Who created the best rock Albums and EPs of 2024?

[@SteveOGRock]

Ok so I totally forgot about the House Of Protection EP (I listened to this all as singles so never really clicked that it was an EP), as The Plot In You EPs (same reason), and somehow also forgot that While She Sleeps released an album this year 😅 though I think it may not have cracked my top 20 anyway.

[@NicholasBoyce]

I’m 5mins in and I just open the comments to roast you for not having HOP in your top EPs and saw this. Easily in my top 5 releases, let alone EPs.

[@angrylittlegartho]

A great list and some albums there I definitely need to check out! Can’t believe Boundaries didn’t place though, one of my top 3 this year for sure

[@darrengee936]

^^^^

[@slug781]

UNPEOPLE!!!!!!!!!! so good. Cannot stop listening to it. Been following since download this year and discovered them because of you. So thank you. Really enjoy your videos 🤙🏼

[@victoria.korzec]

156/Silence was a new one for me this year, and People Watching is infectious. So happy to see them at #2

[@SteveOGRock]

Yaaaas

[@gutterglitter5914]

Great list 👏 Happy to see Allt so high and I couldn’t agree more with your assessment of 156/Silence. That album has gotten in my nervous system too 😅🖤

Have discovered @156/Silence through your channel. "People watching" became immediately my favorite album of this year. it's so rich and interesting... Glad to see it ranked high for you too.

[@Digital-Womp-Womp]

Poppy for me nice arrangement tracks.. best listening album experience. it reminds me of 95-98 era in rock radio station 👌

[@itsbiggs2540]

The way they laid out that album is top tier. It's been on constant repeat for me

[@Ement]

NOTHING MORE? Loved their 2024 albummm

[@kenn0th3]

Give their SPIRITS Album a good listen. I like it even a bit better.

[@Ement]

@@kenn0th3 Oh I have :))) For anyone who liked the 2024 album, check out their other 3. Each one is awesome.

[@robdaniel4785]

Nearly all the new music ive loved the most this year ive got through your reviews! Thanks mate yoyr killing it. Keep it up !! 👍🏻

[@SteveOGRock]

Oh how cool! So glad to have made an impact on your year Rob. Cheers! 💙

[@fulton1688]

Dude! Just discovered your channel. We have very similar tastes. So glad you mentioned Avralize. They are grossly underrated. You listed a few I need to listen to. Cheers!

[@mariaalexandrasol]

I was so thrilled to see how excited you are about 156/Silence album too. I’ve only discovered the band through this album on your channel a month ago and it’s been on repeat ever since. I can’t get enough of it, it’s absolutely brilliant. 😊 Another surprising one for me this year was Darko US, pleasantly heavy and catchy.

[@ryemusefan]

So many good entries here, have discovered a bunch of new artists through your recommendations thank you 👍🏻

[@missinbrain]

I appreciate your "subjective" rationale, and love your admission that favorites changes daily at times. I had a similar experience as your 156/Silence last year with Invent Animate's 'Heavener.' Everyone was hyped on it but it sounded mostly samesy to me. But I kept coming back to it and by mid Fall it was tied for favorite with TMBTE and dominated my Spotify Wrapped. In some ways those albums are the best. I hope you continue to give the BMTH album more plays because I think it's going to age really well--so so much of their back catalogue.

[@kevinhelm9970]

Really cool top albums list that was well put together / edited. I got to find several new bands all in one video. Thanks!

[@LiquidThunder12]

I know this isn't the *coolest* pick, but I genuinely LOVED the album from Siamese, "Elements". It's not metal, but there are so many unbelievably catchy bangers on that album.

[@kenn0th3]

Its a really fun and well written Album. These dudes are just pure fun

[@moresoysauce5489]

Wow just listened to unpeople EP and this is the best thing I've heard since Bilmuri. Fking awesome EP I'm so sad it ended!

