely but is also quite diverse compared to your usual Sabaton and Powerwolf releases. You go from traditional 80's metal, to cheesy power metal, to folk music to proper testosterone filled breakdowns. Loved it! The Underworld Awaits us All by Nile and from Napalm records: Holy fucking shit this album from Napalm records is awesome: Their best since "Those Whom the God's Detest." Just brutal and epic! I love the quire vocals mixed in as well. Nile and Napalm records nailed it! Last Will and Testament by Opeth: I can’t get enough of this. I like the prog rock stuff but it's so great hearing Mikel growl again. This album is a pure musical journey and thanks to the production I can listen to every single instrument doing it's thing, telling it's own story. Not to mention the actual story from the lyrics is great to. Kinda like Succession but from the 1920's, and even more fucked up. Endtime Signals by Dark Tranquility: I love this album so much. It sounds very mature yet it still has all the DT Q's that I love. Not Nothing is one of my favourite song's they've ever written. I'm a DT fanboy tho so take this with a pinch of salt. Les Chants de l'Aurore by Alcest: Love it. I first listened to it when walking in the woods on a beautiful late spring afternoon, the sun was shining through the leaves, flowers were blooming all around me, birds were singing and the light was bouncing off the surface of a beautiful little river with ducks and swans swimming around and it just made me feel... 🥰
I can't get bored of that concept set in a beautiful landscaope... I'm not really into death metal and hardveres, but it's still a good list, I'd give 'em all a chance, especially Chelsea Wolf and Nick Cave. But how about Neon Nightmare? Is it good or just a TON ripoff?
Darkways - Resonance Heriot - Devoured by The Mouth of Hell Thrown - Excessive Guilt Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition of Prowess Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
Great to see Priest got an honourable mention. I think it is so good and the last 2 albums by them blow anything that Maiden have released in the last 20 years in my opinion. I personally can't see all the hype for the Blood Incantation. I find it boring. Just does nothing for me at all. I think the new Deicide and Nile are much better death metal albums. Love your thoughts mate🤘
Great list Man! I need to check out the new Nile album for sure but life’s been a bit too hectic recently. Do you buy CDs or Records or do you just stream albums now?
1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 2. Kerry King - From Hell I Rise 3. Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium 4. Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou 5. Body Count - Merciless 6. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament 7. Mushroomhead - Call The Devil 8. Aborted - Vault Of Horrors 9. Static-X - Project Regeneration Vol.2 10. Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals HONORABLE MENTIONS: 11. As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead 12. Linkin Park - From Zero 13. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera 14. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 15. Kittie - Fire
I’ll have to try that Paysage D’Hiver album again sometime. It hasn’t clicked with me yet, but PDH has never been an artist that has clicked with me on first listen; always a grower for me. Amazing black metal artist, though.
Good list, and good to see some stuff that other channels don't really seem to consider (The Chisel in honourable mentions, for example). Haven't really worked out a top ten, but Blood Incantation is up there. I also highly rated Schammasch's 'The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean' and Midnight's 'Hellish Expectations'.
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Awesome channel...I'm an older metal and hard-core listener (55) and have been listening to these genres for 40+ years and still discovering more and more amazing bands not just from the heavier end of the spectrum...what i personally hate are the haters of these genres...unfortunately most people that are only into mainstream music just want to listen to what's popular or what is on trend...there are 2 types of music groups, those who HEAR music and these who LISTEN to music...keep up the good work 🤟❤ from Australia 🇦🇺
You're absolutely right with that,i also want HEAR music.
Sit down and listen to REAL Music.
Thanks a lot mate. Glad you are enjoying the channel 🤘
Blood incantation. I’m seeing a lot of ❤for that album.
Great list! A couple I have regrettably missed but now have in my cart as I'm a physical media addict. Some you may have missed that I would suggest. IOTUNN 'Kinship', Ulcerate 'Cutting the Throat of God', Job for A Cowboy 'Moon Healer', and GAEREA 'Coma'. Happy holidays and I hope you have an even better 2025!!
