As the year nears the half way point we thought we’d round up some of the best tracks from the albums we’ve reviewed thus far in 2024 and put them all into an easy-to-digest eight hour (!) Spotify Playlist for you all –  there’s no need to thank us – just crack open your beverage of choice, sit back and let the cream of 2024 wash over your pleasure receptors!

And as if that wasn’t enough, The Magazine’s core album reviewers have cogitated and listed here, for your perusal, their top tens of the year so far…

Scott Adams – Editor
1. Final Coil – The World We Inherited (Sliptrick Records)
2. FM – Old Habits Die Hard (Frontiers Music)
3. Symphony of Sweden – Haunted (Own Label)
4. Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
5. The Neptune Power Federation – Goodnight My Children (Cruz Del Sur Music)
6. Witchgrinder – Nothing Stays Buried (Own Label)
7. Tombstoner – Rot Stink Rip (Redefining Darkness)
8. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Sony)
9. Magnum – Here Comes The Rain (SPV/Steamhammer)
10. Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)

Mick Stronge – Curator, Mickey’s Metal Morsels
1. Final Coil – The World We Inherited (Sliptrick Records)
2. Tombstoner – Rot Stink Rip (Redefining Darkness)
3. Flaming Wrekage – Terra Inferna (Grindhead Records)
4. Šamane – Solstice (Last Day of the North)
5. Eternal Hunt – An Era Of Shame (Drowning In Chaos)
6. Missiles – Weaponize Tomorrow (Svart Records)
7. Kill The Thrill – Autophagie (Season of Mist)
8. Sarke – Endo Feight (Soulseller Records)
9. Drip Fed Empire – Revolutionist (Own Label)
10. Lucifer – V (Nuclear Blast)

Ferry Templeton – The Iron Templar
1. Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
2. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Sony)
3. Magnum – Here Comes The Rain (SPV/Steamhammer)
4. Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)
5. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (BMG)
6. Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music)
7. Night Laser – Call Me What You Want (SPV/Steamhammer)
8. Sebastian Bach – Child Within The Man (Reigning Phoenix Music)
9. Manticora – Mycelium (Mighty Music)
10. Eregion – Non Omnis Moriar (Rockshots Records)

Gavin Stickmann – Proud, dustcoat wearing Welshman
1. FM – Old Habits Die Hard (Frontiers Music)
2. Symphony of Sweden – Haunted (Own Label)
3. Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
4. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Sony)
5. Magnum – Here Comes The Rain (SPV/Steamhammer)
6. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (BMG)
7. Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music)
8. Honeymoon Suite – Alive (Frontiers Music)
9. Night Laser – Call Me What You Want (SPV/Steamhammer)
10. Sebastian Bach – Child Within The Man (Reigning Phoenix Music)

Graham Goodge – The Obscurist
1. Lares – Et In Arcadia Ego (Argonauta Records)
2. Final Coil – The World We Inherited (Sliptrick Records)
3. Šamane – Solstice (Last Day of the North)
4. Griffon – De Republica (Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions)
5. Eternal Hunt – An Era of Shame (Drowning In Chaos)
6. Kill The Thrill – Autophagie (Season of Mist)
7. Sarke – Endo Feight (Soulseller Records)
8. My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast)
9. Coffin Storm – Arcana Rising (Peaceville)
10. Dodenbezweerder – Als De Hemel Zich Vult Met Apocalyptisch Kopergeschal (Improved Sequence)

Hideous Destructor – Texas (Night) Ranger
1. Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
2. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Sony)
3. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (BMG)
4. Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music)
5. Sebastian Bach – Child Within The Man (Reigning Phoenix Music)
6. Ace Frehley – 10,000 Volts (MNRK Heavy)
7. Hands of Goro – Hands of Goro (Own Label)
8. The Rods – Rattle The Cage (Massacre Records)
9. Durbin – Screaming Steel (Frontiers Music)
10. Traveler – Prequel To Madness (No Remorse Records)

Chris Arrowsmith – The Understudy
1. Witchgrinder – Nothing Stays Buried (Own Label)
2. Tombstoner – Rot Stink Rip (Redefining Darkness)
3. Final Coil – The World We Inherited (Sliptrick Records)
4. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (BMG)
5. Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music)
6. Flaming Wrekage – Terra Inferna (Grindhead Records)
7. Drip Fed Empire – Revolutionist (Own Label)
8. Iron Monkey – Spleen & Goad (Relapse Records)
9. Speedkiller – Inferno (Helldprod Records)
10. Kerry King – From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix Music)

Alf-Inge Ingesson – Norway’s Finest
1. Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
2. Tombstoner – Rot Stink Rip (Redefining Darkness)
3. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Sony)
4. Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)
5. Darkend – Viaticum (Time To Kill Records)
6. Sarke – Endo Feight (Soulseller Records)
7. Eternal Hunt – An Era Of Shame (Drowning In Chaos)
8. New Horizon – Heroes (Frontiers Music)
9. Dust Bolt – Sound & Fury (AFM Records)
10. Scanner – The Cosmic Race (ROAR! Rock of Angels Records)