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Greg Kennelty

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December 5, 2024

AOTY 2024 New

It's that time of year again, and we're asking you – what is the best metal album of 2024? You've got until midnight of Thursday, December 12 to vote. We'll publish the results that Friday, December 13. So get votin'! There's a lot of great music that came out this year.

Album Of The Year 2024(Required)

1349 – The Wolf & the King

200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures

40 Watt Sun – Little Weight

Aara – Eiger

Aberrator – Beckoning Tribulation

Abhoria – Depths

Aborted – Vault of Horrors

Accept – Humanoid

Ad Infinitum – Abyss

Akhlys – House of the Black Geminus

Alcest – Les chants de l'aurore

Alien Ant Farm – ~mAntras~

Alpha Wolf – Half Living Things

Amaranthe – The Catalyst

Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun

Antichrist Siege Machine – Vengeance of Eternal Fire

Apparition – Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State

As I Lay Dying – Through Storms Ahead

Atræ Bilis – Aumicide

Avmakt – Satanic Inversion of….

Balwezo Westijiz – Tower of Famine

Bat – Under the Crooked Claw

Bedsore – Dreaming the Strife for Love

Benighted – Ekbom

Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible

Bewitcher – Spell Shock

Bipolar Architecture – Metaphysicize

Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison

Black Lava – The Savage Winds to Wisdom

Black Tusk – The Way Forward

Blaze of Perdition – Upharsin

Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere

Blood Red Throne – Nonagon

Body Count – Merciless

Bongripper – Empty

Borknagar – Fall

Botanist – Paleobotany

Brat – Social Grace

Bring Me the Horizon – Post Human: Nex Gen

Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe

Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project

Carnosus – Wormtales

Category 7 – Category 7

Cemetery Skyline – Nordic Gothic

Ceremony of Silence – Hálios

Charlotte Wessels – The Obsession

Chat Pile – Cool World

Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She

Civerous – Maze Envy

Coffin Rot – Dreams of the Disturbed

Coffin Storm – Arcana Rising

Coffins – Sinister Oath

Cognitive – Abhorrence

Cognizance – Phantazein

Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains

Crownshift – Crownshift

Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose

Dååth – The Deceivers

Dark Tranquillity – Endtime Signals

Darkest Hour – Perpetual I Terminal

Darkspace – Dark Space -II

Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All…….

