Heavy Metallurgy Presents Episode

[@ironfarmer9332]

Another great year for metal, and thank you for a year of great content. Here’s my top ten favorites. 1. Triumpher - Spirit Invictus 2. Ravage - Spider on the World 3. Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg 4. Flotsam and Jetsam - I am the Weapon 5. Blaze Bayley - Circle of Stone 6. Satan - Songs in Crimson 7. Idol Throne - A Clarion Call 8. Savage Oath - Divine Battle 9. Deceased - Children of the Morgue 10. Accept - Humanoid

[@fruitchewx127]

Nice jumper Alan! \m/ Xoth rules I didnt listen to a huge number of 2024 albums thus year, but the ones that stood out to me were: -Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere -Opeth - The Last Will and Testament -Eldamar - Astral Journeys pt I: Creation -Seven Spires - A fortress called home -Simone Simons - Vermillion -Mythbegotten - Tales from the Unseelie Court Honourable mention to Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited. It's hard to do rerecordings well but I loved what they did here. Some songs like Theatre of Pain I even prefer to the oroginal.

[@WilliamRyan-h2y]

I had to jet early last night, but here's my top 3. 3. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 2. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 1. Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Looking forward to see if 2025 can top 2024!

[@metal_maniac_68]

My Top 30 of 2024 01. Iotunn - Kinship 02. Borknagar - Fall 03. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 04. Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun 05. Sólstafir - Hin Helga Kvöl 06. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 07. Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum 08. Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic 09. In Vain - Solemn 10. Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals 11. Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness 12. Hamferð - Men Guðs hond er sterk 13. Swallow The Sun - Shining 14. Unto Others - Never, Neverland 15. Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness 16. Against The Seasons - If The Ocean Could Sing 17. Witherfall - Sounds Of The Forgotten 18. Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay 19. Alcest - Les Chants de l' Aurore 20. Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek 21. Vola - Friend Of A Phantom 22. Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement 23. Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach 24. The Eternal - Skinwalker 25. Múr - Múr 26. Grand Magus - Sunraven 27. Avneya - Road To I 28. Devin Townsend - PowerNerd 29. Ad Infinitum - Abyss 30. Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou

[@johnhynes8721]

Top 9 1. Vuur & Zijde "Boezem" 2. Limbes "Liernes" 3. Árstíðir Lífsins "Aldriock" 4. Ripped to Shreds "Sanshi" 5. Hauntologist "Hollow" 6. Dödsrit "Nocturnal Will" 7. Iron Curtain "Savage Dawn" 8. Engulfed "Unearthly Litanies of Despair" 9. Yoth Iria "Blazing Inferno"

[@mathiusgrooves3668]

Thanks!

[@HeavyMetallurgy]

Thanks so much!

[@rogerkjorvik]

Great panel and great fun to watch, even though it would be more fun to see it live. Hopes for a great new year all! Cheers. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@Mountaingloom]

Excited to watch the full thing and see if many albums from my top 10 make an appearance. Helvetets Port - Warlords Savage Oath - Divine Battle Trhä - ∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj Tonnerre - La Nuit Sauvage Tarot - Glimpse of the Dawn Bloody Keep - Rats of Black Death Curta’n Wall - YR GWYDDBWYLL Baazlvaat - Ridiculed by the Common Soldiery Deceased - Children of the Morgue Dolmen Gate - Gateways of Eternity Cheers to another year of HM!

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Today I am going through all the ones I slept on, because I love and trust everyone on this panel🤘🏾

[@JosephKissSr.]

Love how different the picks are from everyone on the panel. Another great year of metal!

