The 10 best death metal albums of 2024 [Video]

Is there a bastion of the metal world so tenacious or resilient as death metal? Almost 40 years on from the release of Possessed’s Seven Churches, the genre continues to thrive in new and exciting ways, its many subschools producing some of the most boundary-pushing music in the metal sphere.

Whether it’s the unhinged intensity of grindcore, the ascendant rise of deathcore or just old school veterans like Deicide and Nile putting out top-tier material, there’s still plenty to get excited about when it comes to death metal releases. That in mind, we’ve rounded up some of the year’s biggest talking points to offer a selection of the finest death metal had to offer in 2024.

Eight years on from the fercocious assault-on-the-senses that was You Will Never Be One Of Us, grindcore brutes Nails stormed their way back into the hearts – and perforated eardrums – of metalheads with comeback Every Bridge Burning.

An apt title for the return …