[@tankvoid]

Thanks Steve for being one of my main sources to find and discover new music. Happy holidays! :)

[@SteveOGRock]

A pleasure to be of service my friend! 💙

[@lukeunpeople]

thank you so much for all the support this year Steve!!! ❤

[@SteveOGRock]

The support is so very well deserved my dude ✅

[@Irmelinis]

Loved your list! Thanks for sharing, now I have many new albums to listen to before the year is over :D

[@PoliWag-er7fk]

Boundaries not making this list is criminal

[@ExiledVessel]

Avralize and Cane Hill are fighting for my AOTY. A close competitor is Levels. SOO GOOD TOO!

[@WhiteChoklit7]

Avralize definitely top 5 imo! These boyz came out of nowhere with a slapper of an album!

[@OG-PranksterCat]

My Top 5 This Year 5. Eviscerate - Eidola 4. Death Is Little More - Boundaries 3. a piece of me I never let you find - Cane Hill 2. The Cycles of Trying to Cope - LMTF 1. American Motorsports - Bilmuri

[@Zogun_85]

Violent Delights by Galleons!

[@OG-PranksterCat]

@@Zogun_85 Also a great album, I just found them this year because of the Andrew Wells feature and they immediately went in the rotation 🔥

[@Zogun_85]

@OG-PranksterCat same here 👌

[@rafaelsimao17]

Good list. But for me Imminence - The Black is a top 5 of the year easilly and it seems a lot of people forgot about that album!

[@Conslaught]

This is the shout. As a long-term follower of your channel and tastes Steve this is one I'm sure would be a fantastic full album review

[@danhaines]

​@@Conslaughthe did it already, and didn't like it.

[@Conslaught]

@@danhaines Ah man I must have missed the vid! Thank you for directing me mate I'll give it a watch!

[@esperjester7488]

That's my number 1 for this year

[@hoops8663]

Knocked Loose, Four Year Strong, and Bilmuri is still on rotation. Shout out to Drug Church too.

[@L33ch97]

AOTY metal edition (from a guy who didn’t listen to much metal this year): 4: Kublai Khan-Exhibition of Prowess 3:Knocked Loose- You Won’t Go… 2: Bilmuri- AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS 1: Boundaries- Death is Little More. Great year for metal, for music in general really. Happy Holidays everyone!

[@RemyVorender]

Why am I just hearing about Void of Vision? Great content Steve. Happy New year! My top 5: 5. The Day We Left Earth - Self Titled 4. Wage War - STIGMA (This album gets a lot of hate. Not sure why. Ahh well.) 3. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - Until God Shows 2. VOLA - Friend of a Phantom 1. TesseracT - War Of Being

[@SteveOGRock]

VoV are awesome. Thanks for sharing your tips too! I need to hear that DRUGS album I reckon.

[@akjawahry]

undeniably a great list thanks mate

[@zapforthewin3363]

glad to see reliqa at least making the list, very good shout

[@angeluzmusashi]

I'm happy that you got my AOTY (Allt) in there but i'm shocked you didn't pick Boundaries (O:) still amazing picks, so much good metal this year. Thanks for letting me know about Cane Hill, that one keeps popping up on my playlist.

[@HiroBrown]

Novelists Okapi EP is my number one ❤ just discovered them recently and Camille is a great fit on vocals

[@boxcpl]

I searched ahead to see where you put 156/silence, the album is so fucking good

[@SteveOGRock]

Haha yes indeed!

[@BiggestMikey]

Yes!!! YEEEEES!!!!! @ 7:09 JUSTICE FOR ERRA! My AOTY! 🤘🏿🔥🔥🔥

[@The1031dman]

I'm surprised The Plot In You EPs weren't mentioned. I guess they are only 3 songs each so there's not much to go off of but so far every song is amazing. 😂

[@SteveOGRock]

Yeah I totally didn’t even think of them as EPs. Same happens with House Of Protection 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jodale1972]

Fun Fact - "From Zero" is the only album ever to hold all top 10 spots on Billboard simultaneously on the Hot Hard Rock chart.

