Top Ten 2024

[Wyvern]

Is that time of the year again, and many know the drill, but just in case.

Write your top (10 minimum if possible, no maximum) list of albums, concerts, videos, for 2024.
No bashing, no hit and run comments, all lists are valid.

I post mine usually on Dec 31, but anyone who like put it before is welcome. This thread will be "sticky" until Feb 2025 and then will have its own rotation.

 

[TageRyche]

While I'm not ready to do my CD best of list, I did my Top 5 concerts a little while back. You can check that out HERE.

 

[TageRyche]

Well, the KNAC.COM staff has released their Best of 2024 lists. You can check them all out HERE!

My Top 10 rock and metal releases actually has 11 titles on it.

01A.) Metro Society The London Conspiracy: Chapter I - 1898 (Metro Society Records)
01B.) Judas Priest Invincible Shield (Sony/Epic)
02.) Kings of Mercia Battle Scars (Metal Blade)
03.) North Sea Echoes Really Good Terrible Things (Metal Blade)
04.) Todd Michael Hall Off the Rails (Rat Pak)
05.) Hall Aflame Amplifire (Rat Pak)
06.) Bruce Dickinson The Mandrake Project (BMG)
07.) House of Lords Full Tilt Overdrive (Frontiers)
08.) Accept Humanoid (Napalm)
09.) Saxon Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining)
10.) HammerFall Avenge The Fallen (Nuclear Blast)

 

[Wyvern]

OK, here goes mine.

Heavy Metal

1) Saxon – “Hell, Fire And Damnation”
2) Grand Magus – “Sunraven”
3) Týr – “Battle Ballads”
4) The Obsessed – “Gilded Sorrow”
5) Warlord – “Free Spirit Soar”
6) Horcas – “El Diablo”
7) Dream Evil – “Metal Gods”
8) Vhäldemar – “Sanctuary Of Death”
9) Ironflame – “Kingdom Torn Asunder”
10) Riot V – “Mean Streets”
11) HammerFall – “Avenge The Fallen”
12) Astral Doors – “The End Of It All”
13) Satan – “Songs In Crimson”
14) Praying Mantis – “Defiance”
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Hard Rock

1) Tarot (AUS) – “Glimpse Of The Dawn”
2) Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine – “The Lost Songs”
3) Deep Purple – “=1”
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Progressive Metal/Rock/Fusion

1) Focus – “Focus 12”
2) Solaris – “Martian Chronicles III_ I Or A.I.”
3) Jordan Rudess – “Permission To Fly”
4) The Tangent – “To Follow Polaris”
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Concerts

• Overkill/Anthrax
• Time’s Forgotten (3)
• Monte Alegre

 

[TageRyche]

I have two on your list plus two I'd like to hear.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

I do a terrible job of keeping up with what came out during the year

 

[Wyvern]

I do a terrible job of keeping up with what came out during the year

Me too, that's why besides my spreadsheet, I look here to see what I posted

 

[mdmatt4ever]

Looking at what was released my hard rock list would include

Judas Priest -Invincible Shield
Bruce Dickinson -The Mandrake Project
Stryper- When We Were Kings
The End Machine -The Quantum Phase
Accept - Humanoid
Category 7 - Category 7
Russell/Guns- Medusa
Flotsam and Jetsam- I Am The Weapon
Moggs Motel -Moggs Motel
Mick Mars -The Other Side of Mars
Sebastian Bach -Child Within The Man
Casandra's Crossing -Garden of Earthly Delights
Kerry King-From Hell I Rise
Deep Purple - =1
Mr. Big- Ten

so shuffle those around and pick your favorite 20 lol

 

[TageRyche]

Looking at what was released my hard rock list would include

Judas Priest -Invincible Shield
Bruce Dickinson -The Mandrake Project
Stryper- When We Were Kings
The End Machine -The Quantum Phase
Accept - Humanoid
Category 7 - Category 7
Russell/Guns- Medusa
Flotsam and Jetsam- I Am The Weapon
Moggs Motel -Moggs Motel
Mick Mars -The Other Side of Mars
Sebastian Bach -Child Within The Man
Casandra's Crossing -Garden of Earthly Delights
Kerry King-From Hell I Rise
Deep Purple - =1
Mr. Big- Ten

so shuffle those around and pick your favorite 20 lol

We have 3 in common with perhaps 3 that I'd like to listen to.

 

[Slammed]

I struggled with Cat7. I wanted to like it. Bush, Gisbon and Bittner, the band has good pedigree. I think Jon is a great singer, I even put his efforts with Sound of White Noise above everything else Anthrax did. But the more I listened to Cat7 the less I found enjoyable. It did start in my top 10 but it fell out relatively quickly.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

I struggled with Cat7. I wanted to like it. Bush, Gisbon and Bittner, the band has good pedigree. I think Jon is a great singer, I even put his efforts with Sound of White Noise above everything else Anthrax did. But the more I listened to Cat7 the less I found enjoyable. It did start in my top 10 but it fell out relatively quickly.

to me Bush can do no wrong

 

[Slammed]

to me Bush can do no wrong

I don't entirely disagree I just couldn't get into Cat7 as much as I wanted.
I've listened to it a few times this year and certainly don't dislike it but when I did my end of year relisten I found that I'd forgotten more of it that I remembered which doesn't usually happen with any album Jon is on.

 

[Wyvern]

I tried Category 7 (mostly because of John Bush), but somehow the composition does not appeal to me.