THE BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2024, SO FAR! 

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Dvne - Voidkind Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To High On Fire - Cometh The Storm Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation Aborted - Vault Of Horrors Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer Accept - Humanoid Boundaries - Death Is Little More Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen Darkest Hour - Perpetual Terminal

Thrashin’ Jackson: *cries* Me: *wants to play Die Young by Kesha to make him cry harder lol*

No Civerous? Maze Envy is fucking incredible.

Judas priest invincible Shield 🛡 unbelievable Album.... 🤘 🇬🇧

The only critic that loves FOLTERKAMMER & STRIKER as much as me. Thank you. My list for 2024 is already trailed out in previous video comments, so I'll spare me, but hey! I brought beer for Mr. Jackson!

Striker is a band I need to check out. I’ve heard great things about them. I loved the new Spectral Voice, Job for a Cowboy, Hideous Divinity, High on Fire, Unleash the Archers, Pallbearer, and Crypt Sermon albums. I would have included the new Judas Priest as my number one favorite album of the year so far.

yall think thrashin jackson's tears are made of beer?

My favs in no particular order: Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Knoll - As Spoken Jim Peterik & World Stage - Roots & Shoots Vol. 1 Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss Riot V - Mean Streets Job For a Cowboy - Moon Healer Red Rot - Borders of Mania Severe Torture - Torn From the Jaws of Death Hemotoxin - When Time Becomes Loss Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell Darkness - Blood on Canvas Hellbutcher - S/T Necrot - Lifeless Birth Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless The Troops of Doom - A Mass to the Grotesque Holycide - Towards Idiocracy Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Toxikull - Under the Southern Lights Advocacy - The Path of Decoherence Strychnos - Armageddon Patronage Bat - Under the Crooked Claw Striker - Ultrapower Stygian Crown - Funeral For a King Mad Hatter - Oneironautics Bonejammer - Another Day in Paradise Grand - Second to None Nestor - Teenage Rebel

Jeez, what's Thrashin' Jackson crying about anyway? He got his Kerry King album. You'd think he'd also be down for new Morbid Saint, Exhorder, Suicidal Angels...

2024 has slapped, ngl. Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Knocked Loose - YWGBYST Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer Convulsing - Perdurance Thou - Umbilical Bongripper - Empty Vitriol - Suffer & Become Dvne - Voidkind Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Hamferð - Men Guðs hond er sterk

Fragments of the ageless by Skeletal Remains is my favorite album of the year so far

4 albums that caught my attention this year: Exhumation - Master's Personae, Selbst - Dispondency Chord Progression In Vain - Solemn Oubliette - Eternity Whispers

I am absolutely in love with every single track on Morgul Blade’s Heavy Metal Wraiths.

I love you being yourself, Melty, but we need more Thrashin' Jackson haha. Just been wondering what happened to your musical opener for the videos. I loved that.

I love Pallbearer. Sorrow and Extinction is by far my favorite modern record. I've listened to a bit of the new album, and from what I've heard, it's great

Solid list. You've got to listen to Despondency Chord Progressions by Selbst, and The Way of Ancients by Volcandra though!

Also God Is Violence by Cancer Christ is still my number one favorite album of 2024. I love it to bits and pieces

Here’s some of my favorite albums of this year. This is in no real order 1. Witching Hour(Shirobeats) -Trip Hop, Experimental EDM 2. Sankofa(Thandiswa) -Kwaito(which is basically African Dance Music) 3. Letter From A Black Widow(Judith Hill) -Blues 4. God Is Violence(Cancer Christ) -Hardcore 5. Orchards Of A Futile Heaven(Dis Fig And The Body) -Avant Garde Metal 6. Blood Era(Disfiguring The Goddess) -Slam Metal 7. Of The Last Human Being(Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) -Avant Garde Metal

1) Mind Burns Alive by Pallbearer 2) Ihsahn: S/T 3) New Heaven by Inter Arma 4) Fall by Borknagar 5) Fragments of the Ageless by Skeletal Remains 6) Invincible Shield by Judas Priest 7) Cometh the Storm by H.O.F 8) Swallowed by Hell by Morbid Saint 9) Despondency Chord Progressions by Selbst 10) Dead Mother Moon by Upon Stone Hon Men: Slimelord, Caligula's Horse. I must revisit the Civerous and Replicant records though. Very excited for the Alcest and Ulcerate records, hopefully they land on the list.

So many interesting picks here! Great video.

For metal for sure rn for me, Spectral Voice, Thou, Judas Priest, Borknagar, Brodequin, Knoll and Striker are my favorites definitely.

