Metal Hammer has decided to give its readers an appetizer and has put together a selection of the 25 best albums released up to May this year. We've joined in the fun and selected our favorites up to May 31st.
In order of release, these are our choices:
- Lucifer ? V (heavy metal/occult rock)
- Dead Fish ? Labirinto da Memoria (hardcore)
- Blackberry Smoke ? Be Right Here (southern rock)
- Ihsahn ? Ihsahn ((progressive metal)
- Toxikull ? Under The Southern Light (heavy metal)
- Ace Frehley ? 10,000 Volts (hard rock)
- Borknagar- Fall (black metal)
- Bruce Dickinson ? The Mandrake Project (heavy metal)
- Firewind ? StandUnited (power metal)
- Judas Priest ? Invincible Shield (heavy metal)
- Myrath ? Karma (folk metal/progressive metal)
- Empty ? Necrocosmos (black metal)
- Aborted ? Vault of Horrors (death metal)
- Necrot ? Lifeless Birth (death metal)
- Praying Mantis ? Defiance (heavy metal)
- FM ? Old Habits Die Hard (hard rock)
- Crownshift ? Crownshift ( (progressive metal/death metal)
- Freedom Call ? Silver Romance (power metal)
- Hot Water Music ? Vows (hardcore)
- Knocked Loose ? You Won?t Go Before You?re Supposed To (metalcore)
- Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats ? Nell Ora Blu (stoner rock)
- Kerry King ? From Hell I Rise (thrash metal)
- Black Pantera ? Perpetual (thrash crossover)
- Rotting Christ ? Pro Xristoy (black metal)
- The Troops of Doom ? A Mass to the Grotesque (death metal)
- Nestor ? Teenage Rebel (hard rock)
Metal Hammer best albums of 2024 so far
Below is Metal Hammer's list, in alphabetical order:
- Accept ? Humanoid (heavy metal)
- Amaranthe ? The Catalyst (power metal)
- Big|Brave ? A Chaos Of Flowers (doom metal)
- Bright & Black ? Bright & Black (symphonic metal)
- Bruce Dickinson ? The Mandrake Project (heavy metal)
- Chelsea Wolfe ? She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She (gothic/folk/doom metal)
- Dool ? The Shape Of Fluidity (prog/post metal)
- Dragonforce ? Warp Speed Warriors (power metal)
- Dvne ? Voidkind (prog/sludge metal)
- Erra ? Cure (prog metalcore)
- Hamferd ? Men Guds Hond Er Sterk (death/doom metal)
- Ihsahn ? Ihsahn (prog/post metal)
- Job For A Cowboy ? Moon Healer (death/prog metal)
- Judas Priest ? Invincible Shield (heavy metal)
- Kerry King ? From Hell I Rise (thrash metal)
- Knocked Loose ? You Won?t Go Before You?re Supposed To (hardcore/metalcore)
- Lucifer ? Lucifer V (hard/occult rock)
- Ministry ? Hopiumforthemasses (industrial metal)
- Or ? II: Frailty (prog metal)
- Ryujin ? Ryujin (melodic death metal)
- Seeyouspacecowboy ? Coup De Grace (math/metalcore)
- Shooting Daggers ? Love & Rage (hardcore/post punk)
- Slift ? Ilion (stoner/post metal)
- Unleash The Archers ? Phantoma (power metal)
- Witch Club Satan ? Witch Club Satan (black metal)