well im not a musician but everything you said in the video is the exact reason that i feel the way i feel when listening to this kind of badass song. now im more aware for why i like it. also, it must be so sad being a person that cannot enjoy listening this kind of music.

You should check out the Ulthar albums from this year. Pretty great stuff!

What is the band/song playing at 2:07?

I think in many Death songs they use alternating meter AND alternating tempo, with riffs being sometimes in 3/4 or 4/4 and each riff having a different tempo.

I like Obituary and sometimes they even speed up the tempo within the riff over a few measures! Like in that one Rotting Ways Live LockDown Jam cover

Oh no, did you just completely miss Malignancy’s Discontinued?

Metal albums to listen to in 2025.

Younshould definitely check out theurgy's new album!

do you listen to any metal that isn't made by musicians?

Made a youtube playlist for the list music.kzbin.info/aero/PLJ8R4viOO4fmUo54LERwe0mkdsMncHNuk&si=7YX_ZNjguf9nwA-W

Have you heard the new Half Empty Glasshouse album?

Well shit... looks like I still have a lot of stuff to check out from this year, some of these sound amazing.

Hello, what’s the band you mention at 2.40, Tigron?? Those are some elastic time signatures!

Do you like Ulcerate bro?

USDA Prime rib roast albums

Anyone listened to Gigan ? Awesome stuff kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2S6o2B6pdCZpNEfeature=shared

Top 20 Metal 1. Krallice - Inorganic Rites 1. Defeated Sanity - Chronicles of Lunacy 1. Pyrrhon - Exhaust 2. Ingurgitating Oblivion - Ontology of Nought 3. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of The Last Human Being 4. Ihsahn 5. Opeth - The Last Will & Testament 6. Borknagar - Fall 7. Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore 8. Scarcity - The Promise of Rain 9. Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God 10. Dreamless Veil - Every Limb of the Flood 11. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World 12. Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 13. North Sea Echo - Really Good Terrible Things 14. Richie Kotzen - Nomad 15. Folterkammer - Weibermacht 16. Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei 17. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja 18. Biomorphic Engulfment - Infinite Universes of Creation & Annihilation 19. Ershetu - Yomi 20. Judas Priest - Invisible Shields (Standard Edition) EP'/Splits/Demos ~ - Biopolarities (Diskord: 1 - 4) - Sessanta Eppp (Puscifer/Primus/APC) - Krallice Demo '07 HM/Alphabetical Order ~ Absolute Elsewhere (Blood Incantation) Coffin of Conviction (Dysrhythmia) Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum (Sleepwalker) Drama (Marty Friedman) Hin helga kvol (Solstafir) The Mandrake Project (Bruce Dickinson) Meanwhile (Eric Clapton) Powernerd (Devin Townsend) Sanshi (Ripped To Shreds) Schizophrena (Cavalera) Tarantula Heart (Melvins) (Trichomoniasis Ep) XII: Agyonyoru almok ezutan jonnek (Thy Catafalque) Reissues Psychotic Waltz (A Social Grace, Into The Everflow, Mosquito, Bleeding) Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer

It's been a damn good year for metal. As expected, I have some goodies to check out. Killer list!

Killer list! clued me into some great releases that I totally missed

Thank you for the inclusion Calder! Conglaciation is honored to be amongst a list of heavy hitters. What a great year for metal

Thanks for all the recommendations and congrats on the dissertation wrapping up! (Also everyone needs to listen to Chat Pile!)

Oh fuck next bandcamp friday my wallet dies. Thanks for sharing so many amazing bands I have so far neglected/never heard of before

One of my favorite tracks from my favorite band. Thanks for doing this vid man. I'm by no means musically trained so forgive me: but I wanted to expand on your point about "riffs melting into primordial soup". The melting riff leaves this unresolved tension that carries over to the next section. Krallice does this constantly, especially in their 'first period', and *especially* especially on YPM. So not only are motifs being reused later in the song, but you've got this mass of pressure building throughout. It makes subsequent passages even more intense, regardless of whether or not the tension gets resolved. When (or if) they ever do bring the song to a climax, it's soo much more impactful as a result. A lot of times they don't and you have these mini-climaxes sprinkled throughout, which I love.

Excellent choices! I'd like to add An Axis of Perdition - Apertures (amazing industrial black metal).

As a guitar Nerd, how did you miss: Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction This is a phenomenal group of musicians that have Tigtone in their band. Incredible pieces of music and genuinely nice people: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being Crazy noise punk with traditional west-African elements: Avalanche Kaito - Talitakum Probably the most varied and yet cohesive heavy album I've heard from a metal band. The vocalist plays a freaking key keytar and it sounds amazing: Mur - Mur If you want beyond effed up, whacked out BM, this is brilliant: Stagnant Waters - Black Fields... Her songwriting and vocals are just one of a kind: Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood Seriously, this album is beautiful Alcest - Les Chants... Unsung European group that sounds like they've been picking up where Neurosis left music at after "Through Silver in Blood" Unfold - Feral Future

4th year in a row with you. I love you man.