This year have been a great year for melodic black metal in my honest opinion! The new albums from Dödsrit and the French Canadian/Québecois band Conifère have both been freaking incredible! Also, the debut from the French melodic black metal and folk metal band Moisson Livide is so much fun to listen to as well. I really loved that Weibermacht album, too; mentioned it in my video along with all of the previous band above! On the death metal side, I really enjoyed Convulsing’s and Kvadrat’s new records.

you gotta check out It’s Inside You by CANDY. It’s really stretching the boundaries of hardcore with elements of industrial, breakcore, shoegaze all while maintaining one of the meanest sounding bands in the scene right now.

Kudos for throwing further light on that Hideous Divinity album; I think it generally got overlooked a bit, considering that it is one of the very best technical death metal albums of 2024 so far in my book... 🤘👌

Awesome video! Thanks 👍🤘🤘

Ulcerate wheeeere?!?!

I absolutely cannot stop spinning the new Thou record. Sooooo good.

Never heard of Unleash the Archers until Phantoma. Found that their 2 previous albums Apex and Abyss were pretty badass also.

Excellent list, I definitely love a few albums on here (especially High on Fire), and I need to give some of the others a listen. Here are some of my favorite metal/heavy music records of the year: Full of Hell - "Coagulated Bliss" Knocked Loose - "You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To" Knoll - "As Spoken" Cave Sermon - "Divine Laughter" Civerous - "Maze Envy" Replicant - "Infinite Mortality" Inter Arma - "New Heaven" Tzompantli - "Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force" My Dying Bride - "A Mortal Binding" The new Thou and Ulcerate records are quickly climbing the list, too. Also, why not, I'll throw some of my favorite albums from other genres: Chelsea Wolfe - "She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She" (Darkwave, Post-industrial) Sylvaine - "Eg Er Framand" (Dark/Norse Folk) Allie X - "Girl With No Face" (Synthpop) Iglooghost - "Tidal Memory Exo" (Deconstructed Club/Experimental electronic) Charli XCX - "brat" (Electropop) Dua Lipa - "Radical Optimism" (Dance pop) Kelly Moran - "Moves in the Field" (Modern classical) Hannah Frances - "Keeper of the Shepherd" (Folk)

Job for a Cowboy-Moon Healer Judas Priest-Invincible Shield Midnight-Hellish Expectations Dragonforce-Warp Speed Warriors Brat-Social Grace Alestorm-Voyage of the Dead Marauder EP (LOVE that cover of "Last Saskatchewan Pirate") Deicide-Banished by Sin Belushi Speedball-Stellkira ("Eels and Escalators" RULES!)

I’m surprised very few people mention Borknagar - Fall, fucking masterpiece

So far Vitriol's "suffer and become" rules, new Aborted and Ulcerate are also fire and JFAC is another great one but I have to give it another listen to really appreciate it

Alot of great picks here. I would recommend Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize if you havent checked it out yet. Currently my AOTY so far. Really great mix of post-metal/blazegaze/prog-metal

Love to finally see Folterkammer on someone's list. Yet to find someone with Ou - Frailty mentioned.

Thanks man. Borknagar Saxon Gatecreeper Like some of this list from you too.

How in the world I've never heard of Striker before is beyond me, but been watching their videos all morning and losing my mind! Fucking hysterical and uber talented too, thanks for leading me to these guys! Ordered the Spectral Voice cd too.

Ngl, that BMTH album was hella fun, catchy and really good to listen to. A friend of mine is a huge fan of them and has been telling me to listen to it, and as an album, and not just track for track. It was a fun ride, definitely a deserved spot in top albums of 2024 (so far) and one I've revisited many times now.. -Ezzgar

My Favorites got to be: Sea of Consciousness- Sea of Consciousness Striker - Ultrapower Deathless - The Clairvoyant Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Unleash the Archers - Phantoma Hideous Divinity - Unextinct Drown in Sulphur - Dark Secrets of the Soul

Slift - Ilion Meth. - Shame Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force

Wormwood, Cistvaen and ULCERATE are my top 3 so far

Three albums on this list are definitely favorites of mine: COMETH THE STORM, MIND BURNS ALIVE, and ULTRAPOWER. Two other favorites of mine are HELLISH EXPECTATIONS by Midnight and INVINCIBLE SHIELD by Judas Priest. I’m looking forward to new albums from Kittie, Wraith, Bewitcher, and (hopefully) Nite in the second half of this year.

I think what Unleash the Archers did with AI is nothing short of incredible and creative.

