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.
