MY TOP LIST OF JUNE 2024

Half of 2024 is gone! It is flooded with new releases and they just keep coming. Quality? Well, this is the tricky part... We listen and listen, trying to catch up with everything worthy, but then the worthiness criteria are getting lower and lower. The praise for mediocre albums is wild nowadays, to be honest. 

June was a good month overall. One album clearly stood over the rest though. One album that destroys everything and will be very high on my AOTY list.

One album that I'll keep on listening to in the future. Cutting The Throat of God is the indisputable Album of the month - a true masterpiece that will stand the test of time in the next years.  

Re-reading the list below, I realized it is a huge mishmash of styles, which bothers me. Anyway, I liked the below 25 albums. Of course, you will say that I missed this or that, but when I prepared the list, this is how I felt it. My notes include too many albums to shortlist. Tomorrow might be different for some of the choices below or the ones I didn't include (Portrait for example). How many I'll forget? I don't know. And one more thing - naturally, Cavalera's Schizophrenia is also here but below the line as it is not a new record, right?. 

Now let's go into the second half of 2024. 

ULCERATE - Cutting The Throat of God
Release Date: 14 June


SABÏRE - Jätt
Release Date: 28 June



INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS - Temples Coliding in Fire
Release Date: 7 June


BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION - V
Release Date: 14 June


LUCIFER'S HAMMER - Be and Exist 
Release Date: 14 June



INHERITS THE VOID - Scars of Yesteryears
Release Date: 21 June


HAIL SPIRIT NOIR - Fossil Gardens
Release Date: 28 June 


WINTER ETERNAL - Echoes of Primordial Gnosis
Release Date: 28 June

200 STAB WOUNDS - Manual Manic Procedures
Release Date: 28 June


SARKE - Endo Feight
Release Date: 21 June



REZN - Burden
Release Date: 14 June


WINDSWEPT - Der eine, Wahre K​ö​nig
Release Date: 21 June


ALCEST - Les Chants de l'Aurore
Release Date: 21 June 



GJENDØD - Livskramper
Release Date: 28 June


HYPERDONTIA - Harvest of Malevolence
Release Date: 21 June


NEAERA - All Is Dust
Release Date: 28 June


KRALLICE - Inoragnic Rites
Release Date: 28 June


ZØRZA - Hellven
Release Date: 7 June


SEAR BLISS - Heavenly Down
Release Date: 28 June


ILLDISPOSED - In Chambers of Sonic Disgust
Release Date: 28 June

HUNTSMEN - The Dry Land 
Release Date: 7 June



EVERGREY - Theories of Emptiness
Release Date: 7 June


FRACTAL GENERATOR - Convergence
Release Date: 7 June


OV SHADOWS - Heresiarch
Release Date: 28 June




WHITE STONES - Memoria Viva
Release Date: 28 June






MANDATORY MENTION:


CAVALERA CONSPIRACY - Schizophrenia
Release Date: 21 June







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