Sgaille is awesome. Glad you mentioned because I've barely seen anyone else mention them.(or him really) Winterfylleth made my list and Iotunn is my album of the year.
If I was a betting man, I'd lose my rocks on this lol. Didn't see the number one coming. It's an interesting list, different from the norm. I would of thought Cistvaen & Wormwood were certainties for your top 10. Shocked! My top 5: Iotunn, Modern Rites, Cistvaen, Piah Mater, Avmakt.
Nice end of year list! BTW your channel got a shout-out on New Years Eve over on the Heavy Metallurgy channel when the 2025 Metal Tag was released. Question 20 on the Metal Tag this year is 'shout out two YT channels'' and The Heavy Metal Journal + Black Leather Eyes were both named. Cheers!
Happy Christmas awesome list Sgaile brilliant album my cd due shortly. Hand Of Kalliach what a band . Got 2 t shirts and both cds Take care Jonathan ❤xx💯🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lovely Top 10 2024 albums! That Winterfylleth is so beautiful! Great choice on Dodsrit as well, I keep listening to this album throughout this year! Have a great New Year!
What an excellent list Lindsay a big thank you for all the new music and established bands you have mentioned talked about in 2024 . Love Bandcamp. Hope you had a fantastic Christmas. Stay safe and Take care Jonathan ❤xxx
Also had Dödsrit, Winterfylleth and Iotunn on my list. Those are likely my top three. Agree with all you said about Winterfylleth. Especially the track with Alan from Primordial on vox is fantastic but they are all good. I spent some time also absorbing the lyrics on that one which adds another layer of excellence. Easy to overlook!
22:02 That Iotunn, Borknagar were so amazing. Marche Funebre was a surpise hit for me. You had some outstanding albums on your top 40. I dont know if you'd agree but i feel like this year was better than last year, though every year has some amazing metal. Yours is one of my favorite channels. 🤘☕️
Thanks, Im just away and bought Sgaile vinyl . Never heard of this and usually into groove / thrash metal. Anyway greetings form Torridon not too far away from the Bealach ;-)
I will check out the Winterfylleth - I like what I heard. Here's my top 2024 top 12: 1) Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 2) Necrophobic - In the Twilight Grey 3) Ihsahn - self-titled 4) Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic 5) Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation 6) Borknagar - Fall 7) Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 8) Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 9) Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals 10) Flotsam and Jetsam - I am the Weapon 11) Lucifer - Lucifer V 12) Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
A few more things I hadn't heard before, I appreciate the work you put into this top 40 of the year. Sounds like I will have a lot of bandits of 2024 of my own to check out thanks to this 4 part series!
I am absolutely in love with the Iotunn, Sgàile, and Borknagar records! You have great taste for atmosphere and melody, so you’ve given me several I missed that I need to check out as well, especially your #1! I have to ask though if you’ve heard Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars? Given your taste, I think you’d love its blend of atmospheric melodic black and neoclassical. It’s my favorite black metal album of the year and tied with my favorite of last year which was Blackbraid.
Great Top 40! You honestly caught me by surprise with most of your Top 10 picks... haha! I think this was one of the best years in music in quite some time. As an example of that, I could easily put together an "almost-Top 40," and yet I seem to have very little overlap with most of the lists being shared out there. Here are my picks-definitely heading in a pretty different direction from yours. But I owe a bunch of my favourite albums this year to your channel (Lowen, Officium Triste, Marche Funèbre, Vorga...). Thank you for that! Cheers and happy holidays! 🤘😈 Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun Bewitcher - Spell Shock Blaze Bayley - Circle of Stone Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg Blues Pills - Birthday Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose David Reece - Baptized by Fire Deep Purple - =1 DOOL - The Shape of Fluidity Fans of the Dark - Video Frost* - Life in the Wires Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition Ha Vay - Baby I’m the Wolf Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher High Parasite - Forever We Burn Impellitteri - War Machine Iron Curtain - Savage Dawn Judas Priest - Invisible Shield Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood Kingcrow - Hopium Lucifer - Lucifer V Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran Marche Funèbre - After the Storm Marilyn Manson - OAUG: Chapter 1 Meer - Wheels Within Wheels Neal Morse - The Restoration Officium Triste - Hortus Venenum Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Sebastian Bach - Child Within the Man Sonic Universe - It Is What It Is Toxikull - Under the Southern Light Tribulation - Sub Rosa Aeternum Unto Others - Never, Neverland Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star Wheel - Charismatic Leaders Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
Awesome quality list bc many I’ve watched just seem to have the same albums over and over again. Also the explanations matter and joy the albums brought you. Fantastic.
