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
  • ERR: stream no grade: Actress: Д​а​р​е​н Д​ж​. К​а​н​н​і​н​г​е​м
  • 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
  • Bad Omens: Concrete Jungle [The OST] (Sumerian) [05-31] - metal
  • Balwezo Westijiz: Tower of Famine (Profound Lore) [06-14] - metal
  • Sebastian Bach: Child Within the Man (Reigning Phoenix) [05-10] - metal
  • Mimi Barks: This Is Doom Trap (Silent Cult) [09-26] - trap metal
  • Battlesnake: The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple () [06-21] - metal
  • Bedsore: Dreaming the Strife for Love (20 Buck Spin) [11-29] - metal
  • Better Lovers: Highly Irresponsible (SharpTone) [10-25] - metalcore
  • Big | Brave: A Chaos of Flowers (Thrill Jockey) [04-19] - doomgaze
  • Bilmuri: American Motor Sports (Columbia) [06-28] - alt-metal
  • Black Country Communion: V () [06-14] - hard rock
  • 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
  • Body Count: Merciless (Century Media) [11-22] - rap metal
  • Borknagar: Fall (Century Media) [02-23] - metal
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Boynextdoor: 19.99 (CLink Ver.)
  • Brat: Social Grace (Prosthetic) [03-15] - metalcore
  • Bring Me the Horizon: Post Human: Nex Gen (Sony) [05-24] - alt metal
  • Brodequin: Harbinger of Woe (Season of Mist Underground Activist) [03-22] - metal
  • Caligula's Horse: Charcoal Grace (InsideOut) [01-26] - prog metal
  • Candy: It's Inside You (Relapse) [06-07] - metalcore
  • 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
  • Cassyette: This World Fucking Sucks (23) [08-23] - nu 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
  • Concrete Winds: Concrete Winds (Sepulchral Voice) - metal
  • Convulsing: Perdurance (self-released) - metal
  • Couch Slut: You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda) [04-19] - metal
  • Counterparts: Heaven Let Them Die (Pure Noise -EP) [11-07] - metalcore
  • Cower: Celestial Devestation (Human Worth) [02-02] - noise rock
  • 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
  • Deep Purple: =1 (EarMusic) [07-19] - hard rock
  • Defeated Sanity: Chronicles of Lunacy (Season of Mist) [11-22] - metal
  • Departure Chandelier: Satan Soldier of Fortune (Nuclear War Now!) [01-14] - black metal
  • Bruce Dickinson: The Mandrake Project (BMG) [03-01] - metal
  • Dissimulator: Lower Form Resistance (20 Buck Spin) [01-26] - metal
  • Djevel: Natt Til Ende () [11-15] - metal
  • Dödsrit: Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades) [03-22] - metal
  • Dvne: Voidkind (Metal Blade) [04-19] - prog metal
  • Earthtone9: In Resonance Nexus () [ 06-21] - alt-metal
  • Effluence: Necrobiology (Putrefactive) - metal
  • Enterprise Earth: Death: An Anthology (MNRK) [02-02] - deathcore
  • Envy: Eunoia (Temporary Residence/Pelagic) [10-11] - screamo
  • Falling in Reverse: Popular Monster (Epitaph) [08-16] - rap metal
  • Fever 333: Darker White (Century Media/333 Wreckords Crew) [10-04] - nu metal
  • Fír: De stilte van God () [05-03] - metal
  • Fleshgod Apocalypse: Opera (Nuclear Blast) [08-23] - metal
  • Fórn: Repercussions of the Self () [10-18] - 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
  • Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan: Scraping the Divine (Closed Casket Activities) [11-15] - metal
  • ERR: stream no grade: The Fury: Live in Brooklyn
  • Future Palace: Distortion (Arising Empire) [09-06] - alt-metal
  • Gatecreeper: Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast) [05-17] - death metal
  • Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] () - metal
  • Giant Walker: Silhouettes () [09-20] - alt-metal
  • Gigan: Anomalous Abstratcigate Infinitessimus (Willowtip) [10-25] - 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
  • Grand Magus: Sunraven (Nuclear Blast) [10-18] - metal
  • Graphic Nature: Who Are You When No One Is Watching? (Rude) [07-12] - nu-metalcore
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Tord Gustavsen Trio: Seeing
  • Hamferð: Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk (Metal Blade) [03-22] - doom metal
  • Hand of Juno: Psychotic Banana () - metal
  • Haunted Plasma: I () [05-31] - neo-psychedelia
  • Hellbutcher: Hellbutcher (Metal Blade) [05-31] - black metal
  • Heriot: Devoured by the Mouth of Hell (Century Media) [09-27] - metalcore
  • High on Fire: Cometh the Storm (MNRK) [04-19] - sludge metal
  • Hulder: Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin) [02-09] - black metal
  • Huntsmen: The Dry Land (Prosthetic) [06-07] - post-metal
  • Ihsahn: Ihsahn (Candlelilght) [02-16] - metal
  • Immortal Bird: Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin) - metal
  • Infant Island: Obsidian Wreath (Secret Voice) [01-12] - metal
  • Inter Arma: New Heaven (Relapse) [04-26] - metal
  • Iress: Sleep Now, in Reverse (Church Road) [07-26] - doomgaze
  • 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 [*]
  • Kalandra: A Frame of Mind (Norse Music) [09-13] - art rock
  • Kanonenfieber: Die Urkatastrophe (Century Media) [09-20] - metal
  • Kati Rán: Sála (Svart) [05-24] - metal
  • Myles Kennedy: The Art of Letting Go (Napalm) [10-11] - hard rock
  • Kerry King: From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix) [05-17] - metal
  • Kittie: Fire () - metal