[@reyesguevarajose5749]

Yo bro, u have been sleeping in OceanGrove with Oddworld, they did an amazing work of a NewMetal remastered in 2024 omg…

[@SteveOGRock]

Never heard them at all

[@ashwinjesraj]

feel like kingdom of giants’ ep went under everyone’s radar but great list overall!

[@mattypoptarts]

Great list❤

[@lisabyford]

Looking forward to watching/listening to this later!

[@kenshot-]

We both put Cane Hill at #7, but my #1 didn't even make your list. Enterprise Earth! And others in my Top 10: Daath, Gravemind, Future Palace, Ingested, Fleshgod Apocalypse. But that's OK. Different tastes. Your presentation was great. Loved the video. Cheers!!

[@SteveOGRock]

I don’t know if I’ve heard any Enterprise Earth 🤔 Maybe I’ve heard like 1 song. Guess I need to do so.

[@tiffy3260]

I only discovered Sleep Token middle of this year (or shall i say last yr?), so haven't been listening to much of anything else, except for the ones you or other reactors explore..but i haven't really relistened to any of them, well except for Grinn and Unprocessed. Haha.

[@RosieOutdoors]

Only started listening to Bilmuri in October and American Motor Sports is my rock AOTY too. If I'd started listening when it first came out, no doubt it would have dominated my most listened to tracks also. Solid, incredibly fun album.

[@christopherstyle878]

Geez louise @SteveOGRock, I feel like I've been living under a rock!! I've listened to only 5 or 6 of the albums that you mentioned, probably because I only started listening to metalcore this year. I'm currently digging Chaosbay's "Are You Afraid?" (not sure if it's metalcore or prog-core or some other core 😆). I'm looking forward to Architects "The Sky, the Earth & All Between" next year. So glad I found your YT page. Cheers! 🤘

[@CinematicSoundDesign]

Pretty identical here. My Spotify wrapped was first 4 songs all Muri and the last being Epitaph from MTS. Crankin all year 🐖

[@VinylCollektor23]

You shold check out Merge. It's Revnoir's former project. Very solid stuff. Very impressed with the new EP and awesome list Steve!

[@JesseCrayons]

Was about to throw down if Bilmuri wasn’t #1…. After following him for years I’m glad he’s really hit it big. Incredibly diverse and talented. As far as next year… keep an eye out for Mint Club - Slice Of Life 😉

[@BWinCO943]

Only 2 of your albums I hadn’t heard of but I’m going to check them out because your list is soooo close to mine. 156/silence is number 1. And Bilmuri is way down for me but great list. Still can’t get into Knocked Loose but will keep trying. House of Protection is fav EP. Cheers!!

[@SteveOGRock]

Yeah I totally forgot about HoP. That would be maybe my number 2 if I’d remembered it lol.

[@lisabyford]

Great list, lots for me to revisit! For a brief moment I wondered who would be at number 1!!!😂

[@StTelomeres]

EP of the year for me is the death and birth of an angel by fallingwithscissors its an AMAZING Metalcore project with a glitchy/y2k aesthetic highly recommend checking it out, it genuinely blew me away when I first heard it

[@ChrisMortall]

Kingdom of Giants 👀

[@rotolotto]

I would put AMS up against any album from the past FIVE years. What an awesome, flawless game changer.

[@airsicklowlandr]

I know you're not too into prog, but based off reliqa and vola you should definitely check out the EP from Artificial Language. Incredibly beautiful melodic prog with a lot of piano

[@DavidJones-mj5ju]

So, there must be a reason I have never heard of Bilmuri. I gave it a listen and couldn't stomach it. Just gave it a second listen and couldn't ger it off spotify quick enough out of fear it will affect my algorithm. EP: Northlane - Mirrors Edge absolute disgusting perfection. 1. Imminence: The Black This Black is like a beautifully manicured landscape. Fucking delicate, such detail, and so deliberate in all the subtleties throughout this album. One could argue that there is not one metalcore band that will ever sound like Imminence. They are on some different shit utilizing that voice and violin of Eddie's.