Great list! My Top 10 Albums Of The Year 1. Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell 2. Rut - Morbid Thoughts 3. Evildead - Toxic Grace 4. Nocturnus AD - Unicursal 5. Atrophy - Asylum 6. Anarchy - Xenotech And The Cosmic Anarchy 7. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 8. Satan - Songs In Crimson 9. Deicide - Banished By Sin 10. Flotsam And Jetsam - I Am The Weapon
My list 10 Ihsahn - Ihsahn 9 Merrimack - Of Grace and Gravity 8 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 7 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 6 Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus 5 Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek 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, Lyndsey!❤ Thanks for letting me know about Bloody Valkyria. That's epic! I am a fan one man projects also. Your whole top 40 list is awesome, but some of the stuff is not my taste. 🤘🤘
Fantastic list, Lindsey. A little disappointed that “A Fortress Called Home” by Seven Spires didn’t make it on your list considering that’s my personal album of the year. But oh well!
It was truly difficult to pick the top 20 this year. But here it is: 1. Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals 2. In Vain - Solemn 3. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 4. Iotunn - Kinship 5. Bokassa - All Out Of Dreams 6. This Ending - Crowned In Blood 7. Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down 8. Dark Oath - Ages of Man 9. Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star 10. Gaerea - Coma 11. Kissin Dynamite - Back With A Bang 12. Cemetary Skyline - Nordic Gothic 13. Wind Rose - Trollslayer 14. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness 15. Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves 16. Borknagar - Fall 17. Dååth - The Deceivers 18. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe 19. Disarray - Religious Disease 20. Vale of Pnath - Between The Worlds of Life And Death
Here’s my top album ! : 1. Ankor - Shoganai and Future Palace - Distortion (can’t choosers between the two) 2. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera 3. Dark Oath - Ages of Man 4. Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans 5. Nightwish - Yesterwynde And for the EP’s, definitely… Disembodied Tyrant X Synestia - The Poetic Edda and Xandria - Universal tales And I want to thank you for making me discover Dark Oath and Ecclesia, love those 2 bands !
Love these picks Lindsay, this is the first end of year list I've seen that features both Dwarrowdelf and Winterfylleth. My 15 are below 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 Fallen Leaves
I could not possibly agree more. I've been obsessed with black metal forever, and I've loved everything Winterfylleth has ever done, but The Imperious Horizon sets the bar impossibly high for the rest of the genre. There were a lot of good albums, but The Imperious Horizon wins Best Album of 2024 running away, and it isn't even close.
Hey, Lindsay! Nice Top 40! I've got a few suggestions for your bandits of 2024 video. From best to least great: 1. Body Count - Merciless 2. Kerry King - From Hell I Rise 3. Jordan Rudess - Permission to Fly 4. Kiko Loureiro - Theory of Mind 5. Simone Simons - Vermillion 6. Sebastian Bach - Child within the Man 7. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood 8. Hammerfall - Avenge the Fallen 9. Marilyn Manson - One Assassination under God
Great list! My Top 10 Metal Albums of 2024 1. Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell 2. Rut - Morbid Thoughts 3. Evildead - Toxic Grace 4. Nocturnus AD - Unicursal 5. Atrophy - Asylum 6. Anarchy - Xenotech And The Cosmic Anarchy 7. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 8. Satan - Songs In Crimson 9. Deicide - Banished By Sin 10. Flotsam And Jetsam - I Am The Weapon
I got the Winterfylleth vinyl just for the fantastic song with A.A. Nemtheanga, but the rest of it didn't really appeal to me much. It's not bad, but meh. This list still had 3 solid tips for me though! Bloody Valkyria, Marche Funebre and Hand of Kalliach I did not know of before and they're all up my alley from the brief look into them!
I'm not the biggest Black Metal fan out there tbh, but I'll take the Pepsi Challenge on Winterfylleth - it sounds like a great soundtrack for the coming Winter months running! Great channel! All the best. S.