Dead Icarus – Zealot

Deadform – Entrenched in Hell

Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy

Defiled – Horror Beyond Horror

Deicide – Banished by Sin

Departure Chandelier – Satan Soldier of Fortune

Devin Townsend – PowerNerd

Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance

Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will

Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consciousness

Domination Campaign – A Storm of Steel

Dominum – The Dead Don't Die

Dool – The Shape Of Fluidity

DragonForce – Warp Speed Warriors

Dream Evil – Metal Gods

Dreamless Veil – Every Limb of the Flood

Dvne – Voidkind

Dysrhythmia – Coffin of Conviction

Ensiferum – Winter Storm

Enterprise Earth – Death: An Anthology

Erra – Cure

Escuela Grind – Dreams on Algorithms

Evergrey – Theories of Emptiness

Exhorder – Defectum Omnium

Exit Eden – Femmes Fatales

Exocrine – Legend

Extortionist – Devoid of Love & Light

Far Beyond – The End of My Road

Feuerschwanz – Warriors

Fever 333 – Darker White

Fit for an Autopsy – The Nothing That Is

Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera

Folterkammer – Weibermacht

Forgotten Tomb – Nightfloating

Frozen Crown – War Hearts

Fulci – Duck Face Killings

Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss

Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan – Scraping the Divine

Funeral – Gospel of Bones

Gaerea – Coma

Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition

Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus

Glacial Tomb – Lightless Expanse

God Dethroned – The Judas Paradox

Grand Magus – Sunraven

Greenwitch – Forced Out of Existence

Grey Skies Fallen – Molded by Broken Hands

Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk

HammerFall – Avenge the Fallen

Hand of Kalliach – Corryvreckan

Hate Force – Systems of Terror

Hellbutcher – Hellbutcher

Heriot – Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell

Hideous Divinity – Unextinct

High on Fire – Cometh the Storm

Hiraes – Dormant

Horndal – Head Hammer Man

Hulder – Verses in Oath

Huntsmen – The Dry Land

Hyperdontia – Harvest of Malevolence

Ihsahn – Ihsahn

Illdisposed – In Chambers of Sonic Disgust

Illumishade – Another Side of You

Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia

In Aphelion – Reaperdawn

In Vain – Solemn

Infant Island – Obsidian Wreath

Infected Rain – Time

Ingested – The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams

Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Nought

Iniquitous Savagery – Edifice of Vicissitudes

Inter Arma – New Heaven

Iotunn – Kinship

Iron Monkey – Spleen & Goad

Jerry Cantrell – I Want Blood

Job for a Cowboy – Moon Healer

Judas Priest – Invincible Shield

Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full of Blood

Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe

Kerry King – From Hell I Rise

Khold – Du dømmes til Død

Kill the Thrill – Autophagie

Kingcrow – Hopium

Kittie – Fire

Klone – The Unseen

Knocked Loose – You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

Korpiklaani – Rankarumpu

Krallice – Inorganic Rites

Kublai Khan – Exhibition of Prowess

Kvaen – The Formless Fires

Laceration – I Erode

Leprous – Melodies of Atonement

Limbonic Art – Opus Daemoniacal

Linkin Park – From Zero

Locrian – End Terrain

Lord Dying – Clandestine Transcendence

Lowen – Do Not Go to War with the Demons of Mazandaran

Lucifer – Lucifer V

Make Them Suffer – Make Them Suffer

Malignancy – …Discontinued

Mamaleek – Vida Blue

Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1

Marty Friedman – Drama

Massacre – Necrolution

Master – Saints Dispelled

Master Boot Record – Hardwarez

Mastiff – Deprecipice

Maul – In the Jaws of Bereavement

Mefitis – The Skorian // The Greyleer

Melvins – Tarantula Heart

Mick Mars – The Other Side of Mars

Midnight – Hellish Expectations

Ministry – Hopiumforthemasses

Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome

Molder – Catastrophic Reconfiguration

Morbid Saint – Swallowed by Hell

Mork – Syv

Morta Skuld – Creation Undone

Mother of Graves – The Periapt of Absence

Mountain Caller – Chronicle II: Hypergenesis

Múr – Múr

Mushroomhead – Call the Devil

Mutilation Barbecue – Amalgamations of Gore

My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding

Myrath – Karma

Nachtmystium – Blight Privilege

Nails – Every Bridge Burning

Neaera – All Is Dust

Neckbreakker – Within the Visceria

Necrophobic – In the Twilight Grey

Necrot – Lifeless Birth

Necrowretch – Swords of Dajjal

Neon Nightmare – Faded Dream

Night Verses – Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night: Part 2

Nightrage – Remains of a Dead World

Nightwish – Yesterwynde

Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All

Nocturnus AD – Unicursal

Nothing More – Carnal

Oceans – Happy

Oceans of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak

Octoploid – Beyond the Aeons

Officium Triste – Hortus Venenum

Opeth – The Last Will and Testament

Orange Goblin – Science, Not Fiction

Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja

Orden Ogan – The Order of Fear

P.O.D. – Veritas

Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive

Pathology – Unholy Descent

Paysage d'Hiver – Die Berge

Ponte del Diavolo – Fire Blades from the Tomb

Poppy – Negative Spaces

Powerflo – Gorilla Warfare

Powerman 5000 – Abandon Ship

Powerwolf – Wake Up the Wicked

Primal Code – Opaque Fixation

Pyrrhon – Exhaust

Replacire – The Center That Cannot Hold

Ribspreader – Reap Humanity

Ripped to Shreds – 三屍 (Sanshi)

Rotting Christ – Pro Xristou

Ryujin – Ryujin

Satan – Songs in Crimson

Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation

Scarcity – The Promise of Rain

Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean

Scott Stapp – Higher Power

Sebastian Bach – Child Within the Man

SeeYouSpaceCowboy – Coup de Grâce

Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions

Seth – La France des maudits

Severe Torture – Torn from the Jaws of Death

Simone Simons – Vermillion

Six Feet Under – Killing for Revenge

Skeletal Remains – Fragments of the Ageless

Slift – Ilion

Slimelord – Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

Sólstafir – Hin helga kvöl

Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond

Sovereign – Altered Realities

Spectral Voice – Sparagmos

Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire

Static-X – Project: Regeneration Vol. 2

Strychnos – Armageddon Patronage

Suicidal Angels – Profane Prayer

Sumac – The Healer

Summoning the Lich – Under the Reviled Throne

Svneatr – Never Return

Swallow the Sun – Shining

SYK – EarthFlesh

Take Offense – T.O.tality

Terminal Nation – Echoes of the Devil's Den

The Absence – The Absence

The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude

The Body – The Crying Out of Things

The Crown – Crown of Thorns

The Ghost Inside – Searching for Solace

The Infernal Sea – Hellfenlic

The Last Ten Seconds of Life – No Name Graves

The Mosaic Window – Hemasanctum

The Obsessed – Gilded Sorrow

The Old Dead Tree – Second Thoughts

Theophonos – Ashes in the Huron River

Thou – Umbilical

Thy Catafalque – XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek

Thy Will Be Done – Pillar of Fire

Trelldom – …by the Shadows…

Tribulation – Sub Rosa in Æternum

Turin – The Unforgiving Reality in Nothing

Týr – Battle Ballads

Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force

Udåd – Udåd

Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Nell' Ora Blu

Undeath – More Insane

Unearthly Rites – Ecdysis

Unleash the Archers – Phantoma

Unto Others – Never, Neverland

Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon

Vale of Pnath – Between the Worlds of Life and Death

Vanhelgd – Atropos Doctrina

Vended – Vended

Vipassi – Lightless

Vircolac – Veneration

Visions of Atlantis – Pirates II – Armada

Vitriol – Suffer & Become

Vltimas – Epic

Volcandra – The Way of Ancients

Vomit Forth – Terrified of God

Vredehammer – God Slayer

Vulture – Sentinels

Wage War – Stigma

While She Sleeps – Self Hell

Whom Gods Destroy – Insanium

Whores. – War.

Wind Rose – Trollslayer

Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon

Wintersun – Time II

Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum

Within the Ruins – Phenomena II

Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death

Wolfheart – Draconian Darkness

Wormed – Omegon

Wormwitch – Wormwitch

Wraith – Fueled by Fear

Wristmeetrazor – Degeneration

Zeal & Ardor – Greif

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