metal

Spent too long agonizing over ranking them but couldn’t do it because all these albums are so different. So going to tier them instead.

Here’s my not-quite-definitive-top-20-albums-of-2024 with no explanation provided:

S tier:
• Azure - Fym

Tier 1: 
• IOTUNN - Kinship
• Artificial Language - Distant Glow (EP) (note: had this been a full length, this is S tier. Best EP ever)
• Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond
• Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace

Tier 2:
• Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
• Winterborn - Break Another Day
• Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons of Mazandaran
• Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach
• Frost* - Life in the Wires
• Wheel - Charismstic Leaders
• Myrath - Karma

Tier 3:
• Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
• Kingcrow - Hopium
• Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear
• Borknagar - Fall
• Týr - Battle Ballads
• Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water
• Dragony - Hic Svnt Dracones
• Wintersun - Time II

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