Harbinger of D.O.O.M.’s Top 10 Albums of 2024

Happy Holidays everybody! 2024 is almost in the books and it feels like it just flew by! It’s time for my traditional Top Ten Albums of the Year list, and man, did we get a phenomenal year for music once again! I already gave you a preview back in June with my 2024 Mid-Year Top Ten; some of the albums on that list switched places, others have left it entirely to make room for the second half of the year’s releases. These are basically the albums that I find myself going back to the most often. As usual, it strictly contains LPs released in 2024 in the genres and subgenres of Metal and Rock. So, without further ado, here are my ten favourite records of 2024 with a link to my review/killer picks article for each one featuring links to purchase the LPs:

10. VAZUM – Western Violence

9. Ace Frehley – 10,000 Volts

8. Tungsten – The Grand Inferno

7. Flat Black – Dark Side of the Brain

6. Bottomless & Witching Altar – Graveyard Thunder

5. Thrasherwolf - Inside the Sickened Mind

4. All For Metal – Gods of Metal (Year of the Dragon)

3. Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

2. Sebastian Bach – Child Within the Man

1. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield

And there you have it! I hope my list makes you discover an album that you’d overlooked or not given a spin yet. For regular visitors of the blog, I thank you for tuning in from time to time throughout the year and hope you’ll swing by often again in 2025. I’d also like to thank all the bands, labels, and PR firms for sending me albums week in, week out; I can’t review or talk about everything, but I do my best to shine a light on the music I really enjoy. I’ll see you all at the end of January for the first Harbinger’s Killer Picks of 2025. Until then, Merry Christmas and a healthy Happy New Year to all!