PopMatters' 20 Best Metal Albums of 2024

This has proved a fantastic year for heavy music and metal, with masters impressing and newer artists shining. These are the best metal albums of 2024.

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# 1

Omegon by Wormed

Album • Jul 05 / 2024 Brutal Death Metal Technical Death Metal

# 2

Humanism by Malconfort

Album • Jul 05 / 2024 Avant-Garde Metal Experimental Rock

# 3

Burning in Celestial Poison by Black Curse

Album • Oct 25 / 2024 Black Metal Death Metal

# 4

Sparagmos by Spectral Voice

Album • Feb 09 / 2024 Death Doom Metal

# 5

Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force by Tzompantli

Album • May 17 / 2024 Death Doom Metal

# 6

Vitriseptome by Mitochondrion

Album • Nov 01 / 2024 Death Metal

# 7

Orchards of a Futile Heaven by The Body + Dis Fig

Album • Feb 23 / 2024 Death Industrial Post-Industrial

# 8

Natt Til Ende by Djevel

Album • Nov 15 / 2024 Black Metal

# 9

Chronicles of Lunacy by Defeated Sanity

Album • Nov 22 / 2024 Brutal Death Metal Technical Death Metal

# 10

The Adept by Lord Spikeheart

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Power Noise Death Industrial

# 11

The Skorian // The Greyleer by Mefitis

Album • Nov 29 / 2024 Progressive Metal Melodic Black Metal Melodic Death Metal

# 12

Exhaust by Pyrrhon

Album • Sep 06 / 2024 Dissonant Death Metal Avant-Garde Metal Mathcore

# 13

De stilte van God by Fír

Album • May 03 / 2024

# 14

Tower of Famine by Balwezo Westijiz

Album • Jun 14 / 2024

# 15

I by Haunted Plasma

Album • May 31 / 2024

# 16

Chytridiomycosis Relinquished by SlimeLord

Album • Mar 08 / 2024 Death Doom Metal Death Metal

# 17

Violence Inherent In the System by Noxis

Album • Jun 28 / 2024 Death Metal

# 18

The Healer by Sumac

Album • Jun 21 / 2024 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Avant-Garde Metal

# 19

Die Urkatastrophe by Kanonenfieber

Album • Sep 20 / 2024 Melodic Death Metal Melodic Black Metal

# 20

Lower Form Resistance by Dissimulator

Album • Jan 26 / 2024 Technical Thrash Metal Technical Death Metal