Been looking forward to this upload. Just added a bunch of albums to my queue.

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

Honored to be included on a list between Beyoncé and Pyrrhon, couldn't ask for better company

My fav 2024 realised albums are: Mare by mirar Swnpl Aaru The cycles of trying to cope- Like moth to flames From the new world -Allt Friend of a phantom -Vola Memory palace- Intervals Old albums I went back to Fortitude by gojira Heavener by invent animate The bedlam in Goliath by tmv Zwielicht by Mental cruelty The shape of colour by intervals Gnosis- Russian circles

Where can I listened to the convulsing album? It's s not in Spotify 😢

FYI, I'm pretty sure the word Ὁπλίτης' is pronounced in Greek like 'oh-PLEE-tess'. However, the Anglicized version 'hoplites' is commonly pronounced 'HOP-lights', so you're in the clear. Anyway, great list, definitely gonna be checking some of these out.

Associate this, looking forward to checking out serval of these!

Thanks for the support Calder! And this is a very thoughtful list all around, buncha stuff in here that I need to listen to

What an abundant year for Death Metal. It's impossible to even make a list that's not minimum top 40 and still be fair to all of it. My top 3 also includes Pyrrhon, but I would've had Blood Incantation there, as well, and topping it with Ingurtgitating Oblivion. After hearing that the first time it felt like I had experienced something that makes you grow as a human. As a person. It's a landmark in your journey as a music fan. Increadible!

Thanks so much for including me! Ahhh my first aoty list!!!

Scarcity needs to be in any end of the year list

Thank you 🖤

Another great year for metal! Sumac was my AOTY, they're one of the most organic and complex bands out there. Seeing them live was pretty mind-blowing. I'm pleasantly surprised to have heard a good amount of these, but that might be because I'm on a dissodeath kick. I would also mention Vitriol, Ceremony of Silence, and Job for a Cowboy as bands w/ great albums this year. Thank you!

Lowen released an absolute banger this year!

Thank you king 🙏

Appreciate the shoutout and kind words for us in Annex Void 🙂 spiky is exactly the word I’ve been looking for the describe that riff!

Love your lists and descriptions! Some of my fav live shows this year were Animals as Leaders, Chat Pile, Better Lovers, and The Zenith Passage. Also 2024 is the year Palimpsest finally clicked for me too! I get the obsession \m/

One of the best lists I've seen from this year. Orgone, Pyrrhon and Ingurgitating Oblivion are in my top 10! Kvadrat and Mitochondrion albums are sick too.

Great list! That Inter Arma record was amazing; MUCH more varied than Sulphur English.

Aara, Spectral Wound, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Ulcerate were my standout metal albums of the year. The first two are just really fucking good black metal, Aara a little more melodic and experimental while Wound keeps it old-school. Oranssi and Ulcerate don’t need any introduction at this point. Also really liked the Spider God album, “fun” and “upbeat” are rarely words that describe black metal but this project cranks them out non-stop. For EPs, House of Atreus and Akvan were definitely my favorites. Atreus plays a really catchy and brutal style of melodic death metal that stands out from the mainstream acts (inspired by that one cartoonishly racist band, but *seemingly* written for normal people instead), and Akvan is like nothing I’ve ever heard before. Blistering raw black metal harmonizing with beautiful Iranian folk music. The 2021 EP, City of Blood, is even better imo. Since you asked for hip-hop suggestions, definitely check out Lupe Fiasco’s Samurai, Rapsody’s Please Don’t Cry, and Ka’s The Thief Next To Jesus. ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Mach-Hommy, and Doechii also dropped great albums too.

Wow, this is a goldmine! It almost feels crazy all these gems came out within one year only. Thanks for the upload, really appreciate it!

Oranssi Pazuzu's Muuntautuja was album of the year for me, by a pretty wide margin.

One of the best lists I’ve seen! 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

The non-metal album that you missed is Two-Star & the Dream Police by Mk.gee. My favourite album of the year, and almost the only non-metal album I listened to this year (I did like Kendrick's a lot though). He's being hailed as a generational talent and new guitar god. If you listen to one or two tracks and feel underwhelmed, keep exploring, especially the little semi-live video vignettes he released over the course of the year. The aesthetic will start to get into your bones and you'll uncover layer after layer of brilliance. He really is doing some new stuff with a guitar as far as signal chain and playing the effects like an instrument unto to itself.