TPD 2024 EPs of the Year List

The 24 best new EPs and short-form releases 2024 had to offer

This is the companion piece to the 2024 AOTY list, and will present as much shorter, highlighting 2024 releases with run times under 30 minutes long. Note that I did cheat a bit with #3 because Majesty released the follow up to their excellent Exaltation: I-IV very late in the year. I decided to lump the two releases together under one spot since they are parts of a whole, although it breaks the 30 minute rule with the sum of the runtimes. Since I make the rules here, I’ll allow it.

Like last year, I won’t be as verbose in this post as I was in the long-form list. I’ll let the music speak for itself. The same methodology used in compiling the other list was employed in this one. The music here is of the same caliber as the albums featured on the AOTY list, there’s just less of it. Therefore, the difference is quantitative, not qualitative.

For the territorial, a dominant eleven of these 24 releases come from the US, while three are from the UK, and two each from Canada and Germany. Countries singularly represented on the list are Australia, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Finland, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The sum is 26 due to the two split EPs that made the cut. States with two entries are California and Washington, tied with Québec as the lone Canadian province showing up on the list.

Notably, no record label tallied multiple hits here, while six on the list were independent releases.

Links to reviews written here at TPD are included below.

The List

24. Enforced – A Leap Into the Dark
23. Guiltless – Thorns (review)
22. Hämnd – Eldhav (review)
21. Wasted Death – Season of Evil (review)
20. Hermano – When the Moon Was High
19. Heksegrav – Svart Portal
18. HazeHound – Macrodose (review)
17. Zorn – Endless Funeral
16. Asphalt Grieving – Transgression of the Quantum Self: Tertiary Magnitude
15. Hunden – A Calming Press (review)
14. Wytch Hazel // Phantom Spell – Ride On/Palantíri split (review)
13. Asarhaddon – Besenken (review)
12. Lurcher – Breathe (review)
11. Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory (review)
10. Old Iron – Fractal Storm
9. Gray State – Under the Wheels of Progress (review)
8. Khadga – The Three Gates (review)
7. Caixão – Entre o Velho Tempo Futuro
6. Lammoth – Tales of Treachery
5. Necropanther – Oblivion Jones
4. Trhä // Coffret de Bijoux – di najb tu nat​á​lja ibajnma ëct / l​ä​m​è​à​en'th split
3. Majesty – Exaltation: I-IV (released 5/21) and Exaltation: V-VIII (released 12/18)

2. Sfeerverzieker – Disciple of the Damned (review)

1. Agriculture – Living Is Easy (review)

Listen Here

This list has been published as a public playlist on Spotify, but please note that a couple of the albums are yet not available on that platform (at least not at the time of this post). I linked to the bandcamp pages for those two releases in the list above, where they’re available to stream and download for free.

Thanks for reading. Thanks even more for listening to great music. Long live the art of metal!

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ICYMI, here’s a link to last year’s list.