[@Zogun_85]

No Eviscerate from Eidola or Violent Delights from Galleons? Damn, I'm surprised! And if you've somehow missed them, well good for you, now you get to check them out! :D

[@SteveOGRock]

Not heard those yet!

[@Zogun_85]

@SteveOGRock You're in for a treat my man! Listened to nothing but them for almost 6 months early this year

[@miss__anthropy]

Okay so my guess on AOTY was in fact correct 😂 I actually just listened to the Unpeople EP last night at the laundromat and thoroughly enjoyed it! Definitely put them on my radar 👀 2024: YEAR OF THE HOG 😤🐗⚙️💪

[@josephgrossiii476]

Sever Red had a debut EP if you like Seether vibes. I hope they pop off. Great list. I was so excited thinking TPIY was going to be #1 but I understand your reasoning.

[@isis.16]

Hi Steve, I'll look for the Unpeople ep to give it a listen but I think you might like to check it out the new ep EXIST from the band SAVE US, just a recommendation! Merry Christmas

[@SteveOGRock]

Thanks for the rec!

[@22theryno]

No truer words than no skips on the Make Them Suffer album

[@giovanniaued6815]

Bilmuri paid all these reactors to put that shit on top👍

[@SteveOGRock]

No band or label or publisher has ever paid me to express a particular opinion. That would be an insane thing for me to accept given my entire cause here is about genuine and authentic reviews. I’ve also never been paid to promote any artist’s content. Bilmuri is just fucking great. Simple as.

[@giovanniaued6815]

@@SteveOGRock nah🐶💦

[@RicardooSchweitzer]

I'm with you on Linkin Park. It's a solid album and better than I hoped but I'd describe it as the same as the "soft reboots" hollywood loves to do recently. It's good but safe and unremarkable, nothing that really hooks you because it doesn't try to push the edge. But I'm sure it was not an easy album to make after all the recent history so I'm hopeful for their next releases.

[@d.hodgsky]

Okay before watching this, Im gonna guess your aoty is Bilmuri. I'm calling it now haha. Edit: LOL so obvious but for good reason. Also my AOTY. I don't know how many times I looped this album, and then the deluxe album, although Spotify tells me it was lots haha

[@darko.saik0]

NO BOUNDARIES? NO IMMINENCE? NO INERTIA?

[@SteveOGRock]

Boundaries narrowly missed out on top 20, Imminence album I didn't really enjoy (see my album reaction for more on that), not heard Inertia's album.

[@chrisinnes4706]

156/silence was a long way clear for me. To me it is a future classic. I’d also never heard of them before this album!!

[@pharm30]

On paper I should love Bulmuri. Some reason I don’t 🤷🏼‍♂️ gave them multiple listens just doesn’t connect. 156/silence has been my #1 lately.

[@SteveOGRock]

Fair enough: we all like different things! 💙

[@Sephiii]

not the biggest fan of the make them suffer album but.. opinions! i have a gripe in songs where they will blatantly call out the same of the song after a chorus or at the start of a song, and it sort of fell off after maybe 3-4 listens for me. still have the singles in the playlist tho! my album of the year is Angel Killer Zero by diamond construct. something about the Neon Genesis aesthetic and some of the old school ps2 game samples in interlude spots throws me back. bilmuri is a close 2nd too

[@DudeLoopNoob]

Oh snap you got Bilmuri 1 too!!

[@Knarf1994]

BILMURI FRICKIN ROCKS DUDE

[@andygaube9797]

Y U no House of Protection, Kingdom of Giants EPs?

[@DavidJones-mj5ju]

Right!?

[@pascalsiegl8010]

Agree to disagree....my top albums: 1. Linkin Park 2. BMTH 3. Windwaker 4. Like moths to flame 5. Erra 6. Wage War 7. Future palace 8. Fame on fire 9. Make them suffer 10. The plot in you EP collection

[@bastiangoelz]

Hell yeah Bilmuri is so siiiiick

[@kimeklund8880]

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

[@austinledbetter6322]

Surprised not to see Nothing More on here. Carnal was a great album front to back. Good list though!

