The Best Metal Albums of 2024

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
51	Wormwitch Wormwitch	Jul 26, 2024	90	3	0
52	Weather Systems Ocean Without a Shore	Sep 27, 2024	90	3	1
53	Impellitteri War Machine	Nov 8, 2024	85.6	8	0
54	200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures	Jun 28, 2024	86.7	6	0
55	Bruce Dickinson The Mandrake Project	Mar 1, 2024	83.2	13	1
56	Deep Purple =1	Jul 19, 2024	85.7	7	1
57	Unleash the Archers Phantoma	May 10, 2024	87	5	0
58	Belore Eastern Tales	Apr 5, 2024	87	5	0
59	Accept Humanoid	Apr 26, 2024	85.8	6	0
60	Riot Mean Streets	Feb 16, 2024	87.5	4	1
61	A/Oratos Ecclesia Gnostica	Jan 19, 2024	87.5	4	1
62	New Horizon Conquerors	Jun 14, 2024	87.5	4	1
63	Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To	May 10, 2024	84.4	8	0
64	Darkestrah Nomad	Mar 29, 2024	88.3	3	0
65	Hellbutcher Hellbutcher	May 31, 2024	88.3	3	0
66	Kanonenfieber Die Urkatastrophe	Sep 20, 2024	88.3	3	0
67	Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg	Sep 6, 2024	88.3	3	0
68	The Omega Swarm Crimson Demise	May 31, 2024	88.3	3	0
69	As I Lay Dying Through Storms Ahead	Nov 15, 2024	88.3	3	0
70	Vision Divine Blood and Angels’ Tears	Sep 20, 2024	86	5	0
71	Amaranthe The Catalyst	Feb 23, 2024	83.8	8	0
72	Necrowretch Swords of Dajjal	Feb 2, 2024	84.3	7	0
73	Ihsahn Ihsahn	Feb 16, 2024	82.8	9	0
74	Exocrine Legend	Jan 26, 2024	86.3	4	0
75	NEMOPHILA Evolve	Jan 17, 2024	86.3	4	0
76	Sear Bliss Heavenly Down	Jun 28, 2024	86.3	4	0
77	Draugnim Verum Malum	Apr 26, 2024	86.3	4	0
78	Skeletal Remains Fragments of the Ageless	Mar 8, 2024	85	5	0
79	Morbid Saint Swallowed by Hell	Feb 9, 2024	82.2	9	0
80	Ὁπλίτης Παραμαινομένη	Jan 12, 2024	86.7	3	0
81	Dragony Hic Svnt Dracones	Oct 11, 2024	86.7	3	0
82	Chat Pile Cool World	Oct 11, 2024	86.7	3	0
83	Fleshgod Apocalypse Opera	Aug 23, 2024	80	13	0
84	Nightwish Yesterwynde	Sep 20, 2024	79.6	14	1
85	Brothers of Metal Fimbulvinter	Nov 1, 2024	85	4	0
86	Manticora Mycelium	Jan 26, 2024	82.1	7	1
87	Deicide Banished by Sin	Apr 26, 2024	81.3	8	1
88	Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: NeX GEn	May 24, 2024	78.2	16	3
89	Visions of Atlantis Pirates II - Armada	Jul 5, 2024	83.8	4	0
90	Seth La France des maudits	Jul 14, 2024	83.8	4	1
91	Scanner The Cosmic Race	Jan 12, 2024	85	3	0
92	Hauntologist Hollow	Jan 8, 2024	85	3	0
93	The Last Ten Seconds of Life No Name Graves	Feb 9, 2024	85	3	0
94	Sebastian Bach Child Within the Man	May 10, 2024	85	3	0
95	Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy	Nov 22, 2024	85	3	0
96	Aborted Vault of Horrors	Mar 15, 2024	80.7	7	0
97	Hannes Grossmann Wisdom of Echoes [EP]	Feb 10, 2024	82	5	0
98	Nimetön Hauta Pimeyteen laskee joki	Jan 5, 2024	82	5	0
99	Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire	Apr 19, 2024	82	5	1
100	Severe Torture Torn from the Jaws of Death	Jun 7, 2024	82	5	0

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