Favorite 2024 releases / most anticipated of 2025

[Hair I Go Again]

I know 2024 still has a month left to go, but since there's nothing new that I care about due to be released before year's end, I figured I'd go ahead and pull the trigger.

WIN - Eclipse, "Megalomanium II." Sweden FTW once again this year. Of the five video singles, I think I liked this one the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9YU2wfB2U

PLACE - Kissin' Dynamite, "Back With A Bang." I'd always been on the fence about this band, but they nailed it this time around. This might be my favorite single of the year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpmpzL3yAeA

SHOW - Massive Wagons, "Earth To Grace." Still getting to know the record and not sure yet if I like it better than "Triggered," but it's been my most-played album for the past month, which says a lot. Of the video singles, this was my fave -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOim6GyR50

Honorable mention goes to Crazy Lixx, who released five new songs over the course of the year, but whose new album doesn't come out until February. Other 2025 releases I'm looking forward to:

W.E.T.
Smith/Kotzen
Dream Theater
The Darkness
H.e.a.t
Erik Gronwall
Hardcore Superstar

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Wednesday will be releasing an album in 2025...

[StateOfShock]

Don't merge an end of the year list with a most anticipated list.

[DemonFilth2001]

Wednesday will be releasing an album in 2025...

It says "most anticipated." Not "sure to avoid at all fucking costs."

[daveg]

1. Post Malone F-1 Trillion (never was a fan, but this is really strong)
2. Cold Years - A different Life
3. Collective Soul - Here to Eternity
4. One Bad Son - The New Shit
5. Massive Wagons - Earth to Grace

Two Country artists made great rock albums
Hardy
Cory Marks
Make my Country rock with Sully, Travis Tritt and Mick Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV8VRpv ... NoiseMusic

Some other really good ones...
Kickin Valentina
Uncle Kraker (really good album. Don't think I'd ever heard anything other than his hits)
Highly Suspect
Mr. Big
Blackberry Smoke
Sebastian Bach
Body Count
Green Day
Classified

I did like a few songs on the Bon Jovi album

[TheSurgeon]

1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
2. Saxon - Hell Fire and Damnation
3. Flotsam and Jetsam - I am the Weapon
4. Accept - Humanoid
5. Impellitteri - War Machine
6. Riot - Mean Streets
7. Sebastian Bach - Child Within the Man
8. Stryper - When We Were Kings
9. The Cold Stares - The Southern
10. Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown - Electrified


Honorable mention: Slash - Orgy of the Damned

[alexleehooker]

Absolutely nothing other than re-releases

The fish (ex marillion singer) deluxe boasts of his first two albums were superb.

2024 had nothing else, 2025 even less.

Rock is dead.

[SexxAtraxxion]

10. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
9. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
8. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
7. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
6. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
5. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
4. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
3. Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter
2. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
1. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

hard rock / metal:
3. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
2. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
1. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament

[MisterSinister]

Absolutely nothing other than re-releases

The fish (ex marillion singer) deluxe boasts of his first two albums were superb.

2024 had nothing else, 2025 even less.

Rock is dead.

I don’t agree that rock’s dead at all, but…. Tell me about those Fish albums… how are they better than the original releases? I love those albums. Me and two or three other Americans.

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

50. STENCHED Purulence Gushing from the Coffin
49. GRAND MAGUS Sunraven
48. SIDEWINDER Talons
47. FULL OF HELL Coagulated Bliss
46. DOEDSMAGHIRD Omniverse Consciousness
45. NECROT Lifeless Birth
44. OXYGEN DESTROYER Guardian of the Universe
43. WOLFBRIGADE Life Knife Death
42. PORTRAIT The Host
41. VOMITROT Emetic Imprecations
40. GLACIAL TOMB Lightless Expanse
39. DÖDSRIT Nocturnal Will
38. HECATONCHEIR Nightmare Utopia
37. MY DYING BRIDE A Mortal Binding
36. GATECREEPER Dark Superstition
35. SINISTER FEELING s/t
34. HAUNTOLOGIST Hollow
33. SATAN Songs in Crimson
32. IOTUNN Kinship
31. REPLICANT Infinite Mortality
30. STYGIAN CROWN Funeral for a King
29. SACRIFICIAL VEIN Black Terror Genesis
28. SPECTRAL VOICE Sparagmos
27. VULTURE Sentinels
26. BLACK CURSE Burning in Celestial Poison
25. CRYPT SERMON The Stygian Rose
24. VISCERA INFEST Teratoma
23. PYRRHON Exhaust
22. ERASER Harmony Dies
21. MOB 47 Tills Du Dör
20. ROTPIT Long Live the Rot
19. MALIGNANCY …Discontinued
18. DEFEATED SANITY Chronicles of Lunacy
17. VREDEHAMMER God Slayer
16. CAPILLA ARDIENTE Where Gods Live and Men Die
15. NILE The Underworld Awaits Us All
14. RIPPED TO SHREDS Sanshi
13. ANCIIENTS Beyond the Reach of the Sun
12. BORKNAGAR Fall
11. NECROPHOBIC In the Twilight Grey
10. NAILS Every Bridge Burning
09. OPETH The Last Will and Testament
08. SPECTRAL WOUND Songs of Blood and Mire
07. COFFINS Sinister Oath
06. HELLBUTCHER s/t
05. ULCERATE Cutting the Throat of God
04. INQUISITION Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
03. BLOOD INCANTATION Absolute Elsewhere
02. DECEASED… Children of the Morgue
01. KRUELTY Profane Usurpation

[daveg]

Was starting to get worried something happened to Ham.


