MY TOP 20 OF NOVEMBER 2024




November brought a lot of new albums and some quality. This is how I can describe it; the present list proves it. It is a long list. I decided to include (almost) everything I liked. A list of 20 and then another 16 that made me a good impression. I wanted to leave the 16 as a reminder to revisit because there is something in them. Slow burners? Nah, they are better in comparison to many in the huge pile. There are more records in my notebook that didn't make the cut, but it is a far too long list anyway.

- Ulver delivered in the very end of the month and won over Paysage d'Hiver the album of the month prize! My love for synth Ulver is enormous and it is another magnificent album that transcends me into spaces and times. 
- Paysage's new album is fantastic as well, much in the veins of Im Wald. This is the main reason I liked it so much. 
- Nekus really completes the top 3 with their cavernous death doom and I can say that it is what the new Spectral Voice should have been...

What else? New Sergeant Thundrehoof is gigantic. New Djevel...is Djevel. Yoth Iria is so good and catchy, as the new Solstafir. Hin helga kv​ö​l is slow burner. It reminds me of Berdreyminn (!) and that's why I like it. New Opeth? - In Cauda meets Watershed. It is very professional, but isn't it lacking a bit of soul?

I mean, I can give high praise about almost every album until 20th position. Then after I left some good stuff, mostly UG, that was enjoyable enough for me. Worth checking them as well, however I guess they won't have the same staying power as the top 20. 

This is another rant, that I am going to keep for my AOTY article. I'll talk about the quantity, the fast food and the staying power. Now here's my last monthly list for 2024. Next will come the year-end lists. Another year has gone.

NOVEMBER 2024 TOP 20 

1. ULVER - Liminal Animals (Bandcamp)
2. PAYSAGE D'HIVER - Die Berge (Bandcamp)
3. NEKUS - Death Apophenia (Bandcamp)
4. SERGEANT THUNDERHOOF  - The Ghost of Badon Hill (Bandcamp)
5. DJEVEL - Natt til Ende (Bandcamp)
6 YOTH IRIA - Blazing Inferno (Bandcamp)
7. OPETH - The Last Will and Testament (Spotify)

8. SÓLSTAFIR - Hin helga kv​ö​l (Bandcamp)
9. ANOMALIE - Riverchild (Bandcamp)
10. MITOCHONDRION - VITRISEPTOME (Bandcamp)
11. DEUS MORTEM - Thanatos (Bandcamp)
12. TIME LURKER - Emprise (Bandcamp)
13. TROLLCAVE - Adoration Of The Abyssal Trespasser (Bandcamp)
14. THE CURE - Songs of A Lost World (Spotify)

15. NEON NIGHTMARE - Faded Dream (Bandcamp)
16. PANZERFAUST - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion (Bandcamp)
17. DEFEATED SANITY - Chronicles of Lunacy (Bandcamp)
18. NECROFERUM - Malignant Echoes of Non​-​existence (Bandcamp)
19. TRIBULATION - Sub Rosa in Æternum
20. NACHTMISTIUM - Blight Privillege (Bandcamp)

THE REST

1. GUTLESS - High Impact Violence (Bandcamp)
2. DISTANT - Tsukuyomi: The Origin (Bandcamp)
3. UNGFELL - De Gh​ö​rnt (Bandcamp)
4. VEILBURNER - The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom (Bandcamp)
5. THE MOSAIC WINDOW - Hemasanctum (Bandcamp)
6. MAMMOTH GRINDER - Undying Spectral Resonance (Bandcamp)
7. SVAR - In the Land Called Night (Bandcamp)

8. MEFITIS - The Skorian // The Greyleer (Bandcamp)
9. PESTILENT HEX - Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow (Bandcamp)
10. CARNAL SAVAGERY - Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones (Bandcamp)
11. QAALM - Grave Impressions Of An Unbroken Arc (Bandcamp)
12. DYING GROTESQUE - Celestial (Bandcamp)
13. SCYTHROW - Blameless Severed Extremities (Bandcamp)
14. GRAVENCHALICE - Echelon (Bandcamp)
15. WOLVENCROWN - Celestial Lands (Bandcamp)
16. AUSGRAUW - Oosprong (Bandcamp), released on 31 October, too good to be missed.



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