Hey nice list, very similar tastes to me. You might enjoy my top 30: 1. Borknagar - Fall (epic/progressive black metal) 2. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals (melancholic melodeth) 3. Machiavellian God - Beyond the Void (melancholic/progressive melodeath) 4. Iotunn - Kinship (epic/progressive melodeath) 5. Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses (industrial metal) 6. Sgaile - Traverse the Bealach (progressive/melodic metal/post rock) 7. Belore - Eastern Tales (epic black metal) 8. Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou (melodic gothic metal) 9. Interloper - A Forgotten Loss (progressive/groove death metal) 10. In Vain - Solemn (progressive melodeath) 11. Wormwood - The Star (epic/melodic black metal) 12. Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is (atmospheric deathcore) 13. Drift Into Black - Voices Beneath The Rubble (progressive/melodic doom metal) 14. My Silent Wake - Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief (melodic/gothic death doom metal) 15. Kozoria - The Source (progressive melodeath/alt metal) 16. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (psychedelic/progressive death metal) 17. Evoking Winds - Your Rivers (epic/folk black metal) 18. Nightwish - Yesterwynde (symphonic/progressive metal) 19. Wintersun - Time II (epic/progressive melodeath) 20. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament (progressive/gothic metal) 21. Oceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to Speak (symphonic/progressive metal) 22. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness (symphonic melodeath) 23. Oceans - Happy (“nu death metal”) 24. Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down (melodic/progressive black metal) 25. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood (grunge/alt metal) 26. Thy Catafalque - XII (avant-garde/folk black metal) 27. Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb (melancholic/gothic death doom metal) 28. Mushroomhead - Call The Devil (groove metal) 29. The Moor - Ombra (progressive melodeath) 30. Nykophobia - To The Stars (atmospheric melodeath)
1- Sig:Ar:Tyr -citadel of stars 2- Critical Defiance- the search won’t fail 3- Deep Purple- =1 4- High on Fire - cometh the storm 5- Himinbjorg- the fall of Valhalla 6- Magnum- here comes the rain 7- Deceased - children of the morgue 8- Morta Skuld - creation undone 9- Borknagar- fall 10- Winterfylleth - the imperious horizon Also enjoying Blue Oyster Cult - ghost stories, Sentry - Sentry , Cavalera- schizophrenia, Seid- hymns to the Norse, the new Nile, the new Veilburner, the new Blood Incantation…more to check out, it looks like. Cheers Lindsay ☕️
Nice choices Lindsay! Maybe the most interesting I've seen these days. I'm curious what is your favorite album of 2020. I have a guess for your choice..
My Top 10 AOTY [10 - 1] 10. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals 09. In Vain - Solemn 08. Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic 07. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum 06. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 05. Sólstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl 04. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun 03. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 02. Borknagar - Fall 01. Iotunn - Kinship
That's a great top 5. I knew Belore would be somewhere on your list, but I did not expect it that high. I need to pick up Bloody Valkyria, that's one I've missed this year. This is my top 10. There's a lot of cheesy power metal so feel free to skip, lol 10. Visions Of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada 9. Rivendell - Unsung Tales 8. Dragony - Hic Svnt Dracones 7. Ensiferum - Winter Storm 6. Frozen Crown - War Hearts 5. Elvellon - Ascending In Synergy 4. Alterium - Of War And Flames 3. Rhapsody Of Fire - Challenge The Wind 2. Belore - Eastern Tales 1. Seven Spires - A Fortress Called Home
Great countdown thanks. h How is that every album you mention in The Top 40 is amazing,fantastic,superb in their own right? Are those albums outside of your Top 40 just plain good or weaker by any chance not to make the grade? My personal Top album and also best new group of 2024 is Crownshift,maybe a little lighter than the majority on your list,but a continuous player. All he best for Xmas & The New Year
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.
just discovered your channel and i have to say that i second your recommendations. do you have a spotify playlist where one can hear some picked songs? i usually dont use yt.
so our number ones match , my number 2 is sig ar tyr .. Belore is in my top 10 ..... the other 18 of your top 20 plus a pre order of saor and the paysage dhiver cd i have asked santa for being good n he will bring me them all surely ..Ive not heard any of them so i think ill be busy in 2025 ..