In comparison to last year, this year has been kind of sleeper for me. I did find some things that I thought were worth some attention. See the list below. Master - Saints Dispelled Ancient VVisdom - Master of the Stone Toadliquor - Back in the Hole Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 1 Saidan - Visual Kill Abyssal (Mexico) - Glacial Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood This is small but solid collection of new things I've enjoyed. There's probably some other things I'm forgetting since this is all off the top of my head.

Oh our lists are pretty wildly different this year 1. Gonemage- Spell Piercings ( nu-black metal??!! *gasp* also Are You Afraid of The Dark references ) 2. Saidan- Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity ( give yourself at least a whole track to get used to the production ) 3. Judas Priest- Invincible Sheild ( *guitar solo* ) 4. Selbst- Despondency Chord Progressions ( black metal but if David Gilmour wrote the leads? ) 5. Ulcerate- Cutting The Throat of God ( creative avant-gardeish death metal. The drummer is nuts! ) 6. Dvne-Voidkind( DAYYYUM Crack The Skye and Leviathan mixed ) 7. In Vain- Solemn( Loved it waaay more than their last one. Proggggggg ) 8. Ithilra- Covenant of The Blackened Woods ( demo quality black metal for a kvlt kiddie just like meeeee lol ) 9. Sig:Ar:Tyr- Citadel of Stars ( melodic folk black metal with GUITAR SOLOOOOOOZZZ ) 10. Star Temple ( written in the Russian alphabet but I'm too lazy )- S/t ( atmospheric Black metal. Nothin necessarily new or inventive but if you enjoy the genre I suspect you'll like it )

Convulsing - Perdurance Replicant - Infinite Mortality Hadit - Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon

I had a good kick with Crying Thrashin Jackson...that said. Job for a Cowboy's Moon Healer was a banger...also, I definitely have to check out the Crypt Sermon album because I simply couldn't get into Pallbearer at all. With Pallbearer, I was expecting something completely depressive and miserable and I got whiny and flowery out of it but it is very good musically. And the other bands, I definitely have to check out other than High on Fire's new one because I know that was going to be great because Matt Pike is super talented

Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell Evildead - Toxic Grace Rut - Morbid Thoughts Atrophy - Asylum Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens (Psychedelic Stoner Doom, my genre, Better than their debut, which was my album of the year as well) Pallbearer - Mind burns alive (Finally an album we agree on, this is rare, so Partytime!!! - still love Your channel though) Tombstoner - Rot Stink Rip (Exactly my cup of Death Metal with the best guitar sound of the year so far) Critical Defiance - The Search won´t fall (Tech Thrash is such an underrated genre and this band keeps getting better) Dis Fig & The Body - Orchards of a futile Heaven (Okay, it´s hard to count this as Metal, for - it isn´t, but it´s dark enough for 3 metal albums, so my list, my rules, it counts) Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance (It´s been a good year for Tech Thrash so far) Bongripper - Empty (Drony, spacy, instrumental Worship of the Riff as such, full of Feedback as musical Tool, and Static Noises, Music to meditate to) Necrot - Lifeless Birth (OSDM just done right) Domination Campaign - A Storm of Steel (My regularly necessary dose of Bolt Thrower Worship) Septage - Septic Worship (Best Grind so far, though it doesn´t kick me as hard as Walking Corpse or Horrible Earth last year, but haffi have one Grind thing in the list, I´m, biased) Shoutouts to: Qilin - Cognizance - Hideous Divinity - Cognitive - Belushi Speed Ball - High Desert Queen - Morgue - Ingested - Intervals - and last not least - The Last of Lucy

Spectral Voice: Sparagmos Insect Ark: Raw Blood Singing Hulder: Verses in Oath Ihsahn: s/t Caligula’s Horse: Charcoal Grace Benighted: Ekbom Inter Arma: New Heaven High on Fire: Cometh the Storm

Agree with most; I’d add Invincible Shield, Ihsahn and the new Tzompantli record. Honorable mentions would be the new records from Atoll, SlimeLord, Dödsrit and Morbid Saint. Sorry Mr Jackson, no Kerry King

My favs this year so far in no particular order: Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color… Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace Dvne - Voidkind Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go… Wheel - Charismatic Leaders

top 10 so far ... Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose Lucifer - Lucifer V Early Moods - A Sinners Past Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will Hamferð - Men Guðs hond er sterk Freeways - Dark Sky Sanctuary Observers - The Age of the Machine Entities Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition Skraeckoedlan - Vermillion Sky The Endless - The Endless