  • Knocked Loose: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To (Pure Noise) [05-10] - metalcore [B]
  • Krallice: Ingorganic Rites (self-released) [06-28] - black metal
  • 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
  • Lowen: Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran (Church Road) [10-04] - doom metal
  • Lucifer: Luciver V (Nuclear Blast) [01-26] - metal
  • Make Them Suffer: Make Them Suffer (Greyscale/SharpTone) [11-08] - metalcore
  • Malconfort: Humanism () [07-05] - metal
  • Massive Wagons: Earth to Grace () [11-08] - hard rock
  • Mefitis: The Skorian//The Greyleer () [11-29] - metal
  • 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
  • Mitochondrion: Vitriseptome (Profound Lore) [11-01] - metal
  • Moggs Motel: Moggs Motel (SPV) [09-06] - hard rock
  • Mork: Syv (Peaceville) [09-20] - black metal
  • Morvigor: De Spiegel ( Vita Detestabilis) - 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
  • Noxis: Violence Inherent in the System (Rotted Life) [06-28] - metal
  • Obliti Devoravit: Under My Michigan Sky (Colloquial Sound) - 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
  • Opeth: The Last Will and Testament (Reigning Phoenix) [ 11-22] - 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
  • P.O.D.: Veritas () - 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
  • Persher: Sleep Well (Thrill Jockey) [02-23] - metal
  • Pest Control: Year of the Pest (Quality Control HQ -EP) [10-25] - hardcore punk [***]
  • Pijn: From Low Beams of Hope (Floodlit) [06-28] - post-metal
  • Poppy: Negative Spaces (Sumerian) [11-15] - metalcore
  • Prisoner: Putrid | Obsolete (Persistent Vision) [03-15] - metal
  • Prize Horse: Under Sound (New Morality Zine) [02-16] - metal
  • Public Acid: Deadly Struggle (Beach Impediment) [02-23] - hardcore punk
  • Pyrrhon: Exhaust (Willowtip) [09-06] - metal
  • Regional Justice Center: Freedom Sweet Freedom (Closed Casket Activities) - hardcore
  • Resin Tomb: Cerebral Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity) [01-19] - metal
  • Ripped to Shreds: Sanshi (Relapse) [09-27] - death metal
  • Rotting Christ: Pro Xristou (Season of Mist) [05-24] - black metal
  • Sadness: I Want to Make Something as Beautiful as You (self-released) - metal
  • Satan: Songs in Crimson (Metal Blade) [09-13] - metal
  • Saxon: Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining) [01-19] - metal
  • Scene Queen: Hot Singles in Your Area (Hopeless) [06-28] - nu metal
  • See You Space Cowboy: Coup De Grâce (Pure Noise) [04-19] - metalcore
  • Siamese: Elements (Long Branch) [08-09] - alt-metal
  • Skillet: Revolution (self-released) [11-01] - hard rock
  • Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of the Last Human Being (Avant Night) [02-23] - avant-metal
  • Sleepwalker: Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum (self-released) - metal
  • Slift: Ilion (Sub Pop) [01-19] - heavy psych
  • Slimelord: Chytridiomycosis Relinquished (20 Buck Spin) [ 03-08] - metal
  • 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
  • Stand Atlantic: Was Here (Hopeless) [08-23] - nu metal
  • State Faults: Children of the Moon (Deathwish) [07-26] - screamo
  • Sum 41: Heaven :x: Hell (Rise) [03-29] - alt metal
  • Sumac: The Healer (Thrill Jockey) [06-21] - avant-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
  • Thrown: Excessive Guilt (Arising Empire) [08-30] - nu-metalcore
  • Touché Amoré: Spiral in a Straight Line (Rise) [10-11] - screamo
  • Devin Townsend: PowerNerd (HevyDevy/InsideOut) [10-25] - alt-metal
  • 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
  • Uboa: Impossible Light (The Flenser) [06-28] - post-metal
  • Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God (Debemur Morti) [06-14] - metal
  • Undeath: More Insane (Prosthetic) [10-04] - death metal
  • Unholy Altar: Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite () [07-05] - metal
  • Uniform: American Standard (Sacred Bones) [08-23] - sludge metal
  • Unto Others: Never, Neverland (Century Media) [09-20] - metal
  • Velvet: Romance () [ 02-23] - alt-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
  • Vuur & Zijde: Boezem () [07-12] - metal
  • The Warning: Keep Me Fed (Lava/Republic) [06-28] - alt metal
  • Wheel: Charismatic Leaders (Inside Out) [05-03] - prog metal
  • While She Sleeps: Self Hell (Spinefarm) [03-29] - metalcore
  • Whores.: War. (Ghost Is Clear) [04-16] - metal
  • Winterfylleth: The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight) [09-13] - metal
  • Wintersun: Time II (Nuclear Blast) [08-30] - metal
  • Wormed: Omegon (Season of Mist) [07-05] - metal
  • Yoth Iria: Blazing Inferno (Edged Circle Productions) [11-08] - metal
  • Your Arms Are My Cocoon: Death of a Rabbit (self-released) [08-11] - screamo
  • Zeal & Ardor: Greif (self-released) [08-23] - alt-metal
  • Zetra: Zetra (Nuclear Blast) [09-13] - gothic metal
  • ERR: grade bad priority: : Twisters

Reissues, Etc.

  • Judas Priest: Rocka Rolla [50th Anniversary Edition] (1974, MNRK/Exciter/Reach) [11-24] - heavy metal [B]
  • ERR: stream no grade: Splat!: And Yeah So (1981-1985)

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 201
  • Priority 2: 1
  • Priority 3: 0
  • Priority 4: 6
  • Priority 5: 0

Total: 208