Anciients! Great record. See them play alot because they're from here (Vancouver) and with the two new members they are killing it. The bonus track Some Other Time (Alan Parsons cover) is a great slower one! Cheers
My Top 10 (in no order): Deep Purple, Blood Incantation, Jon Anderson, Opeth, Judas Priest, Kerry King, Category 7, Moggs Motel, Sarke, Cassandra's Crossing. Honorable mention to: Tribulation, Crossbone Skully, The Cure, Devin Townsend, Rosalie Cunningham.
Lots of great new music this year!
Always glad to see people giving respect to Nile. One of my favorite bands and one of the bands that helped get me into death metal.
Wintersun -Time II
The Nile album is cinematic. Love it!! Opeth is my favorite, very closely followed by Priest.
It certainly is 🤘
Iotunn - Kinship is my album of the year
I haven't heard that one. I will have to check it out
ditto.
My top 5 from this year I've listened to the most:
Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
Vredehammer - Godslayer
Thy Shining Curse - Theurgia
Gaerea - Coma
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Great picks
Love your list! My top albums this year are:
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Paysage d'hiver - Die Berge
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding
Vemod - The Deepening
Hauntologist - Hollow
Alcest - Les Chants de L'Aurore
Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
Folterkammer - Weibermacht
Crypt Sermon -Stygian Rose
Appreciate the Nile and Paysage d'Hiver mentions....but no love for the Darkspace experiment earlier this year?
@@PadanFain-yp2yz it was a disappointment. Not saying it was not a good album. But it was definitely a massive step down from Darkspace III I
Glad you liked the list. I really enjoyed the new My Dying Bride as well
@@davidtsang5424 The Crypt Sermon album is amazing!!
I forgot about the new Alcest album. It’s a beautiful listen 4 sure !!
Great list .. I haven't made a top 10 list, but a few I would put on it are Opeth, Blood Incantation, High Parasite, Cemetery Skyline... (Those off the top of my head at the moment)
Others I love- Chelsea Wolfe, The Cure, Iotunn... Now my mind's going blank LOL
in no particular order-
Kollapse- AR
Five the heirophant- Aperion
Julie christmas- ridiculous and full of blood
Beth Gibbons- lives outgrown
Chelsea wolfe- she reaches out to...
Glass beams- Mahal
The Cure- songs of a lost world
The smile- wall of eyes
Squarepusher- Dostrotime
Rezn- Burden
runner up- Nails- every bridge burning
also the new Pest control EP is insanely good fun
Great list
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Chat Pile - Cool World
An Axis of Perdition - Apertures
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Great list
Great list ! Gonna check those who I do no tknow. Glad to discover your channel :)
These are my Top Ten, in order
1. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
2. Borknagar - Fall
3. Wind Rose - Trollslayer
4. Hiraes - Dormant
5. Neckbreakker - Within The Viscera
6. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals
7. DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors
8. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
9. Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
10. Hammerfall - Avenge The Fallen
That Neckbreakker album came out of nowhere and blew my tits off. Awesome stuff.
I really enjoyed the new Gatecreeper album as well
Great list!!!
My 2 top albums of the year are "Endtime Signals" by Dark Tranquillity, and "Nordic Gothic" by Cemetary Skyline. Same vocalist, but vastly different styles. Both albums are incredible!
I have yet to listen to Nordic Gothic so I will have to check that out.
Good to see Anciients in there. Good list. 🤘🏼🖤
Incredible band 🤘
Great list. Not had much chance to check out new stuff this year but Priest, Dark Tranquility and Ulcerate caught my ear.
Love looking at these lists. I'll drop my top 10:
1) Iotunn - Kinship
2) Modern Rites - Endless
3 Piah Mater - Under The Shadows of a Foreign Sun
4) Cistvaen - At Lights Demise
5) Avmakt - Satanic Perversions of...
6) Wormwood - The Star
7) Obscurial - Heretic
8) Opeth - Last Will & Testament
9) Vicious Blade - Relentless
10) Wolvencrown - Celestial Lands
Great list
Awesome video as ever and extremely based that you had Cave in there. I will say I don't necessarily agree it's his best for a long time. I genuinely believe the last 4 are 4 of the best he's done with The Seeds.