[@cowmark67]

End of the year list time...hell yeah! A wide variety of picks, some I was aware of and some I had never heard of. Taken from my top 40 metal list, here are my top 10 metal albums of 2024. 1. Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will (melodic black metal/crust punk/epic heavy metal) 2. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (progressive death metal/progressive rock) 3. 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) 4. SeeYouSpaceCowboy… - Coup De Grâce (sasscore/metalcore/emo/indie rock) 5. The Funeral Procession - In Still Silence (progressive death metal/melodic death metal) 6. Alcest - Les Chants de l'aurore (post-metal/post-rock/blackgaze) 7. Poppy - Negative Spaces (alternative metal/metalcore/industrial/electropop/synth-pop) 8. Darko US - Starfire (progressive deathcore/mathcore/nu metal/electropop/dream pop) 9. Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star (atmospheric black metal/melodic black metal) 10. Marrow of Man - Ancient Hymns of Apocalypse (melodic black metal)

[@ExplosiveAction]

The Poppy is so fun

[@cowmark67]

@ExplosiveAction I know, right? Surprised, but glad that you like the album.

[@ExplosiveAction]

@@cowmark67 I've dug her transition since I Disagree. Flux is still the most cohesive overall, but Negative Spaces is clearly her love letter to 2000 era heavy bands she liked. My copy should arrive tomorrow finally

[@cowmark67]

@ExplosiveAction I agree. Flux is probably my favorite full length but my favorite project of hers is the Eat (NXT Soundtrack) EP.

[@ExplosiveAction]

@@cowmark67 yeah Eat smokes. I missed out on the RSD LP

[@symbolic_acts_95]

Great to see my fellow countrymen Engulfed get mentioned more than a few times. I heard about the band through this channel myself, and it was surprisingly pretty good. I'm not the biggest fan and follower, but there is a decent flourishing underground death metal scene here in Türkiye, especially in the metropolitan cities. Also took note of at least 10 albums from this episode to later go check, and I'm already enjoying the new Riot V at the moment. Best metal show around with the kindest and most knowledgable folk, keep on rocking in 2025 Metallurgists!

[@Jkh837]

Great episode guys! I noticed on Jim’s A5 paysage the cover looks like it comes off the case. Had the same problem with my copy. Anyways great work Team. Fam from down under

[@MrRacoon666]

Another great year, full of amazing releases. Thanks to Heavy metallurgy for the hard work of bringing light to new releases and spend time reviewing and enlighten new music These top 10s are needed in order to keep the scene and the interest of the listener alive and have reference for the good stuff that came out If I summarize my top 10 it will be this one 1 Hyver Noirceur Mystique d'Autrefois Black Metal (for the lovers of Vehemence) 2 Trijumf Trijumf Ili Smrt Black Metal (for those who like the Bosnian scene: Obskuritatem, Sulphuric Night ect...) 3 Triumph, Genus Eugenika Black Metal (musically close to Nemesis divina by Satyricon) 4 Ulcerate Cutting The Throat Of God Death Metal 5 Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace Progressive metal 6 Wheel Charismatic Leaders Progressive/Alternative metal 7 Opeth The last will and testament extreme prog metal 8 Blood incantation Absolute Elsewhere extreme prog metal 9 Judas Priest Invincible Shield heavy metal 10 Crypt Sermon The Stygian Rose Epic/doom metal

[@s.craigzahler6797]

Thanks for posting. I'd never heard of Hyver---I checked it out and also bought it. Compelling stuff!

[@MrRacoon666]

@s.craigzahler6797 glad to hear that. That album really grabbed me after the first listen. I felt like the only one who liked it. I was even questioning my taste, but every listen it kept on giving. Chapeau, I would say

[@s.craigzahler6797]

@@MrRacoon666 And now I just bought Trijumf, Trijumf Ili Smrt. Good stuff in Moonblood's glorious, raw "sorrowrage" style. I didn't find nearly as much good black metal this year as I did the past four years (Molde Volhal, Trha, Winterspells, Lamp of Murmuur, Uada, Black Cilice, etc.), so these LPs are both very welcome additions.

