Loudwire's 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024

Loudwire recaps the very best rock and metal albums of 2024.

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# 1

Manual Manic Procedures by 200 Stab Wounds

Album • Jun 28 / 2024 Death Metal

# 2

Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs by Alkaline Trio

Album • Jan 26 / 2024 Pop Punk

# 3

Half Living Things by Alpha Wolf

Album • Apr 05 / 2024 Metalcore Nu Metal

# 4

Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Death Metal Progressive Metal

# 5

Merciless by Body Count

Album • Nov 22 / 2024 Rap Metal Alternative Metal

# 6

POST HUMAN: NeX GEn by Bring Me The Horizon

Album • May 24 / 2024 Alternative Metal Emo-Pop

# 7

The Mandrake Project by Bruce Dickinson

Album • Mar 01 / 2024 Heavy Metal

# 8

Charcoal Grace by Caligula's Horse

Album • Jan 26 / 2024 Progressive Metal

# 9

It's Inside You by Candy

Album • Jun 07 / 2024 Metalcore Industrial Metal

# 10

Cool World by Chat Pile

Album • Oct 11 / 2024 Noise Rock Sludge Metal

# 11

The Stygian Rose by Crypt Sermon

Album • Jun 14 / 2024 Epic Doom Metal Heavy Metal

# 12

It Beckons Us All by Darkthrone

Album • Apr 26 / 2024 Doom Metal Black Metal Heavy Metal

# 13

PowerNerd by Devin Townsend

Album • Oct 25 / 2024 Alternative Metal Progressive Metal

# 14

PRUDE by Drug Church

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Post-Hardcore Alternative Rock

# 15

CURE by ERRA

Album • Apr 05 / 2024 Djent Metalcore

# 16

Popular Monster by Falling In Reverse

Album • Aug 16 / 2024 Alternative Metal

# 17

Undefeated by Frank Turner

Album • May 03 / 2024 Alternative Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 18

Dark Superstition by Gatecreeper

Album • May 17 / 2024 Melodic Death Metal Death Metal

# 19

Saviors by Green Day

Album • Jan 19 / 2024 Alternative Rock Pop Punk

# 20

Cometh the Storm by High On Fire

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Stoner Metal Sludge Metal

# 21

Verses In Oath by Hulder

Album • Feb 09 / 2024 Black Metal

# 22

Ihsahn by Ihsahn

Album • Feb 16 / 2024 Progressive Metal Symphonic Metal

# 23

No Name by Jack White

Album • Aug 02 / 2024 Garage Rock Revival Hard Rock

# 24

I Want Blood by Jerry Cantrell

Album • Oct 18 / 2024 Alternative Metal

# 25

Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition) by Judas Priest

Album • Mar 08 / 2024 Heavy Metal

# 26

From Hell I Rise by Kerry King

Album • May 17 / 2024 Thrash Metal

# 27

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

Album • May 10 / 2024 Metalcore

# 28

Hole in My Head by Laura Jane Grace

Album • Feb 16 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Folk Punk

# 29

Liam Gallagher & John Squire by Liam Gallagher + John Squire

Album • Mar 01 / 2024 Neo-Psychedelia Britpop

# 30

From Zero by LINKIN PARK

Album • Nov 15 / 2024 Alternative Rock Rap Rock

# 31

Drama by Marty Friedman

Album • May 17 / 2024 Progressive Metal Neoclassical Metal

# 32

The Underworld Awaits Us All by Nile

Album • Aug 23 / 2024 Technical Death Metal

# 33

CARNAL by NOTHING MORE

Album • Jun 28 / 2024 Alternative Metal Alternative Rock

# 34

The Last Will And Testament by Opeth

Album • Nov 22 / 2024 Progressive Metal

# 35

Dark Matter by Pearl Jam

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Alternative Rock Hard Rock

# 36

Wake Up The Wicked by Powerwolf

Album • Jul 26 / 2024 Power Metal

# 37

Return to Dust by Return to Dust

Album • May 03 / 2024

# 38

Higher Power by Scott Stapp

Album • Mar 15 / 2024 Alternative Metal Post-Grunge

# 39

Coup de Grâce by SeeYouSpaceCowboy...

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Post-Hardcore Emo-Pop

# 40

ONLY ONE MODE by Speed

Album • Jul 12 / 2024 Metalcore Beatdown Hardcore Hardcore Punk

# 41

Project Regeneration, Vol. 2 by Static-X

Album • Jan 26 / 2024 Industrial Metal

# 42

Heaven :x: Hell by Sum 41

Album • Mar 29 / 2024 Melodic Hardcore Pop Punk

# 43

Happiness Bastards by The Black Crowes

Album • Mar 15 / 2024 Blues Rock Southern Rock

# 44

Servitude by The Black Dahlia Murder

Album • Sep 27 / 2024 Melodic Death Metal

# 45

Ohio Players by The Black Keys

Album • Apr 05 / 2024 Alternative Rock Pop Rock Blues Rock

# 46

Songs of a Lost World by The Cure

Album • Jan 01 / 2023 Gothic Rock Alternative Rock

# 47

Aghori Mhori Mei by The Smashing Pumpkins

Album • Aug 02 / 2024 Alternative Rock

# 48

Savage by Tim Montana

Album • Jul 12 / 2024

# 49

Phantoma by Unleash the Archers

Album • May 10 / 2024 Power Metal

# 50

Never, Neverland (Deluxe Edition) by Unto Others

Album • Sep 20 / 2024 Gothic Rock Gothic Metal