1. Magdalena bay 2. Knocked loose 3. Opeth 4. Blood Incantation 5. Unleash the archers 6. Charli xcx 7. Ankor 8. Nightwish 9. Wintersun 10. Billie Eilish yes mary's music taste is a great channel I follow her too. Also nice to see poppy in the honorable mentions, negative spaces was great!

I second your Chat Pile choice. Cool World is SOOOO Good. You must see them live. As you point out, they have a singular sound that's a super effective blend of different influences without being schizophrenic or carbon copying any of them. Their music is tapping straight into the feels of millions of people around the world. Plus, you can headbang shoegaze, mosh, stage dive or straight dance to 'em.

I will have to check these out, I love finding new tunes.

If you love that new Balance and Composure record, youre going to love their album "The Things We Think We're Missing"

Love your resctios 😁🤘🤘 Dance devil dance by avatar would be i good album to review in 2025 😁🤘🤘

I feel so crazy, I feel like I should love that 156/silence album, but it does nothing for me. Anyways, list is good!

Merry Christmas MS!

You should link to mary's channel in the descr:)

so many good picks

Loved your list! Excited to see you exploring more music in the new year!

You have an amazing taste my friend

Balance And Composure is one i gotta check out

Curious what you’re opinion on Chromakopia by Tyler The Creator is, I’ve been obsessed with his music lately

Merry Christmas, Molly. I haven't really put much thought into what my favourite album from 2024 was, but a lot of solid death metal albums dropped and there are many I still need to listen to that I have written down. Pretty good year xd. Conglaciation, Defeated Sanity, Wormed, Siderean, and the list just goes on. One that definitely sticks out that I've had a blast with is First Fragment releasing a massive consolidated album of all their tracks as instrumental. I'd be surprised if you knew any of these bands hahah.

Merry Christmas Everyone! Happy Holidays My Top 30 Albums Of The Year w/ 10 Honorable Mentions 1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 2. Bilmuri - American Motor Sports 3. Bring Me The Horizon - Nex Gen 4. The Barbarians Of California - And Now I'm Just Gnashing My Teeth 5. Soft Play - Heavy Jelly 6. Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV : To Shadow Zion 7. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 8. Chat Pile - Cool World 9. Inter Arma - New Heaven 10. Enterprise Earth - Death : An Anthology 11. Belmont - Liminal 12. Nails - Every Bridge Burning 13. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament 14. Allt - From The New World 15. Striker - Ultrapower 16. Extinction A.D. - To The Detested 17. Unto Others - Never, Neverland 18. High On Fire - Cometh The Storm 19. Ocean Grove - Oddworld 20. Linkin Park - From Zero 21. QAALM - Grave Impressions Of An Unbroken Arc 22. Candy - It's Inside You 23. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer 24. The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - No Name Graves 25. Boundaries - Death Is Little More 26. Vomit Forth - Terrified Of God 27. Undeath - More Insane 28. Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible 29. Heriot - Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell 30. Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is 1. RYUJIN - RYUJIN 2. Falling In Reverse - Popular Monster 3. The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude 4. Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis 5. Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition Of Prowess 6. Dealer - New Order Of Mind 7. Dead Poet Society - FISSION 8. Civerous - Maze Envy 9. Darkest Hour - Perpetual Terminal 10. No Cure - I Hope I Die Here

Not sure if it was a bad year for music for me or music has been so forced into the background in my life. Just trying to think of ten albums off top of my head was full of stuff in the last few months. So had to flip through my vinyl box and hard drive. in no particular order (well the first album probably my fave): Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Full of Hell w/ Andrew Nolan - Scraping the Divine Orange Goblin - Science, not Fiction Melt Banana - 3+5 The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow Billie Eilish - Hit me Hard and Soft Devin Townsend - PowerNerd Lucifer - Lucifer V

I was so freakin' happy that Allt was your #1 and Knocked Loose was your #2. I concur. Do you have Album reactions for these 2 Albums on Patreon? I need to see 'em, if you do.

Leprous and Allt are on my top albums list :)

Great picks this also gives me so much more music to listen to and discover. I’m a huge fan of Poppy and wonder if you like her music. Merry Christmas and have a very happy New Year

Merry Christmas! 🎄🥂 Here is my top 10 albums of 2024: 1. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World 2. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She 3. Charli XCX - Brat 4. Linkin Park - From Zero 5. The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei 6. Phantogram - Memory of a Day 7. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 8. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor 9. Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen 10. Aurora - What Happened to the Heart?

Cool list Molly and thanks for sharing! My top 10 is on my channel if you like to check out. Cheers and happy holidays!

Wow Molly! I can't believe we are already at another top 10 list for the year. Where does the time go? Happy holidays to you and looking forward to your reactions next year.