Since i have already posted my top 8, then i will post my most disapoiting albums of 2024. All in all i thought they were dissapointing compared to their previous releases Funeral - Gospel of Bones Unto Others - Never Neverland My dying Bride - A mortal Binding Inqusition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
Mine in no particular order… Civerous - Maze Envy Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless Suffer - Grand Canvas of the Aesthete Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss Pall Bearer - Mind Burns Alive Aquilis - Bellum II Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere Teeth - The Will of Hate Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
I'm not a fan of black metal. Iotunn is the only album here i want to listen to more. But as always, to each their own 🙂 I have many albums left to discover this year but Blood incantation and Crypt sermon are 2 of my favourites so far
5 Best Eps of 2024 King810 - Under the black rainbow Disembodied Tyrant - The poetic edda Mirar - Mare The Hate Project - May death come quickly The Plot In You - Vol.3 20 of the best albums of the year The Browning - Omni Darko US - Starfire Allt - From the new world Assemble The Chariots - Unyielding night A Wake In Providence - I Write to you… Worm Sheperd - Hunger Consvmer - Seelenfrieden 156/Silence - People watching thrown - Excessive guilt Drown In Sulphur - Dark secrets of the soul Opeth - The last will and testament The Archaic Epidemic - Death Crawl Grayscale Season - feel something new Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja Gaerea - Coma Dödsrit - Nocturnal will Floya - Yume Powerflo - Gorilla warfare Saltwound - The temptation of pain Kingcrow - Hopium
1. IOTUNN - Kinship 2. Opeth - The last will and testament 3. Blood incantation - Absolute elsewhere 4. Anciients- Beyond the reach of the sun. 5. Borknagar - Fall 6. Saxon - Hell fire and damnation. 7. Crypt Serman - The stygian rose 8. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe 9. Evergrey - Theories of emptiness 10. Judas priest - Invincible Shield 11. Ulcerate - Cutting the throat of god 12. My dying bride - A mortal binding 13. Mur - Mur 14. Gatecreeper - Dark superstition 15. Winterfylleth- The imperious horizon 16. Mother of graves - The periapt of absence 17. Yoth iria - Blazing inferno 18. High on fire - Cometh the storm 19. Oxygen destroyer - Guardian of the universe 20. 200 stab wounds -Manual manic procedures Not as parallel as last year but know most of your albums. Nice list. Thanks for the videos. Best wishes Lindsay.🎉
Well that's a very surprising top 10, a lot of bias towards Tolkien/fantasy inspired solo projects, isn't it? Well, I guess it's fine. Iotunn is still objectively the best album of the year imo...and Winterfylleth is fine of course and deserves a spot, even if it should've been quite a bit lower. Waiting for a great 2025 in metal!
Iotunn is not black metal. If they call it that, it means my favourite music is now trash. But then again, many things in 2024 have changed. Some bands respect the Black Metal label still, ...
Borknager is one of my favs of the year. The lyrics. Music. Vocals. Production. All stellar. The way the album flows. Those soaring vocals near the end of the album 🔥
Thanks so much for the kind words Lindsay! So thrilled to be part of the top 10! Excellent video 🤘🏻
Its a fantastic album
Oh hey. I really enjoyed your album. Awesome work!!!
@ thank you!! 🙏🏼
Thank you so much Lindsay, absolutely honoured to be amongst the company on this list!! 🖤🤘
I loved your incorporation of Sgaile and Hand of Kalliach both are super highly addictive!
Have been a massive fan of Hand of Kalliach ever since their EP, so underrated. 🤘🏻
Thanks for putting Belore in your top 3, I'm glad you liked the album so much 🌞
Sgaille is awesome. Glad you mentioned because I've barely seen anyone else mention them.(or him really) Winterfylleth made my list and Iotunn is my album of the year.
You do a great job sharing your definition of all the albums you talk about some UA-camrs aren't as good as you when it comes to explaining.
thanks a lot for putting together this list, i discovered a lot of albums that i have missed sofar, great picks !
Completely agree on Iotunn, Borknagar and Dwarrowdelf.
Great list this year too, Lindsay 🤘
Thank you for another year of solid recommendations!
Thank you so much!
OMG Bloody Valkyria’s Kingdom In Fire is so criminally underrated. I may have just fell in love with Lindsay 🤪
There were a few new bands. I'll have to give them a listen. Thank you and lets hope for a great 2025 :)
If I was a betting man, I'd lose my rocks on this lol. Didn't see the number one coming. It's an interesting list, different from the norm. I would of thought Cistvaen & Wormwood were certainties for your top 10. Shocked! My top 5: Iotunn, Modern Rites, Cistvaen, Piah Mater, Avmakt.
Cheers for putting us up top. That’s a long time to sit on the floor! Don’t wait so long for the coffee next time. Thank you and Merry Christmas.
Nice end of year list!
BTW your channel got a shout-out on New Years Eve over on the Heavy Metallurgy channel when the 2025 Metal Tag was released. Question 20 on the Metal Tag this year is 'shout out two YT channels'' and The Heavy Metal Journal + Black Leather Eyes were both named. Cheers!
Belore 😍I saw the band live this December, fantastic show! And Eastern Tales are also a Masterpiece!
Happy Christmas awesome list Sgaile brilliant album my cd due shortly.
Hand Of Kalliach what a band .
Got 2 t shirts and both cds
Take care Jonathan ❤xx💯🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lovely Top 10 2024 albums! That Winterfylleth is so beautiful! Great choice on Dodsrit as well, I keep listening to this album throughout this year! Have a great New Year!
