Music Tracking 2024

These are 2024 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • 40 Watt Sun: Little Weight (Fisher's Folly/Cappio) [09-06] - doom metal
  • 156/Silence: People Watching (Sharp Tone) [09-13] - metalcore
  • 200 Stab Wounds: Manual Manic Procedures (Metal Blade) [06-28] - death metal
  • 1349: The Wolf and the King (Season of Mist) [10-04] - black metal
  • Aborted: Vault of Horrors (Nuclear Blast) [03-15] - metal
  • Accept: Humanoid (Napalm) [04-26] - metal
  • Alcest: Les Chants de l'Aurore (Nuclear Blast) [06-21] - post-metal
  • Anciients: Beyond the Reach of the Sun (Season of Mist) [08-30] - prog metal
  • Apparition: Disgraced Emanations From a Tranquil State (Profound Lore) [03-22] - death metal
  • Sebastian Bach: Child Within the Man (Reigning Phoenix) [05-10] - metal
  • Better Lovers: Highly Irresponsible (SharpTone) [10-25] - metalcore
  • Big Brave: A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey) [04-19] - doomgaze
  • Black Curse: Burning in Celestial Poison (Supulchral Voice) [10-25] - black metal
  • The Black Dahlia Murder: Servitude (Metal Blade) [09-27] - death metal
  • Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media) [10-04] - prog death metal
  • The Body: The Crying Out of Things (Thrill Jockey) [11-08] - industrial metal
  • The Body & Dis Fig: Orchards of a Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - death industrial
  • Borknagar: Fall (Century Media) [02-23] - metal
  • Brat: Social Grace (Prosthetic) [03-15] - metalcore
  • Bring Me the Horizon: Post Human: Nex Gen (Sony) [05-24] - alt metal
  • Caligula's Horse: Charcoal Grace (InsideOut) [01-26] - prog metal
  • Cane Hill: A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find (Out of Line) [11-01] - metalcore
  • Jerry Cantrell: I Want Blood (Double J Music) [10-18] - alt-metal
  • Chat Pile: Cool World (The Flenser) [10-11] - sludge metal
  • Julie Christmas: Ridiculous and Full of Blood (Red Creek) [06-14] - metal
  • Civerous: Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin) [03-22] - death metal
  • Cnts: Thoughts & Prayers () [03-29] - noise rock
  • Coffin Storm: Arcana Rising (Peaceville) [03-29] - metal
  • Commoner: A Commoner's Quest () [03-27] - doom metal
  • Couch Slut: You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda) [04-19] - metal
  • Counterparts: Heaven Let Them Die (Pure Noise -EP) [11-07] - metalcore
  • Crypt Sermon: The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent) [06-14] - heavy metal
  • Dark Tranquililty: Endrtime Signals (Century Media) [08-16] - metal
  • Darkest Hour: Perpetual Terminal (MNRK) [02-23] - metal
  • Darkthrone: It Beckons Us All (Peaceville) [04-26] - black metal
  • Deceased . . .: Children of the Morgue (Hells Headbangers) [08-30] - metal
  • Departure Chandelier: Satan Soldier of Fortune (Nuclear War Now!) [01-14] - black metal
  • Bruce Dickinson: The Mandrake Project (BMG) [03-01] - metal
  • Dödsrit: Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades) [03-22] - metal
  • Earthtone9: In Resonance Nexus () [ 06-21] - alt-metal
  • Enterprise Earth: Death: An Anthology (MNRK) [02-02] - deathcore
  • Falling in Reverse: Popular Monster (Epitaph) [08-16] - rap metal
  • Fleshgod Apocalypse: Opera (Nuclear Blast) [08-23] - metal
  • Frail Body: Artificial Bouquet (Deathwish) [03-29] - screamo
  • Ace Frehley: 10,000 Volts (MNRK) [02-23] - hard rock
  • Ben Frost: Scope Neglect (Mute) [03-01] - metal
  • Fu Manchu: The Return of Tomorrow (At the Dojo) [06-14] - stoner rock
  • Full of Hell: Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket Activities) [04-26] - grindcore
  • Future Palace: Distortion (Arising Empire) [09-06] - alt-metal
  • Gatecreeper: Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - death metal
  • Glacial Tomb: Lightless Expanse (Prosthetic) [09-20] - death metal
  • Glassing: From the Other Side of the Mirror (Pelagic) [04-26] - metal
  • God Is an Astronaut: Embers (Napalm) [09-06] - post-rock
  • Hamferð: Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk (Metal Blade) [03-22] - doom metal
  • Hellbutcher: Hellbutcher (Metal Blade) [05-31] - black metal
  • High on Fire: Cometh the Storm (MNRK) [04-19] - sludge metal
  • Hulder: Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin) [02-09] - black metal
  • Ihsahn: Ihsahn (Candlelilght) [02-16] - metal
  • Infant Island: Obsidian Wreath (Secret Voice) [01-12] - metal
  • Inter Arma: New Heaven (Relapse) [04-26] - metal
  • The Jesus Lizard: Rack (Ipecac) [09-13] - noise rock
  • Job for a Cowboy: Moon Healer (Metal Blade) [02-23] - metal
