The "Start your engines" breakdown is actually Kevin James at a NASCAR event.

No love for VOLA? I enjoyed finding your channel this year. Hope you have a good 2025

Not super objective, but based heavily on what I've been digging/listening the most: 1. Poppy - Negative Spaces 2. BMTH - Nex Gen 3. Bilmuri - American Motor Sports (I was about to put this lower but 4 out of 5 top songs in my Wrapped was Bilmuri LMAO) 4. Make them Suffer (Biased a bit by the fact that they put on the fucking best high energy live metal show I've ever seen opening for Erra this summer) 5. Ankor - Shoganai 6. LP - From Zero 7. AURORA - What Happened to the Heart? 8. Knocked Loose - YWGBYST 9. Erra - CURE 10. Allt - From the New World 11. The Arcane season 2 soundtrack (😢) Honorable mention that technically came out last year: Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. I've listened to this album a lot lol. Also, it's always funny comparing to youtubers that rigorously investigate new music because there's like 50-60% of my listening this year was music from the last couple years, not 2024.

Man I was skimming through the video to find “popular monster” and idk if you mentioned it at another album but it was on the thumbnail, please if you don’t like the band or the band members don’t be rude!

People speaking in the most typical Australian accents ever: Jacob: ENGLISH

The costume rocks!

Love your honest and sincere reaction! Thanks for sharing!

My top is 3 is: 1. Boundaries 2. Vitriol 3. Heriot Heriot being a huge surprise for me

Death Is Little More is easily my aoty I personally hate nex gen and felt like the album was having an identity crisis and was confused.

I was a bit struggling to guess your #1 album and was constantly being surprised in general, at almost all picks) My top LPs: 9. Ghost Atlas - Dust of the Human Shape 8. Imminence - The Black 7. Sable Hills - Odyssey 6. Cane Hill - A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find 5. Like Moths To Flames - The Cycles Of Trying To Cope 4. Inertia - Second Shadow 3. Makari - Wave Machine 2. 156/Silence - People Watching 1. Boundaries - Death Is Little More

Inertia second shadow is my number one best album of 2024.

Marilyn Manson -One assassination under god chapter 1 is my top 2024 album

Besides her vocal quality, Camile is a great visual performer too. Her moves are mesmerizing and seems like every little thing is intentional. Like, at 5:14, look at how she sings while she poses her feet preparing for the next section. The video is full os these little details that are so fun to watch and notice.

Top 10 Metal/Rock Albums 2024 1. Death Is Little More - Boundaries 2. Friend Of A Phantom - Vola 3. Post Human Next Gen - BMTH 4. From Zero - Linkin Park 5. Carnal - Nothing More 6. YWGBYST- Knocked Loose 7. Negative Spaces - Poppy 8. As Above So Below - Highly Suspect 9. Last Will & Testament - Opeth 10. I Want Blood - Jerry Cantrell

From Zero is not on your top15 list?

Sorry if there are any editing errors, I stayed up all night editing and I'm tweaking out lmaooo also, the video got blocked because I played YOUtopia in the background for some reason so I had to erase the song which made my audio sound muffled at the end of the video!

Should check out car bomb if you dig thall/mathcore, heavy af music. So sporadic and chaotic

Bro Near by Bilmuri is one of the most beautiful songs he’s done. Good stuff man. Goblin Hours is a great album too

New Novelists fan here. Saw them live recently and was blown away. Pierre and Camille are great additions to this newer lineup. I didn’t get into the band earlier when they had other members but I do appreciate their old sound now too. Their new sound is more up my alley though. So melodic and catchy

Great reaction and I reeeally hope they stick with this direction for the album 💯

I don't think he is making fun of Ohio, he lives there and records all of this music there.

Gabi Rose does the background vocals and the Sax .... she absolutely fantastic 😍😍

I love this album but it's the calm that keeps me awake

19:55 I'm glad someone else picked on that 1975 vibe! His previous album, Goblin hours is VERY 1975ish. But this is hands down my favorite album of 2024. Great reaction dude!

Anabolic Spudsman (Thique edition) if you want more 1975 chorus vibes but with a Will Ramos breakdown

God. I’m biased cause they’re my favorite band of all time but Prada has always been so ahead of their time. Paved roads for so many genres and subgenres. Love to see and hear the inspiration they’ve had come to be

Empty-handed and Boutta Cashew are constantly in the queue. Great tracks. But the whole album has great replay value. 🤘🙏

I am a pretty big country hater but this album is lowkey one of my faves this year 😭😭

I love that you checked this out. Honestly its such a fun album and it for sureeeee has some 2016 nostalgia (take me back ugh)

when you say the end is a really simple song, you should probably see the music video for it..

their best vocals in my opinion is on swan song!

Spinning You Around is my favourite as well :)

This whole album is a fucking masterpiece. Bilmuri casually just out there dropping the best country album of the year

This is one of the better albums of the year. So enjoyable and vibey

Country Bro Core 💀 Bilmuri has changed a lot over the years, I think for the better. Wet Milk and Rich Sips were my first discoveries.

amazing band, omg! i buy every spiritbox band shirt

I AM BECOMING THE MIDNIGHT SUN

If you want a wild crossover, there’s a Bilmuri song featuring Will Ramos of Lorna Shore. It sounds exactly as you think it would which is the best part

If you watched the music videos to go along with these songs I think you'd like Bilmuri's whole vibe even more. He's hilarious and the videos are just so damn funny and good

Fasntastic album. 9.3/10 would be my rate

My number 2 album of the year. Got me through my divorce, so it’s got a massive place in my heart.

sup, Jacob. When you'll be reacting to the live perfomance from linkin park?

One note that *might* make you feel differently about the lyrics to All Gas is when you realize they're all about alcoholism, not a girl.

Gabbi rose is her name. She plays sax flute and back up vocals

Funny you mentioned Beartooth since Johnny and Caleb were in Attack Attack together

My favorite album of 2024 easily. Female vocals are from Gabby Rose. She plays sax for Bilmuri, also. She has her own project ENROSE, as well as she plays sax live for the Jonas Brothers

One of my favs this year. Could you maybe check out I AM ONE - Following the rabbit hole? Djenty, electronic EP. Its actually a one big song split into 6 parts.

As other people wrote in chat, Boundaries is my aoty, but this is a closest second possible, the atmosphere in here is so scary, "formal" in a way

This EP is so monumental and killing, my fav release of this year without a doubt, if not the best heavy thing ever. Despite the whole EP being so perfect, I would choose No Lamb Was Lost, that last breakdown just Finishes me.

I hear people comparing the band to Spiritbox but honestly Spiritbox has nothing on Novelists instrumentally both are totally different in every way