Thanks Lindsay, you are great! 🤘
What an excellent list Lindsay a big thank you for all the new music and established bands you have mentioned talked about in 2024 .
Love Bandcamp.
Hope you had a fantastic Christmas.
Stay safe and Take care Jonathan ❤xxx
Also had Dödsrit, Winterfylleth and Iotunn on my list. Those are likely my top three. Agree with all you said about Winterfylleth. Especially the track with Alan from Primordial on vox is fantastic but they are all good.
I spent some time also absorbing the lyrics on that one which adds another layer of excellence. Easy to overlook!
22:02 That Iotunn, Borknagar were so amazing. Marche Funebre was a surpise hit for me. You had some outstanding albums on your top 40. I dont know if you'd agree but i feel like this year was better than last year, though every year has some amazing metal. Yours is one of my favorite channels. 🤘☕️
Definitely some surprises in that top 10, but i agree that Winterfylleth's is AOTY.
Thanks, Im just away and bought Sgaile vinyl . Never heard of this and usually into groove / thrash metal. Anyway greetings form Torridon not too far away from the Bealach ;-)
Ha! Winterfylleth's 'The Divination of Antiquity' has been in the CD case in my car since 2014.
I will check out the Winterfylleth - I like what I heard. Here's my top 2024 top 12:
1) Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
2) Necrophobic - In the Twilight Grey
3) Ihsahn - self-titled
4) Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic
5) Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
6) Borknagar - Fall
7) Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
8) Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
9) Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals
10) Flotsam and Jetsam - I am the Weapon
11) Lucifer - Lucifer V
12) Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
Finally, someone recognizes Nile's album as one of the year's best !! Great list by the way
A few more things I hadn't heard before, I appreciate the work you put into this top 40 of the year. Sounds like I will have a lot of bandits of 2024 of my own to check out thanks to this 4 part series!
Great list, Lindsay. I hope 2025 brings us albums which are as good as these.
Have a great festive season.
I am absolutely in love with the Iotunn, Sgàile, and Borknagar records! You have great taste for atmosphere and melody, so you’ve given me several I missed that I need to check out as well, especially your #1!
I have to ask though if you’ve heard Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars? Given your taste, I think you’d love its blend of atmospheric melodic black and neoclassical. It’s my favorite black metal album of the year and tied with my favorite of last year which was Blackbraid.
Great list with a lot of albums not on any others. Subbed.
Thank you! 🤘🏻
Iotunn is easily number 1 this year, easily.
Great Top 40! You honestly caught me by surprise with most of your Top 10 picks... haha!
I think this was one of the best years in music in quite some time. As an example of that, I could easily put together an "almost-Top 40," and yet I seem to have very little overlap with most of the lists being shared out there.
Here are my picks-definitely heading in a pretty different direction from yours. But I owe a bunch of my favourite albums this year to your channel (Lowen, Officium Triste, Marche Funèbre, Vorga...). Thank you for that!
Cheers and happy holidays! 🤘😈
Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Bewitcher - Spell Shock
Blaze Bayley - Circle of Stone
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
Blues Pills - Birthday
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
David Reece - Baptized by Fire
Deep Purple - =1
DOOL - The Shape of Fluidity
Fans of the Dark - Video
Frost* - Life in the Wires
Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
Ha Vay - Baby I’m the Wolf
Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher
High Parasite - Forever We Burn
Impellitteri - War Machine
Iron Curtain - Savage Dawn
Judas Priest - Invisible Shield
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Kingcrow - Hopium
Lucifer - Lucifer V
Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran
Marche Funèbre - After the Storm
Marilyn Manson - OAUG: Chapter 1
Meer - Wheels Within Wheels
Neal Morse - The Restoration
Officium Triste - Hortus Venenum
Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive
Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
Sebastian Bach - Child Within the Man
Sonic Universe - It Is What It Is
Toxikull - Under the Southern Light
Tribulation - Sub Rosa Aeternum
Unto Others - Never, Neverland
Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star
Wheel - Charismatic Leaders
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
Awesome quality list bc many I’ve watched just seem to have the same albums over and over again. Also the explanations matter and joy the albums brought you. Fantastic.
Great list! My Top 10 Albums Of The Year
1. Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
2. Rut - Morbid Thoughts
3. Evildead - Toxic Grace
4. Nocturnus AD - Unicursal
5. Atrophy - Asylum
6. Anarchy - Xenotech And The Cosmic Anarchy
7. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
8. Satan - Songs In Crimson
9. Deicide - Banished By Sin
10. Flotsam And Jetsam - I Am The Weapon
My list
10 Ihsahn - Ihsahn
9 Merrimack - Of Grace and Gravity
8 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
7 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
6 Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
5 Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek
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, Lyndsey!❤ Thanks for letting me know about Bloody Valkyria. That's epic! I am a fan one man projects also.
