WORMWOOD'S BEST OF 2024 LISTS
WORMWOOD CHRONICLES' WRITERS' BEST OF 2024
Yes, humanoids, another year has passed us by...is there anything more terrifying than the swift passage of time? Anyway, it's time for our annual Wormwood tradition...the Top 10 lists! As always, we have some interesting and eclectic choices so let's get right into it!
DARK STARR'S BEST OF 2024
THE LAST DINNER PARTY "Prelude To Ecstasy"
JON ANDERSON AND THE BAND GEEKS "True"
LIVING IN SHADOWS "Neon Burning"
HAWKWIND "Stories From Time And Space"
DAVID GILMOUR "Luck And Strange"
LEON ALVARADO "The Changing Tide"
CIRCULINE "C. O. R. E."
IZZ "Collapse The Wave"
BENJAMIN CROFT "We Are Here To Help"
JUDAS PRIEST "Invincible Shield
COLONEL ANGUS' BEST OF 2024
EVERGREY "Theories Of Emptiness"
NORTH SEA ECHOES "Really Good Terrible Things"
CATEGORY 7 "Category 7"
SAXON "Hell, Fire and Damnation"
JUDAS PRIEST "Invincible Shield"
6. INTRANCED "Muerte y Metal"
7. MINDLESS SINNER "Metal Merchants"
8. BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION "V"
9. SUNBOMB "Light Up The Sky"
10. TERAMAZE – "Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace"
DR. ABNER MALITY'S BEST OF 2024
1. CRYPT SERMON “The Stygian Rose”
The ultimate in epic doom metal! Every note perfectly placed, every song a masterpiece!
2. DISSIMULATOR “Lower Form Resistance”
Mind-boggling tech-death that doesn’t go overboard! A storm of classic riffs like VOI VOD meeting CORONER in MESHUGGAH’s backyard!
3. DARKESTRAH “Nomad”
The wanderers from the steppes return! Majestic black metal with deep roots in the ancient Silk Road cultures! One of the most underrated black metal bands.
4. COFFINS “Sinister Oath”
Gruesome death metal from the crypt! Throbbing and guttural, the way it was meant to be!
5. WOLFBRIGADE “Life Knife Death”
Ripping metallic punk from Swedish masters! D-beat fury with no mercy!
6. JUDAS PRIEST “Invincible Shield”
An album that grows on you the more you hear it. Contains some of the best songs they’ve done since “Painkiller”!
7. PUNCHING MOSES “Live Short And Suffer”
Is it punkish metal or metallic punk? I dunno, but it crushes! This album really ambushed me!
8. TSATTHOGGUA “We Are God”
Blasphemous black metallers return from a 20 year layoff with a raging but multi-pronged attack that will peel the flesh from your bones!
9. SATAN “Songs In Crimson”
These British forefathers continue to kill it! Another great combination of speedy intensity and NWOBHM melody to add to their impressive catalogue of top notch records!
10. OCEANS OF SLUMBER “Where Gods Fear To Speak”
This mystical mix of doom and progressive metal features one of metal’s best ever vocal performances from Cammie Gilbert-Beverly.
HONORABLE MENTION: MERCYLESS “Those Who Reign Below”, OVERKILL “Scorched”, MUTILATED BY ZOMBIES “Scenes From The Afterlife”, OXYGEN DESTROYER “Guardians of the Universe”, VICTORY “Circle of Life”, THE WRING “Nemesis”
THERON MOORE'S BEST OF 2024
MC5: "Heavy Lifting"
Fitting sendoff for these legendary Detroit rockers. The music on this disc is straight up fire. Did I say fire? I meant scorched Earth.
DUNGEON CRAWL ' "Maze Controller"
Thrash so sharp it’ll cut through steel. DUNGEON CRAWL seamlessly blends D&D elements into their music while systematically burning your face off with their vicious brand of crossover.
FIGHT DICE "Total Party Kill"
Yep, nerd and proud of it, so are FIGHT DICE. These Milwaukee rockers nailed the perfect sound and a style with ‘Total Party Kill.’ Fuck video games, B/X OSR RPGs rock just like this disc does.
