The end of the year is a good moment in time to look back on the last 12 months. There were many highlights and there were a few lowlights too. Here is the best the metal year 2024 had to offer, at least from my standpoint 🙂
Top 20 albums 2024
- Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
- Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
- Freedom – Stay Free!
- Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project
- Lucifer – Lucifer V
- Stygian Crown – Funeral for a King
- The Neptune Power Generation – Goodnight My Children
- Ihsahn – Ihsahn
- Dool – The Shape of Fluidity
- Kerry King – From Hell I Rise
- High Parasite – Forever We Burn
- Blues Pills – Birthday
- Totengott – Beyond the Veil
- Pain – I Am
- Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe
- The Wizards – The Exit Garden
- Morta Skuld – Creation Undone
- Majak – Restless Wicked
- Cemetary Skyline – Nordic Gothic
- Portrait – The Host
EP’s and Live Albums of the year
- The Pineapple Thief – Last to Run
- Helloween – Live at Budokan
- Bellingerence – Eschaton Foretold
- Half Me – Opium
- Blast Bomb- Explosive Sounds
- Lifesick – Love and Other Lies
Concerts of the year 2024
- Kreator, Anthrax, Testament – Hamburg
- In Flames – Hamburg
- Body Count – Hamburg
- Me And The Man – Hamburg
- Meshuggah, The Halo Effect, Mantar – Hamburg
Surprises in 2024
- A new Ulver album
- Fatal Collapse – massive groove metal from Hamburg
- Savatage show announcement for 2025
- Linkin Park album
- Body Count covering Pink Floyd
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