Dirty Dozen 2024

Another year ended with a plethora of releases to flood the stores and become an object of desire for every fan of extreme sound. We hope that most of them are reviewed in our magazine. Read our editors’ personal lists and Metal Invader’s Top 12 Album List, as a result of the scoring system we use and we explain below.

In each list the first place gets 17 (12 +5 bonus) points, the second 11, the third 10 and so on, while any recurrence in any list gets 5 extra bonus points.

1. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield 86
2. Satan – Songs In Crimson 60
3. Arysithian Blade – Iriath 51
4. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project 42
5. Kvadrat – The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion 41
6. Helvetets Port – Warlords 32
7. Unto Others – Never Neverland 31
8. Innerwish – Ash Of Eternal Flame 31
9. Triumpher – Spirit Invictus 31
10. Achelous – Tower of high Sorcery 28
11. Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge 27
12. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere 26

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13. Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God 26
14. Cloven Hoof – Heathen Cross 26
15. Riot V – Mean Streets 24
16. Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death 23
17. Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will 23
18. Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation 22
19. Kawir – Kydoimos 22
20. Evergrey – Theories of Emptiness 22

Andreas Stasinopoulos:

1. A Swarm of the Sun – An Empire
2. Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
3. Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consiousness
4. Alcest – Les Chant de L’Aurore
5. Thy Catafalque – XII: A Gyonyorn Amok Erutan Jonnek
6. Cloven Hoof – Heathen Cross
7. Firtan – Ethos
8. Mirar – Mare
9. Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All
10. Serj Tankian – Foundations
11. Sumac – The Healer
12. Trelldom – By The Shadows

Giorgos Tsekas:

1. Coffin Storm – Arcana Rising
2. Lucifer’s Hammer – Be And Exist
3. Helvetets Port – Warlords
4. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
5. Satan – Songs In Crimson
6. Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All
7. Kontact – Full Contact
8. Castle Rat – Into The Realm
9. Black Curse – Funeral For A King
10. Necrot – Lifeless Birth
11. Skeletal Remains – Fragments of the Ageless
12. Arysithian Blade – Iriath

Giannis Kakavas:

1. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
2. Riot V – Mean Streets
3. Unto Others – Never Neverland
4. Mindless Sinner – Metal Merchants
5. Amethyst – Throw Down The Gauntlet
6. Helvetets Port – Warlords
7. Innerwish – Ash Of Eternal Flame
8. Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
9. Attacker – The God Particle
10. Bruce Dickinson – Mandrake Project
11. Achelous – Tower Of High Sorcery
12. Sunburst – Manifesto

Evangelos Charis:

1. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project
2. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
3. Natthammer – The Hammer of The Witch
4. Nestor – Teenage Rebel
5. Inner Wish – Ash Of Eternal Flame
6. Achelous – Tower Of High Sorcery
7. Leatherhead – Leatherhead
8. Mayhemic – Toba
9. Devastator – Conjurers Of Cruelty
10. Iron Curtain – Savage Dawn
11. Unto Others – Never, Neverland
12. Triumpher – Spirit Invictus

Tseka Lilliana:

1. Satan – Songs In Crimson
2. Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
3. Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
4. Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death
5. Riot V – Mean Streets
6. Arysithian Blade – Iriath
7. Kvadrat – The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion
8. Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
9. Thy Catafalque – XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek
10. Triumpher – Spirit Invictus
11. Scald – Ancient Doom Metal
12. Isolert – Wounds Of Desolation

Kostas Analytis:

1. Judas Priest – Invisible Shield
2. Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation
3. Deliberalize – Unhallowed Halls
4. Deicide – Banished by Sin
5. Dissimulator – Lower from Resistance
6. Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will
7. Nefarious Spirit – Final Breath
8. Revolting – Night of the Horrid
9. Nails – Every Bridge Burning
10. Steel Inferno – Rush of Power
11. Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder
12. War Dogs – Only the Stars Are Left

Konstantinos Kondis:

1. Suicidal Angels – Profane Prayer
2. Saturday Night Satan – All Things Black
3. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
4. Unto Others – Never, neverland
5. 1000mods – Cheat Death
6. Violent Definition – Progressive Obsoletion
7. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project
8. Yoth Iria – Blazing Inferno
9. Mindless Sinner – Metal Merchants
10. Midnight – Hellish Expectations
11. Butcher – On Fowl of Tyrant Wing
12. Lucifer – Lucifer V

Nikos Tsiolis:

1. Kvadrat – The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion
2. Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
3. Arysithian Blade – Iriath
4. Sun Worship – Upon the Hills of Divination
5. Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens
6. Vemod – The Deepening
7. Kawir – Kydoimos
8. Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
9. Akhlys – House Of The Black Geminus
10. Scald – Ancient Doom Metal
11. Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge
12. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere

Savvas Kofidis:

1. Borknagar – Fall
2. Wintersun – Time II
3. Kvaen – The Formless Fires
4. Iotunn – Kinship
5. Cistvaen – At Light’s Demise
6. Belore – Eastern Tales
7. Evergrey – Theories of Emptiness
8. Cloven Hoof – Heathen Cross
9. Ensiferum – Winter Storm
10. Seven Spires – Fortress Called Home
11. Wormwood – The Star
12. Uprising – III

George Kallinis:

1. Triumpher – Spirit Invictus
2. Kawir – Κυδοιμός
3. Arysithian Blade – Iriath
4. Achelous – Tower of high Sorcery
5. Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
6. Innerwish – Ash of eternal flame
7. Saxon – Hell, fire and damnation
8. Helvetets Port – Warlords
9. Deep Purple – =1
10. Warlord – Free Spirit Soar
11. Blitzkrieg – Blitzkrieg
12. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project

John Antzik:

1. Atrophy – Asylum
2. Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will
3. Lucifer – Lucifer V
4. Satan – Songs in Crimson
5. Evildead – Toxic Grace
6. Paragon – Metalation
7. Leathers – Ultraviolet
8. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Nell’ ora Blu
9. Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
10. Castle Rat – Into the Realm
11. Spectres – Presence
12. Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She

Ioannis Kofidis:

1. Rendezvous Point – Dream Chaser
2. Evergrey – Theories of Emptiness
3. Sunburst – Manifesto
4. Out Of Darkness – Out of Darkness
5. Eynomia – Sea of Tears
6. Star.Gate – Escaping the Illusion
7. Moggs Motel – Sunny Side of Heaven
8. Flotsam And Jetsam – I am the Weapon
9. Cloven Hoof – Heathen Cross
10. Demon – Invincible
11. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
12. Warlord – Free Spirit Soar

Nakos Nikos:

1. Deceased – Children Of The Morgue
2. Satan – Songs In Crimson
3. Paysage D’Hiver – Die Berge
4. Wolfbrigade – Knife Life Death
5. Kvadrat – The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion
6. Vile Species – Disqualified As Human
7. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
8. Akhlys – House Of The Black Geminus
9. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
10. Arysithian Blade – Iriath
11. Sørgelig – Φθορά
12. Scald – Ancient Doom Metal