2024 Metal Academy Awards Discussion - The Horde Edition

It's that time of year again i.e. the time when we start to think about which releases will be crowned as the pinnacle of their clans for the previous calendar year. I've opened this thread to house the discussions around our The Horde Clan Release of the 2024.

These are the 2024 releases that have gained the most attention from our members:

Ulcerate - "Cutting the Throat of God"

Civerous - "Maze Envy"

Hemotoxin - "When Time Becomes Loss"

Blood Incantation - "Absolute Elsewhere"

Job for a Cowboy - "Moon Healer"

What other releases should our members be checking out?

Ulcerate and Blood Incantation are sitting as my #1 and #3 releases of 2024 currently, so I would wholeheartedly support those two. 

I'm always a sucker for a Nile album and their latest, "The Underworld Awaits Us All" marked a bit of a return to form as far as I was concerned.

Elsewhere, Diabolic Oath, Abhorration and Invocation put out very good albums.

Cannot say that I disagree with any of the albums included here Daniel. 

Full of Hell's Coagulated Bliss was the type of grindcore album that moved me with its density and heavy songwriting focus; one of the best grindcore albums in years.

Black Dahlia Murder released a solid melodic death comeback following the tragic passing of their former vocalist.

While early technical death albums by Apogean (Cyberstrictive) and Hideous Divinity (Unextinct) stayed surprisingly active in my playlists all year.

I've obviously spent a crap-load of time listening to The Horde releases over the past year. Of those that I've given a full review, the Civerous album is the one that I rate the most highly. I fully intend on giving a whole bunch of the other standouts from my casual listening sessions a more detailed examination this month though, including the Blood Incantation, Ulcerate, Defeated Sanity, Gigan, Viscera Infest & Carnophage records.

Obvs it’s Ulcerate all the way for me.  I am such a fan boy of them though.  By comparison, I found that Blood Incantation record to be an absolute yawnfest!  Covetous didn’t move me all that much on reflection.  I would add Vitriol (USA) and Noxis’ records from this year also.

Also Replicant, Gatecreeper and Slimelord.