Reacting To Metal Hammers Top 50 Metal Albums Of 2024

[@Oldy-Sepulchre]

Dool was another great album. Great discovery for the year. Julie Christmas did a fantastic album with Cult of Luna a few years back. This album was very very good.

[@Oldy-Sepulchre]

You're gonna love Lowen. Her voice is stunning. I went in blind with this album, then I looked them up, and it turns out I'm subscribed to her KZbin channel, which is pretty cool. I found it a few years back when I was watching year-end lists.

[@jasonjames6383]

That Lowen album is great.

[@mindful2864]

Happy New Year Questy. This is actually a pretty good list minus Kerry King, Bruce Dickinson, Bring Me the Horizon, Zeal & Ardor, and Leprous. I so agree with Blood Incantation, Ulcerate, High on Fire, Nails, Winterfylleth, Opeth, Job for a Cowboy, and Judas Priest though. The new Oranssi Pazuzu was also one of my favorites of last year but if you didn’t like it that’s fine, to each their own. The Obsessed is an amazing doom metal band and their new album deserved to be on the list. Anything Scott Wino touches whether it’s the Obsessed or Saint Vitus is gold. Lunar Womb and the Church Within are classic doom metal albums worth checking out.

[@Rosterized]

This list was full of albums and bands I've never heard before lmao, kind of surprising. Its like the guys in these major publications listen to a completely different sphere of metal from metal youtubers and redditors etc where I usually take my recommendations and new discoveries from.

[@manfredmar]

You must check out that Julie Christmas record, absolutely phenomenal.

[@Oldy-Sepulchre]

Slift is fantastic and belongs on any year-end list. Sub Pop is just the record label. Famous Seattle based label known for all the big Grunge bands

[@ianjohnson9077]

One of my fav metal records was Benighted with Ekbom. Don't see that on too many lists, but I thought it was great!

[@AngusMurdie-v5w]

Hauntologist. Abhorration . Mitochondrion. Veilburner. Fractal generator. These are all amazing in my opinion, wouldn't expect Metal Hammer to put them on a list though! Love that Chelsea Wolfe album too , metal adjacent, I'd say , some shades of Portishead , industrial etc. Thanks for the content!

[@mojuy11]

Hauntologist was great and don’t hear much about it

[@russdavies9686]

Sub Pop is a Seattle based label that was a big deal during grunge.

[@KSCdd]

Happy new year Questy

[@LeeGion_981]

My number 1 is Hippotraktor Stasis. This bands style is close to perfect for my personal taste, similar ish to Dvne which was also in my top 3.

[@blackwaterrust476]

as someone who loves Gothic metal like the Gathering, Type O Negative, Theatre of Tragedy, new Tribulation was weak, compared to the other albums Tribulation has done Go back to making Black/Death metal please. The obsessed is great, really good trad/Doom metal band, their album Lunar womb I definitely recommend checking out.

[@Questformetal]

Yeah I much preferred the earlier albums personally too

[@chrisbaranowski5516]

Kalandra is my top discovery of 2024, although I don't know why it is in top 50 metal albums? They are more of an indie pop / rock band with folkish elements. Soothing, ethereal and relaxing music with lovely female vocals. Absolutely nothing to do with metal (maybe MH thinks having occasional distorted guitars qualify them?).

[@spencergrady736]

I reviewed some stuff you might like for Metal Hammer this year - Paysage D'Hiver, An Axis of Perdition, Akhlys...

[@Questformetal]

@@spencergrady736 you are a reviewer on their site? Pretty cool would be my dream job to get to review albums

[@spencergrady736]

@@Questformetal For their magazine, but some of it appears online. Seems you are onto a good thing here...

[@TheRealJoeNathan]

Loudwire's list was trash and felt like a popularity contest, it didn't make me want to check out the albums I didn't know. While Metal Hammer looks like they put in effort and made a decent list with lots of solid underground albums. It missed a lot of my favorites, but they made me want to check out several albums I didn't know. Personally, my top ten are the new Orgone, Aquilus, Blood Incantation, Piah Mater, Caligula's Horse, Frost*, Iotunn, Wintersun, In Vain, and Azure albums. I listened to 56 2024 albums, mostly metal, nine made Metal Hammer's list, but only two made it to my top ten.

[@hvitekristesdod]

My favourite is still Ingurgitating Oblivion even if nobody talks about it. And Schammasch

[@LeeGion_981]

My list is pretty much all prog. It’s hands down my favourite genre so I pretty much didn’t check out anything else this year. I probably need to broaden my horizons but I love prog of any kind too much. At least you can pretty much stick progressive with any other genre so I’m not completely closed minded.

[@Hellenicheavymetal]

not having Iotunn on there is criminal haha

[@jakub_hricov]

Cmon. You dont know Julie Christmas? She has the best collaboration with Cult of Luna on Mariner album. She is an amazing singer.

[@foxytechni1951]

Metal Hammer is a cool magazine imo

[@Questformetal]

They are entertaining prefer them to loudwire or metalsucks anyway

[@possiblystevo9141]

you dismissed the melt banana album out of hand, but there's no one else like them and they are well worth your time

[@lloydjones3801]

No fit for an autopsy!?!?!?

[@vishalnagaraj5343]

No Aquilus!

[@MichaelRowe-cv3oq]

Metal Hammer magazine went the way of Kerrang a few years ago,i cancelled my subscription as it was just getting boring.

[@TheFireBurnsWithin]

I made a similar video too. I hated or haven't heard most of MH's list. I am fucking old though.. 😅

[@CoreyArsenault-c8t]

Do you ever find youself ordering a one man bands album from band camp whos only other fan is his mother and wonder how you got here

[@sheriff7172]

No civerous they did my boy dirty

[@threestringsomg]

Ok I'm counting ones I know and at least think are ok as you go.... Oh Hamferd and dodsrit I really like. Aw I liked Bruces album but yeah it can f off - not near Opeth Ok 20 albums I know fairly well to very well. Position wise some are oddly positioned. Lots missing. Yeah someone obviously didn't listen to Nile. Booooo.👀🖤

[@Schlain666]

This list gives me occular cancer

[@JohnDiabol]

No Akhlys, No Inquisition, No Satanic Warmaster. I am just going to ignore metalhammer for another year.

[@zombiTrout]

Unfortunately 2 of those bands are a little too “controversial” for mainstream minds.

[@bartsuijs7196]

​@@zombiTroutIsn't the guitarist of Inquisition literally a p*do?

[@phillipbug958]

If there’s 1 thing you do that separates you (focus on this for more success) it’s talking about metal OTHER than Death & Black Metal & actually appreciating funner & seeping things than constant repetitive screaming. There’s other things one can enjoy & liking the sound of music + it being approachable to outsiders is how the genre continues. Repugnant genres will never be mainstream nor should it be the goal, but melodic genres have actual potential of pulling interest from others, in turn continuing rocks success & therefore folks will get more of that aggressive stuff, from new voices & sounds instead of stale same-y stuff for all time. Young folks invent new genres & metal NEEDS DESPERATELY new genres & not really in the dark & ‘evil’ (gimmick for sales generally) style. Melody & harmony

[@phillipbug958]

Deeper not *deeper gif I hate autocorrect. I’m sure it rubbish-Ed up more