[@MrRacoon666]

@s.craigzahler6797 I wouldn't be surprised if you now do the same with the Trumph, Genus as well. I ended up buying all their stuff, also from the previous band IMO last year black metal was very strong. So much that I did a top 30 of records that were at least 9/10: Suhnopfer, Scath na Deithe, Sammale, Altay Sayan to name a few

[@s.craigzahler6797]

@@MrRacoon666 Altai-Sayan was a 2023 favorite for me as well. I'm hoping for a follow up soon. And Trhä's enΩëcunna LP and edëno£sa qud'lhëlh LP were also top standouts in that project's immense catalogue. I'll need to look into your other recs. Thanks!

[@otisdriftwood3567]

Thanks for another great EOY show, for whats its worth, he's mine: 1 Gjendod - Livskramper 2 Nile - The Underworls Awaits Us All 3 Neon Nightmare - Faded Dream 4 Blood Incantation - Absolute Everywhere 5 Marilyn Manson - One Assassin Under God Pt1 6 Chat Pile - Cool World 7 Nails - Every Bridge Burning 8 Deicide - Banished by Sin 9 Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force 10 Stenched - Purulence Gushing from the Coffin

[@cloudnx147]

My only feedback would be to enunciate your pics, or at least write them down for us to read. Some of the band names are hard to hear or spell and I’d love to check them all out. Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting for us that don’t have time to listen to it all. 🤘🤘🤘

[@Goatscythe]

Gotta have to correct Alan here, concerning Chapel of Disease. Yes, the band fell apart even before the album was released, but by the end of 2023, Laurent had already reformed a live line-up, recruiting members from Ketzer and Witching Hour. They have been pretty active all year.

[@metalandbeersnob]

Thanks for clarifying, I follow them on IG could've sworn I'd seen live dates throughout the year. I'll be curious if they record new music with this line up 🤔

[@thomassiegemund431]

Great Show and lots of interresting picks. My list for 2024 is again quite different. 10. Devil's Hour - Devil's Hour fun, fun, fun black 'n' roll. November release, otherwise probably higher on my list. 9.Juke Cove-Tempest Stoner Rock/Metal with tinches of punk 8. Ten Ton Slug - Ten Ton Slug Doom Sludge, just heavy and punishing 7. Eremit - Rise of the Ruat-angh Atmospheric Sludge and Doom. 2 songs that move along like a wild river 6. Ufomammut - Hidden Dark spacy psychedelic stoner metal from Italy 5. Prediction - Deep Down The Tide Melo Death and Post Metal with three singers. From harsh to melodic clean singing and always a little melancholic 4. Grin - Hush Psychedelic disonant sludge 3. Mechanic Tyrants - St. Diemen Riot Just great fun Speed Metal 2. Coltaine - Forgotten Ways Psychedeic tinged Post Metal with an amasing female singer 1. Coltre - To watch with hands...to touch with eyes Nobody talks about this album. NWOBHM, fresh and so much fun. Definitiv my favorit trad metal album, should have been hugh. Looking forward to lots more Heavy Metalurgy in 2025. Cheers

[@metalandbeersnob]

Cool variety in your picks and stuff I haven’t heard. Love sludge and post metal so will have to check out a lot of your picks!

[@thomassiegemund431]

@@metalandbeersnob Lots of small band from Germany this year, it is great to See that the Underground is so vital.

[@stvhar]

Just wanted to mention the new Atrophy as a top thrash album of 2024

[@scottmazza3598]

Thanks Alan for turning me onto Iron Curtain. That album rules!

[@willemlenders8272]

Great stream! Gives me some stuff to check out. Here are some bands who’s releases I enjoyed this year: Triumph, Genus Judas Priest Triumpher Gjendød Hellbutcher Magistraal Witchfukker

[@majorleerager7126]

My 1# album of the year is Pentagram (Chile) Eternal Life of Madness

[@КаЩеЙ-ш3с]

awesome! almost five hours of metal goodness!