[@connora3145]

Imminence - The Black not being in this list should be a crime. Other than that, good list 😀

[@SteveOGRock]

My least favourite album I heard this year 😬 Just not my bag really. You can see my album reaction on this channel if you wanna learn more about my take on it.

[@connora3145]

@@SteveOGRock only joking it being a crime🙂 We all have our tastes! I can’t seem to get into Bilmuri😐

[@moresoysauce5489]

Bilmuri 100%, 156/silence, BMTH are my top 3

[@howzaaay]

AVRALIZE EY!!!!

[@Maniahc]

20:43 It's Popular Monster not Ronald

[@SteveOGRock]

You are correct! I keep calling it Ronald because of the mugshot of Ronnie as the album cover.

[@bryanleggo3489]

Nope. #1 Empathogen, #2 DJesse Vol 4, #3 Cars4Kids (which just popped up). One of those is nominated as a Grammy Album of the Year.

[@tylermartinmusic]

Bilmuri for the win!!

[@DudeLoopNoob]

Favorite ep The Plot in You Favorite album bilmuri or BMTH probably

[@kennedybalatan7198]

Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - Until God Shows??

[@naDalous]

I was personally massively disappointed with Post Human Nex Gen. Bring Me The Horizon are my absolute favourite band, and I was so upset when I listened to the album for the first time. It has grown on me since, but im still not a huge fan of it, just a few songs are better than on the first listen. I think the main reason for my disappointment was because the best songs on album were already released as singles

[@weareunpeople]

👤👤👤👤

[@williamniethammer9983]

AMERICAN MOTORSPORTS

[@lolzlolzlolz618]

Went to the Sleep token show to see Bilmuri last month, was amazing. 0.05% of Spotify listeners. Godly! ❤

[@hagggle3727]

Was kinda of upset to not see 156/Silence at 1 until I saw it was Bilmuri and instantly agreed

[@smeagol80]

Oh boy, I will agree with you to put Bilmuri in top5, I would argue with you why you put Bring the Horizon that low and oh boy I would friendly/loving slap your head before you remove Linkin Park from the rest of this garbage hardcore dry scream crap list lol. You even put it in #15. And you don't even have The Warning on the list. Cheers :D

[@thehurtfam]

Damn boundaries not even top 20

[@SteveOGRock]

We all have slightly different tastes 💙

[@Sever_avrlze]

🫶

[@Bemex44]

imminence?

[@SteveOGRock]

My least favourite album I heard this year 😬 Just not my bag really. You can see my album reaction on this channel if you wanna learn more about my take on it.

[@jamyjet]

Popular Monster at number 5 is a bit of a joke tbh especially with the cringe lyrics, most of the singles are decent however, rest of the list is good though. I'm excited what smaller bands like Revnoir and Unpeople do in 2025.

[@SteveOGRock]

I’m more into sound than lyrics myself tbh so the lyrics aren’t as big a factor in my enjoyment of music. Also excited to see what’s next for the newer bands 🚀

[@elboof8484]

Almost all rock has cringe lyrics man, you could pick apart your top 5 songs and they could all be considered cringe. We’re here to have fun and listen to cool sounds

[@mundanemorselsmundanemorse7028]

I mean that’s just not true. There’s a wide, wide gap between bands like Tool and Nickelback. And so many gradients in between.

[@elboof8484]

@@mundanemorselsmundanemorse7028 tool is cringe lyrics layered in really artsy sound. Nickel back is cringe on-the-nose lyrics layered with super stereotypical on-the-nose sound. If anything, you could say tool is more cringe than nickelback because there it’s covered in the pretense of the sound. Nickelback embraces the cringe. and I like tool more than nickelback. I’m really just trying to say intention matters. Falling in reverse is great because it’s all in good fun, that band knows they make cringe songs about being vampires.

[@elboof8484]

Trying to pretend the music you listen to is actually very deep and not cringe at all is a pitfall