Your whole top 40 list is awesome, but some of the stuff is not my taste.
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New to your channel but your no 1 is the only album I know & I love it. A band from my locality as well (I thought it was indie only here).
Fantastic list, Lindsey. A little disappointed that “A Fortress Called Home” by Seven Spires didn’t make it on your list considering that’s my personal album of the year. But oh well!
It was truly difficult to pick the top 20 this year. But here it is:
1. Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals
2. In Vain - Solemn
3. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
4. Iotunn - Kinship
5. Bokassa - All Out Of Dreams
6. This Ending - Crowned In Blood
7. Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down
8. Dark Oath - Ages of Man
9. Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star
10. Gaerea - Coma
11. Kissin Dynamite - Back With A Bang
12. Cemetary Skyline - Nordic Gothic
13. Wind Rose - Trollslayer
14. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness
15. Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves
16. Borknagar - Fall
17. Dååth - The Deceivers
18. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
19. Disarray - Religious Disease
20. Vale of Pnath - Between The Worlds of Life And Death
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You guys are #1!
Thank you for all that you do putting together the greatest playlists in all of Metal. An amazing list from an amazing journalist. We salute you
Cool list
Here’s my top album ! :
1. Ankor - Shoganai and Future Palace - Distortion (can’t choosers between the two)
2. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
3. Dark Oath - Ages of Man
4. Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans
5. Nightwish - Yesterwynde
And for the EP’s, definitely… Disembodied Tyrant X Synestia - The Poetic Edda and Xandria - Universal tales
And I want to thank you for making me discover Dark Oath and Ecclesia, love those 2 bands !
Love these picks Lindsay, this is the first end of year list I've seen that features both Dwarrowdelf and Winterfylleth. My 15 are below
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 Fallen Leaves
some good albums specially the black metal ones cant wait for the saor album.merry xmas .
I could not possibly agree more. I've been obsessed with black metal forever, and I've loved everything Winterfylleth has ever done, but The Imperious Horizon sets the bar impossibly high for the rest of the genre. There were a lot of good albums, but The Imperious Horizon wins Best Album of 2024 running away, and it isn't even close.
Hey, Lindsay! Nice Top 40! I've got a few suggestions for your bandits of 2024 video. From best to least great:
1. Body Count - Merciless
2. Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
3. Jordan Rudess - Permission to Fly
4. Kiko Loureiro - Theory of Mind
5. Simone Simons - Vermillion
6. Sebastian Bach - Child within the Man
7. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
8. Hammerfall - Avenge the Fallen
9. Marilyn Manson - One Assassination under God
Wow! You definitely love atmospheric black metal!
Thank you for your work-great recommendations and inspirations throughout the whole year! (and that accent...😍 and we both love our stompy stomps😍)
Wow i really didn't see your No 1 coming it's a fantastic album 💯🤘🤘🤘
I love Belore amazing got a long sleeve t shirt.
Love the fact bands like this include a card or stickers etc and thank you for your support awesome ❤
Great list! My Top 10 Metal Albums of 2024
1. Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
2. Rut - Morbid Thoughts
3. Evildead - Toxic Grace
4. Nocturnus AD - Unicursal
5. Atrophy - Asylum
6. Anarchy - Xenotech And The Cosmic Anarchy
7. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
8. Satan - Songs In Crimson
9. Deicide - Banished By Sin
10. Flotsam And Jetsam - I Am The Weapon
I got the Winterfylleth vinyl just for the fantastic song with A.A. Nemtheanga, but the rest of it didn't really appeal to me much. It's not bad, but meh. This list still had 3 solid tips for me though! Bloody Valkyria, Marche Funebre and Hand of Kalliach I did not know of before and they're all up my alley from the brief look into them!
I'm not the biggest Black Metal fan out there tbh, but I'll take the Pepsi Challenge on Winterfylleth - it sounds like a great soundtrack for the coming Winter months running! Great channel! All the best. S.
Grandes albums del Metal este 2024 🤟🏻 saludos legión 🤟🏻
Good picks. The Winterfylleth is a great top pick.