MORTA SKULD: "Creation Undone"
Milwaukee’s death metal godfathers returned in 2024 to drop what might be one of the top five heaviest death metal records I’ve heard in the last few years. Nothing short of perfection.
ORESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE "Orgone Unicorn"
Trippy, dreamy, and a thousand percent psychedelic and from what I understand, all improv’d. If you listen to hard you might catch a contact buzzzzz.
HAWKWING : "Stories From Time And Space"
Back to the egg with this band! "Stories From Time And Space" perfectly recaptures the classic Hawkwind sound that catapulted this band to cosmic heights back in the 70’s. Heavy, psych rock at its best.
RATS OF GOMORRAH : "Infectious Vermin"
Great record of highly original sounding death metal with ten tons of creepy, eldritch heaviness dripping from it.
DECEASED "Children Of The Morgue"
The first thing that hits you is the album artwork which immediately freaked me out. As soon as I pressed play, I found this record conceptually and lyrically disturbing but isn’t that what real art is supposed to do, make you feel something? "Children Of The Morgue" is a masterwork by DECEASED.
HELLBUTCHER "Hellbutcher"
Thrash, boom, bang, "Hellbutcher" drops a battleaxe motherfucker right out of the gate destroying everything in its path. I’m surprised I’m left standing to talk about this record.
CLUSTERFUX : 'Defy'"
The attitude and swagger of classic punk is here in full force; think early D.R.I. meets FINAL CONFLICT meets EXPLOITED…no one gets spared, no one gets out alive. CLUSTERFUX is the best crossover / punk this side of reigning masters MUNICIPAL WASTE.
IRON SHEIK'S BEST OF 2024
ACCEPT "Humanoid"
SAXON "Hell, Fire And Damnation"
X "Smoke & Fiction"
OPETH "The Last Will And Testament"
IMPELLITERI "War Machine"
BRUCE DICKINSON "The Mandrake Project"
7. KMFDM - "Let Go"
8. JUDAS PRIEST "Invincible Shield"
9. CROBOT "Obsidian"
10. VANDEN PLAS "The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things"
FIVE that were just as addictive and aurally pleasureable as the Top Ten:
THE CURE "Songs Of A Lost World"
MARILYN MANSON "One Assassination Under God, Chapter 1"
KERRY KING "From Hell I Rise"
HAMMERFALL "Avenge The Fallen"
MICK MARKS "The Other Side Of Mars"
THOR'S BEST OF 2024
ABORTED "Vault of Horrors"
BRODEQUIN "Harbinger of Woe"
DEFEATED SANITY "Chronicles of Lunacy"
HIGH ON FIRE "Cometh the Storm"
MONUMENT OF MISANTHROPY "Vile Postmortem Irrumatio"
NASTY SAVAGE "Jeopardy Room"
NILE "The Underworld Awaits Us All"
PETE & BAS "Mugshot"
SUPERMODEL TAXIDERMY "At What Cost?"
VITRIOL " Suffer & Become"
LORD RANDALL'S BEST OF 2024
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS "Wild God"
OCTOPLOID "Beyond The Aeons"
BEDSORE "Dreaming The Strife For Love"
LEGIONS OF DOOM "The Skull 3"
IHSAHN "Ihsahn"
MY DYING BRIDE "A Mortal Binding"
NECROT "Lifeless Birth"
SLIMELORD "Chytridiomycosis Relinquished"
JULIE CHRISTMAS "Ridiculous And Full Of Blood"
CALDWELL "Caldwell"
OCTOPI MILLS' BEST OF 2024
MY DYING BRIDE "A Mortal Binding"
TEDDY HORSE "Broken Bread"
TRELLDOM "...By The Shadows..."
DARKTHRONE "It Beckons Us All"
BURZUM "The Land of Thule"
MUTIILATION "Black Metal Cult"
A VISION BLEAK "Weird Tales"
UNHOLY GRAIL "The Wayfaring Knight"
TEDDY HORSE "A Guide To Wild Hedges"
HOLE DWELLER "Flies The Coop"
So that's a wrap for 2024! Our choices have never been more diverse! Very little commonality between the lists, but a few names popped up on multiple lists...JUDAS PRIEST, MY DYING BRIDE, HAWKWIND. What else would you expect from this crazy crew? What will 2025 bring? Only one way to find out...
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!