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Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2024

14 November 2024

The Stygian Rose - Crypt Sermon

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2012]

  1. The Stygian Rose
    Crypt Sermon
  2. Absolute Elsewhere
    Blood Incantation
  3. Songs of Blood and Mire
    Spectral Wound
  4. Invincible Shield
    Judas Priest
  5. Sub Rosa In Æternum
    Tribulation
  6. Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
    Tzompantli
  7. Dark Superstition
    Gatecreeper
  8. Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
    Julie Christmas
  9. New Heaven
    Inter Arma
  10. Lifeless Birth
    Necrot
  11. The Periapt Of Absence
    Mother of Graves
  12. Verses In Oath
    Hulder
  13. Manual Manic Procedures
    200 Stab Wounds
  14. Sanshi
    Ripped to Shreds
  15. Sparagmos
    Spectral Voice
  16. Cutting the Throat of God
    Ulcerate
  17. Echoes of the Devil's Den
    Terminal Nation
  18. The Last Will and Testament
    Opeth
  19. Nocturnal Will
    Dödsrit
  20. More Insane
    Undeath
  21. Coagulated Bliss
    Full of Hell
  22. Servitude
    The Black Dahlia Murder
  23. Burning in Celestial Poison
    Black Curse
  24. Hellbutcher
    Hellbutcher
  25. Every Bridge Burning
    Nails
  26. Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State
    Apparition
  27. Cool World
    Chat Pile
  28. Lightless Expanse
    Glacial Tomb
  29. Die Berge
    Paysage d'Hiver
  30. Lucifer V
    Lucifer
  31. Hellish Expectations
    Midnight
  32. Guardian of the Universe
    Oxygen Destroyer
  33. Children of the Morgue
    Deceased
  34. Cometh The Storm
    High On Fire
  35. Relentless Force
    Vicious Blade
  36. Blazing Inferno
    Yoth Iria
  37. It Beckons Us All.......
    Darkthrone
  38. Muuntautuja
    Oranssi Pazuzu
  39. Satan Soldier Of Fortune
    Departure Chandelier
  40. Beyond the Reach of the Sun
    Anciients

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