Year End Best of 2024

It's been an interesting year for music; especially for Death Metal fans. Our staff got together and provided lists of the stuff they really dug throughout 2024. So without further adieu, let's see what everyone came up with this year. Even good 'ole Deadmeat himself gave us a list of some of the most disgusting and vile albums that tickled his fancy bone.


Tim Duran, Staff Writer

Sometimes Christian music gets overlooked when it comes to Prog or Extreme Metal. You normally hear of the less harder stuff. But for the elite of ear, you have probably heard of some of these bands.

Here is my Top 15 Christian Metal/Prog/Rock/Punk outfits, in no particular order.

Daniel Amos.
Started as a modern Country act in the late '60s, early '70s, and evolved into one of Christian Rock's most influential band. Evolving with the seasons, they put out many a Hard Rock record, along with some New Wave and Pop releases. Never boring, always tongue-in-cheek, phenomenal songwriting.

With Blood Comes Cleaning.
Black/Death at its best.

EXTOL/ZAO.
Is it live, or is it Death? You make the call.
I call it, "Extreme Death".

Devin Williams. Solo 90s Metal/Hard Rock. Extremely uplifting.

Kill Devil Theory.
A good mix of Metal with a touch of Djent. Female front vocals. Very melodic amongst the chaos.

What would this Top 15 be without throwing in Stryper; the Godfathers who blew the doors wide open for the Christian Metal scene.

Theocracy.
Prog Metal with heavy ballads and lyrics you can do Bible studies with.

Disciple.
Old School Metal with a modern sound. Vocals that would strangle an ox and powerful fiffs to make your ears bleed.

The Blamed, Headnoise, Flat-footed 56.
Punk Rock....without the violent intentions.

Project 86.
Not quite Screamo, not quite Nu Metal, but all heavy!

Becoming The Archetype.
Extreme Prog-Death. Don't believe me? Give it a spin.

Larry Norman.
The ultimate Godfather of Christian Rock. Pastors hated him, the Hippies loved him. His motto was, "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?".

His message was simply, John 3:16. He pioneered the Christian Rock scene and paved the way for all the bands listed above. His music is timeless, his lyrics are full of council and humor. And his voice is unmatched.


Kenneth Gallant, EIC HMS

Aborted – Vault of Horrors
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
200 Stabwounds – Manual Manic Procedures
F.K.U. – The Horror and the Metal
Atrophy – Asylum
Molder – Catastrophic Reconfiguration
Full Of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
Suicidal Angels – Profane Prayer
Deicide – Banished By Sin
Engulf – The Dying Planet Weeps
Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation
Master – Saints Dispelled
Laceration – I Erode
Morbid Saint – Swallowed By Hell


Dead Meat HMS Mascot

Fulci – Duck Face Kilings
Stenched – Purulence Gushing From The Coffin
Cryptic Hatred – Internal Torment
200 Stabwounds – Manual Manic Procedures
Molder – Catastrophic Reconfiguration
Morgue Terror Self Titled EP
Putidarium – Excerpts From A Deranged Mind
Severe Torture – Torn From The Jaws Of Death
Skeletal Remains – Fragments of The Ageless
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
Undeath More Insane
Vitriol – Suffer & Become
Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe
Coffins – Sinister Oath

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