New Roses - Attacted to Danger is really solid

[skinni]

Wednesday will be releasing an album in 2025...

It says "most anticipated." Not "sure to avoid at all fucking costs."

Demon, with Alex Kane at the helm, this new release could be a worthwhile listen.

[alexleehooker]

Absolutely nothing other than re-releases

The fish (ex marillion singer) deluxe boasts of his first two albums were superb.

2024 had nothing else, 2025 even less.

Rock is dead.

I don’t agree that rock’s dead at all, but…. Tell me about those Fish albums… how are they better than the original releases? I love those albums. Me and two or three other Americans.

Hey

Yeah I got autocorrected ‘boxes’ became ‘boasts’ but you knew what I meant

Well Vigil is a great album anyway but the box includes b-sides , live bootleg, and a book of extensive writing about it all and photos from the man himself. Lots of good stuff in one place and I didn’t have it on CD already.

The second album is vastly improved with a better mix, new track list with the b-side ‘poets moon’ now included, and amongst the extras is the duet with Sam brown version of ‘just good friends’ which is the best version imho. Again, book containing extensive essay and photos, and a live bootleg album.

I’m not sure if there is blu ray content like the marillikn reissued but I don’t have a player yet so I can’t yet access it if there is . Still on dvd 20 years behind the curve

[alexleehooker]

In conclusion ‘vigil’ is best album start to finish , but the second album benefits most from the remix remaster treatment

[inextrem]

"New" albums I bought in 2024:

Bon Jovi "Forever" - decent. I liked the previous non-Sambora albums more.
Deep Purple "=1" - good, quite impressive.
Coldplay "Moon Music" - good. Even if it's not one of their best.

All the other stuff was old shit or some "recent" releases like the Jazz Sabbath...

[alleyrulez]

not much from 2024 impressed me.

a few exceptions:

The Black Crowes/"Happiness Bastards"
Kerry King/"From Hell I Rise"
Vain/"Disintegrate Together"

at the top of the list:

D-A-D/"Speed Of Darkness"

[uwec95]

Favorites of 2024
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Kings of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun
Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
Good Looks - Lived Here For A While

[EuroJR]

Nothing anymore.

All the "big band"'s albums have sucked after the millenium. It's because all the good producers are dead already and the players don't know shit about how their album should sound or pick up the best songs of the bunch.

Not interested in the music of the youngsters neither.

Luckily there is still much to dig and find out from the 80's and 90's. Fuck the music after that.

[StateOfShock]

50. STENCHED Purulence Gushing from the Coffin
49. GRAND MAGUS Sunraven
48. SIDEWINDER Talons
47. FULL OF HELL Coagulated Bliss
46. DOEDSMAGHIRD Omniverse Consciousness
45. NECROT Lifeless Birth
44. OXYGEN DESTROYER Guardian of the Universe
43. WOLFBRIGADE Life Knife Death
42. PORTRAIT The Host
41. VOMITROT Emetic Imprecations
40. GLACIAL TOMB Lightless Expanse
39. DÖDSRIT Nocturnal Will
38. HECATONCHEIR Nightmare Utopia
37. MY DYING BRIDE A Mortal Binding
36. GATECREEPER Dark Superstition
35. SINISTER FEELING s/t
34. HAUNTOLOGIST Hollow
33. SATAN Songs in Crimson
32. IOTUNN Kinship
31. REPLICANT Infinite Mortality
30. STYGIAN CROWN Funeral for a King
29. SACRIFICIAL VEIN Black Terror Genesis
28. SPECTRAL VOICE Sparagmos
27. VULTURE Sentinels
26. BLACK CURSE Burning in Celestial Poison
25. CRYPT SERMON The Stygian Rose
24. VISCERA INFEST Teratoma
23. PYRRHON Exhaust
22. ERASER Harmony Dies
21. MOB 47 Tills Du Dör
20. ROTPIT Long Live the Rot
19. MALIGNANCY …Discontinued
18. DEFEATED SANITY Chronicles of Lunacy
17. VREDEHAMMER God Slayer
16. CAPILLA ARDIENTE Where Gods Live and Men Die
15. NILE The Underworld Awaits Us All
14. RIPPED TO SHREDS Sanshi
13. ANCIIENTS Beyond the Reach of the Sun
12. BORKNAGAR Fall
11. NECROPHOBIC In the Twilight Grey
10. NAILS Every Bridge Burning
09. OPETH The Last Will and Testament
08. SPECTRAL WOUND Songs of Blood and Mire
07. COFFINS Sinister Oath
06. HELLBUTCHER s/t
05. ULCERATE Cutting the Throat of God
04. INQUISITION Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
03. BLOOD INCANTATION Absolute Elsewhere
02. DECEASED… Children of the Morgue
01. KRUELTY Profane Usurpation

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