Merry Christmas Molly. I loved the new Knocked Loose, 156/Silence, Chelsea Wolfe, and Chat Pile albums. I love Charli XCX so I definitely want to check Brat out. Here is my five favorite albums of the year: 5. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 4. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja 3. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 2. Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer 1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

I was hoping Art of Letting Go by Myles Kennedy would be here. Assuming you haven't checked out Alter Bridge and the solo albums Myles and Mark have made, that's a fun rabbit hole to go down. Merry Christmas.

I didn't know Dead poets society (the band at least!) but the couple of songs from the intro sounded a lot like Royal Blood and Nothing but Thieves respectively.

I know most of the names but I'm not familiar with some of the albums here so I've got some things to check out. Several albums here make my expanded top 50 list but just don't crack the top 10. Here are my top 10 albums (plus honorables) of 2024. 1. Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will (melodic black metal/crust punk/epic heavy metal) 2. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (synth-pop/dance pop/indie pop/art rock/progressive rock) 3. One Step Closer - All You Embrace (melodic hardcore) 4. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (progressive death metal/progressive rock) 5. Thy Catafalque - XII: A gy​ö​ny​ö​rű álmok ezut​á​n j​ö​nnek (avant-garde metal: black metal/death metal/industrial/folk/electronic/jazz) 6. SeeYouSpaceCowboy… - Coup De Grâce (sasscore/metalcore/emo/indie rock) 7. Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot (power pop/indie rock/emo) 8. The Funeral Procession - In Still Silence (progressive death metal/melodic death metal) 9. Alcest - Les Chants de l'aurore (post-metal/post-rock/blackgaze) 10. Poppy - Negative Spaces (alternative metal/metalcore/industrial/electropop/synth-pop) Honorable mentions 11. Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt (punk rock) 12. Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty (emo/indie rock/punk rock) 13. Green Day - Saviors (punk rock/pop punk/power pop/alternative rock) 14. Gouge Away - Deep Sage (post-hardcore/post-punk/alternative rock) 15. Darko US - Starfire (progressive deathcore/mathcore/nu metal/electropop/dream pop)

Balance and composure?!?! Knew you were cool but damn! Such a dope return album

Merry Christmas and here’s my top 10. 1. Alcest: Les Chants de l’Aurore 2. Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk 3. The Warning: Keep Me Fed 4. Kendrick Lamar: GNX 5. Griff: Vertigo 6. Jack White: No Name 7. Nada Surf: Moon Mirror 8. Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God 9. Lowen: Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran 10. Pearl Jam: Dark Matter

Wow, Chat Pile top 3, very good pick

Im so happy to see balance & composure getting some love. I think they are very good band and deserves more appreciation. The things we think were missing is easily one of my favourite albums of all time

Merry Christmas Molly!

Give Grammy nominated by Islander a listen sometime. This album was my number one of the year and I feel like nobody talks about this album. Love your videos!

Ciao Molly, I'm glad Leprous is on the list, even though I like more the previous albums from the start, this one is a good comeback to a familiar sound.

Everybody loves brat how can one not like it it's so fun, definitely my favourite of the year

If you haven’t heard Bilmuri’s newest album “American Motor Sports” you definitely need too. It’s not as heavy as some of your choices but it’s extremely groovy and catchy all the way through

Chat Pile was new for me as well and kind of a revelation. Been a while since I heard this kind of metal/industrial/rock/indie/core? Allt was great as well.

Great Ranking! Can you listen to some more STP next? Purple first and then Tiny Music? 😊Merry Christmas!🎄

Some albums I really enjoyed this year: 🍊 The Smile - Cutouts 🛩 Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes 🍏 Charli XCX - Brat 💧 Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard & Soft 🌷 Liana Flores - Flower of the Soul 👀 The Smile - Wall of Eyes 🧮 Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat 🪲 Crumb - AMAMA 🔥 Eefje de Visser - Heimwee 🎾 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers

Have you heard of 'Songs of a lost world' by the Cure? The album got 'Universal acclaim' in Meta Critic. It's even Spin Magazine's album of the year. I am really looking forward to you starting reviewing The Cure's discography.

My picks 10 Merrimack - Of Grace and Gravity 9 Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All 8 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 7 Konigreichssaal - Psalmen 'O' Delirium 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

Nice to see Dead Poet Society getting some love, great album! You might also enjoy The Warning - Keep Me Fed that dropped this year. Trio sisters from Mexico. Album was produced by Anton DeLost who also produced FISSION by DPS and they recently did a collab remixing the vocals on HURT. The Warning has a similar energy and tonal quality to DPS.