  • Judas Priest: Invincible Shield (Columbia) [03-08] - metal
  • Myles Kennedy: The Art of Letting Go (Napalm) [10-11] - hard rock
  • Kerry King: From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix) [05-17] - metal
  • Knocked Loose: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To (Pure Noise) [05-10] - metalcore
  • Leprous: Melodies of Atonement (Inside Out) [08-30] - prog metal
  • Linkin Park: From Zero (Machine Shop/Warner) [11-15] - nu metal
  • Lord Spikeheart: The Adept (Hækalu) [04-19] - metal
  • Lucifer: Luciver V (Nuclear Blast) [01-26] - metal
  • Make Them Suffer: Make Them Suffer (Greyscale/SharpTone) [11-08] - metalcore
  • Megafauna: And So I Watch You From Afar (Pelagic/Velocity) [08-09] - math rock
  • Melvins: Tarantula Heart (Ipecac) [04-19] - sludge metal
  • Meth: Shame (Prosthetic) [02-02] - sludge metal
  • Metz: Up on Gravity Hill (Sub Pop/Dine Alone) [04-12] - post-hardcore
  • Midnight: Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade) [03-08] - speed metal
  • Mork: Syv (Peaceville) [09-20] - black metal
  • Mother of Graves: The Periapt of Absence (Profound Lore) [10-18] - death metal
  • My Dying Bride: A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast) [04-19] - metal
  • Nails: Every Bridge Burning (Nuclear Blast) [ 08-30] - grindcore
  • Necrophobic: In the Twilight Grey (Century Media) - metal
  • Necrot: Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes) [04-12] - death metal
  • Nightwish: Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast) [09-20] - symphonic metal
  • Nile: The Underground Awaits Us All (Napalm) [08-23] - death metal
  • The Obsessed: Gilded Sorrow (Ripple Music) [02-16] - doom metal
  • Oceans of Slumber: Where Gods Fear to speak (Season of Mist) [09-13] - prog metal
  • Orange Goblin: Science, Not Fiction (Peaceville) [07-19] - stoner metal
  • Oranssi Pazuzu: Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast) [10-11] - metal
  • Oxygen Destroyer: Guardian of the Universe (Redefining Darkness) [08-09] - death metal
  • Pallbearer: Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - doom metal
  • Paysage d'Hiver: Die Berge (Kunsthall Produktionen) [11-08] - black metal
  • Peeling Flesh: The G Code (Unique Leader) [09-06] - metal
  • Pest Control: Year of the Pest (Quality Control HQ -EP) [10-25] - hardcore punk [***]
  • Poppy: Negative Spaces (Sumerian) [11-15] - metalcore
  • Prize Horse: Under Sound (New Morality Zine) [02-16] - metal
  • Public Acid: Deadly Struggle (Beach Impediment) [02-23] - hardcore punk
  • Ripped to Shreds: Sanshi (Relapse) [09-27] - death metal
  • Scene Queen: Hot Singles in Your Area (Hopeless) [06-28] - nu metal
  • Skillet: Revolution (self-released) [11-01] - hard rock
  • Slift: Ilion (Sub Pop) [01-19] - heavy psych
  • The Smashing Pumpkins: Aghori Mhori Mei (Tirty Tigers/Martha's) [08-02] - alt-metal
  • Sólstafir: Hinj Helga Kvöl (Century Media) [11-08] - post-metal
  • Spectral Voice: Sparagamos (Dark Descent) [02-09] - metal
  • Spectral Wound: Songs of Blood and Mire (Profound Lore) [08-23] - black metal
  • Speed: Only One Mode (Flatspot/Last Ride) [07-12] - metalcore
  • Sum 41: Heaven :x: Hell (Rise) [03-29] - alt metal
  • Sunny Day Real Estate: Diary (Live at London Bridge Studio) (self-released) [05-03] - post-hardcore
  • Terminal Nation: Echoes of the Devil's Den (20 Buck Spin) [05-03] - metal
  • Thou: Umbilical (Sacred Bones) [05-31] - metal
  • Touché Amoré: Spiral in a Straight Line (Rise) [10-11] - screamo
  • Tribulation: Sub Rosa in Æternum (Century Media) [11-01] - gothic metal
  • Tzompantli: Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force (20 Buck Spin) [05-17] - death metal
  • Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God (Debemur Morti) [06-14] - metal
  • Undeath: More Insane (Prosthetic) [10-04] - death metal
  • Uniform: American Standard (Sacred Bones) [08-23] - sludge metal
  • Vicious Blade: Relentless Force (Redefining Darkness) [09-27] - death metal
  • Vitrol: Suffer & Become (Century Media) [01-26] - metal
  • Vola: Friend of a Phantom (Mascot) [11-01] - prog metal
  • Wheel: Charismatic Leaders (Inside Out) [05-03] - prog metal
  • While She Sleeps: Self Hell (Spinefarm) [03-29] - metalcore
  • Wintersun: Time II (Nuclear Blast) [08-30] - metal
  • Yoth Iria: Blazing Inferno (Edged Circle Productions) [11-08] - metal
  • Zeal & Ardor: Greif (self-released) [08-23] - alt-metal

Reissues, Etc.

    Priority Counts

    • Priority 1: 122
    • Priority 2: 0
    • Priority 3: 0
    • Priority 4: 1
    • Priority 5: 0

    Total: 123