Year-End Lists

Loudwire: The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2010s]

• Green Day
  Saviors
• Alkaline Trio
  Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
• Caligula's Horse
  Charcoal Grace
• Static-X
  Project Regeneration, Vol. 2
• Hulder
  Verses In Oath
• Laura Jane Grace
  Hole in My Head
• Ihsahn
  Ihsahn
• Bruce Dickinson
  The Mandrake Project
• Liam Gallagher & John Squire
  Liam Gallagher & John Squire
• Judas Priest
  Invincible Shield
• The Black Crowes
  Happiness Bastards
• Scott Stapp
  Higher Power
• Sum 41
  Heaven :x: Hell
• Wristmeetrazor
  Degeneration
• Alpha Wolf
  Half Living Things
• The Black Keys
  Ohio Players
• Erra
  Cure
• High On Fire
  Cometh The Storm
• Pearl Jam
  Dark Matter
• SeeYouSpaceCowboy
  Coup de Grâce
• Darkthrone
  It Beckons Us All.......
• Return to Dust
  Return to Dust
• Frank Turner
  Undefeated
• Knocked Loose
  You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
• Unleash the Archers
  Phantoma
• Marty Friedman
  Drama
• Gatecreeper
  Dark Superstition
• Kerry King
  From Hell I Rise
• Bring Me the Horizon
  Post Human: Nex Gen
• Candy
  It's Inside You
• Crypt Sermon
  The Stygian Rose
• 200 Stab Wounds
  Manual Manic Procedures
• Nothing More
  Carnal
• Tim Montana
  Savage
• Speed
  Only One Mode
• Jack White
  No Name
• Powerwolf
  Wake Up The Wicked
• The Smashing Pumpkins
  Aghori Mhori Mei
• Falling In Reverse
  Popular Monster
• Nile
  The Underworld Awaits Us All
• Unto Others
  Never, Neverland
• The Black Dahlia Murder
  Servitude
• Chat Pile
  Cool World
• Blood Incantation
  Absolute Elsewhere
• Drug Church
  Prude
• Jerry Cantrell
  I Want Blood
• Devin Townsend
  PowerNerd
• The Cure
  Songs of a Lost World
• Linkin Park
  From Zero
• Body Count
  Merciless
• Opeth
  The Last Will and Testament