Hey nice list, very similar tastes to me. You might enjoy my top 30:
1. Borknagar - Fall (epic/progressive black metal)
2. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals (melancholic melodeth)
3. Machiavellian God - Beyond the Void (melancholic/progressive melodeath)
4. Iotunn - Kinship (epic/progressive melodeath)
5. Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses (industrial metal)
6. Sgaile - Traverse the Bealach (progressive/melodic metal/post rock)
7. Belore - Eastern Tales (epic black metal)
8. Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou (melodic gothic metal)
9. Interloper - A Forgotten Loss (progressive/groove death metal)
10. In Vain - Solemn (progressive melodeath)
11. Wormwood - The Star (epic/melodic black metal)
12. Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is (atmospheric deathcore)
13. Drift Into Black - Voices Beneath The Rubble (progressive/melodic doom metal)
14. My Silent Wake - Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief (melodic/gothic death doom metal)
15. Kozoria - The Source (progressive melodeath/alt metal)
16. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (psychedelic/progressive death metal)
17. Evoking Winds - Your Rivers (epic/folk black metal)
18. Nightwish - Yesterwynde (symphonic/progressive metal)
19. Wintersun - Time II (epic/progressive melodeath)
20. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament (progressive/gothic metal)
21. Oceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to Speak (symphonic/progressive metal)
22. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness (symphonic melodeath)
23. Oceans - Happy (“nu death metal”)
24. Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down (melodic/progressive black metal)
25. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood (grunge/alt metal)
26. Thy Catafalque - XII (avant-garde/folk black metal)
27. Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb (melancholic/gothic death doom metal)
28. Mushroomhead - Call The Devil (groove metal)
29. The Moor - Ombra (progressive melodeath)
30. Nykophobia - To The Stars (atmospheric melodeath)
Great list, agree with number one 100%
Dwarrowdelf amazing.
Sorry so many comments but the choices are incredible ❤
Solo projects are amazing such talented guys incredible
Dwarrowdelf let's gooooooooooo. Definitely in my top 20!
As the symphonic metal nerd that I am, my AOTY is Pirates II: Armada by Visions of Atlantis
I feel that the Hand of Kalliach - Corryvreckan album is a tiny bity muddy on the final mix but is totally listenable.
1- Sig:Ar:Tyr -citadel of stars
2- Critical Defiance- the search won’t fail
3- Deep Purple- =1
4- High on Fire - cometh the storm
5- Himinbjorg- the fall of Valhalla
6- Magnum- here comes the rain
7- Deceased - children of the morgue
8- Morta Skuld - creation undone
9- Borknagar- fall
10- Winterfylleth - the imperious horizon
Also enjoying Blue Oyster Cult - ghost stories, Sentry - Sentry , Cavalera- schizophrenia, Seid- hymns to the Norse, the new Nile, the new Veilburner, the new Blood Incantation…more to check out, it looks like. Cheers Lindsay ☕️
Nice choices Lindsay! Maybe the most interesting I've seen these days. I'm curious what is your favorite album of 2020. I have a guess for your choice..
New to your channel. Loving the vids and recommendations.
Marche Funebre - what a great album!
My Top 10 AOTY [10 - 1]
10. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals
09. In Vain - Solemn
08. Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic
07. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum
06. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
05. Sólstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl
04. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
03. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
02. Borknagar - Fall
01. Iotunn - Kinship
That's a great top 5. I knew Belore would be somewhere on your list, but I did not expect it that high. I need to pick up Bloody Valkyria, that's one I've missed this year.
This is my top 10. There's a lot of cheesy power metal so feel free to skip, lol
10. Visions Of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada
9. Rivendell - Unsung Tales
8. Dragony - Hic Svnt Dracones
7. Ensiferum - Winter Storm
6. Frozen Crown - War Hearts
5. Elvellon - Ascending In Synergy
4. Alterium - Of War And Flames
3. Rhapsody Of Fire - Challenge The Wind
2. Belore - Eastern Tales
1. Seven Spires - A Fortress Called Home
Marche Funèbre and the Bloody Valkyria was new to me. Both are GREAT. Thank you! \m/
Check out - Kvaen - The Formless Fires
Great countdown thanks. h
How is that every album you mention in The Top 40 is amazing,fantastic,superb in their own right?
Are those albums outside of your Top 40 just plain good or weaker by any chance not to make the grade?
My personal Top album and also best new group of 2024 is Crownshift,maybe a little lighter than the majority on your list,but a continuous player.
All he best for Xmas & The New Year
Wow Dodsrit is amazing.
Hand of kalliach are amazing
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.
Its a personel List of Bands you listen to.
