My Favorite Metal In the Year 2024

 Hails and pixels you pixelated metalheads! It’s been three years since I last posted and that was for an end of the year list as well. I guess that’s how I roll now. I’ll just post when I want to make a list. Well, maybe I’ll do a bit more regular posts too. I like to keep my readership on their toes!

2024 has been a pretty wild year for many reasons, which I am sure that everyone is aware of, and when it comes to metal, it has been a banger year too. There have been a lot of stellar releases which made narrowing down this list a little tricky to do. I have also been listening to other music besides metal as well and I’ll list that in a separate post. You know, to drive the clicks and get that sweet, sweet ad revenue.

Not Another End of Year Metal List! 2016

Two-thousand and sixteen can just go hang itself, am I right? While the year might be overall garbage, it did at least provide a good amount of metal. Once again there was a lot of metal that I listened to and I narrowed them down to my ten favorites. There were not a lot of stand outs for me at first but once I started deliberating what would be included in my list, it became apparent what the top ten really were. Here are my ten albums of 2016!

Opeth Sorceress World Tour 2016 Report

I have seen a lot of bands live in the three decades that I have existed on this rock in space. The only band that I’ve seen nearly a dozen times is Opeth. To say that they’re my favorite band is an understatement. I first saw them when they were on the Blackest of Black tour back in 2003. They only played two songs but it was amazing. I have caught them nearly every time that they came through the valley. On the rare chance that they didn’t come directly through the Phoenix area then I would usually travel to a neighboring city to see them. With the release of Sorceress earlier this year it was time for Opeth to embark on their world tour.

And Vinyly...24 or so Minutes of the End...

Some people believe that there is an afterlife - a continuation of one's soul after the physical shell has passed on. This has been with humanity ever since we evolved the ability to think in abstract thought. As we grew and learned more about the material world, some of us realized that there was no need to believe in such nonsense. I'm one of the many who feel, nay, know that there is a definite end to one's life. The only way to live on is to leave behind a legacy. And what better way to do that than with pressing one's ashes into vinyl?