2024 Metal Academy Awards Discussion - The Fallen 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 Fallen Clan Release of the 2024.
These are the 2024 releases that have gained the most attention from our members:
Crypt Sermon - "The Stygian Rose"
High on Fire - "Cometh the Storm"
Thou - "Umbilical"
Darkthrone - "It Beckons Us All......."
Ufomammut - "Hidden"
What other releases should our members be checking out?
Ataraxie's "Le déclin" is an absolute must for any fan of funeral doom and was shaping up to be my AOTY until I crossed paths with "Cutting the Throat of God".
Monolithe's death doom concept album, "Black Hole District" is also excellent and Scald's "Ancient Doom Metal" is where to turn for your epic doom fix of 2024.
Mourning Dawn's "The Foam of Despair" is my top-rated atmospheric sludge album of the year and The Flight of Sleipnir's "Nature's Cadence" is definitely worth a listen, as is Ponte del Diavolo's "Fire Blades From the Tomb".
I know I'm likely not the most cultured when it comes to Fallen album releases in 2024, but The Flight of Sleipnir album alluded to by Sonny was a solid release.
My year end catchup also introduced me to fantastic releases by Grey Skies Fallen (Molded by Broken Hands) and Counting Hours (The Wishing Tomb).
And of course, I would be remised to not include the stunning Pallbearer album, Mind Burns Alive.
Ataraxie's "Le déclin" is an absolute must for any fan of funeral doom and was shaping up to be my AOTY until I crossed paths with "Cutting the Throat of God".
Monolithe's death doom concept album, "Black Hole District" is also excellent and Scald's "Ancient Doom Metal" is where to turn for your epic doom fix of 2024.
Mourning Dawn's "The Foam of Despair" is my top-rated atmospheric sludge album of the year and The Flight of Sleipnir's "Nature's Cadence" is definitely worth a listen, as is Ponte del Diavolo's "Fire Blades From the Tomb".
Hhhmmm... I've only casually checked out the Ataraxie release from those you mentioned Sonny so I still have a fair amount of work to do in January. Most of my The Fallen new release time was spent in the doom/death & funeral doom metal space last year but the Thou album is still the only release that I've given the dedicated attention required for an informed review so that leaves me with all of my eggs in that basket at this point. I haven't heard the Chat Pile sophomore record as yet though & I really dug their 2022 debut full-length so I have high hopes for that one.
For the record, I intentionally overlooked the Civerous record for the Fallen because I don't believe it belongs there.
I know I'm likely not the most cultured when it comes to Fallen album releases in 2024, but The Flight of Sleipnir album alluded to by Sonny was a solid release.
My year end catchup also introduced me to fantastic releases by Grey Skies Fallen (Molded by Broken Hands) and Counting Hours (The Wishing Tomb).
And of course, I would be remised to not include the stunning Pallbearer album, Mind Burns Alive.
I wasn't as big on the Counting Hours record from my admittedly fairly casual listening thus far. Perhaps I need to give it a more active listen.
The first three are exactly my picks. Crypt Sermon got so, so much playtime this year and I really came around to Thou's Umbilical in the end. High On Fire was just rock solid through and through.
Some other deeper cuts that I found interesting is the Ashbreather & Serpentine Cerberus album Mouth of the World for a mix of Deathy Doom and Progressive Sludge, and Gnome's Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome for some of the best Stoner riffing I've heard with the whole album having some fun, very unserious tones to it.