Welcome back for our annual year end wrap-up curated by The Real Mister Terrific. We listened to more than 200 new releases this year, and narrowed it down to the ones we just couldn't stop playing. Get ready to break your neck with 24 of the best heavy albums from 2024! The list will include only full-length albums of new material - no live albums, compilations, EPs, or reissues.
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You can check out our Heavy Phucking \m/etal Best Songs of 2024 playlist at this link
ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
Band: GAEREA
Album: Coma
2 Favorite Tracks: Hope Shatters / The Poet's Ballet
Website: gaerea.bandcamp.com/album/coma
Release Date: October 25, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Why it's my AoTy: Gaerea have added death metal influences to their already successful modern black metal style. Catchy, emotional, powerful. This is Gaerea's defining moment.
SECOND PLACE:
Band: ULCERATE
Album: Cutting the Throat of God
2 Favorite Tracks: To Flow Through Ashen Hearts / Transfiguration in and out of Worlds
Website: ulcerate.bandcamp.com
Release Date: June 14, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Buy Cutting the Throat of God here
Ulcerate have perfected their genre-defining Dissonant-Atmospheric Death Metal style. This album is hypnotic.
THIRD PLACE:
Band: BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE
Album: Metaphysicize
2 Favorite Tracks: Disillusioned / Death of the Architect
Website: bipolararchitecture.bandcamp.com
Release Date: February 2, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
This is modern post-metal at its most captivating.
FOURTH:
Band: REPLACIRE
Album: The Center That Cannot Hold
2 Favorite Tracks: A Fine Manipulation / Hoard the Trauma Like Wealth
Website: replacire.bandcamp.com
Release Date: June 21, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Buy The Center That Cannot Hold here
FIFTH:
Band: SCHAMMASCH
Album: The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
2 Favorite Tracks: Your Waters Are Bitter / They Have Found Their Master
Website: schammasch.com
Release Date: October 25, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
SIXTH:
Band: MAKE THEM SUFFER
Album: Make Them Suffer
2 Favorite Tracks: Oscillator / Doomswitch
Website: makethemsuffer.bandcamp.com
Release Date: November 7, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
SEVENTH:
Band: HIPPOTRAKTOR
Album: Stasis
2 Favorite Tracks: Renegade / Stasis
Website: hippotraktor.bandcamp.com
Release Date: June 7, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
EIGHTH:
Band: IOTUNN
Album: Kinship
2 Favorite Tracks: Mistland / Earth to Sky
Website: linktr.ee/IOTUNN
Release Date: October 25, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
NINTH:
Band: DVNE
Album: Voidkind
2 Favorite Tracks: Summa Blasphemia / Reaching for Telos
Website: linktr.ee/dvne_uk
Release Date: April 19, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
TENTH:
Band: CEMETERY SKYLINE
Album: Nordic Gothic
2 Favorite Tracks: In Darkness / The Coldest Heart
Website: linktr.ee/cemeteryskyline
Release Date: October 11, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
ELEVENTH:
Band: JOB FOR A COWBOY
Album: Moon Healer
2 Favorite Tracks: Beyond the Chemical Doorway / The Forever Rot
Website: jobforacowboy.bandcamp.com
Release Date: February 23, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
TWELFTH:
Band: GRAVEMIND
Album: Introsphere
2 Favorite Tracks: >_TERMINAL / Rorschach
Website: gravemindau.bandcamp.com
Release Date: February 23, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
THIRTEENTH:
Band: VORGA
Album: Beyond the Palest Star
2 Favorite Tracks: Voideath / Magical Thinking
Website: vorgaband.bandcamp.com
Release Date: March 29, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Buy Beyond the Palest Star here
FOURTEENTH:
Band: ETERNAL STORM
Album: A Giant Bound to Fall
2 Favorite Tracks: A Dim Illusion / The Void
Website: eternalstormdm.bandcamp.com
Release Date: February 16, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Buy A Giant Bound to Fall here
FIFTEENTH:
Band: A NIGHT IN TEXAS
Album: Digital Apocalypse
2 Favorite Tracks: Welcome to the Gulag / Apex of Agony
Website: facebook.com/anightintexas
Release Date: August 2, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
SIXTEENTH:
Band: REZN
Album: Burden
2 Favorite Tracks: Indigo / Instinct
Website: rezzzn.bandcamp.com
Release Date: June 14, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
SEVENTEENTH:
Band: NEAERA
Album: All is Dust
2 Favorite Tracks: Antidote to Faith / In Vain
Website: neaera.bandcamp.com
Release Date: June 28, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
EIGHTEENTH:
Band: CHAT PILE
Album: Cool World
2 Favorite Tracks: Shame / The New World
Website: chatpile.bandcamp.com
Release Date: October 11, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
NINETEENTH:
Band: BLOOD INCANTATION
Album: Absolute Elsewhere
2 Favorite Tracks: The Stargate (Tablet III) / The Message (Tablet II)
Website: bloodincantation.bandcamp.com
Release Date: October 4, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
TWENTIETH:
Band: NIGHTRAGE
Album: Remains of a Dead World
2 Favorite Tracks: Dark Light / Remains of a Dead World
Website: nightrage.bandcamp.com
Release Date: May 31, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Buy Remains of a Dead World here
TWENTY FIRST:
Band: CARNOSUS
Album: Wormtales
2 Favorite Tracks: Birthless / Paradoxical Impulse
Website: carnosus.bandcamp.com
Release Date: October 18, 2024
Format Reviewed: Digital
TWENTY SECOND:
Band: LIVLØS
Album: The Crescent King
2 Favorite Tracks: Orbit Weaver / Usurpers
Website: livloesband.bandcamp.com
Release Date: October 4, 2024
Format Reviewed: Digital
TWENTY THIRD:
Band: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
Album: I am the Weapon
2 Favorite Tracks: Burned My Bridges / The Head of the Snake
Website: flotstildeath.com
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Format Reviewed: Digital
TWENTY FOURTH:
Band: OPETH
Album: The Last Will and Testament
2 Favorite Tracks: §1 / §6
Website: opeth.com
Release Date: November 22, 2024
Format Reviewed: CD
Buy The Last Will and Testament here