[@wgw7259]

End boss of all year end lists. So much here to spend the next while catching up on, and terrific coverage all around. Well done to all involved. Thank you PS Stoked to see my personal #1 of 2024 sneak in at the end on S Craig's list - DEMON BITCH (fantastic description by the way)

[@ism0477]

DISPARAGED is my favourite of 2024 🤘🏼

[@bryanmcfadden4071]

Great picks, what's your second and third 🥉🥉?

[@ism0477]

Job for a Cowboy, Blood Incantation 😉

[@maikelvoors9348]

Thank you all, my metal friends, for another year of talking about our favorite thing to talk about.❤

[@cloudnx147]

Xoth 🤘🤘I’m surprised Alan’s not wearing a power metal band

[@allenellsworth5799]

Not a fan of most of these genres but this is really fun. I wish I liked more genres as much as I do Trad/Speed

[@marktaylor7162]

In rough order... Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death Daath - The Deceivers Nuclear Tomb - Terror Labyrinthian Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere Exhorder - Defectum Omnium Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Aeternum

[@blackwitchingmetal666]

Would agree with most of those picked! Add these to list, Antichrist Siege Machine "Vengeance Of Eternal Fire" Blutgott "Dracul Drakorgoth" Demoncy "Black Star Gnosis" 𖤐⸸💀⸸𖤐

[@ExplosiveAction]

That ASM is fury

[@funtcace777]

Hail Meatspreader!

[@mikevillain666]

Missed this one live, just finished watching. Love the variety, as expected. Nothing worse than a bunch of people all having the same lists. Here's my TOP 10: 01. Savage Oath - Divine Battle 02. Rage - Afterlifelines 03. Riot V - Mean Streets 04. Warlord - Free Spirit Soar 05. Traveler - Prequel To Madness 06. Iron Curtain - Savage Dawn 07. Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder 08. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose 09. Judas Priest - Invisible Shield 10. Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

[@s.craigzahler6797]

Never heard of Savage Oath -- just sampled their album and I was impressed. Thanks for posting your list!

[@mikevillain666]

@@s.craigzahler6797 Thanks, likewise. Great stuff in your list that I'm gonna check out.

[@stormrider923]

Great list Mike, I love the same type of metal as you but my list would have Judas Priest as nr 1 and Saxon as nr 2. So almost the same bands, but in different order... Also a big shout out to Atrophy, Blitzkrieg and Satan. Cheers from your neighbouring country

[@mikevillain666]

@@stormrider923 Thanks, cheers back.

[@bryanmcfadden4071]

How do I find Marty's Mexican earlier pick 23 minutes?

[@HeavyMetallurgy]

Stenched is the band. It’s available on 20 buck spin. I got my copy via dark descent.

[@bryanmcfadden4071]

@@HeavyMetallurgy damn, I listened to it twice because it was 30 minutes and I sent it to my brother and some other friends and they loved it and it's a Proper Fun album, that Bell 🔔 ride is awesome 👍😃

[@bryanmcfadden4071]

@@HeavyMetallurgy I'm only 3 hours into your episode and I'm so excited for all these picks.. 2024 was underrated for releases and it's got all my favorite Bands releasing albums one after another like firing them out like a Tee shirt cannon and chase copies ... Arghrr

[@markofthewolfe]

I am 100 percent with Marty on Blood Incantation. Regarding my comment in the chat about demo > full-lengths, that was directed at Blood Incantation, not Stenched, which I've never heard. There is a riff on Starspawn that is Immortal Rites, maybe note for note. I haven't listened to that album since it came out, so I can't tell you what song. But I remember listening and thinking "This sounds like Between the Buried and Me heard Altars and decided to make a death metal band." These guys are death/prog metal for the Pitchfork/Decibel crowd and that's why they appear in Time just as Deafheaven did. And I love death metal and bands like Yes, Crimson, Rush, '70s Genesis, early Gentle Giant, Jefferson Airplane, etc. Blood Incantation's transitions make it sound like the band doesn't know what it wants to be. And regarding Opeth, I think they blend styles way more smoothly and effortlessly.