I love all their albums. This one resonates strongly right now as it's the latest
@ThatMetalBloke same, my friend. Cave doesn't know how to make bad music. The 2 Grinderman albums are 2 of my absolute favourites by the guy. I'm surprised I don't see more metalheads talk about those albums.
Awesome list there, mate! My upcoming list would be different as I have heard a variety of stuff. It's definitely a great year for music.
❌Great honourable mentions with High on Fire & the Chisel
Blood Incantation & Chelsea Wolfe are a few favourites of the year as well.
2 extra mentions, if I may: Spectral Wound & Tribulation
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2. Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis: Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt
3. Frost* - Life in the Wires
4. Chat Pile - Cool World
5. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
6. Ulver - Luminal Animals
7. Satan - Songs in Crimson
8. Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
Great list, but Abigor was last year a few days before Christmas.
Great list 🤘
@ Yeah, I know it was released 21th of December, digitally. Stupid date to release an album, my year-list was already done :P The LP and CD was however released in 2024, and Bandcamp says «released January 18, 2024», so I decided that it was a case of doubt. I talked to another big Abigor-fan, and he put it as #1 both in 2023 and 2024 :D
Great list mate and I've definitely got a couple to check out. Not the heaviest picks for me but lve loved the latest Unto others and zeal and ardor albums they've been on consistently since they were released
I enjoyed the new Zeal & Ardor as well
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.
Great picks 🤘
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant mate. I actually feel honoured to get a mention on one of your videos pal, class that. Lovely stuff indeed. As an actually response, no it isn’t enough I want more 🤣
Oh yeh nearly forgot, YES MY DUDE!!!
Great list! Great taste. I listened to hundreds of albums this year and had to drop a whole TOP 30!
Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis - Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt / Austria
Ætheria Conscientia - The Blossoming / France
Apogean - Cyberstrictive / Canada
Aristarchos - Martyr of Star and Fire / Scotland
Blasteroid - Crypts of Mind / Greece
Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke / USA
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere / USA
Civerous - Maze Envy / USA
Devenial Verdict - Blessing of Despair / Finland
Dvne - Voidkind / Scotland
Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens / Greece
Hauntologist - Hollow / Poland
IOTUNN - Kinship / Denmark
Krallice - Inorganic Rites / USA
Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion / Greece
Mallephyr - Ruins of Inner Composure / Czechia
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All / USA
Parfaxitas - Weaver of the Black Moon / Norway
Pyrrhon - Exhaust / USA
Rhûn - Conveyance in Death / USA
Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions / Venezuela
Sidus Atrum - Torn Sky / Ukraine
Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished / USA
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos / USA
Thanatotherian - Alienation Manifesto / USA
Theophonos - Ashes in the Huron River / USA
Typhonian - The Gate of the Veiled Beyond / Germany
Vástígr - The Path of Perdition / Austria
Veilburner - The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom / USA
That is a great list. There are quite a few on it that I still need to check out
earthtone⁹ - In Resonance Nexus
Absolutely
1 Akhlys - House of the Black Gemini
2 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
3 Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All
4 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures
5 Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating
6 Fulci - Duck Face Killings
7 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
8 Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
9 Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
10 Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal
This is my Top 10 albums Blood Incantation is such an amazing mind blowing album but Akhlys are just top tier Black Metal all their albums are seriously perfect albums.
200 Stab Wounds and Gatecreeper were very close to being on my list as well
@ThatMetalBloke saw them both live on the same bill back in October both amazing live bands. The Gatecreeper guys were so cool they came out and hung out with everyone in the line outside the venue really down to earth which always makes a band even better when they are like that.
Nails, Nile and Blood Incantation made it on my list too! The rest for me:
Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe (my album of the year, jaw dropping)
Mirar - Mare (very unique thall)
Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal (my favourite french band)
Worm Sheperd - Hunger (symphonic deathcore)
Replicant - Infinite Mortality (it's just perfect in every single way)
Sear Bliss - Heavenly Doom (some good old Symphonic Black Metal from my hometown)
Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision (huge fan of them, awesome doom album)
aaand
Thy Catafalque - A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek (peak hungarian ABM album of the year)
Great picks. I still have to check out a few of these
Nice to see Nile on your list. That's my #1 for sure. That album is incredible and continues to blow me away. I like it much better than Vile Nilotic Rites. This new one is much faster and more aggressive.