Here is my list of Top 10 Albums of 2024 Rules for the List: No Live Albums, Cover Albums, Compilation Albums, Re-Releases or Ep's. It helps me Narrow Down my list of 41 albums I've listen to. The songs have to be released in 2024. I am going through the genre of Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk, etc. Honorable Mentions Linkin Park / From Zero Poppy / Negative Spaces Judas Priest / Invincible Shield Jack White / No Name Sum 41 / Heaven X Hell Now for the Actual List 10) Cage the Elephant / Neon Pill 9) Green Day / Saviors 8) Pearl Jam / Dark Matter 7) P.O.D / Veritas 6) The Warning / Keep Me Fed 5) Powerwolf / Wake up the Wicked 4) Knocked Loose / You Won't go Before you're Supposed to 3) Better Lovers / Highly Irresponsible 2) Chelsea Wolfe / She Reaches out to She reaches out to She 1) Opeth / Last Will in testament

I really like her taste

Great picks Molly! I got inspired to make my own list :) 1. Mamaleek - Vida Blue: a dazzling combination of avant-garde jazz & metal that leans into the jazz side way more this time around. Very unique even for them, and one I had to physically pry myself from to keep every listen a proper one because it was so addictive. I’m a sucker for albums with a unique sonic palette & while this list is subject to change, this one STOLE me ❤ 2. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To…: Chelsea’s back on her heavy shit (language necessary) with her voice acting as an anchor to these hectic industrial soundscapes - she’s able to keep things fresh with different twists in each consecutive release. This time having just as much in common with Massive Attack & Tricky as it does Skinny Puppy or NIN. 3. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes: maybe not as immediate as it’s predecessors, Small Changes is a more pulled back release that none the less packs a ton of feeling & memorable melodies to give this warm vibe that harkens back to the soul greats: especially Curtis Mayfield, which is high praise! 4. Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive: some emotive *DOOM* from what Is now one of Doom Metal’s most reliable names, now with a greater emphasis on atmosphere and delicate clean sections to balance out the record sonically. 5. Melt-Banana - 3+5: over a decade later this is an admirable follow-up to “Fetch” - still mixing the sounds of noise-rock, hardcore punk into this chaotic, yet joyful stew in a lean 24 min package. Agata’s guitar playing is truly unique sounding, like a video game glitching/exploding, and Yasuko sounds like the kid being electrocuted from said game glitching/exploding. 6. Yīn Yīn - Mount Matsu: purely a selfish pick because I can’t get enough of their dreamy psych-infused dance music. The new Kharangbin gets a nod for similar reasons. 7. Melvins - Tarantula Heart: the best album Melvins have released since 2006’s “(A) Senile Animal.” Losing the gimmicks and giving us a behemoth of twisted Sludge that only them and an elite few can muster. Good year for sludge in general with High On Fire & Black Tusk’s new records AND Acid Bath & Kylesa reuniting. Good stuff! 8. Alcest - Les Chants de l’Aurore: once again the masters of blending Shoegaze & Black Metal come back after way too long. Nothing too different from prior releases & that’s a good thing, maybe being even more uplifting or ethereal than before. I can really hear Neige’s influences from Slowdive to The Chameleons on this one (both of those being great bands to pick) 9. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown: some nicely unsettling folk-adjacent material from one third of trip-hop pioneer, Portishead. Truly didn’t expect it to sound this good! Another bonus was it got me listening to more Portishead than I have in ages. 10. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere: genuinely excellent progressive death metal with a ton of Pink Floyd & Tangerine Dream worship. Deserves all the praise it’s getting. Both brutal AND ethereal with an appropriately cosmic atmosphere to boot.

Balance and Composure - with you in spirit Buffalo Tom - Jump Rope Remi Wolf - Big Ideas The Chisel - What a F*cking Nightmare Thanks, Molly!

Happy Holidays, Molly Metal Queen....🤘👽🤘

Interesting list with some new albums to add to my listening queue, but I am a bit stressed to see how many good options are out there and how few time I have to listen to them :) A pleasure to listen to your reactions and recommendations, have a great Christmas and let’s see what the new musical year has to offer us, I really think 2024 has been a great year for music.

I can't believe the year has raced through so quickly, Chelsea's album was my most anticipated, and it's still on regular rotation for me, her entire discography is amazing...you have quite a varied selection for this years picks Molly, I think I might check out the Charlie XCX album seeing as it has your seal of approval, I'd also like to wish you a wonderful Christmas Molly, and Happy Holidays

Hi, I enjoyed your vlog. I always enjoy your reactions. I’ll be sharing this with my best friend as well. We won’t be meeting up till the New Year. When we meet up in the New Year, we will be rewatching this and your upcoming videos together. Merry Christmas Molly!

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