[@fruitchewx127]

I don't agree on most of these points, though regarding the demo, I haven't listened to it so I can't comment. I started being interested in Blood Incantation a few months ago, but properly started with starspawn when I heard the buzz about Absolute Elsewhere a week or so before its release. I do think their transitions really work, at least for me. On Absolute Elsewhere it really feels like a contrast between the beauty and wonder and epicness and the horror and existential of the cosmic world they're exploring. Ever stare out into the vastness of space and start having an existential crisis? Blood Incantation sounds kind of like that to me.

[@allenellsworth5799]

That Haunt album is from 2023 not 2024

[@thedreadfulminutes]

Yes, I goofed by not mentioning it had a limited self-released drop in 2023, but the album didn't make real headway until this year with proper label distribution and on multiple formats, so I am indeed counting it as a 2024 album. Appreciate the reminder.

[@allenellsworth5799]

I wasn't trying to criticize. I've had that happen to me too. Cheers​@thedreadfulminutes

[@thedreadfulminutes]

@@allenellsworth5799 Didn't interpret as criticism, but it's always good to elaborate this kind of stuff to viewers pertaining to releases they might be interested in, what makes the comments here great Thank you for watching and supporting the channel.

[@kingIgor]

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 Honorable Mentions Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All Malignancy - ...discontinued Folterkammer - Weibermacht Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja Biomorphic Engulfment - Infinite Universes of Creation & Annihilation Ershetu - Yomi Judas Priest - Invincible Shield etc Absolute Elsewhere is a DEGRESSIVE Metal album ... going backwards and plagiarizing 70' Classic Prog bands like Pink Floyd is not Progressive at all ... Had high hopes after the brilliance of the 2023 single "Obliquity of the Ecliptic" If Absolute Elsewhere went more in that direction instead of regressing into 70' old hat ... it might be worthy of the hype it gets but as it is, it falls short (tho its still not a bad album) ... It offers nothing Unique or Innovative & its definitely not Experimental enough to be Avant-garde even with the Electronic Elements ... I prefer the PROGRESSIVE/Technical Death Metal of "Hidden History of the Human Race" still their best ... This channels flexibility smokes Sea of Tranquility's Group Think Herd Mentality where everyone has the same opinions & cant handle divergent opinions very well ...

[@crumbsucker-y7t]

Hi, personal tastes aside (regardless of whether someone likes the "album" or not), concerning: "Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere" where you address the "why of going backwards to the 70s" space/ambient/prog elements.....well, very simply because that was the whole point of the album: it's a "inspiration/remake/reinterpretation/homage" (call it what you will) based on the record "In search of Ancient Gods" by the UK band called Absolute Elsewhere (hence the name of the album)-released in 1976 by Warner 😉, so that was the whole point/intention/idea behind the making of.

[@shaynewest8757]

Sea Of Tranquility is the most cringe channel on KZbin. That guy is so full of himself and has no clue about metal.

[@sadboi7537]

Not ONE person picked Invincible Shield for any of their Top 10’s. Holy shit. What an absolute disgrace. Is this a metal channel?. LMAO. 😂

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

😅

[@cthuludreams1]

That's because it's just an "ok" album.

[@beardcog1267]

It's shit

[@mazeoftorment805]

craig mentioned it later. a band 50 years end isn’t year end list material lol.

[@ExplosiveAction]

The only Priest I have is Unleashed in the East, and I'm good with that

[@bryanmcfadden4071]

Dopethrone released 2 seperate albums this year, calling them the hardest working band in 2024 . High on Fire 🔥 -cometh the storm Dopethrone Broke Sabbath Oranssi Pazuzu Blood incantation Kadabra SandCrawler The Obsessed