Kind of agree with Thrashin' Jackson. 😮

Personal favorite metal albums of 2024: Cariosus - Will, Until Beauty Hideous Divinity - Unextinct Folterkammer - Weibermacht Elettra Storm - Powerlords Illumishade - Another Side Of You Red Handed Denial - Journey Through Virtual Dystopia Thou - Umbilical Castle Rat - Into The Realm

Just discovered Striker because of this video

Favorite vinyl jams of 2024 so far: Arjen - "Lice Čovjeka Koji Je Rekao Ne" Borknagar - "Fall" Ihsahn - "Ihsahn" Inquisition - " Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism..." Mutiilation - "Black Metal Cult" Necrophobic - "In The Twilight Grey" Odz Manouk - "Bosoragazan (​Բ​ո​ս​ո​ր​ա​գ​ա​զ​ա​ն​)" and " Ծ​ո​ւ​ռ (Tzurr)" Secrets - "Towards The Nightside" Varathron - "The Crimson Temple" Vargrav - "The Nighthold"

Add AEONS - The Ghosts Of What We Knew and Lodestar - Zonen.

Hey, great picks man! Especially that JFAC record, that thing slapped. My favorites so far are probably Ihsahn, Caligula’s Horse, Eidola, Erra, and Fym by this band called Azure. Keep up the good work!

Thrashin' it's ok. I know the only album you were looking forward to this year was the new Kerry King. When that album didn't deliver and if it was the only metal release I knew about like you, hell my world would be rocked too and not in a good way. Hey, there's always next year.

Uncle melty no boundaries death is little more on here! ??

New Julie Christmas

Thrashin jackson clearly hasn't heard System Shock by Desolus. That shit fuckin slaps.

Kerry kings album is my favorite so far

You biting cal chuchesta’s style

I wasn’t too excited by the Hideous Divinity album, the Civerous album is far superior imo.

check out Mythraeums new album release Oblivion Aeternam.. its sIIck !!

F.K.U. has a killer 2024 album!!!

I really wish I could get into Doom. Just not my vibe 😭

Lmao with premium you can skip over "commonly skipped sections" and it brought me right past the skit

Why is thrashin jackson crying bro kreator re-released an album 😭

Judas Priest Invincible Shield Cognitive Abhorrence Saxon Hell Fire Giant and Damnation Crypt Sermon The Stygian Rose Morbid Saint Swllowed by Hell Skeletal Remains Fragments Of The Ageless Civerous Maze Envy High on Fire Cometh The Storm Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To God too many albums to pick 🤘

Priest Necrowretch Necrophobic Unleash the Archers Lutharo Vltimas AJFAC Not really into brutal death metal or doom/stoner stuff. Would welcome a few melodeath suggestions.

I swear, Thrashin' Jackson doesn't like anything! He's the real poser. More to the subject, you've seriously enhanced my radar for metal releases so far this year. With the Heavy Communion no longer updating weekly, it's harder to sort through everything that comes out, especially when Metal Archives excludes a lot. I have yet to properly rank my albums of the year so far, but I can mention a handful that I have really enjoyed in a rough order: Myrath - Karma Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Exhorder - Defectum Omnium Striker - Ultrapower VLTIMAS - Epic Necrophobic - In the Twilight Grey Korpiklaani - Runkarumpu Belore - Eastern Tales Ou - II: Frailty Barbarian Swords - Fetid Kaosphere - In Scars We Trust Take Offense - T.O.Tality Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive Greyhawk - Thunderheart Friends of Hell - God Damned You to Hell I enjoyed the Crypt Sermon record quite a bit, but I feel I need a few more listens to really have it sink in.

Thrashin jackson really is being a diva today! His popularity is already having a backlash! He’s only been around for 5 seconds but he is letting it all go to his head!! 😞

I really can't get enough of Thrashin Jackson. Such a perfect satire of middle aged metal elitists forever stuck in the 80s

Very weak year in my opinion so far. Last one sucked too but cattle carried it

memes and beers and tears await those with patience exuded! oh yea good music, that exists too samlrc - a lonely sinner (post-rock / folk / shoegaze) kamasi washington - fearless movement (jazz fusion) ulcerate - cutting the throat of god (technical/dissonant death metal) knocked loose - you won't go before you're supposed to (beatdown metalcore) job for a cowboy - moon healer (prog/tech death metal) pallbearer - mind burns alive (doom metal) spectral voice - sparagmos (deathdoom metal) beth gibbons - lives outgrown (folk / post-rock via portishead's singer) angmodnes - rot of the soul (funeral doom metal) my dying bride - a mortal binding (deathdoom / gothic doom metal)

poser... where is Ulcerate??