My list:
1. Nile-The Underworld Awaits Us All
2. Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere
3. Ulcerate-Cutting the Throat of God
4. Opeth-The Last Will and Testament
5. High on Fire-Cometh the Storm
6. Judas Priest-Invincible Shield
7. Deicide-Banished By Sin
8. Better Lovers-Highly Irresponsible
9. Skeletal Remains-Fragments of the Ageless
10. Ihsahn-Ihsahn
All great albums
Happy belated birthday
Don’t think its your cup of tea but i enjoy Iotunn - Kinship
Really cool channel.
Haven't listened to much metal this year, but Better Lovers sure put out a gem.
I have fewer albums from the current year on my shelf than I usually have at this point in the year. I just ended up spending a lot of time digging in to some older stuff, so there's "only" 22 albums from 2024 on the CD shelves.
Not a lot is metal. None of the best stuff is. So I've got some real catching up to do in 2025!
Album of the year for me is "Haz" by La Yegros. My favorite metal album of the year is probably the new Fleshgod Apocalypse album, I guess.
Darkspace -2.-2, Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us all, Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere, Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge....no particular order yet \m/
Great albums
Excellent picks..
Thanks 🤘
My list
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 list mate 🤘
@ Thanks you too 🤘🤘
Great list, I have The Cure and Chelsea Wolfe as honourable mentions myself. My top 15 are as follows
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
Great albums 🤘
I didn’t listen to nearly as many metal albums as you did but here are my favourites...
Invincible Shield by Judas Priest: They've still fucking got it. Thunderous riffs, killer vocals and catchy as hell. You got fast thrashy shit as well as slower more doomy riffs and Rob Halford... he's the metal god for a fucking reason!
Hell, Fire and Damnation by Saxon: They've also still... fucking... got it. This is the best album they've done since their last awesome album. Pure British heavy metal with killer riffs and catchy melodies and Biff Byford's vocals are as good now as they were back in 1979. This helped me get through some long cardio sessions.
Draconian Darkness by Wolfheart: Basically a blend of Dark Tranquility and Agalloch. Melodic death metal but with a cold, wintery feel. Perfect for a rainy day. They've never made a bad album imo and this is an edition to their already great discography.
Nordic Gothic by Cemetery Skyline: Beautiful album. I didn’t have any expectations for this as im kinda bored of gothic metal at this point, but this is a much needed breath of fresh air for the sub genre. Mikael Stanne's clean vocals are beautiful, the melodies are catchy, the production is perfect. It's for weirdos like me who enjoy cerebral head banging while driving in the rain.
Fimbulvinter by Brothers of Metal: Cheesy power metal at it's finest. The album flows very nicely but is also quite diverse compared to your usual Sabaton and Powerwolf releases. You go from traditional 80's metal, to cheesy power metal, to folk music to proper testosterone filled breakdowns. Loved it!
The Underworld Awaits us All by Nile and from Napalm records: Holy fucking shit this album from Napalm records is awesome: Their best since "Those Whom the God's Detest." Just brutal and epic! I love the quire vocals mixed in as well. Nile and Napalm records nailed it!
Last Will and Testament by Opeth: I can’t get enough of this. I like the prog rock stuff but it's so great hearing Mikel growl again. This album is a pure musical journey and thanks to the production I can listen to every single instrument doing it's thing, telling it's own story. Not to mention the actual story from the lyrics is great to. Kinda like Succession but from the 1920's, and even more fucked up.
Endtime Signals by Dark Tranquility: I love this album so much. It sounds very mature yet it still has all the DT Q's that I love. Not Nothing is one of my favourite song's they've ever written. I'm a DT fanboy tho so take this with a pinch of salt.