Top 10 for me:
1. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
2. Aara - Eiger
3. Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
4. Austere - Beneath the Threshold
5. Seth -La France des maudits
6. Officuium Triste - Hortus venenum
7. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
8. Iotunn - Kinship
9. Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
10. Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions
Have a great holiday!
just discovered your channel and i have to say that i second your recommendations. do you have a spotify playlist where one can hear some picked songs? i usually dont use yt.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you like atmospheric melodic black metal...
so our number ones match , my number 2 is sig ar tyr .. Belore is in my top 10 ..... the other 18 of your top 20 plus a pre order of saor and the paysage dhiver cd i have asked santa for being good n he will bring me them all surely ..Ive not heard any of them so i think ill be busy in 2025 ..
Loved the top 40 thx! Was there ever a particular band/album at one point that made u really start getting into black metal?
What's up with the background music?
Iotunn ,Dödsrit ,Borknagar ,Dwarrowdelf ,Belore in my top 75 list: ua-cam.com/video/djVj1oVzAcM/v-deo.html
Since i have already posted my top 8, then i will post my most disapoiting albums of 2024.
All in all i thought they were dissapointing compared to their previous releases
Funeral - Gospel of Bones
Unto Others - Never Neverland
My dying Bride - A mortal Binding
Inqusition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
Mine in no particular order…
Civerous - Maze Envy
Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless
Suffer - Grand Canvas of the Aesthete
Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
Pall Bearer - Mind Burns Alive
Aquilis - Bellum II
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Teeth - The Will of Hate
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
earthhtone⁹ - In Resonance Nexus
No French metal act ?! I'm really surprised, the frogs make also beautiful and diverse metal things. ;-)
I'm not a fan of black metal. Iotunn is the only album here i want to listen to more.
But as always, to each their own 🙂
I have many albums left to discover this year but Blood incantation and Crypt sermon are 2 of my favourites so far
Wintersun with Time 2 isn't in the top 40! Nice to see that you didn't jumped up this hype!
Yeah I liked the album, don't get me wrong but there were many others which hit the spot more for me.
Seclorum Ornament - The Last Sorceress 👈
My Album of 24: THOLA - Unseen
Enjoy!!!
5 Best Eps of 2024
King810 - Under the black rainbow
Disembodied Tyrant - The poetic edda
Mirar - Mare
The Hate Project - May death come quickly
The Plot In You - Vol.3
20 of the best albums of the year
The Browning - Omni
Darko US - Starfire
Allt - From the new world
Assemble The Chariots - Unyielding night
A Wake In Providence - I Write to you…
Worm Sheperd - Hunger
Consvmer - Seelenfrieden
156/Silence - People watching
thrown - Excessive guilt
Drown In Sulphur - Dark secrets of the soul
Opeth - The last will and testament
The Archaic Epidemic - Death Crawl
Grayscale Season - feel something new
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Gaerea - Coma
Dödsrit - Nocturnal will
Floya - Yume
Powerflo - Gorilla warfare
Saltwound - The temptation of pain
Kingcrow - Hopium
Bookmarking this. Coming back to some I haven’t listened to. Mirar was an awesomely wild EP
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1. IOTUNN - Kinship
2. Opeth - The last will and testament
3. Blood incantation - Absolute elsewhere
4. Anciients- Beyond the reach of the sun.
5. Borknagar - Fall
6. Saxon - Hell fire and damnation.
7. Crypt Serman - The stygian rose
8. Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
9. Evergrey - Theories of emptiness
10. Judas priest - Invincible Shield
11. Ulcerate - Cutting the throat of god
12. My dying bride - A mortal binding
13. Mur - Mur
14. Gatecreeper - Dark superstition
15. Winterfylleth- The imperious horizon
16. Mother of graves - The periapt of absence
17. Yoth iria - Blazing inferno
18. High on fire - Cometh the storm
19. Oxygen destroyer - Guardian of the universe
20. 200 stab wounds -Manual manic procedures
Not as parallel as last year but know most of your albums.
Nice list.
Thanks for the videos.
Best wishes Lindsay.🎉
Wolvencrown ...
Well that's a very surprising top 10, a lot of bias towards Tolkien/fantasy inspired solo projects, isn't it? Well, I guess it's fine. Iotunn is still objectively the best album of the year imo...and Winterfylleth is fine of course and deserves a spot, even if it should've been quite a bit lower. Waiting for a great 2025 in metal!
Amaranthe - The Catalyst
Iotunn is not black metal. If they call it that, it means my favourite music is now trash. But then again, many things in 2024 have changed. Some bands respect the Black Metal label still, ...
Iotunn is definitely not black metal, yeah.
Too grossly outdone me.
Couldnt find anything i liked here
Borknager is one of my favs of the year. The lyrics. Music. Vocals. Production. All stellar. The way the album flows. Those soaring vocals near the end of the album 🔥
Actually I am not interested in those new recordings / albums. That all is too much to apprehend...