Les Chants de l'Aurore by Alcest: Love it. I first listened to it when walking in the woods on a beautiful late spring afternoon, the sun was shining through the leaves, flowers were blooming all around me, birds were singing and the light was bouncing off the surface of a beautiful little river with ducks and swans swimming around and it just made me feel... 🥰
A few people have mentioned Nordic Gothic so I need to check that out again
@ThatMetalBloke It's worth checking out
My dude. Anciients/Ancients. Thanks for the tip. It's awesome.
It is a great album
Akhlys and Blood incantation best two bands for me this year Allt also releasing bangers sort of sounds like a djenty Gojira
I can't get bored of that concept set in a beautiful landscaope... I'm not really into death metal and hardveres, but it's still a good list, I'd give 'em all a chance, especially Chelsea Wolf and Nick Cave. But how about Neon Nightmare? Is it good or just a TON ripoff?
Sub Rosa By Tribulation
Darkways - Resonance
Heriot - Devoured by The Mouth of Hell
Thrown - Excessive Guilt
Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition of Prowess
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
I really enjoyed the Thrown album as well
Great to see Priest got an honourable mention. I think it is so good and the last 2 albums by them blow anything that Maiden have released in the last 20 years in my opinion. I personally can't see all the hype for the Blood Incantation. I find it boring. Just does nothing for me at all. I think the new Deicide and Nile are much better death metal albums. Love your thoughts mate🤘
I think you are right about the last two Priest albums. I love Maiden but their later albums haven't blown me away at all
Deicide - Banished By Sin
Judas Priest - Invinsible Shield
Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou
Orange Goblin - Science Not Fiction
Category 7 - Category 7
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Grand Magus - Sunraven
Devin Townsend - Powernerd
Necrobutcher - Necrobutcher
Great albums 🤘
Great list Man! I need to check out the new Nile album for sure but life’s been a bit too hectic recently.
Do you buy CDs or Records or do you just stream albums now?
I buy CDs of the albums I really like but I mainly listen on Spotify if I am honest. I buy the CD just to support the band
1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
2. Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
3. Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium
4. Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou
5. Body Count - Merciless
6. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
7. Mushroomhead - Call The Devil
8. Aborted - Vault Of Horrors
9. Static-X - Project Regeneration Vol.2
10. Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
11. As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead
12. Linkin Park - From Zero
13. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
14. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
15. Kittie - Fire
Great picks 🤘
@@ThatMetalBlokeThanks. You 2😎
At Dawn-Silveroller has been my favorite album of the year
I didn't get a chance to check that out so I will have to get on that
good taste.
my album of 2024: DISPARAGED 🤘🏼
Nice 🤘
I’ll have to try that Paysage D’Hiver album again sometime. It hasn’t clicked with me yet, but PDH has never been an artist that has clicked with me on first listen; always a grower for me. Amazing black metal artist, though.
He certainly is. This album grabbed me right away for some reason
Check out Disembodied Tyrant. Super deep production and the best BREEEE’s I’ve ever heard.
Love this list! My #1) Blood Incantation 🛸👽🪐🤘
Cheers 🤘
THE COLLECTIVE
Kim Gordon.
Good list, and good to see some stuff that other channels don't really seem to consider (The Chisel in honourable mentions, for example).
Haven't really worked out a top ten, but Blood Incantation is up there. I also highly rated Schammasch's 'The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean' and Midnight's 'Hellish Expectations'.
We have a few ones in common
A lot of great albums this year
@ oh yes
Hippotraktor
Nice 🤘
Don't know if you heard it, but the Bett Gibbins record as fantastic, for me, the 2nd best this year
My top 10
Mitochondrion
Blood incantation
Gaerea
Bruce dickinson
My dying bride
Sinistro
Knoll
Lucifer
Bewitcher
Six feet under
Yeah this just confirms that Chelsea Wolfe is paying metal channels to have her shitty album on their lists. It's basically an ad at this point.
Well done. Dumbest comment I have ever received
The Cure suck 😂😂😂
nah
Don't be a t..d
I'd hide my subscriptions if I were posting like this
Arch Enemy fan eh 😂😂😂